2019, ISBN: 9780375410420

Gebundene Ausgabe

New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. First Edition [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Stephen Wilkes (Jacket photograph). 298, [6] pages. Inscribed on the title page by t… Mehr…

New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. First Edition [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Stephen Wilkes (Jacket photograph). 298, [6] pages. Inscribed on the title page by the author. Inscription reads: To Ann, with love and friendship and all best wishes Sue, and then signed Susan Richards Shreve under her printed name. Susan Shreve (also known as Susan Richards Shreve) is an American novelist, memoirist, and children's book author. She has published fifteen novels, most recently More News Tomorrow (2019), and a memoir Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood (2007). She has also published thirty books for children, most recently The Lovely Shoes (2011), and edited or co-edited five anthologies. Shreve co-founded the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing program at George Mason University in 1980, where she teaches writing. She is the co-founder and the former chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. It is 1973 and the scandal of Watergate is on everyone's lips. Lucy Painter, children's book writer and single mother of two, is leaving New York and the married father of her children, to return to the house in the tightly knit Washington, DC, neighborhood where she grew up and where she discovered her father's suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start, but her life is full of secrets: her children know nothing of the circumstances surrounding her father's death or of the identity of their own father. As new neighbors enter their insular lives, the safety and stability of her family are in jeopardy. This is a story of how shame leads to secrets, secrets lead to lies, and how lies stand in the way of human connection. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Shreve explores the damaging ripple effect of secrets in her emotional and psychologically compelling newest. Lucy Painter discovered her hanged father in their house in Washington, D.C. His suicide instilled in Lucy an abiding shame, and became the root of her reclusiveness and belief in "necessary" lies. Later, Lucy becomes a successful children's book illustrator and a single mother, but keeps the father's identity hidden from her children, preteen Maggie and young Felix because he is a married man. In 1973, Lucy and her kids move from New York back to Lucy's childhood home, where she struggles with intrusive neighbors, especially the headstrong Zee Mallory. To Lucy's increasing chagrin, Zee begins "appropriating" Maggie, who is hurt by her mother's emotional reticence. Only when Lucy realizes that she may lose her daughter does she summon the courage to reveal her past. Shreve has an authoritative command of narrative, and she portrays the younger characters with insight and pitch-perfect dialogue, crafting a message of transparency and acceptance that resonates beyond the home., W.W. Norton & Company, 2012, 3, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xxii, 517, [3] pages 86 illustration. Genealogy, A Note on Exchange Rates, Notes. Partial List of items sold by Duveen, and Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads For Nancy Jean, A lover of books & music, and what more is there? Love Meryle Secrest 13.x.04. Meryle Secrest is an American biographer, primarily of American artists and art collectors. Secrest was born in Bath, England, and educated at the City of Bath Girls School, a school strong in the arts and Humanities. Her family emigrated to Canada, where she began her career as a journalist. She worked as women's editor for the Hamilton News in Ontario, Canada; shortly thereafter she was named "Most Promising Young Writer" by the Canadian Women's Press Club. In 1964 she began writing for The Washington Post, doing profile interviews of notable personalities from Leonard Bernstein to Anaïs Nin. In 1975 she left to write books full-time. She has written a number of biographies; her subjects have included Frank Lloyd Wright, Lord Duveen, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Salvador Dalí, Kenneth Clark, Bernard Berenson, and Richard Rodgers. Being Bernard Berenson was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 and for the American Book Awards in 1981. In 1999 she received the George Freedley Memorial Award of the American Library Association for her outstanding contribution to the literature of the theatre. In 2006, she received the Presidential National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush for illuminating the lives of great architects, artists and scholars of the 20th century. Meryle Secrest, biographer of Kenneth Clark and Bernard Berenson, brings all her exceptional gifts to the story of Lord Duveen of Millbank. Her book is the first major biography in more than fifty years of the supreme international art dealer of the twentieth century and the first to make use of the enormous Duveen archive that spans a century and has, until recently, been kept under lock and key at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The story begins with Duveen père, a Dutch Jew immigrating to Britain in 1866, establishing a business in London, going from humble beginnings in an antiques shop to a knighthood celebrating him as one of the country's leading art dealers. Duveen père could discern an Old Master beneath layers of discolored varnish. He perfected the chase, the subterfuges, the strategies, the double dealings. He had an uncanny ability to spot a hidden treasure. It was called the Duveen eye. His son, Joseph, grew up with it and learned it all, and more. Secrest tells us how the young Duveen was motivated from the beginning by the thrill of discovery; how he ascended, at twenty-nine, to (de facto) head of the business; how he moved away from the firm's emphasis on tapestries and Chinese porcelains toward the more speculative, more lucrative, more exciting business of dealing in Old Masters. We see a demand for these paintings growing in America, fueled by the new squillionaires just at the moment when British aristocrats with great art collections were losing their fortunes. Duveen's whole career was based on the simple observation: Europe has the art; America, the money. Secrest shows how he sold hundreds of masterpieces by Bellini, Botticelli, Giotto, Raphael, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Watteau, Velázquez, Vermeer, and Titian, among others, by convincing such self-made Americans as Morgan, Frick, Huntington, Widener, Bache, Mellon, and Kress that ownership of great art would ennoble them, and while waving such huge sums at the already noble British owners that the art changed hands and all were happy. We discover Duveen's connection to Buckingham Palace: how when the Prince of Wales became Edward VII his first act was to call in Duveen Brothers as decorators; how Duveen supplied the tapestries and rugs for the coronation ceremonies in Westminster Abbey; and how, in 1933, he became Lord Duveen of Millbank. We learn about the controversies in which he became embroiled and about his legendary art espionage. Duveen was as generous as he was acquisitive, giving away hundreds of thousands of pounds to British institutions (the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, including rooms to house the Elgin Marbles), organizing exhibitions for young artists, writing books about British art, and playing a major role in the design of the National Gallery in Washington. Meryle Secrest's Duveen fascinates as it contributes to our understanding of art as commerce and our grasp of American and English taste in the grand manner. As Andrew Mellon once said, paintings never looked as good as they did when Duveen was standing in front of them., Alfred A. Knopf, 2004, 3<

