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Over 130 of the greatest depictions of the kiss in art are accompanied by insightful commentary in this handsome volume. The depiction of the kiss has held special significance throughout the history of art, from classical antiquity to the present. A symbol of erotic passion or maternal love but equally of betrayal and death, the kiss represents one of the greatest legendary motifs. Spanning the ages and the globe, this volume explores the emphasis placed by certain cultures and artists on "the meeting of lips." From Hayez’s medieval kissers to Klimt’s iconic symbolist painting, and from Ingres’s Francesca and Paolo to Picasso’s ethereal cubist couple, this book explains the passionate undertones of the world’s greatest masterpieces. The evocative text is illustrated by works ranging from Hokusai to Cindy Sherman via Mary Cassat, Brancusi, and Lichtenstein.

Seit den frühen 80er Jahren ist die französische Photographin Bettina Rheims, geb. 1952, eine der international gefragtesten Vertreterinnen ihres Metiers. Und seit ihren Anfängen steht der weibliche Körper im Zentrum ihres künstlerischen Interesses. In unkonventionellen und oft provozierenden Portraits und Aktaufnahmen bringt sie immer wieder Wesenszüge ihrer Modelle zum Vorschein, die verschüttet, verborgen und meist wohl gehütet sind. Mit ihren Serienprojekten geriet sie regelmäßig ins Kreuzfeuer der Kritik, sei es mit KIM (1991), einer Dokumentation über Transsexuelle; Chambre close (1992), der Geschichte eines Voyeurs, der Frauen in Pariser Hotels photographiert; I.N.R.I. (1999), einer gewagten Umdeutung biblischer Szenen; Shanghai (2004), einer Studie über weibliche Selbstbehauptung inmitten des kulturellen, wirtschaftlichen und mentalen Umbruchs, und schließlich Heroines (2006), ihrem bisher jüngsten Projekt. Unser Band, zu dem Philippe Dagen, Kunstkritiker von Le Monde und Professor für Kunstgeschichte an der Sorbonne, einen Essay schrieb, gibt - nach dem Prinzip The Best of ... - einen repräsentativen Überblick über Bettina Rheims'photographisches Werk der letzten dreißig Jahre.

In X'Mas, 55 young girls below the age of 20 are posing nude, or almost nude, for the first time. All are very pretty, but they do not yet know their own power of seduction. They have been promised Christmas: it is like a rite of passage, a moment of unreality in which the person does not know what the outcome will be. The smiles of the festive season can hide many fears and already some regrets and disappointments. In work carried out during the year 2000, in these 62 photographs Bettina Rheims represents three phases in the coming-of-age of a young girl: The first shows the background of a young girl's own environment, the pinks and blues of junior theatre. The second incorporates a projected backdrop that is between cinema and nightmare and grasps at the dreams and potential of the future. In the third nothing is left, except a person -- a woman in a white box where the ribbon has been cut to reveal that it is the true self that is the real gift.

I.N.R.I.: Iesus Nazareus Rex Iuderoum; Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. The story of Jesus has been continually reinvented and reinterpreted, in fact and in fiction, over the course of the last two millennia. Yet the visual iconography has remained largely that of the Renaissance. Now, at the turn of the twenty-first century, writer Serge Bramly and photographer Bettina Rheims have turned to photography -- the most contemporary of art forms -- as well as to the original biblical texts and legends to present the life and death of Jesus in a series of stunning tableaux and an evocative, meaningful text. The words of the apostles are retold in contemporary and accessible language, at once a rereading, synthesis, transposition, and commentary on the four gospels. In the photographs, characters such as Mary and Joseph, John the Baptist, and Mary Magdalene are placed in sites ranging from the beautiful island of Majorca, Spain, to an abandoned hospital on the outskirts of Paris. Jesus' birth occurs in a rough garage, where he is attended not only by the three kings but by people drawn from the surrounding streets; his miracles and cures address the ailments of all times; the Sermon on the Mount is a dramatic piece of performance art; and his crucifixion is that of every man, and every woman. Bramly and Rheims' re-creation of the ancient story is a true modern icon.

Une jeune femme flic Un viel homme qui en sait trop L'argent sale qui corrompt et qui tue Nadia Bensdaval, tireur d'élite recruté par la DGSE, fait partie d'une unité de protection rapprochée? Sa mission ? Veiller sur un petit homme étrange dont elle ne connaît que le nom de code : Melchior. Sur une île de Bretagne, Nadia doit affronter un commando de tueurs. Qui est Melchior ? Quel secret déteint-il pour qu'on veuille l'assasssiner à tout prix ? Paris. Niambé. Miami. Les "affaires "... Le commissaire Aguenhauer, parran de Nadia, pourchasse les intégristes qui terrorisent la France. Officier de renseignement, Joseph Eckert enquête en Afrique sur l'explosion de la Caravelle du président N'Guma. Aux Etats-Unis, l'argent Ray Gemblers traque une pièce d'or ancienne que des narcotrafiquants ont offerte à un avocat numismate. Un seul lien, Melchior... Et Nadia seul pour le protéger. Une cavale à la vie, à la mort. Prix des Libraires, prix Vasari de la biographie, Serge Bramly a enquêté deux années durant sur le monde du Renseignement et celui de la corruption pour écrire son premier thriller. Une grande réussite romanesque, un récit haletant où le lecteur pourra trouver certaines clefs de l'actualité la plus brûlante.

The artistic collaboration of photographer Bettina Rheims and writer/art critic Serge Bramly began in 1991 with Chambre Close, which Schirmer/Mosel is publishing for the first time. It lives off the stimulating contrast between text and images. The cultivated literary tone of Monsieur X's fictional "confessions" is set against photographs that speak a far clearer language. Bettina Rheims has a command of this language, which tells of female eroticism and exhibitionism as no one else does.