Finding Dora Maar

Author : Brigitte Benkemoun
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781606066591

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Finding Dora Maar by Brigitte Benkemoun Pdf

Merging biography, memoir, and cultural history, this compelling book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar (1907–1997) through a serendipitous encounter with the artist’s address book. In search of a replacement for his lost Hermès agenda, Brigitte Benkemoun’s husband buys a vintage diary on eBay. When it arrives, she opens it and finds inside private notes dating back to 1951—twenty pages of phone numbers and addresses for Balthus, Brassaï, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Paul Éluard, Leonor Fini, Jacqueline Lamba, and other artistic luminaries of the European avant-garde. After realizing that the address book belonged to Dora Maar—Picasso’s famous “Weeping Woman” and a brilliant artist in her own right—Benkemoun embarks on a two-year voyage of discovery to learn more about this provocative, passionate, and enigmatic woman, and the role that each of these figures played in her life. Longlisted for the prestigious literary award Prix Renaudot, Finding Dora Maar is a fascinating and breathtaking portrait of the artist. “Beautifully written and fascinating.”—Paris Match “One of the happy surprises of the end of the literary season.”—Livres Hebdo “A highly moving portrait of the artist.”—Elle (France) This book received support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States through their publishing assistance program.

Author : Damarice Amao,Amanda Maddox,Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781606066294

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Dora Maar by Damarice Amao,Amanda Maddox,Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska Pdf

For the first time, a comprehensive exploration of Dora Maar’s enigmatic photography reveals her as an extraordinary and influential artist in her own right. Dora Maar (born Henriette Théodora Markovitch, 1907–1997) was active at the height of Surrealism in France. She was recognized as a key member of the movement and maintained professional relationships with many of its prominent figures, such as André Breton, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Man Ray. However, her standing as the one-time muse and mistress of Pablo Picasso—his famous “Weeping Woman”—has long eclipsed her creative output and minimized her influence. Richly illustrated with 240 key works showcasing Maar’s inimitable acumen as a photographer, this book examines the full arc of her career for the very first time. Subjects include her innovative commercial and fashion photography, her approach to the nude and eroticism, engagement with political groups, interest in socially concerned photography, affiliation with the Surrealist movement, and hitherto unknown work from her reclusive late career, providing a dynamic and multifaceted examination of an important artist.

Author : Mary Ann Caws
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0821226932

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Picasso's Weeping Woman by Mary Ann Caws Pdf

A collection of memorabilia brings together the art of the Surrealist photographer and artist while documenting her seven-year affair with Pablo Picasso and considering her role as a friend and sexually unconventional woman.

Author : Marc Petitjean
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590519912

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The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris by Marc Petitjean Pdf

This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist’s work and of the vibrant 1930s surrealist scene. In 1938, just as she was leaving Mexico for her first solo exhibition in New York, Frida Kahlo was devastated to learn from her husband, Diego Rivera, that he intended to divorce her. This latest blow followed a long series of betrayals, most painful of all his affair with her beloved younger sister, Cristina, in 1934. In early 1939, anxious and adrift, Kahlo traveled from the United States to France—her only trip to Europe, and the beginning of a unique period of her life when she was enjoying success on her own. Now, for the first time, this previously overlooked part of her story is brought to light in exquisite detail. Marc Petitjean takes the reader to Paris, where Kahlo spends her days alongside luminaries such as Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Dora Maar, and Marcel Duchamp. Using Kahlo’s whirlwind romance with the author’s father, Michel Petitjean, as a jumping-off point, The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris provides a striking portrait of the artist and an inside look at the history of one of her most powerful, enigmatic paintings.

Author : Zoe Valdes
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628725810

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The Weeping Woman by Zoe Valdes Pdf

Originally published as La mujer que llora (Barcelona: Planeta, 2013).

Author : Mary Ann Caws
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Artist couples
ISBN : 0500510091

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Dora Maar with & Without Picasso by Mary Ann Caws Pdf

"She was to be Picasso's lover and muse for seven years. In that time she photographed him at work and play, in the studio and on the beach, alone or with friends such as Man Ray, Andre Breton, Jacqueline Lamba and Paul Eluard. In early 1957 she created a unique photographic record of the painting of Guernica, Picasso's searing protest against the carnage of the Spanish Civil War. Dora's own features were immortalized in the lamp-bearing woman in Guernica and in the harrowing distortions of the Weeping Woman, the image in which Picasso achieved his most acute expression of the public and private anguish of those years.".

Author : Martin Dumont
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635429985

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Schrödinger's Dog by Martin Dumont Pdf

A striking debut novel about the power of a father’s love for his son and the heart-wrenching choices he has to make in the face of death. Yanis’s world is Pierre, the son he raised as a single parent. For nearly twenty years, Yanis spent his nights as a cabdriver with Pierre always at his side, so as not to miss a moment in each other’s company. Yanis and Pierre also share a love of diving—in pursuit of that magical moment when they lose themselves in the deep sea. When enveloped by the natural world, father and son relish an escape from life’s pressures. But for some time, Pierre has been tired. Too tired. Despite how attentively Yanis watched him, Yanis missed the early signs of illness. Faced with the harsh reality of his son’s numbered days, Yanis struggles to invent a life his son won’t have the time to live.

