When I was little I started writing stories about how I felt.

I wrote for hours sometimes days.

Sometimes I couldn't seem to find the words.

But after all, they came along.

I have been writing for a very long time.

So I decided to share a few stories online.

I decided I wanted to make a book,

with all the stories and poems I wrote.

I call them the tales of my heart because

everything that I write, comes directly from the heart.

Some are deep, some are not.

Some are serious and some funny.

Fo...

Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist, who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life. Brought to life by Simon Doonan, Creative Director for Barneys New York, this new pocket-sized biography tells his inspirational story. Revolutionary and renegade, Keith Haring was an artist for the people, creating an instantly recognisable repertoire of symbols - barking dogs, space-ships, crawling babies, clambering faceless people - which became synonymous with the volatile culture ...

Part of the Lives of the Musicians series: highly readable short biographies of the most popular musicians

In 1988 Dutch journalist Bamber Delver interviewed Leigh Bowery. By then, Leigh wasn’t world-famous yet but a well-known clubber in the underground-scene of London. Leigh’s fashion career was just as wild as it was short-lived: he died in 1994, 33 years old. Decades after his death, Leigh Bowery’s influence is omnipresent. From Alexander McQueen to Cirque du Soleil, from Lady Gaga to the drag queens of RuPaul. In this book 15 artists around the globe admire his guts, his looks and fashi...

Vincent van Gogh used art to express his intensely emotional response to the world around him. Enraptured by the beauty of nature and tormented by the sorrows of human existence, he produced in his tragically short life some of the most powerfully expressive paintings ever seen.

Many have made the mistake of thinking him mad, and he did suffer throughout his life periods of mental anguish. But Van Gogh's paintings are not the works of a madman.

Van Gogh famously sold only one painting during...

Radiant Affinities, The Life and Work of Cornelius McCarthy, auteur Peter Dobson

geïllustreerde biografie van de engelse schilder Cornelius McCarthy, 292 pagina's, Engelstalig.

Radiant Affinities is the first full-length biography of Cornelius McCarthy (1935-2009), a British painter whose work is to be found in private collections worldwide but is still relatively unfamiliar.

This lavishly-illustrated book examines his artistic legacy in the context of the unprecedented social, cultural and po...

A relentless innovator, scoring chart hits while simultaneously incorporating radical and ground-breaking elements into his work. As with all great pop stars, Bowie's image changed with almost every new album release. This appetite for reinvention, both musically and visually, saw him dubbed the 'chameleon of pop'. But Bowie's influence extended well beyond his discography and make-up drawer. His androgynous qualities and public statements on his sexuality proved liberating for those who were...