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Throughout his career, Chris Bohjalian has earned a reputation for writing novels that examine some of the most important issues of our time. With Midwives, he explored the literal and metaphoric place of birth in our culture. In The Buffalo Soldier, he introduced us to one of contemporary literature’s most beloved foster children. And in Before You Know Kindness, he plumbed animal rights, gun control, and what it means to be a parent.

Chris Bohjalian’s riveting fiction keeps us awake deep into the night. As The New York Times has said, “Few writers can manipulate a plot with Bohjalian’s grace and power.” Now he is back with an ambitious new novel that travels between Jay Gatsby’s Long Island and rural New England, between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century.

When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography and begins to work at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won’t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel discovers that he was telling the truth: before he was homeless, Bobbie Crocker was a successful photographer who had indeed worked with such legends as Chuck Berry, Robert Frost, and Eartha Kitt.

As Laurel’s fascination with Bobbie’s former life begins to merge into obsession, she becomes convinced that some of his photographs reveal a deeply hidden, dark family secret. Her search for the truth will lead her further from her old life—and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her.

In this spellbinding literary thriller, rich with complex and compelling characters—including Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan—Chris Bohjalian takes readers on his most intriguing, most haunting, and most unforgettable journey yet.

Customer Reviews:

Read it Twice.......2007-07-01

This is a pleasant, intriguing novel, with lots of references to The Great Gatsby. When you get to the surprise ending, you'll find that you will want to read The Great Gatsby, or watch the movie, and reread the book.

Twist and turns mystery.......2007-06-27

The author sets up an interesting cast of characters and presents a plausible outcome. I was expecting more of a twist in the end but was disappointed. However, the ending leaves one with the question of the girl who may have been attacked or was it a form of mental illness. I am still wondering about the latter. I recommend the book and the writing is superb.

A Very Interesting Read.......2007-06-26

This was a riveting tale that I really enjoyed. I found it interesting the way the author Bohjalian wrote a story within a story. And then there was the ending that took me by complete surprise. In my opinion the book is a great read, but not a super read. Still worthy and I would recommend it to anyone.

Amazing and worthwhile book!.......2007-06-26

Starting with tremendous emotion and energy and lulling midway through this book, the explosive finale makes this one of the most creative, shocking, and intelligent books I have read in a while! The plot creatively unfurls with an obsessive focus on some old photographs and a terrible attack upon the main character, Laurel. This story reveals the strange way in which Laurel copes with a devatating tragedy that radically changes her life. Congratulations to Mr. Bohjalian on this tremendous success in storytelling.

A moving tale of obsession.......2007-06-26

Big disclaimer: If you've never read F. Scott Fitzgerald's book "The Great Gatsby"--or at least viewed the film version--you're likely better off not even reading this book. A lot of its plot centers on information that requires a fairly in-depth knowledge of Gatsby.

Gatsby is one of my favorite books and so I very much enjoyed Bohjalian's incorporation of that story into his own. I liked the way Fitzgerald's tale was interwoven with Bohjalian's and I was very much intrigued by the way the story is slowly unspooled as it was not entirely clear to me just what the exact circumstances surrounding the action were. Bohjalian really kept me off balance.

The book starts as something of a story of obsession but becomes more suspenseful page after page, as Laurel's story becomes more and more entangled of that with Bobbie Crocker. Her slow descent into obsession is very suspenseful and the ending was truly shocking and devastating. I read Bohjalian's Midwives sometime ago and was very impressed by it and I have to say that this book was even better than that work. This was truly an impressive work of literary suspense and I will be certain to go back and read Bohjalian's other work.

Average customer rating: Good for Killing Alot of Space very very Important Awesome pictorial of Warhol awsome purchase Ultimate Warhol

Andy Warhol: Giant Size Editors of Phaidon Press , and Dave Hickey Manufacturer: Phaidon Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Pop | Schools, Periods & Styles | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Contemporary Art | Schools, Periods & Styles | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books United States | Regional | History & Criticism | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Warhol, Andy | ( V-Z ) | Artists, A-Z | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Artists, A-Z | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Painting | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Artists, Architects & Photographers | Arts & Literature | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books General | United States | Historical | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books Look Inside Art Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Qualifying Textbooks - Spring 2007 | Stores | Books Similar Items: Andy Warhol Screen Tests: The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne, Volume One (Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonnee) Andy Warhol 365 Takes: The Andy Warhol Museum Collection Collecting Contemporary Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film Phaidon Design Classics (3 Volume Set) (Design Classics) ASIN: 071484540X

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ANDY WARHOL "GIANT" SIZE is a spectacular visual biography of the life and career of Andy Warhol. Weighing in at 15 pounds, this enormous book is packed with 2,000 images and documents, many rare or previously unpublished.

Taking its inspiration from Warhol's over-the-top nature, ANDY WARHOL "GIANT" SIZE depicts the major events, people, works and moments in the artist's life told in chronological order by subject. As Warhol almost never threw anything away (from restaurant receipts to postcards), the featured material in the book has been painstakingly compiled. As the publisher of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Phaidon was granted unprecedented access to an array of public and private image and memorabilia archives and collections, including the Andy Warhol Foundation in New York and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh as well as the holdings of many Warhol collaborators, friends, and photographers of the period.

The large-format of ANDY WARHOL "GIANT" SIZE enables the reader to explore in detail hundreds of fascinating photographs, letters, personal correspondence, art works, film stills, tickets, receipts, celebrity head shots, notes, press clippings and ephemera all featured in this one of a kind publication. The book also features illuminating texts by insiders Bruno Bischofberger, Ronnie Cutrone, David Dalton, Kenneth Goldsmith, Ivan Karp and Peggy Phelan.

