Titoli in Artisti, architetti e fotografi

Born into a famous family of artists, Pierre Matisse grew up immersed in the artistic life of Paris and the French Riviera, spending time with some of the most famous artists of the 20th century, including Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. The man he knew as his grandfather, legendary artist Henri Matisse, gave him his first painting lesson and a strong desire to become a great artist in his own right.

Händelsen som förändrade Nahids liv för all framtid finns inristad i hennes medvetande. Det började med den iranska revolutionen... Rostam är en vanlig 17 åring. En dag arresteras han plötsligt av revolutionens motståndare. Han avrättas nästan omgående. Den här händelsen kom att prägla Nahids liv på ett sätt som hon själv hade svårt att förstå från början. När hon senare befann sig på flykt i det ena landet efter det andra började krigets sanningar långsamt falla på plats.

Paul Frigyes tes, att Jan Guillou är "larger than life", bekräftades kanske när utgivningen av boken från början stoppades på Guillous begäran. Biografin innehåller nu ett nytt kapitel som behandlar historien. Personen, yrkesmannen och fenomenet Jan Guillou skildras med rätt och fel som absoluta kategorier. Guillou rannsakade på egen hand myndigheters maktmissbruk men var samtidigt en kontroversiell skriftställare och en stor idrottstalang.

Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further and further apart. Barry left Chattanooga for New England and a life in the arts; Tommy stayed put and became a mortgage banker.

Before there was Steve Jobs, there was Norman Bel Geddes. A ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming, Bel Geddes designed everything from the first all-weather stadium to Manhattan's most exclusive nightclub to Futurama, the prescient 1939 exhibit that envisioned how America would look in the not-too-distant 1960s.

Samu Haber - die erste Biografie über den finnischen Superstar! Mit seiner Band Sunrise Avenue ist er wohl jedem ein Begriff und im Oktober 2014 katapultierten sich Sunrise Avenue mit ihrem Album Fairytales - Best Of 2006 - 2014 zum ersten Mal von Null an die deutsche Chartspitze. Ein absolutes...

Rob Spillman has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. Born in Germany to two driven musicians, his childhood was spent among the West Berlin cognoscenti in a city 200 miles behind the Iron Curtain. There, the Berlin Wall stood as a stark reminder of the split between East and West, between suppressed dreams and freedom of expression.

Hvide skygger er fortællingen om den legendariske danske billedhugger Bertel Thorvaldsen. Thorvaldsens karriere startede, da han som barn kom ind på Det kongelige danske kunstakademi, men den tog for alvor fart, da han som 26-årig flyttede til Rom. Hans romerske værksted var vidt besøgt af alle lige fra statsoverhoveder til digtere, rigmænd til kunstnere. Bogen giver ikke blot et indblik i Thorvaldsens virke som kunstner. Den tegner også et portræt af manden bag marmoren, hans forhold til kvinder og sin egen berømmelse, samt hans evige kamp for at finde en mening med sit arbejde.

P. T. Barnum's career of showmanship and charlatanry was marked by a surprising undercurrent of honesty and forthrightness. His exuberant autobiography forms a happy combination of all those traits, revealing the whole story of his world-famous hoaxes and publicity stunts. Here is a pageant of 19th-century America's gullibility and thirst for marvels, as told by the master of revels himself.  

This is the beautifully told story of charismatic and unconventional pop artist Martin Sharp, from his lonely privileged childhood, to the heady days of the underground magazine Oz to Swinging London and beyond. Sharp blurred the boundaries of high art and low, he drew rock stars and reprobates...

A lo largo de sus páginas descubriremos a su familia, de la cual heredó el amor hacia el arte; su ciudad, Córdoba, cuya influencia marcó el gusto y la forma de ver el mundo del artista; su traslado a Madrid, que acrecentó la universalidad de su obra; su visión de la mujer, que se convierte en protagonista indiscutible de sus lienzos, y el papel secundario al que queda relegada su esposa; la muerte, que envuelve sus últimas obras y su funeral; y, por último, volviendo a fusionar todos estos enfoques en un brillante rayo de luz, su legado, con un recorrido por sus óleos y por su museo, contempla

Die Schauspielerin Angela Winkler führt mehr als ein Leben: für die Bühne, für den Film – und gleichermaßen für ihre Familie. In Mein blaues Zimmer erzählt sie von diesen Leben und nimmt uns mit hinter die Kulissen ihres geliebten Theaters. Sie erinnert sich an ihre Anfänge als Schauspielerin in Castrop-Rauxel und beim Neuen Deutschen Film, an die vielen fast verfallenen Häuser in Italien und Frankreich, die sie gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann umgebaut und zum Leben erweckt hat, und lässt uns an ihrer Liebe zur Natur teilhaben.

Bringing together the author’s written reflections and his paintings, drawings, and photographs, Art Is invites us to see the world in prismatic and diverse lights, helping us navigate the fractured, divisive times we live in.

In this unique oral biography, Bachardy recounts his astonishing story, providing illuminating recollections of celebrity portrait sittings and revelations about his thirty-year relationship with Christopher Isherwood. From their meeting in the 1950s until Isherwood's death in 1986, theirs was a legendary love story, courageous and uncompromising for its time, and remarkable in any era for the creative collaborations and art it continues to inspire.

Brought to you by Penguin. The paintings of Johannes Vermeer of Delft are some of the most beautiful, even sublime, in the history of art. Yet like the life of Vermeer himself, they are mysterious and have for centuries defied explanation. Following new leads, and drawing on a mass of historical...

“Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world—when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life.” —Miranda July In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin...

In this second volume in the Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brings us a man of humble beginnings, crude manners, and prodigious talents, the nineteenth-century painter J. M. W. Turner. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. His father was a...

A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time The Guardian Harper's Bazaar San Francisco Chronicle The Atlantic Financial Times Kirkus Finalist for...

لم يرغب نجيب محفوظ في كتابة سيرته، فنأى عن تمثيل دور البطولة، أو إغراقنا في تفاصيل طفولته وريعان شبابه وكيف تفادى الحوادث الجسام وكيف استقبل لحظات الظفر الكبرى...

Award winning television actress and host Belinda Lee has travelled the world in the course of her work. The bilingual thespian has met many remarkable individuals who have embraced the road less trodden and left the rat race. They volunteer their time in unusual social causes including building...