Book Description
Fifty years after her reign as "The Love Goddess" of the movies, the world is still captivated by Rita Hayworth. In this elegant volume, the glamorous star of Hollywood's Golden Age is revealed as never before-in nearly 300 stunning, rare photographs.
Remarkable publicity photos, film stills, rehearsal shots, candids taken with family and friends, and of course that famous World War II pinup trace Rita Hayworth's entire life. Spanning her rise from starlet to star, her marriages to famous men such as Orson Welles, Prince Aly Khan, and Dick Haymes, and her tragic death from Alzheimer's disease, here is an insightful and dazzling tribute-in words and pictures-to one of the great screen icons.
297 illustrations, 10 in full color, 240 pages, 9 x 113/4"
Customer Reviews:
Rita Hayworth: A Photographic TREASURE!!!.......2002-09-27
Rita Hayworth is one of the most beautiful and glamourous women ever to have lived. Though her life was marked by tragedy, particularly her Alzheimer's affliction and death at a relatively young age. This book, however, is mainly devoted to celebrating Rita's happier times. Her life is viewed chronologically in both popular and rare photographs. There are so many beautiful photos that it is difficult to take in all at once! My favorite pictures (and just a sampling of the pictures you will find in this book) are: Rita (when she was still Margarita) with her dark hair dancing in a beautiful ruffled dress (p.28), glamourous Rita smiling brightly while reclining on a couch (p.87), Rita clowning with Orson Welles (pg. 114), Rita getting her hair touched up (p. 119), Rita tickling her daughter Rebecca (p. 126), Rita walking solitarily on the beach (p. 140), Rita being welcomed home (p. 165), and Rita in 1981, in declining mental health, but still looking every inch a movie star. If you love Rita and her movies, do not hesitate to buy this book!!!
Va-Va-Va VOOM! Hubba-hubba! Wowzer-wowzer! Bong!.......2002-05-18
"Rita Hayworth: A Photographic Retrospective" features a zillion photographs, many never before published, of one of Hollywood's most enduring sexual icons.
The book was a labor of love for author, historian and collector Caren Roberts-Frenzel of Minneapolis, who reportedly kept pestering publishers for years to get their attention.
"But you're wrong, Rita has not been forgotten," was her mantra, as skeptical publishers elsewhere wondered aloud if a market remained for a book about one of the great beauties of the 1940s.
Caren's persistence finally paid off, resulting in one of the most luxurious "picture on every page" books ever produced, supplemented by breezy, well-written and information-packed text.
Unlike "been there, done that" books about Hayworth, this one specializes in numerous "candids," that is, unposed photos taken outside of the studio, at work, at play, on the set, whatever.
For once, here's a volume that doesn't feature the same darn publicity photos you've seen a million times for sale on the Internet or at flea markets.
The deal about Rita is man oh man, unlike sexy sirens named Grable or even Monroe, Hayworth's beauty is timeless and undated. Unless someone told you, you'd never know, for example, that her world famous pinup shot -- taken on the bed by Life Magazine photographer Bob Landry -- was shot more than 60 years ago!
The same holds true for the nearly 300 other photos that grace this book, some recaptured in all of their Technicolor glory.
Get "Rita Hayworth: A Photographic Retrospective," before it disappears! I understand only a few thousand were printed and yet the reviews in the papers and in places like People Magazine have been terrific.
I fell in love with Rita all over again!.......2002-03-19
Caren Roberts-Frenzel is the president of the Rita Hayworth Fan Club and this book is her dream project come to life. Caren's appreciation of every facet of The Love Goddess is evident on every page. It was so good to see someone who knows and cares about Rita create such a labor of love. Caren doesn't whitewash the blemishes in Rita's often tragic life but rather allows them to complete an honest and ultimately loving portrait of this gentle woman.
Like its subject, this book is breathtaking in its beauty. It contains scores of genuinely rare photos and they are a treasure. I own many books on Rita but "A Photographic Retrospective" is easily my favorite.
Beautiful Photo Tribute to Rita Hayworth!.......2002-01-24
I have collected all the books ever written about Rita Hayworth. I have to say that this is the BEST photobook I have seen to date. Who else but a Rita Hayworth fan can put their heart in such a big project and create such a lovely photo tribute to Hollywood's most glamourous movie star of the classic era. Not only is there a collection of rare photographs, but there is lots of interesting information on Rita's life, trivia and more. If you're a fan of Rita Hayworth, then this is the book you must buy! Simply beautifully done!
