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Title: Amazons in the Drawing Room: The Art of Romaine Brooks by Whitney Chadwick, Joe Lucchesi, Romaine Brooks, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive ISBN: 0-520-22565-1 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good But Incomplete Job on Romaine Brooks
Comment: This book presents itself as "comprehensive and definitive" on the art and life of Romaine Brooks but alas falls short of the goal. Sadly, if you've waited 25 plus years for a decent book on Brooks since the extemely inadequate "Thief of Souls" catalogue from the early 1970's and the wonderful "Between Me and Life" biography by Meryle Secrest, this new catalogue will disappoint. My problem with it is that while bragging that it reproduces "34 of the 40 nudes and portraits" Brooks painted-- why, oh why, couldn't they finish the job and reproduce the remaining six? Even if it is a catalogue to a touring show what harm would it have done to add 3 pages of color plates and include the portrait of Paul Morand, the 2nd D'Annunzio protrait, the Carl Van Vechten and so on? Additionally, the book's format lacks the grandeur of Brook's work as it has a small, blockly format. On the plus side the color reproduction is excellent for all but two of the pictures--the D'Annunzio has too much yellow in it, and "the Huntress" is too dark. How many years must we wait to see all of her work reproduced in one large format resplendent volume, preferably on mat paper, and, for some of the pictures, their frames included? Additionally, the two essays are fine but hardly "definitive" as both are heavily indebted to the Secrest biography which is still the most thorough job on Brooks and inexplicably still out-of-print after 25 years. Still if you love Brook's art this is a must have as there is nothing else. Don't miss the show!
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Title: Wild Heart, a Life: Natalie Clifford Barney's Journey from Victorian America to the Literary Salons of Paris by Suzanne Rodriguez ISBN: 0066213657 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Art of Reflection by Marsha Meskimmon ISBN: 0231106874 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
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Title: Seeing Ourselves by Frances Borzello ISBN: 0810941880 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Women of the Left Bank by Shari Benstock ISBN: 0292790406 Publisher: University of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1987 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Romaine Brooks by Adelyn Dohme Breeskin ISBN: 0874742870 Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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