Title: Max Ginsburg
Author: Max Ginsburg
Publish Date: 09.20.12
Publisher: Bookmasters, Inc
Category: Arts & Photography
Recommended
for: Art aficionados
Received from: Bookmasters, Inc. via netgalley.com (in exchange for an
honest review)
Date completed: 08.13.13
Description from the publisher:
Max Ginsburg, one of the most
respected and highly accomplished realist painters today, presents for the
first time, a collection of his paintings from 1956 to 2010. Exquisitely
presented, this book accompanies his exhibitions during 2011 at The Butler
Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, as well as at the Salmagundi Club
in New York City.
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This was listed as an "art and photography"
book, but in truth more than half of it was essays from the author and his
friends about himself.
I loved looking at the paintings and
many had descriptions of how the piece was developed and/or who the models
were. Some had the raw drawings beside
the finished work. I think this would
make the book more interesting for an art student or the merely curious to see
within the mind of an artistic genius.
Unfortunately, this book was not
re-formatted when being presented for the Kindle, which is how I read. I was constantly flipping back and forth to
put picture with description. Also,
because it wasn't reformatted, the pictures did tend to be very small when they
could (and probably should) have been adjusted to fit the Kindle screen for
maximum impact.
I recommend picking this up as a
board & paper book instead of the Kindle edition.
Other books from Max Ginsburg: none
originally posted 08.13.2013 on my
previous website
WordPress.com closed that site
because I promoted authors and their books.
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