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50 Women Sculptors (Hardcover)
Melissa Hamnett; Introduction by Dr Joanna Sperryn-Jones; Maggi Hambling, Sophie Ryder, Kendra Haste, …
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R756
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Discovery Miles 6 840
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How many women sculptors can you name? This book will help you to
understand the work and lives of dozens of women sculptors -
significant artists from the past as well as those working in the
exciting world of sculpture today. Camille Claudel Barbara Hepworth
Elisabeth Frink Niki de Saint Phalle Louise Bourgeois Ruth Asawa
Rachel Whiteread Malvina Hoffman Maggi Hambling Cornelia Parker
Senga Ningudi Sophie Ryder and many more... With an overview of
women making sculpture from the 1800s to today, we explore the work
of fifty extraordinary women artists who have forged a name for
themselves in a male arena, broken rules, pushed boundaries and
inspired us with their visionary creations.
Three generations of Patricia Volk’s family have been in the restaurant business. Her hallway was the colour of ball-park mustard, the living room was cocoa and the floor was like Genoa salami. At Morgen’s, the famous restaurant in the garment district which her grandfather started and which her father ran, she was the princess. Waiters winked at her and twirled her napkin up high before draping it on her lap and when she wanted a hamburger, her grandfather would grind the steak himself. In Stuffed, Patricia Volk marvellously evokes everyday life in a New York Jewish family and what it was like to grow up around an old-fashioned family-run restaurant.
As much about families as it is about food, here are stories of eccentric uncles, gorgeous aunts and millionaire grandfathers all of who lived a couple of blocks from each other. Of ancestors who were the first to bring pastrami to the New World, and stir scallions into cream cheese. Of Uncle Al, who slept with Aunt Lil for eleven years and then didn’t want to marry her because she wasn’t a virgin and Aunt Ruthie, who gave the burglar, breaking into her apartment, a meal and a lecture. Wildly entertaining, this is a wonderful portrait of a fabulous family and a charming recreation of a lost era.
‘We were a restaurant family, four generations in a six-block radius. When you opened our fridge, food fell on your feet.’
‘Her graceful, finely wrought prose endows them with a universality that can stand the comparison of Philip Roth … Buy it now and spend some of the most pleasurable hours of your life. A small masterpiece’ —Guardian
‘Warm-hearted … vivid characters … a funny and touching book with a thought-provoking subtext’ —Economist
‘Stuffed takes you into a world much richer and more vibrantly textured than the noisy, greasy, dull confines of a professional kitchen … taut, sharp, witty’ —New York Times
In a restaurant family, you're never just hungry--you're starving
to death. And you're never full--you're stuffed. Patricia Volk's
Austrian-Jewish family is as American as "Rhapsody in Blue." They
came to these shores determined to make their mark, and each of
them is a piquant morsel of history. Great grandfather Sussman Volk
brought pastrami to the New World. Grandfather Jacob was
memorialized by as "the greatest wrecker of all time" for his
innovative method of demolition. Uncle Albert was the first man to
stir scallions into cream cheese. One grandmother was a 300-pound
calendar girl. The last of Grandfather Herman Morgen's fourteen
restaurants was a famous garment-center hangout. For three
generations, just about every Volk and Morgen has, no matter what
the circumstances, exhibited a terrifyingly positive attitude. With
a cosmic disdain for the status quo, all of them--the tyrants,
do-gooders, lovers, martyrs, and fakes--lived at full tilt. Stuffed
is a wildly funny yet unsparing look at how families work.
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