Résultats pour "The Infinities" dans Arts et littérature

‘Glorious’ Guardian 'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable’ SPECTATOR In his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris and Extinction Rebellion protestors. He introduces us to thinkers like Thomas Spence who threw...

Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral—and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a high-born girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of 10 children and was often ill and in pain.

La red infinita retrata, en primera persona, a una mente artística única, atormentada por miedos y obsesiones, pero decidida a alcanzar y mantener su posición al frente de la vanguardia artística mundial. Pintora inconformista, Kusama canaliza sus neurosis obsesivas en un arte que trasciende las barreras culturales.Una vez llegada desde Japón a Nueva York, vive los primeros tiempos en la pobreza, pero pronto se convierte en la reina de la escena artística contracultural, y llega a codearse con artistas como Georgia O'Keeffe o Andy Warhol.