Category: ART

Any number of artists have produced evocative work, paintings that could trigger a literary response. But none came to mind who could equal Hopper in turning out canvas after canvas. If no single artist could take Hopper's place, how about a full palette of them? Suppose each author was invited to select a painting from the whole panoply of visual art--From the cave drawings at Lascaux to a contemporary abstract canvas on which the paint has barely dried.

And what a dazzling response Joyce Carol Oates picked Le Beaux Jours by Balthus. Warren Moore chose Salvador Dali...
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The Impressionists Handbook

By: Books, Barnes & Noble

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Barnes & Noble, New York: January 2000

Seller ID: 349442

ISBN: 0760720029

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Caring for Photographs: Preserving Photographys, Old and New (Life library of photography)

By: Books, Time-Life

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Time Life Education: January 1983

Seller ID: 356275

ISBN: 0809444208

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Andrea Palladio: The Architect in His Time

By: Boucher, Bruce

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Abbeville Press: March 1994

Seller ID: 347268

ISBN: 1558593810

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Photographing the Patterns of Nature

By: Braasch, Gary

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Amphoto: October 1990

Seller ID: 318863

ISBN: 0817454306

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Elements of China: Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, Gold

By: Brahm, Laurence J.

Price: $11.95

Publisher: China Intercontinental Press: January 2002

Seller ID: 332043

ISBN: 7508500458

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Looking for the Summer

By: Brandenburg, Jim,Brandenburg, Anthony

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Creative Pub Intl: October 2003

Seller ID: 342172

ISBN: 052944154011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Building for Science-Architecture of the Max Planck Institutes

By: Braun, Hardo, Gromling, Dieter, Heintz, Carl-Egon, Schumcker, Alfred

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Birkhauser: August 1999

Seller ID: 63313

ISBN: 3764360003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Planning, designing and realising buildings for new research assignments has been one fo the undertakings of the Max Planck Society for decades. This volume explores current solutions by presenting more than 30 new buildings and projects. Construction projects include laboratories such as the synchrotron radiation source Bessy II in Berlin, international conference centres and the conversion of historic buildings such as the Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome by Juan Navarro Baldeweg. The buildings are commissioned by the Construction department of the Society and realised by many international arch...
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