Profiles the life and career of the Russian-born photographer, art director of Vogue for twenty years, and editorial director for all Conde+a7 Nast magazines for three decades. 12,500 first printing.
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From Publishers Weekly
Suave, urbane Russian-born painter/sculptor/photographer Alexander Liberman, editorial director of Conde Nast magazines, has divided his energies between the worlds of serious art and high fashion. This sedulously researched biography pays tribute to all sides of the man. Growing up in Moscow, London and Paris (his father was an architect of Lenin's New Economic Policy), Liberman overcame the "overwhelming erotic presence" of his domineering sensualist mother, Henriette Pascar, who paraded countless lovers in front of him. In New York City he and second wife Tatiana became prominent figures in a social set whose orbit encompassed Mikhail Baryshnikov, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell and dress designer Valentina. Freelance journalist Kazanjian and New Yorker writer Tomkins provide an intimate glimpse of infighting within the Conde Nast empire, including Liberman's clash with Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland. The authors deem Liberman's abstract paintings a forerunner of Minimalism and also spotlight his monumental welded-metal sculptures. Photos.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Liberman is the editorial director of the Conde Nast magazine publishing empire, which includes Vogue , Glamour , Vanity Fair , House & Garden , and so many others. Having joined Vogue in 1941, this 80-year-old, Russian-born emigre has lived an incredible life at the helm of the fashion publishing world, where he has defined elegance and glamour to millions of readers. As if that was not enough, he is a noted artist, sculptor, and photographer whose avant-garde works adorn galleries, public places, and museums. Barbara Rose's monograph Alexander Liberman ( LJ 2/1/82. o.p.) documents his artistic career. His own book, The Artist in His Studio ( LJ 1/89. rev. ed.), received high acclaim for the perceptive photographs and text. Here Liberman's talents and charms are aptly showcased, along with marvelous portrayals of an overbearing second wife and a bizarre mother. This is an engrossing biography that should have broad appeal in public libraries.
- Joan Levin, MLS, Chicago
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Joan Levin, MLS, Chicago
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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