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Quella di Liana Orfei non è stata certo una vita ordinaria: nata "per miracolo" dentro un caravan in una notte di tempesta, di salute gracile e precaria, da bambina ha sofferto a causa di una malattia che l'ha costretta a letto per molti anni. Tuttavia, il suo temperamento e la sua buona stella (è nata con la cosiddetta "camicia della Madonna") non le hanno mai permesso di lasciarsi andare e anzi l'hanno portata a cimentarsi in sfide sempre nuove.

The stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward—a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak “Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful and awful of my life.” —Brooke Hayward Los Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and...

«La vida ha sido para mí una larga tarea de la que no me arrepiento en absoluto», comenta Balthus en una de las páginas de este magnífico libro de memorias, y estas son quizá las palabras que mejor resumen la trayectoria de un hombre consagrado a la pintura.

L'esilio di Van Gogh è un viaggio all'interno del cuore e della psiche dell'artista. Nasce riadattando i momenti salienti della sua estrema emotività, la stessa che concede in sprazzi di vita epistolari indirizzati al fratello Thèo. Tra difficoltà economiche e il cuore infranto dalla solitudine, abbiamo una visione chiara della sua sofferenza, matrice del lavoro di ogni genio. Diceva di sé stesso: "Vorrei che chi guarda i miei quadri pensi: quest'uomo sente immensamente."

Alexander Toth was an American cartoonist, born June 25, 1928, in New York, New York. He was known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera, as well as a long list of work for DC Comics, Dell Comics, Golden Key Comics, Marvel Comics, Standard Comics, and Warren Publishing. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990. He passed away May 27, 2006, in Burbank, California at his drawing table. He was survived by his four children and seven grandchildren.

Avido di piacere non meno che di conoscenza, Raffaello Sanzio intuisce molto presto che soltanto nella Roma libera, felice e sfrenatamente sensuale di Giulio II e Leone X il suo talento potrà essere apprezzato. Vi arriva venticinquenne, la incarna e la seduce diventando nel giro di pochi mesi la stella più brillante del suo firmamento intellettuale. La morte, a soli 37 anni, lascia la città nella disperazione che segue la scomparsa di un principe ammirato e amato.

For nearly a decade, Palley has been on the frontline of fire. He has witnessed homeowners on the worst day of their lives. He’s seen puddles of aluminum where cars were once parked. He’s watched as 150-foot walls of flame cascaded down mountainsides and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. And he’s captured, time and again, the tireless commitment of firefighters as they work to save lives and homes, in terrain where fire always seems to have the upper hand.

This new biography—featuring over 150 archival images and full-color photographs printed throughout—introduces Julia Morgan as both a pioneering architect and a captivating individual. Julia Morgan was a lifelong trailblazer. She was the first woman admitted to study architecture at the...

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.

Jim and Elaine Larison spent years studying, exploring, and living in wild places, making more than 30 environmental films, most for the National Geographic Society. These films won more than 40 international awards from leading environmental and broadcast organizations. This memoir tells the story behind the adventure and describes the rather substantial personal costs of this career.

La vie d'Ingrid Berman est unique, d'une mère suédoise et d'un père allemand, Ingrid est destinée à chanter, mais elle va choisir la scène. Sa mère meurt très jeune et son père avec la tante d'Ingrid soigne l'éducation de la jeune fille. Les débuts au cinéma d'Ingrid vont être difficiles.

Although he is one of the world's most popular authors who continues to thrill and chill readers and listeners of all ages, Edgar Allan Poe's life is as enigmatic as his sudden, unexplained death. In a quest for solutions to the mysteries surrounding the poet's life and work, a group of Poe devotees founded the Poe Shrine in 1922. This body included the world's most prolific Poe collector, a psychiatrist who believed Poe was clairvoyant, and the grandson of Poe's worst enemy.

Edvard Munch, l’introspettivo espressionista, viene principalmente associato al celebre dipinto "L’urlo". Ma dietro questo capolavoro di fama mondiale si celano un passato fatto di privazioni e povertà, la tragica morte di sua madre e sua sorella, la depressione, una vita dedicata alla pittura e il riscatto ottenuto a Berlino. Edvard, al centro del "Caso Munch", ha saputo sfidare e oltrepassare i limiti imposti dalle elite artistiche utilizzando un linguaggio dominato da strazianti emozioni e penetrante angoscia.

From his childhood in a remote town in New Zealand's North Island to the wilds of the Arctic and Antarctic, life has been an incredible journey for filmmaker Max Quinn. How he got himself into this field is a story in itself, but A Life of Extremes is so much more. It's a journey that lovers of natural history, travel, adventure, and filmmaking will revel in as he takes you to some of the harshest environments in which anyone could be expected to work. For this book is the absorbing life of a polar filmmaker.

Cv/VAR 47 documents an interview with the the celebrated sculptor Arman (1928-2005), exploring his early connections with Yves Klein, Rosicrucianism, and the development of auto-formed sculptures of collected objects.

When reclusive millionaire artist Robert Indiana died in 2018, he left behind dark rumors and scandal, as well as an estate embroiled in lawsuits and facing accusations of fraud. Here is the true story of the artist’s final days, the aftermath, the deceptive world that surrounded him, and the inner workings of art as very big business.

The MacArthur Foundation awards the "Genius Grant" every year to the most compelling scientists, educators and artists in the country. But who are these "geniuses," really? Host Bob Garfield sits down with fellows, including writer and producer David Simon, radio producer Jad Abumrad, and inventor Amy Smith, to learn what events shaped their life, how they became leaders in their fields, and what they imagine our shared future looks like.

Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of these interviews on CD for the first time. This is the perfect audio...

Le vite dei maggiori autori della letteratura italiana narrate come una storia, con musiche e suoni. Unendo cultura e intrattenimento, questo audiolibro fornirà un'esperienza multimediale unica e rilassante a chiunque decida di ascoltarlo. Amanti della lettura, non disperate, non ci siamo dimenticati di voi! Il testo è infatti disponibile anche in formato ebook, pronto per essere sfogliato. Ascoltabili in macchina o in metro, da leggere al mare o sul divano, le biografie dei letterati italiani non sono mai state così facili da scoprire.

Le vite dei maggiori autori della letteratura italiana narrate come una storia, con musiche e suoni. Unendo cultura e intrattenimento, questo audiolibro fornirà un'esperienza multimediale unica e rilassante a chiunque decida di ascoltarlo. Amanti della lettura, non disperate, non ci siamo dimenticati di voi! Il testo è infatti disponibile anche in formato ebook, pronto per essere sfogliato. Ascoltabili in macchina o in metro, da leggere al mare o sul divano, le biografie dei letterati italiani non sono mai state così facili da scoprire.