Footsteps

An artist's book, born from the collaboration between Irish writer Bernie Murphy and french artist Karin Tueta , inspired by the landscape and people of the city of Hyères, in the south of France Un livre d'artiste né de la collaboration entre l'écrivaine irlandaise Bernie Murphy et l'artiste française Karin Tueta, inspiré par les paysages et les habitants de Hyères les Palmiers. Bernie Murphy manie les mots avec magie et passion. Sa sensibilité a trouvé écho dans le travail pictural de karin Tueta. Elles évoquent dans ce livre poétique la beauté des paysages de Hyères mais aussi la difficulté de vivre cette année 2021.

On the night of the 31st of December 1943, two British commandos successfully collected a few samples of sand and peat under the very nose of the Germans posted at Ver-sur-Mer. Five months later, some 25, 000 men followed in their footsteps and landed on the same shores, codenamed Gold Beach. Barely had they landed, the British troops set out to building an artificial harbour, undoubtedly one of the finest technical feats of the Second World War. It was to prove a major asset for securing Allied supremacy in the months that followed the D-Day Landings.

Framed by dramatic mountains and the sparkling Adriatic coast, the neighbouring regions of Umbria and the Marche offer historical and cultural interest to rival the rest of Italy. Lofty medieval hill towns and castles dot the landscape, where vines, truffles and olives grow ; in between nestle lakes, Roman ruins and exceptional art cities crammed with Renaissance masterpieces. Follow in the footsteps of St Francis in UNESCO-listed Assisi, admire Orvieto's magnificent duomo and go sailing on peaceful Lake Trasimeno. Visit Urbino's mighty Palazzo Ducale, hike the Grande Anello dei Sibillini and relax on San Benedetto del Tronto's palm-fringed Blue Flag beaches. Additional online content and updates at www.bradtguides.com/updades.

For some years, street artworks have appeared across the walls of Casablanca. From the city's downtown to its outskirts, young people are expressing themselves and reinventing the face of their hometown. This book aims to recognise the work of these artists as well as the urban heritage of the city of Casablanca. This work retraces the development of street art in the city, its history, its artists, and its events. Separated into 16 sections illustrated by photos of wall murals, and accompanied by brief, dynamic texts. The latest work in the Vivacité collection, STREET ART, Casablanca's New Urban Energy follows in the footsteps of STREET FOOD IN MOROCCO, Authentic Flavour, Cafés du Maroc, Miroirs des cultures urbaines, and the upcoming HOMEFOOD, The Art of Moroccan Hospitality in Morocco.

Jacques Cordier (1937-1975) is a painter whose renown extended beyond the national borders in his lifetime. He exhibited at Paris salons during the early years of his career, and later in galleries in Paris, Saint-Tropez and Italy. Loyal collectors also helped to extend his reputation before his tragic and premature death put an abrupt end to his creativity. A figurative painter trained in Paris in accordance with the precepts of the Return to Order, his work underwent a major artistic revolution when he moved to Saint-Tropez with Simone Armando-Barbier. Following in the footsteps of the Post-Impressionists and Fauvists, he immersed himself in the light of the South of France, which we find in his palette to produce works marked by the powerful personality of their creator. By bringing together the corpus of his paintings and drawings, this catalogue raisonné pays a well-deserved tribute to Jacques Cordier and provides an insight into his singular and original oeuvre.

His knowledge, tenacity and eloquence still resound in the corridors of the Institute which bears his name in Saint Petersburg and his spirit continues to inspire the hundreds of researchers pursuing his work. He had anticipated the disappearance of plant diversity, and, within the space of a few decades, he studied and travelled throughout the world and found the means of saving it. For political and idealogical reasons, Nikolai Vavilov was condemned to death and left to starve in the dungeon of a Soviet prison. Gradually, on both sides of the iron curtain, his memory began to fade. One hundred years after Vavilov's first expedition, the photographer Mario Del Curto retraced his footsteps. For four years he has been meeting those who, despite overwhelming obstacles, perpetuate Vavilov's seed prospec- tion, selection, and conservation work in order to save the planet's staple food crops. This book is the unprecedented story of his journey to the heart of the Vavilov Institute and its twelve research stations. International special- ists bring light to the huge scope of the work undertaken by Vavilov and his successors.