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Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: contemporary, artist, robert, irwin, life, sees, forgetting, name, thing, one, seeing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1982
ISBN-10: 0520045955
ISBN-13: 9780520045958
Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space
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Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Plain Label Books
Keywords: dorian, picture
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-09-30
ISBN-10: 1603038663
ISBN-13: 9781603038669
Basil Hallward, an artist, meets Dorian Gray and paints his portrait. The artist is so infatuated with Dorian's beauty that he begins to believe it is the reason for his quality of art. Dorian becomes convinced that beauty is all-important and wishes his portrait could age instead of him. Beware of what you have wish for! Each time Dorian commits a sin his portrait ages, showing him what is happening to his soul.
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Author: J. Ludlow
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: poultry
Number of Pages: 58
Published: 2009-06-01
ISBN-10: 1608898008
ISBN-13: 9781608898008
Part of our Applewood's Pictorial America series, this large format paperback includes 26 images of poultry suitable for framing. The 26 chromolithographs and etchings included in the book were originally painted by the artist J. W. Ludlow, an ornitholigal artist who specialized in painting domestic birds. These prints first appeared in 1873 in an illustrated book of poultry published by Cassell and have since become very collectible because of their rich color and loving detail.
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Author: Ana Voog
Publisher: J.D. Casten
Keywords: life, webcam, unlimited, abridged, art, years, voog, dreaming, stage, ana
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008-06-16
ISBN-10: 1438235755
ISBN-13: 9781438235752
Coming from a background as a major label recording artist, in 1997 Minnesota based artist Ana Voog started the second continuous 24/7 home webcam, which was the first oriented towards performance art, as well as featuring traditional and new medium artworks. Her webcam has lasted a decade, and her "anacam" project has been included in the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Weisman Art Museum, and the Walker Art Center; with television appearances on E!, A & E, Hard Copy, and Vibe; and print coverage in such periodicals as USA Today, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The New York Post, and Playboy.
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Author: Alison McQueen
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: nineteenth, century, france, master, old, cult, rembrandt, reinventing, rise
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2003-09-29
ISBN-10: 9053566244
ISBN-13: 9789053566244
Rembrandt's life and art had an almost mythic resonance in nineteenth-century France with artists, critics, and collectors alike using his artistic persona both as a benchmark and as justification for their own goals. This first in-depth study of the traditional critical reception of Rembrandt reveals the preoccupation with his perceived "authenticity," "naturalism," and "naiveteacute;," demonstrating how the artist became an ancestral figure, a talisman with whom others aligned themselves to increase the value of their own work. And in a concluding chapter, the author looks at the play Rembra
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Author: Edith Balas
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Keywords: interpretation, new, chapel, medici, michelangelo
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 1995
ISBN-10: 0871692163
ISBN-13: 9780871692160
There are no surviving documents that explain Michelangelo's complex sculptural program for the Medici Chapel. The work as we have it is no more than an unfinished, fragmentary realization of the artist's original conception. Speculation about its meaning began quite early, for Michelangelo's contemporaries were apparently no better informed than we. An interpretation made by Benedetto Varchi in 1549 and since universally accepted, was by his own admission a personal opinion, not confirmed by the artist. In the sixteenth century, interpretations quite at variance with modern scholarly assumpti
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