The Irregular at Magic High School - Enrôlement Tome 1
Extraits
Sculpture
The McCarthy collection. Sculpture
This substantial catalogue explores a remarkable collection of medieval European sculpture. Richly detailed with plentiful illustrations and original research, it is a notable contribution to medieval scholarship. The McCarthy collection comprises more than 150 specimens of medieval European sculpture, produced over a period of nearly 600 years. A testimony to the comprehensiveness of Robert McCarthy's interest in the art and culture of the Middle Ages, its geographical, chronological and typological breadth place it among the most important of its kind in private hands. Including a few early examples from Merovingian France, Anglo-Saxon England and Visigothic Spain, its holdings have a strong focus on Romanesque art, with over fifty capitals and other architectural carvings from Iberia, France and the Italian Peninsula. Some of these pieces are associable with such notable workshops as those of Gislebertus, the Master of Agüero and Compostela's Master Mateo, while a great number can be closely compared to anonymous works in major and provincial sites. Notable monuments like the monastic powerhouse of Cluny or the abbatial churches of Autun and Savigny are represented through important sculptural fragments - most published here for the first time. The transition to the Gothic style and the period of its splendour, particularly in France, are witnessed by an ample selection of statuary and architectural fragments - some traceable to such important buildings as Noyon cathedral and Paris' Notre Dame, and others, more loosely, to the artistic circles that gravitated around the great projects of the age. Freestanding sculpture in stone or wood, including a small but precious nucleus of Virgin and Child statuary and some Spanish polychrome figures, constitutes an interesting subset of the collection's late medieval holdings, as do some especially fine examples of Italian trecento sculpture. Enriched with outstanding photography by Barney Hindle and Mark French, entries aim to provide detailed stylistic, iconographic and contextual analyses, with special attention paid to comparanda in public and other private collections. This approach, complemented in some cases by petrographic analysis, has allowed the. authors to connect much of the material presented in these pages with specific buildings, workshops or regional schools, contributing to a better understanding of the pieces themselves, their original settings and their cultural and artistic milieux. This catalogue follows the publication of three volumes dedicated to Robert McCarthy's vast collection of Western miniatures and manuscript leaves (2018-2021), and is part of an ambitious project to document the entirety of his holdings - which also include notable selections of medieval ivories, stained glass and East Christian Art.
04/2024
Anglais apprentissage
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain (S.L. Clemens)
A central work in the national canon, an inspiration for some of the greatest American writers of our century, and the first literary masterpiece in multi-voiced, regional vernacular, Huckleberry Finn is, as Walter Blair observed, unique in being held in the highest esteem by critics and at the same time prodigiously popular in the United States and throughout the world . This study explores the peculiar dynamics of space and time in Huck Finn before shifting to an analysis of the fate of illusion, one of the enduring themes in Twain. Emphasis is placed throughout on the subtlety and complexity of Twain's artistic vision, which projects a world of doublings, reversals, instability, and paradox, drawing all the while on the tremendous evocative force of the river, which, like Huck himself in T. S. Eliot's words, has no beginning and no end .
07/1997
Seinen/Homme
Nyaight of the Living Cat Tome 1
" L'humanité ne peut plus se permettre d'éprouver de l'affection pour les chats ! " Un terrible et mystérieux virus sévit et transforme peu à peu les derniers humains en boules de poils. Les quelques survivants se terrent pour échapper aux câlins de ces créatures effroyables... Parmi eux, Kunagi voit ses compagnons se métamorphoser au fur et à mesure, et tente de survivre à cette apocalypse féline. Mais son handicap n'est pas des moindres... Il adore les chats ! A travers Nyaight of the Living Cat, découvrez un manga de survie qui revisite avec humour la thématique du zombie. Les nombreuses références cinématographiques distillées par Hawkman sont sublimées par le trait texturé de Mecha-roots !
