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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Design styles
Vincent van Gogh becomes only 37 years old. Only the last 10 years
of his life he is engaged in painting. Restlessly and exhausting he
travels through the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and France.
Together with his colleagues Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and Gauguin
he is regarded today as one of the most important artists of the
expressionism movement. This comic guide, written and drawn by
Willi Bloss, catches the main marks of the master's life and refers
optically to the unerring style that van Gogh used for his sketches
Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never
more so than in the period from 1700 to 1914, when each vied to be
"the" world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of
countless books, yet here Jonathan Conlin explores the complex
relationship between them for the first time. The reach and
influence of both cities was such that the story of their rivalry
has global implications. By borrowing, imitating and learning from
each other, Paris and London invented the modern metropolis.
"Tales of Two Cities" examines and compares six urban spaces--the
street, the cemetery, the apartment, the restaurant, the underworld
and the music hall--that defined urban modernity in the nineteenth
century. The citizens of Paris and London first created these
essential features of the modern cityscape and, in doing so,
defined urban living for all of us.
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