Publication date: 1992-06
Price: $236.00
Review The Life of Richard Wagner / Reprint Services Corp:
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $243.00
Price: $242.98
Review Contemporary Authors, Vol. 187 / Gale Cengage:
Authors
- Barbara Kruger
- Ann Goldstein
- Calif.) Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles
- Rosalyn Deutsche
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 700.92
Price: $40.00
Review Barbara Kruger / Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles:This is the most comprehensive publication ever produced on the work of American artist Barbara Kruger. Kruger, one of the most influential artists of the last three decades, uses pictures and words through a wide variety of media and sites to raise issues of power, sexuality, and representation. Her works include photographic prints on paper and vinyl, etched metal plates, sculpture, video, installations, billboards, posters, magazine and book covers, T-shirts, shopping bags, postcards, and newspaper op-ed pieces. This book serves as the catalog for the first major one-person exhibition of Kruger's work to be mounted in the United States. The book, designed by Lorraine Wild in collaboration with the artist, contains texts by Rosalyn Deutsche, Katherine Dieckmann, Ann Goldstein, Steven Heller, Gary Indiana, Carol Squiers, and Lynne Tillman on subjects associated with Kruger's work, including photography, graphic design, public space, power, and representation, as well as an extensive exhibition history, bibliography, and checklist of the exhibition. The cover features a new piece by Kruger, entitled Thinking of You,created especially for the catalog. The exhibition was organized by Ann Goldstein, curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Copublished with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles October 17, 1999-February 13, 2000 Whitney Museum of American Art New York City July 13-October 22, 2000.
Creator: McKissick Museum
Publication date: 1998-04
Dewey code: 738.092
Price: $20.00
Review I Made This Jar: The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave / McKissick Museum University of South Carolina:
Edition: Limited, Special
Publication date: 2004-11-03
List Price: $320.00
Price: $207.90
Review Virginia Woolf & The Raverats: A Different Sort of Friendship / Clear Books:Jacques Raverat was a French painter who died of MS aged 40 in 1925. In 1911, he had married Gwen Darwin, granddaughter of the evolutionist and also an artist. They knew Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury well and when they moved to the south of France for his health, their friendship blossomed in a series of long and poignant letters. The crucial bond was that between Jacques and Virginia. Their correspondence ranged far and wide. Informed by the depressions and uncertainties, the speculation and passion of their bohemian lives, these letters display a complex affinity between three artists facing their own mortality, their weaknesses and the price of their creativity. It is a friendship whose later substance and passion was entirely expressed by letter. Virginia Woolf & the Raverats is not only a complete record of their correspondence, but includes much previously unpublished material. None of the Raverat letters, the extracts from Gwen Raverat’s other writings, her powerful sketches of her husband on his deathbed, nor Jacques’ paintings have been published before. There are facsimile reproductions of crucial letters, diary and journal entries. [+]Attributes of the Special Limited Edition:Designed by Humphrey Stone, using Dante type;Edited by William Pryor, grandson of the Raverats;44 black and white illustrations: drawings, wood engravings, photographs and facsimile letters;Rounded and backed, marker ribbon, head & tail bands with Damascus green Colorplan endpapers;Quarterbound in cloth with Compton Marbling paper sides, title blocked in gold on spine;Cloth top and tail slipcase with Ingres laid paper wrap;Each slipcase contains a separate numbered Gwen Raverat wood engraving, Vence, La Place en été, which she made at the height of this correspondence in 1923, hand-printed by Simon Lawrence of the Fleece Press, from the original boxwood block.
Authors
- Louis Choris
- Ludwig York Choris
List Price: $54.95
Price: $137.85
Review Journal Des Malers Ludwig York Choris: Herauasgegeben Und Kommentiert Von Niklaus R. Schweizer (German Edition) / Peter Lang Publishing:
Publication date: 1996-10
List Price: $14.99
Price: $230.95
Review George Michael: Fully Illustrated Book & Interview Disc / Music Book Services Corporation:
Publication date: 2006-02-15
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $243.00
Price: $242.98
Review Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide To Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, ... (Contemporary Authors New Revision Series) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 1997-07
Dewey code: 709
Price: $10.95
Review A Life of Its Own: Chris Huntington and the Resurgence of Nova Scotia Folk Art / Art Gallery of Nova Scotia:
Creator: Carol Marsh
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1995-02
Review Darling Ma / ISIS Audio Books:
Publication date: 1964
Review Trumpet on the wing / The Jazz Book CLub, by arrangement with Doubleday:
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2001-05
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $243.00
Price: $238.99
Review Contemporary Authors New Revision, Vol. 95 / Gacl:
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $243.00
Price: $242.98
Review Contemporary Authors New Revision, Vol. 92 / Gacl:
Edition: Fine Ed
Publication date: 1994-08
Dewey code: 709
Price: $45.00
Review Gerard Dillon: An Illustrated Biography / Wolfhound Press (IE):
Publication date: 2004-02
Dewey code: 709
Price: $35.00
