Titoli in Artisti, architetti e fotografi

David Hockney has been described as Britain's 'greatest living artist'. In this fascinating collection of archive interviews we hear - in his own words - about his paintings, his schooldays and the attitudes he had while growing up. Hockney discusses the influence that his family had on him, as...

Cecil Beaton was a portrait and fashion photographer, as well as a diarist and Oscar-winning designer. Here he discusses his life and achievements in a series of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archive: At Home: Cecil Beaton, broadcast on BBC Radio, 7th May 1957 (featuring Hywel Davies); Face to Face, broadcast on BBC Television, 18th February 1962 (featuring John Freeman); Late Night Line-Up, broadcast on BBC Television, 9th May 1968 (featuring Sheridan Morley); Desert Island Discs, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 26th January 1980 (featuring Roy Plomley).

Venerada tanto por su espíritu salvaje, como por su arte, Frida Kahlo es un símbolo de creatividad arriesgada.Durante décadas sus pinturas han permanecido atemporales, cautivando admiradores de distintas generaciones alrededor del mundo.

David Sipress, a dreamer and obsessive drawer living with his Upper West Side family in the age of JFK and Sputnik, goes hazy when it comes to the ceaselessly imparted lessons-on-life from his meticulous father and the angsty expectations of his migraine-prone mother. With wry and brilliantly...

One of the nation’s top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by producing some of the greatest work of their long careers—and, in some cases, changing the course of art history. Ordinarily, we think of young artists as the bomb throwers. Monet and Renoir...

He was the original 20th-century enfant terrible with the looks of a Greek god who blazed like a comet across the worlds of art, photography, and fame. The scion of several old WASP fortunes, he was by instinct an adventurer, and the more dangerous the escapade, the better. Journalist and author Graham Boynton was a friend for more than 30 years, spending time with Beard at his bush camp in Africa, in London, and at his Long Island home. From hundreds of Boynton’s interviews with Beard’s closest friends, former lovers, and fellow artists comes this intimate portrait.

Sometimes, a little nudge from the universe pushes one to find his raison d'etre in life. If actor Sonu Sood had given in to the celebrity syndrome of sitting in his ivory tower and expressing his generosity by remote control, he would have never come face to face with the trauma of India's...

Gemeinsam erleben Bettina und ihre Schwester die Höhen und Tiefen des Aufwachsens in den 70er-Jahren: Sie machen erste Liebeserfahrungen und lernen mit den unerfüllbaren Erwartungen ihrer Eltern umzugehen. Zusammen verbringen sie glückliche Stunden mit ihren Großeltern, um den Depressionen der Mutter zu entkommen. Doch das Duo zerbricht, als Bettinas Schwester sich das Leben nimmt. Für Bettina beginnt eine Zeit der Lähmung und Verzweiflung. Dann findet sie Trost im Schreiben und wagt den mutigen Schritt, sich den Gespenstern der Vergangenheit zu stellen und von diesen zu befreien.

Breve y consistente ensayo biográfico de la pluma del gran nerudiano Hernán Loyola, en donde aborda las polémicas póstumas en que se han visto envueltas la obra y figura de Neruda. En ocho capítulos, ocho pecados, Loyola aborda, enfrenta y encara cada una de estas polémicas: el poeta inútil, el poeta machista, el poeta fabulador, el poeta violador, el poeta mal marido, el poeta mal padre, el poeta plagiario, el poeta insolente y el poeta abandonador.

From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America’s idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest...

A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II “[Eakin] has mastered this material. . . . The book soars.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’...

The stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward—a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak “Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful and awful of my life.” —Brooke Hayward Los Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and...

Einer der größten Künstler unserer Zeit erzählt sein Leben vor dem Hintergrund der Geschichte Chinas. In seinen Erinnerungen schildert Ai Weiwei seinen künstlerischen Werdegang vor dem Hintergrund der Geschichte seiner Familie. Sein Vater Ai Qing war einst ein enger Vertrauter Mao Zedongs und Chinas einflussreichster Dichter. Im Zuge der Kulturrevolution brandmarkte man Ai Qing als "Rechtsabweichler" und verurteilte ihn zu Zwangsarbeit. Die gesamte Familie wurde in einen abgelegenen Teil des Landes verbannt, der als "Klein-Sibirien" bekannt war.

Keith Brymer Jones is the star presenter and judge of Channel 4's The Great Pottery Throw Down, famous for his emotional responses to the heartfelt and personal pieces made by contestants on the show. He is also the ultimate professional craftsman who's done the hard yards to get where he is today, working his way up from being a skivvy in an industrial pottery to running his own hugely successful international ceramics business.

Tout le monde connaît la tour Eiffel, personne ne connaît Gustave Eiffel. Ingénieur et inventeur de génie, Gustave Eiffel a bâti des édifices sur toute la planète, de la statue de la Liberté au viaduc de Garabit, de la gare de Budapest au pont de Porto. Il a connu la gloire et la descente aux enfers, les têtes couronnées et la prison. La construction de la Tour, clou de l'Exposition universelle de 1889, a constitué une incroyable aventure humaine et Gustave a dû se battre pendant vingt ans pour que son œuvre ne soit pas démolie.

Paula Modersohn-Becker war eine deutsche Malerin und eine der bedeutendsten Vertreterinnen des frühen Expressionismus. Im vierten Teil ihrer "Briefe und Tagebuchblätter" hören Sie die Briefe, Tagebuchblätter und Gedichte Paula Modersohn-Beckers des Jahres 1898-99. Gelesen von Johanna Mette Pollet.

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) ist in Mexiko-Stadt geboren. Ihr Leben ist von gesundheitlichen Problemen geprägt. Mit 18 erleidet sie schwerste Rückenverletzungen bei einem Busunglück und liegt monatelang im Krankenhaus. Mit 19 Jahren malt sie das "Selbstbildnis mit Samtkleid", ihr erstes Selbstporträt von insgesamt 54 entsteht. Ab 1928 fördert sie der mexikanische Maler Diego Rivera. Diego Rivera ist dickleibig und doppelt so alt wie die zierliche Frida.

The second half of William Feaver's Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted work of biography: the definitive story of the epic life of one of the 20th century's most important artists. William Feaver, Lucian Freud’s collaborator, curator and close friend, knew the unknowable artist better than most. Over many years, Freud narrated to him the story of his life, ‘our novel’. Fame follows Freud at the height of his powers, painting the most iconic works of his career in a constant and dissatisfied pursuit of perfection, just outrunning his gambling debts and tailor’s bills.

In the 1990s, Megan Margulies' Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the "Wild Man of 96th Street", who set fires under cars and heaved rocks through stained glass church windows. The world inside her parents' tiny one-bedroom apartment was hardly a respite, with a family of five - including some loud personalities - eventually occupying the 550-square-foot space.

Shelley Klein grew up in a house designed on a modernist open-plan grid; with colourful glass panels set against a forest of trees, it was like living in a work of art. Shelley’s father, Bernat Klein, was a textile designer whose pioneering colours and textures were a major contribution to 1960s and '70s style. As a child, Shelley and her siblings adored both the house and the fashion shows that took place there. Thirty years on, Shelley moves back home to care for her father, now in his 80s.