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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Barbara Buhler Lynes, Richard B. Woodward, Sandra S. Phillips
Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities
by Little, Brown and Company (Hardcover)

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe first metin Taos, New Mexico, in 1929. She was already an established artist, while he was at the beginning of his career, and their friendship lasted for the rest of their lives.GEORGIA O'KEEFE AND ANSEL ADAMS: NATURAL AFFINITIES suggests parallels in their distinctive visions of both natural and human-made environments and illustrates the artists' achievements in capturing the reality and essence of the world around them. More than 100 beautifully reproduced paintings and photographs are accompanied by critical essays on Adams and O'Keeffe and a biographical essay on the friendship between Adams, O'Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz.

Mary Ellen Mark
Seen Behind the Scene (Photography)
by Phaidon Press Inc. (Hardcover)

Since the 1960s Mary Ellen Mark has worked on over 100 film sets as a 'special stills photographer', making thousands of documentary photographs of life behind the scenes, rather than conventional still photographs made of actors on camera. This exciting new book presents the best of her images ranging from the first films that Mark shot in the 1960s, such as Fellini's Satyricon, to legendary 1970s productions like Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, as well as films from the ensuing decades, ranging from Network to Tootsie, from Gandhi to Showgirls. She continues to work on film sets and over the last decade has photographed recent Oscar-winning productions such as Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritú's Babel, and Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.Over her career, Mark has been given unprecedented access to the film sets she has worked on, roaming freely among cast ...

Giorgio Morandi 1890-1964: Nothing Is More Abstract Than Reality
by Skira (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-09-30)

This volume showcases 116 masterpieces arranged into the four major themes that characterize Giorgio Morandi’s work: self portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and flowers. The collection represents all the various expressive techniques used by Morandi over the years, including paint, etching, drawing and watercolor.The volume is the catalog of an outstanding exhibition organized by the Metropolitan Museum in New York and by the Museo d’Arte Moderna in Bologna. The exhibition will be open in New York from September 16 to December 14, 2008 and in Bologna from January 22 to April 12, 2009.The exhibition and the catalog also contain a number of photographs of Morandi’s studio and quotes from his admirers, as well as the memorable 1958 interview with Edouard Roditi.

Georgia O'Keeffe 2009 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate (Calendar)

This calendar features a dozen images O Keeffe painted between 1919 and 1943, among them Red Cannas, Lake George with Crows, The White Flower, Pink Shell with Seaweed, White Flower on Red Earth No. 1, and Red, Yellow and Black Streak.Size: 12 x 13 in.; opens to 12 x 26 in.

Alphonse Mucha 2009 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate (Calendar)

Thrust into fame after his groundbreaking poster for Sarah Bernhardt s 1894 production of Gismonda, Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860 1939) went on to great commercial success, designing sumptuous posters advertising many of the goods we now associate with the era bicycles, Champagne, cigarettes. This calendar reproduces a dozen choice examples of le style Mucha, which has come to epitomize the Art Nouveau style of turn-of-the-century Paris.Size: 12 x 13 in.; opens to 12 x 26 in.

Monet Notebook (Artist Notebooks)
by Exley Giftbooks (Hardcover)

Our four 80-page stylish mini notebooks have ample space for notes. They are a functional pocket or handbag size, and the pages are lined for easier entries. Each book contains 24 paintings by one of the timeless, popular artists, and every spread has a part of the paintings reproduced -- there is beauty on every page.

Ross King
Michelangelo and The Pope's Ceiling
by Pimlico (Paperback) (Release Date: 2006-05-08)

Sarah Mucha
Alphonse Mucha
by Frances Lincoln (Hardcover)

This book is the first comprehensive overview of Mucha's life and work and is published in association with the Mucha Museum in Prague.

Jim Coddington, Robert Lubar, Jordana Mendelson, Adele Nelson, ...
Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937
by The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-11-01)

Taking Joan Miro's notorious declaration of 1927--"I want to assassinate painting"--as its point of departure, this richly illustrated volume is the first to focus on Miro the "anti-painter," identifying the core practices and strategies the artist used to challenge painting between 1927 and 1937. Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937 surveys the various material, iconographical and rhetorical forms of Miro's attacks on painting by presenting, in chronological sequence, 12 distinct series of works, beginning with a remarkable group of paintings on unprimed canvas and concluding with Miro's return to Realism in "Still Life with Old Shoe" (1937). Acidic color, grotesque disfigurement, stylistic heterogeneity and the use of resistant, ready-made materials are among the key tactics of aggression that are explored in this extraordinary presentation of the interrelated and oppositional series of paintings, collages, objects and drawings Miro produced during this crucial ...

Alphonse Mucha
2009 Mucha Wall Calendar (Grid Calendar)
by teNeues (Calendar) (Release Date: 2008-08-01)

Mucha Wall Calendar: Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860�) virtually invented Art Nouveau as it applied to graphic design. Hired by happenstance to design a poster for one of Sarah Bernhardt's theatrical productions, he finished it in just a few days

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