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Leonard Lavin epitomizes the American Dream. In this book Lavin reveals how his instinct-driven vision led him to build the Alberto Culver Corporation from a tiny beauty supply company into a revered Fortune 500 buisness.
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A Doryman's Day
R. Barry Fisher , and
Barry Fisher
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We'd be hard put to decide whether Barry Fisher is better at fishing or storytelling. The three stories in this book are rollicking gems, salty as a flake of cod set out to dry. "A Wharf Rat's Tale" takes us to Gloucester, Massachusetts, a town where, "if you didn't go fishing, you got out of town." It was a fascinating, adventurous place for a boy in the late '30s, as young Barry and his pals pick up odd jobs on the wharves, repair a beat-up dory, hang out with the schooner crews, and take up fishing themselves, catching the fattest flounders at the sewer outfall in the harbor.
Barry Fisher went offshore dory-fishing for real when he was eighteen, and "A Doryman's Day," he says now, is "as accurate as my old mind can make it." He describes fishing longline trawl gear from Grand Banks dories launched off the deck of a schooner in wonderful detail and paints a vivid picture of a working day in a fishery straight out of history. A few years later, he went on a late-season swordfishing trip, dory-fishing from a schooner with a crew betting against the weather and the odds that they'd come home with a catch. "Mysterious Ways of the Lord, or How Captain Jack Brant of the Swordfishing Schooner lorna b Found God in a Split Second and then Achieved Salvation on the Northern Edge of George's Bank" gives you just a hint of the story to come.
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"Without a doubt the best small-boat seamen I've ever seen.".......2004-03-10
The dorymen that R. Barry Fisher celebrates here are men with whom he shared duties on a series of high-masted fishing schooners in the late days of the Depression and early World War II. Growing up as a "wharf rat" on the Gloucester, Massachusetts, waterfront, Fisher and three ten-year-old friends were lured to the docks almost daily, where they reeled gill nets, stacked pen boards, and scrubbed galleys and fo'c's'les in exchange for fish, some of which they took home and some of which they peddled in the streets from homemade go-carts. The "fraternity of the wharf" provided them with a view of real life they could not learn from books--the camaraderie and respect the fishermen had for each other, their rowdy humor and courage, and the grief they and their families felt when their friends were lost at sea.
Fisher eventually became a doryman, which was "the highest word of respect and affection that one man could use for another." In two-man dories (usually ten to twelve dories per schooner), men worked fourteen hour days, each dory crew baiting two thousand hooks on a series of lines which they would set into the water and later haul in by hand, filling their small boats with fish and then returning to the schooner. They often did three of these "sets" a day, gutting and icing the fish between sets, and rebaiting hooks. Helpful drawings and diagrams allow landlubbers to understand this fishing method, while historic photographs of children and fully rigged schooners make these now-abandoned fishing methods come alive.
Fisher's final tale, "Mysterious Ways of the Lord," tells of a trip he and a few adventurous fishermen took in the fall, after the swordfish had supposedly migrated from George's Bank (the same sort of trip which Sebastian Junger describes in The Perfect Storm). Here, however, the vessel was a schooner, and each swordfish was harpooned with an eighteen-foot harpoon by a single man hanging over the bow of the vessel, the rest of the crew standing in the rigging locating the fish. On this trip, the captain "finds religion," a tale that Fisher insists is "No B.S., it's the clear truth, me sons." A fascinating glimpse of a lost way of life, this account of a doryman's day is an important contribution to the lore of the East Coast fishing industry, written by a man who devoted his life to fishing and to preserving its history. Mary Whipple
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Hollywood Writers' Wars
Sheila Schwartz
Manufacturer: Knopf
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ASIN: 0394411404
Release Date: 1982-02-12 |
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The story of the battle to form the Screen Writers’ Guild is for the first time told fully and in riveting detail, based on diaries, letters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and hundreds of interviews with Hollywood people. Brilliantly recreated is the political turmoil that shattered the Hollywood community through the 1930’s and into the 40’s—leading to House Un-American Activity Committee and the blacklist.
