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Watching the World Change
The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center was the most universally observed news event in human history. That the event was so visual is owing to the...
  
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On Photography

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977...
  
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The Great Funk
Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies

Sarah Crichton Books
In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond...
  
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The Painted Word

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post) Wolfe's style has never been...
  
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How Fiction Works

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
What makes a story a story? What is style? What’s the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How...
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De Kooning's Bicycle
Artists and Writers in the Hamptons

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Some of the twentieth century's most important artists and writers--from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Frank O'Hara to Jean Stafford--lived and worked on...
  
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Unnatural Wonders
Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
An Incisive Account of the Bizarre, Often Bewildering Art World of Today Arthur Danto's new collection finds him, and the art world, at a point when the art...
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Plausible Portraits of James Lord
With Commentary by the Model

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Incisive reflections on more than twenty portraits of the author by some of the greatest artists of the last century Over the course of his life as a friend...
  
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Letters on Cézanne

North Point Press
Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes. Virtually every day...
  
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Inside Bruegel
The Play of Images in Children’s Games

North Point Press
In this brilliant, original and lavishly illustrated book, Edward Snow undertakes an inquiry into a single painting by the Flemish master Peter Bruegel the...

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The Ransom of Russian Art

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In the 1960's and 1970's, American professor Norton Dodge forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground "unofficial" artists, and...
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A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The astonishing range of John McPhee gains further dimension from the five extraordinary parts of his most unique novel.