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Frank Lloyd Wright, designer of some 800 buildings, is widely regarded as the twentieth century's greatest architect - an unconventional genius who transformed both residential and commercial building design with his concept of "organic" architecture. In this charming memoir, Wright the architect and father, "a rebel" and "a jolt to civilization," comes to life through the vivid recollections and firsthand knowledge of his son.

Mitchell Burns never wanted to be a miner. Growing up in a Queensland coal mining town with parents in the industry, pursuing his passion for photography just didn't feel like an option. So, he went in the only direction he knew – straight into the mines.

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.

Selvatico. Avido. Fragile. Ossessionato dall'arte, nella quale convogliava tutta la sua straripante energia, Michelangelo fu segnato dal fuoco della genialità e attraversò la magnifica stagione del Rinascimento italiano. Con raro talento letterario, Forcellino fa rivivere l'uomo e i suoi anni. Antonio Forcellino è tra i maggiori studiosi europei di arte rinascimentale. Ha realizzato restauri di opere di valore assoluto, come il Mosè di Michelangelo e l'Arco di Traiano.

"Welcome to Rockwell Land," writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography of the painter who provided 20th-century America with a defining image of itself. As the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, Norman Rockwell mingled fact and fiction in paintings that reflected the we-the-people, communitarian ideals of American democracy. But who was this man who served as our unofficial "artist in chief" and bolstered our country's national identity?

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); Face to Face, broadcast on BBC Television, 18th February 1962 (featuring John Freeman); Late Night Line-Up, broadcast on BBC Television, 9th May 1968 (featuring Sheridan Morley); Desert Island Discs, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 26th January 1980 (featuring Roy Plomley).

Beglückend und ermutigend: In ihren neuen Briefen an eine Freundin schreibt Susanna Tamaro über ihren Weg zur inneren Kraft. Es ist ein Weg der Suche und der Stille. Wunderschön poetisch erzählt eine der erfolgreichsten Schriftstellerinnen unserer Zeit, wie sie ihr persönliches Glück findet in einer Welt, die von Tag zu Tag materialistischer und brutaler wird. Dabei geht sie eindringlich auf eine Vielfalt von Lebensfragen ein. Susanna Tamaro (geb. 1957) ist eine italienische Schriftstellerin.

Tom Karen is the Vimp, an Aircruiser and a Water Line Ship; he's a 'Big Fat Peace Bomb', a Bond Bug and the Marble Run; he's the Chopper bike and the 'man that designed the 1970s'; he's every one of his thousands of sketches contained in London's Victoria & Albert Museum - each a testament to a lifetime of artistry and creativity. He's also a living embodiment of a life immersed in inventiveness, imagination and thought.

Victor von Bülow (alias LORIOT) und Gregor von Rezzori - bei allen Unterschieden in Herkunft und Lebenslauf erweisen sich diese zwei Großmeister des Humors als verwandte Geister: beide arbeiteten erfolgreich als Zeichner, Schauspieler und Autoren; ihre Werke besitzen feinsinnige Komik und geschliffene Eloquenz. Sprachliche Eleganz gilt geradezu als ihr Markenzeichen. Dies zeigt sich auch wieder in den Gesprächen, die Hellmuth Karasek in der Fernsehsendung SPIEGEL TV Thema in den 90er Jahren mit ihnen führte. Ein großartiges Dokument!

Nach über 55 Jahren taucht Annie Ernaux ein in das Jahr 1958. Den Sommer verbringt sie in einem Feriencamp in der Normandie. Gemeinsam mit anderen Betreuern feiert sie Partys und genießt ihre Jugend. Und sie verbringt ihre erste Nacht mit einem Mann, eine erste sexuelle Erfahrung, die sie voller Scham mit in spätere Jahre trägt - und die sie fortan versucht zu vergessen. Annie Ernaux wirft einen Blick zurück auf das Mädchen, das sie einmal war. Doch sie schreibt auch über die Natur des Begehrens, über die Rolle der Frau und das Vergehen der Zeit.

The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music.

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.

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.

This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Ruth Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices to offer a complex and fascinating portrait of the artist.

Camille Claudel, tragic art genius from France: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise.

Here is Jon Krakauer's portrait of the iconoclastic architect Christopher Alexander, whose revolutionary human-centered approach has shaken the foundations of modern architecture. Krakauer delves into Alexander's life and career, from his theories on a timeless "pattern language" that could be used to create buildings and towns that were simultaneously more livable and more beautiful, to his belief that architecture is correctly viewed as a powerful social instrument; from his on-site drafting techniques to his design process that, like a cocoon, shapes a building from the inside out.

