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No artist has had as profound an impact on the course of art history, nor has displayed such persistent output and influence as artist Pablo Picasso. Undead Picasso: Eating Art's Brains is the story of this conquest.

For Picasso, what we thought we knew about perspective, the single-point we felt to be most dear, was just the delicious, juicy gray matter of our art-historical brains from which this brash young Spaniard would feast. And once initially sated, in the dark, dank, wee hours of the 20th Century, the artist would put brush to canvas and touch off a revolution in art and a torrent of his own artistic output that wouldn't stop for some seventy years and to this day, nearly four decades after his death, still gnaws at us.

Undead Picasso: Eating Art's Brains is a proposal for a book not yet written. We are looking for an author, or authors to take on the task. It might be a new biography, it might be a series of essays, it might be a mash-up in the style of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies or Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. You tell us. The only thing for certain is that it will be good, it will be unrelenting and it will be terrifying, just like the artist himself.

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This project proposal stems from this off-hand Twitter exchange between @bookavore from WORD bookstore, Brooklyn, @Bookdwarf from Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, and ourselves:

@bookavore Hey publishers, so you know, I am basically vetoing all vampire & zombie books on principle at this point.

@Bookdwarf Agreed. Get off the vampire/zombie bandwagon publishers! My personal fav was gay zombie erotica.

@holartbooks So I should halt publication of Undead Picasso: Eating Art's Brains?!

@Bookdwarf Ooh, no. I'd like to see that one!

So, here you go. And though yes, it's unlikely to see the light of print, if someone out there can actually come up with a viable text (and our vote would be for something in the horror-pulp-non-fiction genre) we'd totally publish it. Just couldn't count on WORD carrying it in their store.

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The Photographs Not Taken is a collection of essays by photographers about the times they didn't use their camera. This collection is a series of photographs not taken with a camera, but, instead, lived and remembered. Here the basic set of rules that apply to making a photograph are put into reverse; instead of looking out into the world through a camera lens, this series of essays looks directly into the photographer’s eye and mind and focuses on where the photographs come from. The photograph is stripped down to its barest most simple and primitive form: the idea, instinct, reaction, the before, while simultaneously opening the door for reflection, meaning, content and the after. I have asked each photographer to abandon the familiar tools "needed" to make a photograph: camera, lens, film etc, and now make a "photograph" with another set of tools: the memories, experiences and poetry of the world that didn’t go through the lens, the negative photographs, the anti-photographs, the photographs not taken with a camera but with the heart and mind.

Read excerpts at www.thephotographsnottaken.com.

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My Father’s Room gives my images a platform--a voice--capturing those memories in my life that facilitate in appreciating my art. Part one focus on being in my father’s room in Mexico. The value in having a “sacred space” in which to become more human is expressed. Part two regresses: it is about my earlier artistic years in Europe.

A DVD with 1,000 images, The Four Seasons of the Master Myth, is currently being produced that might hopefully accompany the book. It is about images and words, displaying my artistic philosophy and my struggle in life with the competing forces of normalcy and bohemian living.

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Imagine Vincent van Gogh in our modern world, struggling to find love and to support himself through his art. Suppose, during the last year and a half of his life, when he severed part of his ear and committed himself to the insane asylum, he stumbles into the very circumstance he has longed for his entire adult life -- a family. Would his life change for the better, or would his self-destructive tendencies still prevail?

My novel, The Painter's Dream, explores these possibilities.

I have altered some details to suit the story, but it is based upon the last year and a half of Vincent van Gogh's life. Instead of Dutch, the painter Quentin D'Entremont is French-Canadian. Instead of traveling to Arles in Southern France, my story is set in the Southern United States. Specifically, North Carolina. His brother's name is Andre instead of Theo but he is the same benefactor, albeit his art gallery is located in Atlanta instead of Paris. I changed the names and places so as to gain a measure of separation between history and fiction.

As a 116,500-word work of contemporary fiction with a historical twist and elements of romance, I believe The Painter's Dream would appeal most to Vincent van Gogh admirers, readers of Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, and readers of the romantic stories of Nicholas Sparks.

About the Author
Fiction writing each day helps keep the demons at bay. October, 2001 saw the publication of horror novel, Dark Resurrection, revised in October 2007. Asylett Press has recently published my medical thriller, Hippocrates Shattered, in ebook format with trade print to follow. Short stories have been published on webzines, including Allegory and The Absent Willow Review. Other novels are in the marketing queue. Raleigh, NC, is home. IT Analyst serves as the day-job and a balance is struck between family life and the need to write.

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I propose to write a multi-genre book that includes journal entries, poems about art, prose poems that all tie around the artistic process of painting and being a visual artist.

I have already written most of the book, I just need to assemble it, which is what I am doing now. The only thing I haven't completed for the book is essays on the process of painting (but I am working on it now), to be included as a "forward" in the book.

What is unique is I am a published poet and an established painter that is represented in a gallery, and I am also a professor who teaches art history. What makes this powerful is I am going to be expressive about painting as an artist but can also tap into other resources as poet and professor.

