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Suzanne : of Love and Art
Elaine Todd Koren Manufacturer: Maverick Books (NY) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0967235529 |
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In Bohemian Paris of the 1800's comes the novelized biography of Suzanne Valadon, a tempestuous, beautiful French artist who was the model and mistress of the artists, Renoir and Lautrec. Lautrec discovered her artistic talent and sent her to Degas who became her mentor. She gave birth to an illegitimate son, Maurice Utrillo whom she literally forced to paint to quell his alcoholism, making him an important artist. Suzanne scandalized Paris by her amorous liaison with her son's friend, twenty-one years her junior. Her determination to overcome the obstacles met by women painters foreshadowed the problems of women today.Customer Reviews:
Fun, informational and very well written.......2007-03-22
A Memorable Book, a Memorable Artist.......2002-05-17
As a parent, I felt that the passages between her and her alcoholic son, Maurice Utrillo, were by far the best written in the book. The passage starting with "and on the fifth day with the daylight streaming through the window and with the snow plaguing Paris. . . .Maurice began to mix his paints," was a particularly moving one. In her forcing her son to paint in order to deal with his alcoholism throws out the question in this century, "How far should a mother intervene in her child's career?" Certainly, her son fought her desire that he be an artist. That is, at first. She followed her gut feeling and insisted. In these times, in modern psychology, her insistence that he paint would appear slightly ludicrous. But it worked! If her son had not become an artist, he would have remained a hopeless drunk.Yet I kept asking myself as a parent, "What would I have done?" The author, of course, followed the actual facts of Suzanne's life and Maurice Utrillo became a great painter.
Suzanne's dilemmas were twofold. Aside from her problem with her son, there was her life with her husband, a womanizer, 21 years her junior. Ms. Koren, again handled this deterioration well in her relationship with him.
I felt that the structure of the book a bit unusual, having the characters close to her in her life tell their version of their relationship with Suzanne. It was a fresh departure from the usual first person narrative.
I found the book interesting an well written and certainly shows the research and knowledge of the subject matter. There's also insight into the times. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
A severe disappointment.......2002-04-19
The attempt at an interesting narrative technique fails (each chapter is narrated by a different central character: Valadon herself, Lautrec, Degas, etc) because the 'voice' of each character is the same and no independent personality or emotion emerges.
Even the repetition of exclamations in French (just in case we forget that the book is set in Paris?) became pure irritation by the end.
I finished the book because the subject matter is of interest to me, but it was a struggle. There is no subtlety in the writing at all. I was suprised to learn that this is the work of an experienced author because it seemed more like the work of an enthusiastic amateur.
It is telling that of the two 'reviews' on the back cover, one from 'Bill Henderson - Editor and Publisher' is too brief to be informative and the other, from Germaine Greer, is clearly about the book's subject and not about the book.
If you are interested in Valadon, you would be better reading 'Mistress of Montmartre : a life of Suzanne Valadon' by June Rose.
Wow! One of my new favorite books!.......2001-02-25
I thoroughly recommend this book.
A Must Read!!!!.......2001-02-14
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Cosmopolitan February 2007 Eva Mendes (Vol. 242 No. 2)
Manufacturer: Hearst Magazines ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000NP3AI6 |
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Intimate Creativity: Partners in Love and Art
Irving Sarnoff , and Suzanne Sarnoff Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0299180549 |
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Integrating the psychology of love and creativity, this pioneering book explores both how a couple's involvement as lovers influences their creative collaboration and how working together affects their relationship. Representing a variety of genres-painting, sculpture, photography, and installation art-the celebrated couples profiled here include, among others, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, and Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel.Intrigued by this process of "intimate creativity," psychologists Irving and Suzanne Sarnoff (themselves partners in love and work) decided to conduct in-depth interviews with partners in visual art because they defy the supremely individualistic tradition of their field. Whatever their age or sexual orientation, these artist-couples combine their talents to form a collective identity as a professional team. Passionately intense about their shared commitment, they communicate endlessly to resolve conflicts and reach consensus. Providing mutual validation and support, they increase their productivity and the quality of their work; they minimize their fear and frustration and enhance their pleasure in being together.
