Art

Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life (Paperback)

By Brigitte Benkemoun, Jody Gladding (Translated by)

$24.95

ISBN: 9781606066591

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Published: Getty Publications - May 5th, 2020

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Finding Dora Maar, a bestseller last year in France and translated lucidly into English by Vermonter Jody Gladding, is a delicious work of biography, memoir, detective narrative and cultural history. Benkemoun bought on eBay a vintage Hermes diary for her husband. When it arrived, she found inside an address book with entries for Cocteau, Chagall, Giacometti, Poulenc, Balthus, Éluard, Breton, Brassaï, Lacan—an exhaustive list of the giants of Parisian modernism. Through some detective work, Benkemoun discovers that its previous owner was none other than Dora Maar, Picasso’s “weeping woman.” In 1920’s Paris Maar was a brilliant young Surrealist photographer before she became Picasso’s official mistress, and her anguished portraits became some of the most recognizable of Picasso’s paintings, forever eclipsing her own efforts in photography and painting. This gripping book charts Dora’s life--the bright beginning of her artistic career, her masochistic relationship with the brilliant and cruel Picasso, and her late reactionary years of seclusion— brilliantly through the entries of her address book forming a constellation of the lives of the Parisian avant garde. ~ Reviewed by Dafydd Wood

The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris (Hardcover)

By Marc Petitjean, Adriana Hunter (Translated by)

$25.00

ISBN: 9781590519905

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Published: Other Press - April 28th, 2020

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Frida Kahlo brought to blazing life. Shortly before World War II, she made her only trip to Paris and had brief affairs with, among others, the author's father. Kahlo's experience helped her break free from her husband, Diego Rivera, and become one of the 20th Century's most iconic artists.

The Life and Love of the Sea (Hardcover)

By Lewis Blackwell

$50.00

ISBN: 9781419718625

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Published: Harry N. Abrams - October 6th, 2015

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A big, nostalgic, visual love poem to the sea—an ode to the oceans of the world. Gorgeous seascapes and really dynamic shots of penguins, whales, seals, and coral. Blackwell peppers in his insights and reflections on being in and near the ocean. I love this book! ~ Reviewed by Joe Michon-Huneau

The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated (Hardcover)

By John Carpenter, Melissa McCormick

$65.00

ISBN: 9781588396655

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Published: Metropolitan Museum of Art - March 26th, 2019

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Not only is The Tale of Genji a cornerstone of Japanese literature, but also has inspired some of the most beautiful works in the history of art. This book and its exhibit are an experience not to be missed. ~ Reviewed by Ramsay Eyre

Hilma AF Klint: Paintings for the Future (Hardcover)

By Hilma Af Klint (Artist), Tracey Bashkoff (Editor), Tracey Bashkoff (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

$65.00

ISBN: 9780892075430

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Published: Guggenheim Museum - October 23rd, 2018

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This groundbreaking exhibit at the Guggenheim was fascinating in person and is fascinating in this book. af Klint is an unsung hero of twentieth century art, and this book finally gives her abstractions the spotlight they deserve. Beautiful stuff. ~ Reviewed by Ramsay Eyre