This is a portrait of Simone Signoret, the actress who died in 1985. In France, she was a national figure who symbolized political and intellectual courage as well as glamour. The book also looks at her 36-year marriage to Yves Montand.

Simone Signoret

DAVID, CATHERINE

Biographies & Memoirs

Overlook Press

Reviews the life and career of the beloved French actress and international star, detailing her relationship with husband Yves Montand, her political and intellectual involvements in the 1940s, her many film roles, and more.

Arts & Literature

Overlook Books

In this society in which the essential is generally considered incidental (which is reflected in the unbearable dullness of the contemporary man), Catherine David picks the essence from inconspicuous corners where it has been gathering dust and shows us how she uses it to unlock the gates leading to inner beauty. In this remarkable series of 26 linked meditations, The Beauty of Gesture, subtitled "The Invisible keyboard of Piano and T'ai Chi," the French journalist Catherine David explores the analogies between playing the piano and practicing t'ai chi chu'an. A serious pianist and student of martial arts, David draws on a wide familiarity with literary and philosophical texts to evoke the intellectual and spiritual world of her imagination. "A beautiful act is an island of absoluteness in an ocean of chance," she writes, and her essay reminds us that the world vibrates with possibilities, necessities, and poetry for those who can focus attention.

The Beauty of Gesture: The Invisible Keyboard of Piano and T'ai Chi

Arts & Photography

Music

North Atlantic Books

Mon premier atlas Bescherelle du monde

Education & Teaching

Bouron, Françoise

Studying & Workbooks

HATIER

Bescherelle - Mon premier atlas du monde

Travel

Désordres

GOLDIN, Nan

Dabin, Véronique

Galerie nationale du Jeu de paume (France)

Musée du Jeu de Paume

With a career that spans nearly eighty years, Manuel Alvarez Bravo has long been recognized as one of the foremost figures in the history of photography and one of the great Mexican artists of the twentieth century. Manuel Álvarez Bravo, a pioneer of art photography in Mexico, is a cornerstone of Mexican culture and twentieth-century Latin-American photography. His work ranges from late 1920 to the 90s. Álvarez Bravo's artistic identity is inextricably linked to the history of his country and the creation of Mexican identity after the revolution of 1910. Thus, his work can be understood both as a reflection of the extraordinary variety of cultures in Mexico as an eccentric drift of surreal avante-garde. The exhibition organized by Fundación MAPFRE and the accompanying catalogue, runs through 150 photographs, a limited number of iconographic motifs of his work: reflections and illusions of the big city, bodies lying converted into shapes, objects of ambiguous meanings, a wide panoramic that shows his rejection to easy picturesque, his irony insistently ambiguous, and his ability to convert images into symbols beyond the poetic realism typical of Mexican culture. Another key element in his photography is the time, and thus, the exhibition explores the relationship between his language and in photography and experimental film stills of the sixties. Finally, the exhibition shows a selection of late color photographs and polaroids confirming Álvarez Bravo as an artist working against the grain of established clichés, while having a defining influence on Mexican and Latin-American photography.

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Mosquera, Gérardo

de la Nue, Ivan

Photography & Video

T.F. Editores, S.L.C.

Bahman Jalali (Tehran, 1944) is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Iranian photography. His work is a testimony to the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War and the post-war years. It also documents daily life, traditional architectural forms, and includes photomontages of historic negatives. His role in conserving, studying, and transmitting the photographic heritage of his country has made him a master and key actor in Iranian culture.

Bahman Jalali

Jalali, Bahman

Individual Artists

Actar-D

Since 1993, Maur'cio Dias and Walter Riedweg have been developing a collaborative work that probes the relationship between ethics and aesthetics through precise interventions in specific individual and group situations. Their methods, ranging from scientific documentation to complex video dramatizations, focus especially on issues associated with identity and the tension between group and individual mechanisms. The direct involvement of the public in their work process is crucial. This catalogue contains a retrospective of their works to date, including Voracidad mxima, their joint project for the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. The enclosed DVD includes a video fragment from that piece, which explores the relationship between sexuality and economics and was made in cooperation with male sex workers from the museum's neighborhood, El Raval.

Dias & Riedweg

Rolnik, Suely

Dias, Mauricio

Riedweg, Walter

Groenboom, Roland

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