Títulos en Artistas, arquitectos y fotógrafos

Händelsen som förändrade Nahids liv för all framtid finns inristad i hennes medvetande. Det började med den iranska revolutionen... Rostam är en vanlig 17 åring. En dag arresteras han plötsligt av revolutionens motståndare. Han avrättas nästan omgående. Den här händelsen kom att prägla Nahids liv på ett sätt som hon själv hade svårt att förstå från början. När hon senare befann sig på flykt i det ena landet efter det andra började krigets sanningar långsamt falla på plats.

Um 1968 tingeln Lukas und Harry als Zwei-Mann-Band durch die deutsche Provinz, covern Beatles, Kinks und Donovan und denken: Besser geht's nicht. Bis Lukas eines Nachts im Radio Leonard Cohens "Suzanne" hört und sich weder Titel noch Interpret merken kann. Die kokette Gitte und die erfahrene Julia werden ihm auf der Suche nach dieser einen lebensverändernden Platte behilflich sein. Zehn Jahre später macht Lukas sich auf nach Nirgendwo, nur mit Cohens Gedichten im Gepäck.

The first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning photography critic Philip Gefter. In his acclaimed portraits, Richard Avedon captured the iconic figures of the twentieth century in his starkly bold, intimately minimal, and...

Life with Picasso, written with Carlton Lake, is about Picasso the artist and Picasso the man. We hear him talking about painting and sculpture, his life, his career, as well as other artists, both contemporaries and old masters. We glimpse Picasso in his many and volatile moods, dismissing his work, exultant over his work, entertaining his various superstitions, being an anxious father. But Life with Picasso is not only a portrait of a great artist; it is also a picture of a talented young woman of exacting intelligence at the outset of her own notable career.

At the age of 42, his father not long dead and his young sons growing fast, Toby Ferris set off on a seemingly quixotic mission to track down each of the 42 surviving paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, who, at the age of 42, had been approaching the end of his own short life. Over the next five years Ferris would travel to 22 galleries in 19 cities in 12 countries across 2 continents: Budapest to San Diego, Detroit to Naples, Berlin to Madrid, ticking off his Bruegels as he went. The results of his journeying are a revelation....

Creativity is in our bones. It is found in our very DNA, something not known to Leonardo da Vinci or anyone else who lived in his day and time. All he did was to uncover the hidden genius which lay within himself, and he used that inner genius to the very best of his abilities. Leonardo da Vinci is best known for some of the world's most masterful paintings, but he was so much more than merely another artist with paints and brushes. Born to a peasant woman in 1452, Leonardo would go on to astound the world he lived in with his artistry and his inventions.

A lively and insightful biographical celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles Dickens, published in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his death. Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build...

An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life—and for poetry—than anyone else I've known." This new biography reveals just how she...

Hans la Cour (1953-2009) var en dansk forfatter, tv-fotograf og -tilrettelægger. Umiddelbart efter gymnasiet blev Hans la Cour medlem af Tvind og var en aktiv del af organisationen, indtil han 18 år senere brød med den. Han blev på grund af sin store insiderviden hovedvidne, da der blev indledt retssag mod Tvind-skolerne. Hans la Cour skabte sig efterfølgende en strålende karriere inden for tv-branchen og lavede blandt andet rejsedokumentarfilm. I bogen "Den rejsende" fortæller han om sine 18 år hos Tvind. Hans la Cour (1953-2009) var en dansk forfatter, tv-fotograf og -tilrettelægger.

Paralelamente à realização do I Festival de Música Brasileira, pela TV Excelsior em 1965, a TV Record preparava a estreia de um inovador programa que revolucionaria a história da música e da televisão. Apresentado pela irreverente dupla Elis Regina e Jair Rodrigues, o programa foi responsável por impulsionar a carreira profissional de vários artistas....

Paul Frigyes tes, att Jan Guillou är "larger than life", bekräftades kanske när utgivningen av boken från början stoppades på Guillous begäran. Biografin innehåller nu ett nytt kapitel som behandlar historien. Personen, yrkesmannen och fenomenet Jan Guillou skildras med rätt och fel som absoluta kategorier. Guillou rannsakade på egen hand myndigheters maktmissbruk men var samtidigt en kontroversiell skriftställare och en stor idrottstalang.

Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major buildings. When the Pope handed Michelangelo control of the St. Peter’s project in 1546, it was a study in architectural mismanagement, plagued by flawed design and faulty engineering.

Roz Chast brings her brilliant, hilarious artwork to No Fair! No Fair! and Other Jolly Poems of Childhood by Calvin Trillin and The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense by Daniel Menaker, as well as her own memoir Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?. Join us for a conversation moderated by Adam Gopnik ( The New Yorker) between the artist and authors, plus readings by Jane Curtin and Reg Rogers ( The Knick).

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.

Delle 820 lettere scritte da Van Gogh nell'arco della sua breve esistenza ben 651 sono indirizzate al fratello Theo: il primo a comprenderne il talento e a incoraggiarne la vocazione, e il solo che non gli negò mai l'indispensabile sostegno morale e finanziario. Pochi artisti hanno rivelato così tanto di sé stessi nei propri scritti.

Cantautora, pintora, escultora, bordadora y ceramista chilena, es considerada por muchos la folclorista más importante de Chile del siglo XX y fundadora de la música popular de aquel país. El aporte de Violeta Parra al quehacer musical y artístico chileno se considera unánimemente de gran valor y trascendencia, sirviendo su trabajo de inspiración a muchos artistas posteriores. De allí su importancia.

Probablemente, uno de las biografías más interesantes del mundo de la pintura, fue un extraordinario pintor y cartelista francés que destacó por su representación de la vida nocturna parisiense de finales del siglo XIX. Víctima de una enfermedad que lo impidió crecer, Lautrec es considerado como una de las más grandes figuras de la generación del postimpresionismo.

"Così era finita Gerda Taro, per non aver voluto abbandonare il fronte quando non c'era più nessuna speranza, ed era rimasta ferita a morte come tanti altri, in una strada polverosa; lasciò nelle sue foto testimonianza dell'enorme delitto che era stata la guerra. Aveva dedicato la sua splendida vita a un degno compito, a una giusta causa persa". Questo audiolibro racconta la vita di questa ragazza ribelle, l'amore con Robert Capa, l'avventura di fotografare e la gioia di vivere nella Parigi degli anni Trenta.

Influyente intelectual y activista en pro de los Derechos Humanos y las reformas en la República Popular China, el reciente ganador del Premio Nobel de la Paz 2010, es presidente del Centro Independiente Chino PEN desde 2003, pese a la detención sufrida por sus ideas en 2008, y su condena a 11 años de cárcel el 25 de diciembre.

Il 2 maggio del 1519 moriva in Francia Leonardo da Vinci, il genio inafferrabile che ancora oggi è al centro dell'attenzione con i suoi capolavori e misteri. Dario Pappalardo e la scrittrice Melania Mazzucco discutono della eredità (e attualità) del pittore, architetto, scultore ma soprattutto grande sperimentatore a 500 anni dalla morte.