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Sargent
Sargent Notebook (Decorative Notebooks)
by Dover Publications (Paperback)

A striking beauty — one of the artist's best-known works — graces the cover of this 64-page ruled notebook that's perfect for notes, addresses, phone numbers, secret thoughts, and more.

Patricia Cornwell
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed
by audible.com (Audio Download)

In this headline-making new work, Cornwell turns her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise on one of the most chilling cases of serial murder in the history of crime-the slayings of Jack the Ripper that terrorized 1880s London.

John Singer Sargent
Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent (Dover Art Library)
by Dover Publications (Paperback)

Collection of portraits, selected from public and private holdings by art historian Trevor J. Fairbrother, reveal the technical skill and intuitive eye for which American portrait painter John Singer Sargent is renowned. Drawings in pencil, pastels and charcoal—a lesser-known aspect of Sargent’s oeuvre—are shown. List of Plates. Introduction. Captions.

The Family Of Man
by The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Paperback) (Release Date: 2002-07-02)

Hailed as the most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in January 1955. This book, the permanent embodiment of Edward Steichen's monumental exhibition, reproduces all of the 503 images that Steichen described as "a mirror of the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world. Photographs made in all parts of the world, of the gamut of life from birth to death." A classic and inspiring work, The Family of Man has been in print for more than forty years. The New York Times once wrote that it "symbolizes the universality of human emotions." First produced by a magazine publisher and sold by the hundreds of thousands on newsstands and in airport shops, The Family of Man has been in more recent years published by the Museum. It has been continuously in print since 1955; the present Thirtieth Anniversary Edition was prepared from original photographs with all new duotone plates in 1986.

Thiebaud 2009 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate (Calendar)

Wayne Thiebaud (American, b. 1920) has little interest in snobby distinctions between commercial and serious art. His commitments are to artistic traditions, hard work, and the discovery of subjects and techniques that resonate for him. The twelve paintings reproduced here, among them 35 Cent Masterworks, Apartment View, Bakery Lady, Club Sandwich, Cakes and Pies, and Candy Counter, convey the artist s restless investigation of new subjects and insistent revisiting of familiar ones.Size: 12 x 13 in.; opens to 12 x 26 in.

Radiant Identities
by Aperture (Paperback) (Release Date: 2005-06-15)

The latest collection by the controversial photographer, Jock Sturges, who was cleared of pornography charges by the U.S. government. Black-and-white images capture the form of adolescent bodies and the closeness of mothers and daughters, primarily at nude beaches in France and California. An introduction and afterward comment on the process of photographing young people and the place of Sturges's work in modern photography. Paperback, 9.5 x 11.5 in./96 pgs

Desmond Rochfort
Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros
by Chronicle Books (Paperback)

Peter Galassi
Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills
by The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2003-10-02)

Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, a series of 69 black-and-white photographs created between 1977 and 1980, is widely seen as one of the most original and influential achievements in recent art. Witty, provocative and searching, this lively catalogue of female roles inspired by the movies crystallizes widespread concerns in our culture, examining the ways we shape our personal identities and the role of the mass media in our lives. ~Sherman began making these pictures in 1977 when she was 23 years old. The first six were an experiment: fan-magazine glimpses into the life (or roles) of an imaginary blond actress, played by Sherman herself. The photographs look like movie stills--or perhaps publicity pix--purporting to catch the blond bombshell in unguarded moments at home. The protagonist is shown preening in the kitchen and lounging in the bedroom. Onto something big, Sherman tried other characters in other roles: the chic starlet at her seaside hideaway, the luscious ...

Richard Ormond, Elaine Kilmurray
John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits
by Yale University Press (Hardcover)

This sumptuous book is the third volume of the definitive catalogue raisonnŽ of the work of the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Comprising over two hundred portraits and portrait sketches in oil and watercolor painted between 1900 and the artist's death in 1925, this book completes the trilogy of portrait volumes. The catalogued works have been grouped into two chronological sections, each with an introduction that sets the particular group in context. There is also a section of undated portraits and an appendix listing previously unrecorded works. Each work is documented in depth: entries include traditional data about the painting or watercolor; details of the work's provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography; a short biography of the sitter; a discussion of the circumstances in which the work was created; and a critical discussion of its subject matter, style, and significance in Sargent's career. Most of the works are reproduced in color. There is ...

Robert Smithson
by University of California Press (Paperback)

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