Books by Sandra Jordan and Complete Book Reviews

Twentieth-Century American Art, Author, Barbara Sturman, Author, Sandra Jordan, Author ABRAMS $19.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4386-5
Editor Jan Greenberg invited poets to choose a 20th-century work of American art and write a poem ""stimulated by it""; the result is Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art. Jane Yolen contemplates Grant Wood's...
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Sandra Jordan, Author, Christine Davenier, Illustrator , illus. by Christine Davenier. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-35089-5
Ostensibly, this is a familiar story of a dog that works its way into the hearts of a couple by virtue of its innate cuteness and quirky heroism. But what Jordan (Action Jackson ) has really written is a portrait of an idiosyncratic, childless...
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Sandra Jordan, Author, Sandra Jordan, Illustrator, Sandra Jordan, Photographer . Roaring Brook/Porter $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7613-1592-6
Toting nets and buckets, a group of children spend a hot day wading through a pond, searching for an elusive amphibian, and discover that nature offers numerous other rewards. Jordan's (co-author of Chuck Close: Up Close) subtle hand-tinting of...
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Jan Greenberg, Author, Sandra Jordan, Author . Delacorte $16.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-73056-3
Biographers Greenberg and Jordan (who teamed up for Chuck Close Up Close and Action Jackson ) give a personable account of "the wiggy artist from Pittsburgh." In this generous book, which makes the artist's eccentricities seem more...
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Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illus. by Brian Floca, Roaring Brook/Flash Point/Porter, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-338-0
Greenberg and Jordan (Action Jackson; Christo and Jeanne-Claude) continue to carve out their art-focused niche with this inspired book about collaboration. The now classic 1944 ballet, Appalachian Spring, serves as a fine model, showcasing three...
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Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-59643-810-1
Any man who names his children Leo, Clo, Lio, Oto, Flo, Zio, Ojo, and Geo is a man worth a second look. Born just before the Civil War, George E. Ohr brought his quirky sense of humor to his pottery workshop in Biloxi, Miss., and to everything he...
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Jan Greenberg, Author, Sandra Jordan, Author, Sandra Jane Jordan, Joint Author ABRAMS $19.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4237-0
In the same vein as their examinations of Chuck Close, Frank Gehry and Vincent Van Gogh, Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan's Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois deftly juxtaposes art criticism and biography. Drawing on original interviews and
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Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan. Roaring Brook/Porter, $19.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-62672-520-1
Greenberg and Jordan profile photographer Cindy Sherman in an intimate biography that traces a path that began with an ordinary childhood in Long Island, N.Y., where she “love[d] playing dress-up and pretending to be someone else,” and led her to...
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Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illus. by Hadley Hooper. Holiday House/Porter, $21.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4170-9
Greenberg and Jordan (Meet Cindy Sherman) continue their impressive series of artist biographies with an account of 20th-century sculptor Alberto Giacometti and his brother Diego. The two grew up in Switzerland, born only a year apart, Alberto...
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