Individual artists, art monographs Books
Thames & Hudson Ltd Miro
Book SynopsisA new edition of this classic survey on the life and work of Spanish surrealist, Joan MirÃ, by his close friend, historian and fellow artist Roland Penrose. Among the great 20th-century masters, the surrealist painter Joan Mirà stands out for the atmosphere of wit and spontaneity that pervades his work. MirÃâs art went through many phases, and its major features â his signs and symbols, his series of anguished peintures sauvages in the 1930s, his lyrical, poetic gouaches, his monumental sculptures and ceramics, his unprecedented use of poetic titles, and his attachment to nature and to the night â are discussed here by Roland Penrose, a friend of the artist for almost five decades. A brief epilogue by Eduardo de Benito, London correspondent of the Spanish art periodical LÃpiz, illustrates the developments of MirÃâs last years. This new revised edition, now illustrated in colour throughout, includes a foreword by Antony Penrose, outlining the relationship between his father and thTrade Review'An outstandingly good book. It is easy to read, covers all periods of Miró’s life and work and gives a valuable insight into the artist’s thoughts and opinions' - Apollo'Brings the subject right up to date and is characteristically easy and discursive in tone' - Sunday Times'Could hardly be bettered … adds enormously to our appreciation and understanding of the artists' - Country Life
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Thames and Hudson Ltd Francis Bacon Retrieved Lost Words New Writing
Book SynopsisMartin Harrison is one of the foremost scholars of Francis Bacon, and the editor of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné. Maria Balaska is a Lecturer and Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and at Åbo Akademi University. Amanda J. Harrison is a poet whose essays include 'Francis Bacon: A Sudden Blow' (2016) and, in Francis Bacon Studies IV, Bacon and the Occult'. Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst and author. He is Honorary Visiting Professor in Psychoanalysis at Roehampton University.
£23.80
Phaidon Press Ltd Sharon Hayes
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive publication to capture Hayes's unique blend of performance and social engagement which has been at the forefront of questions of feminist history, queer time, and protest culture for over a decade
£29.75
Manchester University Press Love and authority in the work of Paula Rego
Book SynopsisRosengarten explores the narrative operations of Rego''s work by mobilising both psychoanalytic theory and social history. She confronts, as case studies, three complex figure paintings from different moments in Rego''s oeuvre: The Policeman''s Daughter (1987), The Interrogator''s Garden (2000), and The First Mass in Brazil (1993). The content of the three specimen paintings links them to the political context of the Estado Novo, the fascist-inspired regime that dominated Rego''s childhood. Plotting links between the spheres of the political and the personal, Rosengarten throws light on the complex intertwining of state power and parental authority in Rego''s work, focusing on the labour of socialisation and resistance that Rego''s work evinces in relation to the Freudian model of the family romance.Rosengarten unveils the political context of Portugal under Salazar, and the workings of colonial fantasy, Catholic ideology and gender construction. In prodding the inalTable of ContentsAcknowledgements1. Reading the Family Romance: Is there a feminist version? 2. Romancing the Father: The Policeman’s Daughter3. Men Don’t Make Passes at Women with Moustaches: The Interrogator’s Garden4. Possession and Loss: The First Mass in Brazil Conclusion: Painting History Bibliography
£76.50
Schiffer Publishing The CutUps 2
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle Vol. 2
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle Vol. 1
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Kensington Publishing Corporation Matisse at War
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Basic Books Matisse and Picasso
Book SynopsisMatisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. Matisse, known for his restraint and intense sense of privacy, for his decorum and discretion, created an art that transcended daily life and conveyed a sensuality that inhabited an abstract and ethereal realm of being. In contrast, Picasso became the exemplar of intense emotionality, of theatricality, of art as a kind of autobiographical confession that was often charged with violence and explosive eroticism. In Matisse and Picasso , Jack Flam explores the compelling, competitive, parallel lives of these two artists and their very different attitudes toward the idea of artistic greatness, toward the women they loved, and ultimately toward their confrontations with death.
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The University of Alabama Press Alabama Creates 200 Years of Art and Artists
Book SynopsisA visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists. The works of art included in this volume have all emerged from a distinctive milieu that has nourished the creation of powerful visual expressions, statements that are both universal and indigenous.Trade ReviewAlabama artists have helped contextualize the state as a place that is embracing its past while visualizing its future. Artists such as the internationally hailed quiltmakers of Gee's Bend, public artist Rick Lowe, painters Jack Whitten and Thornton Dial, and photographer Carolyn Sherer have portrayed a richer understanding of Alabama that is appreciated not only by those of us who live here but also by the nation in general. Alabama would not have the exposure or the expanded worldview that are so apparent without the work of the visual artists who have helped us reveal the complexity, diversity, and multifaceted nature of our populations and our state. Alabama artists help us define who we are and what home is."" - From the introduction by Gail C. AndrewsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Preface by Al Head Introduction by Gail C. Andrews Part I. Prehistory to 1868 Chapter 1. William Frye Chapter 2. John Lehman Chapter 3. Nicola Marschall Chapter 4. S. Phillip Romer Chapter 5. William Carroll Saunders Chapter 6. Edward Troye Part II. 1869–1918 Chapter 7. Lucille Sinclair Douglass Chapter 8. Anne Goldthwaite Chapter 9. Louise Lyons Heustis Chapter 10. Mary Morgan Keipp Chapter 11. Giuseppe Moretti Chapter 12. Clara Weaver Parrish Chapter 13. Lois Slosson Sundberg Chapter 14. Maria Howard Weeden Part III. 1919–1968 Chapter 15. Frank Hartley Anderson Chapter 16. Frank Woodberry Applebee Chapter 17. Virginia Barnes Chapter 18. Richard Blauvelt Coe Chapter 19. Frank Engle Chapter 20. