Vermeer
9 best books like Vermeer (Lawrence Gowing): A Prayer for Owen Meany, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, The Tender Bar, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, Florence Nightingale, Marc Chagall, 1887-1985: Painting as Poetry, The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology
| Author | John Irving |
| ISBN | 0552135399 |
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying....
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
| Author | Caroline Criado-Pérez |
| ISBN | 1419729071 |
Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar,...
| Author | J.R. Moehringer |
| ISBN | 0786888768 |
In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs - a classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys.
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| Author | Nick Flynn |
| ISBN | 0393329402 |
Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of the trajectory...
The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
| Author | Dr. Seuss |
| ISBN | 0679434488 |
These fabulous, whimsical paintings, created for his own pleasure and never shown to the public, show Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) in a whole new light. Depicting outlandish creatures in otherworldly settings, the paintings use a dazzling rainbow of hues not seen in the primary-color palette of his...
'To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.'
The Renaissance (1873) at once became the touchstone for the decadent imagination for a generation of Oxford undergraduates. Pater was shocked at the reaction his book inspired: 'I wish they would...
| Author | Cecil Woodham-Smith |
| ISBN | 0689706529 |
I don't usually write reviews because I feel I can never do the book justice. But for this one I'm going to try.
If I could give this book 10 stars, I would. Incredibly well-written, well organized, and obviously well researched.
I love reading biographies but I've often found the biographer...
Marc Chagall, 1887-1985: Painting as Poetry
| Author | Ingo F. Walther |
| ISBN | 3822859907 |
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is widely regarded as epitomizing the "painter as poet". The worldwide admiration he commanded remains unparalleled by any artist of the 20th century. Chagall's paintings, steeped in mythology and mysticism, portray colourful dreams and tales that are deeply rooted in...
| Author | Donald Preziosi |
| ISBN | 0192842420 |
The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century, debates about art and its histories have intensified. Historians, philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists...
