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Author: John Richardson Publisher: Random House (NY) ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 390
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Insightful and opinionated, erudite and amusing, this collection by the author of "A Life of Picasso" provides a personal, close-up look at a marvelously eclectic mix of artists and writers, tastemakers and tycoons.
Author: John Richardson Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 9780712697453 Category : Artists Languages : en Pages : 363
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SACRED MONSTER, SACRED MASTERS is a gallery of profiles of some of the most curious and creative figures that John Richardson has encountered during a career of more than fifty years. The subjects range from the monstrous art collector, Dr Barnes of Philadelphia to Peggy Guggenheim, Cecil Beaton, the Sitwells, Dali and such contemporary figures as the painters Brice Marden and Lucian Freud. John Richardson's reputation was established internationally with the publication of the first volumes of his monumental biography of Picasso, described by Robert huges as "the most Illuminating biography yet written on a twentieth- century artist". With two further volumes in preparation, Richardson has devoted his life to study of the great painter, who befriended him in Provence in the fifties. The acclaim that greeted Pichard's Picasso Biography was based on his authority as a witness and his superb narrative skill. In SACRED MONSTER, SACRED MASTERS , as in his recent memoir THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE, Richardson comes from out of of the shadow of Picasso to describe a wider cast of writers, artists and eccentrics. This collection is a portrait of a vanished age of which Richardson may be one of the last observers, and in some cases he is consciously saving his subjects' reputation from oblivion. In other cases, artists as celebrated as Warhol, Lucian Freud and Braque are described with an intimate knowledge of their working processes. He knows their world and speaks with the authority of one who understands it. his portraits are always insightful, often poignant and sometimes scabrous. Richardson, like Truman Capote, one of his subjects, is the supreme raconteur. The wit is both barbed and revealing. His ability to present us with sharply etched close- ups of those who are usually observed from afar has no precedent in the artistic records of the last century.
Author: Nosson Slifkin Publisher: ISBN: 9789652295811 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
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In this text the author takes a look at some of the mythical creatures described in the Torah, Talmud, and Midrash, and explores the contexts in which they appear.
Author: Michael E. Heyes Publisher: ISBN: 9781498550765 Category : Christianity Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book explores the intersection of religion and monstrosity. The first section contains fresh research on the Middle Ages and Early Modern period, and the second explores the topic of religion and monstrosity from the Early Modern to Modern period.
Author: Nosson Slifkin Publisher: Zoo Torah ISBN: 1933143185 Category : Animals in rabbinical literature Languages : en Pages : 383
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Dragons, unicorns, mermaids ... all the famous creatures of myth and legend are to be found in the Torah, Talmud and Midrash. But what are we to make of them? Do they really exist? Did the Torah scholars of old believe in their existence? And if not, why did they describe these creatures? Sacred Monsters is a thoroughly revised and vastly expanded edition of the bestselling book Mysterious Creatures. Rabbi Natan Slifkin, the famous "Zoo Rabbi," revisits all the creatures of that work as well as a host of new ones, including werewolves, giants, dwarfs, two-headed mutants, and the enigmatic shamir-worm. Sacred Monsters explores these cases in detail and discusses a range of different approaches for understanding them. Aside from the fascinating insights into these cryptic creatures, Sacred Monsters also presents a framework within which to approach any conflict between classical Jewish texts and the modern scientific worldview. Complete with extraordinary photographs and fascinating ancient illustrations, Sacred Monsters is a scholarly yet stimulating work that will be a treasured addition to your bookshelf
Author: Deborah Davis Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476703523 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 336
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"From the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a book about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took from New York to LA in 1963, and how that journey - and the numerous artists and celebrities he encountered - profoundly affected his life and art"--
Author: T. S. Eliot Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571316352 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 874
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Despairing of his volatile, unstable wife, T. S. Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to the torture of his eighteen-year marriage.He breaks free from September 1932 by becoming Norton Lecturer at Harvard. His lectures will be published as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933). He also delivers the Page-Barbour Lectures at Virginia (After Strange Gods, 1934). At Christmas he visits Emily Hale, to whom he is 'obviously devoted'. He gives talks all over - New York, California, Missouri, Minnesota, Chicago - and the letters describing encounters with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson and Marianne Moore ('a real Gillette blade') brim with gossip. High points include the première at Vassar College of his comic melodrama Sweeney Agonistes (1932). The year 'was the happiest I can ever remember in my life . . . successful and amusing.'Returning home, he hides out in the country while making known to Vivien his decision to leave her. But he is exasperated when she buries herself in denial: she will not accept a Deed of Separation. The close of 1933 is lifted when Eliot 'breaks into Show Business'. He is commissioned to write a 'mammoth Pageant': The Rock. This collaborative enterprise will be the proving-ground for the choric triumph of Murder in the Cathedral (1935).