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Chapter 21. John Kelly Fitzpatrick Chapter 22. Crawford Gillis Chapter 23. Isaac Scott Hathaway Chapter 24. Draffus Lamar Hightower Chapter 25. Carrie Hill Chapter 26. John Lapsley Chapter 27. John Roderick Dempster MacKenzie Chapter 28. James ""Spider"" Martin Chapter 29. Geneva Mercer Chapter 30. Carlos Alpha ""Shiney"" Moon Chapter 31. Charles Moore Chapter 32. Ann Weaver Norton Chapter 33. Prentice Herman Polk Chapter 34. Alvin Conrad Sella Chapter 35. Charles Shannon Chapter 36. William Spratling Chapter 37. Arthur Stewart Chapter 38. Maltby Sykes Chapter 39. Bill Traylor Chapter 40. John Augustus Walker Chapter 41. Kathryn Tucker Windham Chapter 42. Richard Zoellner Part IV. 1969–2019 Chapter 43. Butch Anthony Chapter 44. Arthur L. Bacon Chapter 45. Pinky/MM Bass Chapter 46. Mozell Benson Chapter 47. Cal Breed Chapter 48. Jerry Brown Chapter 49. Roger Brown Chapter 50. Gay Burke Chapter 51. Richmond Burton Chapter 52. Gary Chapman Chapter 53. William Andrew Christenberry Jr. Chapter 54. Chip Cooper Chapter 55. Thornton Dial Chapter 56. Casey Downing Jr. Chapter 57. Nora Ezell Chapter 58. Howard Finster Chapter 59. Frank Fleming Chapter 60. Robert Lawrence ""Larry"" Godwin Chapter 61. Darius Hill Chapter 62. Lonnie Holley Chapter 63. Dale Kennington Chapter 64. Bettye Kimbrell Chapter 65. Janice Kluge Chapter 66. Simmie Knox Chapter 67. Cam Langley Chapter 68. Dale Lewis Chapter 69. Rick Lowe Chapter 70. Charlie Lucas Chapter 71. Kerry James Marshall Chapter 72. Dean Mosher Chapter 73. Nall Chapter 74. James Emmette Neel Chapter 75. David Parrish Chapter 76. Stephen Rolfe Powell Chapter 77. Noah Purifoy Chapter 78. Quiltmakers of Gee's Bend Chapter 79. Sonja Rieger Chapter 80. Guadalupe Lanning Robinson Chapter 81. Carolyn Sherer Chapter 82. Jerry Siegel Chapter 83. Charles Smith Chapter 84. Melissa Springer Chapter 85. Scott Stephens Chapter 86. Jimmy Lee Sudduth Chapter 87. Nina Gail Thrower Chapter 88. Mose Tolliver Chapter 89. Craig R. Wedderspoon Chapter 90. Yvonne Wells Chapter 91. Myrtice West Chapter 92. Jack Whitten Chapter 93. Hugh O. Williams Chapter 94. Evan Wilson Contributing Authors Where to see Visual Art in Alabama Resources to Learn More about Alabama Visual Arts and Artists Books and Exhibition Catalogues
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Gagosian/Rizzoli Balthus
Book SynopsisFrom time to time, amidst all the trials and errors, it happens: I recognize what I was looking for. All of a sudden the vision that preexisted incarnates itself, more or less intuitively and more or less precisely. The dream and the reality are superimposed and made one. —Balthus Published to document Gagosian Gallery’s 2015 Balthus exhibition in Paris, this striking new book depicts the beautiful paintings, drawings, and photographs that were part of that career-spanning exhibition, the first of Balthus’s work in Paris since the 1983–84 retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou. Vibrant color reproductions of the artist’s interior portraits, street scenes, and landscapes, along with striking installation shots, present the self-taught classicism that Balthus cultivated as a framework for his more enigmatic artistic investigations. A conversation between Olivier Zahm and Setsuko Klossowska de Rola completes the catalogue, providing an in
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Museum of Modern Art de Chirico
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Bauhan (William L.),U.S. Albert Duvall Quigley Painter Musician Framemaker
Book SynopsisThis catalog has been compiled for an exhibition celebrating Quigley’s life and work that will open at the Historical Society of Cheshire County (NH) in May 2017, and for the 250th anniversary celebration of the town of Nelson, NH, where Quigley lived for many years.
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Museum of Fine Arts,Boston Hokusais Landscapes
Book SynopsisThe first book to focus exclusively on Hokusai's landscapes, by one of the world's leading ukiyo-e specialistsThe best known of all Japanese artists, Katsushika Hokusai was active as a painter, book illustrator and print designer throughout his 90-year lifespan. Yet his most famous worksthe color woodblock landscape prints issued in serieswere produced within a relatively short time, in an amazing burst of creative energy that lasted from about 1830 to 1836. Hokusai's landscapes revolutionized Japanese printmaking and became icons of world art within a few decades of the artist's death. Hokusai's Landscapes focuses exclusively on this pivotal body of the artist's work, the first book to do so. Featuring stunning color reproductions of works from the incomparable Japanese art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (the largest collection of Japanese prints outside Japan), Hokusai's Landscapes examines the magnetic appeal of Hokusai's designs and the circumstances of their creation. The book includes all published prints of the artist's eight major landscape series: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (183032), A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (183334), Snow, Moon and Flowers (1833), Eight Views of the Ryukyu Islands (183233), One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (183233), Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (1834), A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry (1833) and One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (1835). Working prolifically in the years just before Japan opened to the West in 1853, Katsushika Hokusai (17601849) was the first Japanese artist to be internationally recognized. His cleverly composed ukiyo-e prints of everyday life and the landscapes of Edo Japan arrived in a 19th-century Europe gripped by Japonisme-mania, where they influenced artists such as Degas, Gauguin, Manet and Van Gogh.Trade ReviewThis is a beautiful book. -- John Stucky * ARLIS/NA Reviews *The most famous Japanese artist, Hokusai’s color woodblock prints had a lasting legacy on Eastern and Western art. Hokusai’s Landscapes amasses all of the artist’s incredible landscapes, and examines how his printmaking made such an impact on the art world. -- Margherita Cole * My Modern Met *Table of ContentsHokusai’s Landscape Prints in the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji • A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces • Snow, Moon and Flowers • Eight Views of the Ryukyu Islands • One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean • Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces • A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry • One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse
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Museum of New Mexico Press Preternatural
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Hurtwood Press Rachel Jones
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Hurtwood Press Nikita Gale
Book SynopsisChisenhale Gallery launches the second title in its Chisenhale Books series, Nikita Gale: IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS. Marking the finale of Gale's Chisenhale exhibition, her first artist's book contains an intergenerational conversation with conceptual artist Barbara Kruger and a short meditation by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hilton Als. These feature alongside contributions by artist and Chisenhale Gallery alum P. Staff and Dr. Bénédicte Boisseron, author of Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question. Through the lens of a multifaceted practice, Gale examines themes of invisibility and audibility, interrogating the dynamic between performer and spectator, structure, and decay. Produced with great care, this extraordinary book is reflective of the artist's practice. Four visual essays, hand-annotated by Gale Absence', Ruin', Silence', Dog' explore themes central to the work. Nikita Gale: IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS deploys throw-outs, gatefolds, five different types of pTrade Review''A meaningful reflection on 21st century artmaking with some of the most pre-eminent thinkers on the theme. The conversations that arrive with Gale's work at Chisenhale and beyond are essential landmarks in how we discuss contemporary art practices today. Altogether these conversations – alongside Gale's visual interludes – are formatted into a beautiful publication.'' - Katy Hessel''The catalog is truly a terrific project. Wow. I've spent so much time with the texts and images. Such an evocative gathering of ideas, picturings, poetics, commentary and a whole lot more. I'm so happy to have been included.' ' - Barbara Kruger
