Posts tagged with ‘Visual Arts’
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
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
November 24, 2012
UNFLINCHINGLY COMPLEX AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL novel follows a young writer’s search for friendship, love, and art.
Grade: B PLUS
HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? A NOVEL FROM LIFE
Henry Holt
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Canada, Novels, Social and Cultural Commentary, Toronto, Visual Arts, Writing
September 4, 2012
ART THEFT, LOOKED at from the perspectives of detectives, lawmakers, victims, and even thieves. Eye-opening!
Grade: SOLID B
HOT ART: CHASING THIEVES AND DETECTIVES THROUGH THE SECRET WORLD OF STOLEN ART
Tin House Books
2012
Tags: Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, True Crime, Visual Arts
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
March 25, 2012
CHATTY, IRREVERENT HISTORY of typeface design is delightful fun for font nerds and neophytes alike.
Grade: SOLID B
JUST MY TYPE: A BOOK ABOUT FONTS
Penguin
2011
Tags: Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Visual Arts
August 13, 2011
GORGEOUS, TERRIFYING, HEART-STOPPING memoir of an artist’s life in flight from a schizophrenic mother’s rages.
Grade: B PLUS
THE MEMORY PALACE
Simon and Schuster
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Visual Arts, Women's Issues
March 31, 2011
POETIC, CHARMING LITTLE reverie on the most famous photograph by “Lewis Carroll” of his girl-muse Alice Liddell.
Grade: B PLUS
THE ALICE BEHIND WONDERLAND
Oxford University Press
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History, Literary History, Non-Fiction, Photography, Visual Arts