Individual Artist category: 1922 books

Scrivo la mia vita come una poesia che interpreta il mio essere... da leggere tutto d'un fiato... che fa rimanere a bocca aperta, emozionare, far ridere o piangere... di quelle poesie che toccano l'anima... poesia con cancellature, ripetizioni, senza rime ma solo parole, solo emozioni... da tenere stretta nel cuore. Scriverla giorno dopo giorno sulle memorie della mia vita.

Ever wondered how Sean Penn rose to stardom? A little, but he imitates his favorite actor - Marlon Brando. The same rebel, like his idol had, in life and on a screen. He has a quarter of Russian and a quarter of Lithuanian on his father’s side, and he has Italian-Irish blood in his veins...

This handsome volume is an original selection of Bellow's best lithographs depicting a wide array of subjects, from portraits and nudes to street life and prize fighting. Brilliantly executed, richly evocative works include Nude in a Bed, Evening, In the Subway, Dempsey Through the Ropes, and Base Hospital.

Ever wondered how Patrick Wilson rose to stardom? Patrick Wilson is a talented actor in both movies and theaters. He participates in both, because of the ability to express certain feelings and impressions to engage his fans. Not just that, they give him the opportunity to express himself in...

Reunimos en este volumen los textos en los que Charles Baudelaire se ocupa de la esencia de la risa y la caricatura junto con "El pintor de la vida moderna". Diferentes y publicados en fechas distintas –en los años cincuenta del siglo XIX los primeros, en 1863 "El pintor de la vida...

At the dawn of the 19th century, Blake created this imaginative series of 116 watercolors to illustrate 13 poems by Thomas Gray. Including such popular poems as "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" and "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat," these rarely exhibited treasures remained exclusively in the hands...

Since its creation at the beginning of the fourteenth century, Dante's Divine Comedy—a masterpiece of European literature—has moved legendary artists such as William Blake and Gustave Doré to illustrate the famed poem. John Flaxman, English sculptor, draughtsman, and renowned Wedgwood designer,...

Hélio Oiticica (1937–80) was one of the most brilliant Brazilian artists of the 1960s and 1970s. He was a forerunner of participatory art, and his melding of geometric abstraction and bodily engagement has influenced contemporary artists from Cildo Meireles and Ricardo Basbaum to Gabriel Orozco,...

Dalí n’est pas un rhinocéros, il est la surréalité, et la surréalité est la « réalité rendue à son devenir, réalité se dépassant elle-même et destinée à se dépasser sans cesse elle-même. L’homme qui doit, selon l’expression familière, savoir sortir de lui-même, comment y...

A declaration of love to Peter Kuper’s adoptive city in which he has lived since 1977, this diary is a vibrant survey of New York City’s history. Through Kuper’s illustrations, this book depicts a climb to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge, the homeless living in Times Square, roller skaters in...

JMW Turner was a prolific master born to a barber in Covent Garden, London, in 1775. When he died in 1851, he left over 19,000 artworks. Selecting which to include in this book was a major feat in itself. Turner was a Romantic when it came to landscapes, with an inimitable flair for seascapes, and...

_______________ Banksy. His work. Photographed. With comments by Banksy. In a book. This is that book. _______________

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers. He veered away from painting that could be viewed as representational in...

The poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to what is now England and visited Glastonbury during the unknown years of Jesus. The legend is linked to an idea in the Book of Revelation describing a Second...