During the early 1940s WWII years, seventeen-year-old drifter Erik comes to the shipbuilding zone of the San Francisco East Bay. He takes as his secret residence a moth-balled US Army house trailer. He takes in thirteen-year-old homeless girl Helen, and pretends she is his little sister.

Andersen has translated for the first time Zola's youthful and not-so-youthful letters to his boyhood friend and fellow warrior, Paul Cezanne. He also translated for the first time most of Cezanne's youthful poetry, written in letters sent from Aix-En-Provence to Zola in Paris.

Offers an experiment with autobiographical history, combining the first 15 years of a MIT professor, author, public intellectual, and international architectural designer, with the history of the place where he was born and raise, north-western Iowa.

Having dealt at length with Picasso's seminal picture in his book, Picasso's Brothel , in this book the author takes up Manet's two most original paintings: one depicting a picnic, the other a prostitute, finding links between them beyond the fact that a single model, Victorine Meurent, posed for both pictures.

Insisting that German art is masculine and prone to violence, this book formulates an explanation for how artists and defensive art critics convert violence into art as a pretence to mirroring society. It associates Lustmord (sex-murder) imagery in German art, theatre, and cabaret entertainment with the sexuality of war.

Marcel Duchamp's gift to artists was similar to the Marquis de Sade's gift to sadists - relief from moral restraints, accountability, guilt, and shame. This title states that Duchamp was not the great artist that so many in the academic world believe him to be, but he was a great con artist who spread his charm and wit over the New York art scene.

Marcel Duchamp's gift to artists was similar to the Marquis de Sade's gift to sadists-relief from moral restraints, accountability, guilt, and shame. This book convinces you that Duchamp was not the great artist that so many in the academic and museum world believe him to be.