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J.M.W. Turner
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 21.95In this second volume in the Ackroyd?s Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brings us a man of humble beginnings, crude manners, and prodigious talents, the nineteenth-century painter J. M. W. Turner. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. His father was a barber, and his mother came from a family of London butchers.... more...
Ordinary Daylight
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 11.95Andrew Potok is an intense, vigorous, sensual man--and a gifted painter. Then, passing forty, he rapidly begins to go blind from an inherited eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Depressed and angry, he rages at the losses that are eradicating his life as an artist, his sources of pleasure, his competence as a man. He hates himself for becoming blind.... more...
Jubilee City
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99Joe Andoe is an internationally exhibited painter. His work, hailed by The New Yorker as "cowboy noir with a fashionista twist," is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, and countless other locations. He is a father. He is a writer. He is sober. That's now. Once upon a time, though, way... more...
Painting Below Zero
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 50.00From James Rosenquist, one of our most iconic pop artists?along with Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein?comes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists, Rosenquist often works in three-dimensional forms, with highly dramatic shifts in scale and a far more complex palette, including grisaille and Day-Glo colors.... more...
Leo and His Circle
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 35.00Leo Castelli reigned for decades as America?s most influential art dealer. Now Annie Cohen-Solal, author of the hugely acclaimed Sartre: A Life (?an intimate portrait of the man that possesses all the detail and resonance of fiction??Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ), recounts his incalculably influential and astonishing life in Leo and His... more...
Madonna: Like an Icon
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Material Girl . . . Immaculate sexpot . . . Superstar . . . Mother . . . Kabbalah enthusiast . . . For three decades she has defied categorization. . . . She remains one of our greatest living pop icons. Here is the groundbreaking biography that finally solves the mystery at the heart of Madonna's chameleonlike existence. Drawing upon scores... more...
Genius and Heroin
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 13.99What is the price of brilliance? Why are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollack, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin, to Kurt Cobain, and on and on, authors and artists throughout history have binged, pill-popped, injected, or poisoned themselves for their... more...
Available Light
Wings Press 2008; US$ 11.95Culled from previously unpublished material, this collection of writing and photography by John Howard Griffin was taken from the period during which he was writing and revising what would be his most famous book, the bestselling Black Like Me . Living in exile in Mexico at the time, along with his young family and aging parents, Griffin had been... more...
Light for a Cold Land
Dundurn 1993; US$ 49.99Lawren Stewart Harris's artistic career began in the first decade of our century. Well known for the nationalist-inspired landscapes that he painted between 1908 and 1932, Harris turned resolutely in 1934 to the painting of abstractions. He continued to create works that reflected his own modernist and mystical developments until the end of his... more...
Details from a Larger Canvas
Dundurn 2001; US$ 11.99McLean?s memoir chronicles her struggle for independence in the repressive 1950s. more...









