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A "touching, heartbreaking, and exceptional" (Town & Country) coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of artistic, bohemian parents—set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico.Hayden Herrera's parents each married five times, following their desires was more important to them than looking after their children. When Herrera was only three years old, her parents separated, and she and her sister moved from Cape Cod to New York Ci...

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A poignant coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of artistic, bohemian parents—set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico.Hayden Herrera's parents each married five times, following their desires was more important to them than looking after their children. When Herrera was only three years old, her parents separated and she and her sister moved from Cape Cod to New York City to live with their mother and their new hard-drin...

A reissue of the beautifully illustrated and authoritative biography of Frida Kahlo, publishing in time for a major London exhibition Frida is the story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary women, the painter Frida Kahlo. Born near Mexico City, she grew up during the turbulent days of the Mexican Revolution and, at eighteen, was the victim of an accident that left her crippled and unable to bear children. To salvage what she c...

Nominated for the Pulizter Prize, "the definitive biography of Arshile Gorky--lucid, persuasive, intimate and refreshingly clear-eyed" (Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review)Born in Turkey around 1900, Vosdanik Adoian escaped the massacres of Armenians in 1915 only to watch his mother die of starvation and his family scatter in their flight from the Turks. Arriving in America in 1920, Adoian invented the pseudonym Arshile Gorky-and ob...

By the 30s Gorky was recognized as a leader by Willem de Kooning and David Smith, among others, but it was only in 1939 that he entered his most fruitful period and developed the style known as Abstract Surrealism. This book traces the progress from apprentice to master of the man Andre Breton called 'the most important painter in US history'.

Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution, a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children, her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and interm...

Alla fine degli anni Novanta, New York è tappezzata di manifesti che raffigurano i quadri di Frida Kahlo. Un suo autoritratto viene venduto da Sotheby's per oltre un milione e mezzo di dollari. A Hollywood si girano film sulla sua vita e i giornali di tutto il mondo la chiamano "la grande Frida" o "la regina di New York". Come se non bastasse, anche il mondo del glamour ne va pazzo: vengono stampate magliette, cartoline, poster con la sua imma...

Das Leben der deutsch-mexikanischen Malerin Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), das über viele Jahre an der Grenze zum Tod verlief, ist so unvergleichlich wie die Bilder, die sie gemalt hat. Als diese Frau auf scheinbar alles verzichten musste, schuf sie sich malend eine eigene Welt. Ihre Bilder, phantastische Metaphern für Liebe und Tod, treffen den Betrachter mit unausweichlicher Wut und schlugen auch die großen Künstler ihrer Generation in Bann. Die g...

Throughout the 20th century, Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure in modern art. From interlocking wooden sculptures to massive steel monuments to the elegant Akari lamps, Noguchi became a master of what he called the 'sculpturing of space'. Combining the personal correspondence of and interviews with Noguchi and those closest to him - from artists, patrons, assistants and lovers - Herrera has created an authoritative biography of one of the twent...

A master of what he called "the sculpturing of space, " Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure for modern public art. Born to an American mother and a Japanese father, Noguchi never felt like he belonged anywhere and spent his life assembling identities in his statues, monuments, and gardens. He traveled incessantly from New York to remote Japanese islands, from Paris to Bangladesh, synthesizing aesthetic values. The result--massive sculptures of in...

Throughout the twentieth century, Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure in modern art. From interlocking wooden sculptures to massive steel monuments to the elegant Akari lamps, Noguchi became a master of what he called the "sculpturing of space." But his constant struggle-as both an artist and a man-was to embrace his conflicted identity as the son of a single American woman and a famous yet reclusive Japanese father. "It's only in art, " he insis...

This is a lavishly illustrated and sumptuously produced collection of Kahlo's hauntingly beautiful paintings by a leading expert on the artist and author of the bestselling biography "Frida" (a bestseller and the source of an upcoming Miramax film). 286 photographs, 87 in color.