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1. Giorgio Morandi 1890-1964: Nothing Is More Abstract Than Reality
2. Seen Behind the Scene (Photography) (Photography)
3. Immediate Family
4. Alphonse Mucha
5. At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women
6. The Human Figure in Motion
7. Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveau
8. Giorgio Morandi (Twentieth-Century Masters Series)
9. Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros
10. Alphonse Mucha 2009 Wall Calendar
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Giorgio Morandi 1890-1964: Nothing Is More Abstract Than Reality
Authors: Hardcover, 366 pagesPublisher: Skira Publication Date: 2008-09-30 Reviews :
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....
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Seen Behind the Scene (Photography) (Photography)
Authors: Mary Ellen Mark. Hardcover, 264 pagesPublisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Publication Date: 2008-10-29 Edition: Ill Reviews :
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 and directors, and photographing in make-up, during rehearsals, on the set, and off the set to provide a full picture of life behind the scenes. Her experience over the last forty years reveals much about the changes in filmmaking. She recalls in her introduction how she loved to photograph the director's reaction and interaction during rehearsal when he was behind the camera; but now in contemporary filmmaking the director is nowhere near the camera, but rather in front of a video monitor away from the set. Her iconic 1960s portraits of Fellini behind his camera fix this moment in film history and are evidence of the changes in technology. Mark's portraits from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s reveal the changing nature of celebrity. When she first started working, Mark would be just another person on the set with full access to every cast member. With the rise of the massive power and impact of celebrity, it has become much more difficult for photographers to work on sets, when actors are constantly surrounded by an entourage of publicists, agents, and assistants. Their schedules are carefully planned down to the minute, and it is harder for a photographer to gain access to them. Therefore, Mark's more recent candid photos of major celebrities, such as Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, and Nicole Kidman, are rare and particularly special. Seen Behind the Scene includes beautiful and engaging portraits, documentary pictures that reveal the way a film is made, dramatic moments in direction, and amusing photos that reveal the camaraderie on set - such as Henry Fonda making faces behind Katharine Hepburn, well-known prankster Jack Nicholson turning Stockard Channing upside down, and Dustin Hoffman causing a lot of amusement in his female costume between scenes on the set of Tootsie. The text for the book comes from a number of high profile actors, directors, and film industry professionals who complete this picture of life 'behind the scenes' by sharing their anecdotes and thoughts about their profession. Among these engaging texts, cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno remembers how Fellini fled in fear of the white horse in Satyricon, Sofia Coppola recalls growing up on set with her father, and Helen Mirren eloquently describes the disconcerting experience of night shoots to complete this insight into the world of filmmaking....
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Immediate Family
Authors: Paperback, 78 pagesPublisher: Aperture Publication Date: 1994-04-01 Reviews :
"These are photographs of my children....Many of these pictures are intimate, some are fictions and some are fantastic, but most are of ordinary things every mother has seen. I take pictures when they are bloodied or sick or naked or angry. They dress up, they pout and posture, they paint their bodies, they dive like otters in the dark river."--Sally Mann, from the Introduction
Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland home in Virginia, Sally Mann's extraordinary, intimate photographs of her children-- Emmett, Jessie, and Virginia-- reveal truths that embody the individuality of her immediate family and ultimately take on a universal quality. Mann states that her work is "about everybody's memories, as well as their fears," a theme echoed by Reynolds Price in his eloquent, poignantly reflective essay accompanying the photographs in Immediate Family.
With sublime dignity, acute wit, and feral grace, Mann's pictures explore the eternal struggle for autonomy-- the holding on, and the breaking away. This is the stuff of which Greek dramas are made: impatience, terror, self-discovery, self-doubt, pain, vulnerability, role-playing, and a sense of immortality, all of which converge in Sally Mann's astonishing photographs.
A traveling exhibition of Immediate Family, organized by Aperture, opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in the Fall of 1992.
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Alphonse Mucha
Authors: Sarah Mucha. Hardcover, 160 pagesPublisher: Frances Lincoln Publication Date: 2006-07-19 Reviews :
This book is the first comprehensive overview of Mucha's life and work and is published in association with the Mucha Museum in Prague....
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At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women
Authors: Paperback, 56 pagesPublisher: Aperture Publication Date: 1991-05-01 Reviews :
At Twelve is Sally Mann's revealing, collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls on the verge of adulthood. To be young and female in America is a time of tremendous excitement and social possibilities; it is a trying time as well, caught between childhood and adulthood, when the difference is not entirely understood. As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction, "These girls still exist in an innocent world in which a pose is only a pose-- what adults make of that pose may be the issue." The consequences of this misunderstanding can be real: destitution, abuse, unwanted pregnancy. Mann does not deny this reality, but records it, both in the faces of her subjects and in written stories that accompany thirteen of the portraits, adding another dimension to our understanding of "childhood."
