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A fascinating look at the real Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, the designer who forever revolutionized the way women look. She was a free spirit, brilliant business woman, and beauty who never found reciprocated love. Madsen, with authority, delves into this fashion doyenne’s business and private lives...

Winner of the 2012 Zia Award from New Mexico Press WomenIn 1973 Georgia O'Keeffe employed C. S. Merrill to catalog her library for her estate. Merrill, a poet who was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, was twenty-six years old and O'Keeffe was eighty-five, almost blind, but...

This edition does not include illustrations. Please note that due to the level of detail, the family tree is best viewed on a tablet. The wayward life (1898–1979) of the voracious art collector and great female patron of world-famous artists. ‘Mrs Guggenheim, how many husbands have you had?’...

  Raffaello Sanzio (or Santi, Raphael ) was one of the greatest artists of  the High Renaissance in Italy. He was admired personality, celebrated, prosperous, and honored, and his influence was broadly extend even during his own life. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da...

** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer ** 'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times **'B**rings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) lived as if...

In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867–1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906–2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between them, they built...

Mükemmelliğin ve insan zekasının en son noktasının gelmiş geçmiş en büyük temsilcisi, çok yönlü sanatçı, yüzyıllara damgasını vuran mucit, heykeltraş, mimar, mühendis, ayrıca İtalyan Rönesansının en büyük ressamı...

In February 1978, when the flawless Gia Carangi arrived in New York at the age of barely eighteen, she had already landed a contract with one of the most prestigious modeling agencies in the world. The future that lay before her seemed dazzling. Blessed with a magnetic beauty and a unique personality,...

Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy—from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the estate also...

Just as William Goldman, the ultimate screenwriter, took us inside Hollywood, Simon de Pury, the ultimate art player, will take us inside an even more secretive business, whose staggering prices, famous collectors, and high crimes are front page news almost every day. The former Chairman of Sotheby's...

  Rembrandt van Rijn is one of the greatest painters and etchers in European art and the most important in Dutch art history. Having accomplished success as a portrait painter in his youth years, Rembrandt's later were suffered by personal tragedy and financial hardships. Rembrandt...

Essential Information Kenny Rogers waѕ bоrn August 21, 1938 іn Houston, Texas. Rogers discharged Тhе Gambler in 1978. Тhе title trаck becаme оnе mоre substantial cоuntrу аnd pop hіt and provided Rogers hіs ѕеcоnd Grammy Award. In аdditіоn tо hіѕ solo wоrk, Rogers tape-recorded...

¿Quién fue de verdad Vivian Maier, la gran fotógrafa? ¿Por qué nunca quiso mostrar sus fotos a nadie? ¿Cómo explicar tanto misterio? Hacía falta Una vida prestada y el talento de Berta Vias para que esta mujer oscura volviera por fin a la luz y nos contara su historia. «Cada...

THIS IS A TRANSCRIPTION OF THE AUDIOBOOK "MORE CUTE STORIES, VOL.1: DISNEYLAND HISTORY". Join Disney Legend and former Imagineer Rolly Crump as he reminisces about the early days of Disneyland! From illuminating insights about Walt Disney himself to bawdy tales of Guest hijinks, these...