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Chopin was a romantic era Polish composer. This work is a memoir by Liszt who knew Chopin both as man and artist. This memoir gives a unique understanding to the psychological character of the compositions of Chopin. It also offers Liszt's insight into some of Chopin's polonaises, especially the grand...

«Joann Sfar non è soltanto uno dei più dotati fumettisti e registi francesi, ma con questo suo nuovo romanzo si propone definitivamente anche come uno dei più acuti e profondi romanzieri europei» - Le Monde«Amare il prossimo può essere molto pericoloso, ma - ci spiega il sempre più geniale...

Die erste Werkbiographie über den großen ungarischen Schriftsteller. Lange vor der Niederschrift seines weltberühmten »Romans eines Schicksallosen" hat Imre Kertész einen kurzen Text geschrieben, der sich wie eine Grundschrift seines Werkes liest: In »Ich, der Henker", einem lange Zeit unpublizierten...

'If artists betray the social conscience and the basic principles of being human, where does art stand then?' Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the notion of art and is one of the world's most significant creative and cultural figures. In this series...

Spears was trimmed for fame from her earliest years. In 1998, she exploded on the popular music genre scene together with her megahit single " Baby an additional Time," that preceded a series of hit singles, sold-out concerts, TV specials and even a movie, "Crossroads" (2002),...

Celebrated painter Duncan Hannah arrived in New York City from Minneapolis in the early 1970s as an art student hungry for experience, game for almost anything, and with a prodigious taste for drugs, girls, alcohol, movies, rock and roll, books, parties, and everything else the city had to offer....

Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was twenty-two; he was forty-three. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who “dabbles in art,” she went on to produce brilliant paintings but remained in her husband’s shadow throughout her life....

Philip E West is recognised as one of the world's finest aviation artists. Collectors of his original oil paintings span the globe, many waiting patiently for his next breath-taking canvas to appear. With more than 100 limited editions behind him, a waiting list of commissioned paintings for clients...

In Fiona MacCarthy’s riveting account, Burne-Jones’s exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic audacity that would characterize the early twentieth century.

El relato más sincero, desinhibido y adictivo nunca escrito sobre lo que sucede entre bambalinas en una subasta de arte. Pury nos guía a través de este mundo secreto a través de su historia, sus anécdotas, sus coleccionistas, sus momentos de esplendor y de oscuridad."Yo y el barón"...

Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke—then a struggling poet in Germany—went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal...

  Justin Timberlake is an American singer, actor, entrepreneur and producer. His first big break came when he appeared as a contestant on the television talent show Star Search in 1991.   After Star Search, Timberlake was cast in the sixth season of the revived television...

The wild stories of a 1960s counterculture icon—about art, friendship, love, and the music festival that defined a generation.   In the 1960s and ’70s, Frank Yandolino rode the hippie counterculture movement alongside visionaries like Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang, and he helped put together...

Royal Navy Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the main protagonist of the James Bond series of novels, films, comics and video games.   The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code...