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Twentieth-Century Boy
Notebooks of the Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Celebrated painter Duncan Hannah arrived in New York City from Minneapolis in the early 1970s as an art student hungry for experience, game for almost anything, and with a prodigious taste for drugs, girls, alcohol, movies, rock and roll, books, parties, and everything else the city had to offer....
by Gannit Ankori
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was twenty-two; he was forty-three. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who “dabbles in art,” she went on to produce brilliant paintings but remained in her husband’s shadow throughout her life....
by Philip E West
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Philip E West is recognised as one of the world's finest aviation artists. Collectors of his original oil paintings span the globe, many waiting patiently for his next breath-taking canvas to appear. With more than 100 limited editions behind him, a waiting list of commissioned paintings for clients...
The Last Pre-Raphaelite
Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
In Fiona MacCarthy’s riveting account, Burne-Jones’s exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic audacity that would characterize the early twentieth century.
El subastador
Aventuras en el mercado del arte
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 1, 2016
El relato más sincero, desinhibido y adictivo nunca escrito sobre lo que sucede entre bambalinas en una subasta de arte. Pury nos guía a través de este mundo secreto a través de su historia, sus anécdotas, sus coleccionistas, sus momentos de esplendor y de oscuridad."Yo y el barón"...
by Rachel Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize
In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke—then a struggling poet in Germany—went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal...
by Sylvester Lemertz
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Justin Timberlake is an American singer, actor, entrepreneur and producer. His first big break came when he appeared as a contestant on the television talent show Star Search in 1991.
After Star Search, Timberlake was cast in the sixth season of the revived television...
Frank & Charli
Woodstock, True Love, and the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The wild stories of a 1960s counterculture icon—about art, friendship, love, and the music festival that defined a generation.
In the 1960s and ’70s, Frank Yandolino rode the hippie counterculture movement alongside visionaries like Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang, and he helped put together...
by David Baker
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Royal Navy Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the main protagonist of the James Bond series of novels, films, comics and video games.
The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code...
All Will Be Well
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer.McGahern describes his early years as one of seven children growing up in rural County Leitrim, a childhood was marked by his father’s violent nature and the early...
Prince of Stories
The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Over the past twenty years, Neil Gaiman has developed into the premier fantasist of his generation, achieving that rarest of combinations—unrivaled critical respect and extraordinary commercial success. From the landmark comic book series The Sandman to novels such as the New York Times bestselling...
Limonov
The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures
This is how Emmanuel Carrère, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and chameleon, describes his subject: "Limonov is not a fictional character. There. I know him. He has...
Library of Luminaries: Coco Chanel
An Illustrated Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's signature style and revolutionary approach to design changed women's fashion forever. Featuring handwritten text paired with sweet illustrations this ebook sheds new light on the woman behind some of the last century's most iconic designs—from her impoverished...
by Peo Thyren
Language: Swedish
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: Swedish
Release Date: November 16, 2012
När Peo Thyren var tolv år bildade han och några kompisar rockbandet Noice. När han var 16 hade de spelat in sin första skiva och när han var 17 var Noice, tillsammans med Gyllene Tider, Sveriges största band. När Peo var 19 splittrades Noice, när de...