Robb P.

Robb P.

Art Department Staff

Robb is a painter and a writer. In the 1980s he authored a sci-fi novel and has been writing on the arts for many years. He is currently writing a screenplay for an independent film he hopes to produce and direct.

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The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

By Sarah Silverman

My description of Sarah Silverman is as follows, “WHACKO-ATOMICO!” A crazily eccentric rocket completely off her vector path! This autobiography proves it! I’ve read seemingly funny books in the past to no real effect. I actually laughed all the way throughout this book! It is a fluidly brilliant cross-current of personal confession, zany humor, and authentically touching biography. The aspects of humor are endless. Her fascination with pee is outrageously hilarious. You have to be completely ‘whacko’ to admit you were still sleeping at night in rubber pants and diapers because you wet the bed at a high-school age! And yet there is something courageously noble about it all. That beautiful quality pervades this wonderfully rare, amazingly funny and all together human book.

 

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The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

By Sarah Silverman

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The famous comedian Sarah “big naturals” Silverman writes the foreword to her own memoir. After getting away with that, she reaches out to encompass herself from the beginning, which is funnier now than it was then. She will mostly likely never be the first woman president: the joke would be solely on her, and at our expense, and definitely, Paris Hilton’s. Sarah has a lot to say here…for which she is embraced by her people. Flapping her yapper has had its consequences, which is opportuni…
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Party Animals for Hire

Party Animals for Hire

By Mike Wood

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5 out of 5 stars
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Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914

Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914

By Anne Umland

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Pablo Picasso wrote to fellow artist Georges Braque on October 9, 1912, that he was in the midst of imagining a guitar. This was the first allusion to Picasso's revolutionary cardboard guitar of autumn 1912: a sculpture thast inaugurated an incandescent period of experimentation in Picasso's practice and introduced a radically new idea of what art could be. The present volume enriches and complicates the understanding of this iconic work of modern art and its 1914 sheet metal counterpart,…
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Vincent Van Gogh: Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes

Vincent Van Gogh: Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes

By Kunstmuseum Basel

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This is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of van Gogh's work as a landscape painter, identifying the stylistic transitions that were specific to this aspect of his work. It shows how the earthy tones of his early Dutch phase were gradually replaced by a lighter style following his relocation to Paris, and how, in the south of France, the artist discovered the intense brilliant colors and vital expression that have made his paintings so rapturing - to this day. Illus., 220 i…
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Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors

Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors

By Dita Amory

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Working in his villa in the south of France, Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) suffused his late canvases with radiant Mediterranean light & dazzling color. Although his subjects were close at hand - usually everyday domestic scenes - Bonnard rarely painted from life. Instead, he made pencil sketches in diaries & relied on these, along with his memory, as he executed the works in his studio. These interiors often conflated details from Bonnard's daily life with fleeting, mysterious evocations of…
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Goya

Goya

By Robert Hughes

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An illuminating and brilliant analysis of the great Spanish painter's vast and varied works, from the famous paintings like The Naked Maja to little-known but important prints and etchings, from public works for Church and State, to the deeply private Black Paintings created at the end of Goya's life. 225 color/b&w illustrations. 480p.
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