What is unique about ANDY WARHOL "GIANT" SIZE is that it provides fascinating insight into the public and private life of Warhol and in many cases also reveals the stories behind his art works. The book provides amazing comparisons between his work and his life that have never been demonstrated visually in such a way before. For example, it not only features Warhol's famous "Mao" series, but also includes ephemera from a 1982 trip to China (his passport, boarding pass, a souvenir from his hotel, etc.) alongside a photo of Warhol standing in front of the Forbidden City in Beijing with an official Mao portrait in the background.

This important new publication includes a staggering quantity and array of colorful material including: Warhol's birth certificate, citing Andrew `Warhola' was born on 8/6/28 in Pittsburgh; childhood photographs of his family; the magazine tear sheet showing the first article he illustrated for Glamour when he arrived in New York in 1949; numerous photos of Warhol with his mother; artworks for gold shoes he created in the 1950s; a letter from the MOMA dated 1959 in which the Director of the Museum's Collections rejects a work of art Warhol offered them as a gift; photographs of Warhol posing with Edie Sedgwick in a New York fashion shoot; personal letters from Mick Jagger and Liz Taylor; pictures of Warhol in the office working on Interview; pictures of Warhol private views; a series of shots of Warhol in drag; the program from his Memorial Mass on 4/1/87 and his gravestone.

ANDY WARHOL "GIANT" SIZE is the only publication available that features Warhol's entire life, work and words in one book. The visual biography offers a behind-the-scenes look at the New York art scene of the 1950s to the 1980s, and provides a new perspective on an artist who continues to be endlessly fascinating to those inside and outside of the art world.

Customer Reviews:

Good for Killing Alot of Space.......2007-06-26

The main attraction of "Giant Size" is just that it is physically giant sized. I have the book set on one of my display cases and is just way to cumbersome to read. It's chronological layout of Warhol's life and work seem very accurate even though I have not been able to read this book rather a good skimming. Interesting documents of his life are displayed throughout including photos of his childhood.

I recommend this book for anyone who needs an enormous coffee table book, or is a fan of Modern Art or just loves Andrew Warhola.

very very Important.......2007-03-09

Wahol.......
This book is the whole of him

Awesome pictorial of Warhol.......2007-03-06

In a word Awesome.
Its a huge, heavy and visually spectacular overview of Andy Warhols career. The perfect Coffee Table book. First rate photographs and reproductions of Andy's work. One of the best available.

awsome purchase.......2007-02-23

This book is worth every penny, the photography is incredible, It's perfect!!!!!!!!!!

Ultimate Warhol.......2007-02-17

Its so big that its hard to read (definitely can't read it in bed) but what a fantastic book on Andy Warhol's life and art. The size lends itself to the great reproductions of his art work. I was also really excited about the numerous photographs of Warhol and his world. There is a full page black and white photo of Warhol behind the movie camera that I thought was particularly good. Very highly recommended.

Average customer rating: Great story potential, not fully achieved A Little Abrupt A novel about photography, trust, mothers and daughters All for the sake of her art BAD

Black & White Dani Shapiro Manufacturer: Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Literary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Mothers & Children | Women's Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Psychological & Suspense | Thrillers | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Look Inside Mystery & Thriller Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Family History: A Novel The Year of Fog A Thousand Splendid Suns Slow Motion: A True Story (Harvest Book) Body Surfing: A Novel ASIN: 0375415483 Release Date: 2007-04-03

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In Dani Shapiro's captivating new novel, a mother struggles to protect her young daughter from the dark secrets of her past. Haunting and insightful, Black & White explores the notions of family and motherhood, inspiration and obligation, and is sure to appeal to fans of Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve. Find out more about Shapiro's artistic practices and influences below. --Daphne Durham

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10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Dani Shapiro

Q: What is your writing process like? Has it changed from book to book?
A: As I was doing my usual flailing around before I began to write Black & White, I found that I had some questions in mind that I hoped to explore, if not answer--and those questions very much came out of my preoccupations as a writer and as a mother of a young child: is it possible to be as fully absorbed as one needs to be to produce good, strong art--and be equally fully absorbed in the raising of small children? What happens when that delicate balancing act teeters? And also, as someone who has written quite a bit of personal non-fiction, I wondered: where is the line--or perhaps it's less of a line and more of a murky gray area--when it comes to writing about the personal stuff when there's this little person who's involved, a person who will grow up and read it some day? These ideas began to really preoccupy me, and finally the novel started to form itself around them.

When I begin the first draft of a book, I write longhand. I've become quite attached to these particular spiral-bound notebooks that can only be purchased in my in-laws' hometown, and so whenever they come to visit I ask them to bring me a pile. I think most writers indulge in magical thinking when it comes to the process, and many of us require talismans; mine are these notebooks. I used to only write on the computer, but I've found, in the last number of years, that I feel much freer to have no idea where I'm going when I'm writing by hand. There's something very neat--perhaps too neat--about the blank computer screen, and the ease of cutting and pasting, moving whole blocks of text around. For me, it's infinitely more satisfying to scribble and cross things out and make big sweeping arrows and asterisks as I'm working on drafts. It looks messy and complicated--it looks like what it is. On those early pages I feel like I can see a map, or a diagram, of my process.

Q: What author/s have inspired you?
A: In the big, enduring ways, as a literary backbone: Tolstoy, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Philip Roth, Joan Didion, Saul Bellow, Grace Paley. And while I was writing Black & White, Alice Munro's stories in Runaway and Ian McEwan's novel Saturday were immensely important in my grappling with understanding how to create a close third person narrative without losing the periphery.

Q: What are you working on now?
A: I'm trying to start a new novel. Viriginia Woolf wrote this great passage in her diary, after she finished The Waves: "I must hastily provide my mind with something else, or it will again become pecking and wretched." I'm a much nicer person when I'm working on a book. When I begin I have so little to go on--a feeling, a sense, an image or two. It's like coaxing shadows out of the corners.