04/2023
Décoration
Idées pratiques pour petits espaces
Various factors have contributed to the proliferation of small homes. One is the high price of land. Another reason is the change in family types. Throughout history it has been considered normal for various generations of the same family to share the family home all their lives. Today family models have changed. Nuclear families are usually reduced to just two generations, i.e., parents and children, and often homes are occupied only by couples or even sole individuals. The reduction in the home's surface area has led to a need to develop ways to integrate all of a space's necessary functions in a practical and cozy fashion. Design aspects can be considered when a home is still being planned, prior to the building and distribution of the rooms. This makes it possible to fit it out to make the mort of each of its features and apply optimal spatial solutions that match the need of the person who will inhabit it. Furniture is vital when it comes to small dwellings. Many manufacturers have now added a large number of items to their furniture collections that address space problems or combine various functions. The décor, which also includes the wall color as well as the flooring and ceiling, is another basic element that should be carefully considered in small spaces. Decorative elements are just as important, as they can be used to create a personal feel that responds to your own particular aesthetic taste. What you must remember is that, even though a home is small, there are many solutions and tricks to maximize its possibilities and achieve a modern, welcoming look.
03/2010
Policiers
Goebius' Strange Model
A company elaborates in great secrecy a project, vital to its very survival. As the project develops, it leads the protagonists far beyond the originally envisioned simple business strategy, and brings them close to the forefront of the physical laws governing the behavior of the universe. Two intrigues intertwine... will they meet ? Or do they form the single-sided face of a Möbius strip ? "This novel is as unexpected as a UFO, and refreshing..." Cédric Villani, Fields Medal 2010. "This book is fascinating, I read it all at once..." Etienne Ghys, Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences.
01/2020
Monographies
Gustave Moreau. The Fables
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) is one of the most brilliant and enigmatic artists associated with the French Symbolist movement. This book accompanies an exhibition of some of the most extraordinary works he ever made, unseen in public for over a century. Moreau's watercolours of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were created between 1879 and 1885 for the art collector Antony Roux and their stylistic range encompasses historicism and the picturesque, orientalist fantasies and near-abstract chromatic experiments. They were exhibited to great acclaim in Paris in the 1880s and in London in 1886, where critics compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones. One critic commented on Moreau's ' keen apprehension of the weird. ' There were originally 64 works in the series, which was subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), but nearly half were lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white. This book is the first to reproduce them in colour - many shown actual size. Created at the height of the French 19th-century revival of watercolour, the variety of subject matter and technique, their colouristic effects and the sophistication of Moreau's storytelling, will be a revelation to readers. Preparatory drawings for the Fables, including animal studies made from life in the Jardin des Plantes demonstrate the wide-ranging research that informed Moreau's visions. Prints after Moreau's Fables by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) translate the jewel-like colours into monochrome in some of the most innovative etchings of the age, while the most delicate effects of the watercolours were also transformed into vitreous enamels. In-depth accounts of each watercolour, explaining the story and exploring Moreau's response to it. The introduction will place the series in the long history of illustrations of La Fontaine's canonical work, whose sources include Aesop's fables and traditional European and Asian tales, as well as considering Moreau in the context of his own, turbulent, times.
08/2021
Développement durable-Ecologie
Native Land, Stop Eject. Edition en anglais
Created by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, the exhibition Native Land, Stop Eject proposes a dialogue between filmmaker Raymond Depardon and philosopher Paul Virilio on the notions of being rooted and uprooted today, an epoch in which human migration flows are taking place on an unprecedented scale. In his film Hear Them Speak, created with Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon gives a voice to those who wish to remain on their land but are threatened with exile. Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan, and Ben Rubin give form to Paul Virilio's concepts in six dynamic maps which examine new trends in contemporary human movement due to environmental, political, and economic factors. The texts included here, published for the first time in the catalog Native Land, Stop Eject (Prix Nomad's 2009), offer a chance to explore the themes raised in the exhibition. Accompanied by exhibition views, they incite contemplation on the meaning of sedentariness and nomadism, as well as related questions of identity.
05/2010
Non classé
Philip Freneau- Tomo Cheeki, the Creek Indian in Philadelphia
Philip Freneau (1752-1832) was one of the first Americans to gain wide recognition as a writer. He is generally remembered as the "father of American poetry," but his prose writings have not always received the attention they deserve. As the editor of three important papers in the late 18th century (The National Gazette. The Jersey Chronicle, and The Time-Piece and Literary Companion) and as a contributor to many others, Freneau produced a large number of political and literary essays. The "Tomo Cheeki Essays", which were published in 1795 and in 1797, constitute an excellent example of Freneau's prose work. These pseudo-autobiographical accounts of an Indian visiting a city of the Whites are based upon the model of the European "oriental tale," while simultaneously incorporating American subject matter. The essays are representative of a decisive period of American literary history, since they reveal both Freneau's indebtedness to European culture and his role in the process of overcoming this indebtedness in the beginning creation of an independent national literature. The present edition provides the first complete and separate modern collection of the essays, which gives the reader an opportunity to get acquainted with an important example of early American prose writing that has been virtually inaccessible up to now.
