Blinky Palermo
Title | Blinky Palermo PDF eBook |
Author | Lynne Cooke |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300153668 |
Issued in connection with an exhibition held October 31, 2010-January 16, 2011, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 24-May 15, 2011, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., and June 25, 2011-October 31 2012, Dia:Beacon, New York, and CCS Bard, New Yor
True Colors
Title | True Colors PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Haden-Guest |
Publisher | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780871137258 |
The Colors covers the past three decades of the American art scene, a period during which the prevailing artistic fashion has shifted as often as the focus of the Whitney Biennial, when art and money, talent and celebrity have often been confused. During this period, figures such as Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons, and Keith Haring have crossed over from the rarefied world of high art into popular culture, and art dealers, like Hollywood power agents, have often claimed as much attention as those they represented. Anthony Haden-Guest has moved within this world, known the players, and delivers here an authoritative and deliciously inside account.Focusing on the lives and personalities of the art world's main players, and with a sure critical component, Haden-Guest gives us vivid portraits of the period's key artists as they strive to fulfill their ambitions. He does justice as well to the machinations of those who have come to control the larger drama -- the dealers, collectors, and museum curators. Filled with incredible anecdotes, dramatically told stories, and subtle critical assessments, True Colors tells the story of the art world that we have never heard before.
Boxing and the Mob
Title | Boxing and the Mob PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Sussman |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2019-05-08 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1538113163 |
More than any other sport, boxing has a history of being easy to rig. There are only two athletes and one or both may be induced to accept a bribe; if not the fighters, then the judges or referee might be swayed. In such inviting circumstances, the mob moved into boxing in the 1930s and profited by corrupting a sport ripe for exploitation. In Boxing and the Mob: The Notorious History of the Sweet Science, Jeffrey Sussman tells the story of the coercive and criminal underside of boxing, covering nearly the entire twentieth century. He profiles some of its most infamous characters, such as Owney Madden, Frankie Carbo, and Frank Palermo, and details many of the fixed matches in boxing’s storied history. In addition, Sussman examines the influence of the mob on legendary boxers—including Primo Carnera, Sugar Ray Robinson, Max Baer, Carmen Basilio, Sonny Liston, and Jake LaMotta—and whether they caved to the mobsters’ threats or refused to throw their fights. Boxing and the Mob is the first book to cover a century of fixed fights, paid-off referees, greedy managers, misused boxers, and the mobsters who controlled it all. True crime and the world of boxing are intertwined with absorbing detail in this notorious piece of American history.
Artists & Prints
Title | Artists & Prints PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Wye |
Publisher | The Museum of Modern Art |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780870701252 |
Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.
The Devil and Sonny Liston
Title | The Devil and Sonny Liston PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Tosches |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780316897754 |
The anti-Ali, Sonny Liston represents everything that is compelling and terrifying about boxing. An overwhelmingly powerful fighter, Liston rose from a desperately poor childhood to street criminal to world heavyweight champion. He then became the pawn of a series of criminal organizations and was shadowed throughout his life by government investigations, arrests, and the rumor of corruption. The Devil and Sonny Liston is not just the biography of a boxer; it is one of the greatest organized-crime stories ever told and confirms Toschess place as one of the most powerful and original writers of our time. Toschess acclaimed biography of Dean Martin, Dino, sold more than 110,000 copies From the rappers Wu-Tang Clan to writer Thom Jones, people are fascinated by Sonny Liston and by boxing in general. King of the World by David Remnick sold more than 100,000 copies. Tom Cruises Cruise/Wagner Productions is at work on a movie based on this book. A collection of Toschess best writing, The Nick Tosches Reader, is due out in 2000. Tosches is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair.
High Times, Hard Times
Title | High Times, Hard Times PDF eBook |
Author | Dawoud Bey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Edited by Katy Siegel. Essays by Dawoud Bey, Anna Chave, Robert Pincus-Witten, Katy Siegel and Marcia Tucker. Foreword by Judith Richards. Introduction by David Reed.
Beyond Geometry
Title | Beyond Geometry PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Zelevansky |
Publisher | MIT Press (MA) |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
'Beyond Geometry' brings together examples of European and Latin American concrete art, Argentine Arte Madí, Brazilian Neo-Concretism, Kinetic and Op Art, Minimalism and various forms of post-Minimalism including systematic forms of process and conceptual art.