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Controversy swirls around Bernard Berenson today as it did in his middle years, before and between two world wars. Who was this man, this supreme connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting? How did he support his elegant estate near Florence, his Villa I Tatti? What exactly were his relations with the art dealer Joseph Duveen? What part did his wife, Mary, play in his scholarly work and professional career? The answers are to be found in the day-to-day record of his life as he lived it--as reported at first hand in his and Mary's letters and diaries and reflected in the countless personal and business letters they received. His is one of the most fully documented lives of this century. Ernest Samuels, having spent twenty years studying the thousands of letters and other manuscripts, presents his story in absorbing detail. Berenson helped Isabella Stewart Gardner build her great collection and performed similar though lesser services for other wealthy Americans. It was merely an avocation and a useful source of income; his vocation was scholarship. But after 1904, when the book opens, his expertise was in ever-greater demand: a purchaser's only assurance of the authorship of an Italian painting was the opinion of an expert, and in this field Berenson was pre-eminent. Increasingly he was drawn into the lucrative world of the art dealers; inevitably Joseph Duveen found it essential to enlist his services, at first ad hoc, then by contractual agreement. Samuels charts the course of Berenson's long association with Duveen Brothers, detailing the financial arrangements, the humdrum chores and major contested attributions, the periodic clashes between the stubborn scholar and the arrogant entrepreneur. The portrayal of Berenson's relationship with Mary is especially intriguing: a union of opposites in all but brains and wit, bonded--despite love affairs, jealousies, recriminations--no longer by passion but by shared concerns. Impinging on their lives are those of a huge circle of friends and acquaintances in America and the beau monde of Europe. Both as biography and as a chapter of social and cultural history, it is a compelling book.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers. --- Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959. --- HISTORY / General. --- Visual arts -- Criticism -- Berenson, Bernard - Biographies. --- ART / Criticism.

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"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 became one of a handful of black artists to exhibit in a private gallery-the commercial outlet that would form the core of the American art world's post-war marketplace. Rejecting Abstract Expressionism, he lived briefly in Paris. After he suffered a nervous breakdown, Bearden returned to New York, turning to painting just as the civil rights movement was gaining ground with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education and the Montgomery bus boycott. By the time of the March on Washington in 1963, Bearden had begun to experiment with collage-or Projection, as he called it-the medium for which he would ultimately become famous. In this biography, Mary Schmidt Campbell offers readers an analysis of Bearden's influences and the thematic focus of his mature work. Bearden's work provides a portrait of memory and the African American past; according to Campbell, it also offers a record of the narrative impact of visual imagery in the twentieth century, revealing how the emerging popularity of photography, film and television depicted African Americans during their struggle to be recognized as full citizens of the United States"--

African American artists --- Artists --- ART / General. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers. --- Bearden, Romare, --- Bearden, Romy, --- Bearden, Rommie,

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The political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg at the close of the nineteenth century, artistic studies with Léon Bakst and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the Zvantseva Art Academy, and participation in the dynamic symbolist/modernist artistic ferment in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian countryside during the Russian Civil War followed by marriage to a prominent Indian nationalist, then with her husband to the hardships of émigré Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s, and finally to Bombay, where she established herself as an important artist and a mentor to a new generation of modern Indian artists.

Artists --- Expatriate artists --- 20th century. --- Acharya. --- Bombay. --- Hilde Holger. --- India. --- Indian nationalism. --- Jewish artists. --- Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. --- Leon Bakst. --- Magda Nachman. --- Nazism. --- Russian Berlin. --- Russian Civil War. --- Russian Revolution. --- Vladimir Nabokov. --- Zvantseva Art Academy. --- art. --- biography. --- contemporary. --- emigre artists. --- modern art. --- modernism. --- painting. --- politics. --- refugee. --- symbolism. --- women artists. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers. --- Artists, Expatriate --- Exiled artists --- Exiles --- Persons --- Nachman, Magda, --- Acharya, Magda Nachman,

