Albert Pinkham Ryder, Painter of Dreams

Albert Pinkham Ryder, Painter of Dreams
Author: William Innes Homer
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1989
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Traces the life and career of the enigmatic American artist, discusses his unusual painting technique, and looks at his literary and artistic influences.

ALBERT PINKHAM RYDER

ALBERT PINKHAM RYDER
Author: Elizabeth Broun
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1989-10-17
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This volume (the first to appear on the artist in 30 years) presents new information about Ryder's technique and materials, based on current scholarship and advanced methods of conservation. The paintings are discussed individually with comparative illustrations, including X-rays, autoradiographs, and related examples by other artists. Paper edition ($29.95) not seen by RandR. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

If

If
Author: Christopher Benfey
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0735221448

A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner. His influence on major figures—including Freud and William James—was pervasive and profound. But in recent decades Kipling’s reputation has suffered a strange eclipse. Though his body of work still looms large, and his monumental poem “If—” is quoted and referenced by politicians, athletes, and ordinary readers alike, his unabashed imperialist views have come under increased scrutiny. In If, scholar Christopher Benfey brings this fascinating and complex writer to life and, for the first time, gives full attention to Kipling's intense engagement with the United States—a rarely discussed but critical piece of evidence in our understanding of this man and his enduring legacy. Benfey traces the writer’s deep involvement with America over one crucial decade, from 1889 to 1899, when he lived for four years in Brattleboro, Vermont, and sought deliberately to turn himself into a specifically American writer. It was his most prodigious and creative period, as well as his happiest, during which he wrote The Jungle Book and Captains Courageous. Had a family dispute not forced his departure, Kipling almost certainly would have stayed. Leaving was the hardest thing he ever had to do, Kipling said. “There are only two places in the world where I want to live,” he lamented, “Bombay and Brattleboro. And I can’t live in either.” In this fresh examination of Kipling, Benfey hangs a provocative “what if” over Kipling’s American years and maps the imprint Kipling left on his adopted country as well as the imprint the country left on him. If proves there is relevance and magnificence to be found in Kipling’s work.

Wim Delvoye

Wim Delvoye
Author: Wim Delvoye
Publisher: Rectapublishers
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Borrowing its name from the ancient sewer in Rome, Belgian conceptualist Wim Delvoye's new and improved "Cloaca" is a room-sized shit-making machine whose bowels process two meals a day, serving up a mouthful of complex themes: scatalogy and disgust, high and low culture, man as machine and vice-versa, and the inversion of art semiotics. Many of these same concerns are processed in Delvoye's other work, like the life-sized carved walnut replica of a cement truck, the wood cabinet stocked with 32 circular saw blades painted with scenes in Delft China blue, and a herd of pigs tatooed by Antwerp's finest needle-men. Feces and other anal subjects are parsed in accompanying essays by such luminaries as Milan Kundera, Gerardo Mosquera, Dan Cameron, Georges Bataille and Salvador Dali.

Painting the Dark Side

Painting the Dark Side
Author: Sarah Burns
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 1
Release: 2004-03-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520238214

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Art of Latin America

Art of Latin America
Author: Marta Traba
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank
Total Pages: 197
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0940602733

Marta Traba, one of Latin America's most controversial art critics, examines the works of over 1,000 artists from the first 80 years of the 20th century. This book is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in studying the evolution of Latin American art.

American Art to 1900

American Art to 1900
Author: Sarah Burns
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 1100
Release: 2009-03-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520257561

American Art to 1900 presents an astonishing variety of unknown, little-known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and commentators. The volume highlights such critically important themes as women artists, African American representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native Americans and the frontier, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory headnotes, this book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many intersecting histories. -back cover.

The Brown Decades

The Brown Decades
Author: Lewis Mumford
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1955-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780486202006

Buried renaissance of Root, Sullivan, Roebling, W. Homer, Eakins, Ryder, others. 12 illustrations.