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Book Description

From the author of Family History (“Poised, absorbing . . . a bona fide page turner”—The New York Times Book Review) and the best-selling memoir Slow Motion, a spellbinding novel about art, fame, ambition, and family that explores a provocative question: Is it possible for a mother to be true to herself and true to her children at the same time?

Clara Brodeur has spent her entire adult life pulling herself away from her famous mother, the renowned and controversial photographer Ruth Dunne, whose towering reputation rests on the unsettling nude portraits she took of her young daughter from the ages of three to fourteen. The Clara Series, which graced the walls of museums around the world as well as the pages of New York City tabloids that labeled the work pornographic, cast a long and inescapable shadow over its subject. At eighteen, when Clara might have entered university and begun to shape an identity beyond her sensationalized, unsought role in the New York art world, she fled to the quiet obscurity of small-town Maine, where she married and had a child, a daughter whom she has tried to shield from the central facts of her early life and her damaging role as her mother’s muse.

Fourteen years later, Ruth Dunne is dying, and Clara is summoned to her bedside. Despite her anguish and ambivalence about confronting a family life she has repressed and denied for more than a decade, Clara returns. She finds Ruth surrounded, even in her illness, by worshipful interns, protective assistants, and her conniving art dealer.

Once again, she is Clara Dunne, the object of curiosity, the girl in the photos. Except this time she has her own daughter to think about—a girl who at nine looks strikingly like the girl in Ruth’s photos—and she yearns to protect her, to insulate her from the exposure that will inevitably result when her two worlds, New York and Maine, collide.

As Clara charts a path connecting her childhood with her adult life, Shapiro’s novel weaves together past and present in images as stark and intense as the photographs that tore the Dunnes apart. A brilliant examination of motherhood—a novel that pits artistic inspiration against maternal obligation and asks whether the two can ever be fully reconciled—Black & White explores the limits and duties of family loyalties, and even of love. Gripping, haunting, psychologically complex, this is Shapiro at her captivating best.

Customer Reviews:

Great story potential, not fully achieved.......2007-06-25

Great storyline, but I expected more from the writing/writer (maybe that is the problem with being a big fan of one of the writer's previous books,Family History: A Novel, also a novel about mother/daughter relationship). I gave it three stars because of the great characterization of Ruth Dunne and for the story line. Couldn't give more because I couldn't stand the number of question marks in each page: everything Clara thinks/does is preceded by a question the character puts to herself (you could just remove all these questions and still have the same feeling about the doubts/questions in Clara's mind).

A Little Abrupt.......2007-06-12

I really enjoyed the story until the ending which seemed both out of character for the protagonists and very abrupt. It really had the quality of "Then they all went off to the seashore". The end made the text up to that point seem to be a lie or seemed a lie itself. I thought that it was a good story with a good conflict but, unfortunately, a very poor resolution.

A novel about photography, trust, mothers and daughters.......2007-05-30

Clara Brodeur left behind her old life with her famous photographer mother in New York City years ago. Ruth Dunne had used her young daughter in a series of photographs from the time the little girl was three until she was 14. The Clara Series, as it would become known later, stirred up great controversy because Clara was nude in most of the photos (and sometimes provocatively posed). It's hard enough for a young girl to separate herself from a strong-willed, creative mother, but it's more difficult still when that mother is famous and the daughter is the subject of her greatest artistic success.

Apart from the accolades Ruth received in the art world, her most famed collection is tearing her family apart. Ruth's husband appreciates his wife's artistic abilities but feels that Clara is being exploited and thus forbids Ruth from using Clara in that manner --- an admonishment ignored by Ruth. Older daughter Robin is jealous of her mother's preoccupation with Clara, who quickly realizes that Ruth's attention is clearly hinged on whether or not she is in the latest photo.

After a fellow student brings in a recent newspaper that cites the flap over Ruth's work, a teenaged Clara refuses to appear in any more of her mother's pictures. Clara leaves town as soon as she can, out of the shadow of the imposing Ruth Dunne.

She flees New York City and camps out in a friend's dorm room at Yale. While there, she meets a young student named Jonathan, with whom she quickly falls in love, and they begin a new life in Maine. Clara confides precious little information about her family to her husband and even less to her young daughter, Samantha. With her tortured past safely behind her, Clara's life goes along smoothly. Until she gets a phone call one day from Robin.

The two sisters haven't spoken in years, and their husbands and children have never met. Sad though that is, for Clara it has to be this way. But now Robin is calling with bad news. Their mother has cancer and is dying. Despite their past, Robin needs her sister's help. With her busy life as an attorney, an active family and their difficult mother berating and firing every health care worker she hires, Robin decides it's time for Clara to know ---- and to come home.

Convinced she won't stay for more than a day, Clara leaves for New York without so much as a suitcase and doesn't tell Sammy the truth about where she's going. She still hasn't forgiven Ruth but realizes she must face up to responsibility. After all, what happened in her childhood was not Robin's fault, and Robin shouldn't be forced to carry all the burden. But once there, Clara is overcome with the sights and smells of her old life. She sees her mother, once proud and strong, now humbled and having to rely on assistance to go to the bathroom. She soon feels her rock-hard resistance begin to soften as she helps care for this aged woman.

But when Ruth's agent, the flamboyant Kubovy, brings news of a retrospective book of The Clara Series that will be published soon, Clara feels betrayed and wonders if she will ever be able to repair the twisted relationship with her mother before she dies.