2004, ISBN: 0375410422

Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe

[EAN: 9780375410420], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf, New York], DUVEEN, ART DEALERS, COLLECTORS, BOND STREET, LOUISA MANNERS, BLUE BOY, DEMOTTE, JULES BACHE, BERNARD… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780375410420], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf, New York], DUVEEN, ART DEALERS, COLLECTORS, BOND STREET, LOUISA MANNERS, BLUE BOY, DEMOTTE, JULES BACHE, BERNARD BERENSON, KENNETH CLARK, EDWARD FOWLES, HENRY FRICK, HUNTINGTON, LOWENGARD, ANDREW MELLON, Jacket, xxii, 517, [3] pages 86 illustration. Genealogy, A Note on Exchange Rates, Notes. Partial List of items sold by Duveen, and Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads For Nancy Jean, A lover of books & music, and what more is there? Love Meryle Secrest 13.x.04. Meryle Secrest is an American biographer, primarily of American artists and art collectors. Secrest was born in Bath, England, and educated at the City of Bath Girls School, a school strong in the arts and Humanities. Her family emigrated to Canada, where she began her career as a journalist. She worked as women's editor for the Hamilton News in Ontario, Canada; shortly thereafter she was named "Most Promising Young Writer" by the Canadian Women's Press Club. In 1964 she began writing for The Washington Post, doing profile interviews of notable personalities from Leonard Bernstein to Anaïs Nin. In 1975 she left to write books full-time. She has written a number of biographies; her subjects have included Frank Lloyd Wright, Lord Duveen, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Salvador Dalí, Kenneth Clark, Bernard Berenson, and Richard Rodgers. Being Bernard Berenson was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 and for the American Book Awards in 1981. In 1999 she received the George Freedley Memorial Award of the American Library Association for her outstanding contribution to the literature of the theatre. In 2006, she received the Presidential National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush for illuminating the lives of great architects, artists and scholars of the 20th century. Meryle Secrest, biographer of Kenneth Clark and Bernard Berenson, brings all her exceptional gifts to the story of Lord Duveen of Millbank. Her book is the first major biography in more than fifty years of the supreme international art dealer of the twentieth century and the first to make use of the enormous Duveen archive that spans a century and has, until recently, been kept under lock and key at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The story begins with Duveen père, a Dutch Jew immigrating to Britain in 1866, establishing a business in London, going from humble beginnings in an antiques shop to a knighthood celebrating him as one of the country's leading art dealers. Duveen père could discern an Old Master beneath layers of discolored varnish. He perfected the chase, the subterfuges, the strategies, the double dealings. He had an uncanny ability to spot a hidden treasure. It was called the Duveen eye. His son, Joseph, grew up with it and learned it all, and more. Secrest tells us how the young Duveen was motivated from the beginning by the thrill of discovery; how he ascended, at twenty-nine, to (de facto) head of the business; how he moved away from the firm's emphasis on tapestries and Chinese porcelains toward the more speculative, more lucrative, more exciting business of dealing in Old Masters. We see a demand for these paintings growing in America, fueled by the new squillionaires just at the moment when British aristocrats with great art collections were losing their fortunes. Duveen's whole career was based on the simple observation: Europe has the art; America, the money. Secrest shows how he sold hundreds of masterpieces by Bellini, Botticelli, Giotto, Raphael, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Watteau, Velázquez, Vermeer, and Titian, among others, by convincing such self-made Americans as Morgan, Frick, Huntington, Widener, Bache, Mellon, and Kress that ownership of great art would ennoble them, and while waving such huge sums at the already noble British owners that the art changed hands and all were happy. We discover Duveen's connection to Buckingham Palace: how when the Prince of Wales became Edward VII his first act was to call in Duveen Brothers as decorators; how Duveen supplied the tapestries and rugs for the coronation ceremonies in Westminster Abbey; and how, in 1933, he became Lord Duveen of Millbank. We learn about the controversies in which he became embroiled and about his legendary art espionage. Duveen was as generous as he was acquisitive, giving away hundreds of thousands of pounds to British institutions (the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, including rooms to house the Elgin Marbles), organizing exhibitions for young artists, writing books about British art, and playing a major role in the design of the National Gallery in Washington. Meryle Secrest's Duveen fascinates as it contributes to our understanding of art as commerce and our grasp of American and English taste in the grand manner. As Andrew Mellon once said, paintings never looked as good as they did when Duveen was standing in front of them. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing., Books<

