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Noa Noa: the Tahitian journal (Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.)
By Paul Gauguin. 1985
Journal of French postimpressionist painter recounting his experiences on the Pacific Island of Tahiti in the early 1890s. Discusses his…
art, the people he meets, and his experiences in the seemingly tropical paradise. Translated from the original French. 1919Vivian Maier: a photographer's life and afterlife
By Pamela Bannos. 2017
Examination of the life of a photographer who supported herself as a nanny and whose work only came to broad…
recognition after her death. Chronicles Maier's years growing up in France, return to America, and eventual life in Chicago. Discusses the disposition of the storage lockers which housed her photography. 2017The lives of the surrealists
By Desmond Morris. 2018
Profiles of thirty-two surrealist artists by one of the last surviving members of the movement and author of The Naked…
Ape (DB 60529). Subjects include Alexander Calder, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Leonora Carrington, Man Ray, Joan Miró, Dorothea Tanning, and more. Some descriptions of sex. 2018Berenice Abbott: a life in photography
By Julia Van Haaften. 2018
Biography of photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991). Discusses her early life in Ohio with a fractured family, developing interest in photography,…
work in the United States and Europe, personal relationships, involvement in socialist causes, and more. Strong language. 2018Desnudo
By Jomari Goyso. 2018
Television presenter and stylist recounts his improbable transformation from an overweight farmboy in rural Spain into one of the most…
influential voices in Hispanic fashion--working with stars such as Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek and Kim Kardashian. Strong language and descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2018A rift in the Earth: art, memory, and the fight for a Vietnam War memorial
By James Reston Jr.. 2017
Army veteran and author of The Conviction of Richard Nixon (DB 68946) presents the history of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.…
Covers the fights over the creation of a memorial, the selection and implementation of the winning design, and his own reflections on the conflicts. 2017Chalk: the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
By Joshua Rivkin. 2018
Writer recounts becoming fascinated with the life of artist Cy Twombly (1928-2011) after encountering his paintings. Discusses Twombly's early years…
studying art in the United States and Europe, personal relationships, and later years as a celebrated artist. 2018Look again: The autobiography
By David Bailey. 2021
'Rollicking . . . with roguish tales as vivid as his era-defining photos' Daily Mail 'Brilliant' Telegraph Eye-opening and candid,…
David Bailey's Look Again is a fantastically entertaining memoir by a true icon. David Bailey burst onto the scene in 1960 with his revolutionary photographs for Vogue . Discarding the rigid rules of a previous generation of portrait and fashion photographers, he channelled the energy of London's newly informal street culture into his work. Funny, brutally honest and ferociously talented, he became as famous as his subjects. Now in his eighties, he looks back on an outrageously eventful life. Born into an East End family, his dyslexia saw him written off as stupid at school. He hit a low point working as a debt collector until he discovered a passion for photography that would change everything. The working-class boy became an influential artist. Along the way he became friends with Mick Jagger, hung out with the Krays, got into bed with Andy Warhol and made the Queen laugh. His love-life was never dull. He propelled girlfriend Jean Shrimpton to stardom, while her angry father threatened to shoot him. He married Catherine Deneuve a month after meeting her. Penelope Tree's mother was unimpressed when he turned up on her doorstep. 'It could be worse, I could be a Rolling Stone,' Bailey told her. He went on to marry Marie Helvin and then Catherine Dyer, with whom he has three children. He is also a film and documentary director, has shot numerous commercials and has never stopped working. A born storyteller, his autobiography is a memorable romp through an extraordinary careerPagan light: dreams of freedom and beauty in Capri
By Jamie James. 2019
Author of The Snake Charmer (DB 68151) presents a history of the island of Capri--located off the Neapolitan coast of…
Italy--from the time of the Roman emperors to the early twentieth century. Discusses artists of note who have claimed the island for inspiration, including Maxim Gorky, Romaine Brooks, and Mark Twain. 2019A generous vision: the creative life of Elaine de Kooning (Cultural Biographies)
By Cathy Curtis. 2017
Biography of artist Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989), who was also the wife of painter Willem de Kooning. Discusses her early…
life in New York City, development of her talent, relationship with her husband, work as an art critic, and subjects as a portraitist. 2017Almost nothing: the 20th-century art and life of Józef Czapski
By Eric Karpeles. 2018
Biography of Polish painter Józef Czapski (1896-1993), best known for his work in the Kapist art movement and for being…
one of the few survivors of the Katyn massacre of 1940. Describes his early years and artistic influences, his experiences during World War II, and his lasting impact. Some violence. 2018Chronicle of the convergence of the development of photography and Spiritualism resulting in spirit photography, as exemplified by William H.…
Mumler, who was put on trial for fraud and larceny in 1869. Discusses the U. S. Civil War, religious sentiment, historical luminaries, and Mumler's trial. 2017David Jones: engraver, soldier, painter, poet
By Thomas Dilworth. 2017
Biography of modernist artist David Jones (1895-1974). Discusses his early life in suburban London, service during World War I, development…
of his art career, impact of his poetic works In Parenthesis and The Anathemata, subsequent recognition, and dismissal by researchers. 2017Krazy: George Herriman, a life in black and white
By Michael Tisserand. 2016
Biography of George Joseph Herriman (1880-1944), creator of the Krazy Kat cartoon which ran from 1913 to 1944. Examines his…
early years in New Orleans and California, his development as an artist, and the impact of Krazy Kat. Also discusses race, as Herriman was an African American who passed for white. 2016Cartoon county: my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
By Cullen Murphy. 2017
Son of cartoonist John Cullen Murphy, the artist behind Prince Valiant and Big Ben Bolt, chronicles his father's life and…
the cadre of fellow cartoonists, illustrators, and artists who lived in Fairfield County, Connecticut, during the 1950s and 1960s. Discusses growing up in an artistically vibrant community. 2017Autobiografía
By Luis Enrique. 2017
El popular cantautor latinoamericano reflexiona sobre su herencia musical, su carrera, y la trayectoria de su vida. Nacido en Nicaragua…
de una reconocida familia de músicos, Luis Enrique recuerda su vida como inmigrante en América, sus primeros éxitos musicales, y su ascenso a la cima de las listas de la música en españolCouture confessions: fashion legends in their own words
By Pamela Golbin. 2016
A collection of faux interviews with deceased fashion designers, using writings, correspondence, and other media from the designers' own times…
to answer the questions posed. Among the designers included are Paul Poiret, Jeanne Lanvin, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Madame Grès, Pierre Balmain, Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, and others. 2016The art of rivalry: four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art
By Sebastian Smee. 2016
Profiles four artistic rivalries--some friendly, some much less so--between roughly 1860 and 1950. The pairs of rivals discussed include Lucian…
Freud and Francis Bacon, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, and Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Analyzes how these relationships pushed each artist both personally and professionally. 2016The glamour of strangeness: artists and the last age of the exotic
By Jamie James. 2016
Examination of six artists in varying fields who left their homelands in search of creative freedom. Profiles German painter Walter…
Spies, Javanese painter Raden Saleh, Russian-Swiss writer Isabelle Eberhardt, American filmmaker Maya Deren, French painter Paul Gauguin, and French doctor-novelist Victor Segalen. 2016Everybody behaves badly: the true story behind Hemingway's masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
By Lesley M. M. Blume. 2016
Journalist takes a close look at the period surrounding the writing of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (DB 34114),…
from the author's arrival in Paris in 1921 through the book's publication in 1926 and beyond. Draws on letters and memoirs of Hemingway's circle of literary contemporaries. Some strong language. 2016