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A fascinating look at the real Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the designer who forever revolutionized the way women look. She was a free spirit, brilliant business woman, and beauty who never found reciprocated love. Madsen, with authority, delves into this fashion doyenne's business and private lives to reveal one woman's extraordinary progress: from orphan to millinery shopkeeper, from lodestar of feminine style to a very rich woman with a closet full of dark secrets.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family. Jean Strouse's Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English...

National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography The first definitive biography of Weegee the Famous—photographer, psychic, fiend—from Christoper Bonanos, author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid. Arthur Fellig’s ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that...

School was a struggle for John D. Rodrigues. He knew he was smart, but teachers and classmates didn’t believe him. All they saw was a kid who wore freakish orthopedic shoes, couldn’t sit still in class, and struggled miserably with reading. At age 16, John had had enough. He dropped out, certain he’d never return to school. Thanks to a chance encounter, John discovered ice sculpting. Here, finally, was something the young man was good at, and he took to it passionately. His talent for releasing beauty from massive blocks of ice led to jobs working in famous hotels and on cruise ships.

This is the beautifully told story of charismatic and unconventional pop artist Martin Sharp, from his lonely privileged childhood, to the heady days of the underground magazine Oz to Swinging London and beyond. Sharp blurred the boundaries of high art and low, he drew rock stars and reprobates...

“Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world—when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life.” —Miranda July In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin...

Now a docuseries from Ken Burns on PBS! The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and...

History's Greatest Artists: The Life and Legacy of Jackson Pollock looks at the personal background that led Pollock to become an artist and the cultural climate in which he rose to fame. Pollock's formal technique and artistic legacy are also analyzed, including his working methods and education. You will learn about Pollock like never before, in no time at all.

Leonardo welcomes Mona Lisa Ghirardini into his studio in the city of Florence to paint a portrait that was never delivered to the owner. Da Vinci kept the painting and started a long romance with Mona Lisa that lasted over 20 years. The portrait accompanied Leonard during all his traveling and through different homes. This dramatic fiction recreates the relationship of Leonardo with the Gioconda, with his assistants Salai, and with the world and his relentless search for truth and beauty.

In the Shadow of the American Dream is a stunning collection of riveting and revealing chapters from Wojnarowicz's extensive personal diaries - 30 volumes' worth of memories and lucid observations, some bitter, some sweet - that the author began writing when he was 17 and continued until his death two decades later. Here is a brilliant chronicle of an artist's emergence - a young man's still achingly fresh memories of his unhappy adolescence and his glorious discovery of self.

We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos - the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl - but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking exploration of Lange's transformation into a documentarist. Using Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of 20th-century America, Gordon masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and the Japanese-American internment camps.

Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Edwardian country houses, surrounded by rhapsodic gardens, beguiled clients with their romance and wit. After 1918, the war memorials that he created symbolised a grieving nation's sense of loss. In the new capital of the British Raj, New Delhi, the Viceroy's House or Rashtrapati Bhavan had a footprint bigger than Versailles. His unfinished Liverpool Cathedral would have rivalled St Peter's in Rome.

An educational podcast for children in which we travel to early 20th-century Mexico to meet Frida Kahlo. Frida was a woman with a rebellious spirit who, despite suffering from polio and a serious bus accident, never gave up. Thanks to a mirror placed above her bed and a special easel, she began to paint self-portraits, capturing her emotions and demonstrating that creativity can heal the soul.

Hannah Lübbert fasst ein Grundgefühl ihrer Generation in Worte Klimaaktivistin Hannah Lübbert zeigt, wie sie ihre eigene Angsterkrankung überwunden hat, und erklärt, warum wir in einer von Angst geprägten Zeit leben. In ihrem empowernden Text steckt sie mit ihrer Begeisterungsfähigkeit an...

Un viaggio appassionato e travolgente nella vita di ventuno personaggi straordinari, uomini e donne fuori dal comune per talento, fragilità, spregiudicatezza. Storie intense e incandescenti, raccontate con la maestria di chi sa andare oltre la superficie: storie che, se non facessero capo a eventi storici ben delineati, farebbero pensare al dominio del romanzo e della finzione, più che alla realtà. La tragica poesia di Marina Cvetaeva, la vita tormentata di Edgar Allan Poe, l'arte dirompente e oscura di Picasso, vampiro di anime.

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) begann nicht als Mythos, sondern als Andrej Warhola, Sohn einer Einwandererfamilie aus der heutigen Slowakei, geprägt von Krankheit, Rückzug und einer frühen Leidenschaft für Bilder. Nach dem Studium der Gebrauchsgrafik in Pittsburgh zog es ihn nach New York, dorthin, wo Stil, Konsum und Aufmerksamkeit regierten. Als er 1962 sein legendäres Atelier „The Factory" eröffnete, wurde daraus ein Labor der Moderne. Warhol perfektionierte den Siebdruck und machte Vervielfältigung zum Prinzip. Plötzlich konnten Alltagsprodukte und Pressefotos wie Heiligenbilder erscheinen.

Dieses Sachbuch zeigt Ihnen, wie Salvador Dalí das Unbewusste in Bilder verwandelte, die man nie wieder vergisst, und wie aus einem jungen Provokateur der bekannteste Surrealist des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts wurde. Wer Dalí nur als exzentrische Figur kennt, entdeckt hier den präzisen Denker hinter der Pose, einen Künstler, der Wirklichkeit, Wahn und Werbung so geschickt mischte, dass daraus eine völlig neue Bildsprache entstand.

Wer Pablo Picasso nur als berühmten Namen kennt, hat erst die Oberfläche berührt. Dieses Sachbuch öffnet Ihnen den Blick hinter Mythos und Meisterwerk und zeigt, warum Picasso Kunst bis heute elektrisiert. Sie folgen einer packenden Picasso-Biografie, die nicht bei Anekdoten stehen bleibt, sondern erklärt, wie aus Talent und Trotz ein Künstler wurde, der die Klassische Moderne prägte und sich immer wieder neu erfand.

Nuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin, some of the world's most famous writers and reporters gather in the ruined German city. Crammed together in the press camp at Schloss Faber-Castell, where reporters sleep ten to a room, complain about the food and argue in the lively bar, they each try to find words for the unprecedented events they are witnessing.

Francisco de Goya, Spanish painting genius of the 18th century: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!