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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...

Winner of the 2012 Zia Award from New Mexico Press WomenIn 1973 Georgia O'Keeffe employed C. S. Merrill to catalog her library for her estate. Merrill, a poet who was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, was twenty-six years old and O'Keeffe was eighty-five, almost blind, but...

In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867–1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906–2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between them, they built...

Mükemmelliğin ve insan zekasının en son noktasının gelmiş geçmiş en büyük temsilcisi, çok yönlü sanatçı, yüzyıllara damgasını vuran mucit, heykeltraş, mimar, mühendis, ayrıca İtalyan Rönesansının en büyük ressamı...

In February 1978, when the flawless Gia Carangi arrived in New York at the age of barely eighteen, she had already landed a contract with one of the most prestigious modeling agencies in the world. The future that lay before her seemed dazzling. Blessed with a magnetic beauty and a unique personality,...

Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy—from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the estate also...

Just as William Goldman, the ultimate screenwriter, took us inside Hollywood, Simon de Pury, the ultimate art player, will take us inside an even more secretive business, whose staggering prices, famous collectors, and high crimes are front page news almost every day. The former Chairman of Sotheby's...

  Rembrandt van Rijn is one of the greatest painters and etchers in European art and the most important in Dutch art history. Having accomplished success as a portrait painter in his youth years, Rembrandt's later were suffered by personal tragedy and financial hardships. Rembrandt...

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¿Quién fue de verdad Vivian Maier, la gran fotógrafa? ¿Por qué nunca quiso mostrar sus fotos a nadie? ¿Cómo explicar tanto misterio? Hacía falta Una vida prestada y el talento de Berta Vias para que esta mujer oscura volviera por fin a la luz y nos contara su historia. «Cada...

THIS IS A TRANSCRIPTION OF THE AUDIOBOOK "MORE CUTE STORIES, VOL.1: DISNEYLAND HISTORY". Join Disney Legend and former Imagineer Rolly Crump as he reminisces about the early days of Disneyland! From illuminating insights about Walt Disney himself to bawdy tales of Guest hijinks, these...

Edgar Degas seems never to have reconciled himself to the label of "Impressionist," preferring to call himself a "Realist" or "Independent." Nevertheless, he was one of the group’s founders, an organizer of its exhibitions, and one of its most important core members....

Based on interviews with Stan Lee and dozens of his colleagues and contemporaries, as well as extensive archival research, this book provides a professional history, an appreciation, and a critical exploration of the face of Marvel Comics. Recognized as a dazzling writer, a skilled editor, a relentless...

A lushly illustrated look inside the interior design firm that set the standard for America’s finest homes—serving the Astors, the Kennedys, and more. Starting in the 1960s, one name was synonymous with gorgeous interior design and luxurious, stylish home décor: Parish-Hadley Associates,...