stephanie hess

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  Dancing pines ; a wild journey through Swiss customs and traditions

  Karin Britsch, Sibylle Gerber, Stephanie Hess, Dominique Rosenmund

  • Benteli
  • 28 Novembre 2019
  • 9783716518472

  Les Suisses ont toujours cultivé leurs propres coutumes locales. Cette énorme richesse d'événements religieux et séculiers communaux et de traditions vivantes est un atout culturel important dans de nombreux villages, districts et régions. Elles s'intègrent dans la vie quotidienne de la population et se transmettent, parfois de la même manière qu'il y a cent ans, parfois de manière adaptée au présent. Les photos et les textes de cet ouvrage ne se contentent pas de donner une image parfaite, souvent bien établie, des brochures touristiques, mais reflètent plutôt l'atmosphère particulière et spécifique que les auteurs et le photographe ont vécue dans chaque lieu. Au cours de conversations avec les participants, on peut découvrir ce qu'est réellement la tradition respective et ce qu'elle signifie pour les gens. C'est une collection de belles trouvailles et d'histoires de gens qui cultivent leurs coutumes et leurs traditions avec beaucoup de c½ur et d'âme.
  
  In a quiet valley of the Swiss mountains, anarchic creatures, half giants, half animals, roam about. A cozy village transforms into a busy Alpine Wall Street in the summertime. And wildly blazing torches on people's shoulders plunge a historic old town into a sea of flames every year.
  
  Quaint, fervent and close to nature - the Swiss cultivate their very own local customs and traditions with a great deal of passion. There are rituals that wistfully bid farewell to summer or exuberantly drive away the long winter, that celebrate religious occasions or cultivate secular events; sometimes similar to those of a hundred years ago, sometimes adapted to the present.
  
  Together, the photographer and authors traveled through Switzerland tracing some of its most beautiful and wildest traditions, exploring what they are really about and what they mean to people. In this volume, the editors present their personal highlights of the customs of Swiss urban and rural life.
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  Sargent and Paris

  Stephanie L. Herdrich, Erica E. Hirshler

  • Yale Uk
  • 29 Mai 2025
  • 9781588397959

  A fascinating look at John Singer Sargent's formative years as a young painter in Paris, a city that helped forge his artistic identity and sparked his rise to the pinnacle of the nineteenth-century art world.
  In 1874, eighteen-year-old American artist John Singer Sargent went to Paris to become a painter. Ten years later, he would become an art-world sensation when he sparked controversy with his scandalous portrait Madame X at the 1884 Salon. Sargent and Paris focuses on this decisive early decade in the artist's career, when he first achieved recognition for ambitious portraits and bold canvases that pushed the boundaries of convention. Eight incisive essays by the world's foremost Sargent scholars explore his life in Paris-then the epicenter of the cultural world-and the cosmopolitan circle of artists, writers, and cultivated patrons that nurtured his career and helped forge his artistic identity. Authors highlight the painter's connections to giants of the Parisian art scene as well as the influential patrons who were key to Sargent's progression as an artist. Presented alongside lavish images of more than a hundred paintings and works on paper-brought together from public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe-this publication offers an intimate look at the roots of Sargent's signature, breathtaking style and his indelible experiences as a young artist in the French capital. Lire la suite Fermer

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