Artist Architect

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.

"Rebel Artists" ist ein Buch über 15 Frauen aus aller Welt, die sich als Künstlerinnen Respekt verschafften. Sie mussten gegen Vorurteile und für ihre Rechte kämpfen. Aber sie ließen sich durch nichts und niemanden von ihrer Kunst abbringen. Frida Kahlo kennen alle als starke, mutige Malerin. Doch auch viele weitere Frauen verdienen Beachtung: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, die erst mit 80 Jahren anfing, unermüdlich zu malen, um dann mit über 3000 Bildern zur berühmtesten Aborigines-Künstlerin zu werden.

Les jeunes Patti Smith et Robert Mapplethorpe se rencontrent par hasard à New York à la fin des années 1960. "Just Kids", roman d'initiation bohème, retrace les débuts de ces enfants terribles, jusqu'au moment où la chanteuse enregistre son premier album, "Horses", et voit décoller sa carrière. Cette épopée mythique, histoire d'amour et d'amitié, qui s'ouvre et s'achève avec la mort du photographe, immortalise les instants incandescents d'une période décisive dans ces deux vies d'artistes et dans l'histoire de la musique américaine.

This audiobook is a memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an unconventional mother. Glen David Gold was raised rich, briefly, in southern California at the end of the go-go 1960s. But his father's fortune disappears, his parents divorce, and Glen falls out of his well-curated life and into San Francisco at the epicenter of the Me Decade: the inimitable '70s. Gold grows up with his mother, among con men and get-rich schemes. Then, one afternoon when he's 12, she moves to New York without telling him, leaving him to fend for himself.

Immorale, assassino, folle. Geniale, profetico, rivoluzionario. Chi era davvero Caravaggio? Sono ancora molti i misteri che circondano la figura sfuggente e controversa di Michelangelo Merisi. Lo storico dell'arte Costantino D'Orazio fa luce sulle ombre che circondano l'artista rileggendone i capolavori con stile immediato e accattivante. Un viaggio nel tempo per rivivere le atmosfere dell'epoca e scoprire i seducenti e ingannevoli giochi di prestigio che il pittore usa per nascondere significati più profondi all'interno delle sue opere

Little Nanette, the daughter of established San Francisco Bay Area artists, grows up during the Beat Generation and the groovy ’60s in the progressive City by the Bay. Nanette’s memoir-style essays include several in “child’s voice,” and journey through growing up in an old church, four years at an accredited hippie college in New Hampshire, life in a kookie cult, a trans-racial adoption, studying Argentine Tango, and an unexpected Transgender turn of events.

Dlouho očekávané vzpomínky jednoho z nejznámějších amerických režisérů jsou konečně tu! Dobrodružný tatínek a přísná maminka, dospívání v New Yorku a neutuchající snaha dělat jen to, co ho baví. První snahy, kdy píše vtipy pro známější komiky, aby se postupně stal svébytným stand-up komikem, scenáristou, dramatikem a režisérem autorských filmů.

Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and creator of the "Scream": Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

لم يرغب نجيب محفوظ في كتابة سيرته، فنأى عن تمثيل دور البطولة، أو إغراقنا في تفاصيل طفولته وريعان شبابه وكيف تفادى الحوادث الجسام وكيف استقبل لحظات الظفر الكبرى. كان أديبًا متمكنًا يستطيع كتابة مجلد عن سيرته، مرضٍ لجميع القراء والنقاد ويحدث ضجة إعلامية في الصحف والمجلات. ولكن اهتم محفوظ بأصداء حياته، فأصداء الحياة تمنحنا المعنى الذي هو رجع الحياة حين ينتهي الحدث، المعنى الذي يظل الإنسان يعدو ليصل إليه.

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 engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists - from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the world - to show us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness.

In Albert & the Whale, Philip Hoare sets out to discover why Dürer's art endures. He encounters medieval alchemists and modernist poets, eccentric emperors and queer soul rebels, ambassadorial whales and enigmatic pop artists. He witnesses the miraculous birth of Dürer's fantastical rhinoceros and his hermaphroditic hare, and he traces the fate of the star-crossed leviathan that the artist pursued. And as the author swims from Europe to America and beyond, these prophetic artists and downed angels provoke awkward questions.

When reclusive millionaire artist Robert Indiana died in 2018, he left behind dark rumors and scandal, as well as an estate embroiled in lawsuits and facing accusations of fraud. Here is the true story of the artist’s final days, the aftermath, the deceptive world that surrounded him, and the inner workings of art as very big business.

As a well-known actor and a public figure, Brad Pitt has been cited as one of the most powerful and influential people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the most attractive man in the world by various media outlets. When it comes to his personal life, he also the subject of wide publicity.

When Gianni Bozzacchi accepted an assignment as a photographer on the set of The Comedians (1967), he didn't know that his life was about to change forever. His ability to capture the beauty of candid moments drew the attention of the film's star, Elizabeth Taylor, and prompted her to hire him as her personal photographer.

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――。

The remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into the most powerful city in the world, and the men who were responsible for that achievement. Opening in the 1640s, as the city was gripped in tumult leading up to the English Civil War, The Phoenix charts the lives and works of five extraordinary men who would grow up in the chaos of a world turned upside down: the architect, Sir Christopher Wren; gardener and virtuosi, John Evelyn; the scientist, Robert Hooke; the radical philosopher, John Locke; and the builder, Nicholas Barbon.

Everything about Picasso, except his physical stature, was on an enormous scale. His appetite for sex and money, eating and drinking, friends and quarrels, comedy and tragedy, are legendary. No artist of the first rank has been so aw-inspiringly productive. No artist of any rank has made so much money. A few artists have rivalled his life-span of ninety years, but none has attracted so insatiable a public interest. Patrick O’Brian, author of the famous Aubrey-Maturin novels, was a near neighbour of Picasso’s in the south of France for many years and knew him well.

Gertrude Stein, scrittrice e poetessa statunitense, ha vissuto gran parte della sua vita in Francia, e ha conosciuto e sostenuto molti pittori e scrittori, quando erano agli esordi. Sua l'amicizia pluriennale con Matisse e Picasso, che le fece un famoso ritratto. Non ha mai fatto mistero della sua omosessualità, e della sua relazione con Alice Toklas.

"J'ai toujours eu un cœur excentrique." Bono a grandi dans le nord de Dublin entre un père catholique et une mère protestante, alors que les violences sectaires se multipliaient en Irlande. Il n'avait que quatorze ans lors du décès de sa mère, perte qui va façonner sa recherche d'une famille. Il a commencé sa vie avec le sentiment d'être quelconque, pourtant toute son existence sera consacrée à combattre l'idée que quiconque puisse l'être. En quatre décennies, U2 passe d'une bande d'adolescents ambitieux au plus grand groupe au monde.

Mediante veintitrés cartas dirigidas a su amigo y confidente Germán Arciniegas, Emma Reyes asumió el arduo ejercicio de narrar los giros y adversidades que vivió durante su infancia. Estos textos, escritos entre 1969 y 1997, son una conmovedora mezcla de inocencia y serenidad ante la tragedia, y articulan magistralmente un relato personal que evoca el duro contexto de la Colombia de la segunda y tercera décadas del siglo xx.