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Reckless and dissolute in personality, but elegant and sensuous in his art, Amedeo Modigliani (18841920) is one of the best-known, and least understood, artists of the 20th century. This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated volume, based on new scholarship and featuring contributions written by distinguished American scholars, explores the myth that surrounds Modigliani -- including his troubled personal life and his death at age 35 -- and re-examines the position he holds within the history of early 20th century art. Focusing on his erotic nudes, portraits, and figures, "Modigliani and His Models" is also the first book to look at the lovers, models, and girlfriends who influenced his work.
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Emily Braun is professor of art history at Hunter College and the City University of New York. Kathleen Brunner is an independent art historian.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Modigliani and His Models (2006) Author/Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts ? ISBN: 9781903973820 Condition: Very Good (dreamily elongated, sensibly square) Imprint: Crappy Old Books Prepare to be looked at?calmly, aristocratically, and at a slight tilt. Modigliani and His Models is the Royal Academy?s impeccably lit promenade through Amedeo?s universe of almond eyes, swan necks, and faces that appear to know your secrets and have decided not to tell. It?s the exhibition catalogue that remembers the people as much as the paintings: lovers with mythic cheekbones, friends with café stamina, patrons with opinions, and that endlessly repeatable Modigliani trick of making a rectangle feel like a sonnet. Condition ?Very Good? means this copy has enjoyed a polite life among adults who use coasters. Jacket faintly kissed at the extremities (call it Parisian patina ), boards square, binding tight, pages glossy and luminous as if the varnish had a fitness regime. No coffee rings, no auction-lot pencilings, no tragic dog-ears?just the agreeable scent of book and a hint of studio turpentine in the imagination. Inside, the Royal Academy does its practiced waltz: Plates that do justice to Modigliani?s chalks, oils, and those carved, notched stone heads that look like they were discovered at the bottom of a very tasteful ocean. Essays that triangulate Montparnasse gossip , market history , and biographical thunderclouds without losing their museum voice. The quiet miracle of catching how Modigliani flattened space but not feeling ?everyone is stylised, nobody is generic. A roll call of models who become collaborators: Jeanne Hébuterne with her inward light, Lunia Czechowska with composure like a theorem, art-world friends who held the pose and, occasionally, the rent. The pleasure here is double: it?s a catalogue you can read like a biography and a biography you can leave open like a window. You?ll spot the Tuscan clarity under the Paris fog, the Sienese ghosts in the line, and the way a single, deliberate curve of neck can turn a chair into an aria. The captions behave (dates, lenders, mediums), the chronology keeps the café hours, and the scholarship stays brisk enough to make room for reverie. Use cases (tested in civilized homes): Posing on the coffee table and raising the IQ of the room by several points. Settling arguments about which portrait has the most Modi ?the answer is always ?the next one.? Colour recipes for a wall that wants to be warm grey with opinions . Teaching teenagers that ?long face? can be a compliment. Talking points to deploy while nibbling olives: Modigliani?s elongations are not affectation; they?re music ?the human form arranged in legato. The eyes are often blank because he refused to improvise a soul. His stone heads are modernist idols?archaeology for a future that had not happened yet. Montparnasse wasn?t bohemia-by-Instagram; it was sleep deprivation with genius. Physical particulars, candidly declared: dust jacket lightly rubbed at corners; colours bright; plates crisp; paper clean and still glossy; spine uncreased; no inscriptions; edges just shy of mint because life should show. Smell profile: gallery opening with a memory of pencil shavings. Ideal for: Deco romantics, portrait partisans, collectors who prefer line over noise , and anyone who?s ever thought ?could a rectangle be glamorous?? (Yes. Here.) Crappy Old Books guarantee: we don?t sell mint; we sell beautifully lived-with . If you want a catalogue that looks you in the eye and lengthens your afternoon, this Modigliani is waiting?chin lifted, gaze level, utterly sure of itself. Seller Inventory # 4919
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