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Merton Clivette once dominated the 1920s and 1930s art world. He ruled the Orpheum Circuit as a magician, shadowgraphist, mindreader, and acrobat. He performed in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. Clivette worked with Houdini and PT Barnum, and he inspired Mark Twain. He taught Sir Arthur Conan Doyle how to be a medium. He went by names such as Clivette the Great, The Man in Black, The Mysterious Stranger, and many others. Clivette led a remarkable life then, like the magician he was, he disappeared from the history books after his death in 1931.

A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon “A book written as only one artist could view another, with insight and sincere compassion.” —Sandra Cisneros, best-selling author of Woman Without Shame In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more...

Entrevistas a los amigos y contemporáneos del pintor Miguel Covarruibias. Extraordinario pintor, caricaturista, escenógrafo y etnógrafo; contemporáneo de Rufino Tamayo, Carlos Mérida y Carlos Chávez, y colaborador en El Heraldo, El Mundo, El Universal, Vanity Fair, New Yorker y Fortune. No se puede entender el siglo XX sin su mirada sensible. Sin embargo, para muchos la vida y el legado de este artista continúa siendo un enigma.

The Post-Impressionist artist and writer Paul Gauguin led an extraordinary, troubled and restlessly itinerant life; he came late to painting and spent most of his last decade in the Pacific islands of Tahiti and the Marquesas, where he produced paintings loosely based on Polynesian tradition that heralded the emergence of primitivism and would exert a profound influence on modernist artists from Picasso and Matisse to Jackson Pollock. But his art, despite its growing popularity following Gauguin’s death in 1903, has provoked mixed responses.

The New York Times bestselling memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning war photojournalist Lynsey Addario "Beautifully written and vividly illustrated . . . Addario is an artist of empathy, a witness not to grand ideas about human sacrifice and suffering, but to human beings, simply being." —The...

Михаил Александрович Врубель - русский художник рубежа XIX–XX веков, работавший практически во всех видах и жанрах изобразительного искусства. Несмотря на великие несчастья, постигшие его в жизни, несмотря на страшное одиночество, отсутствие поддержки и невозможности реализовать в полной мере хоть один из своих грандиозных планов, он оставался верен своей задаче и своему искусству. Духовную индивидуальность Врубеля можно сравнить с великими поэтами первой половины XIX века. Все его произведения полны совершенного строя и проходя через призму взгляда художника неожиданно принимают волшебную окраску.

Marc Chagall, painter and cosmopolitan: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Frida Kahlo, Mexand painter and tragic heroine: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Gustav Mahler, star conductor and legendary composer: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Salvador Dalí, (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989), was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work. Dali also wrote a novel, Hidden Faces (1944), poetry, essays, art criticism, and a technical manual on art. The following recording is from a 1955 interview.

Salvador Dalì, Spanish painter and surrealist: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Little Nanette, the daughter of established San Francisco Bay Area artists, grows up during the Beat Generation and the groovy ’60s in the progressive City by the Bay. Nanette’s memoir-style essays include several in “child’s voice,” and journey through growing up in an old church, four years at an accredited hippie college in New Hampshire, life in a kookie cult, a trans-racial adoption, studying Argentine Tango, and an unexpected Transgender turn of events.

From the author's leather-bound book kept locked at the base of his bed, we journey through New York City, chilled farmlands and isolated cabins in the woods. Calloway's solid masculine approach is refreshingly original. We have all felt the warmth of the world around us and we have all felt the cold. This author holds our hand as he leads us down rich passageways of the psyche.

¿Genio, locura, fachada? La controvertida vida y personalidad de Salvador Dalí no desmerece, sin embargo, la abundante, transversal y original producción artística que cosechó en vida. Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, marqués de Dalí de Púbol, nació en Figueras en 1904 y murió en 1989. Pasó una infancia acomodada, aunque a los 16 tuvo que sufrir la muerte de su madre, algo que lo marcaría para el resto de su vida.

Primal desires of human beings drive us to imagine and create. Economic barriers are nonexistent with the creative process. Do not stifle the pioneer attitude. In all fields, it is important to express one's ideas as an individual. The healthy growth of a civilization depends on a society that supports unlimited free expression to explore all avenues of invention. Ideas blossom when a community encourages independent and collaborative research and education.

Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and universal genius: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Pocas personalidades en la historia han trascendido de tal modo que solo su nombre de pila es suficiente para evocar su personalidad y trayectoria. Miguel Ángel es una de esas figuras esenciales. Michelangelo Buonarroti fue un arquitecto, escultor y pintor italiano del Renacimiento que desarrolló una extensa carrera a lo largo de setenta años a las órdenes de mecenas como la familia Medici de Florencia o los sucesivos papas de Roma.

Albrecht Dürer, painting genius: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Leonardo da Vinci, painter and universal genius: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter and sculptor: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.