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The Incubator - Art at the Library
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English
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"A stunning life of the iconic American artist, Keith Haring, by the acclaimed biographer Brad Gooch. In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In the stations, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads, and unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces. These temporary chalk drawings numbered in the thousands and became synonymous with a city as diverse as it was at war with itself, ravaged by poverty...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"A self-taught artist's odyssey from Jim Crow era Georgia to the Yale Art Gallery--a stunningly vivid, full-color memoir in prose and painted leather, with a foreword by Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson. Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movement, endured political violence, survived a lynching, and spent seven years in prison on a chain gang. Years later, seeking a fresh...
4) Stuart Davis
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Harry N. Abrams Pub. in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Pub. Date
[1996]
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English
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Publisher
Cameron Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Poster Child chronicles the life and art of David Edward Byrd, one of the foremost graphic artists of twentieth-century culture. Told in a deeply personal, strikingly honest conversation with author Robert von Goeben, Byrd shares his journey through sixty years of rock 'n' roll, theater, and movie artistry. Pioneering iconic visual styles that have come to define rock music, Byrd created posters for concerts and album art for legends such as the...
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"LeRoy Neiman's story cuts a fascinating swath through the highs and lows-personal, professional, and cultural-of America over 90 years. He became a household name, his artwork saturated American culture for decades, and he rose high enough to be a pop culture punchline. Neiman was a keen self-promoter, saying later in life that even he didn't know who the real LeRoy Neiman was, but that all the fame and money that came his way was worth it. In this...
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Thames & Hudson Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Judy Chicago is America's most dynamic living artist. Her works comprise a dizzying array of media from performance and installation to the glittering table laid for thirty-nine iconic women in The Dinner Party (now permanently housed at the Brooklyn Museum), the groundbreaking Birth Project, and the meticulously researched Holocaust Project. She designed the monumental installation for Dior's 2020 Paris couture show and, in 2019, established the...
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Unobstructed View Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish emigres from Poland, Applebroog, now in her eighties, looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings, as well as her private journals. With her daughter's encouragement, she investigates the stranger that is her former self, a woman who found psychological and sexual liberation through art.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression, and self-harm. Over two weeks, she underwent myriad psychological tests, participated in numerous therapy sessions, connected with fellow patients and experienced profound breakthroughs, such as when a doctor noted, "There is a you inside that feels invisible to those looking at you from the outside." In...
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Beacon Press
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English
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In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children. Ever since that first real-life...
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Publisher
Sutherland House Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"For more than sixty years, Yoko Ono has fascinated us as one of the world's most innovative, radical artists. From a childhood of both extraordinary privilege and extreme deprivation in war-time Japan, she adopted an outsider's persona and moved to America where, after a spell at Sarah Lawrence College, she made a place for herself in bohemian arts circles. She was already twice divorced and established as a performance artist in the Fluxus movement...
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Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The mother of the bestselling memoirists Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison finally tells her own heartbreaking story of her Southern Gothic childhood, tormented marriage, motherhood, mental breakdown, and journey back to sanity and contentment, in luminous, evocative prose.
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Publisher
H.N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Soup cans, dollar bills, movie stars, paint by numbers, is it art? Andy Warhol took ordinary objects from daily life and transformed them into enormous paintings using silk screens, acrylic paints, projections, and a team of helpers to achieve his goal. He was the leader of the American art movement known as Pop, short for "popular culture and changed the way we think of art.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Who hasn't wondered where-aside from Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo-all the women artists are? In many art books, they've been marginalized with cold efficiency, summarily dismissed in the captions of group photographs with the phrase "identity unknown" while each male is named. Donna Seaman brings to dazzling life seven of these forgotten artists, among the best of their day: Gertrude Abercrombie, with her dark, surreal paintings and friendships...
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