12/1987
Critique littéraire
Exorcismes spirituels. Tome 2, Les mutins de Panurge
La posture Book émissaire Désaccord parfait Pourquoi y a-t-il du Céline plutôt que rien ? Aragon ou le roman comme objection de conscience Georges Bataille ou l'art à l'épreuve du rire Le Zimzoum de Borges Dieu est un artiste Homo festivus Les habits neufs duXXe siècle In vitro veritas Rubens profané par sa sépulture même Delacroix en son royaume Daumier le bienheureux La religion sexuelle de Marcel Duchamp Louis-Ferdinand Soutine La peinture mise à nu Le spectacle est mort A la niche les approuveurs du monde Critique de la télé pure Sous l'oeil des vigilants Martine Aubry fait concurrence à l'état civil L'an 2000 tombe mal Etc. Posture "Scape-book" Perfect disagreement Why some Celine rather than nothing ? Aragon, or the novel as a conscientious objection Georges Bataille, or art-confronting-laughter Borges' zimzoom God is an artist Homo festivus The 20th century's new clothes In vitro veritas Rubens profaned by his own grave Delacroix in his kingdom Blessed Daumier Marcel Duchamp's sexual religion Louis-Ferdinand Soutine Painting bared Show business is dead Down with world-approvers Critique of pure television Under the vigilants' scrutiny Martine Aubry takes on the French civil service The year 2000 is coming at a bad time Etc.
05/1998
Poésie
Epilepsy: the invisible pain
They say life is a long stretch of a calm river, but not for everyone ! She was for me until the day when everything rocked, the day my destiny was changed dramatically. People do not realize how life can be so sweet and so beautiful. They complain all day long for trivialities. They are not even aware that they have before their eyes the most beautiful wealth : the luck and happiness of living in good health. I was rich before. Now I am poor because my child has an incurable disease, that has currently no hope of being healed. As a parent, how can we accept that ? , How to continue living carrying the bundle of pain in my head ? , How to overcome this feeling of helplessness ? When I started speaking to my heart, I didn't know myself that this was the beginning of a new life : a rebirth as a poet. When I learnt that my 7-year-old daughter was suffering from the Dravet Syndrome, a rare genetic epileptic encephalopathy, this was like an earthquake in my life. Then, I needed to write in order to express my sorrow and my pain. Words and rhymes came naturally to my mind. This was obvious that poetry would be my survival weapon.
01/2019
Monographies
Burmese Silver from the Colonial Period
This stunning catalogue presents an exceptional collection of rare Burmese silver. Accompanied by detailed photographs and explanatory texts, this ground-breaking book proposes a new way of looking at Burmese silver. Names, dates, places, and stories - identifying the who, when, where, and what of Burmese silver has been the focus of publications on the topic. Are these questions the best way to understand silver, however ? Alexandra Green argues that they are not. Too few pieces provide reliable information about silversmiths, production locations, and dates to allow for a comprehensive understanding of the subject. Instead, a close examination of silver patterns reveals strong links with Burmese art history reaching as far back as the Bagan period (11th to 13th centuries), connections with contemporary artistic trends, and participation within the wider world of silversmithing. The first European to write about Burmese silver was H L Tilly, a colonial official from the late 19th into the early 20th century. Tasked with collecting objects for various fairs and exhibitions, he took an interest in Burmese art, publishing articles and books from the 1880s onwards. While much of what he wrote was factually inaccurate and coloured by the prejudices and stereotypes common at the time, his two volumes on Burmese silver published in 1902 and 1904 contain pictures of pieces from the early to mid 19th century. These enable a reconstruction of how silver designs evolved as the country was absorbed into the Indian Raj, and British and other Westerners became consumers of local silver products. Tilly was also correct in his interest in silver designs. Green uses the visual information from his books to describe the continuities and innovations of designs found on silver from the mid 19th through the mid 20th century, and she places these trends within local, regional, and global flows of ideas. Many studies of Burmese silver have been plagued by a lack of understanding of the Burmese context. In contrast, Green examines silver from a local perspective, drawing on Burmese texts and information that allows for a nuanced view of the motifs, designs, and patterns that appear repetitively on silver pieces. Using Graham Honeybill's collection, formed over many years, as a basis, she explores how designs and patterns circulated around the country and were innovatively combined and recombined on pieces by silversmiths producing objects for Burmese, Western, and commercial clients.
