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Alex
"Brilliant, elegant, and shy, Alexander Liberman was twenty-eight when he left war-torn Europe in 1940 to make a new start in New York. This is the fascinating biography of the Russian-born painter, sculptor, and photographer who - from 1943 to 1962 as art director of Vogue and from 1962 to the present as editorial director of all Conde Nast magazines - has been the mysterious and legendary force responsible for shaping the look and content of the most powerful magazine publishing empire in the world. Having witnessed the Bolshevik revolution as a child in St. Petersburg, he spent his turbulent youth in Moscow, London, and Paris, where evenings at home included, among others, Leger, Cocteau,...
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For readers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Vanity Fair, here is the ultimate book in style from Vogue magazine's most irreverent fashion writer--a beautifully designed, captivating collection of pieces dedicated to fashion's rites of passage, and all the wannabe fervor that goes into being chic.
Vogue: The Covers
"An illustrated history of the iconic fashion magazine's cover, this book chronicles over 100 years of the images that have influenced past and present style"--Provided by publisher.
Looking at Art with Alex Katz
"An immensely readable book." – The Guardian "An engaging and entertaining tour through the history of art." – House & Garden "Never has writing about the great artists been so concise, so precise, and so insightful" a–n "The book beautifully mixes…personal recollections and musings with Katz's broader reflections on art history, and his notions of what makes a great painting." Elephant Magazine Have you ever dreamt of having your own private museum tour with one of the world's most–celebrated artists? Take a walk through art history in the company of one of the pre–eminent American painters of our time, Alex Katz. Describing his personal encounters with the work of over 90 key a...
Genieve Figgis
“…trippy, drippy figurative paintings that are remixes of specific historical paintings, whose vibe is super fresh and funny.” —JUXTAPOZ magazine Combining the dark wit of Francisco Goya with the lush painterly style of Elizabeth Peyton, Dublin-based artist Genieve Figgis is the painter of the moment. Within just a few years of leaving school, she has become a favorite of critics and artists alike, including Richard Prince, the art world’s resident provocateur. Remarkably prolific, Figgis paints quickly but deftly, cycling through a range of painterly styles and highly charged content, from bawdy, sexual vignettes with women and men in various states of undress to darker, more maca...
Jeff Koons
Edited by curator Masimilliano Gioni, this book focuses in particular on Koons' art as seen in relation to contemporary American culture. With his aesthetics of plenitude and his pop-up dreams of social mobility and acceptance, throughout his career Koons has composed a "fantasy America [...] custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions" -to use Warhol's description of his own interpretation of American culture. Through the inclusion of source materials, personal recollections and biographical narratives, the book reads each of Koons' celebrated series through the prism of his biography and the ways in which his individual history intersects with that of his country and culture. Ranging fr...
Word Book
Wittgenstein's dictionary for children: a rare and intriguing addition to the philosopher's corpus, in English for the first time "I had never thought the dictionaries would be so frightfully expensive. I think, if I live long enough, I will produce a small dictionary for elementary schools. It appears to me to be an urgent need." -Ludwig Wittgenstein In 1925, Ludwig Wittgenstein, arguably one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, wrote a dictionary for elementary school children. His Wörterbuch für Volksschulen (Dictionary for Elementary Schools) was designed to meet what he considered an urgent need: to help his students learn to spell. Wittgenstein began teaching kid...
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Art Books
First published in 1997. For this second edition of Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists, the vast number of new books published since 1985 was surveyed and evaluated. This has resulted in the selection of 3,395 additional titles. These selections, reflective of the increase in the monographic literature on artists during the last ten years, are evidence of the activities of a larger number of art historians in more countries worldwide, of the increasingly diverse and ambitious exhibition programs of museums whose number has also increased dramatically, and also of a lively international art market and the attendant gallery activities. The selections of the first edition have been reviewed, errors have been corrected and important new editions and reprints have been noted. The second edition contains 278 names of artists not represented in the first edition.
Necessaries: Two Hundred Years of Fashion Accessories
In this comprehensive study, fashion historian Daniel Delis Hill chronicles women’s and men’s fashion accessories from 1800 to the new millennium. Each chapter includes a historical overview of the era and an introduction to the principal fashions worn by women and men. Accessories are arranged by category and include hats, shoes, handbags, jewelry, gloves, parasols and umbrellas, fans, neckwear, belts and suspenders, handkerchiefs, hosiery, walking sticks, and eyewear. With more than 800 illustrations—many never before seen in book form—this well researched study is a valuable resource for the fields of fashion history, fashion design and merchandising, theatre costuming, and American popular culture.
