Valentina Grande – författare

Gertrude Stein and the Lost Generation: A striking portrait of the woman behind the legends. Paris, the 1920s. At 27 Rue de Fleurus, writers, painters and intellectuals gather around an extraordinary woman who seems to know everyone who matters. Hemingway, Picasso, Matisse, Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson and Braque all pass through her salon. Yet while the artists and writers around her would become cultural icons, Gertrude Stein herself was too often overshadowed by the legends she helped create. This graphic biography brings her back to the centre of the story. Born in Pennsylvania in 1874 into a wealthy Jewish family of German origin, Stein moved to Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century and settled in Paris, where she lived with her brother Leo and, later, with Alice B. Toklas, her lifelong partner. Together, Stein and Toklas created one of the most celebrated salons of the modernist era, a meeting place where literature, painting, ideas and radical new ways of seeing the world collided. Valentina Grande and Eva Rossetti draw a vivid portrait of a woman who stood at the crossroads of modern literature, avant-garde art, American expatriate culture and changing ideas about gender and freedom. Rather than reducing Stein to the glamorous circle she inspired, Grande and Rossetti ask a sharper question: why did so many of the people around her become legends, while Stein herself was so often pushed to the margins of the story? Translated from the Italian by Monica Meneghetti

Gertrude Stein and the Lost Generation: A striking portrait of the woman behind the legends. Paris, the 1920s. At 27 Rue de Fleurus, writers, painters and intellectuals gather around an extraordinary woman who seems to know everyone who matters. Hemingway, Picasso, Matisse, Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson and Braque all pass through her salon. Yet while the artists and writers around her would become cultural icons, Gertrude Stein herself was too often overshadowed by the legends she helped create. This graphic biography brings her back to the centre of the story. Born in Pennsylvania in 1874 into a wealthy Jewish family of German origin, Stein moved to Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century and settled in Paris, where she lived with her brother Leo and, later, with Alice B. Toklas, her lifelong partner. Together, Stein and Toklas created one of the most celebrated salons of the modernist era, a meeting place where literature, painting, ideas and radical new ways of seeing the world collided. Valentina Grande and Eva Rossetti draw a vivid portrait of a woman who stood at the crossroads of modern literature, avant-garde art, American expatriate culture and changing ideas about gender and freedom. Rather than reducing Stein to the glamorous circle she inspired, Grande and Rossetti ask a sharper question: why did so many of the people around her become legends, while Stein herself was so often pushed to the margins of the story? Translated from the Italian by Monica Meneghetti

Discover the remarkable story behind the art that defined the classic Rider-Waite Tarot deck. Tarot: A Graphic History brings Pamela Colman Smith’s life, creativity and mystical influences to vivid life, offering readers a deeper appreciation of the cards and the woman who created them. Pamela Colman Smith: artist, occultist, true bohemian. Her illustrations defined the iconography of the classic tarot deck, but she is all too often forgotten. Born in London in 1878, Pamela moved to Jamaica with her parents at the age of eleven and then to New York to study art. She dropped out of college following her mother's death in 1896, and after her father died in 1899 she found herself back in London, joining the infamous Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a secret society dedicated to the study of occultism. It was there that she met Arthur Edward Waite, with whom she created the classic Rider-Waite Tarot deck that is still in print today. This beautifully illustrated graphic history tells the tale of Pamela's life and relates it to the iconic cards she helped to create, from the Fool, the beginning of every new adventure, to the Magician, who focusses energy, to the Hanged Man, who helps us see things from a different perspective, until finally we embrace the World and fulfil our destinies. With tarot expertise and a foreword from Lindsay Squire, a.k.a. The Witch of the Forest, this is a unique take on a perennially popular subject. You'll never look at a tarot deck in the same way again. Tarot: A Graphic History is part of a visually stunning series that also includes Witchcraft: A Graphic History and Goddesses: A Graphic History, each exploring magic, mysticism and the extraordinary women behind these traditions.

These women changed art forever - told in colourful graphic novel form, this is the story of four pioneers of feminist art: Judy Chicago, Faith Ringold, Ana Mendieta, and the Guerilla Girls.Each made their mark in their own powerful way. Judy Chicago made us reassess the female body, Faith Ringold taught us that feminism is for everyone, Ana Mendieta was a martyr to violence against women, while the Guerilla Girls have taken the fight to the male-dominated museum. This graphic novel tells each of their stories in a unique style.

The novel is divided into three chapters that trace the evolution of the Bauhaus, as its center moved across Germany—from Weimar to Dessau to Berlin—and as its philosophy responded to this economically, politically and intellectually highly charged era in Europe. Sergio Varbella’s inventive drawings bring to life the theories of founder Walter Gropius, as well as the basic design ideals of unity and equity. Valentina Grande’s thoughtful texts highlight crucial moments within the movement’s history and in the lives of principal figures such as Klee, Kandinsky, Josef and Anni Albers, László and Lucia Moholy-Nagy, Gunta Stözl, and Mies van der Rohe. The perfect introduction to a radical but highly influential chapter in the history of design, this novel shows how the Bauhaus school broke down barriers and built up ideals that are still applied today.