An Affair with Beauty: The Mystique of Howard Chandler Christy
by James Philip Head
Autobiography of the visionary, contemporary artist David Alexander English...350 pages
For nearly five decades, Jacob Lawrence has been widely regarded as America's most important black artist. His work is known throughout the world for its depiction of the black American experience from the Civil War to the civil rights movement and beyond. But Lawrence's paintings are more than a chronicle of this history. He has created a uniquely American vision that affirms the place of all individuals in our society and honors the struggle for independence. Jacob Lawrence has given us powerf...
The Thunderbird Remembered
by Dorothea Lange, John Dixon, and Daniel Dixon
Dreaming Inside Out (Mary's Search for Self Through Dreams) (Dreaning Inside Out, #9780985605)
by Kiraya Kestin
One of the most important and underappreciated visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college years and emerged as a painter during the 1930s, at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance and in time to be part of a significant community of black artists supported by the WPA. Though light-skinned and able to "pass, " Bearden embraced his African heritage, choosing to paint social realist canvases of African-American life. After World War II, he b...
The Flute and Flute-Playing
by Theobald Bohm and Bohm Theobald 1794-1881
In November 1963, a British inventor and reluctant industrialist named Alex Moulton introduced a radical new small-wheeled, dual suspension bicycle at the Earl's Court Cycle Show in London. It was covered in several articles by Reyner Banham, an architecture and design critic and associate editor of Architectural Review and Architects' Journal. Banham believed that the Moulton Bicycle would give rise to "a new class of cyclists," young urban radicals who would cycle out of choice, and not out of...
The Life and Art of George Fertig (Unheralded Artists of BC, #3)
by Mona Fertig
