Annette Blaugrund. Monacelli, $30 (120p) ISBN 978-1-58093-462-6
Blaugrund (Dispensing Beauty) examines the often forgotten architectural pursuits of the Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole (1801–1848) on the occasion of the reconstruction of his self-designed studio at his home in Catskill, N.Y. When Cole...
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Barbara Novak, Author . George Braziller $19.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1524-9
Art historian and novelist Novak (Alice's Neck
) links a modern-day professor and the 19th-century subject of her research in this slim, scholarly novel. Seeking tenure at a small Boston college, Angelica Bookbinder delves into the life of the...
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Barbara Novak, Author Ticknor & Fields $17.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-89919-539-1
This evocative, erudite and well-crafted first novel by a celebrated art historian transports the reader into the intense and fragmented world of Anne Bernsteina brilliant and beautiful graduate student at Harvard driven to madness by her obsessive...
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