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Hurtwood Press Gilbert George Dark Shadow
Book SynopsisGilbert & George created Dark Shadow in 1974 as a 'living sculpture book', featuring original text and artwork by the pair. Hurtwood's limited re-edition celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. Gilbert & George created Dark Shadow in 1974 as a living sculpture book', the result of our past three years of earnest daily thoughts, shadows, deeds, cares and pleasures.' Hurtwood's limited re-edition of 2,000 marks its fiftieth anniversary. Featuring original text and artwork by Gilbert & George, the publication offers an unparalleled perspective on the early career of one of the twentieth century's most significant artistic duos. Like their art, Gilbert & George's writing is irreverent, rebellious, fantastical, often funny and deeply poetic. The book includes a letter to their readers and original photographs by the artists of themselves, their famous home in Spitalfields in East London and their pictures. Dark Shadow is structured into eight chapters, which elaborate on the inspirations b
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Hurtwood Press Jacqueline Poncelet
Book SynopsisLondon- and South Wales-based Jacqueline Poncelet was born in Belgium and moved to England as a child. She has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Camden Art Centre, London, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Arnolfini, Bristol, Swansea Museum and Art Gallery, and New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire. In 2021 Poncelet was awarded the prestigious Freelands Award and in 2024 presented a survey of fifty years of work alongside new commissions at MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK. Renowned for public realm artworks, Poncelet's best-known public work, Wrapper (2012), is at London's Edgware Road tube station.
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No Style Press Last Day First Day
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MoMA PS1 Ceremonies Out of the Air Ralph Lemon
Book SynopsisMore than 60 works across media, including major ensemble performances, emerging in the afterlife of postmodern dancePhiladelphiabased artist, dancer and choreographer Ralph Lemon (born 1952) is one of the most significant figures to arise from New York's downtown scene in the 1990s. This catalog, published on the occasion of the first US museum exhibition of Lemon's work in movement, film and installation, traces the arc of his ongoing collaborations, which extend far beyond the paradigm of dance. Texts by exhibition curators Connie Butler and Thomas Lax are accompanied by essays and contributions by Kevin Beasley, Adrienne Edwards, Darrell Jones, Ralph Lemon, Okwui Okpokwasili, Kevin Quashie and Kari Rittenbach. Featuring a dust jacket that unfolds into a poster, the book includes full-color illustrations of Lemon's artworks and reproductions of his sketches and notations.
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Adamjk HOME BREW Moods Mess and Mistakes
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Distributed Art Pub Thomas Wilfred Clavilux and Lumia Home Models
Book SynopsisWilfred's pioneering and strangely prescient musical instrument predates television, video art and psychedeliaInventor, designer, artist and musician Thomas Wilfred (18891968) devoted his life to the creation of a new art formLumia, or the art of light. He invented his own version of a color organ (a term he disliked) and dubbed it the Clavilux, from the Latin meaning light played by key. After a successful international tour in the 1920s, Wilfred reinvented these large-scale performances as self-enclosed light shows for domestic entertainment. While they enjoyed a short commercial life, Wilfred's aesthetically elegant and interactive Clavilux and Lumia home models soon found their way into storied collections. His work was included in the Museum of Modern Art's 1952 exhibition 15 Americans, where it was seen by many artists who would work with light as their medium in the 1960s and '70s.Clavilux and Lumia Home Models presents a stimulating collection of archival material culled from the Wilfred archive at Yale University and other sources, including Wilfred's never-before-published sketches.
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Contemporary Art Museum St Louis Hajra Waheed
Book SynopsisMultimedia works from an artist imagining a radically collective and borderless futureThis is the first major monograph for Montréal-based artist Hajra Waheed (born 1980). Her multidisciplinary practice explores the legacies of colonial and state violence with a uniquely poetic approach across collage, sound, video, sculpture and installation.
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Artvoices Art Books Devandalized
Book SynopsisThe book "Devandalized" pays homage to decades of street art mostly in and around New York City. The author/artist use of assemblage as an artistic form and medium has combined the famous with the infamous to create an art form larger than the sum of its parts. Street art is far and away the world’s most globally accessible genre of contemporary art. New York has produced influential graffiti and street artists over the decades. Graffiti and street art can be controversial. But it can also be a medium for voices of social change, protest, or expressions of community desire. Sticking stickers to our hands and books, some of the artists have taken this concept to the streets. They make eye-catching stickers of different sizes and post them out on the streets to the trees, lampposts, walls and benches. While some stickers can be removed easily, others are meant to stay for a long time. Street art is embedded in the Trade Review “Devandalized: 1987-2017 is a significant book about a compelling artist’s process and practice.” – Stephen Wozniak Writer for Whitehot Magazine “Devandalized” is a series of paintings and collages that preserve and reflect the ongoing street dialogue that appears along streetlamps, newspaper bins, metal gates, door coverings and brick walls throughout cities around the world including New York.” – Jill Connor Art Critic and Curator
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Artvoices Art Books On the Verge of Domestication
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With vivid, rich colors contrasting with monochromatic images, artist Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass creates a hyper-realistic world that’s straight out of film. Using images and themes from popular candies, and contrasting them with lush black and white women, men, and couples, the artist offers viewers a wonderfully visceral contrast between a candy-coated dream world and reality." - Written By Genie Davis for Art & Cake Magazine
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Running Man Press FAMILY PORTRAIT The Lost Sketchbooks of BOB
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Running Man Press Bob Camblin N Compleat Workes Ruminations About
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Legare Street Press Dada Almanach.
