Vanity Fair's Hollywood

A fascinating collection of classic photographs, essays, and caricatures from the pages of Vanity Fair celebrates a century of glamour and power plays in Hollywood, from Garbo to Grant and beyond, featuring more than three hundred images from such acclaimed photographers as Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Edward Steichen, and Bruce Weber. Reprint.

Biographies & Memoirs

Hitchens, Christopher

David Friend

Carter, Graydon

Arts & Literature

Studio

Creative Way to Paint

Pitman

How do you pull together all the elements of a painting into a unified, artistic whole? This book presents a new approach--especially suited to beginners--to the process of creative pictorial composition. Adapting the creative pictorial composition. Adapting the same integrative process by which advanced students are trained, the author shows how to structure all the component parts of a picture into a series of rhythmic and harmonious relationships. Each chapter consists of three sections: 1. A discussion of a particular compositional problem. 2. A series of corresponding projects in creative composition for the reader to do. 3. A variety of case histories analyzing how old and contemporary masters -- such as Braque, Beughel, Cezanne, Copley, Daumier, Delacroix, Dubuffet, El Greco, Gainsborough, Goya, Homer, Matisse, Picasso, Rembrandt, Seurat, Velazquez, and Wyeth, among others--handled the problem. By following this three-part format, the reader is encouraged to learn by solving the problems that the masters worked out in their compositions. Under the expert guidance of the author, the reader learns how to see two-dimensional shape relationships, light and dark value relationships, and color relationships. He is then introduced to negative space, "crowded" space, vertical vs. horizontal composition, "empty" space, as well as how to express mood with texture and line. Finally, the author introduces the illusion of three dimensions. David Friend, for many years a practicing painter and art instructor, and author of The Creative Way to Pain, once again shows that even the beginner can develop the critical visual awareness and artistic insight that will enable him to create artwork he can be proud of. 192 pages, 8 1/4 x 11, 160 black-and-white illustrations, 16 full-color plates, Index.

Composition: A Painter's Guide to Basic Problems and Solutions

Arts & Photography

Painting

Watson-Guptill Publications

A description of an original but systematic approach to expressing feelings artistically

The Creative Way to Paint

History & Criticism

Watson/Guptill

[*Read by the author - David Friend]A sexual history of the 1990s when the Baby Boomers took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue. A definitive look at the captains of the culture wars -- and an indispensable road map for understanding how we got to the Trump Teens.The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido examines the scandal-strafed decade when our public and private lives began to blur due to the rise of the web, reality television, and the wholesale tabloidization of pop culture.In this comprehensive and often hilarious time capsule, David Friend combines detailed reporting with first-person accounts from many of the decade's singular personalities, from Anita Hill to Monica Lewinsky, Lorena Bobbitt to Heidi Fleiss, Alan Cumming to Joan Rivers, Jesse Jackson to key members of the Clinton, Dole, and Bush teams.The Naughty Nineties also uncovers unsung sexual pioneers, from the enterprising sisters who dreamed up the Brazilian bikini wax to the scientists who, quite by accident, discovered Viagra.

The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Hachette Audio and Blackstone Audio

With Any Luck, I'll Drive A Truck

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