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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The concluding volume of the first authorized biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved of 20th century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The concluding volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and his wife, Louisa, opened their home to the stream of...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
The personal and professional life of Saint-Gaudens is traced from his birth in Dublin, to his death in Cornish, New Hampshire. His story is woven through six of his major works of art, which include the Standing Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago; Shaw Memorial on Boston Common; Sherman Monument in Central Park; the serenely beautiful Diana in the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Adams Memorial in Washington DC. Includes featurettes.
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Description
"In the pages of this book, created in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, meet French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. Join her on her journey and learn what led her to create her fabric works, installations, paintings, and sculptures. Discover the people and places that influenced her and the objects that sparked her ideas. Then see what you can see and create your own works of art!"--
Author
Publisher
IUniverse.com
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Louise Nevelson, one of the most important American sculptors of the twentieth century, was a beautiful woman who lived so audacious a life that by the time of her death she was a legend both inside and outside the art world. Born Leah Berliawsky in Czarist Russia in 1899, she grew up in Maine, ostracized as a Jew and a foreigner. At twenty she escaped to Manhattan as Mrs. Charles Nevelson, eventually leaving her husband for a life devoted to art....
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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Isamu Noguchi is one of the most important sculptors of all time. This is his story. Noguchi was a Japanese American artist who gave the world light. But the world was not so giving in return. Growing up mixed-race, born in the United States and raised in Japan, Noguchi found himself perceived as an outsider who did not belong in either country. Unable to identify fully as either Japanese or American, he turned to his art to shape, hold, and create...
