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Monet (Biographic) by Richard Wiles
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
Many people know that Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a founder of French Impressionism, a master of landscapes who painted Impression, Sunrise, and Water Lilies. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he created the ponds featuring those water lilies and painted 250 oils of them; that his work Water Lily ...Show more
Picasso (Biographic) by Natalia Price-Cabrera; Pablo Picasso
Category: Art and Design | Series: Biographic
Many people know that Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet, a pioneer of Modernism and Cubism whose works include Les Demoiselles D'Avignon. What, perhaps, they don't know is that his full name is 23 words long; that he painted 15 different versions of Les Femme ...Show more
Quentin Tarantino: A Graphic Biography by Michele Botton
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: BioGraphics Ser.
Unofficial and unauthorised. "When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'No, I went to films'" From the set of 1993's Pulp Fiction, to a bar room meeting with Robert Rodriguez and an inspirational lunch with Leonardo di Caprio, this unique graphic novel takes us across a series of Holl ...Show more
Rembrandt: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Sophie Collins
Category: Art and Design | Series: Biographic
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots. Many people know that Rembr ...Show more
Shakespeare Biographic Great Lives in Graphic Form by Viv Croot
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
The Biographies series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid snapshots. The result is a quickfir ...Show more
Sherlock - Great Lives in Graphic Form by V. I. V. CROOT
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic Ser.
Many people know that Sherlock Holmes was an enigmatic detective who, with his companion Dr. Watson, pursued criminals through Victorian and Edwardian England. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he investigated 60 fully documented cases, including 37 murders; that 46 of those cases began in his offi ...Show more
Van Gogh (Biographic) by Sophie Collins
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
Many people know that Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was a 19th-century Dutch artist, a leading light of the Post-Impressionist movement who painted 'Sunflowers' and cut off his own ear. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he sold, in his lifetime, only one of the 2,100 artworks he painted; that, in 1998 ...Show more