Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced. Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the first biography to assess Freud's work and life, showing how the two converge.   In Hoban's dramatic and fast-paced narrative, we follow Freud from his birthplace in Berlin to London, where he fled with his family in the 1930s, and then to Paris, where he mixed with Picasso and Giacometti. He led a dissolute life in Soho after the war, gambling and womanizing with fierce energy. He painted his wives nude, his children nude, himself nude. He married twice, had an uncountable number of children, and kept working through it all, painting everyone from close friend and rival Francis Bacon to Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. He sometimes spent years on a single painting, which could require hundreds of hours of sittings. However various his subjects, his intent was always the same: to find and reveal the character hidden within by means of his intense visual imagination.   Along with its startling biographical revelations, the great thrill of Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the way Hoban deconstructs the art itself—its influences, models, and technique—to show how Freud reproduced reality on the canvas while breaking down the illusion that what we see is real.

Product Description: An artist's monograph that examines the paintings in the Impressionist style of this Korean painter, Oh Chi Gyun.

Product Description: A glance through Abe Frajndlich's portfolio of portraits is like a stroll down Hollywood Boulevard's hall of fame, but with a twist. The subjects of his photographs, among them movie stars, film directors, rock 'n roll legends, artists and other creative personalities speak to the viewer through symbols and stance - sometimes humorous, always unexpected: the actor Jack Lemmon holds two lemons where his eyes should be; Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein peers warily over a paint-brush moustache...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The tragic story of the talented painter Jean-Michel Basquiat details his turbulent childhood, explosive dealings with the elite art world, relationships with such figures as Andy Warhol and Madonna, and rise to fame, which led to his death from a drug overdose at the age of twenty-seven. Reprint. NYT.

Sol-1 helps all the other robots with their work so that they will help him search for Big Rover, his lost dog

When robots from all over Zone One gather to race in the Digi-Maze, a power pack mixup almost causes disaster for Sol-1.