C'était l'été de la mort de Coltrane, l'été de l'amour et des émeutes, quand une rencontre fortuite à Brooklyn guida deux jeunes gens dans la vie de bohème, sur la voie de l'art. Patti Smith et Robert Mapplethorpe avaient vingt ans ; elle deviendrait poète et performeuse, il serait photographe. À cette époque d'intense créativité, les univers de la poésie, du rock and roll et du sexe s'entrechoquent. Le couple fréquente la cour d'Andy Warhol, intègre au Chelsea Hotel une communauté d'artistes et de marginaux hauts en couleur, croise Allen Ginsberg, Janis Joplin, Lou Reed.
Just Kids commence comme une histoire d'amour et finit comme une élégie, brossant un inoubliable instantané du New York des années 1960-1970. Avec pudeur et émotion, Patti Smith retrace l'ascension de deux gamins inséparables qui insufflèrent la même énergie à leur vie qu'à leur art.
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C'est une histoire d'obsession qui anime Patti Smith. Une obsession créatrice, que l'on retrouve sous différentes formes dans cet ouvrage très personnel. De passage à Paris, l'artiste observe tout et absorbe tout. À la manière d'un journal intime, elle retranscrit ses impressions qui viendront nourrir « Dévotion », la nouvelle qui compose le coeur du livre et lui donne son titre. C'est en quittant la capitale à bord d'un train que l'inspiration la saisit. L'histoire d'une jeune fille et de son obsession pour le patin à glace; celle d'un homme à l'intelligence cruelle, obnubilé par sa quête d'objets précieux. L'oeuf au plat parfaitement rond du café de Flore où elle a pris son petit déjeuner la veille se transforme alors en étang gelé. L'esprit libre de Simone Weil dont elle a recherché la tombe quelques jours plus tôt se réincarne dans l'énigmatique personnage d'Eugenia. Dans ce conte poétique et glaçant, Patti Smith revisite le Faust de Goethe au féminin. Enfin, l'auteur achève son voyage en se rendant dans la maison familiale d'Albert Camus, où elle est autorisée à parcourir le manuscrit inachevé du Premier Homme, la rapprochant un instant de l'un de ses grands modèles. Un aperçu émouvant de son processus d'écriture mais aussi une réflexion sur ce qui la pousse à écrire, encore et toujours.
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Patti Smith a qualifié ce livre de «carte de mon existence». En dix-huit «stations», elle nous entraîne dans un voyage qui traverse le paysage de ses aspirations et de son inspiration, par le prisme des cafés et autres lieux qu'elle a visités de par le globe.
M Train débute au 'Ino, le petit bar de Greenwich Village où elle va chaque matin boire son café noir, méditer sur le monde tel qu'il est ou tel qu'il fut, et écrire dans son carnet.
En passant par la Casa Azul de Frida Kahlo dans la banlieue de Mexico, par les tombes de Genet, Rimbaud, Mishima, ou encore par un bungalow délabré en bord de mer, à New York, qu'elle a acheté juste avant le passage dévastateur de l'ouragan Sandy, Patti Smith nous propose un itinéraire flottant au coeur de ses références (on croise Murakami, Blake, Bolaño, Sebald, Burroughs... ) et des événements de sa vie.
Écrit dans une prose fluide et subtile qui oscille entre rêve et réalité, passé et présent, évocations de son engagement artistique et de la perte tragique de son mari - le guitariste Fred «Sonic» Smith -, M Train est une réflexion sur le deuil et l'espoir, le passage du temps et le souvenir, la création, les séries policières, la littérature, le café...
