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Clearing in the Distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the
Nineteenth Century by Witold Rybczynski |
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Scribner Hardcover - 480 pages (June 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best remembered today as a landscape designer, well known for his plans for New York's Central Park and Prospect Park, the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and the campus of Stanford University, among other noteworthy sites. But, writes urban... Read more
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The
Unknown Matisse : A Life of Henri Matisse : The Early Years, 1869-1908 by Hilary Spurling |
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Knopf Hardcover - 528 pages 1 Ed edition (November 1998) |
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| Amazon.com "Matisse was born in 1869 in northern France and grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois, near the Belgian border, on the drab, cold, wet beet fields of French Flanders. The same area, culturally and geographically speaking, had produced Vincent van Gogh sixteen years before." Thus begins the first full... Read more
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N.C.
Wyeth : A Biography by David Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth |
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Knopf Hardcover - 555 pages 1 Ed edition (October 1998) |
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| Amazon.com N.C. Wyeth's wondrous paintings of The Last of the Mohicans, Robinson Crusoe, and Treasure Island have given visual form to these stories for generations of readers. Wyeth's extraordinary pictures still carry all the power they had in their heyday. And communal, millennial-bound nostalgia for the... Read more
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Confessions
of a Window Dresser : Tales from a Life in Fashion by Simon Doonan |
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Viking Pr Hardcover - 240 pages (November 1998) |
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| The Washington Post
Book World, Jennifer Howard Confessions of a Window Dresser ought to be a depressing read, a reminder of the price-tag culture into which we're sunk, material boys and girls in a material world. But Simon Doonan makes it all seem so fab, so wonderfully delish, and he does it in such a guilt-free shopping spree of here-and-now... Read more
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Jackson
Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe, et al |
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Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated Hardcover - 336 pages (October 1998) |
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| Amazon.com The almost mythic Jackson Pollock--a roughshod, ill-mannered, prodigiously ambitious, aggressive, alcoholic, tormented artist--is alive and unwell in this book. But Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel, the chief curator and adjunct assistant curator, respectively, of the Museum of Modern Art's Department... Read more
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The
Journey Is the Destination : The Journals of Dan Eldon by Dan Eldon, Kathy Eldon (Editor) |
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Chronicle Books Hardcover - 224 pages (October 1997) |
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| Amazon.com Reuters photographer Dan Eldon was stoned to death in Somalia in 1993; he was 22 years old. During Eldon's extraordinary youth (in which, among other things, he lived in Africa, traveled the world, wrote a book, directed a film, and established a charity for African refugees), he kept journals. This... Read more
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Caravaggio
: A Life by Helen Langdon |
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Farrar Straus & Giroux (Juv) Hardcover - 432 pages 1st farrar edition (June 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Seventeenth-century painter Nicolas Poussin once said that Caravaggio came into the world to destroy painting. Helen Langdon's marvelous biography suggests that rather than destroying painting, the Milanese artist gave it a new lease on life. Upon his arrival in Rome, Caravaggio ended a tradition of... Read more
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Chanel
: Her Style and Her Life by Janet Wallach |
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N A Talese/Doubleday Hardcover - 192 pages 1 Ed edition (November 1998) (October 20, 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Coco Chanel: her name is synonymous with luxury and elegance. But little Gabrielle Chanel was raised in an orphanage and schooled in a convent--having lost her mother and been virtually abandoned by her father. She picked up the nickname Coco when she was a young cabaret singer--"Ko Ko Rik Ko"... Read more
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Dear
Theo : The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh, et al |
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Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies Paperback Reprint edition (September 1995) |
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| Synopsis Van Gogh's brother Theo was his confidant and companion, and, in his letters to him, Van Gogh reveals himself as artist and man. Even more than if he had purposely intended to tell his life story, Van Gogh's letters lay bare his deepest feelings, as well as his everyday concerns and his views of the... Read more
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Everybody
Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy - A Lost Generation Love Story by Amanda Vaill |
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Houghton Mifflin Co (Trd) Hardcover - 470 pages (May 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Gerald and Sara Murphy were the golden couple of the Lost Generation. Born to wealth and privilege, they fled the stuffy confines of upper-class America to reinvent themselves in France as legendary party givers and enthusiastic participants in the modernist revolution of the 1920s. He became an... Read more
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Caravaggio
: A Passionate Life by Desmond Seward |
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William Morrow & Company Hardcover - 224 pages (November 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Historian Desmond Seward has written an indispensable book on Caravaggio--equally balanced and historically double-checked. But even with all its references, dates, names, quotes, and careful scholarship, this biography reads like a novel that is impossible to put down. Caravaggio, of course, with... Read more
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Rembrandt's
Eyes by Simon Schama |
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Knopf Hardcover - 640 pages (November 1999) |
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| Amazon.com The great 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn left us so many arresting self-portraits, painted at every stage in his eventful life, that his distinctive face and bearing are a familiar part of the 20th-century cultural landscape, a recognizable presence in galleries across Europe and North... Read more
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Dreaming
With His Eyes Open : A Life of Diego Rivera by Patrick Marnham, Diego Rivera |
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Knopf Hardcover - 320 pages 1 Ed edition (November 1998) |
