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A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021 “Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but packing a punch.” —The Wall Street Journal Now Featuring an...

Though many have never heard her name, Alice Prin—Kiki de Montparnasse—was the icon of 1920s Paris. She captivated as a ground-breaking nightclub performer, wrote a bestselling memoir, sold out exhibitions of her paintings, and shared drinks with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Peggy Guggenheim, Marcel Duchamp and Gertrude Stein. She also shepherded along the career of the then-unknown American photographer: Man Ray.

The 1935 murder of architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury, world famous for his design of the iconic Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, and the arrest and lurid trial of his thirty years younger second wife, Alma, and the family chauffeur, George Percy Stoner, her lover, who was half her age, riveted people. Debate continues even today as to which one of them really was responsible. 

La red infinita retrata, en primera persona, a una mente artística única, atormentada por miedos y obsesiones, pero decidida a alcanzar y mantener su posición al frente de la vanguardia artística mundial. Pintora inconformista, Kusama canaliza sus neurosis obsesivas en un arte que trasciende las barreras culturales.Una vez llegada desde Japón a Nueva York, vive los primeros tiempos en la pobreza, pero pronto se convierte en la reina de la escena artística contracultural, y llega a codearse con artistas como Georgia O'Keeffe o Andy Warhol.

Il primo incontro con Fellini avviene sul set di 8½, dove la madre di Marina, Caterina Boratto, è stata presa per interpretare la Signora Misteriosa, ruolo che segna il suo ritorno alle scene dopo un lungo periodo di assenza. Subito tra la sedicenne Marina e il regista scatta un’affinità. Benché sia per natura diffidente con gli altri, e ancor più verso una personalità istrionica e sfuggente come quella di Fellini, Marina si lascia affascinare dal mondo del cinema e prende a frequentare il Teatro 5 di Cinecittà.

’You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later…’ Nick Cave ‘Later… is a voyage of discovery for us as well as the viewers’ Dave Grohl Dave Grohl and Alicia Keys loved it, Björk treasured it, Ed Sheeran’s life was changed by it, Kano felt at home...

By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlansky’s life has always been intertwined with Ernest Hemingway's legend, starting with being in Idaho the day of Hemingway’s death. The Importance of Not Being Ernest explores the intersections between Hemingway’s and Kurlansky’s lives, resulting in creative accounts of two inspiring writing careers. Travel the world with Mark Kurlansky and Ernest Hemingway in this personal memoir, where Kurlansky details his ten years in Paris and his time as a journalist in Spain.

¿Cómo logró el hijo de unos pobres inmigrantes eslovacos, criado en Pittsburgh, convertirse en el artista más famoso de su generación? ¿De qué manera pasó de ser un niño enfermizo, víctima del acoso de sus compañeros de clase, a erigirse en padre del pop art? ¿Es Warhol un genio del arte contemporáneo?

Anne-Marie fra Paris er 13 år gammel og træt af at gå i skole. Men da der kommer en ny pige i hendes klasse - en mystisk og dragende flygtning fra det fjerne Østen - begynder et nyt livskapitel. Foranlediget af den nye og fremmelige pige vækkes generte Anne-Maries interesse for drenge og romantik. Og da hun året efter bliver færdig med skolen og kommer i lære som husassistent, opsøger hun enhver mulighed for at udforske den nye interesse.

Hvad vil det sige at være en af verdens største kunstnere? Hvad var det ved Edvard Munch, der skilte sig ud fra andre kunstnere på samme tid, og som gør, at vi stadig ser på hans kunst og taler om den? Karl Ove Knausgård nærmer sig Munchs billeder i et forsøg på at finde ud af, hvad der stod på spil i dem, og på hvilke måder de lever videre. Han opsøger steder, hvor Munch har været, og taler om Munch med kunstnere og kunstkendere. Men først og fremmest skriver han om sit eget forhold til Munch.

Klaus Pagh er kongen af morskabsteater i Danmark. Han har kendt alle, der var noget ved komikken, og som revydirektør var det ham selv, der gjorde mange af dem til stjerner. Han var tæt på Dirch Passer og Jørgen Ryg, og i sine erindringer deler han gavmildt ud af morsomme og tragiske historier, der aldrig før er blevet fortalt. Som ung skuespiller blev Klaus Pagh berømt som "Danmarks James Dean". Hver dag modtog han så mange fanbreve, at hans mormor og morfar blev sat til at besvare dem.

Den danske skagensmaler Anna Ancher deler ud af sine barndomsminder fra Skagen. I modsætning til resten af første generation af skagensmalere var Anna Ancher født og opvokset i Skagen, og hendes fortælling byder blandt andet på historien om, da selveste H.C. Andersen kom på uanmeldt besøg i hendes barndomshjem.

A visit to a museum can be overwhelming, exhausting, and unrewarding. Lincoln Perry wants to change that. In eleven essays—each framed around a specific theme—he provides new ways of seeing and appreciating art. Perry is a disarmingly charming tour guide to museums large or small. He makes even all art approachable and accessible. Along the way, he weaves in personal stories, from his own artistic journey as a painter to the days when he could sleep in his beaten-up VW Bus in the Louvre’s parking lot.

