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Serie: Critical lives
paperbackEngels216 blz.9781836390305
1-4-2025
The ambiguous, provocative Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781861896520
1-3-2010
Acknowledged as one of the major sculptors and avant-garde artists of the twentieth century, Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) also remained one of the most elusive. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781861893208
1-4-2007
Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the founders of modern analytic philosophy and is regarded as the greatest philosophical genius since Immanuel Kant. In this book, the author traces the complex relationship between the philosopher's life, his work and his time. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781861893215
1-5-2007
A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian ‘gymnopédiste’ of fin-de-siècle Montmartre, and a legendary dresser known as ‘The Velvet Gentleman’ for his sartorial choices, Erik Satie was nearly unprecedented in technique, style and philosophy among European composers in the early twentieth century. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781861897602
1-9-2010
Marta Braun’s new biography of Eadweard Muybridge traces the sensational events of Muybridge’s life against his personal reinventions as artist, photographer, high-minded researcher and showman. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781861897930
1-3-2011
Lars T. Lih gives a non-partisan,vivid portrait and a striking new interpretation of a key revolutionary thinker and founder of the Soviet Union, Lenin, and shows that underneath the sharp polemics, Lenin was more a romantic enthusiast than a sour pragmatist. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781836390893
1-7-2025
The life and music of Maurice Ravel, a fascinating mind in a turbulent age. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781836391012
1-9-2025
A revealing portrait of Romantic writer, composer and public figure E.T.A. Hoffmann. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781836391036
1-9-2025
Provides new insights into the influential, yet enigmatic intellectual Jean Baudrillard. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781836390091
1-3-2025
A holistic approach to the monumental modernist writer Christopher Isherwood. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781836390138
1-3-2025
A concise yet comprehensive account of D. H. Lawrence’s stormy life and writing career. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789141498
12-8-2019
A timely reappraisal of Indian writer, composer, musician, artist and activist Rabindranath Tagore. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789141511
12-8-2019
An illuminating reappraisal of Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789140842
11-2-2019
The first biography in English for over twenty years of iconic French poet, dramatist and novelist Victor Hugo. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789140873
11-3-2019
A refreshing, balanced new biography of Arnold Schoenberg, perhaps the most radical, and divisive composer of the twentieth century. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789145762
14-3-2022
A concise yet comprehensive survey of one of classical music’s most popular composers. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789145793
16-5-2022
An engaging and accessible biography of Sigmund Freud. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789146066
11-7-2022
A concise yet comprehensive critical biography of Friedrich Nietzsche. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789147599
1-7-2023
The fascinating life and work of the groundbreaking, free-spirited modernist poet H.D. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789147629
1-7-2023
A new account of the brilliant and influential yet combative naturalist Richard Owen. Meer