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Arman
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Arman
Tomas Staudek presents a biographical sketch of the French pop artist Arman (1928- ), whose original name was Armand Fernandez, as part of a resource on pop artists. Arman was influenced by Surrealism during the late 1940s. Information about his work with stamp imprints and his monotypes is available. Details about various exhibitions of his work worldwide are provided.
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New York Magazine
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade
Martin Johnson Heade was one of the most significant American painters of the nineteenth century, creator of portraits, history and genre pictures, still lifes, ornithological studies, landscapes, and marines, and his own unique orchid and hummingbird compositions. This book brings a perspective to Heade and his works, presenting him as one of the most original and productive painters of his time. Theodore Stebbins builds on his acclaimed 1975 study of Heade, drawing on several newly discovered collections of Heade's letters and the painter's own Brazilian journal. Stebbins tells of Heade's training and early career as an itinerant portraitist and discusses his move to New York, where, under...
Spy
Smart. Funny. Fearless."It's pretty safe to say that Spy was the most influential magazine of the 1980s. It might have remade New York's cultural landscape; it definitely changed the whole tone of magazine journalism. It was cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all. There's no magazine I know of that's so continually referenced, held up as a benchmark, and whose demise is so lamented" --Dave Eggers. "It's a piece of garbage" --Donald Trump.
Bag of Toys
An award-winning journalist tells the story of Andrew Crispo, one of the wealthiest power brokers in the New York art scene, and Bernard LeGeros, the street-wise tough who became his partner in sex and depravity. What results is the chilling true tale of an orgiastic night of sadomasochism and violence that ended in the brutal death of Norwegian fashion student Eigil Vesti in 1985. Updated to include new information. of photos.
Practical Problems
In Goin’ Legit, mobsters seek a conventional bank loan with hilarious results. In The Angry Ashtray, an inanimate object comes to life and has a surprising view about familiarity. In Bluesman Brando, actor Marlon Brando pays a surprising and surreal visit to a suburban family. In Up from the Ashes a local historical society decides to turn back the clock—way back! In A Hard Way’s Night an aging rock band regroups to bid goodbye to the grungy ballroom where they got their start. And in The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, based entirely upon a true story, three psychotics attempt to convince a psychologist they are each the son of God. There are four more stories too delicious to summarize. Practical Problems delivers what it promises!
Charles Seliger
This lavish illustrated volume presents a visual history of Seliger's commitment to biomorphic abstraction and documents his extraordinary career from his auspicious beginnings as the youngest artist exhibiting with the original artisit of the Abstract Expressionist movement, through the development of his signature style of complex and intimate abstractions. 217 colour illustrations
