Pierre Alechinsky, The Complete Books
Even if at first sight this looks like a catalogue raisonné, it is not. A 'reasonable catalogue' is a more accurate description of its contents. The listing of the books Pierre Alechinsky has written and illustrated is fairly complete, as well as the 'placards', but the related material - diverse contributions, invitations, catalogues, monographs, etc. - with a more or less marked relationship between text and image, constitutes a selection, be it large.
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"Hold That Pose" By Lou Charnon-Deutsch
"Hold That Pose" explores the role of visual images in Spain’s transition to a fully modern illustrated press by the first decade of the twentieth century. It examines both the ideological impact and the technological transformation of image production in Spanish magazines during the Restoration. In the brief period of forty years, 1870 to 1910, technological and manufacturing advances revolutionized Spain’s illustrated press and consequently Europeanized the tastes and the expectations of its elite urban readership. By 1900, once subscription prices fell and magazines began to apply modern photojournalistic techniques, the middle classes became inured to illustrated magazines.
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"Comics and Sequential Art" by Will Eisner
Based on Will Eisner's legendary course at New York's School of Visual Arts, this guide has inspired generations of artists, students, teachers, and fans. In "Comics and Sequential Art", Eisner reveals the basic building blocks and principles of comics, including imagery, the frame, and the application of time, space, and visual forms. With examples from Eisner's own catalog and such masters as H. Foster, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Milton Caniff, Al Capp, and George Herriman, this book distills the art of graphic storytelling into principles that every comic artist, writer, and filmmaker should know. 2-color art and text.
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First Raoul Ubac one man show in the USA
"Many painters would seem to be satisfaied with the lavish aspects of reality. A few, however, and they are among the greatest, do not so much imitate or borrow, as sanctify...." Excerpt from the introduction by Yves Bonnefoy.
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"Death in a Prairie House" by William R. Drennan
The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright’s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan’s exhaustively researched "Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders".
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"Les tribulations d'Ambroise Ferrocarill ou le Voyage Palimpeste" by Georges Noël
Season by season, "Monet's Garden" charts the splendor of the world-renowned garden Monet cultivated and then translated into more than 500 paintings. Here is a unique and visionary portrait of one of the most frequently visited places in all of France. Starting with the story of how Monet acquired and transformed the land, author Vivian Russell details the history of the garden and traces the development of Monet as an artist and gardener. She presents a vivid account of the evolution of Giverny, with insights from the people who restored the garden to its former glory, as well as from its current caretakers.
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"Monet's Garden: Through the Seasons at Giverny" by Vivian Russell
Season by season, "Monet's Garden" charts the splendor of the world-renowned garden Monet cultivated and then translated into more than 500 paintings. Here is a unique and visionary portrait of one of the most frequently visited places in all of France. Starting with the story of how Monet acquired and transformed the land, author Vivian Russell details the history of the garden and traces the development of Monet as an artist and gardener. She presents a vivid account of the evolution of Giverny, with insights from the people who restored the garden to its former glory, as well as from its current caretakers.
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"The Artist's Tao- 44 Principles for an Artist's Life" by Sean Starr
Inspired by the Tao Te Ching, "The Artist's Tao" is a collection of 44 principles that encourage introspection and reflection for artists. "The Artist's Tao" is drawn from hundreds of conversations and correspondences between Sean Starr and other artists around the world dealing with subjects such as fighting discouragement, maintaining balance, and measuring success as an artist.
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"Yves Saint Laurent: Style" by Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent
St. Laurent was hip and modern, he was inspired by Mondrian, Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Warhol, Wesselman and even Goya and Velazquez. Berge and St. Laurent understood that haute couture was a dying art and in 1966 started their own ready-to-wear line, a revolutionary move at the time. Their Rive Gauche boutiques sprung up like delicious mushrooms on the world's fashionable shopping streets, bringing the glamour of the happy few to a far larger public.
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"You, Me and Morrissey" By Colin Nasseri & Sean Starr
"You, Me and Morrissey" is a collection of autobiographical short stories capturing snapshots of love, loss, bigotry, violence, artistic birth, and mental illness. Each story is set to the soundtrack of a Smiths or Morrissey title or lyric, and documents the trials of youth and adulthood, and how the music and the ever-present specter of Morrissey influenced and altered the paths of the authors forever. From 1980's humdrum Texas towns, to a San Francisco meeting with Morrissey himself, the stories revolve around the ups and downs of balancing an art-driven life with the insanities of day to day living in the "real world."
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