Presents an illustrated introduction to the life and work of artist Horace Pippin, describing his childhood love for drawing and the World War I injury that challenged his career.

"Aaron Philip's memoir chronicles his extraordinary journey from happy baby in Antigua to confident teen artist in New York City. His honest, often funny stories of triumph -- despite physical difficulties, poverty, and other challenges -- are as inspiring as they are eye-opening"--Front jacket flap.

The story of the first Native American UFC champion Nicco Montano and extreme weight cutting in the UFC.

George started going blind at age 15 from a degenerative eye disease. George lost his central vision and started seeing things that weren't there--eyes floating in the air, extraordinary colors, objects multiplied and reflected back. He triumphed over his blindness by setting the world record in the mile for blind runners, competing in the Olympics for the Disabled, and becoming a full time painter.

"Judy Chicago is America's most dynamic living artist. Her works comprise a dizzying array of media from performance and installation to the glittering table laid for thirty-nine iconic women in The Dinner Party (now permanently housed at the Brooklyn Museum), the groundbreaking Birth Project, and the meticulously researched Holocaust Project. She designed the monumental installation for Dior's 2020 Paris couture show and, in 2019, established the...

"In preparing this highly readable book, Mary Lynn Kotz interviewed nearly everybody who had been important to Rauschenberg over the course of his life. Fresh anecdotes complement those already familiar to Rauschenberg followers, and contributions from the artist further personalize this biography. In this third edition, Kotz provides a look at the ongoing work by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and today's artists to preserve Raushenberg's legacy....

Westmore has been creating characters and disguises for movies and television since the 1960s, but his family has been shaping the visages of stardom since 1917, and the family has been honored by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In this memoir, Westmore shares anecdotes about his years behind the scenes, most notably in creating hundreds of alien characters for over 600 episodes of Star trek in all its iterations.

Anya Liftig grew up with her feet in two very different worlds. While her mother's upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her "holler rat," her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family. Anya spent her childhood school years in Connecticut and her summers in the holler. Shaped by the experience, she would go on to win a scholarship to Yale and become an acclaimed artist, using provocative performances to explore...

Una colección de cartas y escritos privados de Bruce Lee, que ofrece una visión de las muchas facetas de su vida, incluida su poesía, filosofías de vida y sus pensamientos sobre las artes marciales, el amor, la paternidad y la amistad. A collection of Bruce Lee's private letters and writings, offering insight into the many facets of his life -- including his poetry, life philosophies, and his thoughts on martial arts, love, fatherhood, friendship....