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Linwood Messina Literary Agency
Linwood Messina Literary Agency is a boutique agency based in Paris representing rights on behalf of French and English language publishers, agencies and authors. Our list is quite diverse covering mostly every genre except for SF and children's books.
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The ArtsJanuary 2012Art, ethnography and the life of objects
Paris, c.1925–35
by Julia Kelly, Marsha Meskimmon, Shearer West, Tim Barringer
In the 1920s and 1930s, anthropology and ethnography provided new and striking ways of rethinking what art could be and the forms which it could take. This book examines the impact of these emergent disciplines on the artistic avant-garde in Paris. The reception by European artists of objects arriving from colonial territories in the first half of the twentieth century is generally understood through the artistic appropriation of the forms of African or Oceanic sculpture. The author reveals how anthropological approaches to this intriguing material began to affect the ways in which artists, theorists, critics and curators thought about three-dimensional objects and their changing status as 'art', 'artefacts' or 'ethnographic evidence'. This book analyses texts, photographs and art works that cross disciplinary boundaries, through case studies including the Dakar to Djibouti expedition of 1931-33, the Trocadéro Ethnographic Museum, and the two art periodicals Documents and Minotaure. Through its interdisciplinary and contextual approach, it provides an important corrective to histories of modern art and the European avant-garde. ;
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November 2020Grace. Das Mädchen mit den weißen Handschuhen
Roman | Ein berührender und dramatischer Roman über Grace Kelly
by Kerri Maher, Claudia Feldmann
Ein Märchen scheint wahr zu werden, als im April 1956 Grace Kelly den Fürsten Rainier von Monaco heiratet. In Hollywood war »die kühle Blonde« ein Star, sie ist die Lieblingsschauspielerin von Alfred Hitchcock, spielte an der Seite von Cary Grant, Gregory Peck und Gary Cooper. Und nun erobert sie mit ihrem Lächeln die Herzen der Monegassen und bringt internationales Flair in das kleine Fürstentum an der Côte d’Azur. Doch hinter den Kulissen ist längst nicht alles Gold, was glänzt; das glamouröse Leben hat auch Schattenseiten.Kerri Maher erzählt die Geschichte von Grace, die gegen den Willen der katholisch-konservativen Eltern nach New York ging, um Schauspielerin zu werden, und die sich in der männlich-dominierten Filmwelt behaupten musste für ihre Träume und ihre Freiheit …Ein berührender und dramatischer Roman über eine der faszinierendsten Frauen des 20. Jahrhunderts.
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November 2020Grace. Das Mädchen mit den weißen Handschuhen
Roman | Ein berührender und dramatischer Roman über Grace Kelly
by Kerri Maher
Ein Märchen scheint wahr zu werden, als im April 1956 Grace Kelly den Fürsten Rainier von Monaco heiratet. In Hollywood war »die kühle Blonde« ein Star, sie ist die Lieblingsschauspielerin von Alfred Hitchcock, spielte an der Seite von Cary Grant, Gregory Peck und Gary Cooper. Und nun erobert sie mit ihrem Lächeln die Herzen der Monegassen und bringt internationales Flair in das kleine Fürstentum an der Côte d’Azur. Doch hinter den Kulissen ist längst nicht alles Gold, was glänzt; das glamouröse Leben hat auch Schattenseiten.Kerri Maher erzählt die Geschichte von Grace, die gegen den Willen der katholisch-konservativen Eltern nach New York ging, um Schauspielerin zu werden, und die sich in der männlich-dominierten Filmwelt behaupten musste für ihre Träume und ihre Freiheit …Ein berührender und dramatischer Roman über eine der faszinierendsten Frauen des 20. Jahrhunderts.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2003De Stijl and Dutch modernism
by Michael White, Marsha Meskimmon, Shearer West, Tim Barringer
De Stijl was the title of a magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917 and is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of its major contributors: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Van der Leck, Oud, Wils and Rietveld. This book is the first to emphasize the local context of De Stijl and explore its relationship to the distinctive character of Dutch modernism. Examines the connection between debates concerning abstraction in painting and spatiality in architecture and contemporary developments in the fields of urban planning, advertising, interior design and exhibition design. Describes the interaction between the world of mass culture and the fine arts. ;
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The ArtsSeptember 2007Politics and painting at the Venice Biennale, 1948–64
Italy and the Idea of Europe
by Nancy Jachec, Marsha Meskimmon, Shearer West, Tim Barringer
Although cultural exchanges were named within the Council of Europe in the mid- 1950s as being second only in importance to the military as a tool for ensuring a stable and integrated Western Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, European-led initiatives have generally been overlooked in the historiography of art of the immediate post-war period. Popularly remembered as the era of the United States' cultural 'triumph', American Abstract Expressionism in particular is commonly identified as the cultural 'weapon' by which that nation conquered Western European culture. Using the Venice Biennale as a case study, this book challenges the idea that there was an American cultural conquest in the 1950s through the fine arts, arguing instead that Western Europe retained a strong sense of world cultural leadership in the immediate post-war years. An institutional history that combines political and diplomatic with art history, and is informed by extensive archival research, it argues that Italian political and cultural figures actively promoted the 'Idea of Europe' - the Council of Europe's cultural initiative of 1955 designed to promote the idea of a homogeneous post-war European culture - at the Biennale in the form of gesture painting as an international style, as the emblem of a culturally united Western Europe, and as the repository of universal humanist values for the international community. Scholarly but accessible, this book will be of interest not only to researchers and to students of international cultural relations during the Cold War, but to general, interested readers, too. ;
