Titres dans Artistes, architectes et photographes

Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world's most influential and memorable structures. Safdie always refers to the "silent client" an architect must ultimately serve: the people who live in, work in, or experience a building. If Walls Could Speak takes listeners behind the veil of an essential yet mysterious profession to explain through Safdie's own experiences how an architect thinks and works.

Je m'appelle Mason Cyrille Elong Ewing. J'avais à peine 4 ans lorsque ma mère Marie est décédée, laissant derrière elle un petit bout d'homme. Au Cameroun, on m'appelait Toro, j'étais l'enfant au destin fragile. Puis je suis arrivé en France chez mon oncle et ma tante, pour une meilleure vie. On m'avait promis un fabuleux voyage, mais personne ne m'avait précisé que c'était pour l'enfer. J'étais devenu, Lucien, l'esclave.

Figure emblématique de la Renaissance italienne, Léonard de Vinci ne cesse d'interroger la nature et de chercher à comprendre les lois qui la gouvernent. La peinture devient avec lui l'espace d'un savoir qui se construit pas à pas. La lumière et l'ombre, autrefois symboles divins du bien et du mal, y traduisent désormais le clair-obscur de toute connaissance humaine.

An intimate biography of Richard Avedon, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who “helped define America’s image of style, beauty and culture” (The New York Times) by his longtime collaborator and business partner Norma Stevens and award-winning author Steven M. L. Aronson...

In der Biografie berichtet Elisabeth Plessen über die deutsche Schriftstellerin und Frauenrechtlerin Hedwig Dohm, eigentlich Marianne Adelaide Hedwig Dohm (geborene Schlesinger; 1831-1919). Sie war eine der ersten feministischen Theoretikerinnen. Sie forderte die gleiche Bildung für Jungen und Mädchen und eine ökonomische Unabhängigkeit der Frau. Elisabeth Plessen (eigentlich Elisabeth Charlotte Marguerite Auguste Gräfin von Plessen; geb. 1944) ist eine deutsche Schriftstellerin und Übersetzerin, die auch für den Rundfunk gearbeitet hat.

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.

Una figlia appassionata, un padre che è stato uno degli scrittori più importanti del Novecento, una famiglia i cui ricordi emergono nitidi come personaggi di un romanzo. Giorgio Bassani abita il lessico famigliare che la figlia Paola racconta per la prima volta in questo libro, con la stessa forza poetica e umana che ha accompagnato la sua vita e la vasta produzione letteraria. Poeta, narratore, insegnante, giornalista, sportivo, politico, sceneggiatore, e accanto e soprattutto padre, marito e uomo passionale, innamorato della bellezza in tutte le sue forme.

The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless...

Camille Claudel, tragisches Kunstgenie aus Frankreich: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Mars 2011. Silvère a dix-huit ans. Il est élève de l'école de danse de l'Opéra de Paris. Son travail, sa passion et son talent le destinent à devenir ce dont il rêve depuis son enfance : un danseur étoile. Il va dédier sa vie à la danse, car la danse est son destin. Mais le destin danse parfois avec la vie. C'est ce que relate ce récit écrit au fil des jours par Bruno Jarrosson. Des mots simples, témoignages de l'amour d'un père, qui vous toucheront par leur humanité et leur force. Qui vous inviteront à faire face sans les fuir, aux épreuves de l'existence.

'A stunning self-portrait of a woman trying to make sense of the misogyny and sexism she has faced throughout her life.' - TIME Magazine In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression and self-harm...

A painter’s memoir of obsession, loss and creation during a trip to Venice Alone in Venice for an artist’s residency, Celia Paul records her daily painting practice. Her days are both charged with and interrupted by the turmoil she feels over the death of her husband, and her more recent...

В руки Альфреда Стиглица, одного из самых влиятельных людей в американском искусстве начала XX века, попадает серия новаторских абстракций, выполненных молодой учительницей рисования из Техаса. Интеллектуальное родство и взаимное притяжение двух талантливых людей быстро перерастает в страсть, и вскоре Джорджия О'Кифф становится музой Стиглица. Ее откровенные фотопортреты обсуждает вся страна, но оказывается, что у славы есть темная сторона — теперь критики видят в полотнах художницы лишь проекцию мужских фантазий.

In early 1970, artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for. At the Kentucky Derby he met a former Hell’s Angel, one Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson wrote later that “The rest of that day blurs into madness. The rest of that night, too. Steadman...

Filled with the twists, pathos and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist's extraordinary imagination, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer's death to recall the key events in his life. In doing so, A.N. Wilson seeks to understand Dickens' creative genius and enduring popularity. Following his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens's fiction drew from his own experiences. Dickens knew first-hand the poverty and pain his characters endured, including the scandal of a failed marriage.

When it feels like your most intimate relationship has been taken away from you, how do you go on? After 33 years of marriage to singer songwriter Dan Seals, Andi Seals found herself standing at the edge of an unimaginable loss. The man whose voice filled concert halls, and whose songs became the soundtrack of countless lives, but most importantly, the man who she fell in love with long before his fame, and who she just called Danny, was no longer by her side. Yet as the years unfolded, Andi discovered something unexpected: The relationship does not have to end.

Was passiert, wenn ein Komiker die Psychiatrie überlebt? "Hierzulande macht gerade der Comedian Oliver Polak ähnlich schamlose, kluge Witze wie Louis C.K.", schreibt Die Welt, "das macht zumindest Hoffnung für den deutschen Humor." Doch wie soll man als Stand-up-Comedian nicht wahnsinnig werden in einem Land, "in dem alle lustigen Leute bereits umgebracht wurden" (Robin Williams)? Nach seinem Bestseller und einer dreijährigen Tour erleidet Polak einen Totalzusammenbruch. Diagnose: schwere Depression. Einzige Rettung: zwei Monate Psychiatrie.

Rita pode ter tido de tudo, menos uma “vidinha besta”. E os últimos anos foram, sim, desafiadores. Ao mesmo tempo que o mundo passava por uma pandemia, ela foi diagnosticada com câncer no pulmão. Em um texto franco, ora cru e chocante, ora cheio de ironias, ora sutil e amoroso, Rita Lee não poupa detalhes de seu tratamento. Fala também da rotina, dos avisos do Universo, de seres de luz e dos caminhos que a vida tomou.

¿Cómo logró el hijo de unos pobres inmigrantes eslovacos, criado en Pittsburgh, convertirse en el artista más famoso de su generación? ¿De qué manera pasó de ser un niño enfermizo, víctima del acoso de sus compañeros de clase, a erigirse en padre del pop art? ¿Es Warhol un genio del arte contemporáneo?