09/2022
Art contemporain
Hassan Khan. Catalogue de l'exposition, Edition bilingue français-anglais
Tell me about clowns. Once upon a time, there was a species that thought they were better than everyone and everything else. What is the difference between a clown and a joker ? Sometimes they're one and the same. And the knife ? Some humans can be kind, surprising even, while others can act out of fear and negative emotions. Really ?
03/2022
Archéologie
Côtoyer les dieux. L'organisation des espaces dans les sanctuaires grecs et romains
Cette monographie constitue le dernier volet de publication scientifique du programme "Des espaces et des rites. Pour une archéologie du culte dans les sanctuaires du monde méditerranéen" , commun aux Ecoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome (2012-2016), et rassemble dix essais. Face à la richesse sémantique des genres littéraires et des processus de narration, l'archéologie offre une grande variété d'informations matérielles qui font sens et qui regardent au moins trois domaines, l'architecture et l'organisation des espaces, les objets et les programmes iconographiques ainsi que les pratiques, rituelles ou non, déployées dans les complexes sacrés. C'est la place du religieux dans la vie des cités qui est en jeu ici : on côtoyait les dieux partout, "dans des espaces vécus comme peu humanisés" , dans les murs et hors les murs, dans les espaces urbains, dans la sphère privée, mais aussi et surtout dans la nature, "into the wild" . Toute la perception du divin est analysée ici, dans toutes ses formes, par des chercheurs spécialistes des sanctuaires antiques. This monograph is the last part of the scientific publication of the programme entitled "Spaces and Rites. The Archaeology of Worship in the Sanctuaries of the Mediterranean World", common to the French Schools at Athens and Rome (2012-2016), and brings together ten essays. Faced with the semantic wealth of literary genres and narrative processes, archaeology provides us with a huge variety of material information that makes absolute sense and covers at least three areas, architecture and the organisation of spaces, iconographical objects and programmes, as well as the practices carried out in sacred spaces, be they ritualistic or not. The main issue here is the place of religion in the everyday life of the cities : the Gods were everywhere, "in spaces with little human presence", inside and outside the walls, in urban spaces, in the private sphere but also, and above all in the wild. Here, researchers that specialise in ancient sanctuaries analyse the way the divine is perceived, in all of its forms.
06/2022
Vitraux, enluminures
Holy Hoaxes. A Beautiful Deception
Ce livre fascinant raconte l'histoire de la construction de la collection de faux et de contrefaçons de manuscrits enluminés appartenant à William M. Voelkle. A travers des essais approfondis et de belles illustrations, Voelkle retrace l'histoire de près de soixante-dix faux et contrefaçons. The book takes the reader on a journey that sheds light on the nature and detection of forgery of manuscript illumination. An engaging introduction by Christopher de Hamel raises tantalizing questions that touch on the very meaning of authenticity and our continuing fascination with forgery. Scientific analysis of pigments, the identification of sources, and the scrutiny of the materials all come into play in the unfolding story of the collection. An illustrated catalogue presents the group of nearly seventy fakes and forgeries that display astonishing breadth. They include not only the Spanish Forger and other Western European miniatures by Ernesto Sprega, Caleb William Wing, and Germano Prosdocimi, and others, but fascinating examples from the Christian East, from Ethiopia, from Mexico, and from Persia and India. Published here in its entirety for the first time, the Voelkle Collection is the only comprehensive one of fakes and forgeries of manuscript painting in private hands. Voelkle's fifty-year career at the Morgan Library & Museum was inextricably interwoven with the construction of the collection, which is detailed in the foreword. The personal narrative reveals the author as a collector and a scholar. As an enthusiastic collector, he pursues examples of forgery, marveling at the range of skills of deception. As a scholar, he disentangles the sources that served forgers and the chains of provenance that sometimes led to their exposure. Included also in the book is a comprehensive list of William M. Voelkle's publications.
