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9780226423456 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 22, 2016, cover price $39.00
Product Description: Luminous and revealing, a daughter's memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father. Gabrielle Selz grew up in a home full of the most celebrated artists of the 1960s and 1970s: Rothko, de Kooning, Tinguely, Giacometti, and Christo...read more
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9780393239171 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 5, 2014, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Awarded the 2015 Best Memoir from The American Society of Journalists and Authors Luminous and revealing, a daughter's memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father.
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9781511339209 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, December 29, 2015), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Luminous and revealing, a daughter's memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father.
Product Description: In this lucid, witty book, the eminent art historian Jonathan Brown examines links between his personal life and his study of Hispanic art of the Golden Age. His adventures are offered as a model for understanding how art history is shaped by life experiences, and he describes the influence of his parents, Jean and Leonard Brown, noted collectors of documentation of 20th-century avant-garde movements...read more
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9780300203967 | Yale Univ Pr, July 8, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In this lucid, witty book, the eminent art historian Jonathan Brown examines links between his personal life and his study of Hispanic art of the Golden Age.
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9780300149425 | Yale Univ Pr, October 22, 2013, cover price $25.00
Product Description: Arthur Kingsley Porter (1883-1933) - renowned American, Harvard professor, and owner of Glenveagh Castle - vanished in 1933 from Ireland's Inishbofin Island, Co. Donegal. No trace of the professor was ever found. Over the decades, stories of Porter's disappearance turned into legend...read more
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9781908928108 | Merrion, January 1, 2013, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: Arthur Kingsley Porter (1883-1933) - renowned American, Harvard professor, and owner of Glenveagh Castle - vanished in 1933 from Ireland's Inishbofin Island, Co.
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9781908928115 | Gardners Books, October 31, 2012, cover price $25.85 | About this edition: Arthur Kingsley Porter, (1883-1933) renowned American, Harvard professor and owner of Glenveagh Castle, vanished without trace from Inishbofin Island, Co.
Product Description: This absorbing biography, often conveyed through Peter Selzâs own words, traces the journey of a Jewish-German immigrant from Hitlerâs Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pioneer historian of modern art...read more
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9780520269354 | Univ of California Pr, January 2, 2012, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: This absorbing biography, often conveyed through Peter Selzâs own words, traces the journey of a Jewish-German immigrant from Hitlerâs Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pioneer historian of modern art.
A brilliant memoir by the renowned art historian offers a fascinating insider's study of the world of modern art, the evolution of various styles of art, and his relationship with Barnett Newman, William de Kooning, Mark Rothko, David Smith, and other notable artists, critics, scholars, and collectors.
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9780500238134 | Thames & Hudson, November 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A brilliant memoir by the renowned art historian offers a fascinating insider's study of the world of modern art, the evolution of various styles of art, and his relationship with Barnett Newman, William de Kooning, Mark Rothko, David Smith, and other notable artists, critics, scholars, and collectors.
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9780500287675 | Reprint edition (Thames & Hudson, March 1, 2009), cover price $18.95
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9780002571470 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, October 30, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A travel book, a meditation on geology, photography, Romanesque art and the romance of physical decline, 'The Slow Breath of Stone' throws a mirror on Europe of the Middle Ages and its hold on us today.
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9780764937477 | Pomegranate, September 15, 2006, cover price $45.00
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9780807615232 | George Braziller, October 30, 2004, cover price $22.50
Product Description: National book Award laureate; recipient of Special Pulitzer Prize citation; winner of the Life in America Prize the Archives of American Art Award; among many others, James Thomas Flexner has written with distinction about American history and art...read more
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9780823216604 | Fordham Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The historian, art critic, and biographer discusses his childhood, family, marriage, and writings
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9780823216611 | Reprint edition (Fordham Univ Pr, March 1, 1998), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: National book Award laureate; recipient of Special Pulitzer Prize citation; winner of the Life in America Prize the Archives of American Art Award; among many others, James Thomas Flexner has written with distinction about American history and art.
Product Description: While Bernard Berenson's roles as a connoisseur, Renaissance art expert, defender of Western culture, and arbiter of taste extraordinaire are well known, his role as critic and theorist of modern art has until now been little understood...read more
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9781566391160 | Temple Univ Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: While Bernard Berenson's roles a connoisseur, Renaissance art expert, defender of Western culture, and arbiter of taste extraordinaire are well known, his role as critic and theorist of modern art has until now been little understood.
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9781566391177 | Temple Univ Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: While Bernard Berenson's roles as a connoisseur, Renaissance art expert, defender of Western culture, and arbiter of taste extraordinaire are well known, his role as critic and theorist of modern art has until now been little understood.
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9780874803921 | Univ of Utah Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Book by Van Dyke, John C.
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9780026113304 | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1987, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Filled with anecdotes and bizarre characters, this book is the story of how the world's most successful art dealer and an eminent art critic formed a secret partnership to fleece and fool their multi-millionaire clients
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9780812211344 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $35.95
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9780140056976 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, November 1, 1980), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The story of the man who moved from Lithuania to Boston in 1875, became involved in art, was chief advisor to art dealer Joseph Durveen, and helped amass the collections of Kress, Mellon, and other tycoons
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