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Thoughts on Landscape, Frank Gohlke
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Sample of "Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews" by Frank Gohlke (Hol Art Books, Oct 2009). In the spirit of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s seminal book, "The Mind’s Eye", and Robert Adams’s "Beauty in Photography", Gohlke’s writings on photography span from the philosophical to the ...
Nostalgia's Thread, Randall R. Freisinger [Sample]
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Sample of "Nostalgia's Thread: Ten Poems on Norman Rockwell Paintings" by Randall R. Freisinger (Hol Art Books, Oct 2009). Accessible and engaging, these poems are provocative reconsiderations of the American experience as depicted in ten of Norman Rockwell's best known paintings. These poems rem...
Venus, Auguste Rodin [Sample]
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Sample of "Venus" by Auguste Rodin (Hol Art Books, Sept 2009). This is the renowned sculptor, Auguste Rodin's brief, uniquely passionate ode to one of his medium's great masterpieces, the Venus de Milo.
Museum Legs, Amy Whitaker [Sample]
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Sample of "Museum Legs" by Amy Whitaker (Hol Art Books, Sept 2009). If you’ve ever considered going to an art museum and then thought, errr, I’ll do something else… If you’ve ever arrived at one and left a little glazed and confused… If you’ve ever thought, I might read an eight-page article abou...
Nostalgia's Thread, Randall R. Freisinger [Sample]
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Sample of "Nostalgia's Thread: Ten Poems on Norman Rockwell Paintings" by Randall R. Freisinger (Hol Art Books, Oct 2009). Accessible and engaging, these poems are provocative reconsiderations of the American experience as depicted in ten of Norman Rockwell's best known paintings. These poems rem...
For and Against: Views on the Infamous 1913 Armory Show
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Sample of "For and Against: Views on the Infamous 1913 Armory Show" (Hol Art Books, Sept 2009). "For and Against" is the frank and engaging account of the historic 1913 Armory Show’s original reception. The included essays capture the full range of impassioned opinion both for and against Modern ...
The New Spirit: Pamphlets from the Infamous 1913 Armory S...
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Sample of "The New Spirit: Pamphlets from the Infamous 1913 Armory Show" (Hol Art Books, Sept 2009). "The New Spirit" collects four pamphlets originally produced and sold at the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art--otherwise known as the Armory Show. With excerpts from Gauguin’s provocati...
Whistler As I Knew Him, Mortimer Menpes [Sample]
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Sample of "Whistler As I Knew Him" by Mortimer Menpes (Hol Art Books, Sept 2009). Upon its original publication in 1904, The International Studio wrote: “In reading this remarkable book, with its exaggerations and distortions of fact, its cutting satire, but withal its under-current of real affec...
A Laymans Views of an Art Exhibition, Theodore Roosevelt
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U.S. President (1901-1909) Theodore Roosevelt's essay on the modern art shown at the 1913 Armory Show. Excerpted from the book "For & Against: Views on the 1913 Armory Show".
Hol Art Books Catalog [Fall09]
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The complete catalog for Hol Art Books' inaugural season! Includes debut fall titles; essays by Benjamin Ives Gillman and Auguste Rodin; an interview with the Tattered Cover Book Store; and a recommended reading guide to the major fall exhibitions.
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