Sentences with phrase «first full biography»

David Park: A Painter's Life is the first full biography of a postwar California artist, a long overdue counterbalance to the biographies of Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko and Arshile Gorky that have appeared since the late 1980s.

By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available.

After a decade of intense research, Gifford presents the first full biography of Robert «Iceberg Slim» Beck (1918 — 92), diligently chronicling his brutal and redemptive experiences at the epicenter of twentieth - century urban black America and zealously establishing Beck's standing as an influential antiestablishment writer, who inspired gangsta rap, hip - hop, and street lit.

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Hein is professor of literature at Wheaton College and here offers the first full - length biography of a writer who had an inestimable influence on such as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkein, and Frederick Buechner (who writes the foreword).

There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

It's not a traditional full - length biography, but instead an engaging chronicle of Streisand's meteoric rise during her first four years in show business.

John Warburton explains his fruitful pre-WW1 relationship with the Luton factory and the car's début at Waddington Fell / Auto - biography: Ronald «Steady» Barker — Matthew Bell travels to Wiltshire to meet the incorrigible 93 - year - old motoring journalist and learn about his life and career / 10EX: the full - bore Phantom — An experimental car that was the first post-WW1 Rolls - Royce built purely for speed, David Burgess-Wise drives this fascinating machine / Vintage Revival Montlhéry — In a two - part article, Robin Batchelor describes The Automobile's journey to Montlhéry while David Burgess-Wise reports on the action as the banked circuit reverberated again to the sound of prewar cars and motorcycles / Back on the Road — Michael Ware reports on the restoration of a 1947 Dellow, one of only two survivors of the four original prototypes for this highly effective trials car

Turner will be presenting his first full - length biography, The Life of Vesper Geer.

The book also includes commissioned essays by Jed Perl, art historian and author currently at work on the first full - length biography of Alexander Calder, and Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize - winning architecture critic, as well as poems by Karl Shapiro and John Updike.

The award - winning publication provides the definitive introduction to the Monster Roster — a group of artists spearheaded by Leon Golub who established the first unique Chicago style — and adds a vital chapter to the history of 20th century American art through essays, a timeline, artist biographies, primary source texts, and over 100 full - color plates.

Phoebe Hoban's sprawling «Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty» is the first full - length biography of the artist.

Joan Mitchell is the first full - scale biography of the abstract expressionist painter who came of age in the 1950s,»60s, and»70s; a portrait of an outrageous artist and her struggling artist world, painters making their way in the second part of America's twentieth century.

This presented some serious challenges to her biographer, writer and critic Nancy Princenthal, who published the first full - length biography on the artist last year.

B. Traven is the nom de plume of an author who's biography is shrouded in mystery, made even more complex by the fact that his writings first published in German are full of Anglicisms, whereas those published in English, are full of Germanisms.

Yet in this riveting biography, the first full - length account of her colorful life, Krasner emerges as a significant artist who deserves her place in the twentieth century's cultural lexicon.