Après Glaneurs de rêves (Gallimard, 2014), Patti Smith nous propose un nouveau livre inclassable, profondément sensible et sincère, illustré par les photographies en noir et blanc qu'elle prend depuis toujours, et qui confirme qu'elle est l'une des artistes actuelles les plus singulières et indépendantes...
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Rip It Up and Start Again s'attache à des groupes comme PIL, Devo, Joy Division, Talking Heads ou Cabaret Voltaire, soit le post-punk qui émerge après la séparation des Sex Pistols jusqu'à l'explosion de MTV. Des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, ces groupes délaissent le rétro-rock pour les musiques noires et électroniques, expérimentent sur les plans sonore, graphique, vestimentaire, théorique, voire économique - le problème du "compromis" commercial est alors crucial. La New Pop dans la seconde partie du livre, avec Madness, Human League, Siouxsie & The Banshees ou New Order s'avère quant à elle moins radicale, plus dansante ou spectaculaire.
Rip It Up and Start Again constitue le premier document exhaustif sur une des périodes les plus passionnantes de l'histoire du rock.
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" Se raconter est une drôle d'affaire. Dans un projet comme celui-ci, l'auteur fait une promesse : laisser le lecteur entrer dans sa tête. C'est ce que j'ai essayé de faire au fil de ces pages ". Bruce Springsteen dans les pages de Born to Run. En 2009, Bruce Springsteen et le E Street Band jouent à la mi-temps du Super Bowl. L'expérience est tellement grisante que Bruce décide d'écrire à ce sujet.
C'est ainsi qu'a commencé cette extraordinaire autobiographie. Au cours des sept années écoulées, Bruce Springsteen s'est, en secret, consacré à l'écriture de l'histoire de sa vie, apportant à ces pages l'honnêteté, l'humour et l'originalité qu'on retrouve dans ses chansons. Il décrit son enfance, dans l'atmosphère catholique de Freehold, New Jersey, la poésie, le danger et les forces sombres qui alimentaient son imagination, jusqu'au moment qu'il appelle Le Big Bang : la première fois qu'Elvis Presley passe à la télévision, au Ed Sullivan Show.
Il raconte d'une manière saisissante l'énergie implacable qu'il a déployée pour devenir musicien, ses débuts dans des groupes de bar à Asbury Park et la naissance du E Street Band. Avec une sincérité désarmante, il raconte aussi pour la première fois les luttes personnelles qui ont inspiré le meilleur de son oeuvre et nous montre que la chanson Born to Run révèle bien plus que ce qu'on croyait. Born to Run sera une révélation pour quiconque apprécie Bruce Springsteen, mais c'est bien plus que le témoignage d'une rock star légendaire.
C'est un livre pour les travailleurs et les rêveurs, les parents et les enfants, les amoureux et les solitaires, les artistes, les dingues et quiconque ayant un jour voulu être baptisé dans les eaux bénies du rock'n'roll. Rarement un artiste avait raconté son histoire avec une telle force et un tel souffle. Comme nombre de ses chansons (Thunder Road, Badlands, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, Born in the USA, The Rising, The Ghost of Tom Joad, pour n'en citer que quelques-unes), l'autobiographie de Bruce Springsteen est écrite avec le lyrisme d'un auteur/compositeur singulier et la sagesse d'un homme qui a profondément réfléchi à ses expériences.
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An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

