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Escobar versus Cali
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ISBN: 9781939521316 1939521319 9781939521019 1939521017 Year: 2013 Publisher: Rock Hill, South Carolina

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The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide is the first book of its kind in any language: the ultimate Cosa Nostra experience. Since 2006, author Carl Russo has photographed Mafia hotspots on the Italian island of Sicily: where the murders happened, where the godfathers lived, where their victims are buried. From the sunbaked fishing villages of the Mediterranean to the darkest alleys of Palermo, western Sicily is the exotic backdrop for more than 100 meticulously researched tales of murder and mayhem, packed with 200 photographs of the actual locations. The book's historical sweep covers 150 years of revolutions, world wars, politics and popular culture--all inextricably bound to Cosa Nostra. They include the childhood home of gangster Lucky Luciano, the hideouts of the fearsome bosses of Corleone, the tombs of the "Robin Hood" bandit and the legendary dons, the roots of the American and Canadian mafias, the Allied landing, pistol-packing priests, political assassinations, playgrounds of the new Mafia and the anti-Mafia movement. Each site and association is depicted in sharp prose and revealing images, bringing many stories to English for the first time. Whether you're planning a trip to Sicily or sticking to the comfort of your armchair, this provocative book will take you closer to the Sicilian Mafia than you dared to think possible.

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Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar : a period of conflict (1936-1946)
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ISBN: 1782847197 9781782847199 Year: 2021 Publisher: Brighton ; Chicago, Illinois ; Toronto : Sussex Academic Press,

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Although Pablo Picasso spotted Dora Maar at a cafe in January 1936 it is highly likely that she had come to his attention prior. As Brassaï, a Hungarian-French photographer, recalled, 'It was at Les Deux-Magots that, one day in autumn 1935, [he] met Dora. On an earlier day, he had already noticed the grave, drawn face of the young woman at a nearby table, the attentive look in her light-colored eyes, sometimes disturbing in its fixity. When Picasso saw her in the same cafe in the company of the surrealist poet Paul Éluard, who knew her, the poet introduced her to Picasso' (Brassaï, a.k.a. Gyula Halász, Conversations with Picasso [University of Chicago Press, 1999]). Tinged with a seductive mix of violence and dark eroticism, this first meeting has attained mythical status in the story of the artist's life. It reads like an unreal fantasy. A mysterious and feline beauty, which Man Ray had captured in the pictures he took of her, a companion of Georges Bataille, Dora was an accomplished photographer, close to the Surrealists revolutionary aesthetics. Picasso addressed her in French, which he assumed to be her language; she replied in Spanish, which she knew to be his. For the next decade, the painter would translate not just his fascination with the woman who had seduced him on the spot, but also his desire to escape the grip of someone who, for the first time, could intellectually aspire to be his equal. Dora would appear in his works as a female Minotaur, a Sphinx, a lunar goddess and a muse. Because of her intense artistic sensibility, her poetic gifts and her ability to participate in suffering, she was especially qualified to resonate Picasso's own inner torments during these troubled years.

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Picasso : the sculptures
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ISBN: 3775709096 Year: 2000 Publisher: Ostfildern-Ruit Hatje Cantz

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A concordance of Pablo Picasso's French writings
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

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Pablo Picasso, 1881-1914.
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ISBN: 1283954435 1283954788 1283958317 1780424523 9781780424521 9781283954433 190431080X 9781904310808 Year: 2011 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Parkstone International,

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Pablo Picasso is among the most famous figures in 20th-century art, whose works testify to the parallelism of his life and art and underline the impact of important encounters and events.


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Neruda : De 1904 A 1936.
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ISBN: 9798890864093 1469670925 Year: 2022 Publisher: Chapel Hill : Editorial A Contracorriente,

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"More than a literary look at the work of Pablo Neruda, this book by the critic and researcher Jaime Concha analyzes the production of the Nobel Prize based on its relations with the historical process of Chilean society. In this new vision, which he continues and which goes beyond his previous studies, the author attempts a historical-social analysis of Neruda's work, framing it between the years of the poet's birth and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1904-1936). The arduousness of this purpose lies not only in the difficulties inherent to the lyrical genre, but also in those derived from the fact that the Marxist method of research on literature applied in this singular book is still a company that is in the process of being constituted, without ignoring the valuable contributions already made. As the author indicates in his new prologue, the book responded to a very specific historical period, almost a very precise period, located around Chile in 1970"--


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Pablo Escobar and Colombian narcoculture
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ISBN: 1683402189 1683401786 Year: 2021 Publisher: Gainesville : University of Florida Press,

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In the years since his death in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has become a globally recognised symbol of crime, wealth, power, and masculinity. In this exploration of Escobar's impact on popular culture, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky shows how his legacy inspired the development of narcoculture in Colombia and around the world.


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Pablo Picasso 1881-1973
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ISBN: 9783822851333 3822851337 Year: 2006 Publisher: Keulen Taschen

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Pablo Picasso : 1881-1914.
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ISBN: 1283955172 1780426623 1780425449 9781780425443 9781904310938 1904310931 9781904310938 Year: 2003 Publisher: [New York] : Parkstone International,

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Cet ouvrage présente un grand nombre d'œuvres de Pablo Picasso réalisées entre 1881 et 1914. La première manière de l'artiste est marquée par l'influence du Greco, de Munch et de Toulouse-Lautrec qu'il découvre à Barcelone. Fortement intéressé par l'expression psychologique, il exprime dans sa période « bleue » (1901-1904) la misère morale : scènes de genre, natures mortes et portraits sont empreints de mélancolie. Il se passionne ensuite pour des figures de saltimbanques ; période « rose ». À partir de 1904, date de son installation à Paris, son esthétique évolue considérablement. L'influence


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Picasso
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ISBN: 1283952599 1780420536 9781780420530 9789583021992 9781283952590 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York [Parkstone International]

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