04/2023
Comics
Black Magick Tome 1 : Réveil
Flic ou sorcière tout est une histoire de vocation. Rowan Black travaille à la criminelle de Portsmouth. En bonne flic, elle a pas mal de choses à cacher. Dont une en particulier : c'est aussi une sorcière. La nuit, elle participe a des rituels secrets - quand ils ne sont pas interrompus par le boulot. Le jour ou elle est appelée en urgence pour régler une prise d'otages, Rowan découvre que le criminel connaît sa véritable identité. Et qu'il n'est sans doute pas le seul. Alors que la lumière se fait sur son passé, l'avenir de Rowan devient soudain beaucoup plus obscur...
01/2018
Mondes fantastiques
Magie à Minuit Tome 1
Les parents d'Emily ont disparu... tout cela après avoir reçu une mystérieuse lettre à minuit. Emily s'élance à leur recherche et la voici qui bascule dans le Royaume magique de Minuit, poursuivie par des créatures extraordinaires assoiffées de sang. Ses seuls atouts : des sandwichs, un hérisson clandestin et sa langue bien pendue. Quel secret relie sa famille au Royaume de Minuit ? Peut-elle sauver ses parents, son monde et celui de Minuit avant d'être à court de sandwichs ?
Pocket jeunesse
Magie à Minuit. Tome 1
Poussez la porte de la Poste de Londres à minuit... magie et frissons garantis ! Les parents d'Emily ont tous deux disparus après avoir reçu une mystérieuse lettre à minuit. L'intrépide Emily s'élance à leur recherche, et la voici qui bascule par accident dans le Royaume magique de Minuit. A ses trousses, des créatures extraordinaires assoiffées de sang. Ses seuls atouts : des sandwiches, un hérisson clandestin et sa langue bien pendue. Quel secret relie sa famille au Royaume de Minuit ? Peut-elle sauver ses parents, son monde et celui de Minuit avant d'être à court de sandwiches ?
10/2023
Lecture 9-12 ans
Magie méli-mélo Tome 1
Dans la famille de Nory, "être comme tout le monde", c'est, par exemple, pouvoir se transformer en un seul animal à la fois. Mais Nory a beau se concentrer... Abracatastrophe ! La voilà changée en chaton avec des ailes de dragon ! Elle est donc envoyée chez sa tante Margot, dans une classe spécialisée en Magie "Méli-Mélo". C'est là qu'elle rencontre Elliott. Lui, il crée de la glace à partir des flammes. Il y a aussi Andres, qui vole dans les airs, sans pouvoir toucher terre. Ou encore Bax, qui... Non, il ne vaut mieux pas parler de Bax... En tout cas, cette année, Nory ne va pas s'ennuyer !
10/2016
Non classé
Brides on Sale
Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them "Taiwan's Fifth Ethnic Group". This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked to the forces of globalization. Traditional ideas of marriage, such as the belief that a woman "marries out" of her natal family to be dependent upon her husband and his family, and the idea that a man should "marry down" to a woman of a lesser social and economic status, have not kept pace with changes in women's educational and career opportunities. How these relationships are formed, how they impact gendered understandings of women and men, how families are constituted and relationships developed, and how they affect the children of these families and their education, are the issues explored in this book. It breaks new ground in our understanding of transnational and cross-border marriages by looking at the long-term effects of such marriages on communities, families, and individuals.
04/2015
BD tout public
Le high-tech
Monsieur B, toujours au top des dernières tendances de la société... mais aussi du rire ! On vit une époque formidable, bourrée de gadgets technologiques de plus en plus miniaturisés, aussi chers qu'indispensables ! Mais vu qu'il est difficile de se faire seul une idée de tout ce qui se passe, autant demander conseil à un spécialiste : Monsieur B ! Qui, comme toujours, a tout exploré pour vous avant de vous en livrer le meilleur - mais aussi le plus drôle - au gré de gags d'anthologie qui prêtent autant à rire qu'à réfléchir sur les dépendances, voire parfois les dérives, de notre société. LOL & MDR en perspective !