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The Shakespeare Gallery
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Pomegranate Communications THIS AMERICAN HOUSE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTS
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Indy Pub Pump it up Magazine
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Good Deed Rain The Robert Huck Museum
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Borderlands Media Johnny Florez
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South
Book SynopsisSouth African artist Irma Stern (18941966) is one of the nation's most enigmatic modern figures. Stern held conservative political positions on race even as her subjects openly challenged racism and later the apartheid regime. Using paintings, archival research, and new interviews, this book explores how Stern became South Africa's most prolific painter of Black, Jewish, and Colored (mixed-race) life while maintaining controversial positions on race. Through her art, Stern played a crucial role in both the development of modernism in South Africa and in defining modernism as a global movement. Spanning the Boer War to Nazi Germany to apartheid South Africa and into the contemporary #RhodesMustFall movement, Irma Stern's work documents important twentieth-century cultural and political moments. More than fifty years after her death, Stern's legacy challenges assumptions about race, gender roles, and religious identity and how they are represented in art history.Trade ReviewLaNitra M. Berger’s subtle and very timely study brilliantly mines Stern’s story and her works’ imagery to extract from them essential insights into global modernism, art under apartheid, and Stern’s conflicted legacy. * Peter Chametzky, Professor of Art History, University of South Carolina, USA *Strikingly original and well-researched, Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art is the work of a pioneering scholar. Employing a powerful Black feminist and decolonial perspective, LaNitra M. Berger questions received ideas about what constitutes modern African art. She shows us that the life and work of a controversial white artist like Irma Stern, whose work was predicated on racial exploitation, is important to the formation of global modernism in South Africa and beyond. * Prita Meier, Associate Professor of Art History, New York University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Irma Stern in a Global Context: Expressionist Influences Chapter 2 Cape Town Blues: Painting South Africa Chapter 3 Congo and Zanzibar Chapter 4 Modernism Under Apartheid: Art and Social Context Chapter 5 Irma Stern and Post-Apartheid South Africa Conclusion Biographical Timeline Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Francis Bacon in Your Blood
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis fine portrait of the artist is both gossipy and poignant … [and] one of the best art books I have read, by turns atmospheric and waspishly gossipy but also profound and poignant. -- Michael Prodger * The Times *A vivid new memoir by the artist’s protégé is set to be a classic … highly entertaining … the narrative comes hurtling off the page with a palpable sense of release and apparently guileless, even artless, candour.The cavalcade of bohemian celebrities goes on and on … captivating...a classic, not only of art writing, but of personal memoir * Sunday Telegraph *There is a certain grisly satisfaction in watching an artist behave as one expects an artist to. Francis Bacon … always delivered and just how richly is recorded by Peppiatt … A wonderfully vivid account -- Art Book of the Year * Sunday Times *The best art memoir published in years * Spectator *An intoxicating tour of the painter’s louchest, and most productive, years -- Susie Rushton * Vogue *Peppiatt offers a window into the experiences and emotional intelligence of this great artist * New Statesman *A remarkable book ... it captures what it was like to be in the presence of this brilliant, camp, reckless, waspish, drunken, generous, shameless character. Michael Peppiatt brings him back to life and somehow carries off the near-impossible trick of echoing the repetitive nature of his drunken talk ... while somehow preserving his electricity and effervescence -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *An intimate memoir of two intense and interlaced lives ... Full of gossip, binges, nausea, bruises, stained sheets, punchlines and death wishes -- Richard Davenport-Hines * Times Literary Supplement *This fine memoir is more insightful than gossipy, and as a subject Bacon is just about unbeatable * New York Times *Fascinating and engaging -- Lynn Barber * Sunday Times *Entertaining, calculated and acerbic, Michael Peppiatt really does seem to have a bit of Bacon in his blood * Spectator *Every page is fresh, immediate, and flashing with glimpses into Bacon’s complicated psyche -- Donna Seaman * Booklist *An affecting personal narrative about his friendship with the great painter * Publisher's Weekly *Francis Bacon’s views on art, death and his bohemian circle make revealing reading in this enjoyable memoir * Independent *An enthralling, delightful story of two very different men * Kirkus *Part diary, part art history, part love letter, his memoir captures what it was like to know this brilliant, camp genius … an excellent glimpse into a vanished London bohemia -- Rebecca Wallersteiner * The Lady *
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Xlibris Building a Better Tomorrow an Architects Journey
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Lulu.com I Love Tacos
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University of Texas Press The Art of Pere Joan
Book SynopsisBorn in Mallorca, Pere Joan Riera (known professionally as Pere Joan) thrived in the underground comics world, beginning in the mid-1970s with the self-published collections Baladas Urbanas and MuŽrdago, both of which were released almost immediately after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco and Spain''s transition to democracy. The first monograph in English on a comics artist from Spain, The Art of Pere Joan takes a topographical approach to reading comics, applying theories of cultural and urban geography to Pere Joan’s treatment of space and landscape in his singular body of work.Balancing this goal with an exploration of specific works by Pere Joan, Benjamin Fraser demonstrates that looking at the thematic, structural, and aesthetic originality of the artist''s landscape-driven work can help us begin to newly understand the representational properties of comics as a spatial medium. This in-depth examination reveals the resonance between Trade ReviewThe Art of Pere Joan is a valuable contribution...Its historical introduction as well as its balanced blend of theory and close reading makes this book a useful tool for scholars and students interested in comics in general but also Iberian cultural studies in particular. * European Comic Art *The Art of Pere Joan takes an ambitious interdisciplinary approach to Comic Studies through the analysis of the reception