Ezra stoller author (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 1st Edition. 89 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Ezra Stoller (Photos by); Sara E. Stemen (Jacket Design); Susan Oristaglio/Esto (Author Photo) (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 1st Edition. 99 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Sarah Delson (Cover Design); Lisa Force (Cover Photo); Roder O'Sullivan (Author Photo); Mark Lamster (Design); Dan Herman and Linda Chung (Drawings & Plans by) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 1st Edition. 79 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Sara Stemen (Jacket Design); Ezra Stoller (Photos by); Susan Oristaglio/Esto (Author Photo); Therese Kelly and Mark Lamster (Design) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition dark brown boards, black cloth spine, gold front cover lettering, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Bernice Kert; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote; Author's Note; Notes; Bibliography; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, Rockefeller/Aldrich Family Tree, and photographic front and rear endpapers. Signed, inscribed and dated (10--93) by the author, Bernice Kert, with blue pen on the full title page. "Bernice Kert's thoroughly researched biography of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller is a welcome and wonderful read. everyone interested in art and social history will want to read about this most progressive and interesting Rockefeller." - Blanche Wieson Cook, author. "Bernice Kert can raise biography to a level of insight and surprise that matches the best fiction. Witness this study of a woman we think we know all about." - Elizabeth Janeway, author. "This is the story of the woman who transformed the character of one of America's most powerful families and then, as a pioneering museum founder, helped open the nation's eyes to modern art. In 1894 Abby Aldrich, the buoyant, impulsive daughter of Senator Nelson Aldrich, met John D. Rockefeller, Jr. the awsomely reserved heir to the Standard Oil fortune. This unlikely pair fell in love, but it was seven years before John felt confident enough to propose. "She was so gay and young and so in love with everything," he later recalled, "that I kept wondering why she ever consented to marry a man like me." But she did marry him, and her intuitive understanding of people, her willingness to experiment, her defiant optimism, became the leavening in John's narrow, bureucratic way of thinking. She expanded his vision of what the tremendous Rockefeller fortune could do, shaping the family into the progressive force in philanthropy, the arts, and politics that we know today. Drawing on letters and diaries and revealing interviews with family members and others, Bernice Kert has created a portrait of this vibrant woman that is both intimate and sweeping, that moves from the intricacies of her homelife to her work in larger arenas. Abby cherished and protected her six children - Babs, John III, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop, and David - and inspired in them a desire to serve society. She struggled to balance their needs against the insistent demands of a husband who felt abandoned if her attention wavered. She furnished and managed the Rockefeller houses, sometimes four at a time, and built a hotel for working women and a community center for immigrant families. From behind the scenes she helped direct some of the mighty Rockefeller projects from the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg to the building of Rockefeller Center. And she supported and was nurtured by a wonderful network of women, including her blunt, deaf sister, Lucy, the landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, the art dealer Edith Halpert, and the young, brave artist Frida Kahlo. In 1928, with two other women - Lillie Bliss and Mary Sullivan - Abby took the first step toward founding a museum of modern art. According to Philip Johnson, "She had the foresight and the wisdom.Abby was the leader." The Museum of Modern Art is her crowning achievement." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Schiff, Robbin (jacket design); Herter, Adele (jacket portrait); Stoller, Ezra (author photograph); Wong, Victoria (book design) (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 1st Edition. 87 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Sara E. Stemen (Jacket Design); Susan Oristaglio (Author Photo); Ezra Stoller (Photos) (illustratore).