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| Amazon.com What confidence and ambition it requires to approach a biography of Diego Rivera, the larger-than-life Mexican muralist who in recent years has been reduced, in some circles, to being known as Frida Kahlo's evil husband. The myths and mysteries begin at his birth, in 1884. His mother seemed to die... Read more
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The
Shameful Life of Salvador Dali by Ian Gibson(Introduction) |
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W. W. Norton & Company Hardcover - 798 pages 1 Amer Ed edition (November 1998) |
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| Amazon.com "The world will admire me. Perhaps I'll be despised and misunderstood, but I'll be a great genius, I'm certain of it." At 16, Salvador Dali had already developed the remarkable ego and uncanny perception that would distinguish him as one of the most notorious artists of the 20th century. A... Read more
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John
F. Kennedy Jr. : A Life in the Spotlight by Michael Druitt, Montague Druitt |
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Andrews McMeel Publishing Paperback (October 1996) |
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| Synopsis Every move he makes makes news. With a salute, John F. Kennedy, Jr., won the hearts of all America 35 years ago. He's been part of the American scene since the day of his birth and his large, extended family has been plagued by tragedy and tarnished by scandal. In this fascinating, unauthorized... Read more
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Ethel
& Ernest by Raymond Briggs |
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Knopf Hardcover - 104 pages (October 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Raymond Briggs's loving tribute to his parents has an emotional power that far exceeds its deceptively simple technique. Graphic in format, the book combines vigorous but sensitive illustrations with dialogue that cogently elucidates its characters' personalities. Milkman Ernest meets lady's maid... Read more
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Stephen
Sondheim : A Life by Meryle Secrest |
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Knopf Hardcover - 448 pages (June 1998) |
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| Amazon.com America's foremost musical-theater composer also proves to be a fascinatingly complex and conflicted human being in this meticulous biography by the always-capable Meryle Secrest (Being Bernard Berenson, etc.). Stephen Sondheim himself was interviewed for the book, as were many of his closest... Read more
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Dutch
: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan [ABRIDGED] by Edmund Morris |
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Random House (Audio) Audio Cassette Abridged edition (September 1999) (September 30, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Why did Pulitzer-winning Theodore Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris controversially choose to write his authorized biography of Ronald Reagan in the form of a historical novel? There's a clue in a quote the book attributes to Jane Wyman, Reagan's first wife. As Ronnie speechified about the Red... Read more
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Living
Well Is the Best Revenge (Modern Library) by Calvin Tomkins(Introduction) |
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Modern Library Hardcover - 192 pages 1998 moder edition (November 1998) |
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| Book Description In this enchanting memoir, New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins re-creates the privileged world of Gerald and Sara Murphy, two American originals who found themselves at the center of a charmed circle of artists and expatriate writers in France in the 1920s. Their home in Antibes, Villa America, served... Read more
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The
Diary of Frida Kahlo : An Intimate Self-Portrait by Carlos Fuentes(Introduction), Sarah M. Lowe |
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Abradale Press Hardcover - 296 pages (April 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Frida Kahlo's diary, like her art, is painted in breathtakingly vivid colors. It covers her tumultuous last decade and encompasses love letters, political musings on Communism, and resplendent paintings. The paintings, peopled with mythic figures, self-portraits, and monsters, articulate Kahlo's... Read more
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Babyhood
[LARGE PRINT] by Paul Reiser |
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HARPE Paperback - 271 pages Reprint edition (July 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Fans of television's Mad About You and its star, Paul Reiser, will be delighted with his second foray into the self-deprecating self-help genre. Couplehood, his first book, leads logically to this next phase--Babyhood. In a chatty voice Reiser takes us from the "Maybe someday we'll have... Read more
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Henry
Clay Frick : An Intimate Portrait by Martha Frick Symington Sanger |
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Abbeville Press, Inc. Hardcover - 600 pages (September 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Henry Frick, remembered by art lovers today for his splendid collection of old-master paintings by Rembrandt, Bellini, and others that make up New York's Frick Museum, was one of the 19th century's worst robber barons. Brutal with workers, he never hesitated to hire mercenary armies to kill railway... Read more
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Greene
& Greene : The Passion and the Legacy by Randell L. Makinson |
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Gibbs Smith Publisher Hardcover - 240 pages 1 Ed edition (September 1, 1998) |
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| The publisher,
Gibbs Smith, Publisher (info@gibbs-smith.com) , August 18, 1999 Excerpts from reviews About Greene & Greene: The Passion and the Legacy by Randell L. Makinson "An exquisite, loving and insightful new book by Mr. Makinson, the foremost authority on Greene and Greene." --from Old House Interiors, Summer 1999 "Makinson has completed a first-rate history of (Greene and... Read more
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Walker
Evans by James R. Mellow |
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Basic Books Hardcover - 600 pages (May 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Before his death in 1997, James Mellow left one last gracefully written, sensitively nuanced biography to add to a shelf containing National Book Award winner Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times and a remarkable trilogy on seminal figures of the Lost Generation. Mellow's biography of photographer... Read more
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Mommy
Dressing : A Love Story, After a Fashion by Lois Gould |
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Anchor Books Hardcover - 240 pages (October 1998) (September 15, 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Novelist Lois Gould pulls off an impressive balancing act in her memoir of life as the daughter of pioneering American fashion designer Jo Copeland. She unsparingly depicts Copeland as a distant, self-involved, critical parent ("I never perspire," she tells Lois. "Why must you?"), yet Gould is also... Read more
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