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100 American Flags: A Unique Collection of Old Glory Memorabilia (The Collector's Eye)

Kit Hinrichs, Delphine Hirasuna

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A great expression of exceptional antique flags and patriotic memorbilia 5 out of 5 stars.
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Compiled by one of the grandfathers of modern print design, this book, which features items from Kit Hinrichs' own personal collection, is a wonderful artistic expression of the Stars & Stripes through antique American flags, patriotic memorbilia, and art. I highly recommend it.

Jeff Bridgman, dealer in antique flags, www.jeffbridgman.com

very Good 5 out of 5 stars.
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I was very pleased with the quick delivery. I knew what I was ordering because I had seen the author on Martha Stewart. It was a great overview of his book. I am a Patriotic and flag nut, and this was right up my alley. I was not disappointed with this purchase.

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The American flag has been raised high in wartime triumph and peacetime celebration; sewn lovingly onto quilts, caps, pillows, and bags; appropriated by popular culture; and faithfully honored every Fourth of July. This vibrant collection of 100 Stars and Stripes artifacts ranges from Civil War-era banners and Native American braided moccasins to an early 20th-century "friendship" kimono and original flag art by several of the world's leading designers. Destined to captivate folk-art aficionados, history buffs, and collectors, 100 AMERICAN FLAGS provides a stunning visual history of America's most treasured symbol.

Meinrad Craighead: Crow Mother and the Dog God: A Restrospective (Pomegranate Catalog)

Meinrad Craighead

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This extensively illustrated volume collects the varied, powerful work of Meinrad Craighead, an artist whose images find their beginnings in her Catholic roots (she was a nun for fourteen years) as well as in the traditions of Southwest Native American Culture, in which she has immersed herself since moving to New Mexico twenty years ago.

Craighead has devoted her life to contemplation, prayer, and art. Her images are both figurative and abstract; she works in both black-and-white and color. Animals figure prominently in her work, as do dream figures and the artist herself in various manifestations. Oftentimes her images relate journeys she has taken, either on this earth or in waking or sleeping dreams. Many times, her paintings are accompanied by her own telling of these stories, and as a writer, Craighead has the ability to move us as deeply as her images do.

This retrospective conveys Craighead's enormous body of work over the past forty years. It is a tribute to an important visionary, a fine artist, and an inspiring life. Essays by Rosemary Davies, a writer who first met Craighead at Stanbrook Abbey; Virginia Beane Rutter, a Jungian analyst and the author of Embracing Persephone and Celebrating Girls; and Eugenia Parry, an art historian and the author of numerous books and essays about art and photography, discuss Meinrad Craighead's work with subtlety and insight.

Christian Schad and the Neue Sachlichkeit

Jill Lloyd, Michael Peppiatt

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An underrated artist 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a book that enables the reader to discover an unfairly overlooked artist. No one better than Schad succeeded in depicting the underworld of high and low society in Germany's Weimar Republic of the 1920's. His portraits are masterpieces of psychological insight. This is German New Objectivity at its best. If you missed the exhibition, don't miss the book.

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The first collection in English to give a full accounting of Schad's peculiar genius.

The 1920s German art movement "New Objectivity" (Neue Sachlichkeit) created a stark and indelible portrait of German society. Along with Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and George Grosz, artist Christian Schad is central to any appreciation of this fascinating period in both art and history.

Schad is a contradictory character. For all his icy-cool realism, Schad's mesmerizing paintings are characterized by an intense engagement with his models. While he is best known as a realist, he is also credited by the Dadaists as the inventor of abstract photograms, or "Schadographs."

Published in conjunction with an exhbition at the Neue Galerie in New York, Christian Schad and the Neue Sachlichkeit includes over 140 full-color reproductions of Schad's paintings, drawings, woodcuts and "Schadographs."

