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Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravityby Nancy Milford , Steven Henry Madoff, Edward SaywellISBN 0691113599 (0-691-11359-9)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity'Book summary:Christopher Wilmarth delighted the world with light-filled sculptures of glass and steel that were deeply poetic in their moods and extraordinarily rich in their modernist heritage. But in 1987, at the peak of his career, a long struggle with depression ended tragically for Wilmarth. The internationally acclaimed artist committed suicide at age 44, and his work largely fell from the public view.
Now, Wilmarth's legacy is recaptured in this beautifully written, richly illustrated book by art critic, historian, and poet Steven Henry Madoff. The first in-depth look at Wilmarth's extraordinary life as an artist, the book explores both the light and the darkness that underlie his work. Madoff offers a critical overview of the artist's career, examining the sculptor's response not only to historical masters such as Cézanne, Brancusi, Matisse, and Giacometti, but also to the art world of his times--particularly the dominant influence of Minimalism. Using the newly created Wilmarth archive at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum, Madoff anchors this moving interpretation with the sculptor's own writings unearthed from journals, student notebooks, artist sketchbooks, and letters.
Madoff draws as well from interviews, articles, and poems that Wilmarth published in his lifetime, along with the body of criticism covering Wilmarth's development over the years. Acclaimed biographer Nancy Milford contributes a poignant memoir of her years of friendship with the artist, and Fogg associate curator Edward Saywell offers a powerful selection of Wilmarth's writings. The sculptor's romantic outlook, his gorgeously light-infused art, and his dramatic decline into work of harrowing darkness are sensitively examined in a book that reintroduces Christopher Wilmarth's sculptures and graphics to the contemporary art audience.
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millayby Nancy MilfordISBN 0375760814 (0-375-76081-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay'Book summary:Fans of Zelda, Nancy Milford's groundbreaking (and bestselling) biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald's tortured wife and muse, have been waiting impatiently since 1970 for Milford's promised follow-up about poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). It's finally here, and they will not be disappointed. Milford's vivid narrative limns an electric personality with psychological acuity while capturing the freewheeling atmosphere of America in the turbulent years following World War I. After "Renascence" was published (when she was only 20) and she moved to Greenwich Village, Millay was the queen of bohemia, taking lovers with zest and voicing the reckless gaiety of a generation in her famous lyric, "My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends-- / It gives a lovely light." With her flame-red hair, milk-white skin, and a voice that thrilled audiences (making her poetry readings a welcome source of income), Millay was the archetypal "new woman": powerful, passionate, and not to be ignored. But Milford makes it clear that her first loyalty was to her mother and sisters, and her deepest commitment to her writing. This juicy chronicle has famous names aplenty--critic Edmund Wilson and Masses editor Floyd Dell were among the men devastated by her refusal to be faithful--and lots of dissipation: Millay drank heavily and became addicted to morphine. It also takes a perceptive look at how an artist draws material from her life and at the strategies she uses to protect the wellsprings of creativity. Brief passages interspersed throughout delineating Milford's interactions with Norma Millay, the poet's younger sister and literary executor, might have been self-indulgent and self-aggrandizing; instead they offer intriguing snapshots of the complex process by which biography is made. The resulting book is a tour de force, and wildly entertaining as well. --Wendy Smith [via]
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- Savage Beauty : The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay: ISBN 039457589X (0-394-57589-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Savage Beauty: The Life Of Edna St. Vincent Millay: ISBN 0606330127 (0-606-33012-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay: ISBN 0786239654 (0-7862-3965-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay: ISBN 0375760814 (0-375-76081-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Savage Beauty : The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay: ISBN 039457589X (0-394-57589-X)
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The Selected Poetryby Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nancy MilfordISBN 0679642374 (0-679-64237-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Selected Poetry'Book summary:"These are the poems that made Edna St. Vincent Millays reputation when she was young. Saucy, insolent, flip, and defiant, her little verses sting the page," writes Nancy Milford in the Introduction to The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. As one of Americas most beloved poetsand the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923Millay defined a generation with her intoxicating voice of liberation. Most remembered for her passionate, lyrical voice and mastery of the sonnet form, Millay explores love, death, and nature in her poetry while deftly employing allusions to the classical and the romantic. In 1917, at the age of twenty, she burst onto the New York literary scene with the publication of her first book of poetry, Renascence and Other Poems, which is included in this volume.
Edited by Millay biographer Nancy Milford, The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay also includes the collections A Few Figs from Thistles and Second April, as well as "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" and eight of Millays sonnets from the early twenties. [via]More editions of The Selected Poetry:
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The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millayby Edna st Vincent Millay, Nancy MilfordISBN 0375761233 (0-375-76123-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay'Book summary:One of Americas most celebrated poetsand winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923Edna St. Vincent Millay defined a generation with her passionate lyrics and intoxicating voice of liberation. Edited by Millay biographer Nancy Milford, this Modern Library Paperback Classics collection captures the poets unique spirit in works like Renascence and Other Poems, A Few Figs from This-tles, and Second April, as well as in The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver and eight sonnets from the early twenties. As Milford writes in her Introduction, These are the poems that made Edna St. Vincent Millays reputation when she was young. Saucy, insolent, flip, and defiant, her little verses sting the page. [via]
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Zeldaby Nancy MilfordISBN 0060910690 (0-06-091069-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zelda: A Biography'Book summary:Zelda Sayre began as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age, together they rode the crest of the era: to its collapse and their own.
From years of exhaustive research, Nancy Milford brings alive the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda and clarifies as never before her relationship with` Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda traces the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband's career and her own talent.
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Zelda Fitzgeraldby Nancy MilfordISBN 0140030034 (0-14-003003-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Edna St. Vincent Millayby Nancy MilfordISBN 8477652171 (84-7765-217-1)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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