Lorenz Leisner: Wozu bloß das ganze Malen? (German Edition)

Dies ist kein Bildband über Kunst – nicht nur. Können die Bilder von Lorenz Leisner ohne den Schmerz verstanden werden, den der Künstler in seinem gesellschaftlichen und politischen Umfeld empfand? Der über viele Jahre enge Vertraute des Künstlers, Georg Ellerbeck meint nein und nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise durch das Leben von Lorenz Leisner und zugleich durch die Entwicklung Deutschlands während der Lebensspanne des Malers (1906 bis 1995).

Bay Area Iron Master Al Zampa: A Life Building Bridges

Alfred Zampa didn�t understand what he used to be entering into while he took a development activity in 1925 at the Carquinez Bridge, one of many first to go San Francisco Bay. regardless of the chance, Zampa relished the problem and launched into an illustrious profession that made him an area legend. His outstanding feats of iron craft are obtrusive in several spans, together with the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate, in addition to others around the state.

Architects' Gravesites: A Serendipitous Guide (MIT Press)

All operating architects go away in the back of a string of monuments to themselves within the kind of constructions they've got designed. yet what in regards to the ultimate areas that architects themselves will occupy? Are architects' gravesites extra enormous -- extra architectural -- than others? This special ebook presents an illustrated advisor to greater than 2 hundred gravesites of recognized architects, just about all of them within the usa.

A north light: Twenty-five years in a municipal art gallery

A North mild – John Hewitt’s personal account of his lifestyles in Northern eire from his early years until eventually his ‘enforced exile’ in Coventry in 1957 – presents a desirable glimpse into his organization with key figures from the literary and paintings global, together with W. B. Yeats, George Orwell, Brendan Behan, Colin Middleton and John Luke.