2006, ISBN: 9780375410420

Gebundene Ausgabe

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xxii, 517, [3] pages 86 illustration. Genealogy, A Note on Exchange Rat… Mehr…

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xxii, 517, [3] pages 86 illustration. Genealogy, A Note on Exchange Rates, Notes. Partial List of items sold by Duveen, and Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads For Nancy Jean, A lover of books & music, and what more is there? Love Meryle Secrest 13.x.04. Meryle Secrest is an American biographer, primarily of American artists and art collectors. Secrest was born in Bath, England, and educated at the City of Bath Girls School, a school strong in the arts and Humanities. Her family emigrated to Canada, where she began her career as a journalist. She worked as women's editor for the Hamilton News in Ontario, Canada; shortly thereafter she was named "Most Promising Young Writer" by the Canadian Women's Press Club. In 1964 she began writing for The Washington Post, doing profile interviews of notable personalities from Leonard Bernstein to Anaïs Nin. In 1975 she left to write books full-time. She has written a number of biographies; her subjects have included Frank Lloyd Wright, Lord Duveen, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Salvador Dalí, Kenneth Clark, Bernard Berenson, and Richard Rodgers. Being Bernard Berenson was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 and for the American Book Awards in 1981. In 1999 she received the George Freedley Memorial Award of the American Library Association for her outstanding contribution to the literature of the theatre. In 2006, she received the Presidential National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush for illuminating the lives of great architects, artists and scholars of the 20th century. Meryle Secrest, biographer of Kenneth Clark and Bernard Berenson, brings all her exceptional gifts to the story of Lord Duveen of Millbank. Her book is the first major biography in more than fifty years of the supreme international art dealer of the twentieth century and the first to make use of the enormous Duveen archive that spans a century and has, until recently, been kept under lock and key at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The story begins with Duveen père, a Dutch Jew immigrating to Britain in 1866, establishing a business in London, going from humble beginnings in an antiques shop to a knighthood celebrating him as one of the country's leading art dealers. Duveen père could discern an Old Master beneath layers of discolored varnish. He perfected the chase, the subterfuges, the strategies, the double dealings. He had an uncanny ability to spot a hidden treasure. It was called the Duveen eye. His son, Joseph, grew up with it and learned it all, and more. Secrest tells us how the young Duveen was motivated from the beginning by the thrill of discovery; how he ascended, at twenty-nine, to (de facto) head of the business; how he moved away from the firm's emphasis on tapestries and Chinese porcelains toward the more speculative, more lucrative, more exciting business of dealing in Old Masters. We see a demand for these paintings growing in America, fueled by the new squillionaires just at the moment when British aristocrats with great art collections were losing their fortunes. Duveen's whole career was based on the simple observation: Europe has the art; America, the money. Secrest shows how he sold hundreds of masterpieces by Bellini, Botticelli, Giotto, Raphael, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Watteau, Velázquez, Vermeer, and Titian, among others, by convincing such self-made Americans as Morgan, Frick, Huntington, Widener, Bache, Mellon, and Kress that ownership of great art would ennoble them, and while waving such huge sums at the already noble British owners that the art changed hands and all were happy. We discover Duveen's connection to Buckingham Palace: how when the Prince of Wales became Edward VII his first act was to call in Duveen Brothers as decorators; how Duveen supplied the tapestries and rugs for the coronation ceremonies in Westminster Abbey; and how, in 1933, he became Lord Duveen of Millbank. We learn about the controversies in which he became embroiled and about his legendary art espionage. Duveen was as generous as he was acquisitive, giving away hundreds of thousands of pounds to British institutions (the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, including rooms to house the Elgin Marbles), organizing exhibitions for young artists, writing books about British art, and playing a major role in the design of the National Gallery in Washington. Meryle Secrest's Duveen fascinates as it contributes to our understanding of art as commerce and our grasp of American and English taste in the grand manner. As Andrew Mellon once said, paintings never looked as good as they did when Duveen was standing in front of them., Alfred A. Knopf, 2004, 3<