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The book is a straight forward account of Alexander Russo's
adventurous journey in the Naval Reserve, serving with Naval
Intelligence and as combat artist during WWII. He was the fi rst
and youngest of Naval personnel to volunteer and engage in the
landings in Sicily and Normandy, the graphic results of which form
part of the Navy's Historical Records of World War II. The book
also continues with the development and challenges of the artist in
post-war years, which provides valuable insights for anyone
pursuing a career in the fi ne arts. The book also continues with
the development and challenges of the artist in post-war years,
which provides valuable insights for anyone pursuing a career in
the fine arts.
Joy Postle Blackstone was best known for her vivid murals, often
depicting the jubilant wading birds of Florida. When she died in
1989, the world lost a wonderful artist but Joy was much more than
a painter. Joy s father died when she was only three; her childhood
was spent nurtured by her mother and brother, until she began her
career at the Chicago Art Institute.
After graduation, her life changed, as she and her family moved
to rural Idaho to live on the family homestead. There, she met her
husband, Bob, and so began their three-year honeymoon, in the midst
of the Great Depression. Joy painted and Bob promoted. They lived a
vagabond life. They eventually settled in Florida, where Joy made
friends with the birds who would make her murals legend.
"Joy Cometh in the Morning" traces an artist s life from 1896
through to her death in 1989. Joy Postle Blackstone harbored the
psychological scars of abortion, infidelity, childlessness, death,
and the eventual limitations of advanced age; yet, as the Bible
says, Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the
morning. Through feast or famine, hope or despair, Joy persevered,
and she did it with a smile.
This first collection of bright and colourful images introduces a
unique and notable talent. Though trained as both scientist and
lawyer it is fascinating to see the other side of the artist's
brain expressed on canvas. The progression from initially tentative
brushstrokes to the sophisticated and extraordinary use of unusual
techniques results in exceptional images.
Published to celebrate the life of Mike Peyton, 'the world's
greatest yachting cartoonist', this second edition features
personal tributes from some 12 other successful and well-known
sailors (including Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Sir Ben Ainslie and Tom
Cunliffe). They all recognise Mike's observational talent and
comment on how sailors see themselves (or their friends) in his
cartoons. Along with 80 of his incomparable cartoons, Mike Peyton
recounts how he became a yachting cartoonist and his fifty years of
sailing. So as well as chuckling at the cartoons themselves there
is the opportunity to learn from Peyton's 50 years of experience of
sailing different boats, meeting a variety of sailors, and getting
into - and out of - some truly hilarious situations.
This book marks the centenary of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain by
critically re-examining the established interpretation of the work.
It introduces a new methodological approach to art-historical
practice rooted in a revised understanding of Lacan, Freud and
Slavoj Zizek. In weaving an alternative narrative, Kilroy shows us
that not only has Fountain been fundamentally misunderstood but
that this very misunderstanding is central to the work's
significance. The author brings together Duchamp's own statements
to argue Fountain's verdict was strategically stage-managed by the
artist in order to expose the underlying logic of its reception,
what he terms 'The Creative Act.' This book will be of interest to
a broad range of readers, including art historians, psychoanalysts,
scholars and art enthusiasts interested in visual culture and
ideological critique.
Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great
artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio
defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary
people, realistically portrayed-street boys, prostitutes, the poor,
the aged-was a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its
mark on generations of artists. His insistence on painting from
nature, on rendering the emotional truth of experience, whether
religious or secular, makes him an artist who speaks across the
centuries to our own time. In "Caravaggio", Francine Prose presents
the brief but tumultuous life of one of the greatest of all
painters with passion and acute sensitivity.
Though very much an individual and spiritual artist, Alphonse Mucha
was a defining figure of the Art Nouveau era and is loved for his
distinctive lush style and images of beautiful women in arabesque
poses among the plethora of paintings, posters, advertisements and
designs he produced. Admire a whole range of his work here in its
full glory with succinct accompanying text.
The time is 1887. From any window in Georgia O'Keeffe's Sun
Prairie, Wisconsin birthplace home she only saw the Wisconsin
prairie with its traces of roads veering around the flat marshlands
and a vast sky that lifted her soul. At twelve years of age Georgia
had a defining moment when she declared, "I want to be an artist."
Years later from her east-facing window in Canyon, Texas she
observed the Texas Panhandle sky with its focus points on the
plains and a great canyon of earth history colors streaking across
the flat land. Georgia's love of the vast, colorful prairie, plains
and sky again gave definition to her life when she discovered Ghost
Ranch north of Abiquiu, New Mexico. She fell prey to its charms
which were not long removed from the echoes of the "Wild West."
These views of prairie, plains and sky became Georgia's muses as
she embarked on her step-by-step path with her role models--Alon
Bement, Arthur Jerome Dow and Wassily Kandinsky. In this two-part
biography of which this is Part I covering the period 1887-1945,
Nancy Hopkins Reily "walks the Sun Prairie Land," as if in
Georgia's day as a prologue to her family's friendship with Georgia
in the 1940s and 1950s. Reily chronicles Georgia's defining days
within the arenas of landscape, culture, people and the history
surrounding each, a discourse level that Georgia would easily
recognize. The book includes bibliographical references and indes.
NANCY HOPKINS REILY was a classic outdoor color portraitist for
more than twenty years and has taught portrait workshops at
Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas where she had a one-woman show of
her portraits. Her advance studies included an invitational
workshop with Ansel Adams. Reily graduated from Southern Methodist
University and lives in Lufkin, Texas. She is also the author of
"Classic Outdoor Color Portraits" and "Joseph Imhof, Artist of the
Pueblos," both from Sunstone Press.
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