“Hollywood of that era has a narcotic fascination for many of us. The book is crammed with compelling movieland figures….The riches Nancy Lynn Schwartz unearthed deserved our attention.”
—J. Anthony Lukas, The New York Times Book Review
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Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51
Ian Hamilton
Manufacturer: William Heinemann Ltd
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ASIN: 0434313327 |
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This authoritative catalogué raisonné covers over four decades of creative output that comprise Fontana's career. His intuitive rendering of the intrinsic dynamism of contemporary life into images is represented across the early sculptures to the most recent "ambienti": works designed to be neither painting nor sculpture but "forms, color, sound through spaces". In the 1930s Fontana was a leading exponent of a generation of Expressionists. In the 40's and 50's, he was the protagonist of "informal" Spatialism. In the 60's, Fontana became a point of reference for new pictorial and plastic expression. This historical and critical profile brings a huge body of intense, expressive work into focus. This catalog was carried out in collaboration with the Lucio Fontana Foundation, making it the definitive publication on the artist.
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In the 1940s, the Italian painter and sculptor Lucio Fontana carried out a gesture that revolutionized the history of contemporary art: He punctured and slashed the canvas, leaving fissures in its surface and creating a new dimension in painting. Recognized as one of the masters of the international midcentury avant-garde, Fontana, who was actually born in Argentina, is considered a father of postwar monochromatic abstraction and Conceptual art. Organized by curator Luca Massimo Barbero of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York catalogues the artist's first exhibition in the U.S. since the Guggenheim's landmark 1977 retrospective. Furthermore, it introduces two rarely seen bodies of work that were created around the cities of Venice and New York, presented together here for the first time. The Venice paintings, shimmering surfaces in silver and gold that recall the mosaics of St. Mark's and that city's Byzantine splendor, are juxtaposed with the New York works--giant sheets of shiny and scratched copper, cut through by dynamic vertical gestures that conjure the force of Manhattan and its powerful, electric skyline. Featuring a facsimile reproduction of Fontana's 1947 "Manifesto Tecnico," as well as essays by Barbero and other leading scholars of the artist's oeuvre, including Enrico Crispolti (author of the Fontana catalogue raisonne), Paolo Campiglio and Barbara Ferriani.
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Lucio Fontana
Sarah Whitfield
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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ASIN: 0520226224 |
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Lucio Fontana was one of the most influential and innovative figures of twentieth-century Italian art. From his earliest monumental sculptures and collaborations with architects in the 1930s to his spatial environments and slashed canvases of the 1950s and 1960s, Fontana's raw, vigorous, and richly expressive works overturned the conventions of art and challenged existing ideas about the role of the artist in the age of rapid technological development.
Throughout his lifetime, Fontana was driven by the spirit of exploration, constantly questioning and extending the boundaries of his own practice, confounding expectations, and provoking and amazing an ever-growing audience. This opulently illustrated and beautifully produced book shows how Fontana redefined the possibilities for art, using a rich vocabulary of material, form, color, and space. Produced to accompany a retrospective exhibition marking the artist's centenary at the Hayward Gallery, this book spans Fontana's prolific career and brings together over 100 of his sculptures and canvases as well as a reconstruction of one of his most physically impressive and distilled spatial environments. An incisive critical essay by Sarah Whitfield provides a more thorough understanding of Fontana's life, influences, and artistic achievements, while excerpts from the artist's writings and interviews give readers a chance to hear his distinctive voice firsthand. An illustrated chronology of Fontana's life and career, an exhibition history, and an annotated bibliography make Lucio Fontana an even more valuable resource.