The young women in Mann's unflinching, large-format photographs, however, are not victims. They return the viewer's gaze with a disturbing equanimity. Poet Jonathan Williams writes, "Sally Mann's girls are the ones who do the hard looking in At Twelve-- be up to it!" Partly this is a result of the remarkable rapport that Mann is able to establish with her subjects.
Herself the mother of three, Mann has lived most of her life in Lexington, Virginia, where all of these pictures were taken. In fact, many of the families of the young women were cared for by her father, who was the town doctor for over forty years. So while At Twelve is an intensely personal vision of what it means, now, to be twelve and female, each of Mann's subjects is allowed the opportunity to frankly return our wondering, reminiscent gaze and to have a history of her own, rooted in a specific place at a particular moment-- at twelve.
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The Human Figure in Motion
Authors: Eadweard Muybridge. Hardcover, 390 pagesPublisher: Dover Publications Publication Date: 1955-06-01 Reviews :
The 4,789 photographs in this definitive selection show the human figure — models almost all undraped — engaged in over 160 different types of action: running, climbing stairs, tumbling, dressing, undressing, hopping on one foot, dancing, etc. Children walking, crawling and many dozens of other activities.
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Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveau
Authors: Victor Arwas. Jana Brabcova-Orlikova. Anna Dvorak. Hardcover, 344 pagesPublisher: Yale University Press Publication Date: 1998-04-20 Reviews :
This lavishly illustrated book presents the full spectrum of Alphonse Mucha`s works, from his innovative posters and decorative panels to his architectural designs, jewelry, sculpture, photographs, books, and interiors. The authors discuss Mucha`s years in Paris, his iconography of Sarah Bernhardt, his service to the Czech government, his distinctive style that became nearly synonymous with turn-of-the-century French Art Nouveau, and much more....
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Giorgio Morandi (Twentieth-Century Masters Series)
Authors: Karen Wilkin. Hardcover, 94 pagesPublisher: Rizzoli International Publications Publication Date: 1998-03-15 Reviews :
This much-anticipated volume presents the work of the private, enigmatic Bolognese painter and engraver. The text traces Morandi's many influences, from Giotto to Cezanne and the Metaphysical painters to the Cubists, and discusses the manner in which his life and work have informed the critical interpretations of his art. A wealth of color reproductions illustrates every phase of Morandi's career, including his signature still lifes and landscapes with their serene groupings of muted objects.
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Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros
Authors: Desmond Rochfort. Paperback, 240 pagesPublisher: Chronicle Books Publication Date: 1998-03-01 Reviews :
Los tres grandes: Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Now legendary, these men have emerged as the most prominent figures of the famed Mexican mural movement, which lasted from the '20s through the early '70s and was hailed as the most significant achievement in public art of the 20th century. The dramatic story of the movement is told here in a fascinating history of the artists, accompanied by over 100 spectacular color reproductions of the murals. Showcasing popular as well as lesser-known works from around the US and Mexico, this is the first high-quality paperback to do justice to a subject that will captivate every lover of Mexican art and culture, Rivera fan, and art historian, as well as anyone who appreciates a beautiful, intelligent art book....
In Mexico in the early 1920s, a growing, collective social consciousness gave rise to a revolutionary furor focused on liberating the country's workers from harsh conditions and poverty. In 1921, Mexican artists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros were all commissioned by the government to create educational paintings on the walls of public buildings. After that initial experience, they devoted themselves almost exclusively to painting these large-scale murals--forming the foundation of a movement that would last 50 years. The muralists' work took up the themes of society and revolution. Often the paintings depicted historical vignettes like the story of Cuernavaca and Morelos crossing the barranca, or Mexico's ancient Indians. They satirized contemporary society, created ideal visions of peaceful families, and built up dark, imposing industrial cityscapes then leveled them by depicting the debauchery and death of the capitalist industrialists. The paintings themselves reflect diverse artistic influences--surrealism, cubism, and illustration, most notable among them. Their bold colors and strong imagery practically bound out of the 150 color plates in this book. Mexican muralist and scholar Desmond Rochfort lucidly traces the development of the movement to place the work in context and provides a solid history of each of the artists' social and artistic influences. This is an excellent overview of work that should appeal both to fans of the individual artists and Mexican art in general. --Jordana Moskowitz...
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Alphonse Mucha 2009 Wall Calendar
Authors: Calendar, 12 pagesPublisher: Pomegranate Publication Date: 2008-06-01 Edition: Wall Reviews :
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....
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