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...

At 65, artist, writer, and psychologist Sharon Strong doesn’t fit into the cultural stereotype of “senior citizen”—and she has no desire to. Instead, she claims the next decade as the most transformational years of her life. At 66, she erects the first of what will become a series of monumental sculptures on the Black Rock Desert at Burning Man. At 67, she treks in the Himalayas. At 70, she meets the love of her life and begins a new life with him. To honor her 75th year, she delves into an inward journey with psilocybin mushrooms.

Eye Contact is the story of a photographer's decade-long journey in search of meaning and manhood. An experienced freelancer with the New York Times, author Luke Sharrett treats listeners to a behind-the-scenes look at covering the White House and flying aboard Air Force One. Despite achieving professional success at a young age, he is haunted by a feeling that he simply doesn't belong. He can't seem to outrun a nagging fear that he doesn't have what it takes to succeed in life. As he navigates his career, he begins searching for answers. Who am I? Where do I belong?

Ett år som detta när den ene hävdar att försöka hoppa från Liljeholmsbron är konst och en annan säger detsamma om en videofilm om en person som klottrar ner en tunnelbanevagn, så får vi här vägledning av Ernst Billgren. Billgren är inte bara Sveriges kanske namnkunnigaste bildkonstnär utan även regissör och författare. Hans bok om konst är både lättillgänglig och rolig. Inläsningen av svaren är gjord av Ernst Billgren, medan frågorna läses avskådespelaren Inger Nilsson. - Ernst Billgren föddes 1957 i Stockholm och växte upp i Farsta.

Miembro fundador de los Guns N' Roses, Loaded y Velvet Revolver, Duff McKagan comparte en este audiolibro la historia de su ascenso a la fama y la fortuna, y sus luchas con el alcoholismo y la adicción a las drogas, así como su accidente con quemaduras, y su ulterior transformación. En It’s So Easy, Duff McKagan relata la trayectoria poco probable de los Guns hacia una serie de álbumes multiplatino, conciertos en estadios con las entradas agotadas y un reconocimiento unánime de la crítica.

Le mani che si bloccano sulla tastiera di un pianoforte e si rifiutano di suonare, durante un concerto in Giappone. Una crisi di ansia, una contrattura di ogni muscolo, persino quelli della creatività. Che succede? Per venirne a capo, il protagonista di questo libro si rifugia in una casa di campagna. Solo, circondato da una natura brulla, tenta di sintonizzare di nuovo mente e corpo, per riprendere a comporre e suonare, ma gli incubi lo perseguitano e l'incertezza aumenta. Finché un giorno, nel silenzio di una radura, una voce lo prega: "Accudiscimi".

Eine Biografie. Ausgerechnet von Atze Schröder! Ja, nee, is´klar. Die Comedy-Legende mit dem losen Mundwerk und dem großen Herzen. Keiner haut die Sprüche schneller raus als der Lockenträger aus Essen-Kray. Kein Klischee ist ihm fremd: „Liebling der Frauen“, „der Kumpel im 911er“, der „prollige Kioskbesitzer aus dem Ruhrgebiet“! Seit über 20 Jahren steht Atze Schröder auf dem Matterhorn der Comedy. Und alle wollen wissen, wie die Welt hinter den Gläsern der blaugetönten Alpina-Pilotenbrille aussieht.

L'ultima vita di Carmelo Bene. Dobbiamo essere grati a Luisa Viglietti – scrive Goffredo Fofi – di averci restituito un Carmelo Bene quotidiano, semplice e vicino ma pur sempre diverso e anzi unico: gli ultimi anni di un grande artista, attivo e progettante fino agli estremi momenti di una vita densissima. Disse qualcuno, e sapeva di dire un paradosso ma intuendone la verità, che spesso si impara di più leggendo le vite dei grandi filosofi di quanto non si impari leggendo le loro opere. E questo si pensa anche leggendo questi vivi e bellissimi ricordi.

Autoportrait du jeune homme en artiste raté, "Berlin on/off" décline en trois monologues revanchards et baroques une immersion dans des univers canoniques de l’art, à travers l’œil d’un narrateur dont on sait simplement qu’il est un jeune Français au "destin d’éponge".

Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this intimate short smemoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past and present selves. From her move to the Slade School of Fine Art at 16, through a profound and intense affair with the older and better-known artist Lucian Freud, to the practises of her present-day studio, she meticulously assembles the surprising, beautiful, haunting scenes of a life. Paul brings to her prose the same qualities that she brings to her art.

What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers, including Doris Lessing, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, and Alice Neel. A meditation on maternal identity and artistic greatness, Phillips illuminates some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary women's lives. 

Jackson Pollock was without a doubt one of the twentieth century’s most controversial painters. He started out painting abstracts in the style of Pablo Picasso but soon branched out, establishing the “drip” method, which entails dripping or flinging paint directly onto the canvas. For this, he was both praised and demonized; still, he persisted on his own chosen path.

