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Them Them Francine du Plessix Gray At the height of their fame, Alexander Liberman and Tatiana du Plessix Gray were the grandest power couple in the New York City fashion world, gifted Russian emigres who consorted with Dali and Dietr… OL15858830W
The Reluctant Nude The Reluctant Nude Meg Maguire Fallon Frost’s late foster mother had done so much to heal the wounds of her damaged childhood. So when a lecherous developer plans to bulldoze her old home to make room for a strip mall, the practic… OL17534948W
Letters from Vinnie Letters from Vinnie Maureen Stack Sappey A fictionalized account of the Washington, D.C., Civil War years experienced by Vinnie Ream the sculptress, best known for the statue of Abraham Lincoln that is in the Capitol building. OL1807830W
Richard Deacon Richard Deacon Deacon, Richard Throughout his practice, Richard Deacon has employed diverse materials including wood, aluminium, plastic, steel, ceramic, glass, rubber, resin, polycarbonate, leather and cloth: exploiting their pot… OL18839232W
Richard Filipowski Richard Filipowski Marisa Bartolucci,Hattula Moholy-Nagy In this, the first monograph of Richard Filipowski, a major figure bridging the Bauhaus and American midcentury modernism finally gets his due.0Richard Filipowski (1923-2008) was among the most gifte… OL19740113W
The sculptor The sculptor Scott McCloud "David Smith is giving his life for his art--literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he… OL19993415W
Infandous Infandous Elana K. Arnold Sephora Golding lives in the shadow of her unbelievably beautiful mother. Even though they scrape by in the seedier part of Venice Beach, she's always felt lucky. As a child, she imagined she was a m… OL19995770W
Traces of a friendship Traces of a friendship Ernst Scheidegger Photographs by Ernst Scheidegger of Alberto Giacometti and his art work. OL2378631W
Michel-Ange Michel-Ange Piero Ventura Le récit, raconté à la première personne, nous fait vivre les moments clés de l'histoire du personnage en les situant dans leur contexte; les illustrations apportent une note d'humour. OL24210702W
Kai Kai Leona Nicholas Welch Continues the adventures of Kai, a young girl from the Yoruba village of Oyo who lives in 1440 and who considers revenge against the thief when her fine piece of sculpture disappears. OL2688236W
The bone parade The bone parade Mark Nykanen THE BONE PARADE introduces Ashley Stassler—not your average artist. While wildly praising him for his sculptures that depict families with gruesome, tortured expressions, the art world cannot even gu… OL2720147W
The pursuit of the well-beloved ; & The well-beloved The pursuit of the well-beloved ; & The well-beloved Thomas Hardy Hardy's two versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. The central figure is a man obsessed both with the search for his ideal woman and with sculpting the perfect figure of … OL411285W
From lions to Lincoln From lions to Lincoln Fran Hartman A biography of the noted American sculptor concentrating on his early life and the influences, experiences, and people that shaped and encouraged his career. OL5276894W
Isamu Noguchi Isamu Noguchi Tobi Tobias A brief biography of the renowned Japanese-American sculptor. OL547633W
The lyrical constructivist The lyrical constructivist Don Gummer "Don Gummer first came to the attention of the New York art scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s with his painted-wood wall reliefs - formally layered geometric arrangements with strong architectu… OL6060465W
Max's Wonderful Delicatessen Max's Wonderful Delicatessen Winifred Madison It's not every teenage boy who gets to live in his own house and run his own business. Max is an ever-optimistic go-getter who can make something wonderful out of anything...even junk he finds in the… OL6608978W
The sculptor Giovanni Bologna The sculptor Giovanni Bologna James Holderbaum 343 pages, 143 pages of plates : 27 cm OL6910010W