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Brought to you by Penguin. WHAT YOU MAKE MATTERS. From Amie McNee, the voice behind Inspired to Write, a manifesto on the vital, human importance of creating, with guidance for all artists in all endeavours, whether they're starting their journey or seeking a fresh perspective. In We Need Your...

As one of the top fashion photographers in the industry, Sante D’Orazio played a seminal role in shaping how we define what it is to be beautiful, cool, glamorous, and hot. The résumé of A-listers he has shot includes top supermodels—Helena Christensen, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, and Naomi Campbell, among others—as well as a myriad of actors, artists, and athletes including Pamela Anderson, Prince, Keith Richards, Axl Rose, Sophia Loren, Mickey Rourke, and Mike Tyson.

In 1900, an 18-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso made his first trip to Paris. It was in this glittering capital of the international art world that, after suffering years of poverty and neglect, he emerged as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. Fueled by opium and alcohol, inspired by raucous late-night conversations at the Lapin Agile cabaret, Picasso and his friends resolved to shake up the world.

Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school - in her 60s - to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful, demands of a life fully lived.

Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left behind a remarkable legacy when she died at the age of 98. Her vivid visual vocabulary, sensuous flowers, bleached bones against red sky and earth, had a stunning, profound, and lasting influence on American art in this century.

In this brilliantly listenable autobiography, one of India’s greatest writers shows us the roots of everything he has written. He begins with a dream and a gentle haunting before taking us to an idyllic childhood in Jamnagar by the Arabian Sea and New Delhi in the early 1940s - where he found material for his first short story. A search for companionship and security, undercut by a fierce independence and a tendency for risk-taking, would inform every choice he made for the rest of his life.

« Je suis venu en Géorgien et vous me traitez comme un touriste ! Le portrait de mon arrière-grand-mère n'a rien à faire là… Il est hors de question que je dorme une minute dans ce musée, vous m'entendez ? Vous n'aurez pas mes rêves ! Vous n'aurez pas mes rêves ! » Alors qu'il devait être accueilli au Musée national de Tbilissi, l'auteur est finalement attendu à la Galerie nationale où le portrait de son arrière-grand-mère, la princesse Mélita Cholokachvili, dite Babou, a été déplacé.

Anni cinquanta. In mezzo a una strada di Parigi sono raccolte alcune persone, ferme, come in attesa di qualcosa o qualcuno. Uno di loro ha i capelli ispidi e brizzolati, un altro è quasi calvo, parlotta con un uomo baffuto, le mani incrociate sul petto; un altro ancora sputa in aria il fumo di una sigaretta, assorto in chissà quale pensiero. Qualcuno è lì di fronte con una Leica in mano, preme il pulsante, clic.

Andy Warhol - Ikone der Pop Art, Kunst als Vervielfältigung. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erläutert verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen zum bis heute weltweit herausragenden Künstler Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol (1928-1987) ist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania als Andrej Warhola geboren. Seine bäuerliche Familie stammt aus der Slowakei. Bereits als Kind ist er äußerst kreativ, ab 1945 studiert er Gebrauchsgrafik am Carnegie Institut of Technology in Pittsburgh.

Bringing together the author’s written reflections and his paintings, drawings, and photographs, Art Is invites us to see the world in prismatic and diverse lights, helping us navigate the fractured, divisive times we live in.

Filiberto Sbardella, appartenente alla scuola romana del 900, era un esponente della cosiddetta corrente pittorica realista. Architetto, mosaicista, partigiano e scenografo, ha avuto una intensa e prolifica vita artistica e culturale, frequentando personaggi di rilievo, da Guttuso a Pertini, da Carlo Lizzani a Gio Ponti, da Piovene a Carrà. Questo audiolibro, frutto di una lunga ricerca, vuole avere come obiettivo finale quello di dare il giusto e meritato riconoscimento ad un uomo che con le sue opere ha dato un notevole contributo alla storia artistica e politica del nostro Paese.

These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance", was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael.

In winter of 1912, Henri Matisse was struggling. Once the vanguard leader, the Parisian avant-garde now considered him passé. His important early collectors had stopped buying his work and were fully championing Picasso, and he had exhibited little in the last few years. In the face of Cubism...

The lives of many famous artists have been shrouded in mystery and conjecture, but none have been more controversial than the life of Vincent van Gogh. Remembered for his swirling brushstrokes and burning colors, Vincent van Gogh is today one of the best-known painters. Though his career as a painter spanned less than ten years, he produced a body of work that remains one of the most enduring in all of modern art. In his lifetime, however, he received little recognition. Today his paintings sell for countless millions, yet during his lifetime, van Gogh managed to sell just one painting.

This combination of serious artistic engagement with warmth and clarity of prose revels in the experiences and pleasures of art and the body, identity, and community.

Alessandro Barbero segue Dante nella sua adolescenza di figlio d'un usuraio che sogna di appartenere al mondo dei nobili e dei letterati; nei corridoi oscuri della politica, dove gli ideali si infrangono davanti alla realtà meschina degli odi di partito e della corruzione dilagante; nei vagabondaggi dell'esiliato che scopre l'incredibile varietà dell'Italia del Trecento, fra metropoli commerciali e corti cavalleresche.

"Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human." — San Francisco Chronicle Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida...

'The portrait of a fascinating, eccentric, and indomitable woman . . . an incandescent novel' Elle 'No author has yet captured Frida's tragic life in words as sensually and passionately as this' Grazia 'Like wandering through a painting - riotous with colour, overflowing with imagery... it...

Bloomsbury presents The Story of Tudor Art by Christina J. Faraday, read by Ffion Aynsley. A unique history of Tudor England told through its art and artefacts. The Tudor dynasty (1485–1603) gave England five monarchs and an age of relentless power plays, scandal, and transformation. Thanks to...

Brought to you by Penguin. Dame Zandra Rhodes has spent her life rallying against what was expected of her, both as a designer and a woman. Often perceived as too bold for the mainstream, she fought for creativity and individuality, and continues to achieve both in everything she does. In this...