of one particular artist: Pere Joan...Through [Fraser's] complex and comprehensive investigation into [Pere Joan's] works, the reader not only understands how the Mallorcan pushed the boundaries of comics definitions, but also how to frame Comics Studies research as the product of cultural, economic, political, and social frameworks...Fraser has created a robust and contextualised history of a lesser-known artist. * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Selected Artist Chronology Important Note on Spain for the General Reader Introduction: Pere Joan’s Comics Geographies Chapter 1. The Comics Landscape of Spain Chapter 2. Topographies of the Image, Panel, and Page: Comics Narration Three Ways Chapter 3. Rural Cartographies: Emotion, Ecology, and Subjectivity Chapter 4. Urban Geographies: Cityscapes, Mobility, and Belonging Chapter 5. Island Imaginaries: Mallorca’s Cultural Landscapes Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume examine the artistic practice of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, whose innovative art and urgent engagement with a range of pressing contemporary issues mark her as one of the most vital artists of our time.Trade Review"With the publication of the important book . . . art lovers are treated to a full account of the life, creative processes, vision, and accomplishments of a great Latina artist. . . . The editors . . . have greatly enhanced our knowledge of an important American artist of craft and fine arts." -- Ricardo Romo * Latinos in America *"It is a joy to see Jimenez Underwood’s work as a teacher addressed and to read about her influence on students. Essays are supported by excellent images and a strong introduction. A significant notes section points to additional research. This excellent resource will be good for courses that expand on the understandings of textile art and art history. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- L. L. Kriner * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface. The Art of Necessity / Luis Valdez xv Acknowledgments xvii Introduction / Laura E. Pérez and Ann Marie Leimer 1 I. Spinning—Making Thread 1. The Hands of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: A Filmmaker's Reflections / Carol Sauvion 25 2. Charged Objects: The Multivalent Fiber Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Christine Laffer 35 II. Weaving—Hand Work 3. History/Whose-Story? Postcoloniality and Contemporary Chicana Art / Constance Cortez 53 4. A Tear in the Curtain: Hilos y Cultura in the Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Amalia Mesa-Bains 71 5. Prayers for the Planet: Reweaving the Natural and the Social—Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Welcome to Flower-Landia / Laura E. Pérez 80 6. Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Welcome to Flower-Landia / María Ester Fernández 91 7. Between the Lines: Documenting Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Fiber Pathways / Emily Zaiden 100 8. Flags, the Sacred, and a Different America in Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Fiber Art / Clara Román-Odio 111 9. Garments for the Goddess of the Américas: The American Dress Triptych / Ann Marie Leimer 123 10. Space, Place, and Belonging in Borderlines: Countermapping in the Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Karen Mary Davalos 142 11. Decolonizing Aesthetics in Mexican and Xicana Fiber Art: The Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood and Georgina Santos / Cristina Serna 161 12. Reading Our Mothers: Decolonization and Cultural Identity in Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Rebozos for Our Mothers / Carmen Febles 181 13. Weaving Water: Toward an Indigenous Method of Self- and Community Care / Jenell Navarro 198 III. Off the Loom—Into the World 14. Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Artist, Educator, and Advocate / Robert Milnes 221 15. Being Chicanx Studies: Lessons for Racial Justice from the Work and Life of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood / Marcus Pizarro 239 16. Blue Río Tapestries / Verónica Reyes 244 Notes 261 Bibliography 290 Contributors 304 Index 311
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iUniverse Black Girls Can Grow Naturally Long Hair
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Matisses Poets
Book SynopsisThroughout his career, Henri Matisse used imagery as a means of engaging critically with poetry and prose by a diverse range of authors. Kathryn Brown offers a groundbreaking account of Matisse's position in the literary cross-currents of 20th-century France and explores ways in which reading influenced the artist's work in a range of media. This study argues that the livre d'artiste became the privileged means by which Matisse enfolded literature into his own idiom and demonstrated the centrality of his aesthetic to modernist debates about authorship and creativity. By tracing the compositional and interpretive choices that Matisse made as a painter, print maker, and reader in the field of book production, this study offers a new theoretical account of visual art's capacity to function as a form of literary criticism and extends debates about the gendering of 20th-century bibliophilia. Brown also demonstrates the importance of Matisse's self-placement in relation to the French Trade ReviewThis beautiful book will become both a reference work on Matisse's works and a reflection on the critical function of the dialogue of images and text. * French Studies (Bloomsbury Translation) *It is [...] extremely rare to find a scholar able to move so expertly between literary and visual analysis, and this remains a tremendously impressive and useful contribution to scholarship on Matisse and his literary and artistic networks, on bibliophile culture, and on text-image relationships. * caa.reviews *Kathryn Brown here explores all aspects of Matisse’s achievements as a book artist, showing how his engagement with writers became a driving force in his aesthetic development. Moving between visual and literary imperatives, she also provides an informed and subtle presentation of the historical context in which Matisse was working, further enriching our appreciation of the books he designed, particularly during and after the second World War, when he combined drawings, cut-outs and poetry to express a spirit of resolute resistance and resilient cultural identity. * Peter Read, Professor of Modern French Literature and Visual Arts, University of Kent, UK *Henri Matisse hails from the distinctly French tradition of the painter-poet whose creative output (as well as personal and professional life) was inextricably linked with literature and writers. In Kathryn Brown’s clear-eyed and discerning study Matisse's Poets, the artist’s collaborative book ventures serve as a fascinating lens through which to examine Matisse’s relationship to literature and writers. Using the metaphor of the stage, Brown defines Matisse’s artists’ books as an effective space where the painter could perform his role not only as illustrator but also as reader, critic, and artist acutely aware of his public