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"Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) is one of the great American artists of the postwar period. His work is widely loved for its lyricism and apparently realist subject matter: still lifes, studio and other interiors, landscapes in Southampton, N.Y., and Great Spruce Head Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine, and portraits - including his many friends among the leading poets and artists of the New York School. Yet he was as concerned with color, light, paint...
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"Steven Holl was born in 1947 and graduated in architecture from the University of Washington; he completed his training in Italy (1970) and at the Architectural Association School in London (1976), Intertwining (New York, 1996) and Written in Water (Basel, 2002). They embody his contribution to discussion of the current significance of architectural practice. Since 1976 he has run the studio that bears his name in New York, and in the last fifteen...
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John Bird's acclaimed biography of the Australian-born composer and pianist Percy Grainger gives the first full account of the life and works of one of the strangest figures in twentieth-century music. Behind Grainger's highly original compositional achievements, folksong collecting, and glittering career as a virtuoso concert pianist lay a tragic and chaotic personal life--long domination by his mother, unorthodox sexual predilections, an eccentric...
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Wrinkles, facial hair, varicose veins, and fingernail dirt are hardly the bodily stuff of your average figurative sculpture, be it a Praxiteles or a Rodin. But Duane Hanson was never after the ideal figure, merely the familiar one, one so recognizable it is often mistaken for the flesh-and-blood waitress, house painter or cop it so vividly, eerily depicts in polyester resin. Clothed in the most exacting of detail, down to their hidden underpants,...
16) Camille Pissarro
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"This illustrated volume with paintings, drawings, prints and pastels by Pissarro presents the full range of his thematic and artistic diversity - from the colourist masterpieces of his early landscapes to his renowned life views of Rouen, London and Paris, as well as portraits still lifes, market scenes and images of everyday rural life. Pissarro had a unique ability to capture atmospheric nuances and the changes wrought by the times of day and the...
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