Review Boca Rococo: How Addison Mizner Invented Florida's Gold Coast / Diane Pub Co:The rollicking tale of the artist, adventurer, and visionary whose innovative architecture transformed Palm Beach and whose dramatic rise and fall mirrors the larger-than-life excesses of the 1920s. Addison Mizner’s Mediterranean-style mansions—with their stucco walls, tiled roofs, and Moorish accents—are much-admired Florida icons. In Boca Rococo, renowned author and biographer Caroline Seebohm introduces the flamboyant genius behind these pastel palaces. Mizner was a leading San Francisco society figure in the 1890s, joined the Alaska Gold Rush, traveled to China, and made his way to an exploding turn-of-the-century New York. No formal training but huge natural talent established him as architect of the rich and famous. The getaways he designed made Palm Beach America’s most elegant resort—and fed his dream of developing a “Venice-on-the-Ocean” in nearby Boca Raton. Mizner’s plans ended with the collapse of Florida’s real estate boom. He died in 1933, broken and bankrupt. Drawing on a huge cache of untapped materials—including measured plans and an unpublished autobiography—Seebohm restores Mizner to the pantheon of great architects and flamboyant Americans. The title of this pleasingly told biography of Mizner-the hulking bon vivant who designed Spanish-style fantasia homes for the Jazz Age elite of South Florida-advances a general misconception about him: though his name is commonly associated with Boca Raton, he actually designed precious little for that town before his sprawlingly grandiose development scheme there caved in, leaving him broke for the short remainder of his life. [+]Rather, the bulk of his work is in Palm Beach, where he designed countless romantic but shrewdly conceived Spanish Revival homes and estates for the old and new rich who flocked to this tropical "last frontier" in the 1920s. Seebohm accordingly focuses most on this output-from the early residence El Mirasol to the latter Playa Riente, not to mention Mizner's elegant Everglades Club and his own Via Mizner, which in a sense was America's first open-air shopping mall. (Photographs weren't available for review, but they will make up two 16-page inserts, unfortunately in black-and-white; Mizner was a master of intoxicating pastels. ) This isn't a rigid, theoretical sort of monograph, but, then again, Mizner wasn't a rigid, theoretical sort of architect-he had no formal training and (critics have noted) he did nothing to advance architectural idiom like the modernists. His genius was the way in which he parlayed a wildly divergent early career (that included travel in Alaska, China and Guatemala) into what became a vast enterprise in which he not only designed homes, interiors, and landscapes of distinct beauty and coherence, but oversaw and trained a virtual army of workers in the art of buying or reproducing Spanish stucco, tile work, pottery, furniture, and more. Adored in both high society and bohemian circles, his friends included everyone from grand dame Eva Stotesbury, for whom he designed El Mirasol, to composer Irving Berlin. He was also wildly flamboyant, uniquely resilient and adept at self-reinvention, and apparently blessed with a heart as big as his waistline. As such, Mizner lived a life as much about all-American pluck and luck in a heady, doomed decade as it was about architectural sensibility. Those two strands are deftly woven together here in a life story that approaches the same tone of genteel fondness that most of Mizner's rich lady friends routinely employed in recommending him to their ever-richer friends. -Timothy Murphy.
Creator: I. G. Vishnevetskii
Publication date: 2004-05
Dewey code: 891.709003
List Price: $254.00
Price: $253.99
Review Russian Writers of the Silver Age (DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY) / Gacl:
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 709
Price: $55.95
Review Blinky Palermo / Actar/MACBA:Over the course of his 14-year artistic career, Peter Heisterkamp, aka Peter Schwarze, aka Blinky Palermo, tirelessly probed the limits of abstract painting. Having begun his brushwork on more traditional surfaces, he shifted his activity to less conventional supports, experimenting with diverse materials and forms, exploring the relationships that can exist between the wall and the space delimited by the painting. This monograph presents a selection of Palermo's paintings, drawings and engravings, and includes examples taken from the mural he created between 1963 and 1977, the year of his death, and from his installations, among them one he did for the 1976 Venice Biennale, soon to be reconstructed for the accompanying exhibition. Flexi-bound, 8. 5 x 10. 25 in. /272 pgs / 350 color 0 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20239.
Publication date: 1961
Review Great people I have known / Freeman Print:
Edition: Revised & enlarged
Publication date: 1993-02
Dewey code: 782.42168092
Price: $39.95
Review The Songs of Hugo Wolf / Indiana University Press:With a foreword by the legendary accompanist, Gerald Moore, Eric Sams' study (Faber 1961, revised 1983) is a notable landmark in the establishment of Wolf as one of the supreme masters of German song. Comprehensively revised and enlarged in 1983, the main subject matter remains the 242 published songs that Wolf wrote for voice and piano, though the Ibsen songs for voice and orchestra are also discussed. English translations are provided and the backgrounds to the original poems by Morike, Eichendorff and Goethe, as well as the Italian and Spanish sources from which the songbooks were drawn, are fully explored. Each song is dated, its keys identified and vocal range determined. 'This is the most important book in the English language on the songs of Hugo Wolf since Ernest Newman proclaimed the composer's genius in 1907. To the English-speaking student this work is a treasure to which he will find himself returning again and again: it is indispensable to those of us anxious to gain a deeper knowledge of Wolf' - Gerald Moore.
Authors
- Manuel J. Borja-Villel
- Antoni Tapies
- John C. Welchman
- Alexander Duttman
- Manuel Borja-Villel
Publication date: 2001-02-15
Dewey code: 709
Price: $65.00
Review Tapies / Actar/Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and Aldeasa:The work of Antoni Tapies offers a unique case of the artist-as-shaman-that is, the artist as an alchemist who is capable of discovering the nature of materials, transforming their substance, and bringing meaning to life. A self-taught painter, Tapies began his career in the lively and exciting period directly following World War II: in 1947 he founded, along with Joan Brossa, the journal ''Dau al Set,'' which championed Surrealist aesthetics. Drawing upon the latter, Tapies created a Spanish analogue to the so-called Abstract Expressionism of the New York School, combining the techniques and forms of "action painting" with his own deep sense of human pathos. As time went by, Tapies increasingly incorporated social themes into his work, achieving a rare and impassioned mix of experimental painting and politics. This new monograph surveys the artist's career from the late 1940s to the present day, selecting works that show the diversities and unities within the artist's consistently rewarding oeuvre. What we find is an artist who has always questioned and challenged our ways of seeing art and the world, and in the process, created true masterpieces.
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