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Author : Patricia Vigderman
Publisher : Hol Art Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781936102242
Author : Patricia Vigderman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123250388
A tribute to the museum and the woman---equal parts biography, memoir, philosophy, and detective story.
Author : Boston, Mass. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,Hilliard T. Goldfarb,Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, Mass.).
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300063415
"This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.
Author : Mark Jarman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015066409718
The ninth poetry collection from the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize-winner.
Author : Louise Hall Tharp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Art patrons
ISBN : LCCN:65181298
Life of a pace-setter in fashion and art collector.
Author : Joan M. Marter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 3140 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195335798
Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.
Author : Patricia Vigderman
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0814254586
Ruminates on ancient remains and antiquities, illuminating an important element of contemporary cultural life: the dynamic between loss and delight.
Author : Ulrich Boser
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780061972867
“Boser cracks the cold case of the art world’s greatest unsolved mystery.”— Vanity Fair One museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld: the riveting story of the 1990 Gardner Museum robbery, the largest unsolved art theft in history. Perfect for fans of the Netflix series This is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist! Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews, and a $5 million reward, not a single painting has been recovered. Worth as much as $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become the Holy Grail of the art world and their theft one of the nation’s most extraordinary unsolved mysteries. Art detective Harold Smith worked the theft for years, and after his death, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to pick up where he left off. Traveling deep into the art underworld, Boser explores Smith’s unfinished leads and comes across a remarkable cast of characters, including a brilliant rock ‘n’ roll art thief and a golden-boy gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse. A tale of art and greed, of obsession and loss, The Gardner Heist is as compelling as the stolen masterpieces themselves.
Author : Douglass Shand-Tucci
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0060929774
"The unauthorized story of the grandest of Boston's grand dames . . ". ("Boston Globe"), this biography is the first to portray the extraordinary life and times of Isabella Stewart Gardner, muse and mentor to musicians, painters, writers, and scholars such as Henry James, John Singer Sargent, and T.S. Eliot. 4-page color insert. 47 illustrations.
Author : Erica E. Hirshler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300249866
In 1916, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) met Thomas Eugene McKeller (1890-1962) a young African American elevator attendant at Boston's Hotel Vendome. McKeller became the principal model for Sargent's murals in the new wing of the Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, among the painter's most ambitious works. Sargent's nude studies and sketches from this project attest to a close collaboration between the two men that unfolded over nearly ten years. Featuring drawings given by Sargent to Isabella Stewart Gardner and published in full for the first time, a portrait of McKeller, and archival materials reconstructing his life and relationship with Sargent, this book opens new avenues into artist-model relationships and transforms our understanding of Sargent's iconic American paintings. Essays offer the first biography of Thomas McKeller and a window into African America life in early 20th century Roxbury. They address the artist's sexuality, his models, and consider questions of race and gender.
Author : Patricia Vigderman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1936747545
Possibility: Essays Against Despair attempts to translate some of life's disordered events into the orderly happiness of art. The book includes encounters with manatees, children, and snakes; with Henry Adams, Marcel Proust, and W.G. Sebald ; with Texas landscape, Vertigo, and Vermeer. Adams, in Japan after his wife's death, found in the elaborate ritual of the tea ceremony and in the discomforts of a rural inn, occasions for the wit to face down grief. His letters to friends coax laughter from strangeness and loss. LikeAdams, Vigderman has a stylist's passion for revelatory detail, and for the pleasure of immersion in a world. Smart, generous, and probing, her discoveries play with direct experience, exploring the interaction of life and art as "magic you can walk in and out of." "Vigderman specializes in elliptical, epigrammatic insight that makes connectiosn that readers might not otherwise perceive.... Perhaps the most provocative essay and the emotional centerpiece is "My Depressed Person (A Monologue)," which interweaves a critical assessment of David Foster Wallace's short story "The Depressed Person" with Vigderman's own experience dealing with the depression of someone close to her, and perhaps her own as well." --Kirkus Reviews
Author : Fausto Calderai,Alan Chong
Publisher : Periscope
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 0914660276
Best known for its collection of masterpiece paintings, the Gardner Museum is also one of the first museums to include a large quantity of Italian furniture. This meticulously designed catalogue includes numerous photographs that focus on individual objects and reveal characteristic forms and styles. Observations made by the museum conversation department about the techniques and materials of the pieces, which differ significantly from furniture of other countries, are also published.
Author : Patricia Vigderman
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781936747535
"Possibility" translates life's disordered events into the orderly happiness of art. Subjects include manatees, Henry Adams, Texas, Proust, and "Vertigo."
Author : Candace Fleming
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823450350
From multiple award-winning author Candace Fleming and Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell comes the true story of a woman who always got what she wanted: Isabella Stewart Gardner. A New England Book Award Finalist For years, the indomitable Isabella Stewart Gardner searched the world for magnificent artwork and filled her home with a truly unique collection, with the aim of turning it into a museum, which she established in 1903. Isabella always did things her own way. One day she'd wear baseball gear to the symphony, the next, she'd be seen strolling down the street with zoo lions. It was no surprised that she was very particular about how she arranged her exhibits. They were not organized historically, stylistically, or by artist. Instead, they were arranged based on the connections Isabella felt toward the art, a connection she hoped to encourage in her visitors. For years, her museum delighted generations of Bostonians and visitors with the collections arranged exactly as she wanted. But in 1990, a spectacular burglary occurred when two thieves disguised as police officers stole thirteen paintings, valued at $500 million, including a Rembrandt and a Vermeer. They have yet to be recovered, though a $10 million reward is still being offered for their safe return. Author Candace Fleming perfectly captures Isabella's inimitable personality and drive, accompanied by exuberant illustrations by Matthew Cordell. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection A CCBC Choice
Author : Debra Dean
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061747182
“An extraordinary debut, a deeply lovely novel that evokes with uncommon deftness the terrible, heartbreaking beauty that is life in wartime. Like the glorious ghosts of the paintings in the Hermitage that lie at the heart of the story, Dean’s exquisite prose shimmers with a haunting glow, illuminating us to the notion that art itself is perhaps our most necessary nourishment. A superbly graceful novel.” — Chang-Rae Lee, New York Times Bestselling author of Aloft and Native Speaker Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye. Vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad arise unbidden, carrying her back to the terrible fall of 1941, when she was a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum and the German army's approach signaled the beginning of what would be a long, torturous siege on the city. As the people braved starvation, bitter cold, and a relentless German onslaught, Marina joined other staff members in removing the museum's priceless masterpieces for safekeeping, leaving the frames hanging empty on the walls to symbolize the artworks' eventual return. As the Luftwaffe's bombs pounded the proud, stricken city, Marina built a personal Hermitage in her mind—a refuge that would stay buried deep within her, until she needed it once more. . . .