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The ArtsFebruary 2007Fragonard's playful paintings
Visual games in rococo art
by Jennifer Milam, Marsha Meskimmon, Shearer West, Tim Barringer
Fragonard's playful paintings is the first critical analysis of the function of play as an artistic concept and visual experience in Rococo art. The art of Jean-Honoré Fragonard embodies the pervasive culture of play in eighteenth-century France. His interactive paintings and drawings invite beholders to engage in a visual game of interpretation through subject, form and theme. This book not only examines Fragonard's art through close analyses of individual works, but also considers the role of the viewer within a variety of contexts related to social behaviour, philosophy, literature and aesthetics. More than any other artist from the period, Fragonard produced images of play that evidence the ludic impulses of ancien-régime thought and expose the underlying significance of eighteenth-century frivolity. Focused on bringing students and specialists closer to works of art, the book addresses what we see in order to understand better how paintings about play can stimulate playful ideas through dynamic exchanges between artist, image and beholder. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2004Cubism and its histories
by David Cottington, Marsha Meskimmon, Shearer West, Tim Barringer
Cubism was the most influential artistic movement that emerged in the twentieth century. The hallmarks of its style were stamped on the art, design and architecture and its aesthetic principles governed the representation of modernity across all the arts. Yet just what cubism was, or stood for, at the time of its emergence is still in dispute, while the explanations offered for its importance for twentieth-century art, and its legacy for the present, are bewildering in their variety. This fascinating book offers a way beyond this confusion: a narrative of its beginnings, consolidation and dissemination that takes into account not only what the style and the movement signified at the time of its emergence but also the principal writings through which cubism's significance for modernism has been established. Visually stunning with over 100 illustrations, this is an essential work for all students and teachers of modern art history. ;
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Exhibition catalogues & specific collectionsMarch 2011Mary Kelly
Projects, 1973–2010
by Edited by Dominique Heyes-Moore
Mary Kelly, we are told, was not a feminist artist, but a feminist who made art. Designed to accompany a major retrospective at the Whitworth Art Gallery, this book contains essays and interviews which show the implications of that distinction and also the legacy of feminists and feminism in relation to art. Challenging and beautiful, Kelly's artworks address questions of sexuality, identity and historical memory in the form of large-scale narrative installations. The works are agilely discussed in contributions by some of the luminary feminist art scholars of our time, including Janet Wolff, Laura Mulvey, Carol Mavor and Amelia Jones, making this collection an essential new text in the discourse on art, feminism, psychoanalysis and representation.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2005Irvine Welsh
by Aaron Kelly, Daniel Lea
Irvine Welsh's fiction has defined an era, and this first full-length study provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis of all his work, from 'Trainspotting' and 'The Acid House' to 'Glue' and 'Porno'. A detailed chronological survey also considers the appropriateness of cultural, postmodern and postcolonial theories to Welsh's incendiary fiction. Kelly gives a fascinating insight into the writer's formal and political ambitions, placing him in the context of the 'brat pack' which exploded onto the Scottish literary scene in the 1990s. He explores the social, class and political conditioning of Welsh's early life, and its impact on his motivations for writing. Clearly written and accessible, this will be a key resource for students and academics alike. Choose 'Irvine Welsh'! ;
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The ArtsFebruary 2022"I am Jugoslovenka!"
Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism
by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon
"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.
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April 2006Grace Kelly und Fürst Rainier
Ein Hollywoodmärchen in Monaco
by Taraborrelli, J. Randy / Englisch Becker, Astrid; Englisch Kappel, Marion
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August 2004Grace Kelly und Fürst Rainier
Ein Hollywoodmärchen in Monaco
by Taraborrelli, J Randy / Übersetzt von Becker, Astrid; Übersetzt von Kappel, Marion
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1985Petra K. Kelly
Politikerin aus Betroffenheit. Mit einem Beitrag zum Rechenschaftsbericht der Grünen
by Sperr, Monika
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2016The same-sex unions revolution in Western democracies
by Kelly Kollman
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2013Irish women in medicine, c.1880s–1920s
by Laura Kelly, Rebecca Mortimer