image. As such, each chapter in this well-researched and amply illustrated study shows how Matisse self-consciously engaged with literary works by authors as diverse as Stéphane Mallarmé, Henry de Montherlant, Charles Baudelaire, Pierre de Ronsard, James Joyce, Tristan Tzara, among others, to produce and extend his own pictorial language as well as to position himself as a sophisticated reader of both the literary canon and the avant-garde. Brown therefore rightly places Matisse’s artists’ books within a broad matrix of concerns that allows her to go beyond conventional text-image analyses to include the social and political valences of Matisse’s creative and strategic decisions in his diverse publishing projects. The interdisciplinary framework of Matisse's Poets will attract literary critics as well as art historians and scholars of media and book history. Its lucid prose and finely tuned arguments will make it a useful tool for teaching as well as scholarly research. * Anna Sigrídur Arnar, Professor of Art History, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA *This is a remarkable book ... [with] a wide range of new aspects and dimensions. * Leonardo Reviews *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Matisse and the Book Performing Literary Criticism Theorizing Arts of the Book: Maupassant’s Influence 1. Matisse Among the Poets Modernist Genealogies Controversial Beginnings: The Two Versions of Les Jockeys camouflés Essential Lines Thresholds 2. ‘Visual Thoughts’: Les Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé Arts of Elimination Mirrored Space Poetic Others 3. Disowning Ulysses Homeric Frameworks Books within Books Innovation, Instability, and Tradition The Limited Editions Club in a Post-War Art World 4. The War Book: Pasiphaé, Chant de Minos (Les Crétois) Performing the ‘Solar Myth’ Heroism, Shame, and the Corrida From Myth to Politics 5. Imitation and Innovation: Florilège des Amours de Ronsard Appeasing the Bibliophiles Influence: A Modernist Renaissance Objectification and Identification: Portraying the Female Nude 6. Enacting Beauty: Les Fleurs du mal A New Architecture for Les Fleurs du mal Modernism and Beauty Matisse Alone: ‘Les Fleurs du bien’ 7. Problematizing Authorship: Les Lettres portugaises Rectificatory Justice and the Book Selfhood: Matisse’s Essays on Art 8. Beyond the ‘Ritual Space’ of the Book: Jazz Drawing Words/Hearing Colour The Failure of Icarus 9. Old Acquaintances, New Collaborations: Tzara and Reverdy Spontaneity Redefining Ekphrasis: Visages 10. Imprisonment and Occupation: Poèmes de Charles d’Orléans A Modernist Illuminated Manuscript Illustration and Imitation Appropriating Artistic Gesture 11. Apollinaire Redux Friendship as an Interpretive Framework The Book as Portrait Women and Books: From Apollinaire to Repli 12. Literary Legacies Books out of Time Traces Bibliography Index
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Dark Horse Comics The Fantastic Art of Roy G. Krenkel Limited Edition
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Manet: A Symbolic Revolution
Book SynopsisWhat is a 'symbolic revolution'? What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to understand? Using the exemplary case of Édouard Manet, Pierre Bourdieu began to ponder these questions as early as the 1980s, before making it the focus of his lectures in his last years at the Collége de France. This second volume of Bourdieu's previously unpublished lectures provides his most sustained contribution to the sociology of art and the analysis of cultural fields. It is also a major contribution to our understanding of impressionism and the works of Manet. Bourdieu treats the paintings of Manet as so many challenges to the conservative academicism of the pompier painters, the populism of the Realists, the commercial eclecticism of genre painting, and even the 'Impressionists', showing that such a revolution is inseparable from the conditions that allow fields of cultural production to emerge. At a time when the Academy was in crisis and when the increase in the number of painters challenged the role of the state in defining artistic value, the break that Manet inaugurated revolutionised the aesthetic order. The new vision of the world that emerged from this upheaval still shapes our categories of perception and judgement today - the very categories that we use everday to understand the representations of the world and the world itself. This major work by one of the greatest sociologists of the last 50 years will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, art history and the social sciences and humanities generally. It will also appeal to a wide readership interested in art, in impressionism and in the works of Manet.Trade Review"When does the publication of a book become an event? When it offers a new perspective that changes our way of thinking and, at the same time, appears at the very moment when it is needed. Manet: A Symbolic Revolution is an event of this kind, an overturning of points of view: a properly subversive and astonishing book."Libération"These lectures provide the fullest example of what it would take, within Bourdieu's theoretical scheme, to produce a truly sociological explanation of art."LA Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Editors� Note Translators� Note Lectures at the Collège de France 1998-1999: The Manet Effect Lecture of 6 January 1999 Lecture objectives: the symbolic revolution that Manet started Pompier painting Parenthesis: a social problem and a sociological problem State art and avant-garde academicism The mock-revolution Parenthesis on scientific populism An impossible research programme: the space of criticism From the familiar to the scandalous A painting full of incongruity The clash between the noble and the vulgar The affinity between different hierarchies �Realism/formalism�, a false dichotomy. Lecture of 13 January 1999 Question on the revolution in art. The game of the educated guess (�That makes me think of É�). Constructing the field of criticism. The effects of the work of art. The �intersubjective unconscious�. The intentionalist theory. Aesthetic transgression and solecisms. The rhetoric of euphemism and the effect of a title. The effects of composition. A symbolic bomb. The rationale of a painting. Using a painting within a painting to question painting. Intention and disposition. Lecture of 20 January 1999 Reply to a question on dialectics. Transgressions of the ethical order. Manet and Monet. The academic eye. Dispositional theory. The philosophy of intention. Intention and disposition. When a habitus come into contact with a space of possibilities. The example of writers. Critique of the notion of sources. The hypothesis of coherence. Lecture of 27 January 1999 Reflexive return to the previous lecture. Pre-constructed objects and technical impeccability. Epistemological breaks and social breaks. The theory of dispositions and scholastic bias. The philosophy of intention and the philosophy of disposition. Critique of genetic criticism. Critique of the iconographic tradition. The hermeneutic posture. Copies, parodies, and pastiches. A very