Excellent photographs balanced with thorough narration.......2002-01-11
When I picked up this book, I excpected it to have a good amount of photos, many of which I had already seen. But, I was hoping for a few I hadn't and a decent narrations. However, this book blew me away. I have purchased photograph-focused books on celebritites before and been disappointed by their flimsy commentary. This book does an excellent job of conecting the photos to Ms. Hayworth's life. It's not just a collection of pictures, it's a pictorial biography. Admittedly, a traditional bio would get into greater detail, but this book is a great intro to her life. Not everyone wants a tell-all book filled with intimate details. This book delivers impeccably reproduced photos and a satisfactory bio. At first I was a little put-off by the price, but I feel it was well worth it, after reading it. A great read for anyone interested in this arrestingly beautiful and glamourous woman.
Customer Reviews:
One of the stars of California landscape painting.......2007-07-29
This is a beautifully illustrated and printed book of the works of Sam Hyde Harris who was a prominent illustrator and landscape painter in the hay day of California plein aire artists. Hyde's focus on color and value in his commercial illustration work often spilled over into his landscapes and seascapes. Some of his landscapes are reminiscent of Maynard Dixon's stylized natural shapes and colors, but Harris had very much his own style. Also included in this heavily illustrated book are examples of Harris' work in wood block prints which are as good as any done in the 1920s and 1930s.
Overall, this work by Maurine St. Gaudens and collaborators is extremely well done and does justice to one of the best artists of the period.
Customer Reviews:
Pogo Files for Pogophiles: Retrospective on 50 years.........2007-03-12
Thank you! This is the greatest retrospective of Pogo I've ever seen, and Amazon went "above and beyond" to find it for me. Thank you!
Amazon.com
For years it seemed that the American abstractionist Arthur Dove was nearly forgotten. This book, compiled to accompany the first major exhibition of his work since the early 1970s, is a worthy tribute to his legacy. Dove's small, vibrant, enigmatic abstractions, like those of his good friend Georgia O'Keeffe, were tied to his observations of the world around him. There were always a few of his works on view at the Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, which sponsored the exhibition in conjunction with the Addison Gallery of American Art. However, Dove's work rarely turned up in print--except for the witty yet uncharacteristic collage The Critic--a monocle on roller skates. This collection, long overdue, is chock-a-block with color plates of paintings, collages, drawings, family photographs, and other biographical material, all woven together by the exhibition's curators in three graceful essays.
Book Description
in collaboration with William C. Agee and Elizabeth Hutton Turner
The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the first artist to have produced an abstract painting, has always occupied a central place in writings on early American modernism. This book accompanies the first major exhibition on Dove since 1974. The exhibition, organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Phillips Collection, covers the period from 1908, the year after Dove took up painting, through 1946, the year of his death. It is comprised of approximately eighty paintings, collages, pastels, and charcoal drawings.
Along with Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin, Dove was touted for more than three decades by photographer and dealer Alfred Stieglitz as an American original, one whose work was prescient in its opposition to the materialism of a newly industrialized America. Essays by Balken, Agee, and Turner discuss Dove's interactions with Stieglitz and others in his circle, including O'Keeffe, Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Paul Strand, and re-examine Dove in the context of early twentieth-century intellectual and cultural history. The book contains color plates of all the works in the exhibition; the essays are profusely illustrated with black-and-white images not included in the exhibition. Apart from an out-of-print catalogue raisonné, this book is the largest and most comprehensive publication to date on Dove's work.
Copublished with the Addison Gallery of American Art in association with the Phillips Collection
Customer Reviews:
My favorite artist.......2001-10-09
This book is excellent. I bought it at the exhibit of the same name, that was put together by the Phillips Collection. It was a great show and this is the only way to see it now. Dove was the first abstract painter, at the same time as Kandinsky but having never seen Kandinsky's work until several years later.
Product Description
Adm. James Holloway describes this book as a contemporary perspective of the events, decisions, and outcomes in the history of the Cold War Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet confrontation that shaped today s U.S. Navy and its principal ships-of-the-line, the large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Without question, the admiral is exceptionally well qualified to write such an expansive history. As a carrier pilot in Korea, commander of the Seventh Fleet in Vietnam, Chief of Naval Operations in the mid-1970s, and then as a civilian presidential appointee to various investigative groups, Holloway was a prominent player in Cold War events.
