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John Ashbery
John Ashbery (1927-2017)

poet, journalist, art critic, translator

  • Harvard University, Columbia University

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The Phoenix Book Shop
Chinese whispers
Reported sightings
Planisphere
A nest of ninnies
A nest of ninnies
Collected French Translations: Poetry
Quick Question: New Poems
Collected French Translations
Breezeway: New Poems
John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, Tom Raworth
Light, from Aten to Laser
Quick Question: New Poems
Commotion of the Birds
The academy
Not a first
Flow chart
Sidney Janis presents an exhibition of factual paintings & sculpture from France, England, Italy, Sweden and the United States
Brainard-Freeman notebooks
Breezeway
Selected poems
Faster than birds can fly
If I don't hear from you again I shall wonder
Hotel Lautréamont
Turandot and other poems
Haibun
Narrative art
Frank Chin
Frank Chin (born 1940)

playwright, art critic

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Bulletproof Buddhists and other essays
Gunga Din Highway
The chickencoop Chinaman ; and, The year of the dragon
Donald Duk
The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co
Aiiieeeee!
Born in the USA
Bulletproof Buddhists (Intersections - Asian and Pacific AmericanTranscultural Studies)
Aiiieeeee!
Big Aiiieeeee!
Big Aaiiieeeee
The confessions of a number one son
Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Company
Born in the USA
Aiiieeeee! : an anthology of Asian-American writers
Aiiieeeee!
Chicken Coop Chinaman
Odysseas Elytis
Odysseas Elytis (1911-1996)

translator, poet, art critic

  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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Open papers
Maria Nephele
Poems
Odysseus Elytis
The Oxopetra elegies
The sovereign sun
[To axion esti
Eros, eros, eros
The sovereign sun
The Aegean
The Axion Esti
Tō axion esti
Carte Blanche
[To axion esti] The axion esti
Odysseus Elytis, selected poems
Selected poems
Carte Blanche
The axion esti
What I love
Selected Poems Of Odysseus Elytis
The sovereign sun
Seis y Un Remordimiento
Thel ittle mariner
The Axion Esti
The little mariner
In the name of luminosity and transparency
En leukō
Ta elegeia tēs oxōpetras
Anoichta chartia
Helios o protos
Imerologio enos atheatou Apriliou
The collected poems of Odysseus Elytis
Ta rō tou erōta
Zōgraphikē se poiēsē Odyssea Elytē
Sol el primero
Ho helios ho heliatoras
Poiēsē
Asma hēroiko kai penthimo gia ton chameno anthypolochago tēs Albanias
Poemas
Hē mageia tou Papadiamantē
Ōdē stē Santorinē
Sapphō
Cincuenta poemas
Hexē kai mia typseis gia ton ourano
Odyssea Elytē
To monogramma
Ho zōgraphos Theophilos
Oxopetra-Elegien. Westlich der Trauer. Sp ate Gedichte
Canto heróico y fúnebre por el Subteniente caido en Albania
Tria polēmata me sēmaia eukairias
He mageia tou Papadiamante
To Photodentro kai he dekate tetarte omorphia
Tria poiēmata, me sēmaia eukairias
Ho kēpos me tis autapates
Exō kai mia typseis gia ton ourano
Ta heterothalē
Anaphora ston Andrea Empeiriko
Anoichta chartia
E ̄merologio enos atheatou Apriliou
O zo graphos Theophilos
Pierre Reverdy entre la Grèce et Solesmes
Odysseas Elytēs
Oxopetra Elegies West of Sor
Ta ro tou erota
Deutere Graphe
Anaphora ston Andrea Empeiriko
Idiōtikē hodos
Sieben nächtliche Siebenzeiler
To axion esti
To axion esti
Autoprosōpographia se logo prophoriko
Anaphora ston Andrea Empeiriko
21 poesie
Ek tou plēsion
Maria Nephelē
The elegies of Oxopetra west of sorrow
2 x 7e
Dignum est
Hēmerologio henos atheatou Apriliou
Ho mikros nautilos
Prosanatolismoi
Exi kai mia typseis gia ton oupano
Oxopetra Elegies
Ta dēmosia kai ta idiōtika
Sovereign Sun
Odysseas Elyte s
Se ma tologion
Six plus un remords pour le ciel
Oxópetra elegien ; Westlich der trauer
Pierre Reverdy entre la Grèce à Solesmes
To axion esti
Syn tois allois
Anoichta chartia
To phōtodentro, kai he Dekatē tetartē homorphia
O kósmos o mikrós, o mégas!
maria nefeli / μαρία νεφέλη
Maria Nefeli
Idiotike odos
To monogramma
Me to lychno tou astrou
Ta rō tou erōta
Asma hērōïko kai penthimo gia ton chameno anthypolochago tēs Alvanias
Hē Hellada tou Elytē
Odysseus Elytis
Maria Nephele
Camino privado
O mikros nautilos
Axion esti poème
imerologio enos atheatou apriliou
Hēlios ho Prōtos
Antologia
Le Monogramme
Orientaciones
Helios ho protos
Axion Esti
Hexē kai mia typseis gia ton ourano
Prosanatolismoi
Ta etevothale
Prosanatolismoi
Deutere graphe ... [et al.]
Die Traume: Worter - Menschen - Orte
Eklogē 1935-1977
He lios ho pro tos
Asma hēroiko kai penthimo gia ton chameno anthypolochago tēs Albanias
Carte Blanche
Odyssea Elytē Asma ērōiko kai penthimo gia tan chameno anthypolochago tēs Alvanias
Ta heterothalē
Iōannēs, hē Apokalypsē
Der Duft des Mittagsmahls
Axion esti. L'arbre lucide et la quatorzième beauté
Asma hērōiko kai penthimo gia ton chameno anthypolochago tēs Alvanias
Sēmatologion
Odysseus Elytis
Prosanatolismoi
The Aegean (M library of art)
Dignum est y otros poemas
Helios ho protos
Carte Blanche
Ho hēlios ho hēliatoras
Elios o protos
Prosa
Ausgewählte Gedichte
To phōtodentro
Asma hēroiko kai penthimo gia ton chameno anthypolochago tēs Albanias
Temps enchaine et temps delie
El axion estí
Camino privado
Axion esti
Etlsyi, 1935-1977
Journal of an Unseen April
Dignum est
Tre poemetti sotto bandiera ombra
Selected Poems
Elegias de Oxopetra
Antologia General
Josef Čapek
Josef Čapek (1887-1945)

