Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&browse=true&N=3+3448+4294962913 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743319 How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habits, and other prescribed, finely calibrated subtle maneuvers-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668978 Explores the life and career of graphic artist and The New Yorker magazine mainstay Saul Steinberg. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1580545 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393823 Draws on newly available primary sources to present an in-depth, accessible profile that offers revisionist assessments of the influential artists turbulent life and genius works. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1277376 The mother of the bestselling memoirists Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison finally tells her own heartbreaking story of her Southern Gothic childhood, tormented marriage, motherhood, mental breakdown, and journey back to sanity and contentment, in luminous, evocative prose. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577553 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304071 Alternates descriptions of the most cutting-edge brain science with the story of Jon Sarkin, a mild-mannered chiropractor who, after suffering a massive stroke, became a manic, volatile, and brilliant artist. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1054725 In this tough, tender memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith transports readers to what seemed like halcyon days for art and artists in New York as she shares tales of the denizens of Maxs Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribners, Brentanos and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplthorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1294242 Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich--and happily horrify readers everywhere. This book is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities--some famous, some unknown, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, the owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to playwright Tennessee Williams; from atheist leader Madalyn Murray OHair to insane martyr Saint Catherine of Siena; from English novelist Denton Welch to timeless singer Johnny Mathis, these are the figures that helped the author form his own brand of neurotic happiness.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1142047 Filmmaker John Waters presents a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities, from Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the insane martyr Saint Catherine of Siena. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185533 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1130491 Biography of David Small, who grew up in a dysfunctional family, survived cancer which took his voice, and became an award-winning illustrator of childrens books. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1335513 Gloria Vanderbilt is many things: an heiress, a painter, a muse, a designer, a model, a writer, an entrepreneur, an actor, a socialite, a survivor, an icon. She brought the Vanderbilt name out of the Gilded Age and into the Digital Age, reinventing herself over and over along the way. Hers is a story of charisma, glamour, and heartbreaking loss, told here by Wendy Goodman, who had intimate access to Vanderbilt for this book. The illustrations include portraits of Vanderbilt and her extraordinary homes, filled with original and influential decorating ideas, by such photographic legends as Richard Avedon, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Inge Morath, Horst P. Horst, Francesco Scavullo, and Annie Leibovitz. Vanderbilts son, Anderson Cooper, contributes a foreword.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1262621 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1116463 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1002682 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1022010 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1189287 Biographies and work examples of five hundred and one great artists. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=754647 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=730079 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=684249 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1197772 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=727011 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634949 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=771067 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=771077 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=675384 Drawing together the complete Phaidon interviews with artists since 1995, pressPLAY is a collection of conversations with some of the worlds best-known living artists. From highly established artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Alex Katz, to midcareer masters Peter Fischli and David Weiss and Jenny Holzer, to the current generation including Maurizio Cattelan and Pipilotti Rist, the artists in pressPLAY work in every variety of media - from painting to video, sculpture to installation. In discussion with key art critics as well as fellow artists, novelists, musicians and theorists, together the players in pressPLAY explain in full what it means to be an artist today.