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Tripp an intense, introspective, and complex man, plagued by self-doubt and Evans. In this audacious, ingenious and powerful haunted by an endless pursuit of perfection. 48 pages of illus., some in biography, one of America’s most acclaimed and color. 440 pages. Yale. Paperbound. Pub. at $20.00 $7.95 famous regionalist painters (think American 4720962 WHISTLER’S MOTHER: Portrait of an Gothic) is revealed to be anything but the plain farmer-painter image he constructed for himself. Extraordinary Life. By D.E. Sutherland & G. Toutziari. Here we see the true complexity of the artist who The author’s unprecedented use of Anna Whistler’s became a national symbol. Well illus., some in (1804-1881) private diaries and correspondence color. 402 pages. Knopf. Pub. at $40.00 $9.95 results in a crisp biographical rendering of this familiar woman that reveals a resilient, bright, and deeply 3954447 AMERICAN DREAMER: My Story of engaged person. She knew and interacted with an Survival, Adventure, and Success. By Robert astonishing array of people, and raised one of the finest Halmi, Sr with D. Gabbay. This man’s story, filled with artists of the 19th century. 32 pages of illus., some so much of the marquee talent of the past century, color. 246 pages. Yale. Pub. at $25.00 $7.95 reveals nearly a century of daring and boundless optimism even in the face of terrible odds. It’s a story 3908291 VINCENT VAN GOGH: of war, love, and ambition, the quintessential American Masterworks. By Rosalind Ormiston. tale of a life lived large. 16 pages of photos. This gorgeous new edition beautifully 281 pages. Lyons. Pub. at $29.95 $3.95 bound with a cover printed on silver, contains translations of some of Van 4753879 MICHELANGELO, GOD’S ARCHITECT: Gogh’s most revealing letters to his The Story of His Final Years & Greatest brother Theo, and insightful commentary, Masterpiece. By William E. Wallace. Tells the full alongside photographs of the letters story of Michelangelo’s final two decades, when the themselves and Van Gogh’s best-loved peerless artist refashioned himself into the master artworks. 192 pages. Flame Tree. 11½x11¼. Pub. at $35.00 $19.95 architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major SOLD OUT buildings. When Pope Paul III handed Michelangelo *4725018 THE ILLUSTRATED control of the St. Peter’s project in 1546, it was a PROVENCE LETTERS OF VAN study in architectural mismanagement, plagued by GOGH. Selected by Martin Bailey. flawed design and faulty engineering. 32 pages of illus., most in color. Discover the moving story of Vincent 277 pages. Princeton. 6½x9½. Pub. at $29.95 $12.95 van Gogh, with his artistic genius and emotional torment told through 3884899 GROSZ. By Lars Fiske. A graphic letters, sketches and paintings. Not biography of Grosz, who was a German fine only do these letters throw light on artist, cartoonist, and teacher who drew from Van Gogh’s complex character and pop culture, was active in the Dada and New emotional depth, they are a narrative of the process of artistic creation. Objectivist movements, and was an influence 160 pages. Batsford. 10x7¾. Pub. at $22.95 $17.95 for artists like Ben Shahn. Fully illus. 80 pages. Fantagraphics. 8½x10¾. 4714180 THE LIVES OF THE SURREALISTS. Pub. at $19.99 $6.95 By Desmond Morris. Drawing on the author’s personal knowledge of the Surrealists, this volume captures their life histories, idiosyncrasies and often 3938700 DIANE ARBUS: Portrait of a Photographer. By Arthur complex love lives. Shocking and witty, Morris’ tales Lubow. A definitive biography that brushes aside the cliches that have long illuminate the striking variation of the artists’ surrounded Arbus and her work and brings into focus one of the twentieth approaches to the surrealist philosophy, in their work century’s greatest artists. 16 pages of photos. 734 pages. Ecco. and in their lives. Illus., many in color. 272 pages. Pub. at $35.00 $7.95 Thames & Hudson. 7x9¾. Pub. at $39.95 $14.95 4754891 ON&BY ANDY WARHOL. Ed. by Gilda Williams. A pioneer in virtually every medium in 3936368 RENOIR: An Intimate Biography. By which he worked, Andy Warhol also influenced Barbara Ehrlich White. Presents an intimate such contemporary staples as reality TV, computer biography of this most intriguing of Impressionist art and the rock-gig light show. As the inventor of artists in a narrative interspersed with over a the Polaroid selfie and master of the tweet-like thousand extracts from letters by, to and about short epithet, Warhol seems only to grow in Renoir. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, cultural relevance in the 21st century. 272 pages. White brings us into direct contact with Renoir as an MIT Press. Paperbound. Pub. at $19.95 $5.95 artist, friend and father, and enables us to appreciate more fully his great paintings. Illus., many in color. 2827123 TURNER: The Extraordinary Life and 432 pages. Thames & Hudson. 6¾x9¾. Pub. at $39.95 $14.95 Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner. By Franny Moyle. A detailed account of the life of one of Western *4742362 THE DALI LEGACY. By C.H. Brown & J-P. Isbouts. In this art’s most admired, misunderstood, and celebrated stunning volume, rich with more than 150 full-color images, noted art painters. Against a background of tumultuous change, historians discuss the historical, social, and political conditions that Turner strove to liberate painting from an antiquated shaped Dali’s work, identify the impact of Modern as well as Old Master system of patronage, and his visionary work initiated a art, and present an unflinching view of Dali’s personal relationships and revolution in landscape painting, paving the way for the motivations. 327 pages. Apollo. 6¼x9¼. Pub. at $26.99 $19.95 modern artist. 24 pages of color illus. 508 pages. *3904172 CALDER: The Conquest of Penguin. Pub. at $35.00 SOLD OU $7.95T Space–The Later Years, 1940-1976. By Jed 466194X MONUMENT MAN: The Life & Art of Daniel Chester Perl. This second volume of Perl’s biography French. By Harold Holzer. A sweeping study of a major artist whose begins during WWII, when Calder and his wife, evolution ran parallel to, and deeply influenced, the development of Louisa, opened their home to a stream of artists American sculpture, iconography, and historic memory.