The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss

Author: Audrey Geisel
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679434488
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
These fabulous, whimsical paintings, created for his own pleasure and never shown to the public, show Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) in a whole new light. Depicting outlandish creatures in otherworldly settings, the paintings use a dazzling rainbow of hues not seen in the primary-color palette of his books for children, and exhibit a sophisticated and often quite unrestrained side of the artist. 65 color illustrations.

Collecting Original Comic Strip Art!

Author: Jeffrey M. Ellinport
Publisher: Antique Trader
ISBN: 9781582210100
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Featuring an extensive price guide, this well-illustrated book is a complete reference on acquiring comic strip art, providing useful and practical information to both novice and experienced collectors. It also provides a brief look at the history and creative process that brings cartoon art to life, as well as an introduction to original comic strip art collecting.

The Kinsey Collection

Author: Khalil B. Kinsey ($e writer of added commentary)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982622537
Category : African American art
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description

Erin Hanson Open-Impressionism

Author: Erin Hanson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991507160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Experience the contemporary impressionist landscape paintings of modern artist Erin Hanson.

A Guide to Collecting Fine Prints

Author: Jack Harold Upton Brown
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810822283
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
Provides a source of information on buying, selling, and collecting prints for the amateur and beginning professional collector.

Sunnyside

Author: Glen David Gold
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1848944063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 732

Book Description
From the author of the acclaimed Carter Beats the Devil comes a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its centre: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, thrilling and darkly comic, which dramatizes the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity. Sunnyside follows three overlapping fortunes: Leland Wheeler, son of the last (and worst) Wild West star, as he heads to the battlefields of France; snobbish Hugo Black, drafted to fight in Russia under the British general, Edmund Ironside; and Chaplin himself, contending with studio moguls, accusations of cowardice, his unchecked heart and, most menacing of all, his mother, as he pursues the goal of making a movie ‘as good as he was’. With a cast of enthralling characters both historical and fictional, Sunnyside is a heart-rending, spellbinding novel about dreams, ambition and the dawn of the modern age.

Chinese Art: The Impossible Collection

Author: Adrian Cheng
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
ISBN: 1614288844
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 6

Book Description
While readers will come away from Chinese Art with a nuanced understanding of Chinese culture, the volume is also a work of art in its own right—a must-have collectible for any devotee of Chinese art and culture. Assouline’s Ultimate Collection is an homage to the art of luxury bookmaking—the oversized volume is hand-bound using traditional techniques, with several of the plates hand-tipped on art-quality paper and housed in a luxury silk clamshell.

François Boucher and the Art of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century France

Author: Jessica Priebe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000470385
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
While earlier studies have focused predominantly on artist François Boucher’s artistic style and identity, this book presents the first full-length interdisciplinary study of Boucher’s prolific collection of around 13,500 objects including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, porcelain, shells, minerals, and other imported curios. It discusses the types of objects he collected, the networks through which he acquired them, and their spectacular display in his custom-designed studio at the Louvre, where he lived and worked for nearly two decades. This book explores the role his collection played in the development of his art, his studio, his friendships, and the burgeoning market for luxury goods in mid-eighteenth-century France. In doing so, it sheds new light on the relationship between Boucher’s artistic and collecting practices, which attracted both praise and criticism from period observers. The book will appeal to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and French history.

Terry Frost Prints

Author: Dominic Kemp
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003) was a key figure in the development of British 20th-century abstract art. Combining sound scholarship with arresting imagery, this book brings together a complete catalogue of Frost's prints.

Carter Beats the Devil

Author: Glen David Gold
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1848944101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 576

Book Description
Charles Carter, dubbed Carter the Great by Houdini himself, was born into privilege but became a magician out of need: only when dazzling an audience can he defeat his fear of loneliness. But in 1920s America the stakes are growing higher, as technology and the cinema challenge the allure of magic and Carter's stunts become increasingly audacious. Until the night President Harding takes part in Carter's act only to die two hours later, and Carter finds himself pursued not only by the Secret Service but by a host of others desperate for the terrible secret they believe Harding confided in him. Seamlessly blending reality and fiction, Gold lays before us a glittering and romantic panorama of our modern world at a point of irrevocable change.