Dani Shapiro's BLACK & WHITE shines a light on the thorny terrain of mother/daughter relationships but adds a layer of difficulty by making the mother a famous Sally Mann-type photographer with questionable motives when using her daughter as her subject. Although at points one might wish Shapiro had delved a little deeper into Ruth's background, this novel will be a natural for book clubs to dissect and discuss the different aspects of this dysfunctional family. Why did Ruth ignore her husband's request and continue to use Clara? Should Clara forgive her dying mother? What about the poor, neglected sister in all of this? Reading groups will go into overtime debating about each character's motives and motivations, which I'm sure was at least partially the author's intent.

--- Reviewed by Bronwyn Miller

All for the sake of her art.......2007-05-24

Clara was used/abused as a nude model for her mother's photographs which brought fame to mom and embarrassment and pain to Clara. The novel explores Clara's relationship to her estranged mother, now near death, as well as her sister, husband and daughter. For a short novel this book had a lot of depth. The psychological struggles between Clara and her mother, daughter, husband and sister were portrayed well. We find out just how far Clara's mother is willing to go for her art and it is pretty shocking. My one complaint without giving anything away was Clara's actions at the end. I did not find them in line with what took place through the rest of the book but cannot even take away one star for it, the rest of the book is that good.

BAD.......2007-05-13

i didn't like the writing. the writer used the word vehemence twice on the same page and used the sentence "the tears are flowing freely now". Just not my type of writing. the characters were way more dramatic than they should have been. On the up side, i didn't put it down because it was partly entertaining. I liked the flashbacks.

Average customer rating: The ultimate publication in contamporary art and culture

Jeff Wall James Rondeau Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Photographers, A-Z | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Artists, A-Z | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Contemporary Art | Schools, Periods & Styles | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Look Inside Art Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews Philip-Lorca diCorcia Jeff Wall: Catalogue Raisonne 1978-2004 Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years Gerhard Richter: Atlas ASIN: 0870707078 Release Date: 2007-02-01

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Over the past three decades, Vancouver artist Jeff Wall's large color transparencies have won international acclaim. Wall has created a unique, seductive and complex pictorial universe by drawing upon philosophy, literature, nineteenth-century painting, Neo-Realist cinema and the traditions of both Conceptual art and documentary photography. Organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Wall's 2007 American traveling retrospective will include all of the artist's major works to date. In addition to color plates and illuminating details, the exhibition catalogue includes an essay by Peter Galassi that explores the full range of Wall's artistic and intellectual interests and offers fresh perspectives on one of the most adventurous creative achievements of our time. The essay is followed by an interview with the artist by James Rondeau, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the exhibition will be on view during the Summer of 2007. Also available from The Museum of Modern Art, New York: Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews.

Customer Reviews:

The ultimate publication in contamporary art and culture.......1999-01-19

A great book about a great artist, in a great series of "Phaidon" dedicated to contemporary art. Not easy to read, but worth it. The debate about Jeff Wall's art (in which wall himself is an importent participent) encompasses many fundamental questions and notions regarding new art history, post-modernism and society at the end of this century. A must for contemporary art lovers.

Average customer rating: Lucian Freud in conversation with models, canvas and paint A Window into the Privacy of the Creative Mind of Lucian Freud If you like Freud's work, you'll love this Absolutely Essential

Freud at Work: Lucian Freud in Conversation with Sebastian Smee Bruce Bernard , and David Dawson Manufacturer: Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Freud, Lucian | ( D-F ) | Artists, A-Z | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Painting | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Portraits | Painting | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Photographers, A-Z | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Photo Essays | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Portraits | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Themes | History & Criticism | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Look Inside Art Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Painting People: Figure Painting Today Jenny Saville Odd Nerdrum: Themes Vincent Desiderio: Paintings 1975-2005 John Currin ASIN: 0307266001 Release Date: 2006-11-07

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Freud at Work is a rare glimpse into the life of one of the most celebrated—and most private—artists working today. Though in his eighties, this great figurative artist continues to paint with undiminished energy and discipline.

In 120 revealing black-and-white and color photographs taken in Lucian Freud’s London studio, and in a fascinating in-depth interview, we come to understand the stages of the artist’s work and the intensity of his interaction with his subjects—whether fellow artist David Hockney, the Queen of England, or performance artist Leigh Bowery, among others.

Two remarkable photographers have been recording Freud at work over the past twenty years . The artist, uncharacteristically, allowed Bruce Bernard, the acclaimed picture editor, to photograph him in the studio, especially during the years he was working with Bowery as his model. Following Bernard’s death in 2000, David Dawson, the painter’s assistant, began photographing the daily life of the studio, showing us the progress of Freud’s paintings, his models—some naked, some famous—and the painter himself caught in moments of intense concentration.

Though Freud has always been reluctant to give interviews, talk about the painters he admires, or discuss how he works, his conversation here with the Australian writer Sebastian Smee is frank and revealing.

Unlike any other book we have seen about Freud—comparable to David Douglas Duncan’s books of photographs of Picasso—this important document invites us for the first time into the secret domain of the artist.

Customer Reviews:

Lucian Freud in conversation with models, canvas and paint.......2007-05-09

magnificent view on the painter as painter.

A Window into the Privacy of the Creative Mind of Lucian Freud.......2007-04-27

Lucian Freud seems to gain in importance as a painter and as provocateur with every exhibition (or even frequent monograph) that appears - an d for good reason. Freud continues the tradition of figure painting, but clearly in his own language. His canvases are dense with detail of both body surface and psychic message. His tendency to find rather physically grotesque models (such as Leigh Bowery) and then paint canvas after canvas of those models, each work revealing even more bizarre statements about the sitter, has made him one of the most interesting painters of our day - and the gentleman is in his eighties!

Infamously reclusive, Freud paints everyday, producing huge canvases and diptychs/triptychs with what appears to be the greatest of ease. But this very fine book allows us to see the artist's struggle with the creative muse by admitting us into the studio, courtesy of interviewers David Dawson and Sebastian Smee and photographers Dawson and Bruce Bernard, a friend and admirer now gone who captured some of the more sophisticated views of the artist at easel and photographic images of the models along side the painted version from Freud's hands, imagination and talent.

