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On the Line: Conversations with Sean Scully
A unique insight into the life and art of Sean Scully, an internationally celebrated artist and creative practitioner at the height of his powers.
Sean Scully's paintings of brushy stripes and blocks of sumptuous colour are critically acclaimed and widely admired. Less well known is what a gifted storyteller and profound commentator on the history of art he is. In this fascinating book, the record of countless hours of conversations with Scully's friend, the art critic Kelly Grovier, the painter reflects on his extraordinary journey - from homelessness on the streets of Dublin in the mid-1940s to his current position as one of the most important abstract artists working today.
In these revealing conversations, Scully recalls with poignancy and wit his rough-and-tumble childhood in London (where his family moved when he was a toddler), his tenacity in the face of rejection from nearly every art school in England, and his rise to prominence in New York in the 1980s.
Illustrated throughout with images that capture both the artist and his work, this volume explores Scully's relationship with past masters, from Rembrandt to Rothko, and delves deep into his eventual rejection in the late 1970s of minimalism - the dominant force in abstract art at the time. Punctuated throughout by passionately recounted stories of struggle and loss, perseverance and triumph, the portrait that emerges from these pages is at once intimate and surprising. The book reflects the scope of Scully's broad interests and opinions, with segments devoted not only to his attitudes towards the art world and his most significant works, but also culture, politics and philosophy. Scully communicates with a raw pugnacity that is every bit as hard-hitting as his big brushstrokes.
With 146 illustrations in colour
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David Hockney
David Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north of England in the 1960s, he made quite a splash in Swinging London as a portaitist, and went on to make a even bigger splash in Los Angeles when he moved there in the 1970s. His figurative paintings of the 1970s and 1980s captured the zeitgeist of West Coast living, while he also explored new avenues by constructing mosaics out of polaroids. By the beginning of the millennium, he returned to his Yorkshire roots, embarking on a new period of painting. This came to an end with the death by misadventure in his home of a young studio assistant in 2013. He went 'home' to LA and has in the intervening years begun a new period of contemplative portraiture.
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Christian Dior: Destiny
The House of Dior's official biography reveals the secretive and surprising man who revolutionized fashion, with new insight on his spirituality and relationships and a contemporary perspective on his legacy.
In 1947, when Christian Dior's model spun her wasp-waisted skirt and tipped a hat over one eye, the iconic designer became an instant celebrity. His groundbreaking New Look was quintessentially Parisian--the perfect combination of fanciful and elegant that glorified the female form and seduced his international clientele.
Yet it was by mere chance that Dior--hapless in the face of personal and professional tragedy--met a friendly priest who helped him to rebuild his faith and to find the strength to chart his glorious destiny. He went on to upend the downtrodden postwar era with his joie de vivre and his pursuit of a single goal: to make women "not only more beautiful, but happier" through the proportions of his marvelous designs and a color palette that reflected the Parisian sky. Today, the legacy of this witty yet staunchly private man shines on as his intuitive creativity continues to inspire the House of Dior's designers to reinvent the woman of tomorrow.
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Andy Warhol
'Properly analytical ... always entertaining' TIME OUT
'Should tempt both those generally familiar with Andy Warhol and, even more, young people who have trouble imagining how popular art can challenge the status quo' L A TIMES
Painter, filmmaker, photographer, philosopher, all-round celebrity, Andy Warhol is an outstanding cultural icon. He revolutionised art by bringing to it images from popular culture - such as the Campbell's soup can and Marilyn Monroe's face - while his studio, the Factory, where his free-spirited cast of 'superstars' mingled with the rich and famous, became the place of origin for every groundswell shaping American culture.
In many ways he can be seen as the precursor to today's 'celebrity artists' such as Tracey Emin and Damian Hirst. But what of the man behind the white wig and dark glasses? Koestenbaum gives a fascinating, revealing and thought-provoking picture of pop art's greatest icon.
