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Book Fierce Poise

Download or read book Fierce Poise written by Alexander Nemerov and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Critics Circle finalist • One of Vogue's Best Books of the Year A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York “The magic of Alexander Nemerov's portrait of Helen Frankenthaler in Fierce Poise is that it reads like one of Helen's paintings. His poetic descriptions of her work and his rich insights into the years when Helen made her first artistic breakthroughs are both light and lush, seemingly easy and yet profound. His book is an ode to a truly great artist who, some seventy years after this story begins, we are only now beginning to understand.” ―Mary Gabriel, author of Ninth Street Women At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to make her name. By the decade's end, she had succeeded in establishing herself as an important American artist of the postwar period. In the years in between, she made some of the most daring, head-turning paintings of her day and also came into her own as a woman: traveling the world, falling in and out of love, and engaging in an ongoing artistic education. She also experienced anew―and left her mark on―the city in which she had been raised in privilege as the daughter of a judge, even as she left the security of that world to pursue her artistic ambitions. Brought to vivid life by acclaimed art historian Alexander Nemerov, these defining moments--from her first awed encounter with Jackson Pollock's drip paintings to her first solo gallery show to her tumultuous breakup with eminent art critic Clement Greenberg―comprise a portrait as bold and distinctive as the painter herself. Inspired by Pollock and the other male titans of abstract expressionism but committed to charting her own course, Frankenthaler was an artist whose talent was matched only by her unapologetic determination to distinguish herself in a man's world. Fierce Poise is an exhilarating ride through New York's 1950s art scene and a brilliant portrait of a young artist through the moments that shaped her.

Book To Paint is to Love Again

Download or read book To Paint is to Love Again written by Henry Miller and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book TREASURE Twenty One Paintings and a Key

Download or read book TREASURE Twenty One Paintings and a Key written by Maggie Hasbrouck and published by Maggie Hasbrouck. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern artist Maggie Hasbrouck has once again created an evocative, compelling and hauntingly beautiful body of work. The twenty one photoencaustic paintings in TREASURE will usher you into a shimmering world of memory, imagination and shifting perceptions. These luminous reproductions, together with Hasbrouck's verses, add up to more than just another art book. Embedded in TREASURE is a secret code. Be the first to figure it out and your reward will be one of Hasbrouck's paintings. Your treasure awaits. I am pleased to announce that 40%%%%%%%% of all author profits will go directly to The Joseph C. Monastra Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research.

Book Day of the Artist

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Patricia Cleary
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-07-14
  • ISBN : 9781320549431
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Day of the Artist written by Linda Patricia Cleary and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One girl, one painting a day...can she do it? Linda Patricia Cleary decided to challenge herself with a year long project starting on January 1, 2014. Choose an artist a day and create a piece in tribute to them. It was a fun, challenging, stressful and psychological experience. She learned about technique, art history, different materials and embracing failure. Here are all 365 pieces. Enjoy!

Book Ten American Painters

    Book Details:
  • Author : William H. Gerdts
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Ten American Painters written by William H. Gerdts and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wrightsman Collection

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles B. Wrightsman
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN : 0870990128
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book The Wrightsman Collection written by Charles B. Wrightsman and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1966 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Five: This catalogue of a private collection includes works by such artists as Vermeer, Rubens, Renoir, La Tour, the Tiepolos, El Greco, Canaletto, and Van Dyck. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Book Fifty Famous Painters

Download or read book Fifty Famous Painters written by Henrietta Gerwig and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treasury Decisions Under Customs and Other Laws

Download or read book Treasury Decisions Under Customs and Other Laws written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1904-1926 include also decisions of the United States Board of General Appraisers.

Book Treasury Decisions Under Tariff and Navigation Laws

Download or read book Treasury Decisions Under Tariff and Navigation Laws written by United States. Dept. of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1890-1926 include also Decisions of the Board of U.S. general appraisers no. 1-9135.

Book Synopsis of Sundry Decisions of the Treasury Department on the Construction of the Tariff  Navigation  and Other Acts  for the Year Ending

Download or read book Synopsis of Sundry Decisions of the Treasury Department on the Construction of the Tariff Navigation and Other Acts for the Year Ending written by United States. Dept. of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1891-1897 include decisions of the United States Board of General Appraisers.

Book Painting outside the Lines

    Book Details:
  • Author : David W. Galenson
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674037472
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Painting outside the Lines written by David W. Galenson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work that brings new insights, and new dimensions, to the history of modern art, David Galenson examines the careers of more than 100 modern painters to disclose a fascinating relationship between age and artistic creativity.

Book Court of Customs and Patent Appeals Reports

Download or read book Court of Customs and Patent Appeals Reports written by United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Crimean War and Cultural Memory

Download or read book The Crimean War and Cultural Memory written by Sima Godfrey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crimean War (1854–56) is widely considered the first modern war with its tactical use of railways, telegraphs, and battleships, its long-range rifles, and its notorious trenches – precursors of the Great War. It is also the first media war: the first to know the impact of a correspondent on the field of battle and the first to be documented in photographs. No one, however, including the French themselves, seems to remember that France was there, fighting in Crimea, losing 95,000 soldiers and leading the Allied campaign to victory. It would seem that the Crimean War has no place in the canon of culturally retained historical events that define modern French identity. Looking at literature, art, theatre, material objects, and medical reports, The Crimean War and Cultural Memory considers how the Crimean War was and was not represented in French cultural history in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, the book illuminates the forgotten traces that the Crimean War left on the French cultural landscape.

Book Vermeer and His Milieu

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Michael Montias
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780691002897
  • Pages : 486 pages

Download or read book Vermeer and His Milieu written by John Michael Montias and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not only a fascinating biography of one of the greatest painters of the seventeenth century but also a social history of the colorful extended family to which he belonged and of the town life of the period. It explores a series of distinct worlds: Delft's Small-Cattle Market, where Vermeer's paternal family settled early in the century; the milieu of shady businessmen in Amsterdam that recruited Vermeer's grandfather to counterfeit coins; the artists, military contractors, and Protestant burghers who frequented the inn of Vermeer's father in Delft's Great Market Square; and the quiet, distinguished "Papists Corner" in which Vermeer, after marrying into a high-born Catholic family, retired to practice his art, while retaining ties with wealthy Protestant patrons. The relationship of Vermeer to his principal patron is one of many original discoveries in the book.

Book Treasury Decisions Under the Customs  Internal Revenue  and Other Laws

Download or read book Treasury Decisions Under the Customs Internal Revenue and Other Laws written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Dictionary of American Art   Artists

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of American Art Artists written by Ann Lee Morgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists has been fully revised and updated as well as including dozens of new entries offering an insightful and informative view of America's artistic heritage. An indispensable biographical and critical guide to American art from colonial times to contemporary postmodernism, this valuable resource provides readers with a wealth of factual detail and perceptive analysis of America's leading artists. This new edition has been updated to include a number of entries on prevailing topics such as body art, light and space, Indian-American art, scatter art, and transactional art, and features many new or greatly expanded biographical entries on artists such as Ida Applebroog, Guerilla Girls, Peter Hujar and Shirin Neshat. Morgan offers readers a wealth of authoritative information as well as well-informed analysis and criticism of artists and their work. Filled with fascinating historical background and penetrating insight, The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists is an essential resource for art lovers everywhere.