Even for those who have collected museum catalogs and other monographs of the work of Lucian Freud these richly reproduced color photographs of Freud's paintings, given the new vantage of moving from the museum wall into the studio of origination with the additional images of the painter at work, constitute a superior art monograph of a current genius. The book is a conversation with a living genius, a painter who is far more interested in the paint and brush than he is with the observer - until now. Highly recommended for art collectors, educators, art students, and for those who remain fascinated with the human figure. Grady Harp, April 07

If you like Freud's work, you'll love this.......2007-01-27

If the so-called School of London is your thing, here is a unique opportunity to watch the grand master at work. Not as good as a video, as possible with Auerbach and Bacon, but you take what you can get with the famously reclusive Freud, who clearly relishes enhancing his own reputation for eccentricity. (Remember the Snowdon photo of a wild-eyed Freud in his youth standing in front of his vintage Rolls Royce while wearing work clothes, like a scene right out of the 'sixties film Blow Up?)

Here we see the work of two photographers, both old friends, who were allowed to capture Freud at work over more than 20 years, as he painted single- and multiple-subject portraits of widely varying sizes, with subjects ranging from The Queen to Leigh Bowery. Most interestingly, this format allows us to see a large number of his paintings at various stages of completion, thus showing his process in a reasonable amount of detail.

Start with a sketch by Cezanne and adapt it to two models, then add a third, to make a contemporary painting. An earlier work starts with a nude model perched somewhat precariously in the cubbyhole high up on the wall. Her portrait on the easel below reveals just how brutal Freud can be in portraying the figure. When we saw the painting at Acquavella Gallery, we wondered if he actually had the model positioned in a nook in the wall. Now we know.

We see how the oil portraits of subjects such as Lord Fellowes and David Hockney start with oil sketches and go through development to the finished painting. The talented young British artist Tai-Shan Schierenberg, whose portraits of John Mortimer and Lords Sainsbury and Carrington are already in the Tate and the National Portrait Gallery, is one of several artists who paint in a style very similar to Freud's, but close-ups of Freud's smaller portraits show the particuarly intensive reworking which make his work unique. He lays on paint heavily like Auerbach or Kossoff but with his own style, which, in the end, is inimitable.

Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles in full dress uniform makes a glamorous subject. We also see Freud painting a horse and his dog Pluto, and his latest young female admirer. We also see Freud developing the plates for his masterful etchings, some of the best work being done in that medium today.

A 30-page interview by David Dawson and Sebastian Smee is interspersed with the late Bruce Bernard's color photographs and David Dawson provides over 100 additional color photographs of the painter at work. It seems that there is a new monograph on Freud every eighteen months or so; this is one of the few works which focuses on his process.

Absolutely Essential.......2006-12-07

If you are an admirer of Lucian Freud's work, this book should definitely have place in your library. It essentially comprises of 3 parts, opening with a very frank and insightful interview with Freud by Sebastian Smee. Followed by two collections of colour and b&w photographs by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson. They cover all aspects of Freud in the studio - photos of Freud larking around as a Henry Moore sculpture, works in progress (often including the model), finished paintings, his studio, his dogs, horses, foxcub, etching plates and resulting prints, series of WIP paintings showing the stages involved in their creation. Over 120 photos in all, with the vast majority being in colour. Lavishly illustrated.

Smee, Bernard, and Dawson all had/have a close association with Freud and for me that's what makes this book so special. Throughout, Freud is just going about his business which is captured wonderfully by the photos. Bernard wanted to take carefully considered photos but Freud was having none of that, to the point of literally doing headstands. Bernard died in 2000, around the time that Freud was working on his Cezanne piece. Dawson picks up the plot from there, with photo's through to 2006.

For anyone interested in Freud's painting process, either out of curiosity or as an artist, the photo's provide a wealth of information. The adage "A picture is worth a 1000 words" could not be more apt. The Work in Progress photos range from the raw drawing on canvas through to finished pieces. A number of WIP photos also include the model, allowing for comparison between the flesh and the oil. Etching plates and the resulting prints are also shown.

Smee's interview reads like a couple of guys chatting over a pint down the pub. Over his career (and long may it continue!) Freud has met and hung out with numerous famous figures - Picasso, Giacometti, Bacon, Hirst, Auerbach, Bergmann, Balthus, Bowery, Queen Elizabeth II, even gambling with the notorious Kray Twins (1950/60 gangsters from London's east end). The interview is liberally populated with wonderful anecdotes. Freud also talks about the painters through history that he admires - Cezanne, Matisse, Corot, Chardin, Toulouse-Latrec and why. He touches upon living in London and anti-semitism, what led him to paint pictures of his mother, his grandfather Sigmund Freud, being sat at the bar and finding out that someone else was impersonating him - was he upset? Not really, he ended up painting the man's portrait.

For someone who is reknowned for his privacy this book is exceptional. I'm sure Freud had a huge say in how the book would look and its contents. His pride in a job well done is most evident.

If Freud is on your artistic radar, even as the merest blip, then do yourself a favour and own this book. Essential. 10 stars!

Average customer rating: Amazing photos - great complement to the DVD "Rivers and Tides" Nature inspiration What a work of creative and artistic genius! Another superb look at Andy Goldsworthy's ephemeral art Mature Work by a Great Artist

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Whether measured in minutes or eons, time is a good friend of British artist Andy Goldsworthy's. He spends long, solitary days outdoors in all kinds of weather, doing things like piecing together many, many yellow leaves to create a brilliant band of color at a river's edge in upstate New York or stacking small pieces of ice on the Nova Scotia coast to build a sculpture in the compact shape of an ancient stone monument. Threatened by a strong gust of wind, the incoming tide, or a sudden rise in temperature, these are fugitive works comfortably in synch with the natural rhythms of growth and decay.

