by William J. Mann · T&B Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496576407
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This biography of Katharine Hepburn, written by William J. Mann, explores the life of the iconic actress, revealing intimate and little-known details about her personal and professional career. Through interviews with family and friends, Mann offers a deep insight into the woman behind the Hollywood legend, showing both her ambitions and her vulnerabilities. The book examines her impact on American cinema and her struggle to overcome the conventions of her time.
Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. His artistic style developed over his lifetime, moving away from Romanticism—bypassing the following rising style of Realism—and, instead, with his later works being a significant precursor of and presaging the later Impressionist and Abstract Art movements that arose in the decades after his death. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. In 1969 art historian Kenneth Clark wrote of Turner: "He was a genius of the first order—far the greatest painter that England has ever produced..."