translator, painter, photographer, playwright, journalist, illustrator, art critic, art theorist, scenographer, graphic artist

  • Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Académie Colarossi

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Josef Čapek
R.U.R. and The insect play
Oheň a touha
Nueve cuentos y uno de propina de Josef Capek
Co má člověk z umění a jiné úvahy o umění z let 1911-1937
Gardener's Year
Karel Capek Fairy Tales - With One Extra as a Makeweight and Illustrated by Joseph Capek
Book Design of Josef Capek
Moderní výtvarný výraz
Vyznání mrtvým
Dějiny zblízka
Povídání o pejskovi a kočičce
Capek's bookshelf
Nejskromnější umění
The world we live in (the insect comedy)
"And so ad infinitum" (the life of the insects)
Pro delfína
O pejskovi a kočičce
Málo o mnohém
Psáno do mraků
Psáno do mraků. 1936-1939
Povídejme si, děti
Lelio ;
Schatten der farne
Povietroň
Rodné krajiny
HISTOIRE DE CHIEN ET DE CHAT
CAPEK'S BOOKSHELF
Josef Čapek, 1887-1945
Geschichte aus der Nähe
Histoire de la lettre
Stín kapradiny
Psáno do mraku̇
Diletantska povidka a Malo o mnohem
Histoire de la [lettre] que le [chat] et le [chien] écrivirent à leurs amies
Harum scarum
The world we live in (the insect comedy) a play in three acts with prologue and epilogue
Země mnoha jmen
Stín kapradiny
Histoire de la lettre
Kulhavý poutník
Dvojí osud
Lelio
Nepřicházejí vhod
Básně z koncentračního tábora
Basne z koncentracniho tabora
The land of many names
Co ma clovek z umeni a jine uvahy z let 1912-1937
Nueve Cuentos y Uno de Propina
Knihy o umění
O sobě
O nejbližších věcech
Knižní obálky Josefa Čapka
Povidani o pejskovi a kocicce, jak spolu hospodarili a jeste o vselijakych jinyc
Rodne Krajiny
Koinu to koneko no okashina hanashi
Rosponínky
Im Schatten des Faschismus
Málo o mnohém
Stín kapradiny
Uměni přirodních národú
Lelio a Pro Delfína
Psáno do mraků, 1936-1939
Josef Čapek
Kulhavý poutnik
Kulhavý poutník
Zářivé hlubiny a jiné prosy
O sobě
The land of many names
Beletrie
Almanach na rok 1914
Nejskromnější umění
Chapekku Kyōdai to kodomo no sekai
Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic (1871-1951)