Here, he casts an experienced eye at the battles, tactics, and strategies that defined the period abroad and at home. Holloway's first-person narrative of combat action conveys the tense atmosphere of hostile fire and the urgency of command decisions. His descriptions of conversations with presidents in the White House and of meetings with the Joint Chiefs in the war room offer a revealing look at the decision-making process. Whether explaining the tactical formations of road-recce attacks or the demands of taking the Navy s first nuclear carrier into combat, Holloway provides telling details that add valuable dimensions to the big picture of the Cold War as a coherent conflict. Few readers will forget his comments about the sobering effect of planning for nuclear warfare and training and leading a squadron of pilots whose mission was to drop a nuclear bomb.
Both wise and entertaining, this book helps readers understand the full significance of the aircraft carrier s contributions. At the same time, it stands as a testament to those who fought in the long war and to the leadership that guided the United States through a perilous period of history while avoiding the Armageddon of a nuclear war.
Customer Reviews:
Rare history.......2007-08-15
Very few admirals (or generals for that matter) pay much attention to history. (Examples abound, including recent events.) But Jim Holloway not only reads and writes history--he lived it as well. From his spellbinding account of the shootout in Surigao Strait to the bombardment of Haiphong 28 years later, his career both aloft and afloat would fill a book whether or not he became chief of naval operations.
Holloway's memoir is divided into numerous segments providing both the personal and the overall perspective of events in wars hot and cold. Probably the most illuminating portion is his extremely detailed description of Korean War operations, to a degree this reader has not previously seen.
There is plenty of other significant material including development of nuclear powered aircraft carriers (Holloway commanded USS Enterprise) and the post-Vietnam doldrums when the fleet's human and materiel condition had been permitted to degrade to alarming levels. However, his busy post-retirement career has benefitted everyone interested in nautical lore, especially the Naval History web site.
In an era when active-duty admirals think that Douglas Devastators flew alongside Grumman Bearcats, when a Canadian Spitfire ace knows more about carriers than many naval officers, Holloway's book comes as a refreshing change.
Aircraft Carrier Operations.......2007-05-28
Admiral Holloway's story begins with a destroyer torpedo attack on a battleship during the Battle of Suriago Strait in WW II. At the time Holloway was a lieutenant assigned as the gunnery and torpedo officer in the destroyer USS Bennion. There is a rule of thumb in the Navy that a destroyer making a torpedo attack on a battleship in a sea battle has a life expectancy of less than five minutes before being sunk. You can imagine the feelings of the crew aboard Bennion realizing as they turned in to attack that many of them probably had less than five minutes to live.
Less than a week after that battle Lieutenant Holloway departed for flight training. His parting comments to the commanding officer were "In the past 48 hours we have silenced two shore batteries, shot down three Zeros, battled a Japanese cruiser, sunk a destroyer by gunfire, and torpedoed a Japanese battleship. I think I'm ready to try something new."
The book goes on to describe Holloway's experience in flight training and eventual assignment as operations officer of a carrier air task group where he flew as a pilot with Fighter Squadron 111 in combat in Korea. Later in the war he served as executive officer and then commanding officer of Fighter Squadron 52. His descriptions of flying in that war are as detailed, readable and understandable as any air combat stories I have ever read. The intensity of the naval air campaign in Korea is little understood or appreciated. An example is that one of the squadrons in his task group, VF-653, lost 12 of its 26 pilots during his 1951-52 tour.
Aircraft Carriers at War could well have been titled A History of the US Navy in our Time. Admiral Holloway next describes many of the naval operations during the cold war where his assignments included command of Attack Squadron 83 whose mission was delivery of nuclear weapons. The operations of such squadrons are described in easily understood terms.
The most significant operational descriptions in the book are included in Holloway's command tour of the nuclear powered attack aircraft carrier Enterprise during the Vietnam War. We seldom read descriptions of carrier operations by carrier commanders and this book has the best description of carrier warfare I have ever read. The command responsibilities and day to day operations of a carrier captain are clearly described and explained.
The remainder of the book is the most important historically as Holloway describes his operational experiences as an admiral in command of various fleet components and his Washington assignments leading to his selection as Chief of Naval Operations (CNO). The description of his tour as CNO gives seldom revealed insights into the inner workings of the Department of Defense and the relationship of the service commanders with the president and congress.
Aircraft Carriers at War is a historical review of naval operations in our time including three hot wars, the cold war and numerous international incidents written by a participant rather than an observer. Admiral Holloway is generally considered the most knowledgeable and dedicated proponent of aircraft carriers in our time and this book clearly reflects his knowledge and experience.
You may have noted this is not an entirely unbiased review. I confess that I commanded an attack aircraft squadron and an attack aircraft carrier at the same time as Admiral Holloway and we sometimes operated together.