11/2009
Littérature française
Saint Shuddhananda Bharati A visionary
Foreword To my friend, to my guide, to the mahatma of my heart, to the visionary of a united world living in peace and harmony in the earthly paradise that God has given us. Life and destiny is like an iceberg ; most of us is hidden, and for some, this is the start of the long path of questioning... For souls that are searching, the time then comes when the seeker finds what is being sought : the precursor, the one that has opened the path, cleared it out and illuminated the way. Thus in the deepest part of our Selves, at the centre of our soul, Joythi, the Divine Light is revealed and works on meeting all those who seek it. Kavi Yogi Maharshi Shuddhananda Bharati was a scholar, linguist, scientist, seer poet, saint and the sage of the Cosmic Age. He was ever agile and active, writing, singing, doing good and observed silence for 30 continuous years. He was a universalist, who was not bound to caste, religion, colour and race or geographic bounds. He was an apostle of Sama Yoga, which seeks for a synthesis of science and yoga, West and East, the actual and the ideal in life. Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati is the author of creative and literary works with diverse writing styles : epic and lyric writings, melodramas, operas, comedies, pastoral theologies, novels, short stories, biographies, notes on famous works, essays. Bharata Shakti Kavi Malayam is his magnum opus. Editions ASSA, Christianananda Bharati
11/2013
Shonen/garçon
By the grace of the gods Tome 1
Grâce à l'intervention de trois divinités, Ryôma Takebayashi, un employé japonais ordinaire, se retrouve réincarné après sa mort dans le monde étrange de Seilfall. Redevenu un jeune garçon, il décide de vivre en ermite dans la forêt et de se consacrer à l'étude des slimes, des petites créatures rondes dévorant tout ce qu'elles trouvent. Pour Ryôma, c'est le début d'une nouvelle vie calme et paisible dans ce monde de fantasy, entouré de ses slimes aux capacités insoupçonnées !
01/2023
Josei/femme
The Ice Guy & The Cool Girl Tome 1
Himuro est le descendant d'une yuki-onna, une femme des neiges. Par cette filiation, il plonge inconsciemment son entourage dans un environnement proche de l'Arctique lorsqu'il se concentre. Pire encore, il passe pour un homme qu'il n'est pas : perçu comme insensible et au tempérament glacial, il est en réalité chaleureux, aime les chats et les fleurs. Son état finit par attirer l'attention de sa collègue Fuyutsuki, dont il est secrètement amoureux. Himuro se montre alors déterminé à capturer le coeur de sa belle collègue. The Ice Guy & The Cool Girl est un manga publié originellement sur le compte Twitter de Miyuki Tonogaya. Grâce à son dessin magnifique et à ses personnages charismatiques, la mangaka nous offre une romance aussi chaleureuse que mignonne.
07/2022
Mondes fantastiques
The Complete Tales From The Otherlands. Tome 1
Ce recueil vous présente pas moins de cinquante deux histoires tirées de notre quotidien, pour la plupart. Des situations banales qui prennent un tournant irééel, surnaturel, angoissant et dérangeant. Des faits étonnants qui vous pousseront à vous interroger sur des questions on ne peut plus simple ; que feriez-vous, par exemple, si votre tatouage devenait, disons... un tantinet envahissant ? Ouvrirez-vous la porte, sachant que cet inconnu qui se présente est venu attendre chez vous un certain Georges, que vous ne connaissez absolument pas ? Tenterez-vous de finir ces travaux dans votre salle de bain, travaux engagés juste après la découverte d'un trou mystérieux dans le mur ? Tomberiez-vous amoureux de ce mystérieur stagiaire, au point de ne plus être capable de vivre sans lui ? Comment faire, quand votre enfant de six ans dispose de pouvoirs psychiques et qu'il vous martyrise pour son simple amusement ? Que faire quand la mort vous envoie par erreur la liste de ses prochaines victimes par mail ? Peut-on faire confiance à la science et à ce tout nouveau robot de chirurgie personnel, censé faire des miracles ? Et comment expliquer cet encombrant entassement d'objets hétéroclites chez votre voisin du dessus ? Ce ne sont que quelques questions, quelques sujets, que Tim Corey développe au travers des ces histoires fantastiques, pour votre plus grand plaisir...
