Ian Castello Cortes Boeken

Jean-Michel Basquiat is one of the few artists who have achieved mythic status. His work is instantly recognizable; like Picasso, Warhol or Frida Kahlo, his look is imprinted on our psyche. Desperately Seeking Basquiat lets readers explore the most significant locations of his life. We learn that he wasn’t from the ghetto, but from the respectable, professional middle class Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn. He spent time in his mother’s native Puerto Rico as a child. He went to a private school for a few years. And then, yes, he ran away from home and lived with the junkies sleeping rough in Washington Square Park. Full of fascinating locations and scene photos from the heady late ‘70s and ‘80s NYC, Desperately Seeking Basquiat also features great maps, short punchy texts and insightful quotes from Basquiat’s contemporaries. For anyone wanting to know more, much more, about the man behind some of the coolest, most iconic art of the 20th Century, it’s indispensable.

Desperately Seeking Van Gogh adopts a very refreshing new way of looking at the life of this most brilliant of artists: by following in his footsteps around all the locations which meant the most to him and which most influenced his work. We capture the mood of bourgeois respectability of his mother’s family in The Hague, the fields and dyke banks of the sleepy provincial town of Zundert on the Dutch/Belgian border where he grew up, to the boarding schools which he hated. We go with Vincent to The Hague where he was an apprentice art dealer, to his time in England and his dreams of maybe escaping to South America. Brussels, Antwerp, Paris and then to all the detailed locations in Provence, and many more. Every spread features great imagery – both photographic and of Vincent’s works – and a fascinating commentary. For any enthusiast or art history student of Vincent, this title is a must. For anyone new to his work, it is a very accessible, friendly and insightful way to look at his life.

In diesem Buch dreht sich alles um Knuddelhunde und ihre lieben, exzentrischen Besitzer. Promis von Paris Hilton über Madonna bis zu Micky Rourke haben es vorgemacht: Man(n) trägt Hund. Aktuell zeigt sich dieser tierische Trend in den Metropolen von New York über München bis nach Moskau: In Tokio lugen Mini-Chihuahuas aus Gucci-Täschchen, Top-Managerinnen der Upper East Side of Manhattan funkeln mit den Glitzerhalsbändern ihrer Zwergpudel um die Wette und Starfrisöre tragen ihre französische Bulldogge am liebsten in der neuesten Louis Vuitton-Reisetasche spazieren.