Author: Laura Thompson Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1250202744 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 249
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New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface. Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are they not to be envied, with their private jets and Chanel wardrobes and endless funds? Yet all too often those gilded lives have been beset with trauma and despair. Before the 20th century a wife’s inheritance was the property of her husband, making her vulnerable to kidnap, forced marriages, even confinement in an asylum. And in modern times, heiresses fell victim to fortune-hunters who squandered their millions. Heiresses tells the stories of these million dollar babies: Mary Davies, who inherited London’s most valuable real estate, and was bartered from the age of twelve; Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American “Dollar Heiress”, forced into a loveless marriage; Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress who married seven times and died almost penniless; and Patty Hearst, heiress to a newspaper fortune who was arrested for terrorism. However, there are also stories of independence and achievement: Angela Burdett-Coutts, who became one of the greatest philanthropists of Victorian England; Nancy Cunard, who lived off her mother's fortune and became a pioneer of the civil rights movement; and Daisy Fellowes, elegant linchpin of interwar high society and noted fashion editor. Heiresses is about the lives of the rich, who—as F. Scott Fitzgerald said—are ‘different’. But it is also a bigger story about how all women fought their way to equality, and sometimes even found autonomy and fulfillment.
Author: Alex Danchev Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN: 1611454964 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 457
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After Picasso and Matisse, Braque is the third man of modern art. Together with Picasso, he pioneered the greatest revolution in Western ways of seeing since the Renaissance, and if an ism' can be said to be invented by a person, Cubism was invented by Braque. In life, a combination of heroic soldier and Zen master, he seemed to survive everything even the shattering of his skull on the Western Front in 1915 but, in death, his story remains untold. To reveal Braque, as Alex Danchev does here, is to revise Picasso and to illuminate one of the most influential figures in modern art.
Author: Alex Danchev Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 0748641386 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 256
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This book, a collection of Alex Danchev's essays on the theme of art, war and terror, offers a sustained demonstration of the way in which works of art can help us to explore the most difficult ethical and political issues of our time: war, terror, extermination, torture and abuse.It takes seriously the idea of the artist as moral witness to this realm, considering war photography, for example, as a form of humanitarian intervention. War poetry, war films and war diaries are also considered in a broad view of art, and of war. Kafka is drawn upon to address torture and abuse in the war on terror; Homer is utilised to analyse current talk of 'barbarisation'. The paintings of Gerhard Richter are used to investigate the terrorists of the Baader-Meinhof group, while the photographs of Don McCullin and the writings of Vassily Grossman and Primo Levi allow the author to propose an ethics of small acts of altruism.This book examines the nature of war over the last century, from the Great War to a particular focus on the current 'Global War on Terror'. It investigates what it means to be human in war, the cost it exacts and the ways of coping. Several of the essays therefore have a biographical focus.
Author: John Richardson
Author: John Richardson
Author: John Richardson
Author: Nosson Slifkin
Author: Michael E. Heyes
Author: Nosson Slifkin
Author: Deborah Davis
Author: T. S. Eliot
Author: Laura Thompson
Author: Alex Danchev
Author: Alex Danchev