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Ninth Street Women
Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).
Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth...
The Roots of My Obsession
Thirty Great Gardeners Reveal Why They Garden
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Why do you garden? For fun? Work? Food? The reasons to garden are as unique as the gardener.
The Roots of My Obsession features thirty essays from the most vital voices in gardening, exploring the myriad motives and impulses that cause a person to become a gardener. For some, it’s the quest...
Darling Days
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age at the intersection of punk, poverty, heroin, and art. This was a world of self-invented characters, glamorous superstars, and strung-out sufferers, ground zero of drag and performance art. Still, no...
by Todd DePastino
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
“A deeply felt, vivacious and wonderfully illustrated biography.” —Clancy Sigal, Los Angeles Times Book Review
A self-described “desert rat” who rocketed to fame at the age of twenty-two, Bill Mauldin used flashing black brush lines and sardonic captions to capture the world of the...
by Lisa E. Jobe
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Explore Frida Kahlo through the photo fantasy artwork of Lisa E. Jobe. Melding Kahlo's own paintings with black and white photographs and various other elements, Jobe creates a digital decoupage to experience the artist like never before. Containing quotes by Kahlo herself, this picture book is a sure bet for any Kahlo admirer.
Hokusai
Drawings
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Katsushika Hokusai is one of the most famous names in Japanese art, and the epitome of the later Ukiyo-e ('floating world') school. He also is one of the great draftsmen of the world. With his inimitable sense of humor Hokusai best describes himself:
“From the age of 6 I had...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
World War II was roaring to a climax. Harry Truman was meeting with the speaker of the House of Representatives and his old friend Sam Rayburn when he was called to the White House: Franklin Roosevelt was dead. Truman was now faced with more problems and decisions than any other leader in American history.While...
A Hungry Heart
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2006
Gordon Parks, acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author of fiction and nonfiction, has participated in, been witness to, and documented many of the major events in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries.
Born in Fort Scott, Kansas, on November 30, 1912, he left home at age fifteen...
Benjamin Franklin : The First American
(A Short Biography for Children)
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Benjamin Franklin : The First American (A Short Biography for Children) Ben Franklin is best known for his participation in the movement for American Independence as a writer and diplomat.
Best Children's Biographies : Write a biography for kids by thinking about what a child would enjoy...
A Life of Picasso
The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
As he magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irresistible narrative appeal, Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, the collaboration of Picasso's widow Jacqueline, and unprecedented access to Picasso's studio and papers to arrive at a profound understanding of the artist and his work. 800 photos.
Fashion Climbing
A Memoir with Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
**The New York Times bestseller
“[An] obscenely enjoyable romp.” —The New York Times Book Review
The untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and style**
For Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style....
Old Masters, New World
America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
A spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world
In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe's extraordinary Old Master pictures, causing a major migration of art across the Atlantic. Old Masters,...
The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis
A Narrative Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907), born to a Chippewa mother and African-American father, was the most controversial sculptor of her day. Her story was told in 28 pages twenty years ago by Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson in A History of African American Artists from 1792 (1993), a "landmark" tome and standard...
Marilyn & Me
A Photographer's Memories
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
An intimate memoir recalling a young photographer's relationship with Marilyn Monroe just months before her death, with extraordinary photographs, some of which have never been published.
"With the precision of a surgeon, Schiller slices through the façade of Marilyn Monroe in his unflinching...