Average customer rating:
|
Max Ernst: A Retrospective (Art & Design)
Manufacturer: Prestel Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 Surrealism
| Schools, Periods & Styles
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
Ernst, Max
| ( D-F )
| Artists, A-Z
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Artists, A-Z
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Instructional & How-To
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
Illustration
| Commercial
| Graphic Design
| Design & Decorative Arts
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Painting
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Sculpture
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 3791316214 |
Customer Reviews:
This is the time, and this is the record of the time........2000-03-02
This inspiring retrospective covers a twenty-year period from her "Institutional Dream Series" in 1972, where she would sleep in various public places (a library restroom, a night courtroom, a seaport) to see how it affected her dreams, up to her live shows of "Stories from the Nerve Bible" in 1992. While the material is generally presented in a linear fashion, images and texts from different stages of her career are juxtaposed to underline the many recurring themes in her work (dreams, speech, time, technology). Various entertaining stories, observations and anecdotes are interspersed with stage directions and song lyrics. There's an annotated chronology at the end to help keep things straight. Anderson's performances have often utilized the violin, and her numerous modified versions of it are explored (the Tape Bow Violin, the Self-Playing Violin, the digital violin, the neon violin, the Viophonograph). Many of her other innovations are also touched upon, including her projects with the pillow speaker, the Handphone Table, the Acoustic Lens, the video clone, and the body drum-suit. Filled with countless photos and stills from her installations and presentations, this book will grab your interest whether you read it cover to cover or just open it up at random. It's a magnificent look at the "performance artist," and essential for fans of her work.
Book Description
Fully indexed collection of articles on the popular author's works, addressing such subjects as "'What Fun!' Detection as Diversion"; "Georgette Heyer and the Uses of Regency"; "Cross-Dressing in Wartime: Georgette Heyer's THE CORINTHIAN in its 1940 Context"; "Gendering Places: Georgette Heyer's Cultural Topography," to name only a few.
Customer Reviews:
Sixty years of critical snobbery.......2006-07-04
It is normally a sine qua non of reviewing, and one that I have hitherto scrupulously observed, that one should have read a book before reviewing it. However, I found myself skimming large chunks of the present book, and I write to warn you that you may find yourself doing so too.
This is in no way a criticism of the editor; indeed, she seems to have done a painstaking and meticulous job, and just getting all the necessary copyright clearances must have been a nightmare. But more drivel has probably been written about Georgette Heyer than any other author, and collecting it all together simply doesn't make rewarding reading. What is not unperceptive, illiterate or merely vacuous quickly become repetitive. There may be new insights here, but if so they have escaped my attention.
This is not to say that nothing in this book is worth reading; there are certainy entertaining moments. But if you have read the novels and want to know more about Georgette Heyer herself, rather than what was said about her, then I would recommend Jane Aiken Hodge's biography instead.
On the other hand, if your interest is in literary criticism instead, then you may find this compendium ideal.
Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective.......2005-10-31
I was pleased to find that someone had put a book like this together. The author, Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, is a fan of Heyer's and is presumably writing for other fans. She is a reasonably well-organised and thorough fan, however, and produced an interesting collection.
The book is a useful contribution to anyone wanting to do further research on Heyer. It also features material hard to find, or not previously published in the US, including three short stories and several articles by Heyer, and an article featuring reminiscences of Heyer by her son, Sir Richard Rougier.
The reviews are arranged chronologically and treat the historical fiction and the detective novels even-handedly. There is an index, and Heyer's novels are listed both chronologically, as well as alphabetically in appendices.
The author clearly had much readier access to American, rather than to English sources, as so many of the reviews are from provincial US rather than from provincial UK publications. Reviews by nature are ephemera, and many of those collected here bear the mark of hasty and ill-informed readings; some glaring literary snobbism; and some historical howlers. Any reviewer prepared to place a work mentioning the Battle of Waterloo in the late eighteenth century should have been slapped by his or her editor, but presumably the editor didn't know either or didn't care. The reader familiar with Heyer's work can afford the satisfaction of feeling superior.
The scholarly articles bear witness to the growing field of studies in popular culture in the late twentieth century, and it is good to see them collected. Taken as a group with the reviews, the discomfort is apparent of many of their authors with Heyer's skill as a writer, her grasp of her own literary lineage; her historical rigour and her undoubted and continuing popularity at apparent odds with the projected ignominy of her place in popular fiction. The reader feels them wishing Heyer could have aspired to write "serious" work, yet happy she wrote so many of the novels they keep returning to for pleasure. Fahnestock implicitly acknowledges this uneasy middle ground, and leaves it open to the reader to explore further.