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"A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter. The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was 44 years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained. While her naturalistic landscapes and botanicals were shown during her lifetime, her body of radical, abstract works never received the same attention. Today, it is widely accepted that af Klint produced the earliest abstract paintings by a trained European artist. But this is only part of her story. Not only was she a successful woman artist, but she was also an avowed clairvoyant and mystic. Like many of the artists at the turn of the twentieth century who developed some version of abstract painting, af Klint studied Theosophy, which holds that science, art, and religion are all reflections of an underlying life-form that can be harnessed through meditation, study, and experimentation. Well before Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich declared themselves the inventors of abstraction, af Klint was working in a non-representational mode, producing a powerful visual language that continues to speak to audiences today. The exhibition of her work in 2018 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City attracted more than 600,000 visitors, making it the most-attended show in the history of the museum/institution. Despite her enormous popularity, there has not yet been a biography of af Klint-until now. Inspired by her first encounter with the artist's work in 2008, Julia Voss set out to learn Swedish and research af Klint's life-not only who the artist was but what drove and inspired her. The result is a fascinating biography of an artist who is as great as she is enigmatic."

Painters --- Women painters --- 75.071 --- kunst --- Zweden --- negentiende eeuw --- twintigste eeuw --- schilderkunst --- abstractie --- abstracte schilderkunst --- spiritisme --- theosofie --- af Klint Hilma --- tekenkunst --- Women artists --- Klint, Hilma af, --- Af Klint, Hilma, --- 737.8 --- af Klint, Hilma --- antroposofie --- conceptuele kunst --- biografie --- schilder- en tekenkunst, 20e eeuw, overige landen, kunstenaars afzonderlijk --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers --- ART / European --- Painting, Swedish

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Major edition revealing key ideas and events in the lives and work of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and Victorian literary circles: 5,800 letters (including 2,000 previously unpublished letters) to 330 recipients. 1855-1862: This nine-volume editionl represents the definitive collection of extant Rossetti correspondence, an outstanding primary witness to the range of ideas and opinions that shaped Rossetti's art and poetry. The largest collection of Rossetti's letters ever to be published, it features all known surviving letters, a total of almost 5,800 to over 330 recipients, and includes 2,000 previously unpublished letters by Rossetti and selected letters to him.In addition to this, about 100 drawings taken from within letter texts are also reproduced. In its entirety the collection will give an invaluable and unparalleled insight into Rossetti's character and art, and will form a rich resource for students and scholars studying all aspects of his life and work. The correspondence has been transcribed from collections in sixty-four manuscript repositories, containing Rossetti's letters to his companions inthe Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt and Stephens; friends such as Boyce and Bell Scott; his early patrons, Ellen Heaton and James Leathart; and his publisher friend, Alexander Macmillan. An additional twenty-two printed sources have also been accessed. Index; extensive annotations. WILLIAM E. FREDEMAN (1928-1999) was professor of English at the University of British Columbia from 1956-1991. His many books, articles and reviews on the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers include his important Pre-Raphaelitism: A Bibliocritical Study. He died in 1999 with this edition almost completed; LEONARD ROBERTS is an art historian and author of Arthur Hughes: His Life and Works.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel --- -Rossetti, Dante Gabriel --- Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante --- Poets, English --- -English poets --- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers. --- Dante Gabriel Rossetti. --- Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. --- Rossetti's character. --- Victorian art. --- Victorian literary circles. --- art. --- drawings. --- ideas. --- letters. --- opinions. --- poetry. --- primary witness. --- 1863-1872. --- Chelsea. --- Contemporary Review. --- Edward Burne-Jones. --- Elizabeth Siddal. --- Fleshly School. --- Frederick Sandys. --- Jane Morris. --- Mary Zambaco. --- Poems. --- Robert Buchanan. --- Swinburne. --- The House of Life. --- William Morris. --- eyesight. --- financial prosperity. --- love. --- painter. --- reviews. --- sonnets.