poet, literary critic, playwright, collector, editing staff, translator, postal worker, art critic

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Vzpomínky
Tryzna za básníkem Karlem Hlaváčkem
Král Rudolf
Renaissanční touhy v umění
Král Rudolf
Cesare Borgia: dramatická báseň
Gotická duše: román Jiřího Karáska ze Lvovic
Gotická duše a jiné prózy
Chimaerické výpravy
Ideje zítřku
Renaissanční touhy v umění
Impressionistě a ironikové, dokumenty k psychologii literární generace let devadesátých
Anonymní dopisy čili affaira "pěti spisovatelův." Odpověď Jiřího Karáska ze Lvovic
Impressionistě a ironikové, dokumenty k psychologii literární generace let devadesátých
Endymion
Zazděná okna
Král Rudolf
A gothic soul
Poslední vinobraní
Sen o říši krásy
Ostrov vyhnanců
Ocúny noci
Posvátné ohně
Básně z konce století
Sodoma
Ideje zítřku
Apollonius z Tyany
Kniha aristokratická
Mimo život
Boží převozník
Milý příteli--
Sodoma
Ztracený ráj
Legenda o ctih
Zlatý triptych
Cesare Borgia
Básnické spisy Jiřího Karáska ze Lvovic
Legenda o Sodomovi
Endymion
Sexus necans
Genenda
Obrácení Raymunda Lulla
J.S. Machar
Romány tří mágů
Scarabaeus
Zastřený obraz
Romány tří magů
Písně tulákovy o životě a smrti
Hořící duše
Ideje zítřku; Henrik Ibsen - Walt Whitman, 1894-1898
J. S. Machar...
Básnické spisy
Polské umění XIX. a XX. století ze sbírky Jiřího Karáska ze Lvovic
Chimérické výpravy
Chimaerické výpravy
Solitude, vanity, night
Hovory se smrtí
Impresionisté a ironikové--kritické studie
Maxime Du Camp
Maxime Du Camp (1822-1894)