The authors also draw on historical and contemporary literature about similar couples, ranging from Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber to Gilbert and George to Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Stimulating and engaging, this book highlights the features of a unique collaborative process, considers the connection between creativity and sexuality, and suggests possibilities for any couple to expand their intimacy.
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"Case studies" of co-career couples in visual arts.......2004-05-03
The book contains what the pairs say about their joint creativity, how they cope with conflict, share the ideas, maintin the unity, interdependence and equality, make love and experience sexual pleasure.
There is a little historic overview of the individualism in the art of 21st sentury.
Generally, this book tries to summarize what the loving pairs who perform art have in common.
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Love: A Blue Mountain Arts Collection Of Thoughts And Feelings To Share With The One You Love
Manufacturer: Blue Mountain Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0883968347 |
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Love is one of life's most timeless and universal emotions. It binds two souls together, adds beauty to every day, and gives life meaning and purpose. From the deep joy and gratitude to the unconditional caring, this collection finds the words to express everything that's in your heart. The memorable sentiments and deep feelings within these pages make it the perfect gift to share with the one you love.Blending ancient techniques and modern art, the handmade mulberry paper chosen for the cover and end sheets of this book is environmentally friendly and created exclusively for Blue Mountain Arts. The innovative, cut-out designs, expressive colors, and embossed pages ensure that every book is absolutely unique and of the finest quality.
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Stitched with love: Primitive folk art (Suzanne McNeill design originals)
Cheryl Haynes Manufacturer: Design Originals ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 1574211153 |
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Just Follow Me...Never-Fail Patterns and Instructions
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Widow Basquiat: A Love Story
Jennifer Clement Manufacturer: Canongate Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 086241931X |
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In this extraordinary and unusual book, Jennifer Clement explores the turbulent relationships that Jean-Michel Basquiat had with his muse Suzanne Malouk and with the art establishment. The result is a distressing yet beautiful profile of a strange, powerful love striving to flourish in the face of horrendous outside pressures. And while Suzanne held firm, Basquiat sought refuge in a fatal heroin addiction. Widow Basquiat also presents an eye-witness account of the drug-fueled insanity of the New York art scene of the 1980s.Customer Reviews:
Suzanne.......2005-10-09
Hearts and Tracks.......2002-08-20
no title.......2002-04-01
Poetic, sympathetic, and True.......2002-03-15
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For sick of love am I
Suzanne Reese Horvitz Manufacturer: Synapse, a Visual Art Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006YCZ3K |
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Intimate Creativity: Partners in Love and Art
Irving (Author) Sarnoff, Suzanne (Joint Author) Sarnoff Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000ORQ1SE |
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Peter Hessler Manufacturer: HarperCollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060826584 Release Date: 2006-04-25 |
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From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.
A century ago, outsiders saw Chinaas a place where nothing ever changes. Today the coun-try has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. That sense of time—the contrast between past and present, and the rhythms that emerge in a vast, ever-evolving country—is brilliantly illuminated by Peter Hessler in Oracle Bones, a book that explores the human side of China's transformation.
Hessler tells the story of modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world as seen through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In addition to the author, an American writer living in Beijing, the narrative follows Polat, a member of a forgotten ethnic minority, who moves to the United States in searchof freedom; William Jefferson Foster, who grew up in an illiterate family and becomes a teacher; Emily,a migrant factory worker in a city without a past; and Chen Mengjia, a scholar of oracle-bone inscriptions, the earliest known writing in East Asia, and a man whosetragic story has been lost since the Cultural Revolution. All are migrants, emigrants, or wanderers who find themselves far from home, their lives dramatically changed by historical forces they are struggling to understand.
Peter Hessler excavates the past and puts a remarkable human face on the history he uncovers. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous change before our eyes.
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From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.
A century ago, outsiders saw Chinaas a place where nothing ever changes. Today the coun-try has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. That sense of time -- the contrast between past and present, and the rhythms that emerge in a vast, ever-evolving country -- is brilliantly illuminated by Peter Hessler in Oracle Bones, a book that explores the human side of China's transformation.
