Annie Cohen-Solal Books

"Mark Rothko was not only one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century; he was a scholar, an educator, and a deeply spiritual human being. Born Marcus Yakovlevich Rotkovitch, he emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United States at age ten, already well educated in the Talmud and carrying with him bitter memories of the pogroms and persecutions visited upon the Jews of Latvia. Few artists have achieved success as quickly, and by the mid-twentieth century, Rothko's artwork was being displayed in major museums throughout the world. In May 2012 his painting Orange, Red, Yellow was auctioned for nearly $87 million, setting a new Christie's record. Author Annie Cohen-Solal gained access to archival materials no previous biographer had seen. As a result, her book is an extraordinarily detailed portrait of Rothko the man and the artist, an uncommonly successful painter who was never comfortable with the idea of his art as a commodity"--

One of the major accomplishments of Cohen-Solal's book is not only to place Sartre in the context of history, but to reopen the question of his role and to reassess the full import of his literary and political accomplishments. Discovering untold aspects of Sartre's private and political life, Cohen-Solal weaves together all the elements of an exceptional career. From the description of his previously unknown father to the painful last moments of Sartre's own declining years, this is biography on the grandest scale.

The internationally acclaimed biography of Sartre in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The first volume in the Lives of the Left series, Annie Cohen-Solal's Sartre is a remarkable achievement. "A sensation" upon its initial publication in France, as the New York Times reported, Sartre was subsequently translated into sixteen languages and went on to become an international bestseller, appealing to the broadest audience. First published in the United States in 1987, it is the definitive biography of a man and an age, an intimate portrait of a complex life. A major accomplishment of this biography is that it places Sartre in the context of history while at the same time reassessing the full import of his literary and political accomplishments. Discovering untold aspects of Sartre's private and political life, Cohen-Solal weaves together all the elements of an exceptional career. From the fascinating description of his hitherto-unknown father to the painful last moments of Sartre's own declining years, this is biography on the grandest scale, fully deserving of the praise it has received.

Traces the life and career of the influential art dealer, from his Jewish-Italian heritage and midlife entry into the art world to his name-making exhibition of an unknown Jasper Johns and emergence as a cultivator of period masters. By the author of Sartre.

"Mark Rothko was not only one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century; he was a scholar, an educator, and a deeply spiritual human being. Born Marcus Yakovlevich Rotkovitch, he emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United States at age ten, already well educated in the Talmud and carrying with him bitter memories of the pogroms and persecutions visited upon the Jews of Latvia. Few artists have achieved success as quickly, and by the mid-twentieth century, Rothko's artwork was being displayed in major museums throughout the world. In May 2012 his painting Orange, Red, Yellow was auctioned for nearly $87 million, setting a new Christie's record. Author Annie Cohen-Solal gained access to archival materials no previous biographer had seen. As a result, her book is an extraordinarily detailed portrait of Rothko the man and the artist, an uncommonly successful painter who was never comfortable with the idea of his art as a commodity"--

New York Mid Century is the story of how the Big Apple emerged as the cultural capital of the postwar world in all fields of creative endeavour art, architecture, design, music, theatre and dance. It was a period of intense cross-fertilization, as poets and critics mixed with artists, dealers, musicians, designers, architects, dancers, and choreographers. Richly illustrated with hundreds of paintings, drawings, photographs, elevations, plans, posters, programmes and ephemera, this is a stirring evocation of a remarkably fertile period in the citys history, the styles and aesthetics of which are now very much back in vogue.

Biograficzne śledztwo, pulsujące niczym świetnie napisany thriller, otwiera oczy na prawdziwe życie geniusza, buntownika, człowieka bez ojczyzny. To zrodzona z dociekliwych badań odyseja Picassa we Francji. Cohen-Solal odpowiada na wiele niezadanych dotąd pytań. Przenosi w czasy, zanim Piacasso stał się Picassem – kultowym artystą, czołową postacią życia kulturalnego Francji. Dlaczego 1 grudnia 1914 roku prawie siedemset obrazów artysty, jego rysunków i innych dzieł z okresu kubistycznego zostało skonfiskowanych przez francuski rząd na okres prawie dziesięciu lat? Dlaczego obrazy Picassa były prawie całkowicie nieobecne we francuskich kolekcjach publicznych aż do 1947 roku? Dlaczego geniuszowi, który w 1937 roku stworzył Guernicę jako wyraz sprzeciwu wobec faszyzmu, trzy lata później, w przededniu nazistowskiej okupacji, odmówiono francuskiego obywatelstwa? Picasso – artysta wybitny, wielki strateg dryfujący we Francji targanej napięciami – narzuca światu swoją mistrzowską wizję, buduje sieci powiązań i staje się potężną siłą modernizującą kraj, który przez lata nie poznał się na jego geniuszu.

> Die Welthauptstadt New York in den 50er und 60er Jahren > Der Big Apple als pulsierendes Epizentrum künstlerischer Avantgarde > Ein Schlüsselbuch zum Verständnis der Faszination, die NY bis heute ausstrahlt NEW YORK 50s & 60s erzählt die Geschichte des Big Apple in seiner aufregendsten Ära. Von Peggy Guggenheim bis zu Leo Castelli, den Königsmachern unter den New Yorker Galeristen; vom Action Painting Jackson Pollocks über Mark Rothkos Farbfeldmalerei bis zu Andy Warhols Provokationen; von Philip Johnson über Frank Lloyd Wright bis Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, die New York seine unverwechselbaren architektonischen Konturen gaben; vom Design der 1960er, das mit der Fernsehserie Mad Men ein kultverdächtiges Revival feiert; von Clubs und Bühnen, als Billie Holiday und Ella Fitzgerald auftraten, Charlie Parker und Miles Davis den Klang neu erfanden, Woody Allen seine Karriere startete und George Balanchine das Ballett revolutionierte: Kaum etwas Auf- oder Anregenderes ist vorstellbar als das New York jener beiden Dekaden, in denen sich die Metropole am Hudson River zur Welthauptstadt eines pulsierenden, unvergleichlichen Lebensstils entwickelte. Dieses Buch ist für jeden New-York-Liebhaber unverzichtbar!