Artists Unframed

Artists Unframed
Author: Merry A. Foresta
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2015-05-19
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1616894431

Tucked away among the letters, diaries, and other ephemera in the Smithsonian's archives lies a trove of rarely seen snapshots of some of the twentieth century's most celebrated artists. Unlike the familiar official portraits and genius-at-work shots, these humble snaps capture creative giants with their guard down, in the moment, living life. Pablo Picasso stands proudly on a balcony with young daughter Maya—a tiny, meticulously inked annotation penned by an unknown hand proclaims that "he's very much in love." Jackson Pollock morosely carves a turkey while his mother, Stella, and wife, Lee Krasner, look on. A young Andy Warhol clowns for the camera with college friend Philip Pearlstein, and in a later shot more closely resembles his famously enigmatic public self at a gallery opening with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

John Baldessari

John Baldessari
Author: Matilda Olof-Ors
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Conceptual art
ISBN: 9783960987956

By combining and colliding the unexpected, the US artist John Baldessari (1931-2020), created conceptual works that raise questions regarding what art is, how art is made, and what art can look like. After concluding in the 1960s that a photographic image or a text were more adequate expressions of his artistic intentions than painting, John Baldessari's practice took a new direction. Since then, Baldessari has combined subjects from the imagery of popular culture with linguistic examinations, creating works that challenge artistic norms and boundaries. Besides the two essays the book also includes a wide selection of Baldessari's own writings from 1968-2011.

My Ideal Bookshelf

My Ideal Bookshelf
Author: Thessaly La Force
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0316225002

The books that we choose to keep -- let alone read -- can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In My Ideal Bookshelf, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most; books that define their dreams and ambitions and in many cases helped them find their way in the world. Contributors include Malcolm Gladwell, Thomas Keller, Michael Chabon, Alice Waters, James Patterson, Maira Kalman, Judd Apatow, Chuck Klosterman, Miranda July, Alex Ross, Nancy Pearl, David Chang, Patti Smith, Jennifer Egan, and Dave Eggers, among many others. With colorful and endearingly hand-rendered images of book spines by Jane Mount, and first-person commentary from all the contributors, this is a perfect gift for avid readers, writers, and all who have known the influence of a great book.

Exhibiting Blackness

Exhibiting Blackness
Author: Bridget R. Cooks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2011
Genre: African American art
ISBN: 9781613760062

"In Exhibiting Blackness, art historian Bridget R. Cooks analyzes the curatorial strategies, challenges, and critical receptions of the most significant museum exhibitions of African American art. Tracing two dominant methodologies used to exhibit art by African Americans--an ethnographic approach that focuses more on artists than their art, and a recovery narrative aimed at correcting past omissions--Cooks exposes the issues involved in exhibiting cultural difference that continue to challenge art history, historiography, and American museum exhibition practices. By further examining the unequal and often contested relationship between African American artists, curators, and visitors, she provides insight into the complex role of art museums and their accountability to the cultures they represent."--

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1028
Release: 1907
Genre: Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN:

Film Unframed

Film Unframed
Author: Sixpack Film
Publisher: Austrian Film Museum
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Experimental films
ISBN: 9783901644429

Austrian avant-garde cinema bears a resemblance to materialist and visionary aspects of the American avant-garde, while also manifesting a subversive social critique kindred in spirit to European auteur cinema. This 'third way', staked out by Austrian filmmakers and revealed by this volume, is a unique brand of anti-traditional tradition, equally devoted to rigor and precision as it is to fomenting chaos and liberating energy. It is a counter-universe that uses cinema to penetrate new realms of experience. This book helps us enter its delights and dangers.

The Artist's Guide to Selling Work

The Artist's Guide to Selling Work
Author: Annabelle Ruston
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013-12-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1472566661

A one-stop resource containing everything artists need to know to sell their work. This best-selling guide provides all the advice you need to sell your work in today's competitive market. This fantastic new edition has been updated with essential advice on how to make full use of digital opportunities for selling your work, such as social networking and e-marketing. It contains information and suggestions about: - Selecting and approaching galleries - Pricing and payments - Royalty rates and financial management - Sample contracts and other legal considerations - Creating a website and maximising hits - Mastering social media to increase your visibility - Managing sales via online stores such as Etsy, Folksy or eBay - Printing your own reproductions and marketing them With a foreword by Mary Ann Rogers, one of Britain's most acclaimed watercolour painters who was awarded 'Best Selling Published Artist' by the Fine Art Trade Guild in 2009.

In the Fields of Empty Days

In the Fields of Empty Days
Author: Linda Komaroff
Publisher: Prestel
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: ART
ISBN: 9783791357386

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition In The Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 6-September 9, 2018"--Colophon.

Girl, Unframed

Girl, Unframed
Author: Deb Caletti
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 153442699X

Seven starred reviews! “A riveting, meticulously plotted mystery with plenty of drama.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A teen girl’s summer with her famous mother turns sinister in this gripping thriller inspired by a real-life Hollywood murder from Printz Honor–winning and National Book Award finalist author Deb Caletti—perfect for fans of Courtney Summers’s Sadie. Sydney Reilly has a bad feeling about going home to San Francisco before she even gets on the plane. How could she not? Her mother is Lila Shore—the Lila Shore—a film star who prizes her beauty and male attention above all else…certainly above her daughter. But Sydney’s worries multiply when she discovers that Lila is involved with the dangerous Jake, an art dealer with shady connections. Jake loves all beautiful objects, and Sydney can feel his eyes on her whenever he’s around. And he’s not the only one. Sydney is starting to attract attention—good and bad—wherever she goes: from sweet, handsome Nicco Ricci, from the unsettling construction worker next door, and even from Lila. Behaviors that once seemed like misunderstandings begin to feel like threats as the summer grows longer and hotter. But real danger, crimes of passion, the kind of stuff where someone gets killed—it only mostly happens in the movies, Sydney is sure. Until the night something life-changing happens on the stairs that lead to the beach. A thrilling night that goes suddenly very wrong. When loyalties are called into question. And when Sydney learns a terrible truth: beautiful objects can break.

BB-8 on the Run

BB-8 on the Run
Author: Drew Daywalt
Publisher: Chirpy Bird
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2017-11
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 9781760501273

When BB-8 is separated from his master, Poe Dameron, on the lonely desert planet of Jakku, he has no choice but to keep rolling. It's all up to him to get a top-secret map back to the Resistance so they can find Luke Skywalker and save the galaxy from the evil First Order. It's scary to have a big job when you're just a little droid on your own. But BB-8 isn't alone for long. As he speeds across the sand, BB-8 meets all kinds of strangers who need his help. Should he do good things, as Poe always told him, or will that get in the way of his mission? See how everyone's favorite little astromech droid makes friends and foils enemies in this funny and exciting new Star Wars adventure!