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by Deborah Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. A relative unknown at the time, Sargent won the commission to paint her; the two must have recognized...
Shutterbabe
Adventures in Love and War
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2001
What if the protagonist in that age-old tale—boy goes to war, comes back a man—were a female? Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan's remarkable debut, is just that: the story of a twenty-two-year-old girl from Potomac, Maryland, who goes off to photograph wars and comes back, four years and one...
The Art of Rivalry
Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights.
Rivalry is at the heart of some...
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Until now he has remained a mystery, leaving only a few sentences, the letters of his bankruptcy, a mistress's notarized complaint - and the most glorious, compassionate paintings ever to astonish the eye. The first pure biography of this enigmatic legend is a fascinating detective story in which,...
Hold Still
A Memoir with Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
The New York Times, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, NPR, Publishers Weekly, BookPage
A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann.
In...
James Baldwin
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon-Go Tell It on a Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, Another Country, The Fire Next Time, and The Evidence of Things Not Seen-he explored issues of race and racism in America, class distinction,...
Madame Tussaud
A Life in Wax
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. A victim and survivor of one of the most tumultuous times in history, this intelligent, pragmatic businesswoman...
Michelangelo
A Life in Six Masterpieces
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This is the life of one of the most revolutionary artists in history, told through the story of six of his greatest masterpieces: “The one indispensable guide for encountering Michelangelo on his home turf” (The Dallas Morning News).
Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture,...
Many Stories
The Point of the Needle
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
MANY STORIES: The Point of the Needle
The son of an English teacher and a college professor, Sebastian Orth’s moment of awakening took place at the age of seventeen in the biology class of a California high school. It happened almost accidentally, with a single drop of drawing ink and the...
Known and Strange Things
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Time • The Guardian • Harper's Bazaar • San Francisco Chronicle • The Atlantic • Financial Times • Kirkus
Finalist...
by Andrew Graham-Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
You cannot stand underneath the masterwork that is the Sistine Chapel without considering the genius and painstaking work that went into its creation. Michelangelo Buonarroti never wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel, though. Appointed by the temperamental Julius II, Michelangelo believed the suspiciously...
Almost Anywhere
Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
What do you do when your world ends?
At twenty-eight years old, Krista Schlyer sold almost everything she owned and packed the rest of it in a station wagon bound for the American wild. Her two best friends joined her-one a grumpy, grieving introvert, the other a feisty dog-and together they sought...
by Diane von Furstenberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
One of the most influential, admired, and colorful women of our time: fashion designer and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg tells the most personal stories from her life, about family, love, beauty and business: “It’s so good, you’ll want to take notes” (People).
Diane von Furstenberg...
Fallingwater Rising
Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told.
When he got the commission...