Títulos en Artistas, arquitectos y fotógrafos

Le tour de la France uniquement par ses côtes, de la plage de Malo Bray-Dunes jusqu'à la Baie des Anges, avec un van et une guitare, c'est ce que Jean René a entrepris. Il parle pêle-mêle de nuages, d'huîtres, de la création, de marche sur les galets, toujours avec légèreté et...

A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026 A story-driven meditation on one of the oldest art forms and what it reveals about memory, creativity, and being human Why have we always made sculpture? What draws us to carve, cast, and mold forms from the materials around us? What do...

According to Stefan Zweig, no contemporary author, not even Marx or Nietzsche, delivered the radical spiritual shock that Tolstoy's works gave millions and millions of people around the world. But which Tolstoy are we talking about? For Zweig it is the essayist Tolstoy, the radical thinker and incorruptible anarchist. The Tolstoy who claims that the state is the great cover-up of social injustice through a complex system of violence based on parliaments, prisons, judges, tax collectors, the police and armies.

Oscar Claude Monet, ossia l'impressionismo. Fu lui, infatti che si impose e che delineò con le sue opere, "impressioni su tela" destinate a diventare le capostipiti di una corrente artistica che divenne predominante tra la fine del 1800 e l'inizio del 1900. Di sicuro il dotatissimo ragazzo di Montmartre di origini modeste non poteva immaginare che la sua passione per la pittura, l'avrebbe reso celebre, e che le sue tele sarebbero diventate icone di bellezza in grado di suscitare ammirazione e di emozionare.

Elisa Queijeiro tiende un puente entre la historia de Malinche, su leyenda y la realidad de los mexicanos. Deja al descubierto la verdadera herida de la Conquista y la pérdida que seguimos arrastrando: nuestra orfandad elegida, el invento que aceptamos y el daño que nos ha hecho quedarnos sin Malinche como la madre indígena digna que sí fue.

National Best Seller From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as “a roadmap to my life.” M Train...

Controverso, rivoluzionario, emozionante, sorprendente... È impossibile elencare tutti gli aggettivi che potrebbero descrivere la figura di Michelangelo Merisi detto il Caravaggio. Non basterebbe lo spazio. Eppure, in poco meno di vent'anni anni di carriera artistica, Caravaggio ha lasciato un segno indelebile nella storia dell'arte mondiale. Ha emozionato i suoi contemporanei del XVI secolo, così come ogni suo quadro lascia a bocca aperta ancora oggi tutti noi.

Sterben – das tun doch immer die anderen. Die Alten vielleicht, die Kranken. Aber was, wenn der Tod näher ist als gedacht? Und unser Leben unwägbarer als wir annehmen? Seit zwei Jahren weiß Katja Lewina von ihrer Herzerkrankung und dass sie ihr jederzeit das Leben kosten kann. Die Diagnose bekam sie kurz nach dem plötzlichen Tod ihres siebenjährigen Sohnes. Mit einem Mal wurde die Möglichkeit zu sterben Teil ihres Alltags. In Was ist schon für immer beschäftigt sich Katja Lewina mit dem Thema Sterblichkeit und Verlust.

Jennette McCurdy erzählt herzergreifend und mit bitterem Humor von ihrem traumatischen Leben als ehemaliger Kinder-Star in "iCarly" und der krankhaften Beziehung zu ihrer Mutter. Seit sie denken kann, wird Jennette von ihrer Mutter beherrscht, emotional erpresst und psychisch wie körperlich missbraucht. Das einzige, was Debra sich für ihre Tochter – aber vor allem für sich selbst – wünscht, ist Jennettes Erfolg als Fernseh-Star. Für Jennette beginnt ein Kreislauf aus Castings, Angstattacken und Selbsthass.

Percy Llanos, el reconocido empresario artístico argentino y manager de Facundo Cabral, nos lleva de principio a fin de la obra por las experiencias vividas por ambos personajes durante la gira artística que abarcó Guatemala, Managua y Quezaltenango; y que culmina en el incomprensible asesinato de Facundo Cabral, el 09 de julio de 2011, del que Percy sale ileso no obstante ir en el mismo vehículo que les transportaba al aeropuerto al final de su última gira.