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The Bookseller of Florence
A gripping story of ancient wisdom, new technology and 'the king of the world's booksellers', set in Renaissance Florence
In the mid-1400s, Vespasiano da Bisticci's bookshop in Florence was said to contain all the wisdom of the world. Vespasiano and his team of scribes and illuminators produced exquisite manuscripts for popes and princes across Europe, rediscovering and disseminating some of the most significant texts from classical antiquity. At his shop, the most formidable minds of the city would gather to debate these old ideas of revolutionary power.
But in 1476 a new technology arrived in Florence. The convent of San Jacopo di Ripoli, a community of Dominican nuns on the other side of the city, acquired a printing press from a bankrupt German printer. Before long, with the enterprising nuns working tirelessly as typesetters, the Ripoli Press began printing a series of books and pamphlets that triggered an explosion of ideas in politics, philosophy and religion.
In The Bookseller of Florence Ross King, the internationally bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, uncovers the story of a local battle that would have far-reaching consequences. The wave of radical thinking unleashed by printed books would alter the course of history, fuelling the Renaissance and the Reformation, and paving the way for the Enlightenment - and modernity as we know it today.
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Michael Jackson Enigma
A szerző, Hevesi Ernő Ferenc maga is nagy Michael Jackson-rajongó, és többéves, rendkívül alapos és minden részletre kiterjedő kutatás és adatgyűjtés után írta meg művét. Könyvével az volt a célja, hogy közelebbről megismerhessük korunk egyik legnagyobb alkotóművészét, az embert, aki a valóságban volt. "Szeretném könyvemmel bemutatni Michael Jacksonnak azt az oldalát, amit sokan nem ismernek.
Fast Forward
Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume of memoirs . . .
Poised on the brink of success, the dizzying heights of the unknown lying ahead, Ian Curtis had taken his own life. Grieving yet determined, Stephen Morris emerged from the wreckage of Joy Division to the dawn of something new: a new band, a new tour, a new beginning. Under the name New Order, Morris and his bandmates set their sights on America, only to encounter new disasters. Yet, in true northern spirit, not even this sudden tragedy could dissuade them from following their haphazard path to greatness.
Following the highs and lows of New Order, Fast Forward tracks the changing rhythm of Morris's life and the music that shaped it. From 'music differences' to the ever-growing Joy Division legacy, music is the constant beat through the verses of Fast Forward as Morris's personal and professional life grew increasingly intertwined. This came to a head when his girlfriend was invited to join the band. Tentatively stepping into their testosterone-filled world, Gillian was the right person at the right time for New Order. And for Morris. What began as just a trial period in the band spun into a whirlwind of new projects and experiences, including The Other Two - a project born during one of New Order's (many) hiatuses.
Blending entertaining anecdote with profound reflection, Fast Forward strips back a lifetime of fame and fortune to tell, with raw honesty, how New Order threatened to implode time after time. And yet, despite everything, the legacy of their music continued to hold them together.
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Anni & Josef Albers
A spectacular and unprecedented visual biography of the leading pioneers and protagonists of modern art and designJosef - painter, designer, and teacher - and Anni Albers - textile artist and printmaker - are among the twentieth century's most important abstract artists, and this is the first monograph to celebrate the rich creative output and beguiling relationship of these two masters in one elegant volume. It presents their life and work as never before, from their formative years at the Bauhaus in Germany to their remarkable influence at Black Mountain College in the United States through their intensely productive period in Connecticut. Accessibly written, the book is packed with more than 750 artworks, archival images, and documents-many published here for the first time-all tracing the remarkable lives and careers of this legendary couple.
Dispersed throughout area series of short essays on artists that focuses on the Alberses relationship with a number of important artists and architects of the 20th century, like Ruth Asawa, Marcel Breuer, Merce Cunningham, Philip Johnson, Paul Klee, Jacob Lawrence, and many more. The beautifully cloth-bound package utilizes an elegant color palette and design that speaks to the work of both artists. This comprehensive visual biography showcases the artists' rich and dynamic lives, and their infinite influence on each other, as they shared the profound conviction that art was central to human existence.
