[Fredslist] Ellin Yassky's Medici Editorial Service's book gets good marks from Library Journal

Thu Apr 16 12:14:46 EDT 2009

Way to go Ellin!  See below.

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             Ellin Yassky                                                  
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                                       Medici Editorial Service's book     
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I thought you'd be interested in Library Journal's review of America: A
History in Art, Medici Editorial's latest creation (produced for Black Dog
& Leventhal Publishers). Pottery Barn has taken the book for all their
stores and Library Journal seems to like it as well. I think that means I
hit my target audience and met the requests of my client! Hope it's OK that
I shared the news.

With all best wishes,

Ellin

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 American treasures                                                         

 Books that highlight our cultural heritage                                 

 REVIEWS BY LINDA M. CASTELLITTO                                            

 From portraits of presidents to surveys of art and architecture, this      
 season heralds the arrival of books perfect for curious sorts who want to  
 learn more about—or gain a new perspective on—our nation's history. Thanks 
 to intriguing photos, compelling text and a wealth of insight, these books 
 will educate, entertain, inform and bemuse. Perhaps they'll serve as an    
 antidote to post-election fever, too.                                      

 (Embedded image moved to file: pic00900.gif)Art, American style            

 William G. Scheller, author of Columbus and the Age of Discovery and       
 America's Historic Places, among others, puts his history chops to         
 excellent use in America: A History in Art—The American Journey Told by    
 Painters, Sculptors, Photographers, and Architects. The book is arranged   
 in chronological order, from the first Americans to the new millennium.    
 Commentary and captions accompany the 300-plus reproductions, from         
 paintings to photos, political posters to objets d'art. Social, political, 
 economic and geographic context are explored in detail, too. For example,  
 regarding Caltrans 7 (a Los Angeles Department of Transportation building  
 completed in 2004), Scheller notes that, just as the architectural firm's  
 name, Morphosis, doesn't include "meta" as a way to indicate design is     
 changeable and fluid like our surroundings, the building itself is wrapped 
 in a sheath that opens or closes based on the heat and light that touches  
 it. Scheller writes, "The United States has been since its inception . . . 
 a study in the balance of pragmatism and idealism; of stubborn cultural    
 independence and slavish devotion to the foreign; of conservatism and      
 experimentation." The artists represented here shore up that assertion:    
 looking at America through the lens of creations by Currier & Ives,        
 Georgia O'Keeffe, Dorothea Lange, Andy Warhol and scores of lesser-known   
 talents is a history lesson indeed.                                        

       America: A History in Art—The American Journey Told by Painters,     
       Sculptors, Photographers, and Architects                             
       By William G. Scheller                                               
       Black Dog & Leventhal, $40                                           
       320 pages, ISBN 9781579127794                                        

Ellin Yassky, Ph.D.
Medici Editorial Services, LLC
39 Woodbine Lane
Fairfield, Connecticut 06825
203.581.0395
Ellin at MediciEditorial.com
www.MediciEditorial.com
Check out my newest article on the Kladno Torah Rededication Project:
http://magazine.fandm.edu/?p=171

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