Titres dans Artistes, architectes et photographes

Leonardo takes you inside the brain of a man who painted the most famous face on Earth, sketched helicopters in the 1400s, dissected corpses to understand beauty, and wrote in mirrored code while inventing robots no one would build for centuries. He didn’t separate art and science. He didn’t follow disciplines. He followed truth. And he left behind a world forever warped by the intensity of his attention.

En los años noventa, Mar Flores acaparó cientos de portadas de revistas, noticias de periódicos y horas y horas de tertulias de radio y televisión. A la sombra del escándalo, fue vapuleada y acosada por todo un país que aún vivía bajo códigos machistas muy enraizados. Por eso ahora, muchos años después, con una trayectoria profesional y personal consolidada y coherente, Mar saca a flote a la mujer, la misma que sufrió la tiranía de una sociedad nada benévola con el género femenino.

For more than five decades, Pat Lipsky has been a leading figure in American color field painting. In loosely connected vignettes, this extraordinary book looks back on a life starting in 1970s SoHo.

This is a memoir which starts out when I'm working as a stockbroker in Chicago, but due to my alcoholism, I get fired from every brokerage house I worked for, then quit drinking and start modeling, and then I take a one week ski vacation to Innsbruck, but don't get on the return flight. I move first to Nice where I work as an actor and model, then to Paris, then Singapore working the same, then NYC to study acting, then to Hong Kong where I work as a featured actor in many movies.

LEONARDO DA VINCI es el genio visionario del Renacimiento por excelencia. Científico, artista e ingeniero, fue un acucioso observador que tomó a la naturaleza como maestra y, gracias a su comprensión de la luz y la perspectiva, pudo retratarla con una fidelidad revolucionaria para la época. Su gran imaginación le permitió anticiparse a incontables descubrimientos científicos y fantasear con un futuro que aterrizó en ingeniosos planos y bosquejos.

Un bambino come tanti: silenzioso, non bello, con grandi occhi pieni di domande. Dal momento in cui il mondo si accorge di lui, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart non avrà più pace. Per farlo dovrà però rinunciare alla spensieratezza, alle amicizie, agli amori e persino alla salute, mentre per restare nell'orbita della sua vita eccezionale coloro che lo amano, come la sorella Nannerl e la madre Anna, si sacrificheranno fino ad annullarsi.

The inspiring true story of the self-made, Bronx-born portraitist who overcame all odds to become the most followed artist on social media worldwide—featuring 20 original black-and-white ink drawings of the people, places, and things that made him who he is. Devon Rodriguez talks to strangers...

In Two-Dimensional Man, Paul Sahre shares deeply revealing stories that serve as the unlikely inspiration behind his extraordinary thirty-year design career. Sahre explores his mostly vain attempts to escape his "suburban Addams Family" upbringing and the death of his elephant-trainer brother.

An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see what’s on the other side. At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began obsessively...

You’re falling through time so all I can do is fall with you. The numbness had set in long before I sat at your bedside. But even with senses impaired as the flight touches down at Belfast City I can somehow still feel the screeching of wheels on tarmac scorching something deep into me. So begins Gary Lightbody's phenomenal companion book to the latest, Snow Patrol’s number one album of the same name. While you don’t have to read it to understand the album, you may want to give the album a wee listen for some parts of the book to make sense.

In this deeply personal memoir, architect Leaford Leven Blevins, Jr. traces his journey from a high school drafting champion in Norman, Oklahoma, to a career that spanned continents, disciplines, and decades. An Architect’s Life is not a portfolio—it’s a portrait of a life lived with intention, resilience, and a relentless pursuit of purpose.

Uma reveladora jornada pela vida e a obra de 31 artistas geniais que compartilham uma qualidade essencial: o olhar. Frida Kahlo nos ajuda a ver através da dor. Rembrandt dá uma aula sobre autopercepção. David Hockney abre nossos olhos para a luminosidade da natureza. Jean-Michel Basquiat nos tira da inércia para que possamos ver a realidade em toda a sua complexidade selvagem.

Jean-Remy von Matt ist der kreative Kopf von Deutschland bekanntester Werbeagentur Jung von Matt. Als Werber und Texter war er immer gefordert zu verdichten. Jetzt erzählt er in originellen und erhellenden Anekdoten, wo und wie er Kreativität gelebt und erlebt hat. Das erste Hörbuch, das von Anfang bis Ende immer schlechter wird – mit Vorsatz. Wer früh abschaltet, hat also das Beste gehört. Vielleicht. Oder auch nicht. Ungekürzt gelesen von Julian Horeyseck und mit einem Vor- und Nachwort des Autors Jean-Remy von Matt.

Sobre el escenario, bajo las luces y frente a su público, Pastora Soler sintió el silencio y la sombra de la inseguridad. Sin embargo, ese oscuro momento se convirtió en el inicio de una historia de fuerza y superación inspiradora. En este conmovedor relato, Pastora Soler abre su corazón y nos lleva por aquellos momentos que han marcado su vida. Con humildad, valentía y gran honestidad, la autora comparte en estas páginas cómo, a pesar de la angustia y los miedos, aprendió a amarse a sí misma y encontró su auténtica melodía.

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...

Vincent Van Gogh arrived in the French capital on the last day of February 1886, a month short of his thirty-third birthday. He was a man beaten down by life, half-starved, and nearly broken psychologically. He was saved by his brother Theo, who provided him with room, board, and, most crucially, emotional support while he attempted to master the difficult craft of painting. Thus far, Vincent's crude scenes of peasant life rendered in murky shades of brown and gray were both hackneyed and amateurish.

It’s 1966 and unaware of the brewing counterculture tsunami, Lora arrives in Berkeley, California where she is introduced to egg tempera, a homemade paint that combines colorful pigments with egg yolk. She falls in love with the luminous medium but cannot find a teacher to unravel its mysteries. Art and love converge when Lora falls for a tender, charismatic artist. But after their eight-month immersion in the great museums of Europe, she follows him into a commune that she later realizes has become a cult.

1985: Der Violinist Béla Tambrea trifft eine schwere Entscheidung. Um seiner Familie ein besseres Leben zu ermöglichen, kehrt er nach einer Konzertreise nicht mehr nach Rumänien zurück. Zwei Jahre später folgen ihm Sabin und seine Schwester Alina mit ihrer Mutter Rodica nach Deutschland, kurz vor dem Ende des Ceaușescu-Regimes.

Bestselling author Steven Gaines's "richly entertaining" (People) and juicy social history of the Hamptons. As one of America's most fabled communities--long a magnet for artists, celebrities, the very rich, and their respective hangers-on--the Hamptons have been a scene of constant collision...

Walt Disney never wrote his memoir, but this book could be considered his autobiography. In 1955, Walt gave a series of interviews to Pete Martin to be printed in multiple articles in the Saturday Evening Post. Much of that material formed the basis of this book, which was published in 1957. Walt's daughter Diane was present during those interview sessions. She acknowledged in a later edition of the book that she is not the author. "It is Pete Martin's book, and my dad's story," she wrote, further noting this book was "one of the first biographies of my dad.