Títulos en Artistas, arquitectos y fotógrafos

In 1900, an 18-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso made his first trip to Paris. It was in this glittering capital of the international art world that, after suffering years of poverty and neglect, he emerged as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. Fueled by opium and alcohol, inspired by raucous late-night conversations at the Lapin Agile cabaret, Picasso and his friends resolved to shake up the world.

Pintor, dibujante y activista político infatigable, José Clemente Orozco es sin duda el mayor de los tres grandes exponentes de la escuela muralista mexicana, aquella que con Siqueiros y Diego Rivera le diera tanta fama y gloria al país norteamericano. Él fue un metodista, un talento, un artista que llevaba a cabo sus pinturas a la manera antigua, con una mezcla de temple y óleo, de la misma manera que los pintores medievales.

A poignant and heartfelt memoir uncovering the highs, the lows, and the paintings of an artist with a lifetime of stories to tell. Mary Marquiss invites you into the world behind her canvas and reveals the personal story behind each piece of art. Through serious life challenges, including divorce, family suicide and cancer, Marquiss discovered a relationship with her art in the form of a circular language. Throughout her life, Mary Marquiss has turned to her art as a constant source of inspiration and strength, navigating life’s challenges and changes through her creative expression.

In drei Rückblenden erzählt ein ehemaliger Schulkamerad aus Heide (Dithmarschen) von Klemens Greller, der heute als Leo Greller ein gewisser Bekanntheitsgrad als schräger Popsänger in Hamburg genießt.

This book is a biographical story that is both inspirational and historic in its nature. It serves to describe how important it is for us as human beings to seek to honor God in our lives and to guide others to that same blessing. I describe specific instances in my life to show others how special he is, but I also reveal how lighthouses were directly connected to those moments. I show how THE MIGHTY LIGHTHOUSE was not just a coincidental favorite interest of mine but was divinely placed in my life as a blessing that would ultimately be used to serve as a major part of my ministry.

'The portrait of a fascinating, eccentric, and indomitable woman . . . an incandescent novel' Elle 'No author has yet captured Frida's tragic life in words as sensually and passionately as this' Grazia 'Like wandering through a painting - riotous with colour, overflowing with imagery... it...

A vivid collection of trademark classic Tyrus stories, from his personal and professional life, that offer unfiltered insights into the heart of the nation while holding leaders accountable and celebrating the diverse experiences that define the American spirit. In his third captivating...

From the author of American Eden—finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and more—comes a sweeping, richly researched biography of Frederic Church, the great 19th-century American artist whose stunning paintings of remote lands and seas thrilled American audiences and put...

If you've walked away from your art or feel like you're about to, you're in good company. For decades, writer-director Ela Thier tried to "make it" in film. She chased greenlights, collected enough pass letters to wallpaper New York City, and waited to get discovered. Meanwhile, a sock puppet named Mr. Stop, who lives in her head, kept urging her to quit. Since accidentally writing How to Fail as an Artist, My Best Tips on a whim, she wrote and directed a feature film starring an Oscar-winning actor, and is in development on three feature films with major attachments.

When 8-year-old Lou Del Bianco finds out that his Grandpa Luigi was the Chief Carver on Mount Rushmore, his young life is instantly changed. Follow Lou’s journey as he and his Uncle Caesar make the painful discovery that Luigi is not even mentioned in the most definitive audiobook on Rushmore. Cheer them on as you discover the historic documents they unearth from the Library of Congress that not only tell Luigi’s story but also prove his great importance. Finally, ride the roller-coaster of the 25 year journey to get Luigi the recognition he deserves.

Listen to true stories about this dazed and confused boy as he tries every job imaginable in a desperate attempt to take advantage of his worthless college degree, make enough money to survive, and not hate the place he’s forced to spend a majority of his life at. Will he ever succeed as an artist? Can he hack it as a contract mechanic? Why did he get fired from L.A. Fitness after one day? How bad could it be managing a group of teenagers that sell ride photos at the Mall of America?

In the late 19th century, Lilias Trotter stood at the threshold of artistic fame, her extraordinary talent praised by the renowned critic John Ruskin. Yet, at the height of her promise, she made a radical choice that would define the course of her life. Turning away from worldly recognition and social convention, she forged her own path—one that led her through the roughest streets of London and, ultimately, to the deserts of North Africa.

From “tomorrow’s greatest designer” (The Atlantic), a personal and deeply researched look at how the choices we build into our environment reflect and determine the way we think, connect, and live. We've been led to believe that purposefully designed spaces are something reserved only for...

Questo libro nasce dal bisogno di raccontare la quotidianità di una famiglia per tre quarti neurodivergente: e così, tra compiti a ostacoli e lettere che si rincorrono, prende forma un racconto vivo, umano, che mescola il memoir al consiglio pratico, l'esperienza personale alla riflessione condivisa; senza la pretesa di insegnare, ma con il desiderio di offrire uno spaccato di vita e uno sguardo onesto su ciò che significa convivere con la dislessia - da genitori e da figli -, affrontando le difficoltà ma anche valorizzando le risorse, i talenti, le prospettive diverse.

Named a Must-Read Book by W Magazine, Time, and more “Everybody’s Fly could comfortably sit alongside books by Richard Price, Lucy Sante, Tom Wolfe, or Ed McBain, chronicling New York from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s with both vivid, journalistic descriptions and the outsized flair from...

While still a young boy, Robb White built his first boat, hewn from the tin roof of an abandoned chicken coop in the backyard, stamping and primping it into shape, then testing it out in the back creek.

This poem is a send up poem written about the insatiable drive that an over zealous optimist has of self, that possesses boundless energy, and enthusiasm for life, without fully realizing the implications and inherent mistakes that can come about. It encapsulates Youthful exuberance in spades, without the experience that sets a calculus on ones takeup of endeavours. This poem was written by myself sometime ago, and has only now had the opportunity to be spoken of.

From the streets of Chicago to the launch control centers of America's nuclear force, from beating the odds in a near-fatal medical crisis to running marathons across Europe-this is the extraordinary story of a man who refused to quit.

A riveting, heart-stopping family memoir that blends art, obsession, and love as the author searches for the spectacular jeweled egg that consumed her father’s dreams—and spelled her family’s downfall. When she was eleven years old, Serena Kutchinsky’s life changed forever. Her father...

A glorious fusion of history and art, A Vast Horizon tells the story of Pablo Picasso and his free-spirited friends, including Lee Miller and Man Ray, in the tumultuous years around the Second World War. ‘Excellent and revealing . . . at the end we feel their loss as if they had been our...