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The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics) These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progressionthrough Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael. This new translation, specially commissioned for the World's Classics series, contains thirty-six of the most important lives and is fully annotated. Author: Giorgio Vasari Paperback: 616 pages Company: Oxford University Press, USA (1998-07-16) ISBN: 019283410X List Price: $12.95 Amazon Price: $7.25 Used Price: $2.99 The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait Frida Kahlo's diary, like her art, is painted in breathtakingly vivid colors. It covers her tumultuous last decade and encompasses love letters, political musings on Communism, and resplendent paintings. The paintings, peopled with mythic figures, self-portraits, and monsters, articulate Kahlo's fantastic visions. One drawing melds a procession of crying faces onto an intertwined couple surrounded by body parts, only to dissolve into a mass of roots and dendrites. In the introduction, Carlos Fuentes writes, "...a streetcar crashed into the fragile bus she was riding, broke her spinal column, her collarbone, her ribs, her pelvis.... The impact of the crash left Frida naked and bloodied, but covered with gold dust." Her paintings depict her bodily experience, from anguish to sensuality. Kahlo said, "I never painted dreams, I painted my own reality." This visionary ability earned her a place among the surrealists. Kahlo's prose delves into the associations between images and words, feelings and thought. Her writings shed welcome light on her active intelligence and provide an outline of the events of her life. This Abradale edition features plates reproducing the pages of the diary, and essays by Carlos Fuentes and Sarah Lowe that place it in the context of Mexican art, politics, and history. It is a magical work that adds to an understanding not only of Kahlo's work, but of her interior world as well. --Madeline Crowley Rauschenberg: Art and Life Iconoclastic, generous, inventive, impulsive, sensitive, gregarious, prodigious: these are just some of the words to describe Robert Rauschenberg and the art he has been making now for 50 years. From the age of 38, when he received the grand prize at the Venice Biennale in 1964, Rauschenberg has been a pivotal figure in the art of our time. This revised edition of the classic biography of the artist, first published in 1994, adds 36 new pages to cover the significant moments in the last ten years of his career, including his monumental career retrospective at the Guggenheim in 1997.With 230 illustrations, 112 in full color, Rauschenberg: Art and Life is a richly impressive and highly readable portrait of the artist. Showing the astonishing dexterity and range of Rauschenberg's art even as an emerging artist; the creation of his now famous combines; his eagerness to bridge art and technology; and the establishment of ROCI (Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange), this is a book, as one reviewer put it, "to grab from a burning house." AUTHOR BIO: Mary Lynn Kotz is the author of the best-selling Upstairs at the White House, Marvella, and A Passion for Equality (with Nick Kotz). She is a contributing editor to ARTnews and has written for many major magazines in her 20-year career as a journalist. She lives in Washington, D.C. Author: Mary Lynn Kotz Hardcover: 352 pages Company: Harry N. Abrams (2004-11-16) ISBN: 0810955881 List Price: $65.00 Amazon Price: $31.99 Used Price: $39.90 Israel Through My Lens: Sixty Years As a Photojournalist The compelling autobiography of Israel's preeminent photojournalist, illustrated with his most memorable images.Hardcover: 336 pages Company: Abbeville Press (2008-01-28) ISBN: 0789209284 List Price: $35.00 Amazon Price: $20.29 Used Price: $19.28 Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? (Who Was...?) Author: Roberta Edwards Paperback: 112 pages Company: Grosset & Dunlap (2005-09-08) ISBN: 0448443015 List Price: $4.99 Amazon Price: $1.88 Used Price: $2.25 The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic movement has ever been, at its inception, quite so controversial. The drama of its birth, played out on canvas, would at times resemble a battlefield; and, as Ross King reveals, Impressionism would reorder both history and culture as it resonated around the world. The Judgment of Paris chronicles the dramatic decade between two famous exhibitions—the scandalous Salon des Refuses in 1863 and the first Impressionist showing in 1874—set against the rise and dramatic fall of Napoleon III and the Second Empire after the Franco-Prussian War. A tale of many artists, it revolves around the lives of two, described as “the two poles of art”—Ernest Meissonier, the most famous and successful painter of the 19th century, hailed for his precision and devotion to history; and Edouard Manet, reviled in his time, who nonetheless heralded the most radical change in the history of art since the Renaissance. Out of the fascinating story of their parallel lives, illuminated by their legendary supporters and critics—Zola, Delacroix, Courbet, Baudelaire, Whistler, Monet, Hugo, Degas, and many more—Ross King shows that their contest was not just about Art, it was about competing visions of a rapidly changing world. With a novelist’s skill and the insight of an historian, King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and a revolutionary movement had the power to electrify and divide a nation. Author: Ross King Hardcover: 464 pages Bargain Price Company: Walker & Company (2006-01-10) (2006-01-10) List Price: $28.00 Amazon Price: $6.96 Used Price: $4.95 The Curse of Lono A wild ride to the dark side of Americana The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist's "coverage" of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, Curse features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph Steadman duo became known and loved. This curious book, considered an oddity among Hunter's oeuvre, was long out of print, prompting collectors to search high and low for an original copy. TASCHEN's signed, limited edition sold out before the book even hit the stores, but this unlimited version, in a different, smaller format, makes The Curse of Lono accessible to everyone.Author: Hunter S. Thompson Hardcover: 205 pages Illustrated Company: Taschen (2005-10-01) ISBN: 3822848972 List Price: $59.99 Amazon Price: $38.39 Used Price: $38.15 The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci’s pioneering scientific work was virtually unknown during his lifetime. Now acclaimed scientist and bestselling author Fritjof Capra reveals that Leonardo was in many ways the unacknowledged “father of modern science.” Drawing on an examination of over 6,000 pages of Leonardo’s surviving notebooks, Capra explains that Leonardo approached scientific knowledge with the eyes of an artist. Through his studies of living and nonliving forms, from architecture and human anatomy to the turbulence of water and the growth patterns of grasses, he pioneered the empirical, systematic approach to the observation of nature—what is now known as the scientific method. Author: Fritjof Capra Hardcover: 352 pages Company: Doubleday (2007-10-30) (2007-10-30) ISBN: 0385513909 List Price: $26.00 Amazon Price: $14.63 Used Price: $13.74 Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors: Drawing with Scissors (Smart About Art) Author: Jane O'Connor Paperback: 32 pages Company: Grosset & Dunlap (2002-03-18) ISBN: 044842519X List Price: $5.99 Amazon Price: $2.56 Used Price: $2.96 Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front The definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation."The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to "throw his ass in jail" to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, "Up Front," to the pages of Stars and Stripes. "Up Front" featured the wise-cracking Willie and Joe, whose stooped shoulders, mud-soaked uniforms, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect bore eloquent witness to the world of combat and the men who livedand diedin it. This taut, lushly illustrated biographythe first of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldinis illustrated with more than ninety classic Mauldin cartoons and rare photographs. It traces the improbable career and tumultuous private life of a charismatic genius who rose to fame on his motto: "If it's big, hit it." 92 illustrations. Author: Todd DePastino Hardcover: 320 pages Company: W. W. Norton (2008-02-25) ISBN: 0393061833 List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $15.65 Used Price: $12.79 |
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