Showing titles in Biographies of Artists, Architects & Photographers

In this inspiring narrative, Imagineer, explorer, and Disney Legend Joe Rohde offers a master class in creativity on a world-spanning journey to discover the origins of personal creativity, the power and potential of enterprising groups, and the remarkable parallels between collaboration and exploring the real world.

A dazzlingly original and ambitious audiobook on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today's most well-respected art critics. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West...

The first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, by the author of The Mirror and the Palette. It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism...

Oito dias antes de morrer, Frida Kahlo usou seus pincéis pela última vez, deixando em um quadro a mensagem: "Viva la vida. Coyoacán, 1954". Poucos meses antes, sua perna direita havia sido amputada e ela sentia que toda sua energia a abandonara, como se a vida...

Oito dias antes de morrer, Frida Kahlo usou seus pincéis pela última vez, deixando em um quadro a mensagem: "Viva la vida. Coyoacán, 1954". Poucos meses antes, sua perna direita havia sido amputada e ela sentia que toda sua energia a abandonara, como se a vida estivesse, aos poucos, se...

"Não é exagero: Halford desnuda sua alma nesse livro." ― Revolver Magazine Rob Halford, líder do Judas Priest, banda de metal icônica em todo o mundo, é um verdadeiro "Deus do Metal". Confesso, sua aguardada autobiografia, é uma...

Oito dias antes de morrer, Frida Kahlo usou seus pincéis pela última vez, deixando em um quadro a mensagem: "Viva la vida. Coyoacán, 1954". Poucos meses antes, sua perna direita havia sido amputada e ela sentia que toda sua energia a abandonara, como se a vida...

Oito dias antes de morrer, Frida Kahlo usou seus pincéis pela última vez, deixando em um quadro a mensagem: "Viva la vida. Coyoacán, 1954". Poucos meses antes, sua perna direita havia sido amputada e ela sentia que toda sua energia a abandonara, como se a vida...

A writer's search for inspiration, beauty and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to things small and significant. For Vladimir Nabokov, it was butterflies. For John Cage, it was mushrooms. For Sylvia Plath, it was bees. Each...

Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography of America's greatest architect Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the...

In Leonardo Da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his 20-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo's insatiable curiosity? Nuland finds clues in his subject's art, relationships...

Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe -- the center of world affairs -- was only as quick as the fastest ship could cross the Atlantic, making the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Anteckningar från ett liv i och omkring måleriet. Om skapande, tvivel, familj och de drömmar som vägrar ge upp. En dagbok i gränslandet mellan verklighet och fiktion...

In meinem Erzählungszyklus „Die sieben Leben des Seian Kobuschka" beschreibe ich rückblickend anregende, interessante, aber auch kuriose Begegnungen mit Menschen, die ich ein Stück ihres Lebensweges begleiten konnte, und von denen ich einige auch zu meinen Freunden zählen durfte. Diese poetischen Erinnerungen zeigen oft auch sehr private Facetten jener Personen und dokumentieren durch ihre mitunter gewagten, individuellen Einfärbungen die schaurig-schöne Stimmungssituation innerhalb, aber auch ein wenig außerhalb der Wiener Kunstszene der 80er und 90er Jahre.

Explore the life, work, and enduring influence of Diane Arbus, the groundbreaking American photographer known for her intimate portraits of people living outside conventional society. This biography traces her artistic development, distinctive visual style, major photographs, personal struggles...

Hannah Lübbert fasst ein Grundgefühl ihrer Generation in Worte Klimaaktivistin Hannah Lübbert zeigt, wie sie ihre eigene Angsterkrankung überwunden hat, und erklärt, warum wir in einer von Angst geprägten Zeit leben. In ihrem empowernden Text steckt sie mit ihrer Begeisterungsfähigkeit an...

Von der gefeierten Autorin von Das Lieben danach: Wie gut kennen wir unsere eigenen Eltern – ihre Leidenschaften und Abgründe? Tief berührend, weitreichend: Helene Bracht, die erst mit fast siebzig Jahren zum Schreiben fand, erzählt von uns allen, indem sie von ihrer Mutter erzählt. Voller Wucht und Schönheit beschreibt sie den Sommer des Abschieds von ihrer alten Mutter Irma.

Pore over the letters of Eve Babitz—queen of the witty, gossipy, and thoroughly engrossing missive. Eve Babitz was a pure product of Los Angeles. The goddaughter of the avant-garde composer Igor Stravinsky, she made the scene of just about every midcentury California scene there was: from the...

An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours and Day. Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see what’s on the other side. At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began obsessively...

The intimate, inspiring memoir of a “curator extraordinaire” (The Guardian)—part unputdownable coming-of-age story, part insider’s tour of the contemporary art world, part user’s manual on how to live a life driven by curiosity, conversation, and coincidence “A few years ago...