Other works of his are longer-lasting. In walls made of stacked stones with hollowed-out oval "chambers" the size of his body--which he began building in 1999 in Lancashire, England--Goldsworthy makes reference not only to the shapes of graves in a nearby church but also to his personal history in the region and the enduring qualities of a rugged landscape.

Goldsworthy is the rare artist who can describe what he does in simple, concrete terms that nonetheless reveal his larger vision. Time is a very satisfying collection of 500 photographs, nearly all taken by him, that document the creation and subsequent mutations of his work. These evocative images are illuminated by excerpts from the diaries he kept as he created five projects in Europe and North America in the '90s. He discusses what it's like to explore an unfamiliar landscape, assess how the elements will work for and against him, and perform what are essentially a set of experiments. Success means making work that is, as he writes, "completely welded to its site." --Cathy Curtis

Book Description

In his first major book in four years, internationally acclaimed artist Andy Goldsworthy presents a wealth of new work informed by the passage of time. Goldsworthy, who works with stone, leaves, grass, branches, snow, and other natural materials to create intensely personal artworks, uses time almost as a medium in his art: on a snow-covered Scottish hillside a huge rectangle of compacted snow becomes ever more visible as the surrounding snow melts away; clay walls dry out and crack, revealing previously invisible forms embedded within them; a sculpture of re-formed icicles is made to catch the morning sunshine. In the spectacular color photographs seen here, Goldsworthy celebrates the many ways his art is about, or evokes, the passage of time.

Presenting exciting works not seen in previous books, along with revealing excerpts from Goldsworthy's working diaries, this perceptive overview-which includes an extensive illustrated chronology by Terry Friedman-will become the definitive reference on Goldsworthy's art.

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY's books include Abrams' Stone, Wood, Arch, Wall, Hand to Earth, and Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature. His work is regularly exhibited in Britain, France, Japan, and the United States. This new book comes in the same year that his first permanent installation in an American museum, at Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York, has its official unveiling. Goldsworthy lives with his family in Scotland.

TERRY FRIEDMAN is an architectural historian who curated the first major retrospective of Goldsworthy's work.

"Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work." -Andy Goldsworthy

More than 250 photographs in full color, 111/2 x 10"

Customer Reviews:

Amazing photos - great complement to the DVD "Rivers and Tides".......2007-05-11

I had viewed the DVD "Rivers and Tides" which is a tour of Andy Goldsworthy's artistic endeavors. It is very compelling and left a lasting impression. I wanted more and discovered, to my delight, that a large number of Andy's creations shown in the DVD were documented in the book "Time". There had to be photographs of Andy's work since most of them are not permanent in either time or space. In the DVD, we see the creation process as it occurs and then it may dissolve or move. In the book, it is "frozen" in time and space and can be appreciated as a work of art. I recommend seeing the DVD first so the book's contents can be appreciated even more.

Nature inspiration.......2006-08-10

Andy Goldsworthy's work inspires me to look at nature in a very deep way.
His use of the environment and natural materials provokes me to look at how I can
incorporate more natural materials into my own work. I am in awe everytime I open up the book and look at the images. I especially like red clay and the way it went through it's own process through time.
a gem, a timeless exploration of our natural world!

What a work of creative and artistic genius!.......2003-04-18

What a work of creative and artistic genius!

What to say about such an amazing work? For the first few times I
mainly absorbed the photos of his works, with only reading the
little captions and it wiped me off my feet. After a few rounds
of these I decided to read all of the writing in the book that
accompany the works he made and it totally blew me away. This
book has definitely altered something deep inside about the way
Ilook at nature, change, the seasons and time in general.

Time, as the title of the book suggests is the main topic of the
book and Andy Goldsworthy's art in general or at least his
approach and intention towards it. The body of work presented in
numerous photos and with corresponding writing in the form of a
journal covers the whole range Goldsworthy's work. For example
works made from stone, wood, leaves, snow, ice,...

As a result it gives an excellent overview and introduction of
his work and via the numerous writings a very deep, personal and
detailed insight into how he approaches different places, how he
reacts to change and works with the weather. The writing is on
par with his work. Very clear, direct, honest and poetic.

His insight into the concepts of time and change and seasons and
nature is truly breath taking. The introduction he wrote for the
book is a wonderful example illustrating this. Part of it can be
read by using the "Look inside the book" feature of Amazon.

Spending time with this book really cracks ones mind wide open
about time, change, nature and seasons and how to look at it and
perceive it.

And honestly I don't know what's more amazing. These amazing
and unbelievable pieces of art. Or the incredibly crisp and poetic
writing, deepening so much ones understanding of the works and
give insight into Goldsworthys view and approach and thoughts. Or
simply that out there somewhere a human being is walking this
earth with such an amazing understanding of time and nature and
able to transform this into amazing art an writing.

If the idea of Goldsworthys work is for him to work with time and
change and nature and to further his awareness of these concepts
and make sense of them in the most beautiful way then that is
exactly what this book excells marvelously at for the reader.

Another superb look at Andy Goldsworthy's ephemeral art.......2002-09-04

Andy Goldsworthy's artwork is utterly ephemeral and fleeting, and perhaps because of this, utterly transfixing. There is something of the ancients in the way Goldsworthy puts together stone, or wood, or leaves--or even in the way he lays himself down on a dry patch of ground in the rain so that when he gets up, we see a sort of reverse shadow of his body. There is an astonishing intellect at work here, and a soul which sees the value in what some art snobs might term "mere beauty."