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Walking With Ghosts: A memoir
'Make no mistake about it: this is a masterpiece . . .
poetic, moving and very funny' -- Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World SpinWalking with Ghosts is a courageous examination of the painful and formative experiences of how Gabriel Byrne became who he is today. With poetic sensibility he recalls the people, landscapes and culture that have influenced his life and work. Defiantly original, this is both a candid exploration of the ambivalence of fame, and a lyrical often heartbreaking account of boyhood in an Ireland now largely disappeared.
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My jsme Lollipopz
Jsme Lollipopz a teprve když nás poznáš, dostane tvůj život tu správnou barvu! Jsme čtyři veselé a bláznivé holky a ať už točíme videa na YouTube nebo zpíváme na koncertě, máme jasný cíl: předat svou energii našim úžasným fanouškům. Teď máš jedinečnou příležitost, aby ses o nás dozvěděla první i poslední: Co máme rády a co ne? Jak vypadalo naše dětství? Jací se nám líbí kluci? Lollymánie plná těch nejbláznivějších zajímavostí startuje právě teď!
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ABBA
ABBA, legendární popová skupina ze Švédska, ovládla celosvětovou hudební scénu v 70. letech 20. století. Její věhlas však neutichá ani ve 21. století, a to nejen díky nesmrtelným hitům, jakými jsou Dancing Queen či The Winners Takes It All, ale i zásluhou nově vzniklých projektů, především muzikálů Mamma mia! a Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Čtenář se v knize dozví spoustu informací ze zákulisí skupiny, ať už se jedná o tvorbu písní, vznik kostýmů nebo osobní životy protagonistů. Knihy z edice Ikony vzdávají hold osobnostem moderní hudební scény, jejichž životní a umělecká dráha je představena pomocí poutavých textů ve formě reportáže, množství fotografií i krátkého dokumentu na přiloženém DVD.
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Lacná kniha Michael Jackson: Ilustrovaný životopis (-70%)
Michael Jackson je, byl a bude králem popu. Jeho kariéra byla zářná, hity nezapomenutelné a úspěchy nezpochybnitelné. Provázelo ho však i mnoho kontroverzí pojících se s jeho vzhledem, nešťastně prožitým mládím i podezřením ze zneužívání dětí na jeho slavném ranči Neverland. Ponořte se do příběhu vykreslujícího osud jednoho z nejslavnějších zpěváků a showmanů všech dob, který se vám bude před očima odvíjet nejen prostřednictvím poutavého vyprávění, ale i působivých ilustrací.
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Slowhand
Eric Clapton is acknowledged to be rock's greatest virtuoso, the unrivalled master of its most essential tool, the solid-body electric guitar. Clapton transfigured three of the 1960s' most iconic bands, the Yardbirds, Cream and Blind Faith, walking away from each when it failed to measure up to his exacting standards. He was the only outsider be an honorary member of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and the studio musician of choice for solo superstars from Bob Dylan to Aretha Franklin.
Yet even as a rock god in excelsis, his true passion was always the blues. Even his own blues heroes, the likes of Muddy Waters, B. B.
King and Buddy Guy, would recognise the supremacy of this wispy white boy from the English county of Surrey. No life has been more rock 'n' roll than Clapton's in his epic consumption of drugs and alcohol, his insatiable appetite for expensive cars, clothes, and women - most famously revealed when he fell in love with Pattie Boyd, the wife of his best friend, George Harrison, and the inspiration for 'Layla'. With the benefit of unrestricted access to family members, close friends and fellow musicians, and his encyclopedic knowledge of sixties music and culture, Philip Norman has written the definitive portrait of the insecure, often pain-racked man.
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Not for You - Pearl Jam and the Present Tense
There has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded eleven studio albums; sold some 85 million records; played over a thousand shows, in fifty countries; and had five different albums reach number one. But Pearl Jam's story is about much more than music.
Through resilience, integrity, and sheer force of will, they transcended several eras, and shaped the way a whole generation thought about music. Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense is the first full-length biography of America's preeminent band, from Ten to Gigaton. A study of their role in history - from Operation Desert Storm to the Dixie Chicks; "Jeremy" to Columbine; Kurt Cobain to Chris Cornell; Ticketmaster to Trump - Not for You explores the band's origins and evolution over thirty years of American culture.
