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81. Antonin Nechodoma: Architect, 1877-1928 : The Prairie School in the Caribbean by Thomas S. Marvel | |
Hardcover: 223
Pages
(1994-02)
list price: US$49.95 Isbn: 0813012694 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
82. Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century by Dr. Harry Francis Mallgrave | |
Hardcover: 448
Pages
(1996-05-29)
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A spectacular biography of a true creative giant |
83. Edward Vason Jones 1909-1980: Architect, Connoisseur, and Collector by William R. Mitchell, Van Jones Martin | |
Hardcover: 223
Pages
(1995-04)
list price: US$50.00 Isbn: 0820317446 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
84. Imperial Gina: The Strictly Unauthorized Biography of Gina Lollobrigida by Luis Canales | |
Hardcover: 285
Pages
(1990-08)
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A very good biography of a great star
Excellent Gina bio, but doesn't cover her life in the 1990's
Sexy Gina!!! |
85. Theodor Herzl: Architect of a Nation (Lerner Biographies) by Norman H. Finkelstein | |
Library Binding: 128
Pages
(1991-10)
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86. The Original Man: The Life and Work of Montana Architect A.J. Gibson by Hipolito Rafael Chacon Ph.D. | |
Paperback: 164
Pages
(2008-09-30)
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87. God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill | |
Hardcover: 656
Pages
(2009-03-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (18121852) was one of Britain’s greatest architects, and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of a French draftsman, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted, and widowed. Nineteen years later he died, insane and disillusioned, having changed the face and the mind of British architecture in works as revered as the House of Lords and the clock tower at Westminster, known as Big Ben. God’s Architect is the first modern biography of this extraordinary figure. Rosemary Hill draws upon thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to re-create Pugin’s life and work as architect, propagandist, and Gothic designer, as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years, and his sudden death at 40. It is the work of an exceptional historian and biographer. Customer Reviews (1)
A Pointless Biography of Pugin |
88. Mapplethorpe: A Biography by Patricia Morrisroe | |
Paperback: 480
Pages
(1997-03-22)
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Absolutely Riveting
Outstanding!
CAPTIVATING!
a throughly well written book!!!
Thoroughly enjoyable read. |
89. Michelangelo: A Biography by George Bull | |
Paperback: 528
Pages
(1998-07-15)
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The divine, supreme Michelangelo
I'll keep going.
A great companion for a trip to Italy
Good read with insight. |
90. Warhol: The Biography by Victor Bockris | |
Paperback: 624
Pages
(2003-08-14)
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Editorial Review Product Description Artist, filmmaker, magazine publisher, instigator of Pop Art, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) used his canvasses of dollar bills, soup cans, and celebrities to subvert distinctions between high and popular culture. His spectacular career encompassed the underground scene as well as the equally deviant worlds of politics, show business, and high society. Warhol is the definitive chronicle of Warhol's storied life. Customer Reviews (8)
Thoroughly Researched
A good, not great, biography
Often Interesting
Warhol as creep?
