Artists category: 3350 books
Wear Your Dreams
My Life in Tattoos
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The memoir of iconic tattoo artist Ed Hardy from his beginnings in 1960s California, to leading the tattoo renaissance and building his name into a hugely lucrative international brand
"Ed Hardy" is emblazoned on everything from t-shirts and hats to perfumes and energy drinks. From...
Disney’s Nine Old Men
A History of the Animators Who Defined Disney Animation
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Today the Walt Disney Company is a huge media conglomerate with a whole range of interests, taking in music labels, cable and network TV, publishing, merchandising and a chain of theme parks in multiple countries. However it remains best known for its animated films.
Starting in 1927, but mostly between...
by Steven Hager
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
"The outrageous energy of the participants and their subsequent notoriety will carry the reader through this uncritical, discursive pop history that begins with CBGB's and its development as the premier club for punk rock... The author then covers various groupings that were to make Manhattan's...
Jewels
50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Photographer Michael Cunningham (coauthor of Crowns) and author Connie Briscoe, a New York Times bestselling novelist, profile 50 women over the age of 50 who have been remarkably successful--whether in reaching the top of the corporate ladder, finding fame in politics or the arts, or raising...
by Eike Phillip
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Film Career
In 1914 Chaplin made his film debut in a somewhat forgettable one-realer called Make a Living. To differentiate himself from the clad of other actors in Sennett films, Chaplin decided to play a single identifiable character. "The Little Tramp" was born,...
Unlikely Paradise
The Life of Frances Gage
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Artist Frances Gage, born in 1924 in Windsor, experienced both artistic recognition and acute despair in her life, yet she flourished in her work and as part of the contemporary Toronto art scene. A friend of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle, she developed a greater connection with the Group of Seven,...
by Maud Guilfoyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
From the beginning, my mother, Peregrine fed my imagination and senses in every possible way with fairy tales, art, beautiful food, music, opera, poetry and trips into nature, the seaside and the mountains. We lived a nomadic life moving from apartments in New York City to shared houses on Fire Island....
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by Paul Gauguin
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In 1891, French painter Paul Gauguin sailed to the island of Tahiti, to what he hoped would be an unspoiled paradise.
He kept a journal recording his thoughts and impressions of that time.
Noa Noa—the most widely known of Gauguin's writings—is reproduced here from a rare early...
Escaping the Delta
Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black audience of his time yet now celebrated as the greatest...
Sexplosion
From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange-- How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
After the sexual revolution came the sexual explosion
The six years between 1968 and 1973 saw more sexual taboos challenged than ever before. Film, literature, and theater simultaneously broke through barriers previously unimagined, giving birth to what we still consider to be the height of...
by Robert Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A personal and in-depth account of the enigmatic man behind the murals, written by a friend and fan
An illuminating memoir of the world's most celebrated graffiti artist, this book offers insight into Banksy's life and work through the experiences that he and the author Robert...
Glory in a Line
A Life of Foujita--the Artist Caught Between East and West
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
The first biography in English of the Japanese artist who was a central figure in the dazzling artistic milieu of 1920s Paris
When we think of expatriates in Paris during the early decades of the twentieth century, certain names come to mind: Hemingway, Picasso, Modigliani—and Foujita, the...
Balthus
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
The first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time -- the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola -- whose brilliantly rendered, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art.
The...
by HowExpert
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2011
“How to Draw With Charcoal” is a step by step book manual on how to use charcoal as an art medium. This book covers several ways to use charcoal in different art genres. It will show you how to produce artwork of different styles, including portrait and illustration, and how to work on a caricature....