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Natalie Goldberg has been writing for the past fifty years. But at the beginning of the pandemic, she suddenly wasn’t able to write anymore. Her imaginative wellspring had dried up, and she was forced to ask herself: what do I do when what has always worked for me doesn’t work anymore? In this beautifully written, inspiring personal account, Natalie shares her harrowing journey out of creative paralysis and back onto the page.

Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination―the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne―a superfan and scholar―radically reimagines the last years of Plath’s life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy.

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.

Савва Иванович Мамонтов (1841–1918) — крупный русский промышленник, предприниматель и меценат, наследник преуспевающей купеческой династии. Еще в юности увлеченность Саввы театром настораживала отца будущего покровителя искусств, крупного винного откупщика Ивана Федоровича Мамонтова: вместо обучения делу Савва находил куда больше удовольствия в том, чтобы "музыкантить, петь и кувыркаться в драматическом обществе". Спустя век трудно даже вообразить, по какому пути направилось бы русское искусство, если бы не был создан знаменитый Абрамцевский кружок и не были предприняты иные славные начинания Мамонтова.

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

At the dawn of the 1980s, there was one serious name in horror and exploitation film criticism: Bill Landis. While other magazines were concerned with behind-the-scenes information, tributes, and SFX tutorials, Landis' Sleazoid Express was one part film journal and one part anthropological study, seriously critiquing the grindhouse movies that played the theaters of 42nd Street while also documenting the dying subculture that had grown up around them.

Игорь Викторович Долгополов (1917–1991) — заслуженный деятель искусств РСФСР, искусствовед, писатель, просветитель, главный художник самого популярного в советское время журнала «Огонек». Ученик А. Дейнеки, он был личностью поистине масштаба Джорджо Вазари, человеком, всю жизнь создававшим единый образ мирового искусства. Его очерки о великих творцах, собранные позже в книги «Мастера и шедевры», при жизни автора печатались огромными тиражами.

Перекрестки авангарда — это книга-хроника из жизни семейной пары творцов русского авангарда, основоположников современного дизайна и фо-тоискусства: Александра Родченко и Варвары Степановой. Они работали со всеми, искусство составляло смысл их жизни, а их жизнь и была искусством. Выбраны 10 дней из более чем сорокалетней совместной жизни и творчества, 10 пересечений-перекрестков с различными видами искусства.

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.

Set against the rugged backdrop of Klovharun, a barren skerry in the Gulf of Finland, ´Notes from an Island´ invites you into the intimate world of Tove Jansson and her partner, graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä, known affectionately as "Tooti."Aided by Brunstroem, an unconventional fisherman, Jansson races against time and the elements to build a cabin that would serve as their sanctuary for thirty summers. A declaration of the beauty of solitude, Notes from an Island is a touching homage to a mature love nurtured by the raw beauty of shifting seascapes.

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

"Salut, je m'appelle Matthew, mais vous me connaissez peut-être sous un autre nom. Mes amis m'appellent Matty. Et je devrais être mort." Ainsi commence le captivant récit du célèbre Matthew Perry, acteur qui incarna le légendaire Chandler de Friends. Au fil de ses souvenirs, il évoque ses ambitions de jeunesse et son rapport à la célébrité, ses addictions et sa guérison après un grave problème de santé qui lui fit frôler la mort.

Language of War is about what happens when your world changes overnight. When you wake up to the sound of helicopters and the smell of gunpowder. When your home is hit by shells or broken into by gunmen, and you spend another night in a basement-turned-bomb shelter. When, even though you’ve never held a weapon before, you realise the only choice is to fight back. It is about things one can never forget, or forgive.

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

Em um relato íntimo e potente, Salman Rushdie relembra o atentado que sofreu em 12 de agosto de 2022 e resignifica sua traumática experiência, respondendo à violência com arte. Faca é uma reflexão emocionante sobre a vida, a perda e o amor — e sobre como encontrar forças para um novo começo.