Artists, Architects & Photographers 16

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 gr……続きを見る

Marilyn Monroe : Sex Symbol and Pop Icon Marilyn Monroe - A Short Biography for KidsMarilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model, and one of the most famous Hollywood icons of the twentiet……続きを見る

Robin Hood and His Adventures by Paul Creswick Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth "Robin Hood is a figure in archetypal English folk tales, whose story goes back to medieval times. In popular culture he is……続きを見る

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, tillsamm……続きを見る

An autobiography of my time growing up with fame and travelling abroad including America and Canada where I lived for a year in San Francisco. Experiences with drugs, The Church of Scientology and t……続きを見る

Just Another Day é uma coleção de fotos Flows tiradas ao redor do mundo por Snygg Mas. Ao tirar uma foto Flow, Snygg permanence em um local e observa o dia à medida que ……続きを見る

Coxhoe & Kelloe Revisited combines this new material with one of Bernards earlier books: Kelloe, Bowburn & Cornforth to provide a more comprehensive history and account of the area about heritage.It……続きを見る

Through letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a stunning assemblage of photographs - many of which have never before been published - author Ron McCrea tells the fascinating story of the bui……続きを見る

Thomas Nast has been called the greatest political cartoonist of all time. He was much more than that. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant attributed his presidential victory in the 1868 campaign "to the sword of……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Benvenuto Cellini (3 November 1500 13 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, painter, soldier and musician , who also wrote a famous autobiography. He was one of……続きを見る

“Gee, Joan, if only you were French and male and dead.” ーNew York art dealer to Joan Mitchell, the 1950s She was a steel heiress from the MidwestーChicago and Lake Forest (her grandfather built Chi……続きを見る

'The most sensational book on the Royal Family in recent times' Sunday Telegraph 'Offers a fascinating insight into not just his life but the social mores of the day' Evening Standard How did a phot……続きを見る

Lord Frederic Leighton was one of the most famous British artists of the nineteenth century. He preferred to paint subject matter that was connected to ancient Greek and Roman mythology and intended……続きを見る

Drawing on exclusive and unprecedented access to David Hockney’s extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, interviews with family, friends, and on Hockney himself, Christopher Simon Sykes provid……続きを見る

“I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray visits these eyes, waking at once I cry; Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousan……続きを見る

Every inch of Grayson's childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surface with models. Fantasy took over his life, in a world of battles ruled by his teddy bear, Alan Meas……続きを見る

As a young boy Arundel C. Hull became fascinated with newly developed wet-plate photography. He apprenticed in a St. Paul Minnesota gallery then at age 17 opened his own studio in St Cloud. After th……続きを見る

Miley Cyrus Doc (TV series) Billy Ray Cyrus Big Fish Teen idol Disney Channel Hannah Montana Miley Stewart Hollywood Records See You Again (Miley Cyrus song) Breakout (Miley Cyrus album) Fly on the ……続きを見る

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe’s first truly modern artist. His melancholy landscapes, often peopled by lonely wande……続きを見る

'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMIST The remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into th……続きを見る

Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), this book offers a new approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist’s multifaceted life and workーan approach that redefines the ……続きを見る

Aquest llibre pretén donar a conèixer l’obra i la personalitat del més gran i internacional dels artistes catalans vius, Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona, 1923), d’una manera or……続きを見る

Weegee not only captured the gritty underbelly of New York City in his explosive photographs, but he lived it as well. This long out-of-print autobiography, brought back as an ebook with complete an……続きを見る

La cattedrale di Chartres e la Sagrada Família sono due realizzazioni plastiche di uno stesso concetto: la Gerusalemme celeste. Profonde somiglianze le accomunano, il cui messaggio intrinseco normal……続きを見る

Adrian Stokes was one of the twentieth century's finest and most discriminating writers on art. Of over twenty works of art criticism, Michelangelo was considered by Lawrence Gowing to be the most c……続きを見る

A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities. In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. To……続きを見る

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, military-engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. H……続きを見る

For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists' studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections in the world. At one time, t……続きを見る

LOOK INSIDE THE LIFE ー AND HOME ー OF LEGENDARY 'OUTSIDER' ARTIST MARY NOHL "Mary Nohl: A Lifetime in Art" by Barbara Manger and Janine Smith, tells the story of Milwaukee-born artist, Mary Nohl. A……続きを見る

Nicholas Fox Weber, author of the acclaimed Patron Saints (“Exhilarating avant-garde entertainment”ーSam Hunter, The New York Times Book Review) and Balthus (“The authoritative account of his life a……続きを見る