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David Smith
Author: Michael Brenson
language: en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: 2022-10-04
The definitive biography of David Smith, the trailblazing American sculptor who pioneered Abstract Expressionism in three dimensions. "An essential account of America's greatest sculptor . . . [A] magnum opus." —Marjorie Perloff, The Times Literary Supplement David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor is the first comprehensive biography of the visionary artist who revolutionized American sculpture. Michael Brenson traces Smith's journey from his Midwestern roots to his groundbreaking early years in Manhattan and his permanent studio in upstate New York, where he created iconic works like the Cubis, Tanktotems, and Zigs. Brenson explores Smith's complex personal life, marked by deep friendships with fellow artists like Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell, as well as marriages, divorces, and fallings-out. He delves into the enormous, contradictory vitality that defined both Smith and his work, capturing the essence of an artist who entranced critics and admirers wherever he exhibited. A master welder, painter, photographer, and writer, Smith challenged the stability of identity and position in his art, seeking out the unbounded, unbalanced, and unexpected. By age forty, he had already earned the accolade of "the greatest sculptor this country has produced" from influential critic Clement Greenberg. With this definitive biography, Brenson confirms Smith's singular place in the history of American art and introduces his transformative vision to a new generation.
The Jews in Rome 2
This volume, the sequel to "Jews in Rome 1," recreates through a register and apt citation the second thousand acts of an archive known informally as the 'Notai ebrei', a collection of as many as 10,000 such acts drawn by Roman rabbis between 1536 and 1640. The acts in this volume cover the years 1551-1557. They form a mirror of Jewish social and cultural life, including such matters as litigations, broken engagements, adoption, synagogal disputes, as well as rentals contracts, and apprenticeships. Most noteworthy is the ownership of property by women. This encouraged and reflected the treatment of both men and women as individuals. Indeed, individualism, which also promoted the amalgamation and ethnic levelling of a society that after about 1500 was notably one of immigrants, was this society's most salient characteristic.
The Jews in Rome, Volume 2 (1551-1557)
This volume, the sequel to Jews in Rome 1, recreates through a register and apt citation the second thousand acts of an archive known informally as the 'Notai ebrei', a collection of as many as 10,000 such acts drawn by Roman rabbis between 1536 and 1640. The acts in this volume cover the years 1551-1557. They form a mirror of Jewish social and cultural life, including such matters as litigations, broken engagements, adoption, synagogal disputes, as well as rentals contracts, and apprenticeships. Most noteworthy is the ownership of property by women. This encouraged and reflected the treatment of both men and women as individuals. Indeed, individualism, which also promoted the amalgamation and ethnic levelling of a society that after about 1500 was notably one of immigrants, was this society's most salient characteristic.