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A kaleidoscopic memoir by acclaimed filmmaker Abel Ferrara, director of the cult classic films Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, and Dangerous Game, offering an unflinching look at his life, career, and the gritty world of independent cinema. Throughout his five-decade career, film director Abel...

Brought to you by Penguin. The paintings of Johannes Vermeer of Delft are some of the most beautiful, even sublime, in the history of art. Yet like the life of Vermeer himself, they are mysterious and have for centuries defied explanation. Following new leads, and drawing on a mass of historical...

This program is narrated by Academy Award–winning actor, Tilda Swinton. It also contains a new afterword, read by the author. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism #1 Book of the Year from Brain Pickings Named a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop...

Andy Warhol claimed that he loved being outside a party—so that he could get in. But more often than not, the party was at his own studio, The Factory, where celebrities—from Edie Sedgwick and Allen Ginsberg to the Rolling Stones and the Velvet Underground—gathered in an ongoing bash.

1990ರ ದಶಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಜಾಹಿರಾತು ಜಗತ್ತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಮಿಂಚಿದ ಕಪ್ಪು ಶಿಲೆಯಂತ ಸುಂದರಿ ವಾರಿಸ್ ಡೆರಿಸ್ ನಳ ಆತ್ಮಕಥನ 'ಡೆಸರ್ಟ್ ಫ್ಲವರ್'ನ...

Der Alchemist von der Pfaueninsel. Das neue Buch des Bestseller-Autors und "großen Geschichtenerzählers" (Süddeutsche Zeitung) Tauchen wir ein in die großen Träume eines großen Mannes: Johannes Kunckel ist ein Magier und Alchemist, der daran glaubt, Gold zaubern zu können. Der preußische König schenkt ihm deshalb die Pfaueninsel zwischen Potsdam und Berlin, damit er im Geheimen in seiner Zauberwerkstatt aus dem Feuer eine neue Welt erschaffen kann. Aus seinem Ofen entsteigt am Ende ein Glas, wie es zuvor kein Menschenauge je gesehen hatte: rot wie ein Rubin.

Read by acclaimed actor Alfred Molina, star of The Da Vinci Code, An Education and Chocolat, this is the definitive biography of Leonardo Da Vinci. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative...

[Contains explicit content] Luis von Ahn hates to waste time. After building ReCaptcha, which he sold to Google, he moved on to build the wildly popular language-learning app, Duolingo.

Das Hörbuch präsentiert Szenen u.a. aus "La Traviata" und "Die Hochzeit des Figaro" sowie Felsensteins Rede vor dem Ensemble der Komischen Oper Berlin vom 3.9.74 - das künstlerische Vermächtnis von Walter Felsenstein.

В 1889 году художник, журналист и один из теоретиков символизма Эмиль Бернар написал небольшую заметку, посвященную творчеству Поля Сезанна. Долгие годы Бернар был поклонником художника, но познакомился с ним лично лишь в 1904 году, остановившись на месяц в Экс-ан-Провансе – родном городе и месте силы Сезанна. Почти каждый день Эмиль Бернар навещал Сезанна. Вместе они ходили на пленэры и много говорили об искусстве. Вспоминая эти встречи, а также перечитывая письма, полученные от своего учителя, Эмиль Бернар и написал эту небольшую книгу воспоминаний о великом художнике.

"Ce n'est pas en regardant la lumière qu'on devient lumineux, mais en plongeant dans son obscurité." Carl Gustav Jung. Confessions autobiographiques d'une jeune femme diagnostiquée schizophrène. Un témoignage important sur l'expérience de ce trouble psychique qu'est la schizophrénie. Née en mars 1993, Delphine, de son nom de plume Pythna, est une jeune femme dotée d'une sensibilité à fleur de peau. Elle utilise l'écriture et la peinture comme exutoires. Elle aime peindre des tableaux que nous pourrions dire spirituels et symboliques.

""Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human."" — San Francisco Chronicle Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter...

Paula Modersohn-Becker war eine deutsche Malerin und eine der bedeutendsten Vertreterinnen des frühen Expressionismus. Im dritten Teil ihrer Biefe und Tagebuchblätter hören Sie die Briefe, Tagebuchblätter, Gedichte und das Märchen "Du" Paula Modersohn-Beckers des Jahres 1898. Gelesen von Johanna Mette Pollet.

Cézanne, ennemi de tout compromis, entend traduire avant tout la vérité de sa perception. Ce faisant, il définit une nouvelle relation de l'artiste au monde qui l'entoure, et réinvente l'espace de la peinture. Au lendemain de sa mort, survenue en 1906, il deviendra la référence incontournable des jeunes générations.

Of all the famous Dutch masters during the Late Renaissance and Early Baroque periods, none surpass Rembrandt van Rijn in either historical importance or artistic merit. His aesthetic has been much-imitated, a testament to the inspirational grip they exert on their viewer. Key aspects of his style are instantly recognizable to even the casual fine art enthusiast.

Leonardo da Vinci recibe en su estudio de Florencia a Mona Lisa Ghirardini para realizar un retrato por encargo de su marido. Da Vinci retiene esta pintura en su poder, nunca se la entrega al cliente y la lleva consigo en todas sus mudanzas hasta el final de su vida. Fue un largo idilio con la mujer ideal que se prolongó durante el resto de su vida a través de más de 20 años de retoques permanentes.

This audiobook contains touching accounts of struggles and achievements of Korean Americans and serves an important primary source material for understanding the Korean teenage experience in the United States. This audiobook contains biographical accounts of a diverse group Korean Americans. Kenny Yoon, a junior at Horace Mann School in New York, is a part of the gifted music program at The Julliard School. Kenny describes how he came to play violin and how he hopes to bring joy to people through music.

Warning: This book makes jokes about the Third Reich, the Reign of Terror, World War I, cancer, Millard Fillmore, and Chernobyl. When advertising legend Jim Riswold is stricken with leukemia and prostate cancer, he quits the business that made him famous to become a "fake artist", creating a controversial body of work with a controversial cast of characters, from Hitler to Mao to Kim Jong-Il. It was a decision that would save his life.

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".

Dutch painter and printmaker Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is considered one of the greatest artists of all time. As a painter, he never considered glamorizing what he saw, and he was a master of creating extraordinary scenes with light and shadows. His paintings were unique for their ability to depict action and moods. Sadly, having a mistress and spending recklessly went far to ruin his reputation during his lifetime. Rembrandt died penniless and was buried in a pauper’s grave.