Goldsworthy's many mediums are covered in "Time," which features sumptuous photography by Terry Friedman. We see perfectly constructed stone cairns--some pyramidal, some only half done and all the more startling for what isn't there as for what is. We see ruddy sandstone arches four times the height of a man. But Goldsworthy's most consistently inviting work is done not in stone, but in the ephemera nature leaves for him everywhere he looks. Goldsworthy's work is sometimes so fleeting as to question the very nature of whether it constitutes art when it lasts only minutes or hours. The frost shadows, for instance, are simply photographs of the still-iced patches of grass over which Goldsworthy stood in the early morning, then stepped aside so that a photograph could be taken. Of course these are gone within minutes as the sun warms the now-exposed grass. Is this art? Merely the fact that you question it shows your engagement with the work--Goldsworthy fosters a kind of subtle dialogue between reader and artist and the dialogue is consistently engaging. Another heat-destroyed piece is the thinnest imaginable sheet of ice, laid against a moss-covered rock, and Goldsworthy's handprint visible on it. As it thawed, it buckled and disappeared and we see its disappearance in the photographs. It's lovely, it's witty and it is, improbably art.

Other things disappear, too, but not from the sun's warmth. There is a "stick hole" Goldsworthy built early one spring which he and Friedman came back to photograph throughout the summer until the final photograph shows it utterly covered with the lacy ferns which grew up around it. There are the perfectly circular or perfectly ovoid leaf rafts Goldsworthy stitches together, then sends on their way down a meandering stream, having their path photographed before they disappear. There are the piled of rocks he constructs leading into the ocean so that the tides swallow them up--each stage meticulously recorded on film.

Perhaps the most transformative art in the book is the mud wall displayed on the cover. Goldsworthy applied mud to walls and floor in such a way that when the mud cracked and dried, it showed the meandering, snakelike pattern he'd put into it. It has become something entirely different solely through the passage of time. This book is filled with surprises and delights, and will have you utterly absorbed, charmed, and astonished. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Mature Work by a Great Artist.......2001-10-09

This is perhaps Goldsworthy's most elegiac and moving book, a profound meditation on time and change. If you like his work, you won't be disappointed. This volume and "A Collaboration with Nature" are wonderful and permanent sources of inspiration.

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Ed Templeton: The Golden Age of Neglect Manufacturer: Drago ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Pop Culture | Graphic Design | Design & Decorative Arts | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Photographers, A-Z | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books | Adams, Ansel | Avedon, Richard | Bourke-White, Margaret | Brady, Mathew | Bubley, Esther | Callahan, Harry | Capa, Robert | Caro, Anthony | Carroll, Lewis | Cartier-Bresson, Henri | Clark, Larry | Cunningham, Imogen | Doisneau, Robert | Eisenstaedt, Alfred | Evans, Walker | Feininger, Andreas | Gatewood, Charles | Geddes, Anne | General | Goldin, Nan | Goldsworthy, Andy | Hamilton, David | Haskins, Sam | Hine, Lewis Wickes | Hurrell, Geoerge | Jackson, William Henry | Kenna, Michael | Kern, Richard | Kinsey, Darius | Lange, Dorothea | Leibovitz, Annie | Leonard, Herman | Mann, Sally | Mapplethorpe, Robert | Mark, Mary Ellen | Miller, Lee | Modotti, Tina | Muybridge, Eadweard | Newton, Helmut | Orkin, Ruth | Ray, Man | Ritts, Herb | Seymour, David | Sherman, Cindy | Steichen, Edward | Stieglitz, Alfred | Sturges, Jock | Uelsmann, Jerry | Wegman, William | Weston, Edward | Wiggins, Myra Albert General | Artists, A-Z | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Contemporary Art | Schools, Periods & Styles | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Look Inside Art Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Look Inside Entertainment Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Young, Sleek, And Full Of Hell Mark Gonzales: High Tech Poetry Ari Marcopoulos: Even the President of the United States Sometimes Has Got to Stand Naked Beautiful Losers Ari Marcopoulos (Alleged Press) ASIN: 8888493026 Release Date: 2005-02-15

Book Description

There are teenage smokers and drinkers. There are those whose despondence reads clearly as they confront the camera with vacant eyes. This, quite simply put, is The Golden Age of Neglect--a classic example of Ed Templeton's work which is deeply anchored in street life and street style, music (rock, punk, and rap), and graphic culture (wall paintings, murals, tags, and graffiti). This is the vision of an artist who crosses the realms of art, sports, sex, drugs, violence, fashion, and youth. A fixture of the Los Angeles skateboarding scene, Ed Templeton has been producing photographs, documenting a real story of his life, international tours, and encounters in the skateboarding world for over 10 years. Fuelled by incredible raw energy, irreverence, and spontaneity, his work is comprised of an extraordinary number of photographs and canvases, as well as a body of graphic work from drawings, sketch books and collages to montages and correspondence. This book is the reprint of the original version, which quickly rose to cult status shortly after its first printing in 2003.

Average customer rating: Great story, poorly told Don't believe everything you read in the NY Times!

The Clarks of Cooperstown Nicholas Fox Weber Manufacturer: Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Artists, Architects & Photographers | Arts & Literature | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books Contemporary Art | Schools, Periods & Styles | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Look Inside Art Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman The Diana Chronicles ASIN: 0307263479 Release Date: 2007-05-08

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Nicholas Fox Weber, author of the acclaimed Patron Saints (“Exhilarating avant-garde entertainment”—Sam Hunter, The New York Times Book Review) and Balthus (“The authoritative account of his life and work”—Michael Ravitch, Newsday), gives us now the idiosyncratic lives of Sterling and Stephen Clark—two of America’s greatest art collectors, heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune, and for decades enemies of each other. He tells the story, as well, of the two generations that preceded theirs, giving us an intimate portrait of one of the least known of America’s richest families.