From the South Seas

Michael Gunn

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A simply beautiful presentation of Oceanic artifacts 5 out of 5 stars.
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Oceania is a region of the Pacific Ocean that ranges from New Guinea to New Zealand, and from Easter Island to Hawaii. The native populations have created a unique tradition with their sculptures, pots and paintings that are now acknowledged for their artistic values. Compiled, organized, and edited by Christraud Geary (Curator of African and Oceanic Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), From The South Seas: Oceanic Art In The Teel Collection showcases some 80 Oceanic works of art, each of which is superbly illustrated through full-color photography with an accompanying text describing the object's form and function. An informative introduction by Michael Gunn (Associate Curator for Oceanic Arts, Saint Louis Art Museum) places these showcase works within their historical and cultural context. Curator Geary discusses provenance and survey scholarship to a simply beautiful presentation of Oceanic artifacts. From The South Seas is a prized and highly recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library Art History reference collections.

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From New Guinea to New Zealand, Easter Island to Hawaii, the Pacific region known as Oceania has long excited the Western imagination, but its traditional sculptures, pots and paintings have only recently been studied and appreciated as fine art. While much about these works and the cultures that produced them remains mysterious, we do know that most items were created for use in daily life rather than as products for the art market. Nonetheless, their beauty and craftsmanship elevate the best of them to objects of contemplation and wonder. This catalogue presents some 80 Oceanic works of art, each illustrated with its form and function described. Michael Gunnís introduction places the works in context; Christraud Geary discusses provenance; and contextual photographs throughout show many of the objects in situ, aiding in a growing understanding of these intriguing but still elusive works, and adding to the scholarship on, and interest in, Oceania.

Tom Poulton: The Secret Art of an English Gentleman

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Passionate Poulton 3 out of 5 stars.
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Mr Poulton gets the Taschen treatment in this well designed and printed book. Unfortunately I was disappointed with the contents because out of 183 illustrations only twenty-nine are what I would call finished art. The remaining 154 illustrations are basically rough sketches and interesting as they are I would have expected perhaps a few of them to show how the Poulton developed his ideas and the bulk of the book full of his completed erotic renderings.

As a medical illustrator he obviously had the ability to show the human body correctly and you only have to look at his finished drawings to see that he also had the creativity to handle light and shade (always with a soft-lead pencil on tissue) but I don't think his style is particularly original. Plenty of art college students produce similar looking nude drawings though obviously not erotic ones.

Jamie Maclean in the book's introduction rightly comments on the underground nature of Poulton's erotic art in fifties and early sixties England, no publisher would have dared to put out a book with such pictures but that is not to say that erotic artwork was not being created. Some English material is shown in another Taschen book Erotica Universalis, Volume II.

This handsomely produced book ends up as a half-hearted coverage of Tom Poulton's work.

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The secret art of an English gentleman...

Thomas Leycester Poulton was an English magazine and medical book illustrator, born in 1897. Upon his death in 1963 it was discovered he was also a prolific and imaginative erotic artist who produced hundreds of sketches and finished drawings of women proudly and exuberantly displaying themselves in ways shocking to conservative post-war Britain. The archive remained hidden until the 1990s, when a collector of erotic artifacts passed it on to a fellow collector willing to share it with the world. Though Tom Poulton’s work tells us much about English society between 1948 and 1963, there is a universal quality to these images of joyous, uninhibited sexuality that transcends time and place.

Splendor of Ethnic Jewelry: From the Colette and Jean Pierre Ghysels Collection

frances Borel, Ghysels Colett

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Splendor is the appropriate word 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is, indeed, a very beautifully photographed book. The represented pieces are all exquisite.

Though, it's true there could have been more background information provided, giving the book a rating of one star, as the previous reviewer did, is grossly unjust - an act of spite rather than of informed criticism. Clearly, the book was never meant to be a exhaustive examination of all the ethnological aspects of each piece (though there is ample annotation); such a book would have run to 2000 pages rather than 250! So the Splendor of Ethnic Jewelry is not a doctoral thesis but rather a stroll thru a museum; in this case, the Ghysels Collection. A coffee-table book if you want, but beautiful none the less and of the highest standard.

If you have previously had no interest in ethnic jewelry per se, this book will open your eyes to the extraordinary artistry of these ornaments created by the world's non-industrial peoples. Each object in itself says much more than an accompanying treatise ever could, and I cannot imagine anyone coming away from this book without a desire to learn more.

A second copy purchased for a friend who deals in ethnic jewelry was very much appreciated.

