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Author, artist, and retired Deputy Head Jo Johnson was born and brought up in Greenock in the West of Scotland. Educated at Greenock Academy until the age of 14, he experienced a profound culture shock when the family relocated to Kilwinning in Ayrshire where he found himself in a much rougher school environment. Born into a devoutly Christian family, Jo had to balance the competing demands of "church and state" at an early age. His story is peppered with entertaining, poignant, and occasionally unpleasant memories of growing up in 1960s Greenock and 1970s Ayrshire.

In freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse was once the symbol of bohemian Paris. But if she is remembered today, it is only for posing for several now-celebrated male artists, including Amedeo Modigliani and Alexander Calder, and especially photographer Man Ray. Kiki and Man Ray met in 1921 during a chance encounter at a cafe. What followed was an explosive decade-long connection, both professional and romantic, during which the couple grew and experimented as artists, competed for fame, and created many of the shocking images that cemented Man Ray's reputation.

Esta autobiografía, La Bazuca de Madera, es una historia de múltiples dramas demasiado vívida, improbable e intensamente personal para haber sido conjurada por un novelista. Desde el orfanato hasta el frente de batalla, desde el campo de prisioneros hasta la sala de juntas y más allá, Karl Heinz Johannsmeier teje una narrativa vertiginosa de una duración y una trayectoria increíbles, un testimonio del poder del optimismo y la tenacidad para burlar a la muerte, superar la derrota e ingeniar el triunfo.

Cette autobiographie, Bazooka en Bois, est une histoire de drames multiples trop vivants, improbables et intensément personnels pour avoir été évoqués par un romancier. De l'orphelinat au front de bataille en passant par le camp de prisonniers, la salle de conférence et au-delà, Karl Heinz Johannsmeier raconte un récit au rythme effréné d'une envergure et d'une trajectoire incroyables, un témoignage du pouvoir de l'optimisme et de la ténacité pour déjouer la mort, surmonter la défaite et triompher.

This autobiography, The Wooden Bazooka, is a story of manifold drama too vivid, improbable, and intensely personal to have been conjured up by a novelist. From orphanage to battlefront to prison camp to board room and beyond, Karl Heinz Johannsmeier spins a fast-paced narrative of incredible span and trajectory, a testimony to the power of optimism and tenacity to outwit death, overcome defeat, and engineer triumph. Few individuals have proven so dramatically that the American Dream of success is indeed alive and well.

Diese Autobiographie ist eine Geschichte vielfältiger Dramen, die zu lebendig, unwahrscheinlich und zutiefst persönlich sind, um von einem Romanautor heraufbeschworen zu werden. Vom Waisenhaus zur Front, zu politischem Knast, zu Hightech-Unternehmer und darüber hinaus—Karl Heinz Johannsmeier erzählt eine rasante Geschichte von unglaublicher Spannweite und Flugbahn, ein Zeugnis der Kraft des Optimismus und der Hartnäckigkeit, den Tod zu überlisten, Niederlagen zu überwinden und Triumphe zu konstruieren.

Donna Leon hat viel erlebt, in Amerika, dem Iran, Saudi-Arabien, Italien natürlich oder in der Schweiz. Kaum aber passiert ihr ein Abenteuer, wird auch schon eine spannende Geschichte daraus. Sie erzählt uns von ihrer Jugend auf der Farm und von Sperrstunden-Pyjamapartys im Iran, Geldnot und einem Fiat 600. Davon, wie sie als "Anstandsdame" nach Italien kam, von der Jagd nach dem perfekten Cappuccino und kleinen Wundern in den Bergen.

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.

Hailed by readers/listeners and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children; her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky; her association with the Communist Party.

Sarah Polley's work as an actor, screenwriter and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity and deep humanity. She brings all those qualities, along with her exquisite storytelling chops, to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley's life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a “reciprocal pressure dance”.

Massimo Troisi rivive in questo libro nel suo fascino esuberante, nella sua erotica bellezza partenopea capace di un'empatia spontanea con chiunque incontrasse. Attore-autore irriverente e scanzonato, la sua simpatia ha accompagnato la ricerca di una personale solitudine, rifugio dalla malattia e dai dolori famigliari che ne hanno segnato la sensibilità.

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.

¿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.

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 art world is a much dirtier, nastier business than you might expect. Tony Tetro, one of the most renowned art forgers in history, will make you question every masterpiece you’ve ever seen in a museum, gallery, or private collection. Tetro’s “Rembrandts,” “Caravaggios,” “Miros,” and hundreds of other works now hang on walls around the globe.