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Author
Series
Duke undone volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sparks fly between a lordly art critic and a lady forger in this enthralling Victorian historical romance. Nina Finch isn't suited for a life of crime. Raised by her art-forger brother, she can paint like Boticelli. But she'd so much rather be baking gooseberry tarts. She finally has the money she needs to open her own bakery. Unfortunately, her brother's carelessness lands her-and their forgeries-directly under the nose of London's most discerning...
4) The portrait
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
5) Brimstone
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Behind the gates of a Hampton estate, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers the carnage of a gruesome crime. The smoldering remains of an infamous art critic, a melted cross branding his chest, are found in a locked, barricaded attic. The hoofprint singed into the floorboards and the smell of brimstone recall the legendary horror of those who make a pact with the devil.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life--remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience--and she has known many (one is tempted to say all) of the greatest artists and composers of the twentieth century. In Some of My Lives, Bernier has made a kind of literary scrapbook from an extraordinary array of writings, ranging from diary entries to her many contributions to the art journal L'OEIL, which she cofounded in 1955. The result...
7) Séraphine
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The true story of Séraphine Louis, a simple, devout housekeeper who in 1905, at the age of 41, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912, a German art critic discovered her paintings while she was working as his maid. Tells the story of the relationship between the avant-garde dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman's spirit.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The daughter of the curator at the New York Museum of Modern Art describes her childhood growing up amidst the glamorous gallery openings and celebrated artists including Rothko, Tinguely and Christo and the toll it took on her family.
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 321 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for The New York Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Searching for the meaning behind his wife's suicide with her (suspected) lover, art critic Daniel Lichtmann discovers a link to pre-World War II Vienna, forgotten artist Josef Pick, and a remarkable woman.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Effie Gray, a beautiful and intelligent young socialite, rattled the foundations of England's Victorian age. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the time, she found herself trapped in a loveless, unconsummated union after Ruskin rejected her on their wedding night. On a trip to Scotland she met John Everett Millais, Ruskin's protégé, and fell passionately in love with him. In a daring act, Effie left Ruskin, had their...
15) Crack-up
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a train wreck sends art critic George Steele into a mental tailspin, he's fired from his job at a New York art museum. Seems unjust, until you learn there was no train wreck. This relentless, nervy film noir explores the sinister world of violence and the monied world of aesthetics as Steele's attempt to reconstruct what really happened leads him to murder, mania and an international conspiracy that threatens the museum's masterpieces.
16) The iceberg
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The author recounts the painful time in her life when her husband was dying of a brain tumor while her young son was just developing language.
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