Art

*AUDIOBOOK NARRATED BY THE AUTHOR * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From celebrity stylist Erin Walsh, with a foreword written by Anne Hathaway, comes your essential guide to finding your personal style, dressing for your destiny, and manifesting your most magnetic life. "With Erin’s help, I have found...

"The Philosophy of Furniture" is an essay written by American author Edgar Allan Poe and published in 1840. It presents Poe's theories on interior decorating. Poe begins by suggesting that the English are the "supreme" examples of internal decoration, above the Italians, French, Chinese, Scotch, Dutch, Spanish and Russians. "Yankees", he says, "are preposterous". He blames this American failing on a lack of aristocracy by blood, having instead "an aristocracy of dollars".

"The Poetic Principle" is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe, written near the end of his life and published posthumously in 1850, the year after his death. It is a work of literary criticism, in which Poe presents his literary theory. It is based on a series of lectures Poe had given late in his lifetime. The essay argues that a poem should be written "for a poem's sake" and that the ultimate goal of art is aesthetic.

This program is narrated by Academy Award–winning actor, Tilda Swinton. It also contains a new afterword, read by the author. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism #1 Book of the Year from Brain Pickings Named a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop...

From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the gilded halls of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, a tale of stolen treasures and the battle to reclaim a nation’s soul. Amidst the chaos of Cambodia's brutal genocide, a new crime wave emerged—one that would sweep across borders and entangle...

"It is difficult to think of many other books that are at once so brilliant, so wonderfully entertaining, and so moving . . . The Dog’s Gaze is full of exuberant insights about our canine friends, about art, and about the human condition." —Stephen Greenblatt “A splendid blend of histories...

Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and the alternative press, Everything Is Now chron­icles this collective drama as it was played...

In winter of 1912, Henri Matisse was struggling. Once the vanguard leader, the Parisian avant-garde now considered him passé. His important early collectors had stopped buying his work and were fully championing Picasso, and he had exhibited little in the last few years. In the face of Cubism...

If you've walked away from your art or feel like you're about to, you're in good company. For decades, writer-director Ela Thier tried to "make it" in film. She chased greenlights, collected enough pass letters to wallpaper New York City, and waited to get discovered. Meanwhile, a sock puppet named Mr. Stop, who lives in her head, kept urging her to quit. Since accidentally writing How to Fail as an Artist, My Best Tips on a whim, she wrote and directed a feature film starring an Oscar-winning actor, and is in development on three feature films with major attachments.

Commemorating the hundredth anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's birth and with full cooperation of the Monroe estate, an investigation into the literary life of the Hollywood icon and actress, from the author of Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz and Dorothy Parker in Hollywood. Far from the...

didn't grow up painting. I had not picked up a brush since elementary school. I just thought it might be something I'd enjoy trying someday, and then, after a little concentrated class time, I realized there was a basic M.O. connecting all the lessons that could keep me going on my own. I haven't stopped painting and learning since. That's what this book is–A straightforward, repeatable way to take an image you like and turn it into a painting you can enjoy every day, or give away. The approach is simple: break everything down into steps. Choose an image. Sketch the major shapes.

Inside the making of one of the biggest-selling albums of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty-one weeks and won the Grammy for Album of the Year. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the 25th greatest album of all time...

Des récits de mode exceptionnels. Des articles sur le style de vie des célébrités. Des poèmes sur le monde du divertissement.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Nella Francia attraversata dalle tensioni e dalle paure della Rivoluzione, Mathieu Vaudreuil conduce la propria esistenza nel silenzio della sua bottega di ebanista. Tra il profumo del legno, gli strumenti del mestiere e la costruzione di raffinati...

Wie funktioniert Kreativität? Wie hängen Psyche, unser Gehirn und das Talent zu Künstlerischem zusammen? Mit dem Besteck des Neurologen seziert Mario de la Piedra Walter die Kulturgeschichte und zeigt, was es braucht, damit ein Kunstwerk in die Welt kommt. Ob Dostojewski, Frida Kahlo oder Kandinsky – oft sind neurologische Besonderheiten oder Ausprägungen Voraussetzung für herausragende Kunst.

Transform your home—not just how it looks, but how it feels. The Colour & Lighting Handbook is a practical, easy-to-follow guide that shows you how to use color and lighting as powerful tools to shape mood, comfort, and everyday living. Instead of relying on trends or guesswork, this audiobook helps you understand the psychology, emotion, and science behind design decisions—so every room works with your life, not against it.

Ein Sprichwort sagt: "Schreiben besteht zu 10 % aus Talent und zu 90 % aus Schweiß." (Oder Fleiß.) Das bedeutet: Gute Texte kann man "machen" und eine "gute Schreibe" kann man lernen. Alles, was Sie dafür tun müssen, ist: üben, üben, üben. :-) In diesem Selbstlernkurs möchte ich Ihnen die Werkzeuge dafür an die Hand geben. Lernen Sie, wie ein Profi schreibt.

Haberdashery looks at elements of the Rag Trade from Medieval times with the earliest haberdashers of the 1300s to tailoring in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries along with secret pattern making, famous drapers such as famous writer H.G. Wells and the earliest tailoring guidebook of the...

In January 2012, Jordan H Poole moved back to his hometown of Summerville, Georgia with an arguably insane idea: save Howard Finster's Paradise Garden. Finster — Baptist preacher, bicycle repairman, and self-taught visionary artist — had transformed four swampy acres into one of America's...

A poignant and heartfelt memoir uncovering the highs, the lows, and the paintings of an artist with a lifetime of stories to tell. Mary Marquiss invites you into the world behind her canvas and reveals the personal story behind each piece of art. Through serious life challenges, including divorce, family suicide and cancer, Marquiss discovered a relationship with her art in the form of a circular language. Throughout her life, Mary Marquiss has turned to her art as a constant source of inspiration and strength, navigating life’s challenges and changes through her creative expression.