Princeton University Press

Library Bookwatch, Jan, 2005

Princeton University Press

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As a young boy Jacques Henri Lartigue used photography to record his life, capturing both family and interests. His art evolved to produce a vivid set of modern images which even today is attributed more to instinctual genius than education: Kevin Moore lays this myth to rest in Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention Of An Artist (0691120021, $45.00), exploring Lartigue's background and the influences on his photographic interests and development as an artist. Moore's expose of Lartigue's life and family succeeds in displaying his early influences and the logical progression of his talents. Steven Henry Madoff with Nancy Milford and Edward Saywell's Christpher Wilmarth: Light And Gravity (0691113599, $49.95) is a striking collection considering the artist whose light-filled glass and steel sculptures delighted the art and architecture world, but whose life ended with his suicide at age forty-four at the peak of his career. Wilmarth's talents and creation are wonderfully captured in this first in-depth examination of his life as an artist, which uses both his works and interviews with family and friends, articles, and his own published writings to lend insights into his psyche and arts. A beautiful, notable art history title.