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Celia Paul has felt a lifelong connection to the artist Gwen John. There are extraordinary parallels in their lives and work. Both have always made art on their own terms. Both were involved with older male artists. Both worked hard to keep themselves and the sacred flame of their creativity from being extinguished by others. Letters to Gwen John is Paul's imagined correspondence with Gwen John, whose life and work have loomed so large in hers. 

An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day. Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see what’s on the other side. At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began obsessively...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Anteckningar från ett liv i och omkring måleriet. Om skapande, tvivel, familj och de drömmar som vägrar ge upp. En dagbok i gränslandet mellan verklighet och fiktion...

Forged in the stress of early motherhood, The Mother Artist explores the fraught yet generative ties between caregiving and creative practice. As a young mother working at a museum, essayist Catherine Ricketts began asking questions about the making of motherhood and the making of art. Now, with incantatory prose and an intuitive gaze, she twines intimate meditations on parenthood with studies of the work and lives of painters, writers, dancers, musicians, and other creatives.

As iconic rock guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen enters his mid 50s, well-respected rock journalist Anders Tengner takes a look back at the Swedish rock god’s career and life. Malmsteen’s finesse, speed and style took the music world by storm when he first came to international attention in the...

An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted. Extraordinary new nonfiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling...

One spring day in 1683, a notary's clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled upon one of the wonders of the seventeenth-century world: twenty paintings by Johannes Vermeer. Rather than dispel the mysteries of Vermeer's life, this discovery merely gave...

The compelling story of how Vincent van Gogh developed his audacious, iconic style by immersing himself in the work of others, featuring paintings by Van Gogh as well as the artists who inspired him—from the New York Times bestselling co-author of Van Gogh: The Life Vincent van Gogh’s...

"Ich bin durchsättigt vom Saargebiet und kenne es wie Wien. Sie werden sehen" - so kündigte Joseph Roth 1927 in einem Brief an den Feuilleton-Chef der "Frankfurter Zeitung" seine ersten Saar-Reportagen an. Ausgehend von einem Besuch im angrenzenden Lothringen - ein Zankapfel zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich - schuf Roth sieben pointierte Momentaufnahmen vom politischen, sozialen und kulturellen Alltag im Saarland. Joseph Roth war ein treffsicherer Beobachter, seine Texte - kongenial gelesen von Bernt Hahn - bestechen bis heute durch ihre Brillanz und Klarheit.

Brilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott. Set in New York’s Lower East Side of the 1980s and mid-1990s, it is also a devastatingly candid look at the extreme naiveté and dysfunction that would destroy...

An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life—and for poetry—than anyone else I've known." This new biography reveals just how she...

Named a BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Times and Sunday Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Prospect, and New Yorker. ‘Undoubtedly Hoare’s masterpiece’ Olivia Laing ‘Queer in all senses of the word’ Neil Tennant ‘A life-changing book’ Robert Douglas Fairhurst, The Times ‘Fabulously...

A short, inspirational audiobook from Henry Fraser, a young quadriplegic motivational speaker and artist. Henry Fraser was a 17-year-old sports enthusiast and senior prefect when he broke his spinal cord and was left paralysed from the shoulders down. Life as he knew it was over, and yet, through extraordinary determination and a positive attitude, he has forged a successful career as an inspirational speaker and an artist.

Ein Lied geht um die Welt. Kein anderes Weihnachtslied ergreift seit Jahrhunderten die Menschen mehr, als das von Joseph Mohr geschrieben und von Franz Gruber komponierte Lied "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht". Wie aber kam es zu dem Lied? Warum wurde es geschrieben und wie trat es seine Reise um die Welt an? Warum begeistert es uns heute noch alle? Es scheint so einfach: weil es die Sehnsucht nach Weihnachten in uns weckt. Ganz anders sieht es aus, wenn man die Lebensgeschichte von Joseph Mohr betrachtet, der in einer Zeit der Wirrungen, Irrungen und Krieg das Licht der Welt erblickte.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The New Yorker Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book “A definitive and ideal biography—pound for pound, one of the sleekest and most judicious I’ve...

Banksy, geheimnisvollster Künstler der Gegenwart: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

"Gerade über ihn, den seit einem halben Jahrhundert Toten, wird immer noch geredet und geschrieben wie über einen leibhaftigen Bekannten, als hätte er nichts Wichtigeres hinterlassen als sein in unendliche Anekdoten zerfallenes, widersprüchliches, schlagfertiges, trostloses, galizisch-österreichisch-französisches Leben. Aber lässt sich, in seinem Fall, Leben und Werk überhaupt auseinanderhalten?" Reinhard Baumgart fragt dies 1982 in seinen "Drei Ansichten von Joseph Roth". Sein "Requiem" des Jahres 1989 verbindet beides.

Paula Modersohn-Becker, deutsche Malerin des Expressionismus: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

In drei Rückblenden erzählt ein ehemaliger Schulkamerad aus Heide (Dithmarschen) von Klemens Greller, der heute als Leo Greller ein gewisser Bekanntheitsgrad als schräger Popsänger in Hamburg genießt.

Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of World War I, avant-garde artists and writers sought to destroy art by transforming it into the substance of everyday life. Following the evolution of these revolutionary groups, How to Be Avant-Garde charts its pioneers and radical ideas.