BOOKS

"Picasso & Lump : A Dachshund's Odyssey" by David Douglas Duncan
One spring morning in 1957, veteran photojournalist David Douglas Duncan paid a visit to his friend and frequent photographic subject Pablo Picasso, at the artist´s villa near Cannes. As copilot alongside Duncan in his Mercedes Gullwing 300 SL was the photographer´s dachshund, Lump.
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"The Judgment of Paris: Manet, Meissonier and the Birth of Impressionism" by Ross King
While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment.
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"Woman in the Mirror" by Richard Avedon
Among the significant projects of the last year of his life, Richard Avedon (1923-2004) completed a book of his photographs of women. Always transcending categorization ...
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Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese
You may have come for the fetish. Or you may just be sneaking a peek at this mysterious and peculiar other side. No matter what you've come for, there is something for you to indulge in.
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"The Lost Painting: A search for a Caravaggio" by Jonathan Harr
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a work of art of incalculable value, a painting lost for almost two centuries.
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