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=608024 One of the most admired and innovative contemporary artists working today, Chuck Close has pioneered ideas of scale, form, and color through the theme of portraiture, a genre that he has fundamentally redefined. Although Close has painted himself far more often than any of his other subjects, the majority of those other subjects have been fellow artists. This book details more than thirty years of Closes remarkable career, exploring the evolution of both his self-portraits and portraits of other artists and the compelling man behind them. Written by Martin Friedman, former director of the Walker Art Center and Closes longtime friend, Close Reading is an intimate study of one of the art worlds most valued members. Divided into three sections, the book begins with a comprehensive biography of Close that describes his childhood and college years, his struggles with learning disabilities, the origins and perfecting of his near-photographic painting technique, his sudden illness in 1988, which led to almost complete paralysis, and the degree of recovery that enabled him to continue his painting career. The second section is an examination of Closes self-portraiture, not only in paintings but in other mediums as well. Discussions and illustrations include paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs that trace the development of the self-portraits from insistently neutral renditions of increasingly expressionistic ones. The final section addresses Closes paintings of artists, including Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Francesco Clemente, Alex Katz, and William Wegman, who are also known for making self-portraits. Illustrated by examples of Closes paintings of them, as well as by works by the artists themselves, the text includes Closes insightful comments about this body of his work. Also included are Friedmans conversations with the artist subjects, which reveal much about Closes accomplishments, as well as the subjects experiences sitting for Close and their observations about their own self-portraiture.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=593254 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=604792 The writer Natalie Barney and the artist Romaine Brooks were rich, American, eccentric, and grandly lesbian. They met in Paris in 1915, and their relationship lasted more than fifty years despite infidelity, separation, and temperamental differences. Told by Diana Souhami, the critically acclaimed author of Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter, Wild Girls is the story of two audacious women and the world they inhabited. Natalie Barney believed that living was the first of all arts. She published memoirs and collections of poems and aphorisms, but her passion was for seduction and love. She liked lavish displays, lots of sex, and love unbounded by rules. At her Friday afternoon salons, in the Grecian Temple of Friendship in the garden of her Paris home, one met lesbians. Lovers and friends circled the Amazon, as she was called. She aspired to make her temple the Sapphic center of the western world. Romaine Brookss prime interests, on the other hand, were herself and her painting. She produced many self-portraits and portraits of her own and Natalies lovers and friends. She endured an unhappy childhood and a fraught relationship with her mother. She trusted no one but Natalie. Natalie and Romaine are at the center of this Sapphic Idyll. Included, too, are their lovers and friends before and after they met: Liane de Pougy, the exquisite courtesan and lover of princes; Renee Vivien, poet of melancholy and death, who died of anorexia at age thirty-two; Dolly Wilde, niece of Oscar, who ran up huge bills and died of a drug overdose; the prima ballerina Ida Rubinstein; the writer Gabriele DAnnunzio - and many others. Natalies salon, attended by Gertrude Stein, and Colette and Edith Sitwell, was a magnet for social introductions and cultural innovations. Drawing from letters, papers, and paintings, Diana Souhami re-creates the lives and loves of this pair of dazzling and wild women.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=771064 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=619199 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765766 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=573702 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=596979 Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), and Italian painter and print-maker renowned for his simple yet majestic still lifes, is also famous for his legendary reputation as a recluse, an artist who resided in a world bound by the walls of his Bologna studio. Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence significantly broadens this view of Morandi and is the first and only study in English to cover his career in its entirety as well as in the sociopolitical and cultural context of Italian art during his lifetime. Janet Abramowicz studied with Morandi before becoming his teaching assistant, a relationship that evolved into a lifelong friendship with the artist and his family. She takes the reader through half a century of Italian art history and its most significant movements - Futurism, Pittura Metafisica, Valori Plastici, Strapaese, Novecento - most of which have received scant attention from English-language scholars. Abramowicz shows how Morandi worked in close proximity to mainstream contemporary European art and tells the story of his relationship to the Fascist politics and patrons of his time, illustrating how his connections to this period were muted in an effort to establish the artist as apolitical after the fall of the regime in post-World War II Italy. An important new addition to scholarship on twentieth-century Italian art history, this book features many rare and previously unpublished images and will fascinate admirers of Morandi and his transcendent work.