Artist Architect

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.

Dustin Kiskaddon draws on his own apprenticeship with Matt, the owner of Oakland's Premium Tattoo, and takes us behind the scenes into the complex world of professional tattooers. We join people who must routinely manage a messy and carnal type of work. Blood and Lightning brings us through the tattoo shop, where the smell of sterilizing agents, the hum of machines, and the sound of music spill out onto the back patio.

In this candid memoir, featuring a foreword by Barbra Streisand, renowned designer Donna Karan shares intimate details about her lonely childhood, her four-plus decades in the fashion industry, her two marriages, motherhood, and her ongoing quest for self-acceptance and spiritual peace.

Jim and Elaine Larison spent years studying, exploring, and living in wild places, making more than 30 environmental films, most for the National Geographic Society. These films won more than 40 international awards from leading environmental and broadcast organizations. This memoir tells the story behind the adventure and describes the rather substantial personal costs of this career.

Pintor, dibujante y activista político infatigable, José Clemente Orozco es sin duda el mayor de los tres grandes exponentes de la escuela muralista mexicana, aquella que con Siqueiros y Diego Rivera le diera tanta fama y gloria al país norteamericano. Él fue un metodista, un talento, un artista que llevaba a cabo sus pinturas a la manera antigua, con una mezcla de temple y óleo, de la misma manera que los pintores medievales.

Giotto di Bondone è ritenuto il padre della pittura moderna. Egli segna una svolta nel panorama artistico italiano, costringendo tutti i suoi successori, da Masaccio a Michelangelo, a studiare le sue opere per comprenderne la modernità. La vita di Giotto affonda le sue radici nella leggenda: l'apprendistato presso Cimabue, il mistero della Basilica di Assisi, il cerchio perfetto eseguito con un unico tratto della mano. Nonostante le poche notizie certe, ciò che contraddistingue la personalità di Giotto è la capacità di vedere quello che i suoi contemporanei non erano ancora in grado di percepire: un nuovo modo di raffigurare lo spazio.

They called her La Maestra. Elisabetta Sirani was a talented and prolific artist in 17th century Italy. Trained by her father, she was running his studio by the time she was 16, and earned her first official commission the following year.

Delle 820 lettere scritte da Van Gogh nell'arco della sua breve esistenza ben 651 sono indirizzate al fratello Theo: il primo a comprenderne il talento e a incoraggiarne la vocazione, e il solo che non gli negò mai l'indispensabile sostegno morale e finanziario. Pochi artisti hanno rivelato così tanto di sé stessi nei propri scritti.

The paintings of Johannes Vermeer of Delft are some of the most beautiful, even sublime, in the history of art. Yet like the life of Vermeer himself, they are mysterious and have for centuries defied explanation. Following new leads, and drawing on a mass of historical evidence, some of it freshly uncovered in the archives of Delft and Rotterdam, Andrew Graham-Dixon paints a dramatically new picture of Vermeer, revealing many of the painter’s hitherto unknown friendships as well as his previously undetected allegiance to a radical movement driven underground by persecution.

Margaret Collyer's beautifully written autobiography describes her life as an artist and pioneer farmer in Kenya during the first half of the 20th century.

So much is surprising and captivating about this coming-of-age story of a culture-rich, pre-and-proto-’60s upper class girl with rebellion and independence wired in. Lale’s early decades were a complex mixture of innocence, sophistication, doubt, passion, adventure, and brutal self-criticism. They live in a small East Side walk-up, but her mother orders custom-made clothes from Christian Dior in Paris. Finally finding focus for her passion, she powers her way into her chosen profession: architecture.

Marc Chagall, painter and cosmopolitan: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Rob Spillman has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. Born in Germany to two driven musicians, his childhood was spent among the West Berlin cognoscenti in a city 200 miles behind the Iron Curtain. There, the Berlin Wall stood as a stark reminder of the split between East and West, between suppressed dreams and freedom of expression.

Meet the cool creatives behind awe-inspiring art, with this non-fiction title for kids. Pour paint onto a canvas with Jackson Pollock, laugh along with the pranks of Hokusai, and find beauty in your self-portrait with Frida Kahlo, as you follow the stories of more than 50 fabulous artists and their groundbreaking work. Through charming storytelling rich in detail, Artists covers celebrated figures as well as lesser-known trailblazers, each with a tale as intriguing as it is unique.

L`autore dei bestseller Steve Jobs, Einstein e Benjamin Franklin ritorna con un`accattivante biografia di Leonardo da Vinci, considerato uno degli individui di talento più diversificato che abbia mai vissuto. Come descrive Walter Isaacson, il genio di Leonardo era del tipo che possiamo capire e prendere lezioni da.

Gustav Mahler, star conductor and legendary composer: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Tout le monde connaît la tour Eiffel, personne ne connaît Gustave Eiffel. Ingénieur et inventeur de génie, Gustave Eiffel a bâti des édifices sur toute la planète, de la statue de la Liberté au viaduc de Garabit, de la gare de Budapest au pont de Porto. Il a connu la gloire et la descente aux enfers, les têtes couronnées et la prison. La construction de la Tour, clou de l'Exposition universelle de 1889, a constitué une incroyable aventure humaine et Gustave a dû se battre pendant vingt ans pour que son œuvre ne soit pas démolie.

Autoportrait d'une femme. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) vécut une brève existence déchirée entre de terribles souffrances physiques (à dix-huit ans, un accident de bus la cloue au lit pour deux ans) et une immense force de création (elle commence à peindre, un miroir installé au-dessus d'elle, pendant qu'elle est immobilisée). Par-delà sa beauté célèbre, ses amours, celles de son mari, Diego Rivera, ses voyages, les mille et une anecdotes ponctuant une existence tumultueuse et riche, reste son art, dont André Breton disait que c'est "un ruban autour d'une bombe".

Finding success in this thing called “life” can be complicated. Sometimes we’re driven by an insatiable hunger; other times, we drift in life aimlessly looking for purpose. Yet, what appears to be circumstances meant to bury us can become the foundation from which we grow. In life, we grow strong and resilient simply because of our courage to continue through seemingly insurmountable obstacles. This audiobook is an example of what happens when perseverance becomes less of an admirable quality and more of a way of life.

Diane Arbus was one of the most brilliant and revered photographers in the history of American art. Her portraits, in stark black and white, seemed to reveal the psychological truths of their subjects. But after she committed suicide at the age of 48, the presumed chaos and darkness of her own inner life became, for many viewers, inextricable from her work. In the spirit of Janet Malcolm's classic examination of Sylvia Plath, The Silent Woman, William Todd Schultz's An Emergency in Slow Motion reveals the creative and personal struggles of Diane Arbus.