03/2021
Sonyun (shonen)
The return of the demonic master Tome 1
" Le Démon Rouge " : son nom fait frémir de peur tous ses ennemis, car il est l'homme le plus puissant de son univers. Mais une coalition de maîtres réussit à lui ôter la vie. Pourtant, ce n'est pas la fin pour lui : le voilà de retour dans son corps d'origine sur Terre. Réincarné dans sa toute première vie, comme un adolescent normal. Ou presque... Car Jinho a gardé tous ses pouvoirs de Maître des Démons. Mais, cette fois-ci, pas question de se laisser marcher sur les pieds ou de perdre les personnes qu'il aime. Et il comprend vite que les monstres existent aussi dans la vraie vie et que lui seul peut les arrêter...
09/2022
Comics Indépendants
The Nice House on the Lake Tome 1
Tous les conviés connaissent Walter - enfin, ils le connaissent un peu, en tout cas. Certains l'ont rencontré dans leur enfance, d'autres l'ont rencontré quelques mois auparavant. Et Walter a toujours été un peu... absent. Mais après une année difficile, personne n'allait refuser l'invitation de ce dernier dans une maison de campagne située à l'orée d'un bois et avec vue sur lac. C'est beau, c'est opulent, c'est privé ? de quoi supporter les petites combines et les surnoms bizarres donnés par Walter. Mais ces vacances de luxe revêtent très vite des airs de prison dorée.
02/2023
Mondes fantastiques
The Nightshade Crown Tome 1 : The Foxglove King
Un royaume décadent inspiré d'une cour de Versailles gothique. Une nécromancienne traquée dissimulant une magie des morts interdite. Un prince et un prêtre-guerrier ennemis prêts à tout pour servir leur cause. Bienvenue à la cour de la Citadelle... A treize ans, Lore a échappé aux griffes d'un culte secret officiant dans les catacombes de la ville de Dellaire. Depuis dix ans, elle suit une unique règle : ne pas se laisser reprendre. Devenue trafiquante de poison pour le cartel qui l'a prise sous son aile, elle s'efforce de rester dans l'ombre et de garder le secret sur son affinité illicite avec la Mortem, la magie de la mort qui la lie irrémédiablement à la cité. Mais lorsqu'une transaction se passe mal, Lore est capturée par la Presque Mort, une faction de prêtres-guerriers habilités à utiliser la Mortem pour le compte du Roi Sanctifié... Lore pense être promise au bûcher, or le roi semble avoir d'autres intentions. Des villages entiers sont en train de disparaître aux confins du royaume sans explication rationnelle, et Lore est confrontée à un choix : user de sa magie pour enquêter et démasquer les responsables à la cour de la Citadelle... ou être exécutée. Mais dans cet étincelant monde d'en haut fait de lumière et de faux-semblants où elle ne peut accorder sa confiance à personne, Lore doit se trouver des alliés. Entre Gabriel, le duc devenu prêtre de la Presque Mort chargé de la guider et Bastian, le sulfureux et controversé prince héritier, Lore se perd dans un dangereux labyrinthe d'intrigues politiques, religieuses et amoureuses... alors que les sombres secrets qu'elle a laissés dans les profondeurs des catacombes sont en passe de la rattraper...