Une Impala fonce dans le désert de l'Arkansas. Keith Richards est au volant. Avec lui, des amis et quelques substances : hasch, coke et peyotl. En cet été 1975, les Rolling Stones forment déjà le groupe de rock le plus dangereux de la planète. Bien sûr les histoires de dope, les filles évanouies, les arrestations, on connaît. Mais quand Keith Richards raconte l'épopée à sa façon, on touche au mythe.

Keith Richards est né à Londres en 1943. Guitariste, chanteur et cofondateur des Rolling Stones, il a aussi enregistré des albums solo avec son groupe les X-Pensive Winos. Il vit dans le Connecticut avec sa femme, Patti Hansen.

Kim Gordon, membre fondateur de Sonic Youth et modèle pour toute une génération raconte sa vie d'artiste. De son adolescence dans la Californie des années 1960, elle emmène le lecteur dans le New York des années 1980 qui vit apparaître le post punk, le noise et la no wave, creuset qui permit à Sonic Youth de prendre son envol. C'est à cette époque qu'ils participèrent à un renouveau du rock qui pava la route de groupes aussi importants que Nirvana. Ce livre explore l'évolution de Kim Gordon dans le milieu de la musique et des arts et les différentes facettes du personnage, entre énergie brute - dans sa musique et sur scène - et vie de famille. Cet ouvrage rythmé par le spectacle d'une société en pleine évolution plonge le lecteur dans l'intimité d'une grande artiste.
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David Bowie : A life est une biographie kaléidoscope acclamée à travers le monde, articulée autour de plus de 180 interviews compilées de 1947 à sa mort. Dylan Jones livre des témoignages de première main : amis, rivaux, amants, maîtresses ou encore collaborateurs de l'artiste, s'exprimant parfois pour la première fois.
Le journaliste relate les détails de la vie de Bowie, de sa banlieue londonienne de naissance en passant par New York, Los Angeles, Berlin et tous les lieux où il a puisé les innombrables inspirations qui ont façonné son immense carrière. Les anecdotes vont de la chambre à coucher au studio d'enregistrement et nous dessinent les multiples facettes de cet être aussi tourmenté qu'exceptionnel. Bowie lui-même se prête à l'exercice avec de nombreux entretiens donnés à Dylan Jones. Plus qu'une biographie, ce livre retrace le cheminement, souvent tortueux, parfois cruel, mais toujours fascinant de cet artiste unique et inoubliable.
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Ce volume présente toutes les paroles des chansons de Nick Cave couvrant toute sa carrière, de 1978 à 2013, de son écriture pour The Birthday Party en passant par les très acclamées Murder Ballads et The Boatman's Call, jusqu'au récent travail avec Grinderman et son album de 2013, Push the Sky Away, le tout revu et mis à jour par la rock star culte. Réunis en un seul volume, ces paroles constituent l'une des réalisations les plus marquantes de la musique contemporaine: alternant entre le cynique et le sanguin, le vaincu et le rebelle, Nick Cave traite de l'amour, de la guerre, de la beauté, des enfants, de la romance, du rejet,

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids 'Magical' GUARDIAN 'A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence - expressed with Smith's signature poetic flair' VOGUE 'Extraordinary ... A tense, teasing mix of reality and dream' Sunday Times 'A melancholy mood and poetic language distinguish Smith's third memoir' BBC 'Her willingness to look closely at life's closing chapters makes for a magical book' WASHINGTON POST, 'The 10 books to read in September' Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland, with no design yet heeding signs, including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey." For Patti Smith - inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America.

Smith melds the Western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from Southern California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places - this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment. But as Patti Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope of a better world.

Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.
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Bono - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he''s lived, the challenges he''s faced and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. ''When I started to write this book I was hoping to draw in detail what I''d previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim''s lack of progress ... With a fair amount of fun along the way.'' - Bono As one of the music world''s most iconic artists and the cofounder of organizations ONE and (RED), Bono''s career has been written about extensively. But in Surrender , it''s Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has shared it with. In his unique voice, Bono takes us from his early days growing up in Dublin, including the sudden loss of his mother when he was 14, to U2''s unlikely journey to become one of the world''s most influential rock bands, to his more than 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty. Writing with candour, self-reflection, and humour, Bono opens the aperture on his life - and the family, friends and faith that have sustained, challenged and shaped him. Surrender''s subtitle, "40 Songs, One Story," is a nod to the book''s 40 chapters, which are each named after a U2 song. Bono has also created 40 original drawings for Surrender which will appear throughout the book. Lire la suite Fermer

Drawn from over forty hours of interviews, Faith, Hope and Carnage is a thoughtful book about Nick Cave''s inner life over the last six years, a meditation on big ideas including, faith, art, music, grief and much more.>

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylans first book of new writing since 2004s Chronicles: Volume One -- and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a masterclass on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyses what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylans unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the works transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways , Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years and, like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement. Lire la suite Fermer

So, Ive written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (Its a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that Ive recorded and cant wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. This certainly doesnt mean that Im quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what its like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters , jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard , to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughtersthe list goes on. I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement. Lire la suite Fermer

Billie Eilish est le phénomène pop mondial du 21e siècle. Sa personnalité sans compromis et ses qualités de musicienne ont permis à ses chansons de battre tous les records de streams et à sa musique d'obtenir de multiples récompenses. Il n'est pas surprenant qu'elle soit devenue l'une des artistes les plus importantes et les plus aimées de sa génération.