The purpose is the explore the process of painting-from the inside out, not as the voice of an art critic or scholar, but in a kind of synthesis, a synthetic voice that is aware of itself as poet, teacher, and painter. To do this-the way I am going to structure the book is to have a varied modality.

To realize this approach I have creative renderings to the process that are expressive of the process. Therefore, in a way abstracted or figurative modes of writing which attempt to express and define or even map out the inductive and intuitive process with paint and brush at the easel. With the journal entries I allow myself a more cognitive and reflective approach and a more expository yet highly reflective approach to the search and exploration.

This book will also include several essays about this process, because in a way, the essay is a “trying out.”

This is a very exciting project and a fully realized one, that I wander if its even been done before. Sure, I have read many artists’ journals. What is more interesting than getting inside the mind of an artist? Not much, in my opinion. I have already gotten a book designer for my project, and am also good at marketing my work.

I already have a strong base for an audience and that comes through exposure I have on the east coast, from my website and my weekly blog. The website, my published book, and my galleries will find my book very interesting. I imagine this book may be interesting and marketable to a professor who teaches studio art. I am in a consistent effort to expand my own audience, and I am good at the marketing end. I think this press is just perfect for me, because I want to be involved in getting my book out there.

I do want to say I am involved with art professionals at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, who will likely to an interest in my book. I know my colleagues and my galleries will take an interest in this. I think this has book has great potential. I have a website www.lauraeklund.com I get many hits every day, at least 10. I can sell my book off my website as well.

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The Rape of the Rose will chronicle the pillaging of the collection of a crown jewel of contemporary art -- the Rose Art Museum on the campus of Brandeis University -- in response to the University’s current economic crisis. This project -- intended to serve as a memorial and warning to other university museums -- focuses on the six months of protest that preceded the eventual shutting of the Rose’s doors as a public institution on May 17, 2009, in preparation for the sell-off of the core of its 7,000 work collection.

The Rape of the Rose will document through factual accounts and commentary the ‘rise’ and ‘fall’ of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. The book will open with the official e-mail that as an alumna, I received from Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz on January 26, 2009, announcing the “unanimous’ decision” by the University's Board of Trustees to close the museum and to sell off its holdings in response to the current economic crisis. The letter will be followed by a short history of the Rose Museum from its founding in 1961--with the help of a gift from Edward and Bertha Rose- -through its establishment of a major collection of contemporary art, and its vital role as a gathering spot for the art community and the general public. It will be followed by a report on the formation of a “Committee for the Future of the Rose Art Museum”, a hand-picked group aimed at deflecting attention from the already-made decision to sell parts of the collection and “repurpose” the building. A summary of various Rose-generated symposia on the future of institutional art museums will be followed by a description of the firing and solemn farewell of Director Michael Rush, the dispersal of the museum’s funds, and the shuttering of its doors on May 21, 2009.

Following my essays, which will be illustrated with examples of priceless works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and others juxtaposed with images of student protest installations criticizing the sell-off of art on the building’s façade, will be a sampling of statements on the closing of the Rose by such luminaries as Robert Pinsky (poet laureate) Gary Tinterrow ( Brandeis alumnus and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), Adam D. Weinberg ( Brandeis alumnus and Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art), by Rose Director Michael Rush, and members of the Rose Family and Board of Overseers of the Rose, the American Association of Art Museums, the International Association of Art Critics, The College Art Association and the Brandeis Community. Finally, The Rape of the Rose will include a checklist of some of the major works in the Rose Art Museum collection that will likely wind up on the' auction block in 2011, and a copy of a New York bill introduced to regulate museum deaccessions.

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Collected here are the original publications from one of the most important exhibitions in the history of American art -- the 1913 Armory Show. Opening on February 17, 1913, in New York and traveling to Chicago and Boston, the Armory Show was meant to be a simple exhibition of the new abstract and cubist art coming out of Europe. What it ultimately became was a sprawling showcase of some of the most ground-breaking (and many said subversive) art America had ever seen. Sensational to crowds, controversial among critics, and inspirational for artists, the Armory Show radically changed the face of art in America.

This volume collects the complete text of "For and Against: Views on the Infamous 1913 Armory Show" and "The New Spirit: Pamphlets from the Infamous 1913 Armory Show". Here you'll find excerpts from Paul Gauguin's provocative Tahitian journal, Elie Faure's enthralling essay on Cezanne, a range of impassioned views both for and against the "new" art, and president Theodore Roosevelt's famous essay, "A Layman's Views of an Art Exhibition". Long out of print, these writings (which were first published in pamphlets and sold at the exhibition itself) reintroduce readers to artists and ideas as powerful today as they were nearly a century ago.

