Studies the variety and contrast in architecture of the famed Long Island summer resort, from the Pousey House of 1783 to designs of the 1990s by Robert A. M. Stern and Marcel Breuer. By the author of Manhattan Style.

Hampton Style: Houses, Gardens, Artists

Arts & Photography

Esten, John

Gilbert, Rose Bennett

Architecture

Little,Brown & Co

Traces the development of the design industry in New York City, looks at the work of top designers, and shows a variety of design trends

Manhattan Style

Chinsee, George

Traces the history and evolution of undergarments from prehistoric times to the present

Unmentionables: A Brief History of Underwear

Benson, Elaine

Photography & Video

Simon&Schuster

Published on occasion of the major Sargent retrospective traveling to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1999, John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes brings to light a fascinating portion of Sargent's work long hidden from the public eye. Beginning in his adolescence, and throughout his distinguished career, John Singer Sargent, the celebrated painter of patricians, produced a superbly rendered, uninhibited book of work that was rarely seen and never exhibited: the male nudes. Models were a significant aspect of the great painter's profession, whether they were commission-producing society "sitters" or professional models used as reference for his three Boston mural projects or works created for his private enjoyment--one young Italian model stayed in the artist's employ for nearly twenty-six years. Sargent's enduring subject was capturing the "human form divine" in portraits of the fashionable and famous and the absolute male. Over the last century, these little-known works have been dispersed to museum archives and private collections throughout the United States and Great Britain. John Esten has unearthed the most extraordinary of these images, ranging from vibrant watercolors and oil paintings to charcoal studies, published here for the first time in a single volume.

John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes

History & Criticism

Universe

John Singer Sargent, the celebrated portrait painter of the fashionable and famous of the fin de sicle and the Gilded Age, maintained the yearly routine, begun during his student days, of taking painting sabbaticals with a select company of artist friends and family, traveling as far east as Palestine and as far west as the Canadian Rockies.John Esten has assembled a stunning collection of drawings, paintings, and watercolors by Sargent-many of them rarely seen-of the friends and family that accompanied him on these holiday excursions.Sargent's works, along with selected paintings, watercolors, and photographs done by his friends in the locations where he painted them, have been further illuminated by descriptions of artists painting and outdoor places by Sargent's champion and life-long friend Henry James.All are sublime records of sunny, summer afternoons painted out-of-doors, published here for the first time in a single volume.AUTHORBIO: John Esten has created and designed many books including John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes, Man Ray/Bazaar Years, Manhattan Style, and Hampton Style.A former art director at Harper's Bazaar and L'Officiel USA magazines, he has been a special consultant to the Grey Gallery of the New York University, as well as guest curator at the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York, and the International Center of Photography, New York.

Sargent: Painting Out-of-Doors

"Why Don't You . . . tie black tulle bows on your wrists? have a yellow satin bed entirely quilted in butterflies? remember how delicious champagne cocktails are after tennis or golf? Indifferent champagne can be used for these." For more than half a century, Diana Vreeland, doyenne of American fashion, beguiled, awed, astonished, and was adored by almost anyone who created or wore clothes. Irresistible and flamboyant, socialite Mrs. T. Reed Vreeland began her now legendary twenty-five-year tenure at Harper's Bazaar writing a column of audacious advice: extravagant ideas that helped redefine American women and twentieth-century fashion. Her commentary created a fashion frenzy when it began appearing in Harper's Bazaar in 1936. Her ideas were simultaneously stylish and outrageous, and have as much appeal today as they did decades ago. Here for the first time, John Esten has compiled one hundred of Mrs. Vreeland's kaleidoscopic "Why Don't You . . . ?" suggestions, and paired them with the breathtaking works of such renowned photographers and artists as Munkacsi, Dahl-Wolfe, Hoyningen-Heune, and Bérard, which further capture the dazzling legacy of whimsy, elegance, and style of Mrs. Vreeland's Bazaar years.

Diana Vreeland: Bazaar Years

Betts, Katherine

Often criticized during his lifetime for his insistence on studying and painting the male nude, accomplished draftsman, anatomist, and artist Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is now acclaimed as one of America's greatest realist painters. Eakins believed in a classical approach to art, and made no compromises with the mores of his time. His insistence on having female students draw from live male nude models caused him to be dismissed from one important teaching post and created a storm of controversy which substantially hurt his career. Only at the end of his life was his work fully recognized as equal to that of some of the great European old masters. Taken from collections across the globe, this book features a stunning collection of drawings, paintings, and photographs of Eakins's male nudes, which showcase the artist's immense and still influential skill in rendering the male form. A major Eakins retrospective will be at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the spring of 2002.

Thomas Eakins : The Absolute Male

Individual Artists

John Singer Sargent, the celebrated portrait painter of the fashionable and famous of the fin de siècle and the Gilded Age, maintained the yearly routine, begun during his student days, of taking painting sabbaticals with a select company of artist friends and family, traveling as far east as Palestine and as far west as the Canadian Rockies. John Esten has assembled a stunning collection of drawings, paintings, and watercolors by Sargent-many of them rarely seen-of the friends and family that accompanied him on these holiday excursions. Sargent's works, along with selected paintings, watercolors, and photographs done by his friends in the locations where he painted them, have been further illuminated by descriptions of artists painting and outdoor places by Sargent's champion and life-long friend Henry James. All are sublime records of sunny, summer afternoons painted out-of-doors, published here for the first time in a single volume.

Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books

Man ray, The legendary American dada Surrealist painter, object maker and photographer, chose to ignore his years spent in Fashion photography as a purely commercial endeavor rather then the artistic one, yet his interpretations of the world of high style comprise some of the twentienth centurys most striking images. In 1922 he was introduced in Paris tio the couturier Paul Poiret, who was so taken with the avant-garde sensibility of the then unknown artists camera work that he commissioned him to photography. In 1934-1942 he produced a considerable body of work for Harpers Bazaar photographing personalites in society entertainment and litersry worlds as well as the actual Chanel, Schiaparelli, and Molyneux fashions themselves. This book reproduces a rich selection of these fascinating works, including a number of highly unusual color photographs.

Man Ray: Bazaar Years

Rizzoli

Man Ray. Bazaar Years

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Hampton Style: Houses, Gardens, Artists

Manhattan Style

Unmentionables: A Brief History of Underwear

John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes

Sargent: Painting Out-of-Doors

Diana Vreeland: Bazaar Years

Thomas Eakins : The Absolute Male

Sargent: Painting Out-of-Doors

Man Ray: Bazaar Years

Man Ray. Bazaar Years