Cultivador de un cine creador, vanguardista, pero accesible en su conjunto, este excelente director de cine franco-suizo es considerado uno de los miembros más influyentes de la nouvelle vague, a la vez caracterizado por su acidez crítica y por la poesía de sus imágenes.

La red infinita retrata, en primera persona, a una mente artística única, atormentada por miedos y obsesiones, pero decidida a alcanzar y mantener su posición al frente de la vanguardia artística mundial. Pintora inconformista, Kusama canaliza sus neurosis obsesivas en un arte que trasciende las barreras culturales.Una vez llegada desde Japón a Nueva York, vive los primeros tiempos en la pobreza, pero pronto se convierte en la reina de la escena artística contracultural, y llega a codearse con artistas como Georgia O'Keeffe o Andy Warhol.

Este ejemplar de Eugenio D’ors gira entorno al artista que fue el pionero del rejuvenecimiento del arte clásico, con conceptos y realidades muy claras sobre su arte. Asimismo mostrar la disposición de Cézanne de realizar una innovación en el arte del siglo XX, llevado desde la astuta...

" Peut-être n’éprouverait-il plus jamais de passion comme celle qu’il avait sentie pour Peter, mais il restait la perfection de l’amitié, la beauté des cyprès sur les collines et la joie que donnait le travail. Et s’il oubliait Peter, s’il réussissait à vivre sans lui, ce dernier ne reviendrait-il pas ? Personne n’était attiré par la tristesse et la mélancolie. Mais par la gaieté, la force, le bonheur, oui. " Né en 1937 en Angleterre, David Hockney a secoué le monde de l’art avec une vitalité et une liberté qu’aucun chagrin n’a su entamer.

London has harbored many curious characters, but few more curious than the artist and visionary Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956). A controversial enfant terrible of the Edwardian art world, the young Spare was hailed as a genius and a new Aubrey Beardsley, while George Bernard Shaw reportedly said "Spare's medicine is too strong for the average man." But Spare was never made for worldly success and he went underground, falling out of the gallery system to live in poverty and obscurity south of the river.

Der er sjældent vindstille omkring Rane Willerslev. Heller ikke da han som nyudnævnt direktør for Nationalmuseet gik i gang med at transformere nationens historieformidling med kedsomhedsknapper og provokerende udstillinger. Men Rane Willerslev er ikke en mand, der vender om på halvvejen...

Palle Lauring tager nogle af historiens mest kontroversielle skikkelser under lup og tegner dybdegående og detaljerede portrætter af Catarina Sforza, Isabella II af Spanien, danske Kirsten Munk, der satte Christian IV grå hår i hovedet, dronning Christina af Sverige, den sindssyge danske...

From the moment he ran away from school before his 13th birthday, Frank Hurley carved a path as one of the greatest adventurers of all time. A visionary photographer and filmmaker, Hurley journeyed to the farthest corners of the earth, capturing images of people and places few had ever seen. Time and again he risked his life, in both peace and war, to take pictures that would astonish the world. Hurley traversed every continent. He made five perilous expeditions to Antarctica, sharing a hut with Douglas Mawson and a tent with Ernest Shackleton.

From the moment he ran away from school before his 13th birthday, Frank Hurley carved a path as one of the greatest adventurers of all time. A visionary photographer and filmmaker, Hurley journeyed to the farthest corners of the earth, capturing images of people and places few had ever seen. Time and again he risked his life, in both peace and war, to take pictures that would astonish the world. Hurley traversed every continent. He made five perilous expeditions to Antarctica, sharing a hut with Douglas Mawson and a tent with Ernest Shackleton.

On a summer night in 1891, a Dutch widow left her home and went for a walk. It was the anniversary of the death of her brother-in-law, Vincent van Gogh, and she was at the beginning of an improbable decades-long journey that would transform the painter into one of the most beloved artists of all...