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Stephen King es el más importante creador de best-sellers de terror, misterio y ciencia-ficción de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Como consecuencia de todo ello, Stephen King ha conformado un imaginario extremadamente rico que fascina a sus muy numerosos seguidores. Tony Jiménez es uno de ellos, pero también uno de los principales estudiosos de la ingente obra de King y un erudito sobre su misteriosa figura.

Texto da peça teatral que estreou em março de 2015, acrescido de relatos e informações que não couberam na montagem, “Autobiografia Autorizada” é uma narrativa em primeira pessoa, em que o ator, diretor e produtor de cinema e televisão Paulo Betti recorda acontecimentos que marcaram sua infância e juventude em Sorocaba, no interior de São Paulo. Mais novo de quinze irmãos (dos quais oito morreram antes do parto), filho de mãe benzedeira, Paulo Betti reconstrói, por meio de histórias e personagens, o universo místico e culturalmente diversificado de sua “Macondo” particular.

Ihre Werke sind unsterblich: Maler, Bildhauer und Visionäre, die die Kunstwelt revolutionierten. Von Leonardo da Vinci über van Gogh bis Banksy, Chagall, Rubens, Klimt, Picasso, Rubens oder Beuys – entdecken Sie 15 faszinierende Lebensgeschichten weltberühmter Künstler.

Telefonieren mit Marlene Dietrich, Momente mit Lauren Bacall oder Eartha Kitt. Ein geplatzter Reißverschluss am Kleid von Verona Feldbusch, ein Song von Cindy Crawford, ein guter Rat von Greta Garbo und eine brenzlige Fotosession mit Pamela Anderson. Sharon Stone und Katarina Witt im Fahrstuhl, 44 Jahre wahre Freundschaft mit Lilo Wanders, und auch Isabella Rossellini, Ute Lemper, Joan Collins, Gianni Versace, Wolfgang Joop, Barbara Becker, Heidi Klum, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Rush oder Christopher Lee stand er gegenüber. Und was hat das alles mit Marianne Rosenberg zu tun?

A cultural storm swept through the 1960s—Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies—and at its center sat a bemused young artist with silver hair: Andy Warhol. Andy knew everybody (from the cultural commissioner of New York to drug-driven drag queens) and everybody knew Andy.

Neste livro, o jornalista Sérgio Cabral, amigo pessoal de Ataulfo, apresenta a trajetória de vida e as grandes obras que consagraram o compositor como um dos maiores expoentes do samba no país. Além de curiosidades e grandes histórias, a obra registra toda a musicografia do artista, que...

Especialista em história da música popular brasileira, o jornalista e escritor Sérgio Cabral compõe um relato da vida da cantora, voz que não apenas esteve na linha de frente dos principais momentos da moderna música brasileira, mas também se engajou como poucas na política de seu tempo...

In the tradition of classic collections of observations and musings such as Christopher Isherwood’s I Am a Camera and Truman Capote’s The Dogs Bark, Waiting on the Moon is a treasure trove of vignettes from a legendary musical figure whose career spans more than six decades and is still...

The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from...

Как известно, жизнь каждого яркого дарования делится обычно на три периода. Сначала его осыпают насмешками и бранью, всячески угнетают и преследуют. Потом открывается счастливое время признания, за которым следуют дни восторженного поклонения. Наконец, так же неминуемо наступает охлаждение, сопровождающееся нередко резкими выпадами по адресу недавнего любимца и властителя дум. Этой трафаретной схемы избежали немногие даровитые люди, и единственный вариант, вносимый в нее жизнью, сводится к тому, что одни умирают в расцвете славы, а другим суждено ее пережить, изведать к концу жизни всю горечь забвения.

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.

Edvard Munch, norwegischer Maler und Schöpfer des "Schreis": Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

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!

The Post-Impressionist artist and writer Paul Gauguin led an extraordinary, troubled and restlessly itinerant life; he came late to painting and spent most of his last decade in the Pacific islands of Tahiti and the Marquesas, where he produced paintings loosely based on Polynesian tradition that heralded the emergence of primitivism and would exert a profound influence on modernist artists from Picasso and Matisse to Jackson Pollock. But his art, despite its growing popularity following Gauguin’s death in 1903, has provoked mixed responses.

Entrevistas a los amigos y contemporáneos del pintor Miguel Covarruibias. Extraordinario pintor, caricaturista, escenógrafo y etnógrafo; contemporáneo de Rufino Tamayo, Carlos Mérida y Carlos Chávez, y colaborador en El Heraldo, El Mundo, El Universal, Vanity Fair, New Yorker y Fortune. No se puede entender el siglo XX sin su mirada sensible. Sin embargo, para muchos la vida y el legado de este artista continúa siendo un enigma.

Salvador Dalí, (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989), was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work. Dali also wrote a novel, Hidden Faces (1944), poetry, essays, art criticism, and a technical manual on art. The following recording is from a 1955 interview.

Михаил Александрович Врубель - русский художник рубежа XIX–XX веков, работавший практически во всех видах и жанрах изобразительного искусства. Несмотря на великие несчастья, постигшие его в жизни, несмотря на страшное одиночество, отсутствие поддержки и невозможности реализовать в полной мере хоть один из своих грандиозных планов, он оставался верен своей задаче и своему искусству. Духовную индивидуальность Врубеля можно сравнить с великими поэтами первой половины XIX века. Все его произведения полны совершенного строя и проходя через призму взгляда художника неожиданно принимают волшебную окраску.

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.

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.

Frida Kahlo, Mexand painter and tragic heroine: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.