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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of...

ZZ Top, American rock group famous for its rugged blues-driven guitar works, irreverent music videos, and embrace of its Texas roots, as well as for the musicians’ distinctive facial hair.   ZZ Top was formed in the Houston area in 1969 when singer-guitarist Billy Gibbons, formerly...

Recollections of more than one hundred of O’Keeffe’s friends, relatives, colleagues, and neighbors as well as published and previously unpublished historical records and letters are used to provide the first full-length biography and in-depth study of the celebrated painter’s life. Georgia...

Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known as such to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films, the police who censored them, the gallery owners who refused to show his male nudes, and the artists...

The multimedia artist, poet and novelist Brion Gysin may be the most influential cultural figure of the twentieth century that most people have never heard of.Gysin (1916–1986) was an English-born, Canadian-raised, naturalized American of Swiss descent, who lived most of his life in Morocco and...

In the years following his controversial 1970 exhibition at the Marlborough Galleries, Philip Guston was generally viewed as yesterday’s scandal, a maverick who had abandoned abstract expressionism and, with it, the adulation of the art world. Few paid serious attention to the disturbing, profound...

If you have read The House that Pinterest Built, Smart Spaces, Iconic Australian Houses, or Elements of Style, you're going to love Karen McCartney's new book The Alchemy of Things. Karen McCartney's eighteen most fascinating homes in the world: The Alchemy of Things invites you into the homes...

One of the most important artists of the twentieth century and an icon of courageous womanhood, Frida Kahlo lives on in the public imagination, where her popularity shows no signs of waning. She is renowned for both her paintings and her personal story, which were equally filled with pain and anguish,...

Presenting Léo Ferré allows the rediscovery of one of the greatest people of French song and poetry. At least, this is what the general public will easily understand. The aficionados, and most of all, Leo's « heirs » will surely know that it's about rediscovering a true apostle of music. Ferré...

Concise, essential and annotated by Raya Yotova, this Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Amedeo Clemente Modigliani figure drawings and paintings, date and interesting facts page below. Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (1884 – 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly...

Eddie Vedder is an American musician, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for being the lead vocalist and one of three guitarists of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam.   Known for his distinctive and powerful vocals, he has been ranked at #7 on a list...

Willard Metcalf was an American artist born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter. He was one of the Ten American...

Lady Gaga is a popular American pop singer-songwriter. In 2012 alone Gaga earned more than $80 million through album sales, tours, endorsements and more!   Gaga began her rise to fame performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side in 2003. Lady Gaga is known...

In his posthumous autobiography, Watakushi no eiga jinsei (1984), Yamamoto reflects on his career and legacy: beginning in the prewar days as an assistant director in a well-established film company under the master Naruse Mikio, to his wide-ranging experiences as a filmmaker, including his participation...