Hessler tells the story of modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world as seen through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In addition to the author, an American writer living in Beijing, the narrative follows Polat, a member of a forgotten ethnic minority, who moves to the United States in searchof freedom; William Jefferson Foster, who grew up in an illiterate family and becomes a teacher; Emily,a migrant factory worker in a city without a past; and Chen Mengjia, a scholar of oracle-bone inscriptions, the earliest known writing in East Asia, and a man whosetragic story has been lost since the Cultural Revolution. All are migrants, emigrants, or wanderers who find themselves far from home, their lives dramatically changed by historical forces they are struggling to understand.
Peter Hessler excavates the past and puts a remarkable human face on the history he uncovers. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous change before our eyes.
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Not Rivertown, but nontheless breathtaking.......2007-10-03
Not as engaging as River Town.......2007-06-24
informative.......2007-06-05
A wonderful read - highly engaging.......2007-04-23
Understanding China through its language.......2007-02-25
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Bones of the Past
Holly Lisle Manufacturer: Baen ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0671721607 |
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Best First Book Ever.......2004-04-09
yet another great book by a fantastic author!.......2000-12-16
Once again, a triumph!.......2000-04-12
An author with an original style........2000-03-26
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Animal Bones (Interpreting the Past Series)
James Rackman Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0520088336 |
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The bones of animals are common finds on many excavations. Interesting as evidence of the occurrence of animals, both domestic and wild, at various times throughout history, bones can also yield information about the human societies that hunted or kept these animals. Bones provide clues to historical period, climate, predation patterns, environment, husbandry, farming, even religion and trade.Customer Reviews:
eh.......2001-12-05
intelligent read for any who likes the social sciences.......2000-07-18
This book gives a great overview of archaeological techniques during excavactions and tells how archaeologists determine age, sex, climate, etc.. based on just the bones!
Then Rachham goes on to explain how the animal bones can tell us about early Homosapiens.
Short book though, only 65 pages (small print so that's okay!) Great pictures!
Just the basics........1999-12-22
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The Bare Bones of Healing: Resurrecting Life from a Painful Past
Donna R. Paddock Manufacturer: Tate Publishing & Enterprises ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1933148942 |
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Ezekial's ancient vision is the backdrop for powerful principles that offer help to those dealing with a painful past and memories. One woman's brutally honest account of the hurts that bound her and the truth that finally set her free.Customer Reviews:
THE BARE BONES OF HEALING.......2005-09-29
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Bones Of The Past
Holly Lisle Manufacturer: Baen Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000S9M600 |
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Buffalo Bones 4: Stories from Wyoming's Past
William H. Barton Manufacturer: Wyoming State Museum ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0943398088 |
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Buffalo Bones: Sories From Wyoming's Past
Manufacturer: Wyoming State Archives ProductGroup: Book Binding: Pamphlet ASIN: B000F9IWZQ |
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Collection of 20 Stories, first two and last two: "Steamboating on Wyoming Waters; 'Lovejoy's Toy': Wyoming's First Car ... The Wagon Road and Three Tons of Booze; The Day Riverton Grew."
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Buffalo Bones: Stories from Wyoming's Past.
Phil (editor). Roberts Manufacturer: Wyoming State Archives: Museums & Historical Dept. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000K0ALNQ |
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Human Growth in the Past: Studies from Bones and Teeth (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology)
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 052163153X |
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Until now, studies of dental and skeletal growth and development have often been treated as independent disciplines within the literature. Human Growth in the Past takes a fresh perspective by bringing together these two related fields of inquiry in a single volume whose purpose is to place methodological issues of growth and development in past populations within a strong theoretical framework. Contributions examine a variety of aspects of human growth in the past, drawing from both paleoanthropological and bioarchaeological data. The book covers a wide spectrum of topics, from patterns of growth in humans and their close relatives, innovative methods and applications of techniques and models for the study of growth, to estimation of age-at-death in subadults and infant mortality in archaeological samples. Human Growth in the Past will be of interest to biological anthropologists, and those in the related fields of dental anatomy, evolutionary biology, and developmental biology.
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More buffalo bones: Stories from Wyoming's past
Manufacturer: The Department ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0943398002 |
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