Author : John Richardson
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525658740

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The Sorcerer's Apprentice by John Richardson Pdf

John Richardson's riveting memoir about growing up in England and, at twenty-five, beginning his twelve-year adventure with the controversial art collector Douglas Cooper. With a new introduction by Jed Perl, here is John Richardson's richly entertaining memoir of his life with the brilliant but difficult British art expert Douglas Cooper--a fiendish, colorful, Evelyn Waugh-like figure who single-handedly assembled the world's most important private collection of Cubist paintings. John Richardson tells the story of their ill-fated but comical association, which began in London in 1949 when Richardson was twenty-five and moved onto the Château de Castille, the famous colonnaded folly in Provence that they restored and filled with masterpieces by Picasso, Braque, Léger, and Juan Gris. Richardson unfurls a fascinating adventure through twelve years, encompassing famous artists and writers, collectors and other celebrities--Francis Bacon, Jean Cocteau, Luis Miguel Dominguín, Dora Maar, Peggy Guggenheim, and Henri Matisse, to name only a few. And central to the book is Richardson's close friendship with Picasso, which coincided with the emergence of the artist's new mistress, Jacqueline Roque, and gave Richardson an inside view of the repercussions she would have on Picasso's life and work. With an eye for detail, an ear for scandal, and a sparkling narrative style, Richardson has written a unique, fast-paced saga of modernism behind the scenes.

Author : James Lord
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374528357

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Picasso and Dora by James Lord Pdf

This fresh and vivid portrait of the postwar Paris art world, written by a member of Picasso's circle, sheds original new light on the greatest of modern artists and on the most important and least-known of his loves, the alluring and formidable photographer and painter Dora Maar.

Author : Tacita Dean
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606067772

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Monet Hates Me by Tacita Dean Pdf

Available for a limited time, this artist’s book by renowned visual artist Tacita Dean explores her chance encounters with objects in the archives of the Getty Research Institute. As the Getty Research Institute artist in residence in 2014–15, Tacita Dean was asked to define a subject and identify a path of research. What she proposed instead was a project titled “The Importance of Objective Chance as a Tool of Research.” Her idea was to allow chance to be her guide. Dean researched randomly, picking out boxes from the collections without knowing their contents, meandering through objects and images from sources as varied as medieval alchemy books to twentieth-century artist letters. Monet Hates Me features reproductions of fifty artworks she created from Getty’s archival holdings along with enlightening texts that expand on her method of research and illustrate her encounters with the archives.

Author : Vancouver Art Gallery
Publisher : Black Dog Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910433845

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Picasso by Vancouver Art Gallery Pdf

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Picasso: the artist and his muses presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery, June 11 - October 2, 2016 ... created by Art Centre Basel, curated by Katharina Beisiegel, and produced in collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery"--Copyright page.

Author : Roland Penrose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Painters
ISBN : 0852291183

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Picasso by Roland Penrose Pdf

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300216523

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Peggy Guggenheim by Francine Prose Pdf

One of twentieth-century America’s most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreaking and the avant-garde. Her midtown gallery was the acknowledged center of the postwar New York art scene, and her museum on the Grand Canal in Venice remains one of the world’s great collections of modern art. Yet as renowned as she was for the art and artists she so tirelessly championed, Guggenheim was equally famous for her unconventional personal life, and for her ironic, playful desire to shock. Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a singular reading of Guggenheim’s life that will enthrall enthusiasts of twentieth-century art, as well as anyone interested in American and European culture and the interrelationships between them. The lively and insightful narrative follows Guggenheim through virtually every aspect of her extraordinary life, from her unique collecting habits and paradigm-changing discoveries, to her celebrity friendships, failed marriages, and scandalous affairs, and Prose delivers a colorful portrait of a defiantly uncompromising woman who maintained a powerful upper hand in a male-dominated world. Prose also explores the ways in which Guggenheim’s image was filtered through the lens of insidious antisemitism.

Author : Judi Freeman,Los Angeles County Museum of Art,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Artists' models
ISBN : UOM:39015032971791

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Picasso and the Weeping Women by Judi Freeman,Los Angeles County Museum of Art,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Published to accompany exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 13/2 - 1/5 1994 and travelling.

Author : Marguerite Duras
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Design
ISBN : 1419744372

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Yves Saint Laurent by Marguerite Duras Pdf

An incredible collection of Yves Saint Laurent's designs, beautifully captured by the leading fashion photographers of the 20th century Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design & Photography is a gorgeous homage to the uncrowned king of haute couture. Originally published in 1988, the book traces the success of Saint Laurent's haute couture and ready-to-wear designs from 1962 to 1988 through the lens of the world's leading fashion photographers, including Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, William Klein, and more. Inside, 135 photographs document Saint Laurent's groundbreaking designs worn by the most beautiful women of the '60s, '70s, and '80s: Audrey Hepburn, Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Mounia, and Veruschka. Saint Laurent was equipped with an infallible instinct for reading the aesthetic signs of the times, and this enabled him to have a profound effect on fashion. With an introduction by Marguerite Duras, this classic volume documents Saint Laurent's ever-evolving artistry and the combined efforts of the world's most talented fashion photographers, and is as beautiful and rewarding as one of Saint Laurent's creations.