An interesting and unpretentious work.
A Dissenting Opinion.......2002-03-06
I adore Georgette Heyer and snapped this one up with much anticipatory glee. At last, I thought, someone will give this author the respect and scholarly attention she has long deserved. Instead I found the author gave up on scholarship somewhere around the second page of Acknowledgments and instead settled for a compendium of previously published reviews. Yes, there are several rarely published short stories (although not "previously unpublished" ones, since I had already read them) and a few republished pieces by other authors. Certainly if a newish reader wants an extended bibliography of Miss Heyer's works and doesn't mind the having plot endings routinely given away without warning this book might help set the chronology straight. I can't help feeling cheated by paying for something I could have well researched on my own. The one bright spot is that my disgust sent me back to the bookshelves to read "These Old Shades."
Recommended to Heyer Fans.......2001-07-04
Georgette Heyer officianados will want this book. I'm talking about those of us who have a complete list of all her titles and notes about the ones we liked. There isn't much bio on this exceptionally private author, and this effort focuses on a history of critical reviews of Heyer's work. But, it also contains several unavailable shorts published in the 1920s, as well as excerpts from the out-of-print 1998 biography of Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge, and a 1996 print interview with Heyer's son, Sir Richard Rougier, that are worth the price in themselves. Highly recommended.
Long Overdue!.......2001-05-18
Georgette Heyer gets no respect. Reviled by both feminists and literati, her work has been consigned to a small neighborhood in the literary ghetto that is romance fiction. What a sorry fate for a woman whose craftsmanlike prose, unerring eye for the absurd, and genuine wit have delighted loyal readers for 80 years! Heyer is often compared to Jane Austen, as both wrote novels set in the Regency. This isn't really a valid comparison. Austen wrote ironic comedies of manners about her contemporaries. Heyer--who could sling irony with the best of them, when she chose to--wrote what Graham Greene referred to as "entertainments." Although her historical scholarship was formidable, the world Heyer created in her novels probably bears little resemblance to the real Regency. Heyer is more usefully compared to P.G. Wodehouse, a master farceur who created an immensely pleasant fictitious universe. (I've always been at a loss to understand why Wodehouse is remembered with such critical affection while Heyer is routinely dismissed. I have a sneaking suspicion this is because Heyer's audience is composed mainly of women; her work therefore cannot be concerned with the important, weighty issues that so exercised Wodehouse.)
Mary Fahnstock-Thomas's Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective is a long overdue compendium of articles written about this influential yet underappreciated writer. Fahnstock-Thomas has gathered and organized 50 years worth of book reviews, articles, critical writings, short stories, obituaries, and remembrances into this volume. (Among them is A.S. Byatt's excellent 1969 essay "Georgette Heyer is a Better Writer Than You Think." Ms. Byatt has persistently championed Heyer; I can only surmise that she has been summarily tossed out of the Intellectuals Guild for her crimes.) Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective is a welcome addition to the bookshelves of not only the Heyer addict, but to anyone interested in 20th century fiction and good writing. It is beautifully published in softcover by Prinnyworld Press, a small private publishing house (reason enough to purchase this book--support the small publisher!). Despite her modest claims to the contrary, Ms. Fahnstock-Thomas's scholarship is also formidable. To paraphrase Nigel Tufnel, Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective goes all the way up to eleven.
Books:
- Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
- Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction
- Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World
- Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)
- Suicide Bombers: Allah's New Martyrs
- Sunne in Splendour
- The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry
- The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge
- The Boleyn Inheritance
- The Book of Irish Families, Great & Small (Third Edition, Expanded)
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- The Art of Closing Any Deal: How to Be a Master Closer in Everything You Do
- On Talking Terms With Dogs: Calming Signals
- From the Farm to the Fleet: The Naval Career of Robert Leroy Thorson 1943-1974
- How to Run for Local Office : A Complete, Step-By-Step Guide that Will Take You Through the Entire P
- If You're Happy and You Know It
- Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History And Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
- Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography
- Physicians' Resume and Cover Letter Workbook: Tips and Techniques for a Dynamic Career Presentation
- Image Matters! First Steps on the Journey to Your Best Self
- Hoover's Masterlist of Major European Companies 1996-1997
Gilda
If This Was Happiness
Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom
Playboy Presents Rita (Documentary with Trouble in Texas Bonus Disc)
The Loves of Carmen
