Author: Harley Brown
Publisher: International Artist Publishing
ISBN: 9781929834303
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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Author: Harley Brown
Publisher: Northlight
ISBN: 9781929834280
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A gorgeous showcase of his best western paintings, Confessions of a Starving Artist: The Art and Life of Harley Brown brings together a lifetime of stunning work. Readers will find oil and pastel renditions of American Indians, cowboys and western scenes--all punctuated by the artist's winning personality. Throughout the book, Brown shares his best stories, anecdotes and experiences in what he calls "My life as a starving artist." These hilarious recollections give readers an unprecedented look into the heart and mind of this top American painter. In addition, the book features an impressive collection of Brown's celebrity paintings, including portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart and Duke Ellington. This gorgeous oversized tome takes the term coffee table book to a whole new level. Artists and enthusiasts alike will cherish these captivating pages!

Author: Ti Dáer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615903064
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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"I walked down the hallway and look in the side bedroom. All my stuff was still there, plus all the little stuff I had in the main room of the house. My fedora was sitting right there with the rest. It has never been moved from the doorbell box before. Noticing this instantly threw up red flags in my mind. I kept thinking, "What's going on? This is weird.""

Author: Harley Brown
Publisher: International Artist Publishing
ISBN: 9781929834310
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Artist secrets revealed, step by step instructions Libby Fellerhoff, North Light Magazine. Mar. 2001.

Author: Christopher Grobe
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479839590
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The story of a new style of art—and a new way of life—in postwar America: confessionalism. What do midcentury “confessional” poets have in common with today’s reality TV stars? They share an inexplicable urge to make their lives an open book, and also a sense that this book can never be finished. Christopher Grobe argues that, in postwar America, artists like these forged a new way of being in the world. Identity became a kind of work—always ongoing, never complete—to be performed on the public stage. The Art of Confession tells the history of this cultural shift and of the movement it created in American art: confessionalism. Like realism or romanticism, confessionalism began in one art form, but soon pervaded them all: poetry and comedy in the 1950s and ’60s, performance art in the ’70s, theater in the ’80s, television in the ’90s, and online video and social media in the 2000s. Everywhere confessionalism went, it stood against autobiography, the art of the closed book. Instead of just publishing, these artists performed—with, around, and against the text of their lives. A blend of cultural history, literary criticism, and performance theory, The Art of Confession explores iconic works of art and draws surprising connections among artists who may seem far apart, but who were influenced directly by one another. Studying extraordinary art alongside ordinary experiences of self-betrayal and -revelation, Christopher Grobe argues that a tradition of “confessional performance” unites poets with comedians, performance artists with social media users, reality TV stars with actors—and all of them with us. There is art, this book shows, in our most artless acts.

Author: Jonathan Shaw
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1681629178
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 561

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Jonathan Shaw’s Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist is a surreal, multi-generational roller coaster ride through the underbelly of modern culture, charting the course of a life measured by extremes, and all the people, places, and events that shaped that life into a survivor’s tale of epic proportions. In its pages, Shaw takes the reader deep, not only into the recesses of his extraordinary mind and adventures, but also into the strange and magical process of memoir-writing itself. If truth is indeed stranger than fiction, then, as Shaw’s friend and literary mentor Charles Bukowski once told him, much of this book would have to be lived before it could be written. In that sense, Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist is much more than a fascinating chronicle of a popular outlaw artist's creative evolution. It is a multicolored, cinematic, modern-day Odyssey, written in blood, ink, and tears—a kaleidoscopic, visionary roadmap to the journey of the human soul.

Author: Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062288369
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 115

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A patron of art since the 1930s, Peggy Guggenheim, in a candid self-portrait, provides an insider's view of the early days of modern art, with revealing accounts of her eccentric wealthy family, her personal and professional relationships, and often surprising portrayals of the artists themselves Peggy Guggenheim was born into affluence and a lavish lifestyle. Bored with her seemingly "pedestrian" life in New York, she headed for Europe in 1921, where she woudl sow the seeds for a future as one of modern art's most important and influential figures. In the midst of Europe's avant-garde circles, she reveled in her love affairs with prominent artists and also became a serious collector. Her Guggenheim Jeune gallery in London brought figures such as Brancusi, Cocteau, Kandinsky, and Arp to the forefront of the art scene. Later, her New York gallery would launch the careers of Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell, among others. In her own inimitable and bawdy style, Peggy Guggenheim gives us an insider's glimpse into the modern art world with intimate, often surprising portrayals of its most significant players. Candid, clever, and always entertaining, here is a memoir that captures a valuable chapter in the history of modern art, as well as the spirit of one of its greatest advocates.

Author: Peggy Guggenheim
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Frank W. Long
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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For more than fifty years, Frank W. Long's enchanting murals have graced the walls of post offices and other public buildings throughout the South and Midwest. All of them remain on display. In Confessions of a Depression Muralist, Long interweaves history and anecdote to offer a captivating and colorful memoir of his life as a government artist. "It was almost by accident that I became a painter of murals", writes Long. As he struggled to support his easel painting by working as a busboy and a wedding-cake designer, a fortuitous chain of events led to his commission to paint a pair of elaborate murals for a wealthy architect's new home. Although the circus and jungle scenes he created were later featured in American Architect, these murals might have been Long's last had a new government program not offered him an opportunity he could not refuse. In 1932 two influential individuals convinced the U.S. government to establish the Section of Fine Arts under the Department of Treasury. By setting aside a portion of the appropriation for each new government building to pay for custom murals, the Section hoped to develop the first truly American school of painting. From the bohemian atmosphere of Chicago's Towertown to the close-knit Appalachian community of Berea, Kentucky, where Long created his most popular murals, Confessions of a Depression Muralist follows the artist's fascinating career. Filled with Long's recollections of the colorful characters he met along the way, the book illuminates as well the process of mural painting and the artistic challenges of government-sponsored art.

Author: Samuel Wilson Fussell
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504002040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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From skinny scholar to muscle-bound showman. “Easily the best memoir ever written about weight training, steroids and all” (Men’s Journal). When blue-blooded, storklike Samuel Wilson Fussell arrived in New York City fresh from the University of Oxford, the ethereal young graduate seemed like the last person on Earth who would be interested in bodybuilding. But he was intimidated by the dangers of the city—and decided to do something about it. At twenty-six, Fussell walked into the YMCA gym. Four solid years of intensive training, protein powders, and steroid injections later, he had gained eighty pounds of pure muscle and was competing for bodybuilding titles. And yet, with forearms like bowling pins and calves like watermelons, Fussell felt weaker than ever before. His punishing regimen of workouts, drugs, and diet had reduced him to near-infant-like helplessness and immobility, leaving him hungry, nauseated, and prone to outbursts of “ ’roid rage.” But he had come to succeed, and there was no backing down now. Alternately funny and fascinating, Muscle is the true story of one man’s obsession with the pursuit of perfection. With insight, wit, and refreshing candor, Fussell ushers readers into the wild world of juicers and gym rats who sacrifice their lives, minds, bodies, and souls to their dreams of glory in Southern California’s so-called iron mecca.