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Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567927078
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
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Author: Belinda Rathbone
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ISBN: 9781567927085
Category : Sculptors
Languages : en
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"The first biography of George Rickey, one of the greatest kinetic sculptors of the 20th century. His moving blades, squares, triangles, and circles can be found in museums and public spaces around the world, from bucolic landscapes to the bustling streets of New York City. Now, here is the story of his life, his times, and his vision of balance that created something new--sculpture that is defined by movement. Before his death in 2002, George Rickey created more than 3,000 works of art that move, including hundreds of major outdoor installations. His "useless machines," as he called them, achieved complete rotation, used multiple variations of the pendulum, and delighted viewers with the joyride effects of conical movement. George Rickey follows the life of a renowned artist--first a painter, then a sculptor--who found inspiration all around him--as a child visiting the Singer Sewing Machine factory managed by his father, in his adventurous youth in English and Parisian art studios of the 1920s, during his service as an engineer in the Army Air Corps during World War II, and later as a pioneer in academic art programs around the United States. But this is not only the story of a single artist's creativity and achievement but of Rickey's life in the larger context of the twentieth century: from Depression-era America to the upheaval of World War II, from the rise of New York as the world's art capital at mid-century to the tumultuous 1960s, when Rickey emerged as an international figure rubbing elbows with Alexander Calder, David Smith, Christo, and many others along the way. It is also the story of an exceptional marriage and of Rickey's charismatic, devoted wife, Edith Leighton, who managed her husband's career and reputation in the high-powered art circles of New York, Berlin, and California. Belinda Rathbone (author of The Boston Raphael and Walker Evans) has captured the spirit of an artist and his world as few have before. George Rickey: A Life in Balance is for any reader fascinated by the lives of artists, the creation of enduring art, or twentieth century modernism"--

Author: Gabrielle Selz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520420675
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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The first in-depth biography of Sam Francis, the legendary American abstract painter who broke all the rules in his personal and artistic life. Light on Fire is the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis, one of the most important American abstract artists of the twentieth century. Based on Gabrielle Selz’s unprecedented access to Francis’s files, as well as private correspondence and hundreds of interviews, this book traces the extraordinary and ultimately tragic journey of a complex and charismatic artist who first learned to paint as a former air-corps pilot encased for three years in a full-body cast. While still a young man, Francis saw his color-saturated paintings fetch the highest prices of any living artist. His restless desire resulted in five marriages and homes on three continents; his entrepreneurial spirit led to founding a museum, a publishing company, a reforestation program and several nonprofits. Light on Fire captures the art, life, personality, and talent of a man whom the art historian and museum director William C. Agee described as a rare artist participating in the “visionary reconstruction of art history,” defying creative boundaries among the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. With settings from World War II San Francisco to postwar Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, Selz crafts an intimate portrait of a man who sought to resolve in art the contradictions he couldn’t resolve in life.

Author: Belinda Rathbone
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 1567925405
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 443

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The riveting story of a museum director caught in a web of local and international intrigue while secretly pursuing a forgotten Renaissance painting-the Boston Raphael. On the eve of its centennial celebrations in 1969, the Boston MFA announced the acquisition of an unknown and uncatalogued painting attributed to Raphael. Boston's coup made headlines around the world. Soon, an Italian art sleuth began investigating the painting's export from Italy, challenging the museum's ownership. Simultaneously, experts on both sides of the Atlantic lined up to debate its very authenticity. The museums charismatic director, Perry T. Rathbone, faced the most challenging crossroads of his career. The Boston Raphael was a media sensation in its time, but the full story of the forces that converged on the museum and how they intersected with the challenges of the Sixties is now revealed in full detail by the director's daughter.

Author: Belinda Rathbone
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618056729
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Walker Evans's haunting images of Southern sharecroppers in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men were as revolutionary in their time as James Agee's text, and are now deeply ingrained in the American consciousness. In the first full biography of this intriguing and enigmatic artist, a leading authority on Evans looks beyond the anonymity of his work to reveal the obsessions behind it.

Author: George Rickey
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Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Languages : nl
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Author: Sheila Weller
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN: 0374717729
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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A remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid—and brilliant—Carrie Fisher In her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller—with heart and a profound feeling for the times—gave us a surprisingly intimate portrait of three icons: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon. Now she turns her focus to one of the most loved, brilliant, and iconoclastic women of our time: the actress, writer, daughter, and mother Carrie Fisher. Weller traces Fisher’s life from her Hollywood royalty roots to her untimely and shattering death after Christmas 2016. Her mother was the spunky and adorable Debbie Reynolds; her father, the heartthrob crooner Eddie Fisher. When Eddie ran off with Elizabeth Taylor, the scandal thrust little Carrie Frances into a bizarre spotlight, gifting her with an irony and an aplomb that would resonate throughout her life. We follow Fisher’s acting career, from her debut in Shampoo, the hit movie that defined mid-1970s Hollywood, to her seizing of the plum female role in Star Wars, which catapulted her to instant fame. We explore her long, complex relationship with Paul Simon and her relatively peaceful years with the talent agent Bryan Lourd. We witness her startling leap—on the heels of a near-fatal overdose—from actress to highly praised, bestselling author, the Dorothy Parker of her place and time. Weller sympathetically reveals the conditions that Fisher lived with: serious bipolar disorder and an inherited drug addiction. Still, despite crises and overdoses, her life’s work—as an actor, a novelist and memoirist, a script doctor, a hostess, and a friend—was prodigious and unique. As one of her best friends said, “I almost wish the expression ‘one of a kind’ didn’t exist, because it applies to Carrie in a deeper way than it applies to others.” Sourced by friends, colleagues, and witnesses to all stages of Fisher’s life, Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge is an empathic and even-handed portrayal of a woman who—as Princess Leia, but mostly as herself—was a feminist heroine, one who died at a time when we need her blazing, healing honesty more than ever.

Author: Rosalind E. Krauss
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262610339
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Studies major works by important sculptors since Rodin in the light of different approaches to general sculptural issues to reveal the logical progressions from nineteenth-century figurative works to the conceptual work of the present.

Author: Jack Burnham
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Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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