It starts with their founding, and the eruption of grunge, in 1991; continues through their golden age (Vs., Vitalogy, No Code, and Yield); their middle period (Binaural, Riot Act); and the more divisive recent catalog. Along the way, it considers the band's activism, idealism, and impact, from "W.M.A." to the Battle of Seattle and Body of War. More than the first critical study, Not for You is a tribute to a famously obsessive fan base, in the spirit of Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch.
It's an old-fashioned - if, at times, ambivalent - appreciation; a reflection on pleasure, fandom, and guilt; and an essay on the nature of adolescence, nostalgia, and adulthood. Partly social history, partly autobiography, and entirely outspoken, discursive, and droll, Not for You is the first full-length treatment of Pearl Jam's odyssey and importance in the culture, from the '90s to the present.
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John & Yoko Plastic Ono Band
Described by Lennon as 'the best thing I've ever done', and widely regarded by critics as his best solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was released on 11 December 1970. With first-hand commentary by Lennon, Ono and other members of the Plastic Ono Band, and packed with previously unseen photographs by those who documented their lives, this incisive volume offers new insights into the raw emotions and open mindset of Lennon after marriage to Ono and the break-up of the Beatles. Following their wedding in March 1969, Lennon and Ono decided that their future musical endeavours should be credited to a conceptual vehicle, the Plastic Ono Band.
The band featured an ever-changing line-up of musicians, including Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann, Ringo Starr, Alan White, George Harrison, Billy Preston and Jim Keltner, all of whom played live with Lennon and Ono, and contributed to their recordings. This period of intense personal soul-searching and fearless honesty that John & Yoko inspired in one another had a huge impact on Lennon's song writing, resulting in the creation of tracks that are intensely personal and unlike anything previously heard in popular music, including 'Mother', 'Working Class Hero' and 'God'. This book takes those lyrics as a starting point and explores Lennon's life, career and world view.
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Lacná kniha Michal Prokop - ztráty a návraty (-90%)
Název vzpomínek rockového zpěváka Michala Prokopa ZTRÁTY A NÁVRATY přesně vystihuje jeho více než padesátiletou kariéru. Publicista Michal Bystrov se s ním setkával téměř dva roky. Vznikla tak kniha, která podrobně mapuje hudebníkův osobní i umělecký život. Nechybí pohled na Prokopovo desetileté působení v politice i moderování televizního pořadu Krásný ztráty. Stěžejní však zůstávají muzika a lidé kolem ní.
Knižní rozhovor opisuje obdivuhodný oblouk od anglicky zpívaného debutového alba Blues In Soul přes spolupráci s Josefem Kainarem na desce Město Er a přes léta tápání v popíku až ke šťastnému objevu té pravé pěvecké polohy. Uprostřed šedivého husákovského Československa se v roce 1984 zrodil nový Michal Prokop, jehož písně plné městské lyriky zlidověly. Tisíce návštěvníků jeho koncertů s ním dodnes zpívají nejen Funebráky a Bitvu o Karlův most, ale i další hity, které zalezly pod kůži několika generacím posluchačů.
Knihu v grafické úpravě Karla Halouna a Luďka Kubíka zahajuje předmluva Jiřího Černého. Najdeme v ní i komentáře Prokopových kolegů, diskografii, řadu fotografií a dobových dokumentů. Michal Prokop ji uzavírá stručně: Měl jsem v životě asi kliku, protože až na několik smolných let se mi podařilo pracovat v profesi, která je zároveň mým koníčkem, a potkal jsem úžasné lidi.
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Kamarádství nejmíň na půl století * Předehra 2020 * Hold On Im Coming * I Believe To My Soul * Svět naruby * Noc je můj den * Co dodnes vím * Zaklínám * Dopis Josefu Márovi * Svítá * Stará píseň * O písňových textech Jiřího Žáčka * Nitky * Zastavte svět * Odněkud někam * Nic ve zlým, nic v dobrým * V baru jménem Krásný ztráty * Poprvé naposledy * Nebe, nebo cesta do pekel * Epilog * Michal Prokop rok po roce * Pár vzpomínek navíc * Autorská poznámka * Diskografie * Jmenný rejstřík * Názvový rejstřík
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Greenlights
From the Academy Award(R)-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.
