Compendium of texts on Marxism and art selected and with commentary by Maynard Solomon. Texts by Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Mao Tse-Tung, Jean-Paul Sartre, W. ... [details]
Memoir by Warhol Factory superstar Viva, documenting her journey through motherhood. Text by Viva Auder. Illustrated with documentary photographs of the first four years of daughter Alexandra Auder's life. ... [details]
Biography of the life of Edie Sedgwick by Jean Stein. Edited by George Plimpton. Includes Sedgwick family tree and biographical notes. [details]
Collection of selected writings and interview by Barnett Newman, edited by John P. O'Neill. Introduction by Richard Shiff, with commentary by Mollie McNickle. Contents include the following essays, statements, correspondence, remarks and interviews: "On the Need for Political Action by Men of Culture" (1933); "From The Answer--America's Civil Service Magazine" (1936); "Civil Service--The American Way Out" (1936); "Interview with Thomas Hart Benton" (1938); "Can We Draw? The Board of Examiners Says--No!" (1938); "What About Isolationist Art?" (1942); "American Modern Artists" (1943); "New York" (1943 or 1944); "Drafts of a Protest Against Recent Art Criticism and of a Letter to the Editor, The New York Times" (1950); "Open Letter to Roland L. ... [details]
Artists' publication compiling a number of single-frame comics by English cartoonist Glen Baxter. [details]
"In the splendid tradition of Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man, here is a magnificent account - authoritative, lively, richly and beautifully illustrated - of the hundred-year history of modern art. ... [details]
A collaborative story created by Barbara Kruger and pop cultural icon Stephen King. The original edition features lithographs, silkscreens and handset typography; the trade edition features color reproductions of these illustrations. [details]
An autobiography from author, critic and journalist Jill Johnston. Among other things, Johnston recalls a childhood in which all of her authority figures and role models were female, forming a career during the early sixties, and the conflict between working and motherhood. [details]
"The first major biography of de Kooning captures both the life and work of this complex, romantic figure in American culture. Ten years in the making, and based on previously unseen letters and documents as well as on hundreds of interviews, this is a fresh, richly detailed, and masterful portrait. ... [details]
"Fifty years after his death, Matisse the Master (the second half of the biography that began with the acclaimed The Unknown Matisse) shows us the painter as he saw himself. With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his voluminous family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Hilary Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse's attempts to counteract the violence and disruption of the twentieth century in paintings that now seem effortlessly serene, radiant, and stable. ... [details]