strange exercise. Knowledge through the body. Lecture of 3 February 1999 Replies to two misunderstandings Of the right use of sources Listening to a lecture Internalists and Externalists Youthful works and school exercises The Intelligence of the Body The structural conditions of creation A total social fact An institutional crisis A formalist theory Finishing with the �finish� of the pompier painters. Lecture of 10 February 1999 Return to a hasty reaction. Limits of the formalist approach. The illusio as metabelief. The trap of dichotomous logics. Questioning the academic system and the historicisation of the work of art. Social history of academic art. Studios as elite schools. Corps and field. The field of publishing. Lecture of 17 February 1999 An academic art. Pompier art, aristocrats and nouveaux riches. The academic aesthetic. An integrated academic institution. Studios and rites of initiation. Portrait of a professor of the Beaux-Arts. On ragging. Consecration and the production of belief. A gradus ad parnassum. The Academy and academic painting. Technical and historical virtuosity. An aesthetic of readability A �dehistoricised� history. An aesthetic of the finished. Lecture of 24 February 1999 Manet�s critics. Parenthesis on the line separating the private from the public. Life style and style of the works. The abolition of meaning. The heretics and the orthodox. Nomination. The struggle for monopoly. Exhibition and consecration. The transformation of the school system. The defence of the corps. A crisis of belief. Durkheim�s morphological model and its limits. Lecture of 4 March 1999 External factors and the logic of fields: the surplus production of diplomas. � The reproduction of differences. � Disciplines and �refuge� positions. � The weakening of the state monopoly. � The contribution of the public to the revolution. � The sclerosis of the Salon and the generalised crisis of belief. � A comparison of the artistic milieus of Paris and London. � Manet and the Pre-Raphaelites. � Manet seen by Mallarmé. Lectures at the Collège de France 1999-2000: Foundations of a Dispositionalist Aesthetic Lecture of 12 January 2000 Doubts and reflexivity. Ð Birth of the artistic field. Ð A commentary of Mallarmé�s text on Manet. Ð A critique of criticism. Ð The Zola-Manet-Mallarmé paradigm. Ð The inconsistencies of Bar at the Folies-Bergère. Ð Mallarmé on Manet. Ð The structural homology between the artistic and religious fields. Ð Belief and the return to the sources. Lecture of 19 January 2000 Zola and Mallarmé. � Formalism, materialism and symbolism. � �Throwing yourself into the water� as a philosophy of action. � A practical aesthetic. Lecture of 26 January 2000 A critical look at the previous lecture: the need for a double historicisation. � A parenthesis on art criticism. � Back to Mallarmé�s article. � Framing to make cutouts out of the world. � A new economy of production. � When two histories meet. Lecture of 2 February 2000 Summary of the previous lecture. � Accounting for artistic forms: the infrastructure/superstructure model. � Models of historical processes. � The approach I take in this lecture: the habitus-field model. � Manet and the challenge to analysis. � Analytical method. � Beyond the continuous/discontinuous alternative. Lecture of 9 February 2000 Breaks v continuity. � The Salon des refusés of 1863. � For a rational form of eclecticism. � The Impressionist break with continuity (1): Impressionism foreshadowed. � The Impressionist break with continuity (2): parody. � The paradox of symbolic revolutionaries. � Accounting for charisma. � Technical factors. � Morphological changes. � Factors linked with demand. � A multifactorial model. � Specificity of the economy of symbolical goods. Lecture of 16 February 2000 The artistic field. � Social transformations and formal transformations. � A parenthesis on being �economical� with research. � The �painter of modern life�. � The fallacy of the short-circuit. � The gaze in Manet�s work. � The field as intermediary social space. � Artist societies. � A parenthesis on pseudo-concepts. � Aesthetico-political attitudes and positions in the field of art. � The field of criticism between the literary and the artistic fields. � A revolution in the field of art. Lecture of 23 February 2000 The production of belief. � The usefulness of the notion of field. � The field of criticism: its two dimensions. � Portraits of critics. � How the field of criticism operates. � The principle of competence. � When the notion of field guides the analysis. � Manet, the subject and object of the artistic field. Lecture of 1 March 2000 Mechanistic explanations and structural causality. � Bodily hexis. � Manet�s cleft habitus. � Manet�s capital. � The places where Manet accumulated social capital: 1) The Collège Rollin. � 2) The salon of Commandant Lejosne. � 3) The salon held by Manet�s wife. � 4) The studio of Thomas Couture. � 5) The Louvre Museum. � 6) The cafés and their fashionable bohemian crowd. � 7) Painters� studios. Lecture of 8 March 2000 A reminder on my approach. � Art as a �pure practice without theory�. � The author�s point of view and relationship to the public. � An aesthetic of effects. � Manet understood as a concrete individual. � Form and content. � The Manet effect. � Foils and fulcrums. � Analyses of Manet�s works. Opus Infinitum: Genesis and Structure of a Work Without End (by Christophe Charle) Manet the Heresiarch. Genesis of the Artistic and Critical Fields. (Unfinished Manuscript by Pierre and Mari-Christine Bourdieu) Introduction Chapter 1: Pompier Art as an Academic Universal Chapter 2: The Crisis in the Academic Institution Chapter 3: Break and Continuity Chapter 4: The Field of Criticism and the Artistic Field Chapter 5: The Heresiarch and Co. Chapter 6: Manet's Aesthetics Appendix Self-Portrait as a Free Artist: or �I Don't Know Why I Am Telling You That� (by Pascale Casanova) Summaries of the Lectures Published in L'Annuaire du Collège De France Notes Image Credits Index of Paintings Cited Index
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Skyhorse Publishing Hirschfeld: The Biography
Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of Al Hirschfeld, renowned caricaturist and artist. Al Hirschfeld knew everybody and drew everybody. He occupied the twentieth century, and illustrated it. Hirschfeld: The Biography is the first portrait of the renowned artist's life—as spirited and unique as his pen-and-ink drawings. Beginning in the 1920s, he caricatured Hollywood actors, Washington politicians, and—his favorite—celebrities of the stage. Broadway belonged to Hirschfeld. His work appeared in the New York Times and other publications, as well as on book jackets, album covers, posters, and postage stamps, for more than seventy-five years. He lived in Paris, Moscow, and Bali, and in a pink New York townhouse on a star-studded block where his closest friends—Carol Channing, S. J. Perelman, Gloria Vanderbilt, Brooks Atkinson, Elia Kazan, Marlene Dietrich, and William Saroyan—flocked in and out. He played the piano, went to jazz joints with Eugene O'Neill, and wrote a musical that bombed. He drove until he was ninety-eight years old and always found a parking space. He worked every day, threw dinner parties twice a week, and hosted New Year's Eve soirees that were legendary. He had three wives, a formidable agent, and a daughter, Nina, the most famous little girl that no one knows. Hirschfeld died in 2003, at the age of ninety-nine. "If you live long enough," he liked to say, "everything happens." For him, it did. And good and bad—it's all here. Through interviews with Hirschfeld himself, his friends and family (including the mysterious Nina), and his famous subjects, as well as through letters, scrapbooks, and home movies, Ellen Stern has crafted a delightful, detailed, and definitive portrait of Al Hirschfeld, one of our most beloved, and most influential, artists.Trade Review"An in-depth biography of America’s “line king” caricaturist. Born in St. Louis, Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) began drawing when he was 5 years old and never stopped. Journalist Stern (Gracie Mansion: A Celebration of New York City's Mayoral Residence, 2005, etc.) interviewed Hirschfeld in 1987 for a GQ profile. Over the years, she has conducted extensive interviews with those who knew him—the book is packed with quotations—and had access to personal letters, journals, and scrapbooks, resulting in this much-needed, affectionate, and entertaining book-length profile. In 1912, the Hirschfeld family moved to New York City. Although he traveled around the world throughout his life, NYC was always home. While still in his teens, the young, talented artist began doing caricatures for Broadway posters and ads as well as lobby cards for local movie companies like Goldwyn and the Selznick Corporation. He came to be known as the “line king” for his minimalist black-lines-on-white-paper caricatures of actors and actresses that succinctly captured the looks and personalities of his subjects. He was fast and reliable. His theatrical caricatures—he preferred “character drawings”—became popular, his line “ever more surgical.” Broadway was his milieu, and every actor wanted to be “Hirschfelded.” He worked hard at it; sitting in his barbershop chair, his drawing board in front of him, he worked 7 days per week, 7 hours per day. S.J. Perelman described him as “a remarkable combination of Walt Whitman, Lawrence of Arabia, and Moe, my favorite waiter at Lindy’s.” In 1928, Hirschfeld started working for the New York Times, in 1953, TV Guide, and in 1998 he did a cover for Time. As Stern shows, his married life with three wives was up and down, but for 75 years, he had his dream job. As the first substantive biography of Hirschfeld, this will be welcomed by art and Broadway lovers alike."—KIRKUS “This biography is as elegant and witty as Hirschfeld’s art itself, and author Stern deftly weaves her way through the artist’s life from his birth in St. Louis to his final days in a pink Manhattan brownstone. Stern’s affection for and knowledge of her subject is imbued with humor and charm and allows readers to know the man behind the minimalism, both the good and the bad. His story includes a stellar cast of characters from artists and entertainers to politicians and Hirschfeld’s own daughter, Nina. This title traverses the artist’s world of Moscow, Paris, and Hollywood; newspapers, music, and theater. For those interested in biographies, the art of illustration, twentieth century theater and Broadway, it’s a journey well worth taking.”—LIBRARY JOURNAL “In a prose style that could be called Hirschfeldian, writer and editor Stern, handpicked to be the artist’s biographer before his death, renders his life out of the memories of famous New York friends, love notes, press clippings, Hirschfeld’s own writings, and, of course, his drawings. Her brief, anecdotal chapters mirror his economy of space. Travels to Bali, Paris, Morocco, and Moscow as well as adventures in his beloved home, New York, are covered with equal value and humor. The countless details of his thousands of works and seventy-five-year career may be impossible to collect, especially those stuffed into a suitcase lost by the forgetful artist, yet Stern offers appreciation of portraits, Broadway, film, opera, and more—the real skinny on everything Hirschfeld.”—MICHAEL RUZICKA, Booklist “Given that Hirschfeld lived to be ninety-nine, working till the end, the pressures on his biographer to synthesize, compress, and keep the narrative moving briskly must have been daunting. Ellen Stern is up to the task. A journalist who has previously written widely about New York institutions, she is familiar with the terrain of twentieth-century culture, high and pop. Since, as the dust jacket states, Hirschfeld ‘knew everybody and drew everybody,’ it is not surprising that the biography doubles as a social history of the times.”—PHILLIP LOPATE, Times Literary Supplement “Stern’s deft balance of detail and action makes for a fast, but rich, read. And she has a sly sense of humor, a drive for precision, plus a knack for writing a scene as well as any playwright—in other words, she’s the perfect Hirschfeld biographer.” —ST. LOUIS MAGAZINE
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Workman Publishing We All Grow Together 17Month Wall Calendar 2026
Book SynopsisFamily organizing from celebrated artist and illustrator of Young, Gifted and Black Andrea Pippins: a 17-month organizing calendar that celebrates the joys and values of family life.- HELLO, BUSY FAMILY!: This 17-month calendar covers the entire school year and features the signature 5-person family organizing grid, so you can easily track who goes where when.- WARMTH, INSPIRATION - AND STICKERS!: Each month features different fun illustrations and empowering messages like There is power in our unity. Plus a drop-down storage pocket and over 170 stickers for marking special days!- INSPIRING ILLUSTRATIONS: From the illustrator of Young, Gifted and Black, Step Into Your Power, and Big Ideas for Young Thinkers, Andrea Pippins creates images that represent her creativity and her community. Her work has been featured in Essence Magazine, The New York Times, and O: The Oprah Magazine.- NOW PLASTIC-FREE!: Workman Calendars are completely plastic-free. All wall calendars are now printed with an extended paper flap closed with a fully recyclable seal - no more shrink wrap!
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Dynamite Entertainment The Dynamite Art of John Cassaday
Book SynopsisJohn Cassaday’s gorgeously dynamic compositions are known the world over, both in and out of the comic book market. Now, for the first time ever, all of his incredible work for Dynamite Enter- tainment has been collected into a single work, The Dynamite Art Of John Cassaday. This volume includes colored covers, sketches, inks...some seen before, others appearing in print for the first time! Don’t miss this chance to see Cassaday’s amazing interpretations of James Bond, Red Sonja, Green Hor- net, Sherlock Holmes, Zorro, The Lone Ranger and many, many more!
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Ebl Books The Roots of Francisco De Goya
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