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Frida KahloAn Illustrated Life
"A vibrantly illustrated biography of Kahlo . . . [Hesse's] drawings and graphics [flow] seamlessly with the narration." — Houston Chronicle One of the most important artists of the twentieth century and an icon of courageous womanhood, Frida Kahlo lives on in the public imagination, where her popularity shows no signs of waning. She is renowned for both her paintings and her personal stor…
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- 9781477317303
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Frederic Remington and the WestWith the Eye of the Mind
A biography of the artist examining his complex relationship with the American West and how he expressed his imagination. Frederic Remington and the West sheds new light on the remarkably complicated and much misunderstood career of Frederic Remington. This study of the complex relationship between Remington and the American West focuses on the artist's imagination and how it expressed itself…
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- 9781477305232
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Samuel SloanArchitect of Philadelphia, 1815-1884
Samuel Sloan: Architect of Philadelphia, 1815-1884 is a comprehensive study of one of America's most influential architects. Sloan created the designs that have become prototypes for many public buildings. His plan for the Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia served as the model for American general hospitals, and, with Dr. Thomas S. Kirkbride, he created the model for me…
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- 9781512801286
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William StricklandArchitect and Engineer, 1788-1854
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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- 9781512819632
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Horatio GreenoughThe First American Sculptor
This is the first full-length biography of Horatio Greenough. Aside from a short fifty page account published in 1853, no one up to now has attempted to write the complete story of his life.Greenough, who lived from 1805 to 1852, was the first American to devote himself from the outset of his career to the profession of sculpture and the first to set forth at any length the concept of functiona…
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- 9781512809251
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Franklin C. WatkinsPortrait of a Painter
Franklin C. Watkins (1894-1972) was born in New York but pursued his work as painter and teacher in Philadelphia. Over his long and distinguished career, he was awarded many honors and prizes, and his paintings hang in the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, as …
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- 9781512819410
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Mi hermano James Joyce
En el centenario de la publicación del «Ulises», la vida de Joyce narrada por su hermano Stanislaus. Recuerdos del entorno creativo y su trágica vida familiar. Ser hermano de un autor famoso confiere grandes obligaciones y muy pequeñas distinciones. El profesor Stanislaus Joyce sobrellevó su carga con nobleza y disconformidad. A pesar de sus reservas, vivió una vida en gran parte molde…
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Christian Lattier. L'enfance ignorée du sculpteur
Christian Lattier, figure majeure de la sculpture africaine contemporaine, lauréat des Beaux-Arts de Paris et du Festival mondial des Arts nègres de Dakar en 1966, a été révélé dans toute sa personnalité et son talent par un livre vif et passionnant de Yacouba Konaté, enseignant universitaire de philosophie à Abidjan. Il ne manquait à ce portrait de l'artiste plasticien que la descri…
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- 9782336930817
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Confessions of a Young Man
Confessions of a Young Man (1888) is a memoir by George Moore. Originally written in French, it is a record of his life in Paris as a young man with money and dreams to spare. Controversial for its depictions of bohemianism and pointed critique of Victorian morality, Confessions of a Young Man has been recognized as an invaluable portrait of nineteenth century Paris and the geniuses who struggl…
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- 9781513293844
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James Wilson MorricePainter of Light and Shadow
James Wilson Morrice (1865–1924) was a Canadian painter of extraordinary passion and simplicity whose canvases and oil sketches are valued throughout the world and cherished in Canada as our first real examples of modern art. Though cut short by chronic alcohol abuse, Morrice's restless bohemian life was spent in constant motion. From the colourful canals of Venice to the sun-drenched market…
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- 9781459714922
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