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“If all the ethnic jewelry exhibitions of the last 20 years were assembled together, one would have an approximation of the Ghysels Collection. . . . This must be in the library of anyone serious about jewelry.”—Ornament “A magnificent array . . . will provide inspiration for designers and pleasures for students of ethnic cultures.” —Library Journal

This book documents—in stunning color photographs—one of the premier collections of ethnic jewelry in the world. Among the 400 illustrations are pieces from every corner of the globe—and the range of materials used, forms, and craft techniques is truly astonishing.

James Simon: Philanthropist and Patron of the Arts

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Fantastic book 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book flows well and is elegant in its prose. Some biographies of great collectors can be quite tedious. This one isn't. More! The fantastic photos of the pieces James Simon bought and then offered to the Berlin Museums make it a beautifull object. He was an intellectual but essential a good man. This book is a tribute. A deserved tribute to a forgotten german jew. James Simon transformed Berlin using his wealth. He was the impetus of charitable giving. It wasn't until after Simon vast sums that others started to contribute. He focused on art, which had a very important impact on the capital city. But he also focused on education and funding the poor. The great cultural institutions of Berlin all receveid the support of James Simon. A fantastic book.

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A tribute to the esteemed benefactor and his generous bequest to the Berlin Museums.

One of the most important art patrons of his time, James Simon donated nearly one thousand works of art to the National Museums of Berlin, including the famed bust of Nefertiti. Now for the first time the complete collection of works bequeathed by Simon is presented in book form. Arranged by museum, these pieces comprise Egyptian artifacts, master paintings, objects from Asia, Europe, and the Byzantine Empire, as well as prints, drawings, and rare coins. Contributions from the museums' directors reveal how these works serve Simon's efforts to preserve cultural values and tradition as well as reflect his own integrity and tremendous humanitarianism.

Curiosa: Celebrity Relics, Historical Fossils, and Other Metamorphic Rubbish

Barton Lidice Benes

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Barton Benes imbues mundane objects with the mystical power of holy relics. He assembles modern-day curiosity cabinets, or reliquaries, out of everyday items that have been touched by fame. From such bizarre celebrity-owned articles as Madonna's panties, Bill Clinton's throat lozenge, O. J. Simpson's glove, Larry Hagman's gallstone, and glass from the car crash in which Princess Diana died, Barton Benes creates an art that is as arresting as it is unique.

Whether his creativity is fueled by discards with the pedigree of fame or infamy, such as a Frank Sinatra fingernail clipping or the Son of Sam's hair, or by unusual and strange objects from human and natural history, such as mummy dust, Benes mounts and labels the items and assembles them into mini-museums that are, as this book shows, alternately provocative, disturbing, and amusing, but always compelling. Benes supplies humorous captions that tell the quirky history of each piece, and John Berendt, best-selling author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, writes an insightful introduction on Benes's art and discusses his own fascination with it.

British Art Treasures from Russian Imperial Collections in the Hermitage (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)

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More than two hundred years ago, Russian Empress Catherine the Great and some of her courtiers developed a taste for British art and collected some spectacular items including paintings, drawings, sculpture, silver, and Wedgwood ceramics. This sumptuously illustrated book tells the story of the acquisition of these treasures and of the cultural relations between Britain and Russia in the eighteenth century.

The Other Side of Color: African American Art in the Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby, Jr.

David C. Driskell

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David C. Driskell’s easy-to-read and thorough critique of the African American art experience—the other side of color—breaks new ground in presenting almost one hundred selections from a unique art collection that provides the context for this book.

First is an overview of the history of African American art--which in this country predates the Civil War--and a detailed explanation of the raison d’etre behind the Cosby collection. Part 2 discusses five prominent postcolonial African American artists who lead the way for future black artists and the struggles they overcame to promote cultural emancipation and acceptance in the American mainstream.

Subsequent parts reveal how African American artists continued the quest for recognition, culminating in the turning point of black culture in the twentieth century in the United States: The Harlem Renaissance. Throughout the discussions within each of the book’s six parts, beautiful full-color artworks from the Cosby collection highlight and validate Driskell’s writing. Rene Hanks’s biographies add even more information about the featured artists as well as indicate the locations of the major collections of their works.