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Tony Scherman
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Pop
To his critics, he was the cynical magus of a movement that debased high art and reduced it to a commodity. To his admirers, he was the most important artist since Picasso. As the quintessential Pop artist, Andy Warhol razed the barrier between high and low culture. Pop disentangles the myths of Warhol from the man he truly was, offering a vivid, entertaining, and provocative look at the legendary artist’s personal and artistic evolution during his most productive and innovative years. It is a dynamic, groundbreaking portrait of the man who changed the way we see the world.
Backbeat
There he is, drumming on "Tutti Frutti," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," and thousands of other songs. As a studio player in New Orleans and Los Angeles from the 1940s through the 1970s, Earl Palmer co-created hundreds of hits and transformed the lope of rhythm and blues into full-tilt rock and roll. He was, as a result, one of the first session men to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Palmer's distinctive voice alternates with the insights of music journalist and historian Tony Scherman in an unforgettable trip through the social and musical cultures of mid-century New Orleans and the feverish world of early rock.
Chasing Napoleon
Presents a series of portraits of Napoleon, beginning with his youth as portrayed in "Napoleon's First Shave" and culminating with "The Last Shave: St. Helena" in which Napoleon contemplates death. The paintings were created by Scherman (b.1950), an artist living in Toronto, who works masterfully in encaustic--that mixture of wax and pigments that so effectively evokes the passage of time. The book contains three texts: Jacques Henric (a French novelist, essayist, and art critic) gives background to Scherman's work; art historians Hans Belting and David Moos discuss Napoleon project and its execution; and an interview with Scherman by cultural historian and writer Sanford Kwinter illuminates the artist's motivation and concerns. Oversize: 11.75x12.5". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Andy Warhol
With a sleight of hand, Andy Warhol redefined the boundaries of painting, sculpture and film. The assembly-line effect of his ‘machine-made’ images allowed Warhol to fix the viewer’s gaze on mass culture, closing the gap between art and life, bringing the old hierarchies of art to a collapse.But who was the man behind the public pose? The Factory was driven by sexual experimentation and the obsessive pursuit of beauty, but the figure at its centre somehow remained apart. His inherent discomfort with physical intimacy and his perpetual place outside the art establishment meant that Warhol would observe but never engage, that he wanted to be seen, but was never discovered.Based on extens...
The Rape of Io
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The Human Clay
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Encaustic Art
Encaustic painting is one of the world’s most venerable art forms, having been practised consistently around the world since the ancient Egyptians first used it to decorate sarcophagi, and enjoying continuing popularity in the modern era with artists such as Paul Klee and Diego Rivera. In this new text, Jennifer Margell offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the medium, featuring instructive how-tos for encaustic art beginners, revealing interviews with some of the most celebrated practitioners of the medium, and a gallery featuring one of the largest published collections of encaustic art to date.
Conversations with Albert Murray
In these conversations Murray discusses those who influenced him - Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington - and tells how they helped him develop a philosophy of art based on the blues as well as a new archetype of the American hero, the blues hero.
White Out
What does it mean to be white? This remains the question at large in the continued effort to examine how white racial identity is constructed and how systems of white privilege operate in everyday life. White Out brings together the original work of leading scholars across the disciplines of sociology, philosophy, history, and anthropology to give readers an important and cutting-edge study of "whiteness".
