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In Alice Baber, the artist's fascinating story is finally revealed, despite concerted efforts to consign her to oblivion. Levin's book is a vital corrective to the history of American art and a thrilling opportunity for the next generation experience Baber anew.

Entrevistas a los amigos y contemporáneos del pintor Miguel Covarrubias 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...

Unverfälscht temperamentvoll präsentiert Marcel Reich-Ranicki Aufsätze und Kritiken zu den großen amerikanischen Schriftstellern, z. B. Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike und Philip Roth aber auch zu bedeutenden Autorinnen wie Joyce Carol Oates. Wie kein anderer Literaturkritiker bleibt er dabei der unbefangene Leser - immer auf der Suche nach Qualität...

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.

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.

The New York Times bestselling memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning war photojournalist Lynsey Addario "Beautifully written and vividly illustrated . . . Addario is an artist of empathy, a witness not to grand ideas about human sacrifice and suffering, but to human beings, simply being." —The...

In seiner Autobiografie gewährt Udo Lindenberg seiner riesigen Fangemeinde einen äußerst persönlichen Einblick in sein Leben als Rockstar.

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.

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.

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.

Salvador Dalì, Spanish painter and surrealist: 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.

Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and universal genius: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter and sculptor: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Albrecht Dürer, painting genius: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Rembrandt, painting genius: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Gustav Klimt, painting genius of art déco: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Vincent van Gogh, misunderstood painting genius: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Marc Chagall, Maler und Kosmopolit: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten.