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A Generous Vision

The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning

By: Cathy Curtis (Writer on art)

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A Generous Vision

The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning

By: Cathy Curtis (Writer on art)

Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989) was a noted art critic and artist, and a prime mover in the New York art world. She was a vivacious social catalyst. Her sparkling wit enlivened meetings of the Club, nights at the Cedar Tavern, and chance conversations on the street. Her droll sense of humour, generosity of spirit, and freewheeling spending were as legendary as her ever-present cigarette

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Oxford University Press

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0190498471

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9780190498474

Restless Ambition

Grace Hartigan, Painter

By: Cathy Curtis (Writer on art)

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Restless Ambition

Grace Hartigan, Painter

By: Cathy Curtis (Writer on art)

This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into obscurity after leaving New York to marry a scientist in Baltimore, and her constant efforts to reinvent her style and subject matter. Along the way, there were multiple affairs, four troubled marriages, a long battle with alcoholism, and a chilly relationship with her only child. Attempting to channel her vague ambitions after an early marriage, Grace struggled to master the basics of drawing in night-school classes. She moved to New York in her early twenties and befriended Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and other artists who were pioneering Abstract Expressionism. Although praised for the coloristic brio of her abstract paintings, she began working figuratively, a move that was much criticized but ultimately vindicated when the Museum of Modern Art purchased her painting The Persian Jacket in 1953. By the mid-fifties, she freely combined abstract and representational elements. Grace-who signed her paintings Hartigan- was a full-fledged member of the men's club that was the 1950s art scene. Featured in Time, Newsweek, Life, and Look, she was the only woman in MoMA's groundbreaking 12 Americans exhibition in 1956, and the youngest artist-and again, only woman-in The New American Painting, which toured Europe in 1958-1959. Two years later she moved to Baltimore, where she became legendary for her signature tough-love counsel to her art school students. Grace continued to paint throughout her life, seeking-for better or worse-something truer and fiercer than beauty.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199394504

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9780199394500

Beating Around the Bush

By: Art Buchwald

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Beating Around the Bush

By: Art Buchwald

Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post columnist Art Buchwald returns undaunted to examine the ridiculous people and preposterous events that we call our daily reality. Collected from his columns, with a foreword by Garry Trudeau, Buchwald’s satirical voice darts at politicians, power, corporations and the media without pause. A self-described troublemaker, Buchwald continues to represent the great American traits of skepticism, humor, and a refusal to compromise in the face of absurdity.

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274

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Seven Stories Press

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1609800095

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9781609800093

Alive Still

Nell Blaine, American Painter

By: Cathy Curtis (Writer on art)

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Alive Still

Nell Blaine, American Painter

By: Cathy Curtis (Writer on art)

In 1959, when thirty-seven-year-old Nell Blaine was an acclaimed young painter in New York, she contracted polio on a trip to Greece, rendering her a paraplegic. Remastering her painting skills, she became one of America's great watercolorists, with a rhythmic, colorful style that animated landscapes, city views, and still lifes.

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0190908815

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9780190908812

Corot

By: Gary Tinterow,Michael Pantazzi,Vincent Pomarède,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France),National Gallery of Canada,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Corot

By: Gary Tinterow,Michael Pantazzi,Vincent Pomarède,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France),National Gallery of Canada,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Published to accompany a major exhibition of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's paintings held in Paris and Ottawa during 1996, and forthcoming to New York. From nearly 3,000 paintings by this poetic 19th-century artist, the curators chose 163 works, which are reproduced here along with full art-historical discussions of each. Three major essays chronicle Corot's life and the development of his art; additional essays elucidate the subject of forgeries and describe the collecting of his works. Much original new scholarship is included along with a review of the scholarly literature, a concordance, and a chronology. 9.5x12.5"Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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497

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870997696

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9780870997693

Macrame Pattern Book

Includes Over 70 Knots and Small Repeat Patterns Plus Projects

By: Marchen Art

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Macrame Pattern Book

Includes Over 70 Knots and Small Repeat Patterns Plus Projects

By: Marchen Art

Learn how to make over seventy macram knots and small repeat patterns, then use them to create a wide range of projects. Each knot is shown in a close-up photograph with clear step-by-step diagrams showing how they are tied. Starting with the basics, the knots progress on to more complicated and complex designs, but the clear diagrams make it a cinch to follow along. This invaluable guidebook covers the different types of threads or cords available, and shows a range of clasps and other findings and beads to use in your knotwork. It also includes tons of expert tips like how to set up your work board or how to keep track of the cord ends for less confusion. Thirty-three projects featured in the book range from simple jewelry like a classic friendship bracelet and watch straps to more complex ones like bags and baskets.