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Concepts in space
Italian artist Lucio Fontana tore apart the modern art establishment—literally. Trained initially as a sculptor, Fontana (1899-1968) blurred the lines between painting and sculpture by creating works that combined both form and color in a spatial context, most famously exemplified by his slashed canvases of the 1950s and 60s. Fontana's work was truly conceptual, in that the ideas he wanted to express were more important than the actual work itself; with titles like Concetto Spaziale (Spatial Concept) and Scultura Spaziale (Spatial Sculpture), his pieces served as visual explanations of his ideas. From his early work in collaborating with architects through his years in Buenos Aires (where, in the mid-1940s, he published the famous "White Manifesto" and "Technical Manifesto of Spatialism," among others), his experimental light installations of the early 1950s, and his later experiments with various media, this book covers the entire career of Italy's pioneering abstract artist.
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Fontana.......2007-02-13
Lovely little book with an interesting selection of works.
I'm very pleased to have it.Taschen is sterling in the art book market.
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20th Century Italian Art - Sotheby's London - 22 October 2001 (Lucio Fontana, Melotti, G. de Chirico, G. Morandi, and others)
Sotheby's London
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De Chirico, Giorgio
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ASIN: B000H4T7TE |
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An Art Walk In Italy
Giovanni Anselmo ,
Antonia Mulas ,
Alighiero e Boetti ,
Lucio Fontana , and
Alberto Burri
Manufacturer: Charta
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ASIN: 8881584883
Release Date: 2005-01-15 |
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Presented here is a collection that symbolizes of a period in Italy's history characterized by great cultural growth. This is also the story of Sergio Casoli, who opened his gallery in the studio of one Lucio Fontana--one of modern art's legends and a visionary artist--whose works Casoli fell in love with the day he set foot inside his studio. Fontana's works are documented in this volume along with that of Giovanni Anselmo, Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani, Luciano Fabro, Piero Manzoni, Fausto Melotti, Mario Merz, Maurizio Mochetti, Pino Pascali, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Cy Twombly, Gilberto Zorio, and others.
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Arte Moderna E Contemporanea [Sotheby's Milano 26 Maggio 1998]
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Manufacturer: Milano: Sotheby's
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ASIN: B000KDW3R0 |
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175 lots; 79 pages; Index; most illustrations in color. Artists: Bonalumi, Chirico, Dova, Fontana, Melotti, Mondino, Morandi, Pomodoro, Rosai, Rotella, Sironi, Tancredi, Veronesi and many more...
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Gallery catalog illustrated in full color.
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Declaring Space: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein
Michael Auping
Manufacturer: Prestel Publishing
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ASIN: 3791338862 |
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The evolution and philosophy of color field painting, as revealed by four masters of the movement.
Developed at the tail end of the abstract expressionist movement, color field painting is distinguished by pure, unmodulated areas of color, flat, two-dimensional space, and large, often irregularly shaped canvases. The genre is often associated with American painting, but was actually embraced by an international group of artists. Four of the most exciting of those practitioners are the focus of this penetrating study. Michael Auping sees the work of each of these artists as representing a different stage in the development of abstract painting in the 1950s and 1960s. He comments, "To my mind Rothko draws back the curtains, if you will, on the opening up of this space. Newman emphatically `declares' an almost totemic space, while Fontana literally slices through the picture's plane with a razor, and Klein, as he pronounced it, leaps into the void." Illustrated with color images of the artists' seminal works,
Declaring Space shows how each painter made his own individual mark in a new realm of abstract art.
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Gold. Gothic Masters and Lucio Fontana.
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Hammer and Klaive
Manufacturer: White Wolf Publishing
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A great buy........2006-06-07
Whether you're a storyteller or player, this book has information on creating fetish weapons, tools, and even traps to use in your Werewolf game. Want the history of fetishes in the Garou Nation? This book deals with everything from the First Klaive to the ancient tools of the Croatan, to the techno fetishes of the modern nights. There's even information on Bane Klaives, Devil Whips, and other Wyrm-Tainted creations. If you're just looking for a list of new weapons against the Wyrm and their powers, Hammer and Klaive has a score of samples to use.
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