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For and Against: Views on the Infamous 1913 Armory Show

• The Statement, Arthur B. Davies
• The New York Exhibition, The Association of American Painters and Sculptors
• Letting in the Light, Frederick James Gregg
• Hindsight and Foresight, Walter Pach
• The New Art, Kenyon Cox
• The Great Confusion, The Chicago Evening Post
• Cubism by a Cubist, Francis Picabia
• As to Futurists
• The Cubist Room, Walter Pach
• Old and New Art, Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.
• A Layman’s Views of an Art Exhibition, Theodore Roosevelt
• The Armory Show and its Publications
• Contributors
• Further Reading

The New Spirit: Pamphlets from the Infamous 1913 Armory Show

• Noa-Noa by Paul Gauguin
• Odilon Redon by Walter Pach
• Cézanne by Élie Faure
• A Sculptor’s Architecture by Walter Pach
• Letters of a Post-Impressionist by Vincent van Gogh

About the Hardcover Edition

Suitable for libraries and discerning collectors, the hardcover edition has a sewn binding with full-cloth covers and a ribbon bookmark. The dust jacket is a heavy-weight paper with a scuff-resistant matte coating. The book was printed in the United States of America on FSC Mixed Sources certified, 30% PCW recycled paper, which meets the minimum requirements for ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials).

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For and Against is the frank and engaging account of the historic 1913 Armory Show’s original reception. The included essays capture the full range of impassioned opinion both for and against Modern Art's greatest works upon their first American showing. First published, remarkably, by the show’s organizers and sold at its Chicago venue, For and Against has long been out of print, but this new, expanded edition brings the Armory story and the birth of modern art in America, to life once again.

On February 17, 1913, the American Association of Painters and Sculptors opened the Armory Show in New York. The ad-hoc association had started out with the modest goal of showing some of the “new” art coming out of Europe--Duchamp, Matisse, Picasso and many more of today’s acknowledged masters. What they ultimately created was a sprawling showcase of some of the most ground-breaking (many said subversive) art America had ever seen.

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• The Statement, Arthur B. Davies
• The New York Exhibition, The Association of American Painters and Sculptors
• Letting in the Light, Frederick James Gregg
• Hindsight and Foresight, Walter Pach
• The New Art, Kenyon Cox
• The Great Confusion, The Chicago Evening Post
• Cubism by a Cubist, Francis Picabia
• As to Futurists
• The Cubist Room, Walter Pach
• Old and New Art, Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.
• A Layman’s Views of an Art Exhibition, Theodore Roosevelt
• The Armory Show and its Publications
• Contributors
• Further Reading

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The New Spirit collects four pamphlets originally produced and sold at the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art -- otherwise known as the Armory Show. With excerpts from Gauguin’s provocative Tahitian journal, Élie Faure’s enthralling essay on Cézanne, and more, each pamphlet offers an enduringly original approach to some of modern art’s most interesting and provocative artists. Long out of print, this new, expanded edition reintroduces readers to artists and ideas that remain as powerful today as they were nearly a century ago.

On February 17, 1913, the American Association of Painters and Sculptors opened the Armory Show in New York. The ad-hoc association had started out with the modest goal of showing some of the “new” art coming out of Europe--Duchamp, Matisse, Picasso and many more of today’s acknowledged masters. What they ultimately created was a sprawling showcase of some of the most ground-breaking (many said subversive) art America had ever seen.

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• Noa-Noa by Paul Gauguin
• Odilon Redon by Walter Pach
• Cézanne by Élie Faure
• A Sculptor’s Architecture by Walter Pach
• Letters of a Post-Impressionist by Vincent van Gogh

Noa-Noa and Letters of a Post-Impressionist were translated by Walt Kuhn. Though prepared for publication at the same time, Letters of a Post-Impressionist was not published with the original pamphlets.

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“Behold the marvel of marvels!” —Auguste Rodin

Venus is the renowned sculptor, Auguste Rodin's brief, uniquely passionate ode to one of his medium's great masterpieces, the Venus de Milo.

“The galleries of the Louvre revealed to the young artist radiant visions of the antique world; visions of southern skies, and of the sea, and far beyond rose heavy stone monuments, reaching over from immemorial civilizations into times not yet existent.” —Ranier Maria Rilke

About this Edition

This edition features the original English translation by Dorothy Dudley, 1912. And for the first time, it also includes Tina Kover's new translation of Rodin's lesser-known text, The Dance of Shiva. Written in 1913 and first published in 1921, The Dance of Shiva considers a bronze statue of the Hindu god through a carefully-crafted set of written impressions. Though looser in form than Venus, this short work lacks none of the unique passion and melodrama of Rodin’s written voice. A voice for which this modern edition has been boldly set.

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Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) was a French sculptor. Born in Paris, Rodin attended art school at a young age, but was unable to advance to a higher education in art. He spent much of his early life doing decorative work as a craftsman but by 1900, what we now see as his dominating artistic career, was well-established. A prodigious worker, he remains best known for singular sculptures like The Thinker and The Kiss and his monuments to French writers Honoré de Balzac and Victor Hugo. While Rodin’s works can be found in museum collections and on public display in cities around the world, the Musée Rodin—opened in Paris in his former residence in 1919—continues to hold the largest single collection of the artist’s work.