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165

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Macmillan

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1250034019

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9781250034014

Raphael to Renoir

Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna

By: Stijn Alsteens,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),National Gallery of Scotland

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Raphael to Renoir

Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna

By: Stijn Alsteens,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),National Gallery of Scotland

The works from the Bonna Collection are illustrated in color, and whenever possible, at their actual sizes. They are arranged chronologically by the artist's date of birth and are grouped according to the main artistic schools. This volume is introduced by an interview with Jean Bonna by George Goldner. Each drawing is then described in an entry, many of which have comparative illustrations that shed further light on individual works."--BOOK JACKET.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588393070

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9781588393074

Gauguin's 'nirvana'

Painters at Le Pouldu 1889-90

By: Paul Gauguin,Wadsworth Atheneum Staff,Stephen H. Kornhauser,Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art,Wadsworth Atheneum

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Gauguin's 'nirvana'

Painters at Le Pouldu 1889-90

By: Paul Gauguin,Wadsworth Atheneum Staff,Stephen H. Kornhauser,Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art,Wadsworth Atheneum

Shortly before Gauguin made his first Tahitian journey in 1891, he spent nearly two years in the remote Breton fishing village of Le Pouldu. Seeking creative isolation in a "primitive" setting, he pursued his art accompanied by several followers. One of them was the Dutch painter Meyer de Haan, who was able to pay the living expenses in Le Pouldu and was also knowledgeable in literary and philosophical matters that fascinated Gauguin. Their association resulted in some of Gauguin's most remarkable works, including the Wadsworth Atheneum's symbolist portrait of de Haan inscribed "Nirvana." This and the rich variety of paintings and sculpture by Gauguin produced in 1889-90 are the focus of this beautiful book. Gauguin and de Haan settled into an inn at Le Pouldu run by an attractive unwed mother named Marie Henry, who began a liaison with de Haan despite the fact that he was a sickly hunchback. The intensity of relations between Gauguin and de Haan is reflected in many of the works, including frescoes, which they installed in the inn. Gauguin's time in Le Pouldu was crucial to the advancement of his art, and the vivid Breton subjects and personality of Meyer de Haan remained in his imagination to reappear even during his later Tahitian period. In this book several distinguished experts draw on previously unavailable sources to examine in depth the history of this period, Gauguin's relationship with de Haan, their interest in religion and exotic cultures, and the meaning of the many innovative symbolist works they produced.

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196

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Yale University Press

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0300089546

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9780300089547

Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Pablo Picasso,Magdalena Dabrowski,Christel Hollevoet

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Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Pablo Picasso,Magdalena Dabrowski,Christel Hollevoet

This publication presents a comprehensive catalogue of the works by Pablo Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum. Comprising 34 paintings, 59 drawings, 12 sculptures and ceramics, and more than 400 prints, the collection reflects the full breadth of the artist's multi-sided genius as it asserted itself over the course of his long career.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588393704

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9781588393708

The Glory of Byzantium

Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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The Glory of Byzantium

Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Serves as both visual and textual record of the exhibition of the same name, surveying the art of the Middle Byzantine period from the restoration of the use of icons by the Orthodox Church in 843 to the occupation of Constantinople by the Crusader forces from the West from 1204 to 1261. Conceived as a sequel to the 1976 exhibition "Age of Spirituality," which focused on the first centuries of Byzantium. Preceding the catalogue, 17 essays treat the historical context, religious sphere, and secular courtly realm of the empire, and the interactions between Byzantium and other medieval cultures. Abundantly illustrated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870997777

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9780870997778

Art of the First Cities

The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Art of the First Cities

The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Catalog of an exhibition being held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 8 to Aug. 17, 2003.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588390438

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9781588390431

Manet/Velázquez

The French Taste for Spanish Painting

By: Gary Tinterow,Geneviève Lacambre,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Musée d'Orsay

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The French Taste for Spanish Painting

By: Gary Tinterow,Geneviève Lacambre,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Musée d'Orsay

Here approximately two hundred works by French and Spanish artists chart the development of this cultural influence and map a fascinating shift in the paradigm of painting, from Idealism to Realism, from Italy to Spain, from Renaissance to Baroque. Above all, these images demonstrate how direct contact with Spanish painting fired the imagination of nineteenth-century French artists and brought about the triumph of Realism in the 1860s, and with it a foundation for modern art."--BOOK JACKET.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588390403

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9781588390400

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A Generous Vision

A Generous Vision

Restless Ambition

Restless Ambition

Beating Around the Bush

Beating Around the Bush

Alive Still

Alive Still

Corot

Corot

Macrame Pattern Book

Macrame Pattern Book

Raphael to Renoir

Raphael to Renoir

Gauguin's 'nirvana'

Gauguin's 'nirvana'

Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Glory of Byzantium

The Glory of Byzantium

Art of the First Cities

Art of the First Cities

Manet/Velázquez

Manet/Velázquez

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