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=736148 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=519917 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=380542 William Blakes wife once said of him: I have very little of Mr. Blakes company; he is always in Paradise. This illustrated biography of the great English artist, poet and mystic brings us very much into Blakes company, presenting, often in the words of his contemporaries, everything that is known of his life and times.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=391943 Designed to appeal to Gorey lovers as well as those seeking an introduction to his work, Ascending Peculiarity includes reproductions of previously unpublished drawings and photos. 150 line drawings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=729693 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=603538 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=274072 Arshile Gorky, one of the most intriguing figures in modern art, was at the center of the New York art world in the twenties, thirties, and forties. Yet he was never fully recognized as an important painter in his lifetime, and it was only after his death that his reputation soared. In this deeply felt and penetrating biography, Matthew Spender - himself a sculptor and the husband of Gorkys elder daughter - writes with sympathy and perception, and he gets to the heart of his elusive subject. Born in Khorkom, a small Armenian village in eastern Turkey, Arshile Gorky grew up haunted by memories of his alternately idyllic and terrifying childhood: the scars of the 1896 Turkish massacres of his people; then the mass slaughter of 1915 from which his own family fled; the desertion of his father; the dominance of his headstrong and loving mother, who died of starvation after they found shelter in the Caucasus. Making his way to the United States, the young Gorky determined against all odds to become a painter. He buried his past by assuming a new name and identity, and brazened his way into the art world. At once charming and peremptory, seemingly an extrovert but secretive at heart, he could both dazzle and alienate his art students (Rothko was one of his earliest), his fellow painters, and his young loves, as well his potential dealers and patrons. His last years, dogged by tragedy and illness, threatened even the haven of his marriage and family, until finally, in 1948, he took his own life.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=281097 Contained here are some of the strangest, saddest, most glorious and most intriguing life stories of our time. One hundred artists who have shaped our perceptions of the twentieth century are presented in lively short biographies. Each entry is illustrated with important works, self-portraits and photographs, and includes an excellent guide for further reading.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=283190 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=295466 Man Rays extraordinary autobiography, now in a lavishly illustrated paperback edition, reveals the entertaining life and times of this remarkable artist. Legendary photographer, painter, creator of objects, and filmmaker, Man Ray was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of this century. From Greenwich Village to Paris to Hollywood and back to Paris, Man Ray figured prominently in the avant-garde, Dada, and Surrealist movements. Self Portrait is Man Rays extremely frank autobiography, long unavailable in English. This new edition, now available for the first time in paperback, is fully illustrated with 250 pictures, in color and black and white. Many of these pictures had never before been published; others have become part of popular culture, such as The Gift, an iron studded with tacks, and The Lovers, his huge painting of lips floating in the Paris sky.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=292175 A pioneering force in the feminist art movement of the 1970s, Miriam Schapiro (b. 1923) dared to challenge the marginalized role of women in the art world by creating a visual vocabulary to express womens experiences. In this illustrated book, the first comprehensive monograph on the artist, acclaimed art historian Thalia Gouma-Peterson traces the trajectory of Schapiros career over five decades, from her gestural canvases of the 1950s, to her self-exploratory Shrines and geometric abstractions of the 1960s, to her large-scale femmages (feminist-oriented collages of paint and fabric) of the 1970s and 1980s, and finally to her autobiographical figural compositions of the 1980s and 1990s.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=153888 For Ian Gibson, the key to understanding Dali lies in the powerful and little-understood emotion of shame. But this is no one-dimensional study. In Madrid as a young art student, Dali made his mark, launching his career in a triumphant show of early works, some in the Cubist mode and others that he termed realistic. Madrid figured critically in Dalis career in other ways. It was there that he met the future film director Luis Bunuel, with whom he would soon collaborate, and the charismatic writer Federico Garcia Lorca, with whom an intimacy developed that would only deepen Dalis sexual confusion. Among the many artists who influenced the young Dali were two Spaniards living in Paris: Picasso, whom Dali met at his studio during a hectic visit to Paris, and Joan Miro, a fellow Catalan who took Dali under his wing. It was film, not paintings, that plunged Dali into the surrealist vortex in Paris: his collaboration with Bunuel on the violent and bizarre Un Chien andalou. It led to a successful exhibition of his paintings in Paris, paintings at least as shocking in their imagery as the film. Soon after, Dali found aristocratic patrons for his work and, more importantly, the enigmatic, libidinous