Artists, Architects & Photographers

Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering....

Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.

Dream Chasing is a recounting by author Bob Weis of four decades of creating and seeing to completion challenging projects, leading teams from the top secret, high-tech corridors of Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) to the highest levels of The Walt Disney Company.

Hailed by readers/listeners and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences.

A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake....

The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before....

The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his - or any - age....

A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II....

For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world.

When Roxana Robinson’s definitive biography of O’Keeffe was first published in 1989, it received rave reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year....

Antony Penrose's tribute to his mother, Lee Miller, brings to life a uniquely talented woman and the turbulent times in which she lived.

Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country's great museums....

The world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters—exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio....

The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss....

In the foreword to this collection, Robert Lipsyte writes that Ambrose Clancy “can uncoil a sentence like a silken rope, snap it like a whip, tie up a complicated thought. He can write long, he can write short, he can build a case, he can murmur a spooky tale …” In a career spanning four decades, Clancy’s feature writing for major publications—including GQ, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times—has profiled legendary writers, politicians (and other rogues); brought sharp-eyed views of Ireland, Venice, London, Amsterdam, Frank McCourt’s Limerick, the New York of Harlem,...

In diesem kompakten Reiseführer durch das Leben des Leonardo da Vinci gibt Stendhal uns einen interessanten Querschnitt über dessen Jugend, Lebensstationen und Werdegang als Künstler. Berücksichtigt werden Leonardos Stilarten und interdisziplinäres Wirken, das Verhältnis zu Freunden und Auftraggebern und anhand seiner berühmtesten Kunstwerke wird seine Arbeitsmethodik analysiert. Die historischen Begebenheiten bezüglich des Abendmahls sind besonders hervorzuheben.

Quando usciva dal Cinema Mirone, quel tornado di ragazzina si sentiva Jean Gabin dalla testa ai piedi. Ribelle, appassionata, braccata come lui, con una sigaretta immaginaria all'angolo delle labbra, Goliarda girava per la casbah di Catania come Jean per quella di Algeri. Poi se ne tornava a casa, dalla sua grande famiglia irregolare, resistente, chiassosa come una nave in festa. Io, Jean Gabin racconta tutto questo raccontando un pugno di giorni. È un tassello di quella che Goliarda Sapienza chiamava "autobiografia delle contraddizioni".

FRIDA KAHLO aparece en las listas de las pintoras más famosas a nivel mundial. Es conocida por sus retratos y obras inspiradas en la naturaleza y el arte popular mexicanos, pero sobre todo por sus coloridos y expresivos autorretratos que abarcan temas universales como la identidad, el cuerpo humano y la muerte. Optó por transformar en arte las situaciones dolorosas de su vida, con lo cual creó un estilo propio, donde plasmó no solo sus problemas y dolores físicos, sino también los emocionales. En vida fue un ícono de estilo, rebeldía y fuerza femenina.

La biografía más completa y fiable de Gaudí. Una obra que huye de la leyenda y las falsas historias que han rodeado siempre su figura. La rigurosa investigación de Puig profundiza en aspectos poco conocidos del arquitecto catalán: su hondura intelectual y la transformación espiritual que protagonizó en el transcurso de su vida.