Invaluable |
91. Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare: A Biography by Alice Goldfarb Marquis | |
Hardcover: 368
Pages
(2002-09-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Prior praise for Alice Goldfarb Marquis: By Alice Goldfarb Marquis. Clothbound, 6 x 9 in., 400 pages, 24 color and 65 b&w Customer Reviews (1)
Rocking the Duchamp throne |
92. Albert Camus: A Biography by Herbert R. Lottman | |
Paperback: 805
Pages
(1997-04)
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Editorial Review Product Description Thanks to his early literary achievement, his work for the underground newspaper Combat and his editorship of that daily in its Post-Liberation incarnation, Camus' voice seemed the conscience of postwar France. But it was a very personal voice that rejected the conventional wisdom, rejected ideologies that called for killing in the cause of justice. His call for personal responsibility will seem equally applicable today, when Camus' voice is silent and has not been replaced. The secrecy which surrounded Algerian-born Camus' own life, public and private - a function of illness and psychological self-defense in a Paris in which he still felt himself a stranger - seemed to make the biographer's job impossible. Lottman's Albert Camus was the first and remains the definitive biography - even in France. On publication it was hailed by New York Times reviewer John Leonard: "What emerges from Mr. Lottman's tireless devotions is a portrait of the artist, the outsider, the humanist and skeptic, that breaks the heart." In The New York Times Book Review British critic John Sturrock said: Herbert Lottman's life (of Camus) is the first to be written, either in French or English, and it is exhaustive, a labor of love and of wonderful industry." When the book appeared in London Christopher Hitchens in New Statesman told British readers: "Lottman has written a brilliant and absorbing book... The detail and the care are extraordinary... Now at last we have a clear voice about the importance of liberty and the importance of being concrete."The new edition by Gingko Press includes a specially written preface by the author revealing the challenges of a biographer, of some of the problems that had to be dealt with while writing the book and after it appeared. Customer Reviews (5)
Well written, interesting, but the author doesn't understand French
An admirable effort misses the forest for the trees
reiterating what has already been said
This is the Single Best Camus Biography For nearly the last quarter of Camus's short life, he lived in disfavor amongst the Paris literati.And for what?Because he, virtually alone amongst French intellectuals, recognized early on the horror that was the true nature of the regime of Joseph Stalin(socialism being virtually an article of faith with the likes of Sartre and others in France at the time). Lottman himself seems to have had a rather similar experience in his publication of this book.As he points out in his preface to this second edition, a cottage industry has evolved in France and elsewhere in Camus scholarship and criticism.However, though that body of work is deeply indebted to Lottman's research, his preeminent role is rarely acknowledged.I think this is probably because, like Camus, Lottman is an outsider.Neither man was a French native (Camus was an Algerian of mixed French-Spanish descent, Lottman is an American expatriate living in Paris) and neither is an academic by trade (Camus was a newspaper editor, novelist and a man of the theatre, while Lottman is a journalist).Thus, Lottman has seemed at times as unwelcome amongst the French elite as Camus did himself.Again the irony is too much; Lottman has received comparatively little recognition even though he himself is an extremely important cornerstone of current Camus research. Anyway, this book for whatever reason has received little more attention here in the United States than it has gotten anywhere else, and I think that is a shame.It is a wonderful, readable book.Most importantly, it is non-judgmental and it is very deferential.By that I mean that Lottman nowehere preaches to us how we should understand Camus; as he himself says, the essence of an artist is not in his biography, but in his works. It is long, but has only that level of detail befitting an intellectual biography of this caliber. For anyone who really wants to understand Camus's literature, a thorough understanding of his life--like Lottman's--is priceless.
Very thorough, but gets bogged down with detail |
93. Mary Hallock Foote: Author-Illustrator of the American West (Oklahoma Western Biographies) by Darlis A. Miller | |
Hardcover: 297
Pages
(2002-04)
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94. Chiang Yee: The Silent Traveller from the East -- A Cultural Biography by Da Zheng | |
Hardcover: 408
Pages
(2010-03-05)
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95. Ruskin (Sutton Pocket Biographies) by Francis O'Gorman | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(1999-06-25)
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Ruskin and twenty-first century
Interesting introduction to Ruskin and his work |
96. Heinz Tesar (Portraits österreichischer Architekten. Portraits of Austrian Architects) (German and English Edition) | |
Hardcover: 152
Pages
(1995-11-14)
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97. Christopher Wren (Pocket Biographies) by James Chambers | |
Paperback: 122
Pages
(1998-08-25)
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98. The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography (Blackwell Critical Biographies) by Robert Demaria | |
Paperback: 356
Pages
(1995-01-17)
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99. Robert Adam and Scotland: Portrait of an Architect by Margaret H. B. Sanderson | |
Paperback: 144
Pages
(1992-12)
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100. Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects | |
Paperback: 402
Pages
(1998-01)
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Literally falls apart The problem is that the pages fall out. My particular copy is not bound terribly well - and I am not the type of person who treats books roughly!
Shaping Seattle Architecture |
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