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John Singer Sargent : The Male Nudes from Universe Publishing Price: $15.75 Customer Review:  It's hard to believe there was a time when the images in this book would have been considered pornographic. But if Singer's portrait of Madame Pierre Gautreau ("Madame X") was considered scandalous because he painted her with a dropped shoulder strap (later repainted in its proper position), then... |
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Diana Vreeland: Bazaar Years from Universe Publishing (NY) Price: $15.75 Customer Review: Of course, you must know and love Mrs. Vreeland to be here in the first place. Given that you do, buy this book. Don't expect a compendium of her suggestions and aphorisms. Do expect a delightful hour's browse. Well worth the money. |
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Thomas Eakins: The Absolute Male from Universe Publishing (NY) Price: $18.87 Customer Review:  This is a beautifully produced little volume of Eakins's photographs and paintings of nude males (the phrase "absolute male" is a journalistic euphemism for male art class models stripped of their posing straps). The text is thin and doesn't really say anthing new. The paintings are also likely to... |
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Hamptons Gardens from Rizzoli International Publications Price: $30.60 |
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UNMENTIONABLES : A Brief History of Underwear from Simon & Schuster Customer Review: I thought when I read Don Quixote by Cervantes that I'd read the best book ever written. Then I happened upon Tolstoy's War and Peace, and I thought no reading experience could ever compare. THEN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I FOUND IT: Elaine Benson's matchless "Unmentionables: a Brief History of... |
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Sargent : Painting Out-of-Doors from Rizzoli International Publications Price: $9.98 Customer Review: "... The whole problem with our contemporary art market, as I see it, is that our standards for professionalism have been too low. We have been missing the mark because we have been aiming at the wrong mark. Masters in plein air painting like Sargent, Sorolla, Courbet, Homer...are the historical... |
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Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of the War from Louisiana State University Press Price: $19.69 Customer Review: This is a contemporary source, a mixed bag of character sketches, fictionalized real events, and historical bits. Cooke isn't great on exact accuracy of dates and events, but he captures a certain mentality well. If you want the Virginian-plume-wearing-chivalry Thing, you'd better read this book.... |
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Aesop's Fables: With a Life of Aesop (Studies in Romance Language, No 34) from University Press of Kentucky Price: $45.00 |
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Daily Life Depicted in the Cantigas De Santa Maria (Studies in Romance Languages, 44) from University Press of Kentucky Price: $55.00 Customer Review:  This volume is worth the price for any Cantigas de Santa Maria enthusiast simply for the color plates (although many of these are repeats of those presented in the 1984 book by Keller and Kincade, Iconography in Medieval Spanish Literature). The index, a logically categorized list of specific... |
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Mohun, or The Last Days of Lee and His Paladins from Digireads.com Price: $1.99 |
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The Life of Stonewall Jackson from Digital Scanning Inc. Price: $4.95 |
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A Life Of General Robert E. Lee from Kessinger Publishing, LLC Price: $1.99 |
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The Last Of The Foresters Or Humors On The Border A Story Of The Old Virginia Frontier from Kessinger Publishing, LLC Price: $1.99 |
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Collectanea Hispanica: Folklore and Brief Narrative Studies (Juan De La Cuesta Hispanic Monographs) from Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs |
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Mohun, or The Last Days of Lee and His Paladins from Digireads.com Price: $1.99 |
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The Black Dog Village site: A panhandle aspect manifestation in Hutchinson County, Texas (Texas Highway Department publications in archaeology ; report no. 5) from Texas Highway Dept., Highway Design Division |
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Surry Of Eagle's Nest from Kessinger Publishing Price: $38.95 |
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Leather stocking and silk;: Or, Hunter John Myers and his times. A story of the valley of Virginia from Harper |
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Alfonso X, El Sabio from Twayne Pub |
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Manhattan Style from Little Brown & Co (T) |
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Menage a Trois : Nusch, Man Ray & Picasso from Universe Publishing Price: $35.00 |
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Manhattan Style from Little Brown & Co (T) |
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Alfonso X, El Sabio from Twayne Pub |
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Pretty Mrs. Gaston, and Other Stories: And Other Stories (Short Story Index Reprint Series) from Ayer Co Pub Price: $20.95 |
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Surry of Eagle's Nest: Or, the Memoirs of a Staff Officer Serving in Virginia from Irvington Publishers Customer Review: JOHN ESTEN COOK DOES A MASTERFUL JOB OF UNITING HISTORY AND FICTION. ALL HISTORICAL FACTS ARE INDICATED AND THE FICTION PART FITS IN VERY WELL WITH THE ACTUAL EVENTS OF THAT TIME. I HAVE READ MOST OF JOHN ESTEN COOKS BOOKS AND I BELIEVE THIS TO BE THE BEST. |
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