Gala, a Russian emigre whose marriage Dali broke up and with whom he subsequently lived in unconsummated bliss - and fright. Their life together forms a tragicomic epic that Gibson follows from Paris back to Spain and on to New York and California where Dali is embraced by Hollywood and some of its most prominent players - Alfred Hitchcock, Clark Gable, and Bob Hope, among them. Rollickingly funny adventures alternate with scandalous episodes of self-promotion, and, as Dali slips into a long decline, Gibson dramatically reveals how the great exploiter became victimized by people all too eager to prey on his lust for recognition and riches. Abundantly illustrated with thirty-eight full-color plates and over one hundred black-and-white pictures. The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali brings the artist vividly before us through Gibsons interviews with some of those closest to Dali and his extensive exploration of recently discovered sources in addition to Dalis voluminous correspondence, novels, poems, and essays.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=148093 Providing broad coverage of painting, sculpture, and graphic art, the dictionary has entries on more than a thousand artists and on all the major movements and styles of the twentieth century, including Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Art Deco, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Body and Performance art, and Neo-Expressionism. In addition there are entries on art schools and galleries, exhibitions and prizes, terms and techniques. Although the dictionary concentrates on the great names, it is not confined to the mainstream of modern art, featuring many artists working in a more popular tradition, such as Vladimir Tretchikoff, the King of Kitsch, and interesting peripheral figures such as the forger Elmyr de Hory and the model Kiki of Montparnasse. The biographies also cover collectors, critics, dealers, and patrons.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=58159 The American West was the subject of Thomas Morans greatest artistic triumphs - Yosemite, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Zion Canyon, the Virgin River, Colorados Mountain of the Holy Cross, and the Grand Tetons - but his travels with Ferdinand V. Haydens geological surveys of the Upper Yellowstone were matched by trips to his native Britain and to Venice, Florida, the Spanish Southwest, and Old Mexico. These scenes inspired memorable landscapes and seascapes, as did the sojourns of the Moran family in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and East Hampton, Long Island, when they retreated from the demands of the New York art scene. In the 1880s Moran and his artist wife, Mary Nimmo Moran, also threw themselves into the etching craze of the period, creating some of the finest prints produced in the United States.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=290750 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=288611 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=280802 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=124873 Jasper Johns, one of the most influential artists of our time, has been the subject of intense public scrutiny since his landmark first exhibition in 1958. Yet this book, published in conjunction with the 1996-97 exhibition Jasper Johns: A Retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, is the first to present this very private figure in his own words. It brings together Johnss few written articles, key interviews, and the fullest selection ever of his sketchbook drawings and notes. Important parts of this material are published here for the first time; others have previously been unavailable in English. The provocative originality and subtlety of Johnss thoughts on art, and his well-known concern with precision in language, are evident throughout. This volume will be indispensable for the study of the artist, and will provide fascination and pleasure for all readers interested in contemporary creativity.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=286121 Throughout The Early Years, Christenberrys work is presented as part of an evolutionary series of developments that began with Christenberrys immersion in the Abstract Expressionist philosophies and techniques taught at the University of Alabama during his years as a student there (1954-1959) and continued through his abandonment of painting on canvas (1964) and his inclusion of signs and found objects in the three-dimensional constructions he created in Memphis (1964-1968). These constructions, marked by the artists sense of dynamic composition and gestural brushwork, and reflecting his awareness of the combines of Robert Rauschenberg and the developing Pop Art sensibility, have never been examined prior to this book. As J. Richard Gruber convincingly demonstrates, Christenberrys work evolved in response both to the most advanced art movements of the times and to the changing social and cultural landscape around him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=158267 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=33017 In a way that was unusual for an artist of his time, Stuart Davis (1892-1964) took his inspiration not only from modern European painting but also from American popular culture. Davis, like other American artists in the early decades of the century, was deeply affected by his encounter with the remarkable accomplishments of the European avant-garde, which were revealed to the Americans at the landmark Armory Show of 1913 in New York. Drawn first to the color of the Post-Impressionists and then to the flattened, abstracted forms of the Cubists, Davis decided to pursue a modernist style of his own, a resolve