Résumé : Dès sa construction, la villa Cavrois fut un objet, un terrain d’exploration pour les photographes. C’est Robert Mallet-Stevens lui-même qui en lança la mode en publiant dès 1932 au sein de la revue L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui les photographies d’Albin Salaün, lesquelles donnèrent lieu deux ans plus tard au livre Une demeure 1934, petit recueil de 28 pages composé de splendides photographies en noir et blanc. Les images de la villa font alors le tour du monde et sont publiées dans de nombreux journaux et magazines.Dans les années 1980, le Centre Georges Pompidou confia à Véra Cardot et Pierre Joly un ultime reportage avant que la famille Cavrois ne disperse le mobilier et ne vende son "château moderne". Suivirent 10 ans d’abandon et de vandalisme au cours desquels maints photographes et artistes se glissèrent derrière les palissades pour rapporter des clichés qui, pour être souvent d’une grande beauté plastique, n’en témoignent pas moins de l’extrême dégradation de la villa. En 2015, la villa enfin restaurée et restituée dans son état de 1932 fut sans doute la construction moderne la plus photographiée et la plus publiée de l’année.Aujourd’hui, cette monographie en images entraîne le lecteur à travers plus de 80 ans d’une aventure architecturale unique.. Prix Beaux livres (Nuit du livre 2017). Edité une première fois en 20016.

Résumé : Depois de receber diversos prêmios e vender mais de 2,5 milhões de exemplares no Brasil, em Portugal e nos Estados Unidos com a série 1808, 1822 e 1889, o escritor Laurentino Gomes dedica-se a uma nova trilogia de livros-reportagem, desta vez sobre a história da escravidão no Brasil. Resultado de seis anos de pesquisas e observações, que incluíram viagens por doze países e três continentes, este primeiro volume cobre um período de 250 anos, do primeiro leilão de cativos africanos registrado em Portugal, na manhã de 8 de agosto de 1444, até a morte de Zumbi dos Palmares. Entre outros aspectos, a obra explica as raízes da escravidão humana na Antiguidade e na própria África antes da chegada dos portugueses, o início do tráfico de cativos para as Américas e suas razões, os números, os bastidores e os lucros do negócio negreiro, além da trajetória de alguns de seus personagens mais importantes, como o Infante Dom Henrique, patrono das grandes navegações e descobrimentos do século XV e também um dos primeiros grandes traficantes de escravos no Atlântico. Esta é uma história de dor e sofrimento cujos traços ainda são visíveis atualmente em muitos dos locais visitados pelo autor, como Luanda, em Angola; Ajudá, no Benim; Cidade Velha, em Cabo Verde; Liverpool, na Inglaterra; e o cais do Valongo, no Rio de Janeiro.Os dois volumes seguintes, a serem publicados até as vésperas do bicentenário da Independência Brasileira, em 2022, serão dedicados ao século XVIII, o auge do tráfico de escravos, e ao movimento abolicionista que resultou na Lei Áurea de 13 de maio de 1888, chegando até o persistente legado da escravidão que ainda hoje assombra o futuro dos brasileiros. - Note de l'editeur

Résumé : "Cool, dispassionate, and incisive, Joan Didion’s voice is electric on the page. Using autobiographical elements to stunning literary effect, she has captured the anarchic convulsions and anxious contradictions of the waning American Century and the coming new millennium with incomparable clarity and force. Now, Library of America inaugurates a definitive three-volume edition of Didion’s collected writings with the landmark works of the 1960s and 1970s, books that established her as one of the most original and influential literary figures of our time.". "Didion’s darkly nostalgic debut novel Run River (1963) is set among the ranch families of her native Sacramento Valley, their prosperity and pioneer traditions threatened by suburban sprawl and the changing values of a postwar world. A riveting chronicle of passion, infidelity, and betrayal in the twenty-year marriage of Lily Knight and Everett McClellan, it eloquently evokes one woman’s alienation amid the landscapes of a disappearing California.". "A major milestone in the rise of the New Journalism, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) gathers Didion’s kaleidoscopic essays of the mid-1960s: masterpieces whose subjects include an aging John Wayne, a Los Angeles Maoist, the Las Vegas wedding industry, and the acid-tripping counterculture of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. The collection showcases Didion’s signature literary persona—“a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing, always in control” (Joyce Carol Oates)—while introducing a style of reportage that transformed the expectations of generations of readers and writers.". "In Play It As It Lays (1970) model and actress Maria Wyeth, her brief career fading, finds herself adrift in a sun-drenched, air-conditioned, and utterly benumbed world in which pills, fast cars, and casual sex have replaced human connection. The pared-down, impressionistic prose frames a harrowing story of a Hollywood life gone wrong.". "Well-meaning norteamericana Charlotte Douglas arrives in the lush, dangerously chaotic Central American republic of Boca Grande, in Didion’s third novel, A Book of Common Prayer (1977), hoping to trace the whereabouts of her daughter Marin, an affluent teenager turned Marxist-revolutionary terrorist. “Immaculate of history, innocent of politics,” Douglas is swept up in intrigues and violence beyond her ability to comprehend, as Didion dissects the menacing realities of imperialism and revolution.". "In The White Album (1979) Didion continues her intense, intimate, clear-eyed investigations of a California coming apart at the seams. In trips to shopping malls and to the Getty Museum; visits with Nancy Reagan, The Doors, and the Black Panthers; accounts of the prosecution of the Manson Family—all counterpointed with her own dark moods and obsessions—she offers a brilliant mosaic of a time that continues to shape our own and a monument of superlative literary nonfiction." [présentation de l'éditeur]