05/2024
Shonen/garçon
The Bugle Call Tome . Tome 1
Transcender le fracas des armes, décider du sort de la bataille ! Luka, orphelin recueilli par le chef d'un groupe de mercenaires, n'est pas comme les autres : une branche pousse sur son crâne et il peut voir les sons, matérialisés par des traits de lumière... Le seul à lui parler sans crainte est son père adoptif, aussi fin stratège qu'impitoyable au combat. A 14 ans, Luka a déjà vu assez d'horreurs pour une vie. En tant que clairon, il est de tous les affrontements, transmettant les ordres via son instrument. En réalité, il n'a qu'une envie : échapper à ce quotidien fait de violence pour devenir musicien... Seulement, la bataille qui s'annonce pourrait être sa dernière : cette fois, il doit prendre les armes... et surtout, parmi ses opposants se trouvent d'autres "branchus' dotés de divers pouvoirs surnaturels ! Ils font un massacre dans les rangs de Luka, et ce dernier, blessé, se saisit d'un clairon pour sonner la retraite... C'est alors que son véritable pouvoir se dévoile et évite une déroute complète à ses alliés. Témoins de son exploit, les énigmatiques adversaires s'emparent de lui. Luka s'éveille dans une ville entourant une tour immense, vestige des temps anciens et source de magie... Ses nouveaux compagnons sont les protecteurs du lieu, régi par un mystérieux pape. Celui-ci passe un accord avec Luka : si le garçon met son pouvoir et son don tactique à son service, il l'aidera à devenir musicien. Sans le savoir, le jeune prodige se retrouve embarqué dans une guerre dont les enjeux le dépassent ! La lumière du son, seul espoir dans l'horreur des batailles... D'un trait vif et nerveux, une nouvelle génération d'auteurs invente un monde de dark fantasy sans concession. Mais ici, pas de héros surdoué au combat, juste un garçon rêvant de musique... Et pourtant, de ses talents dépend l'issue du conflit !
03/2024
Beaux arts
Tiepolo in Milan. The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto
Tiepolo in Milan : The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto brings together preparatory drawings and paintings, as well as documentary photographs, to commemorate an extraordinary fresco cycle by the Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Painted for Palazzo Archinto in Milan, the frescoes were destroyed in a bombing during World War II. The catalogue accompanies an exhibition at The Frick Collection. In 1730-31, Tiepolo undertook his first significant project outside the Veneto, frescoes for five ceilings in Palazzo Archinto in Milan. The paintings were commissioned by Count Carlo Archinto (1670-1732), likely in honor of the marriage of his son, Filippo, to Giulia Borromeo. Tiepolo's mythological and allegorical scenes-Triumph of Arts and Sciences ; Apollo and Phaëton ; Perseus and Andromeda ; Juno, Fortune, and Venus ; and Nobility-were painted in some of the largest rooms of the palazzo. Unfortunately, the palazzo was bombed during World War II and its interior completely destroyed. Only a series of black-and-white photographs, taken between 1897 and the late 1930s, preserves the frescoes' appearance, but a number of preparatory drawings and paintings provide precious information, including three painted sketches (Triumph of Arts and Sciences, the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon ; Apollo and Phaëton, Los Angeles County Museum ; and Perseus and Andromeda, The Frick Collection). Three drawings from the British Museum in London, the Museo Civico in Trieste, and the Sinebrychoff Art Museum in Helsinki are the only related graphic works. These-along with other drawings and prints by Tiepolo and some books- have been reunited for the first time in order to bring to life these extraordinary works of art. On view at The Frick Collection from April 16 to July 14, 2019, the exhibition is curated by Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick, with Andrea Tomezzoli, Professor at the University of Padua, and Denis Ton, Curator of the Musei Civici in Belluno. Included in the publication are essays on Tiepolo's work in Palazzo Archinto (Salomon), on the role of the frescoes in Tiepolo's career (Tomezzoli), on the intellectual world of the Archinto family (Ton), and on the architectural history of the palace (Kluzer).
04/2019
Monographies
The Gregory Gift
Presenting for the first time the Alexis Gregory Gift to The Frick Collection, this exquisite publication provides illuminating insights into Gregory's magnificently eclectic collection, cataloging his fine and decorative works of art in detail. Twenty-eight works of art bequeathed to the Frick by Alexis Gregory range from Limoges enamels to Saint-Porchaire ware to pastels by the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera. This remarkable gift has introduced new types of objects to the Frick : works in ivory and rhinoceros horn are the first of their kind to be held in the collection. Gregory's gift includes fifteen Limoges enamels, one of them produced in the workshop of Suzanne de Court, the only woman known to have led an enamel workshop in Limoges. Also part of the gift are a gilt-bronze sculpture, an ivory hilt, a pomander, ewers, saltcellars, and two clocks. Many of Gregory's objects came from such prestigious owners as the French royal collections and the Rothschilds. Included in the publication are commentaries on each gift. This lavishly illustrated publication accompanies an exhibition that will be on view at The Frick Collection February 16 through May 14, 2023.
02/2023
