Artist Architect

When Gianni Bozzacchi accepted an assignment as a photographer on the set of The Comedians (1967), he didn't know that his life was about to change forever. His ability to capture the beauty of candid moments drew the attention of the film's star, Elizabeth Taylor, and prompted her to hire him as her personal photographer.

Un peintre, un homme, un génie. Picasso fut un homme pour qui peindre voulait dire voir, et qui mieux que personne "vit" son siècle. Visionnaire, oui. Engagé corps et biens dans son absolu. Homme public dont l'existence tumultueuse fascina toujours les foules, il était aussi un personnage farouche, secret, imprévisible. Des premiers pigeons crayonnés de Málaga aux périodes bleue et rose, des folles années montmartroises aux Demoiselles d'Avignon, de l'explosion surréaliste à Guernica.

Salvador Dalì, Spanish painter and surrealist: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

« Mes grands-parents ont grandi à l’Est de l’Europe, dans des pays de grands froids. Ils ont connu le chaos, les persécutions et l’exil. Plus qu’un désir, une fascination, la France fut pour eux une intuition. Même si tout cela m’est inconnu, cela ne m’est pas étranger. Je porte en moi leurs racines et aujourd’hui, sans que je les convoque, elles se rappellent à moi. ».

In You Are Loved, artist Alex Cook intimately relates his creative and spiritual adventures in his quest to create beauty and know God. Anyone longing to bring their own precious vision into reality will find solace and inspiration in these very human stories of a life dedicated to following inspiration. This inspiring collection of stories paints the heartfelt, personal journey of an artist who experiences and observes his inner life with unflinching honesty and strives to live his outer life just as honestly.

On Zulema's fourth date with the man who is now her husband, they created a "Life List" of adventures they would share together, from skydiving to luxurious trips around the world, and as wine collectors, traveling the wine regions to meet their favorite producers. Wildly successful and in love, Zulema was living a fairy tale. But, two years into their marriage, the Life List took on a shocking urgency when she was diagnosed with sarcoma, an exceedingly rare and incurable form of cancer, along with a host of other complex and mysterious medical conditions.

Renowned for her exquisite landscapes and fine portraits, painting has been Judy Ann MacMillan’s life from a very young age. Once again, she has turned that acute and truthful eye upon herself with a sensational new self-portrait. But this time, she is using a pen rather than a paintbrush. With startling honesty, Born Ya lays bare the unique sacrifices required of a female artist living and working in an island that can often confound even the strongest spirit. Despite all the trials and tribulations, MacMillan has remained true to her twin passions of painting and homeland.

A beautifully written memoir that explores the life of a tattoo artist and what tattooing and art mean in our lives.

Autoportrait d'une femme. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) vécut une brève existence déchirée entre de terribles souffrances physiques (à dix-huit ans, un accident de bus la cloue au lit pour deux ans) et une immense force de création (elle commence à peindre, un miroir installé au-dessus d'elle, pendant qu'elle est immobilisée). Par-delà sa beauté célèbre, ses amours, celles de son mari, Diego Rivera, ses voyages, les mille et une anecdotes ponctuant une existence tumultueuse et riche, reste son art, dont André Breton disait que c'est "un ruban autour d'une bombe".

Claire Dederer's youth was wild, an endless cascade of beer and rock and acid and sex that left her benumbed and adrift. But then, after two decades of disciplined transformation, she'd become a successful writer, a faithful wife, and a mother - a real adult. That is, until one morning at 44, she found herself overcome by the same sexual cravings and ineffable sadness of her younger years.

Caspar David Friedrich, German 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!

William Turner, English painter and inventor of the abstract: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

Ambroise Vollard (1866 - 1939) fu un famoso mercante di quadri. Favorì la diffusione di pittori allora sconosciuti e avolte osteggiati, come è il caso Cézanne che trovò qualche riconoscimento solo tardi nella vita. In questa "vita di Cézanne" si ha il privilegio di conoscere il pittore nella sua simpatica follia d'artista. Lo stesso Vollard si fece da lui ritrarre (in copertina) e le sue sedute di posa si rivelarono un'avventura impensata.

Avec une honnêteté désarmante, le "Boss" se livre et, pour la première fois, fait le récit des combats personnels qui ont inspiré ses meilleures chansons. Le livre d'une époque, et d'un véritable écrivain. "Se raconter est une drôle d'affaire. Dans un projet comme celui-ci, l'auteur fait une promesse : laisser le lecteur entrer dans sa tête. C'est ce que j'ai essayé de faire au fil de ces pages." Bruce Springsteen, dans les pages de "Born to Run".

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was proud to call himself an American artist, but he dreamed of travel to Europe, believing that he would learn more there than in his home state of Maine, or even in New York. His rise to prominence as a specifically American modernist was based largely on the visual influences that he encountered in 1912-15 in the vibrant cities of Paris, Berlin, and Munich, which he then synthesized through a New England perspective.

It's possible that Michelangelo is the most famous artist in history, but it's also possible that he's an underrated artist. The vast influence of his career is reflected by the fact that he is not only known for his own art but has also come to embody an entire epoch of Western art. Along with Leonardo da Vinci, there are no other artists who so fully capture the spirit of scientific and artistic discovery that characterized art during the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

Gertrude Stein, scrittrice e poetessa statunitense, ha vissuto gran parte della sua vita in Francia, e ha conosciuto e sostenuto molti pittori e scrittori, quando erano agli esordi. Sua l'amicizia pluriennale con Matisse e Picasso, che le fece un famoso ritratto. Non ha mai fatto mistero della sua omosessualità, e della sua relazione con Alice Toklas.

This is the candid, uncensored and utterly unofficial of story of DC Comics' infamous Vertigo UK office, written by one who was the heart of the drug-fuelled, creative whirlwind. It's the odyssey of one comic fan in pursuit of his dream job, becoming the first British member of the DC editorial staff, and learning the harsh realities of publishing life. Along the way he meets celebrities including Paul Gambaccini, Jonathan Ross, The Spice Girls, Blur, Adam Ant and many, many more.

Knjiga "Nitke življenja Martinčkovih" opisuje njeno družino in pestro zgodovinsko dogajanje, od zadnjih let 19. do začetka druge polovice 20.stoletja. Najprej v Tržiču, nato pa med prvo svetovno vojno do daljne Rusije, med drugo Srbije in se končno vrne v Tržič. V njej sta življenski zgodbi matere in očeta, od katerih je zgodba slednjega tako rekoč rdeča nit knjige. Glavni vir informacij sta bila pokojna starša. Pripovedi je posnela na številne magnetofonske trakove in tako omogočila verodostojnost zapisovanja teh življenskih zgodb.

Имя великого русского художника прославленного портретиста и одного из крупнейших мастеров европейской живописи XIX века - Валентина Александровича Серова, без преувеличения известно всем.