Dans ce premier livre - un étonnant voyage narratif visuel à travers sa vie - Billie est pour la première fois prête à partager davantage avec son public, y compris des centaines de photos inédites. Ce magnifique livre a réussi à capturer l'essence-même de Billie, offrant aux lecteurs un aperçu intime de son enfance, de sa vie en tournée, et plus encore. C'est un must have pour tous les fans.

À propos de son premier livre, Billie Eilish a déclaré : « Pendant des mois, j'ai passé de nombreuses heures à parcourir mes albums de famille et mes archives, en sélectionnant toutes les photos de ce livre. J'espère que vous l'aimerez autant que moi ».
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Patti's Smith's exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir, Just Kids . New York locations vividly come to life where, as young artists, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met and fell in love: a first apartment in Brooklyn, Times Square with John and Yoko's iconic billboard, Max's Kansas City, or the gritty fire escape of the Hotel Chelsea. The extraordinary people who passed through their lives are also pictured: Sam Shepard, Harry Smith, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg. Along with never-before-published photographs, drawings, and ephemera, this edition captures a moment in New York when everything was possible. And when two kids seized their destinies as artists and soul mates in this inspired story of love and friendship.
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The global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller and artist finally tells the unfiltered story of her life in The Meaning of Mariah Carey . It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams - that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my career and very public personal life, it''s been impossible to communicate the complexities and depths of my experience in any single magazine article or a ten-minute television interview. And even then, my words were filtered through someone else''s lens, largely satisfying someone else''s assignment to define me. This book is composed of my memories, my mishaps, my struggles, my survival and my songs. Unfiltered. I went deep into my childhood and gave the scared little girl inside of me a big voice. I let the abandoned and ambitious adolescent have her say, and the betrayed and triumphant woman I became tell her side. Writing this memoir was incredibly hard, humbling and healing. My sincere hope is that you are moved to a new understanding, not only about me, but also about the resilience of the human spirit. Love, Mariah
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Jarvis Cocker is a musician & broadcaster from the north of England. He formed the band Pulp in 1978 whilst at secondary school. They went on to become one of the most successful UK groups of the 1990s. Between 2009 & 2017 he presented the BBC 6Music programme "Jarvis Cocker''s Sunday Service" as well as the ongoing, award-winning BBC Radio 4 documentary series "Wireless Nights". He has honorary doctorates from both Sheffield Hallam University & Central Saint Martin''s School of Art (which he attended 1988-91). His lyric collection "Mother, Brother, Lover" was published by Faber in 2011. "Good Pop, Bad Pop " is his first work of long-form prose. He divides his time between Paris, London & the Peak District. His star-sign is Virgo.> Lire la suite Fermer

