ART HISTORY, FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY
BREAKING THROUGH: RICHARD BELLAMY & THE GREEN GALLERY 1960-1965
March 2010
Erik La Prade
978-1-877675-78-2; Illust.; paper; $24.00
In 23 interviews with artists, collectors, gallery directors and Bellamy himself, the author, Erik La Prade describes the role of The Green Gallery in the 1960s. It was an extraordinary place with an eccentric director, Richard Bellamy, an astute judge of art, a poet and an entrepreneur with little interest in making money. He selected artists—many unknown at the time—who would go on to become the art world leaders in the following years. Bellamy was among the first to show Pop and Minimalist art; to present performance art and "Happenings" and other new forms of art. Although it had a short life of only five years, it became a legend of its time and Bellamy is remembered as an "art saint."

ARTISTS' VOICES
THE UNCERTAINTY OF EXPERIENCE—AN ARTIST'S JOURNEY
March 2010
Stan Brodsky
978-1-877675-77-5; color & B/W illust.; paper; $24.00
Brodsky showed an unusual skill as a child in making penciled copies of illustrations in newspapers and of existing artist's drawings. His family acknowledged this skill , but didn't recognize it as an innate talent for making art. As a young soldier in WW II, he saw a barracks mate making drawings of his surroundings and realized he too could do that. He then started each letter home to family and friends with a drawing of the countryside or an interior. A chance discovery of a small watercolor box in an abandoned farmhouse in France permitted him to add color to his work and thus started his artist's journey. At war's end he returned home to enroll in college although still not convinced that art could be a career choice, but a random art history course changed his mind and he chose art on through graduate school. He is now a recognized major artist having journeyed through a long academic career, along with recognition with many awards and honors and exhibitions at major museums and prestigious galleries.