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An elegant, iridescent mosaic of autobiographical fragments, both real and invented, forming a portrait of a creative life, from the life of the Pulitzer Prize finalist for Same Bed Different Dreams In 1998, Ed Park wrote a memoir and saved it to the vanishing technology of the floppy disk...

Un bambino come tanti: silenzioso, non bello, con grandi occhi pieni di domande. Dal momento in cui il mondo si accorge di lui, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart non avrà più pace. Per farlo dovrà però rinunciare alla spensieratezza, alle amicizie, agli amori e persino alla salute, mentre per restare nell'orbita della sua vita eccezionale coloro che lo amano, come la sorella Nannerl e la madre Anna, si sacrificheranno fino ad annullarsi.

Beyond the sainted Rembrandt—who harbored a startling darkness—and the mysterious Vermeer, whose true subject, it turned out, was lurking in plain sight, Moser got to know a whole galaxy of geniuses: the doomed virtuoso Carel Fabritius, the anguished wunderkind Jan Lievens, the deaf prodigy Hendrik Avercamp. Year after year, as he tried to make a life for himself in the Netherlands, Moser found friends among these centuries-dead artists. And he found that they, too, were struggling with the same questions that he was.

You’re falling through time so all I can do is fall with you. The numbness had set in long before I sat at your bedside. But even with senses impaired as the flight touches down at Belfast City I can somehow still feel the screeching of wheels on tarmac scorching something deep into me. So begins Gary Lightbody's phenomenal companion book to the latest, Snow Patrol’s number one album of the same name. While you don’t have to read it to understand the album, you may want to give the album a wee listen for some parts of the book to make sense.

For more than five decades, Pat Lipsky has been a leading figure in American color field painting. In loosely connected vignettes, this extraordinary book looks back on a life starting in 1970s SoHo.

LEONARDO DA VINCI es el genio visionario del Renacimiento por excelencia. Científico, artista e ingeniero, fue un acucioso observador que tomó a la naturaleza como maestra y, gracias a su comprensión de la luz y la perspectiva, pudo retratarla con una fidelidad revolucionaria para la época. Su gran imaginación le permitió anticiparse a incontables descubrimientos científicos y fantasear con un futuro que aterrizó en ingeniosos planos y bosquejos.

The inspiring true story of the self-made, Bronx-born portraitist who overcame all odds to become the most followed artist on social media worldwide—featuring 20 original black-and-white ink drawings of the people, places, and things that made him who he is. Devon Rodriguez talks to strangers...

In Two-Dimensional Man, Paul Sahre shares deeply revealing stories that serve as the unlikely inspiration behind his extraordinary thirty-year design career. Sahre explores his mostly vain attempts to escape his "suburban Addams Family" upbringing and the death of his elephant-trainer brother.

An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see what’s on the other side. At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began obsessively...

In 1529, Michelangelo was in Venice when he first met Titian, Venice's famed painter of princes, gods, and goddesses. Coming face-to-face with Titian's drama-infused, richly colored works, the creator of David and the Sistine Chapel ceiling realized he had met a worthy opponent. Twenty-five years later, Titian came to Rome to paint the pope, and the two met again. Painting in the Vatican, Titian experienced the full power of Michelangelo's work and vowed to surpass the achievements of his older contemporary.

Walt Disney never wrote his memoir, but this book could be considered his autobiography. In 1955, Walt gave a series of interviews to Pete Martin to be printed in multiple articles in the Saturday Evening Post. Much of that material formed the basis of this book, which was published in 1957. Walt's daughter Diane was present during those interview sessions. She acknowledged in a later edition of the book that she is not the author. "It is Pete Martin's book, and my dad's story," she wrote, further noting this book was "one of the first biographies of my dad.

In this deeply personal memoir, architect Leaford Leven Blevins, Jr. traces his journey from a high school drafting champion in Norman, Oklahoma, to a career that spanned continents, disciplines, and decades. An Architect’s Life is not a portfolio—it’s a portrait of a life lived with intention, resilience, and a relentless pursuit of purpose.

Uma reveladora jornada pela vida e a obra de 31 artistas geniais que compartilham uma qualidade essencial: o olhar. Frida Kahlo nos ajuda a ver através da dor. Rembrandt dá uma aula sobre autopercepção. David Hockney abre nossos olhos para a luminosidade da natureza. Jean-Michel Basquiat nos tira da inércia para que possamos ver a realidade em toda a sua complexidade selvagem.

La pieza es analizada con exhaustividad, incluyendo todo lo conocido hasta ahora de ella y exponiendo nuevas hipótesis, valientes pero cimentadas en el amplio conocimiento que el autor tiene de la sociedad ibérica y, sobre todo, de su ritualidad y religiosidad. La escultura antropomorfa ibera supone uno de los componentes más importantes de la llamada cultura ibérica, que permite comprenderla integrada en un fenómeno mediterráneo que se desarrolló en determinados lugares de sus territorios costeros.

Scrittrice, attrice di teatro, giornalista, donna emancipata e femme fatale: la francese Colette fu una delle donne più seducenti della prima metà del XX secolo. Una biografia ne racconta il lato più intimo e segreto.

Aprile 1975, Pùbol, Gerona. Gala Éluard Dalì si ritira per una settimana in solitudine nel castello che il suo secondo marito, Salvador Dalì, le ha regalato. Una notte una ragazza bussa alla sua porta: è una giovane studentessa dell'Università di Torino che sta lavorando alla sua tesi di laurea. Si apre così un incontro causale, ma forse necessario per entrambe, che si svolge all'interno di quello che Dalì considerò il suo più grande capolavoro.

Un ritratto inedito di Federico Fellini. Stefania Parmeggiani traccia un itinerario alla scoperta di Rimini, la città del regista entrata nella storia del cinema con Amarcord. Dal molo di levante con le note di Nino Rota in sottofondo, al cimitero monumentale dove un giorno di novembre i riminesi accompagnarono Fellini per l’ultima volta. In mezzo le viuzze del vecchio borgo di pescatori e quelle del centro storico, il tempietto dove le "baffone" andavano a benedire gli animali, il maestoso Grand Hotel, il cinema Fulgor e l’antico Castel Sismondo, oggi votato al culto felliniano.

Creador de la película definitiva sobre la convivencia con fantasmas, y las también definitivas sobre superhéroes reales o invasiones extraterrestres en fuera de campo, M. Night Shyamalan es un creador de iconos y, sobre todo, de meditadas obras que generan enconados debates, polémicas sin fin entre la cinefilia.

A writer’s search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to things small and significant. When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear isn’t seeking the exotic. Rather she discovers joy in the seasonal...

Leonardo takes you inside the brain of a man who painted the most famous face on Earth, sketched helicopters in the 1400s, dissected corpses to understand beauty, and wrote in mirrored code while inventing robots no one would build for centuries. He didn’t separate art and science. He didn’t follow disciplines. He followed truth. And he left behind a world forever warped by the intensity of his attention.