We live at a time of unprecedented memoir-izing where people tell all, or as much as they want to reveal (often lots more than a reader wants to know). Here are two memoirs that have either direct or indirect relationships with the art world.
Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol
by Tony Scherman and David Dalton
509 pages $40
at amazon
If you’re a Warhol afficionado, you will wolf down this 448 page entertaining, gossipy and fact-filled tome. The book is an in-depth retelling of Warhol’s life from birth to near-death gunshot wounds from Valerie Solanis in 1968, dwelling mostly on the [...]
Post by Judith Stein
If you have ever wondered about creativity and the zeitgeist, you will enjoy James Rosenquist’s new autobiography, Painting Below Zero, Notes on a Life in Art. It is a richly colored account of one artist’s trajectory from the fifties to the present day, an engaging narrative that tracks his transformation from American [...]
Since the King of Pop died, I’ve been catching up on my Michael Jackson video watching. The ones that really grab me are Thriller and Beat It which aspire to be short movies and pretty much are. Jackon’s dancing is remarkable to watch of course. But his dance moves take on even greater visual [...]
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By libby | December 2, 2008
Nike Desis’ Fashion activity book, Color Me Fierce! www.quirkbooks.com
The first girl to break into the boy group that runs FLUXspace was Nike Desis. So you know she’s gotta have some spine. And the spine has showed up on a book that arrived on my doorstep the other day. She has just published a coloring and [...]
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Two books came into my inbox recently and they’re both photographers’ travel books –all pictures and little text and kind of perfect for the summer. In both books (one is a pdf book and available only online) the pictures are quirky and great–not the usual National Geographic choices.
5 DAYS IN NAMIBIA BY RICHARD RENALDI
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Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged richard renaldi, thomas kalak |
Post by Andrea Kirsh
Paul Cézanne (French, 1839 – 1906), The Large Bathers, 1906. Oil on canvas, 82 7/8 x 98 3/4 inches. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the W. P. Wilstach Fund, 1937
Pierre Rosenberg, long at the Louvre, ultimately as President-Director from 1994-2001, is perhaps the best-known and most widely-traveled curator of European paintings [...]
Post by Andrea Kirsh
Raymond Loewy pencil sharpener (1934)
In preparation for Design Philadelphia, I thought I’d do some homework, so pulled out a book by Philadelphian, George H. Marcus: “Masters of Modern Design; A Critical Assessment” (Monacelli Press, 2005). The book grew out of a course that Marcus taught at Penn where he examined a dozen [...]
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By libby | November 26, 2006
Book Review by Andrea Kirsh
Cover of More Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell
The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program (MAP) has come out with a second, fully-illustrated book: More Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell ( by Jane Golden et al, published by Temple University Press; available here ).
The program is justly proud of [...]
