Arthur Lubow Poradie kníh

A biography of the elusive but celebrated Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer connecting his Jewish background to his life and art

2022 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM TOP MUSEUM-THEMED PICK FOR THE HOLIDAYS 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Wonder and imagination are at the heart of this story of a friendship between a boy from New York City and the boy king, Tutankhamun A boy and his stuffed bunny gaze at a star-lit New York cityscape. The great Sphinx of Egypt sleeps. A child swings joyously across a river. This book offers a tantalizing glimpse of the adventures of Arthur and his imaginary friend, Bun-Bun. Together they travel through the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum to another time and place and befriend the lonely boy king, Tutankhamun.

Diane Arbus was one of the greatest photographers of the last century. Richard Avedon later championed Arbus's work. Avedon rose to greater and greater commercial success through the magazine world. Lubow's biography begins at the moment Arbus quit the world of commercial photography to be an artist.