that was strengthened by a sojourn Paris in the late 1920s. Yet in addition to these European sources, Davis was much influenced by African-American jazz. Indeed, some of the most notable features of his art were conceived as visual equivalents to the music and the language he first heard at jazz clubs in New York and New Jersey as a very young man, and which remained avid interests throughout his life. This book is the first study to take fully into account Daviss formative response to black American music - how it reshaped his understanding of what art could be and altered his personal take on European modernism. It also offers a detailed account of Daviss political activities in the numerous artists associations he joined during the Depression era. Shedding new light on the artists career and on his conception of painting, this study is essential not only for admirers of Daviss work but for anyone interested in the social currents that helped define Americas visual culture during the almost fifty-year span of his career.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=280466 This is a classic study of William Blake, a man for whom the arts were not an end in themselves, but expressed his vision of the spiritual drama of the English national being. This volume presents a comprehensive view of Blakes artistic achievements and a compelling and moving portrait of the life and thought of an extraordinary genius. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=169568 Outsider art - the so-called untrained style of those who are self-taught - has enjoyed a recent surge in popularity. Dan Prince, who has been studying and collecting this art form for over twenty-five years, thinks perhaps it is time to reexamine some of our beliefs about art. Passing in the Outsider Lane takes a look at the true art experiences of twenty-one artists. Many of these artists have been dismissed as insane, unschooled, or childish. Princes compassionate and insightful profiles of these individuals allow us to share in their environments, their life stories, their creative processes, and their feelings about art.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=156389 Salvador Dali is perhaps the most universally famous and popular twentieth-century artist. What accounts for this popularity? Is it his excellence as an artist? The accessibility of his imagery? Or his genius as a self-publicist? In a searching text, completely revised and updated in this edition to incorporate new information that has come to light since Dalis death in 1989, Dawn Ades considers some of the puzzling questions raised by the Dali phenomenon. His early years, the development of his technique and style, his relationship with the Surrealists, his exploitation of Freudian ideas, and the image which Dali created of himself as the mad genius artist are all explored in this brilliant and thought provoking study.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=388632 In Bloomsbury Recalled, Quentin Bell has written an extraordinary memoir of the circle of intellectuals in London early in this century know as the Bloomsbury group. Bell offers remarkable judgments about and recollections of each of the notable people among whom he came of age. Here are Bells candid portraits of his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell - Virginia Woolfs sister - Vanessas lover, Duncan Grant, and of Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Ottoline Morrell, and others who frequented Gordon Square in Bloomsbury and Charleston, the Bells country place in Sussex. The stories of this enchanting extended family, the private lives of these public figures, have all the magic and intrigue of the best novels of the day. Bloomsbury Recalled, in the expansive storytelling tradition of the early modernists, re-creates the captivating theater of events that was Bloomsbury.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=147175 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=163919 Latin American Artists in their Studios is a fascinating introduction to the magical and mysterious world of fifteen giants of Latin American art in the second half of the twentieth century: Jacobo Borges, Fernando Botero, Claudio Bravo, Augustin Cardenas, Leonora Carrington, Sergio de Castro, Gunther Gerzso, Matta, Armando Morales, Antonio Segui, Jesus Rafael Soto, Fernando de Szyszlo, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Toledo, and Cordelia Urueta. Many of these artists have remained in Latin America, others are scattered throughout the world. Some are in Paris, Claudio Bravo lives in a magnificent villa in Tangiers, Botero shuttles between houses and studios in New York, Paris, Pietrasanta and Bogota. What they all have in common, as Carlos Fuentes points out in his brilliant introduction, is a shared culture descended from Indian, African and European sources, a culture that extends from the Rio Grande to Patagonia, but that now spills over to the United States and also sails back to recognize Spain. Even if these painters and sculptors have attempted to remove themselves from the nationalist boundaries often imposed on the Latin American creator, they all share a way of looking at Western culture. They also all yearn for a universality that embraces their Mediterranean, Greek and Roman, Jewish and Arab heritages, enriching these with the Indian, Black African, and mulatto experiences of form and color, light and shadow, the bliss and horror of the Americas. Marie-Pierre Colle travelled wherever these artists have their studios and, with a particularly discerning eye, inspired a team of photographers to search out the most telling details of their life and work. Her text is based on astonishingly revealing interviews that substitute art criticism with explanations from the artists themselves. Her questions are as sharp as her eye; the result is a priceless record of the creative process and of a highly respected segment of contemporary art history.