Artists, Architects, Photographers
- Bernard Berenson
- Ernest Samuels
- Who was Bernard Berenson, this supreme connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting? The answers are to be found in the day-to-day record of his life as he lived it.Samuels, having spent twenty years studying the thousands of letters and other manuscripts, presents his story in absorbing detail.
- Hardcover
- Bernard Berenson
- Ernest Samuels
- Critic, arbiter of taste, renowned authority on Renaissance painting and oracle to millionaire art collectors, Bernard Berenson was the most formidable presence in the art world for more than thirty years. Four decades of his life are unfolded in this compelling book.
- Hardcover 1979 / Paperback
- Designs on the Heart
- Karal Ann Marling
- In this book, Karal Ann Marling looks at Grandma Moses as a cultural phenomenon of the postwar period and explores the meaning of her subject matter--and her astonishing fame. Between the cultural ephemera, folklore, song, and history embedded in Moses' paintings and the potent advertising shorthand for Americana that her images rapidly became, this book reveals the widespread longing for the memories, comforts, and small victories of a mythic, intimate American past tapped by the phenomenon of Grandma Moses.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Impulse to Preserve
- Robert Gardner
- Foreword by Charles Simic
- In The Impulse to Preserve, filmmaker Robert Gardner reflects on a life spent observing, recording, and illuminating the human condition in some of the most remote regions of the world. Originally published in 2006, this lavishly illustrated book is now distributed by the Peabody Museum Press.
- Hardcover 2008