Created in collaboration with the estate of Jim Morrison and inspired by a posthumously discovered list written by Morrison entitled "Plan for Book," The Collected Works of Jim Morrison is a landmark publication featuring both published and unpublished poems, prose, and lyrics and more than 200 personal color and black-and-white photographs, drawings, journal excerpts, notes and lyrics in his own hand; plus a bound-in 16-page facsimile pamphlet of one of Morrison''s self-published poems and a transcript of a poetry reading recorded on what would be his final birthday. "Morrison wrote that ''we had a great visitation of energy,'' proclaimed that ''the ancient ones'' time has come again,'' urged readers to ''enter again the sweet forest/enter the hot dream.'' While he deliberately drove down toad-squirmy backroads of primal terror, ecstasy was often naked in the shotgun seat, spinning jeweled pinwheels, peeling a peach."--Tom Robbins, from his foreword, "Fireflies of the Apocalypse" Jim Morrison was thrust into what he considered accidental stardom in the 1960s as the lead vocalist of The Doors. Fifty years after his passing his legend endures, inspiring legions of fans and musicians. But this electrifying performer who lit the world on fire considered himself foremost a writer, a talent brilliantly demonstrated in his vast output of poetry and song lyrics. The Collected Works of Jim Morrison is the book Jim Morrison wanted to publish. This definitive opus of his creative output--designed by the renowned firm Pentagram--includes verse and prose poems; never-before-seen personal journal entries written in Morrison''s own hand, drawings, unpublished work, revisions of previously published poetry, transcripts, published and unpublished song lyrics, and more. Accompanying them is the transcript of The Village Recorder tapes--the selection of poems Morrison recorded on his birthday on December 8, 1970. This remarkable collector''s item includes: Foreword by Tom Robbins Introduction by Anne Morrison Chewning Published Poems and Writings: Pony Express; Horse Latitudes; Eyes; The Anatomy of Rock; The Celebration of the Lizard; Dry Water Self-Published Poems and Writings: The New Creatures; The Lords: Notes on Vision; An American Prayer; Ode to LA While Thinking of Brian Jones, Deceased Selections from Notebooks, Journals, and Loose Pages: The American Night; Tape Noon; Miami Trial Notebooks; the Paris Journal; Notebook and Journal Poems; Loose Page Poems Poetry Recording Transcripts: The Elektra Tapes; The Village Recorder Tapes Film Treatment: The Hitchhiker Published and Unpublished Song Lyrics Epilogue: As I Look Back An array of images from the Morrison archive--family photographs; candid pictures in the recording studio, on the road, both on stage and off; sketches and drawings; stills from Morrison''s never-released film HWY. Handwritten materials--excerpts from the numerous journals Morrison kept, including the notebook he wrote in while on trial in Miami and from his final days in Paris, as well as various excerpts, single pages, loose notes, and lyrics.
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"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Billie Holiday is no victim. Her memoir tells the story of her life spent in jazz, smoky Harlem clubs and packed-out concert halls, her love affairs, her wildly creative friends, her struggles with addiction and her adventures in love. Billie Holiday is a wise and aphoristic guide to the story of her unforgettable life.

An upcoming title from Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

''I was saying things in songs that female singers didn''t really say back then. I wasn''t submissive or begging him to come back, I was kicking his ass, kicking him out, kicking my own ass too. My Blondie character was an inflatable doll but with a dark, provocative, aggressive side. I was playing it up, yet I was very serious.'' BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL AND BORN TO BE PUNK DEBBIE HARRY is a musician, actor, activist and the iconic face of New York City cool. As the front-woman of Blondie, she and the band forged a new sound that brought together the worlds of rock, punk, disco, reggae and hip-hop to create some of the most beloved pop songs of all time. As a muse, she collaborated with some of the boldest artists of the past four decades. The scope of Debbie Harry''s impact on our culture has been matched only by her reticence to reveal her rich inner life - until now.
In an arresting mix of visceral, soulful storytelling and stunning visuals that includes never-before-seen photographs, bespoke illustrations and fan art installations, Face It upends the standard music memoir while delivering a truly prismatic portrait. With all the grit, grime, and glory recounted in intimate detail, Face It recreates the downtown scene of 1970s New York City, where Blondie played alongside the Ramones, Television, Talking Heads, Iggy Pop and David Bowie.
Following her path from glorious commercial success to heroin addiction, the near-death of partner Chris Stein, a heart-wrenching bankruptcy, and Blondie''s break-up as a band to her multifaceted acting career in more than thirty films, a stunning solo career and the triumphant return of her band, and her tireless advocacy for the environment and LGBTQ rights, Face It is a cinematic story of a woman who made her own path, and set the standard for a generation of artists who followed in her footsteps - a memoir as dynamic as its subject. Lire la suite Fermer