He begins with Edward Clark—the brothers’ grandfather, who amassed the Clark fortune in the late-nineteenth century—a man with nerves of steel; a Sunday school teacher who became the business partner of the wild inventor and genius Isaac Merritt Singer. And, by the turn of the twentieth century, was the major stockholder of the Singer Manufacturing Company.

We follow Edward’s rise as a real estate wizard making headlines in 1880 when he commissioned Manhattan’s first luxury apartment building. The house was called “Clark’s Folly”; today it’s known as the Dakota.

We see Clark’s son—Alfred—enigmatic and famously reclusive; at thirty-eight he inherited $50 million and became one of the country’s richest men. An image of propriety—good husband, father of four—in Europe, he led a secret homosexual life. Alfred was a man with a passion for art and charity, which he passed on to his four sons, in particular Sterling and Stephen Clark.

Sterling, the second-oldest, buccaneering and controversial, loved impressionism, created his own museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts—and shocked his family by marrying an actress from the Comédie Française. Together the Sterling Clarks collected thousands of paintings and bred racehorses.

In a highly public case, Sterling sued his three brothers over issues of inheritance, and then never spoke to them again.

He was one of the central figures linked to a bizarre and little-known attempted coup against Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidency. We are told what really happened and why—and who in American politics was implicated but never prosecuted.

Sterling’s brother—Stephen—self-effacing and responsible—became chairman and president of the Museum of Modern Art and gave that institution its first painting, Edward Hopper’s House by the Railroad. Thirteen years later, in an act that provoked intense controversy, Stephen dismissed the Museum’s visionary founding director, Alfred Barr, who for more than a decade had single-handedly established the collection and exhibition programs that determined how the art of the twentieth century was regarded.

Stephen gave or bequeathed to museums many of the paintings that today are still their greatest attractions.

With authority, insight, and a flair for evoking time and place, Weber examines the depths of the brothers’ passions, the vehemence of their lifelong feud, the great art they acquired, and the profound and lasting impact they had on artistic vision in America.

Customer Reviews:

Great story, poorly told.......2007-07-01

I read biographies all the time and this one had the potential to be superb: Singer Company fortune, amazing art collections, fascist plot against FDR (yes!), surprising sexual liaisons, family feuds of a rarified nature. However, it feels tedious to wade through, because the author is not a gifted writer, gushes too much when he should be more objective, and spends far too much time rhapsodizing over individual works of art to the point where we lose sight of the people collecting them. An editor could have pruned what feels like endless repetitions of Sterling's shopping trips and pushed the author to analyze, not emote. I understand from a New York Times article (not the review mentioned by the other reviewer) that the book was rushed. It certainly feels like it missed a stage in the editorial process.

Don't believe everything you read in the NY Times!.......2007-05-23

Debby Applegate in the May 20, 2007 NY Times describes this as a "flawed family biography" although she admits it is "fascinating." It is indeed a fascinating family saga which resulted in great legacies to the National Gallery in Washington, DC; the Clark museum in Williamstown, MA; the Modern and Metropolitan museums in NYC; and several cultural institutions in Cooperstown, NY; not to mention the "Dakota" apartment building in NYC. Don't be misled by Ms. Applegate's smart alecky review.

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Picasso: Life with Dora Maar Anne Baldassari Manufacturer: Flammarion ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Modern | Schools, Periods & Styles | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Contemporary Art | Schools, Periods & Styles | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Picasso, Pablo | ( P-R ) | Artists, A-Z | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Artists, A-Z | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Instructional & How-To | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Photographers, A-Z | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books Look Inside Art Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock (A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) Alaska Native Art: Tradition, Innovation, Continuity Matisse: Painter as Sculptor ASIN: 2080305212 Release Date: 2006-10-03

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Dora Maar, born Henriette Théodora Markovitch in 1907, was a talented artist in her own right. While studying painting, she soon found a passion and gift for photography, and became a prominent member of the Surrealist movement. This catalogue traces her relationship with Picasso, from the time of their first meeting in late 1935 through 1937. Picasso expert Anne Baldassari demonstrates how those years were critical for both artists, and how their interaction provided mutual inspiration through the mid-1940s. The relationship is set within the context of major historical events, from the Spanish Civil War and the Popular Front, to the rise of fascism and World War II.

This chronological account brings a legend to life, allowing the reader unique access to two artistic minds. Maar s photographs, alongside Picasso's drawings, paintings, and poems, serve as a guide through the critical period in which these two figures influenced one another. Preserved in her studio archives, Maar's negatives and contact prints allow us to analyze in detail the intimacy of the life she shared with Picasso in all of its states, as well as the evolution of his art, including the colossal Guernica.

This exquisite volume features green-gilded pages and personal mementos—including notes scrawled on matchboxes and small sketches, which are produced on onion skin paper throughout. This book sheds light on the profound mark left upon Picasso and his work by their dynamic relationship.

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Judy Pfaff Irving Sandler Manufacturer: Hudson Hills Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Pop | Schools, Periods & Styles | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Contemporary Art | Schools, Periods & Styles | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Mixed Media | Other Media | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Installations | Other Media | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Artists, A-Z | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books Artists, Architects & Photographers | Arts & Literature | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books Look Inside Art Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Look Inside Biographies | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Terry Winters: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, 1994-2004 Terry Winters: Printed Works The Art of Richard Tuttle The Book as Art: Artists' Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts Louise Bourgeois ASIN: 1555952224

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For the past thirty years Judy Pfaff's challenging and imaginative installations have set the pace during a dynamic and changing period in contemporary art. This richly illustrated book offers the first thorough look at the career of this influential artist who helped bring the revolutionary liveliness of the late 20th century to the walls and spaces of galleries and museums.

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