Posts tagged with ‘Art History’
May 25, 2016
THE POWER OF URBAN SOLITUDE: a writer weaves her memories together with iconic artworks on city loneliness. A MINUS
LONELY CITY: ADVENTURES IN THE ART OF BEING ALONE
Picador USA
2016
Grade: A MINUS
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Art History, LGBTQ Interest, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Psychology
April 20, 2016
THE ELEMENTS OF CREATIVITY explored. Lovely, spare prose! Examples from nature, science, architecture, arts. A MINUS
THE STORM OF CREATIVITY
MIT Press
2015
Grade: A MINUS
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Architecture, Art History, Non-Fiction, Philosopy, Science, Visual Arts
February 13, 2013
ENGAGING BIOGRAPHY OF architect, artist, antiquarian Sarah Losh, whose 1840s church in Wreay still delights.
Grade: B PLUS
THE PINECONE: THE STORY OF SARAH LOSH, FORGOTTEN ROMANTIC HEROINE---ANTIQUARIAN, ARCHITECT, AND VISIONARY
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013
Tags: Architecture, Art History, B Plus Reviews, Biography, England, History, Non-Fiction, Visual Arts, Women's Issues
January 30, 2013
ELOQUENT, COMPASSIONATE WORK by a Polish physician and researcher links medicine with the arts and humanities.
Grade: A MINUS
KORE: ON SICKNESS, THE SICK, AND THE SEARCH FOR THE SOUL OF MEDICINE
Counterpoint
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Art History, Health, History of Science, Literary History, Medicine, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Social History
January 5, 2013
A MAGNIFICENT LOVE LETTER to the city of Venice, in the form of an engaging, richly detailed work of history.
Grade: B PLUS
VENICE: A NEW HISTORY
Viking
2012
Tags: Art History, B Plus Reviews, History, Italy, Non-Fiction, Social History, Venice
December 31, 2012
WILD, ROUGH AND TUMBLE memoir by a high-end art forger of his checkered career and jet set life. Unruly fun!
Grade: SOLID B
CAVEAT EMPTOR: THE SECRET LIFE OF AN AMERICAN ART FORGER
Pegasus
2012
Tags: Art History, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, True Crime, Visual Arts
September 12, 2012
A US EXPATRIATE’S COMPELLING memoir of how his fascination with antique opium paraphernalia led to addiction.
Grade: SOLID B
OPIUM FIEND: A 21ST CENTURY SLAVE TO A 19TH CENTURY TRADITION
Random House
2012
Tags: Addiction and Recovery, Art History, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Solid B Reviews, Thailand
August 6, 2012
INCISIVE, DEEPLY PERSONAL reflection on the impact of AIDS and gentrification on New York’s queer avant-garde.
Grade: B PLUS
THE GENTRIFICATION OF THE MIND: WITNESS TO A LOST IMAGINATION
University of California Press
2012
Tags: Art History, B Plus Reviews, LGBTQ Interest, Literary History, New York City, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary
May 3, 2012
AN ELEGANT COLLAGE OF a memoir from writer, art historian Rosamond Bernier; fun and gossipy about the greats.
Grade: SOLID B
SOME OF MY LIVES: A SCRAPBOOK MEMOIR
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2011
Tags: Art History, Literary History, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Visual Arts
February 22, 2012
FASCINATING BIOGRAPHY, RICH with newly released letters, of Victorian art figure Effie Gray Ruskin Millais.
Grade: B PLUS
EFFIE: THE PASSIONATE LIVES OF EFFIE GRAY, JOHN RUSKIN, AND JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS
St. Martin's
2011
Tags: 19th Century, Art History, B Plus Reviews, Biography, England, Non-Fiction