Vincent van Gogh

Douglas Cooper

These letters, written from 1887 to 1889, are among the most important and relevant sources of insight into van Gogh's life and art. 23 missives, accompanied by reproductions of a number of his major paintings and facsimiles from his letters, radiate their author's impulsiveness, intensity, and mysticism. Chronology. Select Bibliography. Index. 32 full-page black-and-white illustrations.

Letters to Emile Bernard

Van Gogh on Art and Artists

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

John Richardson

Tate Gallery

Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel

Dorothy M. Kosinski

Kunstmuseum (Basel)

Douglas Cooper and the masters of cubism

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Cubist Epoch

A description of the artist's life and work accompanies a collection of his paintings and drawings

On the way to his own wedding, a man reveals to a stranger the story of a most unusual family, characterized both by its sensuality as well as its secrecy, and of Katie, a woman violated in her youth and confined to an asylum.

Amnesia

Evolving from a drawing course taught to first-year architecture students, this text teaches the foundations, taking the point of view that drawing is fundamentally a tactile and kinesthetic act (for which the author gives credit to Kimon Nicolaides and his book The Natural Way to Draw. Theory, exercises, and examples combine to present the art of drawing as an "act of making rather than as an act of viewing." May be the one drawing book architecture students need, and certainly should interest art students and others outside of architecture as well. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Drawing and Perceiving

A stranger enters the city archives, corners a librarian, and begins to tell him a story. The librarian is supposed to be married in four hours' time, but the stranger compels him to listen. Many hours later he is still listening, and still unmarried. The stranger's name is Izzy Darlow, and the story revolves around his fractured family and their obsessions. The family home is a labyrinth. His older brother, Aaron, conducts secret and increasingly perilous experiments in his attic bedroom. His younger brother, Josh, who speaks with a lisp but sings like an angel, wanders the streets at night consumed by visions of destruction. Izzy's own place in this curious family is complicated by disturbing influences: the terrifying books he reads compulsively in the school library, his charismatic but dangerous friend Campbell, the vicious force of his emerging sexuality. Woven into Izzy's tale is the story of a young woman called Katie, who has been confined to a mental hospital as a result of a cruel violation suffered in her youth. Where do these two stories meet? What is Izzy leaving out, what has he forgotten? And why can the anxious librarian not extricate himself from the web that Izzy weaves around him? As the story swirls deeper, taking reference from architecture, literature, history and myth, the reader is drawn into Izzy's frighteningly dislocated world, where the only response to suffering and guilt is amnesia.

A Novel

When renowned architect Ariel Price receives a letter from a biographer stating that he is going forth with an unauthorized biography, Ariel decides the biographer must die, in a novel that introduces a scintillating cast of character that transcend reality.

Douglas Cooper

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