Fairfield Porter: A Life In Art

By Justin Spring, Mr. Justin Spring, Spring, Mr. Justin

This absorbing biography of Fairfield Porter makes clear John Ashbery`s assessment of Porter as "perhaps the major American artist of this century." Justin Spring tells of Porter`s troubled, bohemi...

The Whole Art Thing

By Justin Spring

The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans In Paris And The Birth Of A New Gastronomy

By Justin Spring

Describes The Lives Of Six Americans Who Wrote Extensively About Food And Wine As They Traveled, Explored, Immersed Themselves In Culture, And Struggled With Their Writing Careers In France Between...

Secret Historian: The Life And Times Of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, And Sexual Renegade

By Justin Spring, Spring, Justin

Drawn From The Secret Diaries And Journals Of Novelist, Poet, And University Professor Samuel M. Steward, This Is A Reconstruction Of One Of The More Extraordinary Hidden Lives Of The Twentieth Cen...

The Essential Edward Hopper

By Justin Spring

The great American realist Edward Hopper filled his canvases with sinister houses and blank-eyed humans, with otherworldly lighting and naked women in motel rooms, theater dancers, movie usherettes...

The Itty Bitty Kitchen Handbook: Everything You Need To Know About Setting Up And Cooking In The Most Ridiculously Small Kitchen In The World--Your Own

By Justin Spring

If your cluttered small kitchen makes you dread cooking even the simplest meal, it’s time for you to reclaim that space—and your sanity!—with this practical and witty guide. Here you will learn how...

The Essential: Edward Hopper

By Justin Spring, ABRAMS

The great American realist Edward Hopper filled his canvases with sinister houses and blank-eyed people, with otherworldly lighting and naked women in motel rooms and theater dancers and movie ushe...

The Essential: Jackson Pollock

By Justin Spring, ABRAMS, Abrams, Justin Spring

For readers who have little time to spare and are averse to art-world jargon, this series aims to provide an entertaining guide to individual artists and pop culture. Each volume presents an accoun...

Wolf Kahn

By Justin Spring

Working Within A Predominantly Abstractionist Context, A Group Of Younger Artists Forged A Mode Of Representational Art In The 1950s And 1960s That Made Use Of Abstract Expressionist Painterly Free...

The Essential Jackson Pollock

By Justin Spring, Abrams, Justin Spring

For readers who have little time to spare and are averse to art-world jargon, this series aims to provide an entertaining guide to individual artists and pop culture. Each volume presents an accoun...