photographer, poet, journalist, literary critic, art critic

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Souvenirs littéraires
Théophile Gautier
Souvenirs de l'année 1848
Theophile Gautier
Expédition des Deux-Siciles
Expédition des Deux-Siciles
Lettres inédites à Gustave Flaubert
L' attentat Fieschi
Paris, ses organes, ses fonctions et sa vie dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle
Les convulsions de Paris
Paris, ses organes, ses fonctions et sa vie dans la seconde moitie du XIXe siècle
Paris after the Prussians
Le Salon de 1857
Le Salon de 1859
En Holland, lettres, suivies des catalogues des musées de Rotterdam, La Haye et Amsterdam
Mémoires d'un suicidé
Lettres inédites à Gustave Flaubert
Le crépuscule
Paris, ses organes, ses fonctions et sa vie dans la seconde moitie du XIXe ..
Histoire et critique : études sur la Révolution française, Souvenirs de voyages, Lettres à M. le ministre de l'instruction publique
Paris: ses organes, ses fonctions et sa vie dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle
Recollections of a literary life
Les convulsions de Paris
Paris, ses organes, ses fonctions et sa vie dans la seconde moitie du XIXe siècle: ses organes ..
Les Six aventures
Les beaux-arts a l'Exposition universelle et aux salons de 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866 & 1867
Paris
Paris, ses organes, ses fonctions et sa vie dans la seconde moitibe du XIXe siècle
Paris, ses organes, ses fonctions et sa vie dans la seconde moitie du XIX siecle
Paris
Les convulsions de Paris
Souvenirs littéraires, 1822-1894
Le Nil
The ophile Gautier
Die Reise zum Nil, 1849-1850
La charité privée à Paris
Les convulsions de Paris
Paris, ses organes, ses fonctions et sa vie
Souvenirs littéraires
Souvenirs d'un demi-siècle
Souvenirs littéraires de Maxime du Camp, 1822-1894
Paris, ses organes, ses fonctions et sa vie
Voyage en Orient (1849-1851)
Souvenirs de l'année 1848
Salt and paper
Literary recollections
Bons coeurs et braves gens
Makishimu dyu Kan
Souvenirs litteraires de Maxime du Camp, 1822-1894
Souvenirs littéraires, 1822-1894
Mémoires d'un suicidé
Recollections of a literary life
Les Six aventures
En Hollande
Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie
Die Wohlthätigkeits-Anstalten der christlichen Barmherzigkeit in Paris
Paris
Les Six aventures
Le chevalier du coeur saignant
Un voyageur en Egypte vers 1850
Thoéphile[!] Gautier
Bons coeurs et braves gens
Les chants modernes
Les forces perdues
Une histoire d'amour
Théophile Gautier
Les chants modernes
Le crépuscule propos du soir
Les beaux-arts à l'exposition universelle de 1855
Les beaux-arts a l'Exposition universelle et aux salons de 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866 & 1867
Les beaux-arts a l'Exposition universelle et aux salons de 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866 & 1867
En Hollande
Souvenirs littéraires
La charité privée a Paris
Souvenirs de l'anne e 1848
La charite prive e a Paris
Paris bienfaisant
Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes (1938-2012)

art historian, art critic, television presenter, narrator

  • University of Sydney

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Nothing If Not Critical
Goya
Things I didn't know
Nothing if not critical
GOYA
The spectacle of skill
Goya
Things I didn't know
Things I Didn't Know (Vintage)
Goya
The Red Dean
The Shock of the new
The fatal shore
Culture of complaint
The fatal shore
Shock of the New
American visions
Amish, the art of the quilt
A Jerk on One End
On the Record
In perilous seas
The portable Magritte
The art of Australia
Frank Auerbach
Crossroads, U.S.A
American Visions
The Fatal Shore Part 1 of 2
Lucian Freud
The fatal shore
The Art of Australia
Lucian Freud paintings
A jerk on one end
Heaven and Hell in Western art
The Fatal Shore Part 2 Of 2
Barcelona
Barcelona the Great Enchantress
The portable Picasso
Astrology then and now
Heaven and hell in western art
The portable Dalí
The portable Van Gogh
The new generation
The portable Matisse
A toda critica : ensayos sobre arte y artistas. - 2.ed.
Amish
Heaven and Hell in Western art
Rome
Ethics Aesthetics And The Beyond Of Language
Barcelona
Roma
Barcelona : the great enchantress
Homes far from home
Donald Friend
Rome
Amish
Jaguar/Daimler
The complete paintings of Bruegel
School days
Ready Notes for use with Personal Finance
Morning Edition
Barcelone, la Ville des Merveilles
Nothing If Not Critical Tpb
Australia
Software project management
Barcelona
Student Resource Manual with Readings & Cases
Barcelona
Living and Working in the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia
Personal Finance
Cultura de la Queja
Improving diabetes outcomes through structured information
Frank Auerbach
The Shock of the New: Art and the century of change
Practical software measurement
Culture of Complaint
Culture as nature
Lent
La guerre est finie
Bruno Caruso
Bruno Caruso (1927-2018)

painter, graphic designer, illustrator, graphic artist, art critic

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Le giornate romane di Leonardo Sciascia
Lenin a Capri
Il disegno
La tigre di carta
Bruno Caruso
Vietnam
Mitologia dell'arte moderna
Il pugno di ferro
Bruno Caruso, Zeichnungen und Graphiken
Le giornate della pittura
Credono di essere noi
La pietra celeste
Disegni di Bruno Caruso
Il Gattopardo e i racconti di Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Ispirandosi all'Orto botanico