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Biography: arts and entertainment

Lives of Blake

Henry Crabb Robinson

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The definitive biography: Tomlinson has been working on Goya for decades. Illustrated.

Goya: A Portrait of the Artist

Janis Tomlinson

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A provocative account of her well-lived life that exposes the profound misogyny of the music industry.

Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

Tanya Pearson

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An exploration of the friendship and rivalry of these two poets, who met weekly at the Ritz (for a while) to discuss sex, suicide, mental health and other mutual preoccupations.

Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath an ...

Gail Crowther

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Raised in Nazi Germany, at 18, Wulff Scherchen was Britten's muse and lover. When the composer went to the USA during the war, Wulff was interned as an enemy alien and transported to Canada,... read more

WULFF: Britten’s Young Apollo

Tony Scotland

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From humble beginnings to an artist and innovator who achieved far more than the scenes of roistering scenes for which he is mostly associated.

Hogarth: Life in Progress

Jacqueline Riding

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It should come as no surprise that Beaton's biographer, and author of many other fine books on society subjects, should himself have personal diaries to share with his readers... (Not to be ... read more

Malice in Wonderland: My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton ...

Hugo Vickers

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A biography of the man so vividly presented in Robert Edric's 2008 novel 'In Zodiac Light': the poet and composer who, following his experiences as a soldier in WW1, was confined to an asylu... read more

Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney

Kate Kennedy

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This magnificent book - which takes its title from a remark of the singer Josephine Baker - gives us the cultural landscape of black genius from the mid C20th to the present. We are in extr... read more

A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance ...

Hanif Abdurraqib

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Definitive biography of this determinedly figurative painter whose 20th century life, through suffrage to feminism, won her a major retrospective at the Whitney, New York in 1974.

Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

Phoebe Hoban

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Looks at unpublished correspondence to bring the three sisters out from the shadows of their brothers (Theo, as well as Vincent).

The Van Gogh Sisters

Willem-Jan Verlinden

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Long anticipated voyage through the overlapping currents of nature, life and art. PH won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Leviathan, or The Whale; here he attempts to answer why Durer's art endu... read more

Albert and the Whale

Philip Hoare

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A biography of the fine watercolourist renowned for his pastoral evocations of rural England between the wars and who served as War Artist in WW2. Illustrated throughout.

Thomas Hennell: The Land and the Mind

Jessica Kilburn

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In the early 20th century an easily overlooked square in Bloomsbury was the home, at one time or another, of the modernist poet H.D., Dorothy L Sayers, the classicist Jane Harrison, the hist... read more

Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars ...

Francesca Wade

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The interviews underpinning this magnificent, substantial biography include many with Stoppard himself.

Tom Stoppard: A Life

Professor Dame Hermione Lee

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A curator of fashion at the V&A for most of her working life, CW uses her experience and sensitivity to clothes to explore how, in her own family's life, the secrets of clothes measure out t... read more

Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

Claire Wilcox

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The definitive biography: Tomlinson has been working on Goya for decades. Illustrated.

Goya: A Portrait of the Artist

Janis Tomlinson

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A biography, in the excellent 'Yale Jewish Lives' series.

Stanley Kubrick

David Mikics

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A new biography of Hitchcock's leading man.

Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise

Scott Eyman

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An exploration of the political aspects of Beethoven's music.

Beethoven

William Kinderman

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There are seven exceptionally talented siblings in this family of musicians, and they went to a state comprehensive in Nottingham before all moving to the Royal Academy of Music. This is the... read more

House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons

Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason

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Relates his music to biographical episodes in illuminating and engaging ways.

Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces

Laura Tunbridge

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Revives a forgotten figure of the art world in London and Venice following WW2.

Arthur Jeffress: A Life in Art

Gill Hedley

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An exploration of the art, personalities and politics of Baroque Rome seen through the lens of Bernini's elephant carrying an obelisk. Lively, anecdotal and well illustrated.

An Elephant in Rome: Bernini, The Pope and The Making of the Eternal C ...

Loyd Grossman

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From the author of 'Ma'am Darling' and other hoots, a ragbag of tales and thoughts about the Beatles and their circle which somehow adds up to a wonderful account of their charisma and influ... read more

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

Craig Brown

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A biography of the multi-faceted American composer and song-writer; a new addition to the Yale 'Jewish Lives' series.

Irving Berlin: New York Genius

James Kaplan

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RN has written good books on Debussy, Ravel and Messiaen.

Poulenc: A Biography

Roger Nichols

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A biography of the expressionist, translated from the German.

Kokoschka – The Untimely Modernist

Rudiger Goerner

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artSuperb publication from Phaidon tracing seven decades of his influence and innovation.

Philip Johnson: A Visual Biography

Ian Volner

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An incisive post-mortem on the state of the Victorian union, told (with a gossipy thrill) through the lives of five couples - Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, John Ruskin and Effie Gray, Charl... read more

Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages

Phyllis Rose

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A substantial and detailed biography by the well known American art critic (and brother of Adam).

Warhol: A Life as Art

Blake Gopnik

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An exploration and celebration of the composer that becomes increasingly personal.

Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life

Ruth Padel

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Mecklenberg Square in Bloomsbury with Virginia Woolf, H.D., Dorothy L Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison and economic historian Eileen Power.

Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars ...

Francesca Wade

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An exuberant account of the importance to Modernism of what Truman Capote called "the all-time ultimate gallery of famous dykes" in Paris between the wars.

No Modernism Without Lesbians

Diana Souhami

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