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Focuses on figures who saw themselves as part of a Decadent tradition as they revised the concept of the family in the early 20th century.
In this fierce and poignant book, the author, drawing on sources that include her grandmother's richly erotic diaries, unveils intimate details of the Acton dynasty in Florence, the illicit love affair of Arthur and Elsie, and the controversial legal aftermath that continues to this day. A true family saga played out against the backdrop of Florence's celebrated Villa La Pietra. The struggle over the billion dollar estate of one of the 20th century's most notable aesthetes, Harold Acton, pitted New York University, against first Liana Beacci, Acton's illegitimate half-sister, and since her death in 2000 her daughter, Princess Dialta Alliata di Montereale, who lives in Honolulu. It began its ...
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Spanning ten periods, this remarkable history features the work of nearly eighty legendary American artists. Annotation. Editor Marchetti is joined by two other art historians, Roberta Bernabei and Stefano Ruzzi, in presenting 400 landmark American paintings. Seventy-seven painters are represented, each with several thoroughly captioned paintings (full- or half-page) and biographical and interpretive text. Arrangement is chronological, beginning with the Anglo-Saxon tradition and continuing with the discovery of the West, the taste for reality, and American impressionists, through abstract expressionism and pop art and graffiti. Each era is briefly overviewed. The book was originally published in Italian.
The author of the acclaimed Indiscretion returns with a searing tale of love, passion, and obsession—the story of one man's all-consuming desire for a beautiful, bewitching, and elusive woman "At night she is often in my dreams, always just out of reach, across a table, laughing, climbing a stair, disappearing into the next room, or on the verge of love, until something causes me to wake up unconsummated, aware of her continued absence in my life even if she was still with me every day. I remember when I first met her. It changed my life." Since he was a shy, protected young man, Wylie Rose has been drawn to the alluring, unconventional Bonet siblings, the children of a bohemian Spanish pa...
Based on the archives of the Avery Architectural Library of Columbia University and the New York Historical Society, this refreshing portrait of one of America's most prominent architects is at the same time a document of the sweeping social and cultural changes taking place in the country at the turn of the twentieth century. A biography of Stanford White and more, the book recovers a neglected yet significant part of White's career--a career that not only set the bar for twentieth-century architecture but also defined the newly emerging profession of interior design.