Mary Wells

Mary Wells
Author: Peter Benjaminson
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 161374529X

Complete with never-before-revealed details about the sex, violence, and drugs in her life, this biography reveals the incredibly turbulent life of Motown artist Mary Wells. Based in part on four hours of previously unreleased and unpublicized deathbed interviews with Wells, this account delves deeply into her rapid rise and long fall as a recording artist, her spectacular romantic and family life, the violent incidents in which she was a participant, and her abuse of drugs. From tumultuous affairs, including one with R&B superstar Jackie Wilson, to a courageous battle with throat cancer that climaxed in her gutsiest performance, this history draws upon years of interviews with Wells's friends, lovers, and husband to tell the whole story of a woman whose songs crossed the color line and whose voice captivated the Beatles.

A Big Life In Advertising

A Big Life In Advertising
Author: Mary Lawrence
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2003-05-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0743245865

One of the advertising world's all-time greats--the first woman president of an advertising agency and the first woman CEO of a company on the New York Stock Exchange--tells her riveting story. 36 photos.

Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo

Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo
Author: Dennis Pottenger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2021-05-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000377474

Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo offers a depth psychological analysis of the art and life of Remedios Varo, a Spanish surrealist painter. The book uses Varo’s paintings in a revolutionary way: to critique the patriarchal underpinnings of Jungian psychology, alchemy, and Surrealism, illuminating how Varo used painting to address cultural complexes that silence female expression. The book focuses on how the practice of alchemical psychology, through the power of imagination and the archetypal Feminine, can lead to healing and transformation for individuals and culture. Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo offers the first in-depth psychological treatment of the role alchemy played in the friendship between Varo and Leonora Carrington—a connection that led to paintings that protest the pitfalls of patriarchy. This unique book will be of great interest for academics, scholars, and post-graduate students in the fields of analytical psychology, art history, Surrealism, cultural criticism, and Jungian studies.

Votes for Women

Votes for Women
Author: Kate Clarke Lemay
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0691191174

"Published to accompany the exhibition Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (March 1, 2019-January 5, 2020)"--Colophon.

Timelines of American Women's History

Timelines of American Women's History
Author: Sue Heinemann
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780399519864

Spanning five hundred years of American history, this definitive reference provides an incisive look at the contributions that women have made to the social, cultural, political, economic, and scientific development of the United States. Original.

The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life

The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life
Author: Sarah L. Kaufman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2015-11-02
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0393243966

"Sarah Kaufman offers an old-fashioned cure for a modern-day ailment. The remedy for our culture of coarseness is grace…This is an elegant, compelling, and, yes, graceful book." —Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive In this joyful exploration of grace’s many forms, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Sarah L. Kaufman celebrates a too-often-forgotten philosophy of living that promotes human connection and fulfillment. Drawing on the arts, sports, the humanities, and everyday life—as well as the latest findings in neuroscience and health research—Kaufman illuminates how our bodies and our brains are designed for grace. She promotes a holistic appreciation and practice of grace, as the joining of body, mind, and spirit, and as a way to nurture ourselves and others.

Super Freak

Super Freak
Author: Peter Benjaminson
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1613749600

Rick James played with Neil Young, self-produced his first album (later picked up by Motown), crossed rock and funk to come up with one of the best-selling albums of the 1980s, became one of the biggest pop stars of the era, turned a young white woman named Teena Marie into an R&B superstar, displayed an outrageously sex- and drug-filled lifestyle, was tried and found guilty of assaulting and imprisoning a young woman, went on to record new music that was compared to the Beatles' White Album, and ended his life as a punch line for Dave Chappelle. James attempted to tell his own story—in two different books—but left out many incidents that reflected badly on his character. Now, based on court records, newspaper archives, and extensive interviews with dozens of family members, band members, friends, and lovers, here is the definitive biography of Motown's most controversial superstar.