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=255873 A completely revised and updated sixth edition of the most useful and detailed directory of Americas leading artists. Over 900 comprehensive entries including biographical data, exhibitions, special commissions, collections, and a bibliography. With 149 newly selected illustrations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=119169 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=155471 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=99678 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=234504 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=255949 Joseph Cornell is at once a legendary yet living presence in American art. His famous boxes, with their ineffably perfect choice of elements - the stuffed birds, the buttons and toys, the fragments of old theatrical posters, the poignant allusions to the worlds of the 19th century ballet and opera - are some of the most recognizable signatures in all of 20th century art. This book is the first extended selection of Cornells diaries and other written material to be published, and from his writings Cornell emerges as a deeply dedicated and conscious artist, though one whose personality was every bit as unusual as many had perceived. Cornell used his diaries as he used his boxes, to capture and preserve his passing feelings, his momentary urges, and his anguished hesitations. He was an incessant and brilliant recorder of his thoughts as he considered his art, or traveled to New York to haunt antiquarian bookstores and shops where he collected material for his boxes. We see here his deep immersion in French symbolist poetry and his intense interest in his surrealist contemporaries. We see also his plangent yearning for les sylphides. the fairies of the ballet world who seemed to be reincarnated for him in the form of certain waitresses, dancers, actresses, and shopgirls of his own world. Cornell corresponded with an astonishing range of people including Parker Tyler, Marianne Moore, Tony Curtis, Robert Motherwell, and Susan Sontag. His letters were often sent in the form of collages, and several of them are reproduced in this book. Mary Ann Caws has edited these diaries from a vast and prolix collection of scribbled notes and journals left by Cornell. Her text, which provides an extended introduction to the life and work of Cornell, traces the unique correspondence of the life, the art, and the writings of a great American artist. In addition to John Ashberys foreword, an appreciation of Cornell by Robert Motherwell is published here for the first time.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=295765 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=201300 At the end of World War I, the German artist Kurt Schwitters dramatically broke with dominant artistic traditions by adopting collage as the primary medium for his literary and visual production. In The Collages of Kurt Schwitters: Tradition and Innovation, Dorothea Dietrich demonstrates how collages function for the artist. With its emphasis on fragmentation and the prefabricated, collage pronounced a radical break with artistic tradition, while simultaneously allowing the past to survive in the salvaged fragments of which it was composed. Analyzing specific works, such as Schwitterss famous Merzbau (the so-called Cathedral of Erotic Misery) and some of the artists texts, Dietrich delineates in rich detail the survival of tradition within avant-garde innovation. She also demonstrates cogently how artistic expression does not fall into pre-determined categories; rather, it is the result of the complex mingling of public, private, political, economic, and artistic concerns. Characterizing Schwitterss work as the product of the deep social and political crisis of the Weimar Republic, Dietrich challenges the prevalent outlook that twentieth-century art can be reduced to a revolutionary struggle of avant-garde artists against an entrenched artistic tradition. The Collages of Kurt Schwitters argues for a more nuanced view, in which revolutionary art forms are exposed as containing much that is traditional and, indeed, reactionary.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=132586 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=68878 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=60613 The most sensual artist and the greatest colourist of the twentieth century, Henri Matisse was leader of the Fauvism movement in Paris, subsequently engaging with both Cubism and the decorative and spiritual art of Islamic cultures before the first World War. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=176653 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=261757 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=259416 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=68169 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=291728 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=232474 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=59879 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=47342 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=293104 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=181177 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=253303 A backwoods Baptist preacher inspired by the Gospel, visitations from the dead, and visions of extraterrestrial life, the Reverend Howard Finster is an unlikely candidate for art celebrity. 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