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Barnett Newman : drawings and prints
Barnett Newman · Kerber Verlag
Pages: 102
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Barnett Newman (1905-70) famously strove to create an art of "pure idea" that would strip away narrative, figuration and extraneous detail from painting. By 1948 he had arrived at his signature format--painted color fields bisected by vertical "zips. " Though he is best... |
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A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen
Liel Leibovitz · W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages: 281
Format: Hardcover
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Brings to life a passionate poet-turned-musician and what compels him and his work. Why is it that Leonard Cohen receives the sort of reverence we reserve for a precious few living artists? Why are his songs, three or four decades after their original release, suddenly gracing the charts,... |
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Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry
William Logan · Columbia University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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William Logan has been a thorn in the side of American poetry for more than three decades. Though he has been called the "most hated man in American poetry," his witty and articulate reviews have reminded us how muscular good reviewing can be. These new essays and reviews take... |
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One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
Alan Paul · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Best seller!One Way Out is the powerful biography of The Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band's participation and filled with original, never-before-published interviews as well as personal letters and correspondence. This is the most in-depth... |
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Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community
Saul Austerlitz · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 406
Format: Paperback
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The form is so elemental, so basic, that we have difficulty imagining a time before it existed: a single set, fixed cameras, canned laughter, zany sidekicks, quirky family antics. Obsessively watched and critically ignored, sitcoms were a distraction, a gentle lullaby of a kinder, gentler... |
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Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story
Wayne Everett Goins · University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A member of Muddy Waters' legendary late 1940s-1950s band, Jimmy Rogers pioneered a blues guitar style that made him one of the most revered sidemen of all time. Rogers also had a significant if star-crossed career as a singer and solo artist for Chess Records, releasing the classic... |
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Alice Neel: Painter of Modern Life
Jeremy Lewison · Mercatorfonds ;
Pages: 239
Format: Print book
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This groundbreaking book re-evaluates the work of Alice Neel, one of the most renowned American portrait painters of the 20th century This insightful catalogue examines anew the full range of Alice Neel's (1900-1984) celebrated paintings of people, still life, and cityscapes. Featuring... |
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Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered
Dianne Hales · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Everybody knows her smile, but no one knows her story Meet the flesh-and-blood woman who became one of the most famous artistic subjects of all time—Mona Lisa. A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than 9 million visitors... |
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Zen Dogs
Alexandra Cearns · Harpercollins
Pages: 128
Format: Print book
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Award-winning animal photographer Alex Cearns celebrates the peace, calm, and joy dogs bring to our lives with this unique full-color collection capturing eighty dogs in their most relaxed and contented moments. When Alex Cearns caught Suzi the Sharpei on film with eyes closed... |
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Picture This: How Pictures Work
Molly Bang · Chronicle Books
Pages: 134
Format: Print book
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Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas - about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story... |
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