Resultados para "Frank" en Artistas, arquitectos y fotógrafos

Por el autor de Desafiando al olvido, la magnífica biografía de Waldo de los Ríos, llega La vida rota, una desgarradora biografía sobre la vida de Amparo Muñoz, una de las grandes musas de la España de los 70s.

In the 1960s and '70s, Frank Yandolino rode the hippie counterculture movement alongside visionaries like Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang, and he helped put together the Woodstock Festival of 1969, the era's emblem of love and peace. From then on (and even before that), Yandolino, a beguiling fast-talker, charmer, and gifted storyteller, took charge of his life according to those ideals, grabbing and embracing all opportunities that were thrown his way.

Stay Om! è nato per gioco e per scommessa nei giorni drammatici e complicati del lockdown, del distanziamento sociale e della quarantena di tutto il Paese. Gioco e scommessa non sono due concetti stonati nell'ora più buia, hanno senso se accogliamo una notizia fondamentale: quella che le nostre vite non sono sospese, che anche nello spazio chiuso delle mura casalinghe continuano, così come continua la necessità di confrontarsi e imparare, di pensare e applicare il pensiero laterale, quello che aggira ostacoli concreti.

The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022 ‘Must surely be the definitive life of Francis Bacon … A biography that no Bacon fan – or indeed foe – can afford to overlook … Mesmerising’ THE TIMES ‘A magnificent triumph … I was captivated by every...

Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 to April 9, 1959), born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and mentoring hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.

Halfway into the 19th century, Spain's Catalonia underwent a sweeping transformation when it was thrust into not one, but two golden eras–the Renaixença, and the Industrial Revolution. It was during this explosive period of creativity, thriving prosperity, and invigorated patriotism that a steadfastly nonconforming and fascinatingly eccentric icon was born, one that was about to take Catalonia by storm with his brilliant eye for unorthodox art and his legendary–or as some would say, notoriously–out-of-the-box ideas.

"Rebel Artists" ist ein Buch über 15 Frauen aus aller Welt, die sich als Künstlerinnen Respekt verschafften. Sie mussten gegen Vorurteile und für ihre Rechte kämpfen. Aber sie ließen sich durch nichts und niemanden von ihrer Kunst abbringen. Frida Kahlo kennen alle als starke, mutige Malerin. Doch auch viele weitere Frauen verdienen Beachtung: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, die erst mit 80 Jahren anfing, unermüdlich zu malen, um dann mit über 3000 Bildern zur berühmtesten Aborigines-Künstlerin zu werden.

Für Giorgio Vasari, dem einzigartigen Chronisten der italienischen Malerei gab es die Götter: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci und Raffael, danach kam erst der Herrgott. Raffael war unter den Dreien der jugendliche Tragiker, der an einem Karfreitag geboren wurden und mit noch jungen Jahren von 37 ebenfalls an einem Karfreitag starb. Vasari schildert das gleichwohl illustre wie arbeitsreiche Leben Raffaels in schillerndsten Farben und gibt dabei dem ungebremsten Lebenswandel Raffaels die Schuld an seinem frühen Tod, der durch einen Aderlass zur Kurierung einer Geschlechtskrankheit verursacht worden sein soll

The true story of the intimate relationship that gave birth to the Farnsworth House, a masterpiece of twentieth-century architecture—and disintegrated into a bitter feud over love, money, gender, and the very nature of art. “An intimate portrait . . . alive with architectural intrigue...

Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this...

In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over across the centuries. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s small...

Rastlos, heimatlos, vielseitig begabt, naiv, melancholisch und stets selbst reflektierend verdichtete sie ihr Leben als Tänzerin, Schauspielerin, Dichterin, Autorin, Morphinistin, Gelegenheitsprostituierte, Revoluzzerin und früher Bohemien zwischen Berlin, München und Zürich in einer schieren Sucht nach Leben als Abenteuer. An der Seite Hugo Balls legte sie mit der Gründung des "Cabaret Voltaire" in Zürich den Grundstein zur Schaffung des Dadaismus.