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    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Engelstalig, linnengebonden met omslag, in zeer goede staat 

    A true genius whose talents embraced painting, engineering, anatomy, and flight, Leonardo da Vinci was--and remains--an extraordinary human being, indeed one of the most intriguing figures in world history, as the recent success of The Da Vinci Code attests. Now, in this new biography, Martin Kemp explores the essential nature of this forever fascinating artist-engineer, both as an individual and as a historical phenomenon.
    How can we best understand Leonardo? How did his mind work--was he prolific but scattered in his thinking, or is there a method in what often seems to be his madness? Was he basically an artist who also pursued science and technology, or was "science"--his understanding of the physical world--central to his artistic vision? In Leonardo, Martin Kemp offers a vivid portrait of the Renaissance giant that answers these questions and more. The book takes us on an absorbing journey through the life and work of Leonardo, looking first at the historical man, portraying an impressive and cultivated figure, an artist who in truth completed few paintings, rarely satisfied a commission, and yet lived in style and ended his career with a massive salary. More important, the author examines the ideas underlying Leonardo's investigations of nature, illuminating his vision of the artist-engineer as matching nature itself in his creativity. Kemp argues that Leonardo's apparent diversities reveal a desire to find an inner unity in the functioning of everything in the observable world. For Leonardo, writes Kemp, every act of looking and drawing was an act of analysis, and he used these analyses to re-make and re-interpret his surroundings. In a final chapter, Kemp also comments on the Da Vinci Code and "the continuing public appetite for Leonardo and his doings."
    Beautifully illustrated with a unique "thumbnail museum" that offers a tour of all Leonardo's paintings, plus 30 additional illustrations and life-size reproductions of pages from his famous notebooks, Leonardo is a powerful portrait of one of the towering geniuses of world history.

    Martin Kemp;

    € 10,00

    Mussolini

    Mussolini

    Dikke hardback in goede staat. Stofomslag lichte gebruikssporen. Fotokatern. Engelstalig. Linnen band.

    In 1945, disguised in German greatcoat and helmet, Mussolini attempted to escape from the advancing Allied armies. Unfortunately for him, the convoy of which he was part was stopped by partisans and his features, made so familiar by Fascist propaganda, gave him away. Within 24 hours he was executed by his captors, joining those he sent early to their graves as an outcome of his tyranny, at least one million people.

    He was one of the tyrant-killers who so scarred interwar Europe, but we cannot properly understand him or his regime by any simple equation with Hitler or Stalin. Like them, his life began modestly in the provinces; unlike them, he maintained a traditonal male family life, including both wife and mistresses, and sought in his way to be an intellectual. He was cruel (though not the cruellist); his racism existed, but never without the consistency and vigor that would have made him a good recruit for the SS. He sought an empire; but, in the most part, his was of the old-fashioned, costly, nineteenth century variety, not a racial or ideological imperium. And, self-evidently Italian society was not German or Russian: the particular patterns of that society shaped his dictatorship.

    Bosworth'sMussoliniallows us to come closer than ever before to an appreciation of the life and actions of the man and of the political world and society within which he operated. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, this biography paints a picture of brutality and failure, yet one tempered with an understanding of Mussolini as a human being, not so different from many of his contemporaries.

    R. J. B. Bosworth;

    € 15,00

    Jean-Paul Sartre

    Jean-Paul Sartre

    Dikke paperback met flappen in goede staat. Rug verkleurd. Met 2 fotokaternen.

    Op 15 april 1980 stierf Jean-Paul Sartre, 74jaar oud, bij zijn leeftijd al een legende. 'De laatste grootmeester van het Franse denken, schreef Le Figaro 'Een van de meest vooraanstaande en meest discutabele figuren van de Europese intelligentsia, noemde de Osservatore Romano hem; 'Een van de weinige werkelijk vrije mensen van onze tijd meende Le Matin. Sartre's begrafenis werd een ware demonstratie, waar Vijftigduizend mensen elkaar verdrongen. Over de hele wereld wijdde de pers lange commentaren, levensschetsen en beschouwingen aan de overleden filosoof romancier, toneelschrijver en activist. Zestien maanden nadien zette Annie Cohen-Solal zich aan het schrijven van deze biografie. Het zou haar vier jaar kosten: tijdrovend onderzoek in archieven her en der, gesprekken met zo'n tweehonderd klas- en studiegenoten, oud-leerlingen, collega´s en vrienden van Sartre, zijn uitgevers enzovoort. Het materiaal dat zij hier samenbrengt is even overweldigend als verrassend. Nieuw, onbekend materiaal bijvoorbeeld, dat een heel nieuw licht werpt op Sartre's door hemzelf in De woorden nogal vertekenend beschreven jeugd. We zien Sartre's politieke bewustwording rond de Tweede Wereldoorlog, zijn bemoeienis met de Derde Wereld, zijn rol in de processen tegen de 'kofferdragers' die in Frankrijk het Algerijns verzet steunden. Sartre de existentialist, de wereldreiziger, de fellow traveller... En daardoorheen de groei van het gigantische, veelzijdige oeuvre van een man die, tot in zijn liefdesleven, het non-conformisme zelf was. Die de vrijheid boven alles stelde, zelfs de vrijheid om zichzelf tegen te spreken.

    Annie Cohen-Solal;

    € 4,00
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