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Käthe Kollwitz, German paintress and world-famous sculptress : Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise.

Presented alphabetically, with informally written anecdotes that can be listened to in order or simply dipped into, Gibbons reveals unseen comics pitches, life as the first Comics Laureate, and going from being a fanzine artist to infiltrating DC Comics in the 1970s. The book covers everything from working on Doctor Who and meeting Tom Baker to being inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame.

Paula Modersohn-Becker, German paintress of global fame: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise.

Georgia O'Keeffe, American paintress and founder of Modernism: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise.

Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptress and art genius: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise.

Peggy Guggenheim, American collector and art icon: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise.

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.

Lee Miller, 1927 - New York: A classically beautiful young woman, she is discovered by Condé Nast. Lee Miller, 1929 - Paris: Protégé and lover of Man Ray, she invents with him the solarization technique of photography, develops into a brilliant Surrealist photographer, and plays the statue in Cocteau's film Blood of a Poet. Lee Miller, 1939-45 - Europe: Living at times with her future husband, the painter Roland Penrose, she becomes a US war correspondent and covers the siege of St Malo and the liberation of Paris.

What is blurred vision? Is it merely a physical condition, or does it extend to matters of the heart? For Judy Kirby, author of a poignant collection of poems and writings spanning a decade, these questions have defined her life's journey. At the age of 20, Judy's path turned unexpectedly when she was diagnosed with Stargardt's Macular Degeneration. This condition gradually robbed her of the ability to see faces and navigate the world as she once did. The promising future ahead of her, including a college degree in computer programming and accounting, suddenly seemed uncertain

Marina Abramovic, Serbian concept artist and global art star: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise.

A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a mentor, or a friend, but who wouldn't love the opportunity to sit down, break bread, and just talk? Who wouldn't jump at the chance to ask those unasked questions, or share those unvoiced feelings?

Camille Claudel, tragic art genius from France: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise.