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A heart-rending memoir of love, loss and the unique relationship twins share. More than thirty years ago, David Loftus’s cherished identical twin, John, passed away. Ever since, a day hasn’t passed without David feeling the loss. In 1987, after recovering from a brain tumour, John contracted...

Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother; a true legend. Her career successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world. For the first and only time, Vivienne...

Eye-opening and candid, David Bailey's Look Again is a fantastically entertaining memoir by a true icon. 'Rollicking . . . with roguish tales as vivid as his era-defining photos' – Daily Mail 'Brilliant' – Telegraph David Bailey burst onto the scene in 1960 with his revolutionary photographs...

Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process. Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003 art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was Joe Simon, an American film producer and...

Read by the author, Rose Boyt. ‘Towards the end of the summer of 2016 I found an old diary in a cardboard box, hundreds of typed pages, the first dated 9 September 1989. I put the diary away without reading it; I had lost my father, my mother had died only three months earlier, and it was not...

From multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most influential Australian photographer of the 20th century and creator of many iconic images that have passed into our national imagination. WINNER of the National Biography Award...

A landmark biography of a singular and important Australian photographer, Olive Cotton, by an award-winning writer - beautifully written and deeply moving. Winner 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Non Fiction Award Winner of the 2020 Canberra Critics' Circle Award for Biography...

Bloomsbury presents Mad Enchantment by Ross King, read by Mark Meadows Claude Monet’s water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. The...

Bloomsbury presents Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King, read by Mark Meadows. From the acclaimed author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Leonardo and the Last Supper, the riveting story of how Michelangelo, against all odds, created the masterpiece that has ever since adorned the ceiling...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Anteckningar från ett liv i och omkring måleriet. Om skapande, tvivel, familj och de drömmar som vägrar ge upp. En dagbok i gränslandet mellan verklighet och fiktion...

'Paul Morley is my kind of critic.' - Grace Jones From the swimming pools of Los Angeles to the hills of Yorkshire, from the bright light of California to the changing skies of Normandy, David Hockney spent a lifetime seeing the world differently. One of the most celebrated and influential...

A painter’s memoir of obsession, loss and creation during a trip to Venice Alone in Venice for an artist’s residency, Celia Paul records her daily painting practice. Her days are both charged with and interrupted by the turmoil she feels over the death of her husband, and her more recent...

A previously untold and eye-opening story about the influential friendship between two undisputed icons of American culture—Andy Warhol and Arnold Schwarzenegger—that explores the complexities and seductions of celebrity. New York City, 1976. On an unseasonably warm February evening, a giddy...

An educational podcast for children in which we travel to early 20th-century Mexico to meet Frida Kahlo. Frida was a woman with a rebellious spirit who, despite suffering from polio and a serious bus accident, never gave up. Thanks to a mirror placed above her bed and a special easel, she began to paint self-portraits, capturing her emotions and demonstrating that creativity can heal the soul.

»Erinnerung bedeutet, dass etwas bleibt – auch wenn so vieles verschwunden ist« Konrad Bernheimer ist vier Jahre alt, als ihn sein Großvater 1954 aus Venezuela, wohin die jüdische Familie vor den Nazis geflohen ist, nach München zurückholt – dorthin, wo die Bernheimers als Kunst- und Antiquitätenhändler verwurzelt waren. Zusammen mit ihm auf die Reise machen sich seine venezolanische Mutter und seine Schwestern. Auch sein Vater Kurt sollte mit der Familie zurückkehren, doch dazu kam es nicht...

Né le 30 mars 1853 aux Pays-Bas et mort en 1890 en France, Van Gogh est aujourd’hui un des peintres les plus connus au monde. L’héritage que Van Gogh a laissé derrière lui est monumental : plus de 2000 toiles et dessins, 652 lettres écrites à son frère Théodore Van Gogh dit « Théo...

Disney experiences enthrall millions of guests around the world. How does it all become a reality? Find out in this action-packed narrative journey! Dream Chasing is a recounting by author Bob Weis of four decades of creating and seeing to completion challenging projects, leading teams from the...

Von der gefeierten Autorin von Das Lieben danach: Wie gut kennen wir unsere eigenen Eltern – ihre Leidenschaften und Abgründe? Tief berührend, weitreichend: Helene Bracht, die erst mit fast siebzig Jahren zum Schreiben fand, erzählt von uns allen, indem sie von ihrer Mutter erzählt. Voller Wucht und Schönheit beschreibt sie den Sommer des Abschieds von ihrer alten Mutter Irma.

Salvador Dalí, born in Figueres, Spain, was one of the twentieth century’s most important painters. He showed artistic talent from an early age, and his parents were determined to nurture that gift. Enrolled in three different art schools, Dalí proved himself a brilliant and technically precise painter as well as an impossible student. He was expelled twice and made a point of telling his examiners they were incompetent to judge him. He was, in other words, exactly the kind of brash artist the modern world was waiting for.

Wer Pablo Picasso nur als berühmten Namen kennt, hat erst die Oberfläche berührt. Dieses Sachbuch öffnet Ihnen den Blick hinter Mythos und Meisterwerk und zeigt, warum Picasso Kunst bis heute elektrisiert. Sie folgen einer packenden Picasso-Biografie, die nicht bei Anekdoten stehen bleibt, sondern erklärt, wie aus Talent und Trotz ein Künstler wurde, der die Klassische Moderne prägte und sich immer wieder neu erfand.