検索キーワード： 芸術家・建築家・写真家

Bob Wiseman believes most things in life are universal or, as Lauryn Hill says, everything is everything. Bearing in mind that advice, Wiseman writes about finding the link between music and daily life, like what is common between Mary Margaret O’Hara, hiding around the corner with the lights turned off in order to record herself and his 5-year-old insisting he stop hurrying to her dance lesson and marvel at the fluff ball she is blowing toward the ceiling. Each entry is unique and compellingly written, but the themes throughout are ubiquitous.

Ya de niño parecía que Pablo estaba destinado a ser un gran artista. Tenía una facilidad asombrosa para pintar. Tras dominar todo tipo de técnicas, dedicó su vida al arte. Pero no siempre lo tuvo fácil. Cuando empezó era tan pobre que incluso a veces quemaba sus propios cuadros para mantener su pequeño estudio caliente. Pero Pablo nunca abandonó su sueño y transformó el arte para siempre. Esta es la historia de la vida de uno de los artistas más influyentes del mundo.

This is a short biography of Leonardo Da Vinci powered by AI. The audiobook delves into the life of Leonardo Da Vinci and describes his most significant contributions to the arts and sciences. The author generated this text in part with GPT-3, OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model. Upon generating draft language, the author reviewed, edited, and revised the language to their own liking. The author takes ultimate responsibility for the content of this publication.

Joan Figueras i Oliveras tenía 5 años cuando pasó su primera noche en Portlligat, en casa de los Dalí. Era el verano de 1948, Salvador y Gala acababan de regresar de su estancia de casi diez años en Estados Unidos; allí, Dalí ya se cotizaba, mientras que en España era casi un desconocido. Dalí escogió a Joan como modelo para realizar el Niño Jesús de La Madona de Portlligat (representada por Gala).

Lorenza Mazzetti, regista, scrittrice, pittrice, personalità fra le più straordinarie e influenti del panorama culturale del Novecento, si racconta in un dialogo che ripercorre tutte le sfumature emotive di un'intera esistenza.

Poco antes de la medianoche del 28 de marzo de 1977, un amigo encontró moribundo al compositor Waldo de los Ríos en el dormitorio de invitados de su casa madrileña. Desde hacía varios meses, De los Ríos atravesaba una mala racha: había adelgazado mucho, bebía, trasnochaba, tomaba constantemente tranquilizantes y se sentía amenazado por unas extrañas llamadas telefónicas de las que no daba muchos detalles.

'Thoughts On Art and Life' by Leonardo Da Vinci is a fascinating collection of writings from the great polymath of the Italian Renaissance. There are sections covering the great man's thoughts on life, art, and science. The translator, Maurice Baring trawled the available manuscripts to distil da Vinci's writings on these subjects into a single, accessible tome, which will be of interest to students of da Vinci, the Renaissance, and the history of both art and science.

Remedios Varo fue una artista con una imaginación fecunda que cruzó la alquimia, el surrealismo, el subconsciente. En este libro, Silvana Ávila le rinde homenaje.

Antony Armstrong-Jones, photographer, designer and film-maker, gained worldwide attention when he married Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister, Princess Margaret in 1960—the first non-aristocrat to marry into the Royal Family for 400 years. How did a "commoner" come to marry a princess, a woman whom he had long admired from afar? In fact, "Tony" descended from Welsh gentry, the son of a barrister and a society hostess. His family shared a long-established link with the Mountbatten arm of the Royal Family.

A firsthand account about my experience in Texas.

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――。

La obra de Joaquín Sorolla es una de las más populares de la historia del arte español. Paradójicamente, su apasionante vida es poco conocida. Requerido por las élites sociales e intelectuales de Europa y América, fue uno de los grandes artistas de su época, que triunfó en los salones de París y en la emergente Nueva York. Habitó el fascinante mundo de finales del siglo xix e inicios del XX, con el desarrollo de la modernidad y la llegada de los grandes inventos.

A beautifully written memoir that explores the life of a tattoo artist and what tattooing and art mean in our lives.

Coral Castle is the first audiobook to take an objective, journalistic look at one of America's most intriguing places: Coral Castle, located in Homestead, Florida. Edward Leedskalnin, an eccentric Latvian immigrant, built Coral Castle in the 1920s and 30s. Working alone with primitive tools, he quarried, carved, and set in place more than 1,100 tons of coral rock, creating what is commonly known as the American Stonehenge. How he accomplished this amazing feat remains a mystery.

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.

Berna González Harbour firma una deslumbrante narración biográfica sobre el artista que mejor supo retratar nuestro país: Francisco de Goya.

Un memoir privato e insieme un racconto corale, un'incursione autentica nella vita di Paolo Villaggio e poi un'altra, inedita e fitta di testimonianze di prima mano, nel dietro le quinte del suo personaggio più memorabile: Ugo Fantozzi.

Knjiga "Nitke življenja Martinčkovih" opisuje njeno družino in pestro zgodovinsko dogajanje, od zadnjih let 19. do začetka druge polovice 20.stoletja. Najprej v Tržiču, nato pa med prvo svetovno vojno do daljne Rusije, med drugo Srbije in se končno vrne v Tržič. V njej sta življenski zgodbi matere in očeta, od katerih je zgodba slednjega tako rekoč rdeča nit knjige. Glavni vir informacij sta bila pokojna starša. Pripovedi je posnela na številne magnetofonske trakove in tako omogočila verodostojnost zapisovanja teh življenskih zgodb.

Anni cinquanta. In mezzo a una strada di Parigi sono raccolte alcune persone, ferme, come in attesa di qualcosa o qualcuno. Uno di loro ha i capelli ispidi e brizzolati, un altro è quasi calvo, parlotta con un uomo baffuto, le mani incrociate sul petto; un altro ancora sputa in aria il fumo di una sigaretta, assorto in chissà quale pensiero. Qualcuno è lì di fronte con una Leica in mano, preme il pulsante, clic.

The world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters—exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio. The art world is a much dirtier, nastier...