検索キーワード： 芸術家・建築家・写真家

戦後日本の女性ファッション、文化の礎を築いた中原淳一（1913-1983）の仕事と、謎多き生涯を、朝ドラ「ブギウギ」原案著者が解き明かす。1932（昭和7）年、19歳で雑誌「少女の友」（実業之日本社刊）に登場、表紙画などで少女たちから絶大な人気を誇った中原淳一。

現代短歌を代表する著者が文学、アート、音楽など、それぞれの世界で活躍する「表現の神様」を訪ね、創作の根源に迫った、心躍る芸術談義。

異次元なのに腑に落ちる、唯一無二の人生相談！「定年後、居場所がなくなるのが不安です」「子どもの頃から死ぬのが怖いのですが」「友だちは必要ですか？」

「死ぬことなんて考えてる暇がない」キース・リチャーズ、ホーキング博士、勝新太郎、村上春樹、北野武、坂本龍一、木村拓哉……数多の伝説を撮り続けた写真家・操上(くりがみ)和美(かずみ)。

10歳で建築家を志し、国内外で多数のプロジェクトをてがける今もっとも注目の建築家が建築知識満載で綴る10代へのメッセージ。建築家とは、そしてこれからの建築とは――。

Le tour de la France uniquement par ses côtes, de la plage de Malo Bray-Dunes jusqu'à la Baie des Anges, avec un van et une guitare, c'est ce que Jean René a entrepris. Il parle pêle-mêle de nuages, d'huîtres, de la création, de marche sur les galets, toujours avec légèreté et...

The MacArthur Foundation awards the "Genius Grant" every year to the most compelling scientists, educators and artists in the country. But who are these "geniuses," really? Host Bob Garfield sits down with fellows, including writer and producer David Simon, radio producer Jad Abumrad, and inventor Amy Smith, to learn what events shaped their life, how they became leaders in their fields, and what they imagine our shared future looks like.

Read by Tilda Swinton and Olivia Laing. ‘Wonderful and necessary’ ANNE ENRIGHT ~ ‘Constantly surprising’ GUARDIAN ~ ‘Stunning’ DEBORAH LEVY ~ ‘Compulsively fascinating’ NEW STATESMAN ~ ‘Beautiful’ HANYA YANAGIHARA ~ ‘Daring and seductive NEW YORK TIMES ~ ‘Profound...

画家を志すひとりの「サムライ」が、ヒッピーと共に南仏で過ごした10年間の青春の記録。 厳しい気候の中、強いミストラルが吹きすさぶ南仏・セヴェンヌ。この地で25歳から35歳まで過ごした作者が、

Aldo Cazzullo prosegue il suo straordinario viaggio nella storia e conduce il lettore per mano attraverso il Rinascimento. In un'epoca segnata da guerre, intrighi e tradimenti, l'Italia vide una fioritura senza precedenti in tutti i campi del sapere umano. E con la sola forza di queste menti geniali seppe rivoluzionare il mondo, dando inizio alla modernità. Aldo Cazzullo prosegue il suo viaggio nella storia e nell'identità italiana raccontando il nostro Rinascimento.

Man Ray (1890-1976), a founding father of Dada and a key player in French Surrealism, is one of the central artists of the 20th century. He is also one of the most elusive. In this new biography, journalist and critic Arthur Lubow uses Man Ray’s Jewish background as one filter to understand his life and art.

The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind 'Excitingly written, with a sense of revelation' GUARDIAN THE OUTSIDER was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956, thrusting its youthful author into the front rank of contemporary writers and thinkers...

［商品について］―たまきという女性に「あなたの長髪が嫌い」と言われ、夢二はどうしたでしょうか―1、長髪の理由を伝え説得した　2、固く一本に髪を結わいて見せた

In Letters of Note: Art, Shaun Usher celebrates extraordinary correspondence about art, from missives on the agony of being overlooked, the ecstasy of producing work that excites, to surprising sources of inspiration and rousing manifestos. A star-studded cast of readers brings the letters to...

Van Gogh is a vivid portrait of the great Impressionist painter that traces his life from the Netherlands, where he was born into a family of art dealers, through his years in England, the Hague, and Paris, to his final home in Arles, where he discovered the luminous style of his late paintings before his suicide at the age of thirty-seven.

One spring day in 1683, a notary's clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled upon one of the wonders of the seventeenth-century world: twenty paintings by Johannes Vermeer. Rather than dispel the mysteries of Vermeer's life, this discovery merely gave...

Un long séjour à Florence entraîne Alexandre Dumas à la découverte de l'art italien. Armé d'une quantité importante de sources constituées d'ouvrages d'historiens et de théoriciens de l'art allant de la Renaissance au XVIIIème siècle, Dumas présente les biographies de ces artistes remarquables de la Renaissance, réalisant avec une combinaison parfaite de données et d'anecdotes, les différentes facettes de ces vrais maîtres.

In this brilliantly listenable autobiography, one of India’s greatest writers shows us the roots of everything he has written. He begins with a dream and a gentle haunting before taking us to an idyllic childhood in Jamnagar by the Arabian Sea and New Delhi in the early 1940s - where he found material for his first short story. A search for companionship and security, undercut by a fierce independence and a tendency for risk-taking, would inform every choice he made for the rest of his life.

These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance", was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael.

When Roxana Robinson’s definitive biography of O’Keeffe was first published in 1989, it received rave reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This new edition features a new foreword by the author, setting O’Keefe in an artistic context over the last thirty years since the book was first published, as well as previously unpublished letters of the young O’Keeffe to her lover, Arthur MacMahon. This book also relates the story of Robinson’s own encounter with the artist.