Arts, Artists & Photographers

“The King’s Painter is an outstanding publication that requires and repays a very close and careful reading.”

This is an unusual book because, in almost every way, it is a sequel to a documentary film. Without that film, there’d be no book.

“. . . essential for anyone wanting to know who Magritte was, as a person, a painter, and a thinker.”

“Isn’t the final goal of surrealism, after all, to transform the world?”
—Luis Buñuel

“There is more to say about war than it is just bad.”

                                                  —Stanley Kubrick

”Many will judge that, despite all the emotional chaos, William Feaver has cornered a lion, and that Lucian Freud has earned his place in the pantheon of great post-war realist painters.

“’Being an opera singer was fun, but the people on Bank Street, caring for and about each other, taught me what it means to be human.’”

Incontrovertibly Philip Gefter did his homework when it came to writing about the lives, both professional and personal, of Richard Avedon.

“Line after line and scene after scene delight the reader with its account of a world gone by but well worth the returning to, if only as a tourist.

Detective fiction author Dorothy L.

“Jerome Robbins, By Himself is an unfiltered look at a creative force of nature and an uncompromising artist who just happened to be one of the architects of a golden age of Americ

“Lucy Jones has earned a place of distinction among contemporary expressionist visionaries.”