This is celebrated architect Ken Tate’s creative memoir about his life. Beginning with his days growing up in Columbus, Mississippi, where he was surrounded by beautiful Greek Revival houses, the book journeys through Ken’s upbringing as a creative adolescent to his early days at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta where he started his architectural collegiate career. There, Ken struggled to keep up with the hard-edged modernism being taught in school and longed to design beautiful houses with soul.

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.

Man Ray (1890-1976), a founding father of Dada and a key player in French Surrealism, is one of the central artists of the 20th century. He is also one of the most elusive. In this new biography, journalist and critic Arthur Lubow uses Man Ray’s Jewish background as one filter to understand his life and art.

Coral Castle is the first audiobook to take an objective, journalistic look at one of America's most intriguing places: Coral Castle, located in Homestead, Florida. Edward Leedskalnin, an eccentric Latvian immigrant, built Coral Castle in the 1920s and 30s. Working alone with primitive tools, he quarried, carved, and set in place more than 1,100 tons of coral rock, creating what is commonly known as the American Stonehenge. How he accomplished this amazing feat remains a mystery.

A fascinating look into the life of a tortured genius. Using Van Gogh's letters as a primary source, the author discusses the artist's life, his approach to his work, and his mental illness. The letters vividly show the artist's life was no bed of roses. Whereas Van Gogh perfectly knew what was sellable, he continued to produce what he considered as honest, truthful art, regardless of current taste.

Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving businessman dad ran an unspoken tension that, amid the upheaval of the late 1960s, was destined to fracture their precarious facade. His older sister, Donna, introduces him to the charismatic Valentine, who places a tab of acid on 12-year-old Rush’s tongue, proclaiming: “This is sacrament. You are one of us now.”

Cindy Sherman, amerikanische Malerin und Fotografin: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist extraordinaire: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

Joseph Beuys, German artist legend and political activist: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

Goliarda Sapienza anche da bambina è una bambina che vive un suo mondo violento, senza nessuna concessione, che piange con lacrime di rabbia, che respira l’aspra bellezza siciliana, che vede i suoi genitori per quello che sono: una madre sindacalista, tenace nel distinguersi da tutte le altre «donnette», un padre siciliano dalla testa ai piedi. E per rimettere ordine tra le bugie dei ricordi, recupera dalla memoria frammenti di sé che a poco a poco si compongono nel percorso di una donna che vuole essere padrona della sua vita e della sua felicità.

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Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs to self-expression.

Un brillante escritor de repercusión mundial. Escritor y etnólogo peruano, renovador de la literatura de inspiración indigenista y uno de los más destacados narradores de su país del siglo XX, su prosa directa y vigorosa buscó con afán denunciar las eternas desigualdades entre el indígena y los terratenientes, dueños de una labor opresora y abusiva que él consideraba "intolerable".

De geheimen van de grootste genie uit de geschiedenis. Leonardo da Vinci wordt gezien als het meest creatieve genie ooit. Naast zijn wereldberoemde werk als schilder was hij ook uitvinder, schrijver, architect, beeldhouwer, componist, anatomist, filosoof, natuurkundige, scheikundige en ingenieur. Op basis van duizenden pagina's van Da Vinci's aantekenboeken en nieuwe ontdekkingen over zijn leven en werk vertelt Isaacson een prachtig verhaal over hoe Da Vinci's kunst verweven is met de wetenschap.

Andy Warhol's work and personality changed American visual culture forever, making him an international superstar. His rise to global fame, his entanglement with the seedy New York sexual underground, and the shocking assassination attempt that almost ended his life are chronicled in Stephen Koch's indispensible classic, Stargazer.

Peter Paul Rubens, Malergenie aus dem 16. Jahrhundert: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

In April 1929, the body of British artist Olive Branson was found submerged in a water tank outside her farmhouse in a picturesque Provence village. Dressed only in a pink shirt and stockings, she had a bullet hole between her eyes and a revolver by her side. Was it suicide – or murder? The initial investigation concluded suicide, but under pressure from Olive’s family to conduct a murder enquiry, city detective Alexandre Guibbal was brought in to reopen the case.

In The Last of His Kind, renowned adventure writer David Roberts gives readers a spellbinding history of mountain climbing in the twentieth century as told through the biography of Brad Washburn, legendary mountaineering pioneer and photographer. Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, has praised David Roberts, saying, “Nobody alive writes better about mountaineering” - and nowhere is that truth more evident than in this breathtaking account of the life and exploits of America’s greatest mountain climber.

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.

Avec une honnêteté désarmante, le "Boss" se livre et, pour la première fois, fait le récit des combats personnels qui ont inspiré ses meilleures chansons. Le livre d'une époque, et d'un véritable écrivain. "Se raconter est une drôle d'affaire. Dans un projet comme celui-ci, l'auteur fait une promesse : laisser le lecteur entrer dans sa tête. C'est ce que j'ai essayé de faire au fil de ces pages." Bruce Springsteen, dans les pages de "Born to Run".