The Liar
The Liar

Author: Benjamin Cunningham

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2022-08-23

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1541700813

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The Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely—they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And they were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a Communist sleeper agent. After parlaying a doctorate from Columbia into a job at the CIA, Koecher proceeded to operate as a double agent at the height of the Cold War. Shunning a low profile, the Koechers embraced Manhattan’s high life—with cocaine, swinging, and parties emblematic of the times and their penchant for risk. Hana, who was no more than a shy teenager when she arrived, grew into a sophisticated international diamond dealer who relayed messages to Karel’s handlers. Riding a wave of euphoria, the Koechers felt unstoppable. But it was too good to last. Using newly declassified documents, interrogation tapes, and extraordinary firsthand accounts from the Koechers themselves, Cunningham reconstructs their double lives and the fading Cold War, where a strange moral fog made it hard to know what truth was being fought for, and to what end.

Optic Nerve
Optic Nerve

Author: Joe Houston

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Published to accompany an exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, this book examines the development of the Op Art movement, its cultural context, and its widespread impact on advertising, fashion and film-making. It includes works by Josef Albers, Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely.

Perfect Color Choices for the Artist
Perfect Color Choices for the Artist

Author: Michael Wilcox

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13:

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Michael Wilcox offers an entirely new way of creating color harmony and contrast with Perfect Color Choices for the Artist. It's the only complete artist's guide to selecting, mixing and using color. Based on the way that colors in nature are related, this book teaches artists how to achieve perfect color in their art. Artists not only learn the color relationships of plants, animals and nature, but also how to mix and apply those colors to their paintings. Readers will find over 1,000 color arrangements and 400 illustrated examples, plus easy-to-follow instruction and guidelines for mixing and using color in any medium. Michael Wilcox has experienced a widely varied background, including periods as a professional artist, a conservator of art works and an engineer. His research in art and design led to the book Blue & Yellow Don't Make Green followed by the Wilcox Guide to the Best Watercolor Paints. Wilcox has also published the Artist's Guide to Selecting Colors, a guide that shows how to select a suitable palette in any medium-watercolors, oil paints, acrylics and more. He lives and continues his research and writing in Bristol, England.

Artbibliographies Modern
Artbibliographies Modern

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13:

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Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. The scope of ARTbibliographies Modern extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. A particular emphasis is placed upon adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature. Approximately 13,000 new entries are added each year. Published with title LOMA from 1969-1971.

Larger Than Life
Larger Than Life

Author: Robert Zakanitch

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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From 1990 to 1994 New York artist Robert Rahway Zakanitch created an extraordinary body of work entitled The Big Bungalow Suite, a series of five enormous paintings, each 11 by 30 feet. These colossal canvases are the culmination of more than two decades of his painting. This volume illustrates the series and includes an in-depth interview with the artist in which he discusses the ideas that have shaped his art. The Big Bungalow Suite melds Zakanitch's earlier influences with a subject matter inspired by childhood memories of the domestic interiors of his childhood -- floral rugs, painted plates, and patterned linoleum floors. David Pagel in the Los Angeles Times said that The Big Bungalow Suite embodies "life affirming grandeur".

The Life and Art of Felrath Hines
The Life and Art of Felrath Hines

Author: Rachel Berenson Perry

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2019-01-01

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0253037344

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Felrath Hines (1913–1993), the first African American man to become a professional conservator for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, was born and raised in the segregated Midwest. Leaving their home in the South, Hines's parents migrated to Indianapolis with hopes for a better life. While growing up, Hines was encouraged by his seamstress mother to pursue his early passion for art by taking Saturday classes at Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis. He moved to Chicago in 1937, where he attended the Art Institute of Chicago in pursuit of his dreams. The Life and Art of Felrath Hines: From Dark to Light chronicles the life of this exceptional artist who overcame numerous obstacles throughout his career and refused to be pigeonholed because of his race. Author Rachel Berenson Perry tracks Hines's determination and success as a contemporary artist on his own terms. She explores Hines's life in New York City in the 1950s and 60s, where he created a close friendship with jazz musician Billy Strayhorn and participated in the African American Spiral Group of New York and the equal rights movement. Hines's relationship with Georgia O'Keeffe, as her private paintings restorer, and a lifetime of creating increasingly esteemed Modernist artwork, all tell the story of one man's remarkable journey in 20th-century America. Featuring exquisite color photographs, The Life and Art of Felrath Hines explores the artist's life, work, and significance as an artist and as an art conservator.