I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair.
How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less.
How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life.
How to be more me.
Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call 'catching greenlights.'
So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far.
This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.
Hopefully, it's medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot's license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.
It's a love letter.
To life.
It's also a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
Good luck.
Jazzová baronka
Pannonica „Nica“ Rothschildová měla na první pohled vše – vznešený původ, milující rodinu a nevyčerpatelné bohatství. To všechno se ale změnilo, když poprvé uslyšela skladbu ‘Round Midnight v podání jazzové legendy Theloniouse Monka. Jako uhranuta kouzlem se rozhodla opustit své nejbližší i jistotu rodinného zázemí Rothschildů a vydala se do Spojených států geniálního jazzmana vyhledat.
Newyorská společnost živelnou Evropanku mezi sebe nepřijala, ale hudebníci ano. Nalezla u nich otevřenost a přátelství a oni v ní inspiraci a podporu. Její kabriolet běžně zdobil parkoviště jazzových klubů, kde trávila veškerý čas, zatímco popíjela whiskey z placatky maskované jako bible. Největší ranou pro její už tak pošramocenou pověst byla smrt drogově závislého saxofonisty Charlieho Parkera v jejím bytě. To se ale nijak nepodepsalo na její vzpurné povaze. Ani na lásce, s jakou pečovala o Monka až do jeho smrti v roce 1982.
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Janis - Her Life and Music
It's been said Janis Joplin was second only to Bob Dylan as the 'creator-recorder-embodiment of her generation's mythology'. But how did a middle-class girl from Texas become a '60s countercultural icon?
Janis' parents doted on her and promoted her early talent for art. But the arrival of a brother shattered the bond she had with her intellectual maverick of a father, an oil engineer. And her own maverick instincts alienated her from her socially conformist mother. That break with her parents, along with the rejection of her high school peers, who disapproved of her beatnik look and racially progressive views, and wrongly assumed she was sexually promiscuous, cemented her sense of herself as an outcast. She found her tribe with a group of offbeat young men a year ahead of her, who loved her intellectual curiosity, her passion for conversation, and her adventurous search for the blues. Although she never stopped craving the approval of her parents and hometown, she left Port Arthur at seventeen determined to prove she could be loved.
She tried college twice, and dropped out both times. She ran off to California, but came back when her heavy drug use scared her into it. She almost signed up for a life as a domesticated, hang-the-curtains wife. But instead, during a second stint on the West Coast, she launched a career that would see her crowned the queen of rock and roll.
What no one besides Holly George-Warren has captured in such intimate detail is the way Janis Joplin teetered between the powerful woman you hear in her songs and the little girl who just wanted to go home and feel emotionally safe there. The pain of that dichotomy fuelled her music - and ultimately killed her.
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V kategórii životopisov osobností z oblasti umenia nájdete široký výber kvalitných biografických kníh, ktoré vám umožnia hlbšie sa ponoriť do životov a tvorby umelcov zo všetkých oblastí umenia.
Biografie sú starostlivo vybrané, aby sme vám priniesli príbehy a príklady života umelcov, ktorí sa stali ikonami a inšpiráciou pre iných. Snažíme sa zachytiť ich cesty, od ich skromných začiatkov, cez všetky prekážky až po ich úspechy. Všetky naše knihy sú prevedené s láskou a starostlivosťou, s využitím bohatej zbierky fotografického materiálu, ktorý dodáva život a autenticitu týmto príbehom.
Naším cieľom je priniesť vám príbehy umelcov, ktorí vytvárajú umenie rôznymi spôsobmi - od maľby a sochárstva po hudbu, tanec a divadlo. Veríme, že tieto príbehy sú cenným zdrojom inšpirácie pre každého, kto sa zaujíma o umenie a jeho tvorcov.
