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Epstein Jacob
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (50th Anniversary Edition) (Modern Library)
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Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book’s original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation and lasting influence of this classic.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as “perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. . . . [It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book’s arguments.” Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jane Jacobs’s tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable.
Demons and Angels: A Life of Jacob Epstein
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“I feel that I can do the best, most profound things and life is short. How I wish I was living in an age when man wanted to raise temples to man or God or the Devil.” Jacob Epstein was thirty when he wrote these impassioned words. Now recognized as a seminal figure in the history of twentieth-century art, his powerful and often explicit sculptures, monumental in scale, were hailed as the work of a genius by a few contemporary figures such as Ezra Pound and Augustus John, but produced hostility and censoriousness from the art establishment. His is a true rags-to-riches story. Epstein was born in 1880 in the Jewish Ghetto of New York but emigrated to Europe to live a bohemian life, with a wife and several mistresses in a domestic menage. By the time of his death in 1959 he had met almost everybody of importance in the art world and many in political and other spheres. He endured public scandals caused by the nudity of his so-called Strand Statues (1907-1908; destroyed 1937) and the debauched-looking angel on his 1912 memorial for Oscar Wilde, but in 1946 he modeled the portrait of Sir Winston Churchill and was himself knighted in 1954. It is a comment on changing tastes that Epstein’s magnificent carving in alabaster, “Jacob and the Angel,” once refused by the Tate Gallery, now stands in the Central Sculpture Hall of Tate Britain. His sculpture, drawing, and other work are to be found in museums and art galleries all over the world. Daemons and Angels, the first biography in fifty years of this controversial sculptor, features black-and-white photographs throughout.
Jacob Epstein
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Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) was a pioneer of modern sculpture in Britain. Yet he always felt an outsider in his adopted country, subjected as he was to relentless attacks and vilification. With his determination to break the taboos surrounding the depiction of sexuality, and his use of expressive distortion of the figure in a manner modeled more on non-Western art than the classical ideal, he aroused hostility throughout his career. Such controversy has meant that considerable attention is paid to certain aspects of Epstein's long and productive career, while in other respects the true nature of his overall achievement has been overlooked. This book intends to redress the balance. It provides a fascinating account of a sculptor who had a profound influence on successive generations of artists--not only for his carving but also for his courage.
The Spirit of the Ghetto (Belknap Press)
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Epstein Jacob News
Vicksburg @ Allegan
MLive.com - Aug 27, 2009
Evan Epstein /Jacob Cipriano 6-0, 6-2; 2. Taylor Robinson / Shane Coopmans (A) d. Andrew Lyngstad / Matthew Montgomery 6-2, 6-3; 3. and more »
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Artnet News
Artnet - Feb 11, 7250
The show contains more than 90 works by the three artists -- Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Eric Gill -- who are shown together in this context and more »
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Lakeview girls' golf 2nd at Birm. Invite
Battle Creek Enquirer - Aug 25, 2009
Lakeview girls' golf 2nd at Birm. Invite1 Evan Epstein-Jacob Cipriano (V) d. Wes Miller-Brian Yore 6-3, 6-0. No. 2 Andrew Lyngstad-Matt Montgomery (V) d. Brandon Clevenger-Zakk Heinrich 6-1, 6-2.
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The N to cross the "Catwalk"
TheCelebrityCafe.com - Feb 11, 1364
The N to cross the "Catwalk"Gregory, who is a former model and graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, is prepared to co-write the pilot script with Jacob Epstein, Kids channel The N takes a stroll with "Catwalk"all 5 news articles »
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NFL lockout is possible in 2011
Annapolis Capital - Feb 11, 7358
General manager Theo Epstein had flown to New York on Aug. 7 to tell Smoltz he was being designated for assignment. The right-hander signed with the Red Sox and more »
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