Résumé : Catalogue des 264 projets artistiques de ce programme de soutien à la conception et à la réalisation de productions artistiques initié en 2022 par le gouvernement français. La plupart des champs de la création contemporaine y sont représentés : arts visuels, musique, écritures, spectacle vivant, design et arts appliqués. ©Electre 2023Le grand livre de Mondes nouveaux recense les 260 projets artistiques réalisés par les artistes visuels, du spectacle vivant, chercheurs, danseurs, designers, écrivains, musiciens, performers, photographes, etc., dans le cadre de Mondes nouveaux, programme de soutien à la création artistique contemporaine lancé par le gouvernement dans le contexte du plan France Relance. Ce beau livre, outre qu’il constitue le Bottin-mémoire de toutes les réalisations de Mondes nouveaux, permet au plus grand nombre de lecteurs, grand public et initiés, de connaître l’ampleur et la grandeur du projet, ainsi que l’excellence de la scène artistique contemporaine sur les territoires français et ultramarins. Le livre est introduit par un long entretien entre a ministre de la Culture, Rima Abdul Malak et Bernard Blistène, président du comité artistique de Mondes nouveaux. Agnès Vince, directrice du Conservatoire du littoral et Delphine Samsoen, directrice générale du Centre des Monuments nationaux, témoignent chacune dans un texte de l’engagement de leurs établissements respectifs et de leur collaboration et accompagnement e nombreux projets de Mondes nouveaux sur les sites du patrimoine architectural, historique et naturel. Classé par ordre alphabétique, un premier cahier de 520 pages mettra en avant les créations originales de chaque artiste ou collectif. Chacune d’elle sera illustrée de photos d’archives ou documentaires, de dessins et de photos des œuvres réalisées, parfois in situ. Un texte ou un entretien, réalisé avec l’équipe de Mondes nouveaux (Bernard Blistène, Ronan de Calan, Lucie Campos, Julien Creuzet, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Bruno Messina, Caroline Naphgyi, Chloé Siganos, Noé Soulier) raconte la genèse et l’histoire de chaque création. À travers ces pages se dessine une sorte d’utopie créative, imaginative, vertueuse, soucieuse d’un Monde nouveau, de questions écologiques, naturelles, de l’histoire et des sites, de collaborations et d’initiatives transdisciplinaires. Un cahier-reportage photographique rend compte du Rendez-vous artistique Mondes nouveaux X Beaux-Arts de Paris qui s’est tenu en avril à l’École avec des rencontres, workshops, projections, expositions, performances… Il est introduit par un encadré d’Alexia Fabre, directrice des Beaux-Arts de Paris et par une présentation de la commissaie de cet événement, Caroline Naphegyi. En fin d’ouvrage, un cahier présente une courte biographie de chacun.e des participants. Il est complété de cartes géographiques permettant de situer les créations et de constater comment Mondes nouveaux s’est ouvert à tous les territoires, du château d’If à la pointe du Raz, de la Forteresse de Salses à la Villa Cavrois, des Saintes en Guadeloupe à la Guyane.

Résumé : A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so protracted and divisive that it seems a small miracle that it was ever established. For nearly a century, America, alone among developed nations, refused to consider any central or organizing agency in its financial system. Americans’ mistrust of big government and of big banks—a legacy of the country’s Jeffersonian, small-government traditions—was so widespread that modernizing reform was deemed impossible. Each bank was left to stand on its own, with no central reserve or lender of last resort. The real-world consequences of this chaotic and provincial system were frequent financial panics, bank runs, money shortages, and depressions. By the first decade of the twentieth century, it had become plain that the outmoded banking system was ill equipped to finance America’s burgeoning industry. But political will for reform was lacking. It took an economic meltdown, a high-level tour of Europe, and—improbably—a conspiratorial effort by vilified captains of Wall Street to overcome popular resistance. Finally, in 1913, Congress conceived a federalist and quintessentially American solution to the conflict that had divided bankers, farmers, populists, and ordinary Americans, and enacted the landmark Federal Reserve Act. Roger Lowenstein—acclaimed financial journalist and bestselling author of When Genius Failed and The End of Wall Street—tells the drama-laden story of how America created the Federal Reserve, thereby taking its first steps onto the world stage as a global financial power. America’s Bank showcases Lowenstein at his very finest: illuminating complex financial and political issues with striking clarity, infusing the debates of our past with all the gripping immediacy of today, and painting unforgettable portraits of Gilded Age bankers, presidents, and politicians. Lowenstein focuses on the four men at the heart of the struggle to create the Federal Reserve. These were Paul Warburg, a refined, German-born financier, recently relocated to New York, who was horrified by the primitive condition of America’s finances; Rhode Island’s Nelson W. Aldrich, the reigning power broker in the U.S. Senate and an archetypal Gilded Age legislator; Carter Glass, the ambitious, if then little-known, Virginia congressman who chaired the House Banking Committee at a crucial moment of political transition; and President Woodrow Wilson, the academician-turned-progressive-politician who forced Glass to reconcile his deep-seated differences with bankers and accept the principle (anathema to southern Democrats) of federal control. Weaving together a raucous era in American politics with a storied financial crisis and intrigue at the highest levels of Washington and Wall Street, Lowenstein brings the beginnings of one of the country’s most crucial institutions to vivid and unforgettable life. Readers of this gripping historical narrative will wonder whether they’re reading about one hundred years ago or the still-seething conflicts that mark our discussions of banking and politics today. - Note de l'éditeur