Résultats pour "The Artist" dans Biographies et mémoires

A searing memoir about what it means to live in a body that is always being evaluated, by ourselves and others—and the impossible quest for normality Emil Sands grew up learning to manage a body that is deemed unruly. Born with cerebral palsy, he is taught—by doctors, his parents, and...

In this unique oral biography, Bachardy recounts his astonishing story, providing illuminating recollections of celebrity portrait sittings and revelations about his thirty-year relationship with Christopher Isherwood. From their meeting in the 1950s until Isherwood's death in 1986, theirs was a legendary love story, courageous and uncompromising for its time, and remarkable in any era for the creative collaborations and art it continues to inspire.

Terry nace en la Ciudad de México en los años 1950, en un período de fuerte conservadurismo obsesionado con la defensa de la «moral y las buenas costumbres», tanto en la vida privada como pública. Homosexuales, travestis, trabajadoras sexuales y personas trans eran frecuentemente objeto de redadas y extorsiones por desobedecer la estricta norma (hetero)sexual. Terry sueña con otra vida. Sus primeras representaciones en dibujos y pinturas pronto revelan su talento como artista plástica.

Kodo Nishimura ist ein buddhistischer Mönch aus einer langen Linie japanischer Mönche. Und er ist LGBTQ+-Aktivist sowie international bekannter Makeup-Artist. Er verbringt sein Leben zwischen einem Kloster in Tokio und den Fashion-Shows dieser Welt. An einem Tag trägt er traditionelle Mönchsgewänder und am nächsten glitzernde High Heels. Er ist stolz auf seine buddhistischen Wurzeln, seine Sexualität und seine Leidenschaft für Mode und Make-Up. Doch das war nicht immer so. Nishimura versteckt sein wahres Selbst viele Jahre vor seinen Lehrer:innen und Freund:innen.

'Trees in Winter by Richard Shimell is a wonderful, beautiful book for anyone who loves printmaking and nature. In this book Richard demonstrates his great skill as a printmaker, artist and writer, with the story of the paths taken to find his art as engaging as the images themselves.' ANGELA...

*This program includes archival recordings of John Giorno reading his poems, and an excerpt from Pierre Huyghe's Sleeptalking* A rollicking, sexy memoir of a young poet making his way in 1960s New York City. When he graduated from Columbia in 1958, John Giorno was handsome, charismatic...

Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age at the intersection of punk, poverty, heroin, and art. This was a world of self-invented characters, glamorous superstars, and strung-out sufferers, ground zero of drag and performance art. Still...