Harvey Kurtzman created Mad, and Mad revolutionized humor in America. Kurtzman was the original editor, artist, and sole writer of Mad, one of the greatest publishing successes of the twentieth century. But how did Kurtzman invent Mad, and why did he leave it shortly after it burst, nova-like, onto the American scene? For this heavily researched biography, Bill Schelly conducted new interviews with Kurtzman’s colleagues, friends, and family, including Hugh Hefner, R. Crumb, Jack Davis, and many others, and examined Kurtzman’s personal archives.

François Dompierre. Depuis toujours, cet homme singulier décline sa passion de la musique au pluriel: trames sonores, chansons, concertos, publicités, comédies musicales et plus encore. Mais Dompierre, c’est aussi douze années de radio et cinq années d’ateliers culinaires, trois livres et treize disques, des milliers de kilomètres à pied et un formidable appétit de vivre.

Celia Paul has felt a lifelong connection to the artist Gwen John. There are extraordinary parallels in their lives and work. Both have always made art on their own terms. Both were involved with older male artists. Both worked hard to keep themselves and the sacred flame of their creativity from being extinguished by others. Letters to Gwen John is Paul's imagined correspondence with Gwen John, whose life and work have loomed so large in hers. 

¿Qué singular parábola ocurrió para que un chico de un inquilinato de Valentín Alsina tuviera a los 22 años a América bajo la suela de sus zapatos? ¿Qué clase de invención es la de ese galán crepuscular que seducía en un escenario hasta conectado a tubos de oxígeno? ¿Qué tipo de epopeya encarna? ¿Qué extraño coraje tuvo para decidir someterse a un trasplante que fue, al fin, su último gesto de dignidad? ¿Cuál fue la máscara, la de Sandro o la de Roberto Sánchez?

The complete BBC Radio 3 series exploring how great creative minds responded to the First World War in individual works of art and scholarship World War I saw an unprecedented loss of life in Western Europe, and destruction on a scale no one alive had ever seen. All those who experienced it were...

No princípio era o verbo. E os versos. Mas o gaúcho Allan Dias Castro não conseguia lhes dar voz. Nascido numa família tradicional de advogados, Allan não queria desapontar gerações. Foi cursar Direito, mas logo percebeu que não conseguiria ser feliz seguindo os passos dos pais. Decidido a encontrar a própria voz, veio para o Rio de Janeiro em 2010 escrever sua história. Este livro é o roteiro errante de como ele deu Voz ao Verbo, criando em 2016 um projeto de vídeos de poesia falada que gerou enorme identificação com o público.

Cecil Beaton was a portrait and fashion photographer, as well as a diarist and Oscar-winning designer. Here he discusses his life and achievements in a series of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archive: At Home: Cecil Beaton, broadcast on BBC Radio, 7th May 1957 (featuring Hywel Davies)...

In this insightful and provocative book, comics-industry veteran Danny Fingeroth explores the backgrounds of the most well-known superheroes and their creators—largely young American Jewish men from Eastern European backgrounds. These innovators include Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Will Eisner, and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. In Disguised as Clark Kent, Fingeroth explores how the creators’ Jewish backgrounds helped make superheroes the most familiar popular-culture icons of all.

Venerada tanto por su espíritu salvaje, como por su arte, Frida Kahlo es un símbolo de creatividad arriesgada.Durante décadas sus pinturas han permanecido atemporales, cautivando admiradores de distintas generaciones alrededor del mundo.

Роберт Капа - один из величайших фотографов мира, оставивший после себя тысячи потрясающих снимков, которые до сих пор изучают студенты фотографии.

Andy Warhol and his pop art helped define the 1960s and 1970s in America. Born the son of poor Austro-Hungarian immigrants in Pittsburgh, he was fortunate enough to attend the Carnegie Institute and study art. After graduation, he moved to New York, where he became a successful commercial artist sketching women’s accessories for ads before soaring to popularity with his silkscreen paintings of Campbell soup cans and celebrities like Marilyn Monroe.

Brought to you by Penguin. Artists have learnt to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his typical...

David Sipress, a dreamer and obsessive drawer living with his Upper West Side family in the age of JFK and Sputnik, goes hazy when it comes to the ceaselessly imparted lessons-on-life from his meticulous father and the angsty expectations of his migraine-prone mother. With wry and brilliantly...

Martin, a junior middle school student, was a restless, street-smart, and playful young boy who liked to joke around. Yet, he was a good-hearted, honest, and kind boy. Martin had one weakness: He was not interested in studying at all, which was the number one headache of his parents and teachers. Nevertheless, Martin was considered a blessed child. God had given him a best partner. It was neither a boy nor a girl. It was a special friend who changed his life.

One of the nation’s top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by producing some of the greatest work of their long careers—and, in some cases, changing the course of art history. Ordinarily, we think of young artists as the bomb throwers. Monet and Renoir...

There is no doubt that Michelangelo is one of the most influential artists of all time, together with some other Renaissance geniuses, such as Leonardo and Rafael. Michelangelo had a vision, a dream, and the talent to carry out those imaginations. His life, in our perspective, is a compilation of great works of art, architecture, sculptures, paintings, and intricate movements, contrast, colors, and anatomy of the human body. Religious and thematic symbolism are intertwined in his frescos and structures. Let us learn more about this great artist.