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2 reviews
Barnaby Conrad, Mark Hugh Miller

Duane Press, 2000

A truly amazing book about a truly amazing artist
The beautiful reproductions of Mark Stock's paintings enticed me to keep reading this interesting book about a gifted man and his work. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in art and the artist of the 21st century. Mark Stock is the modern Renaissance man.

Richard Diebenkorn
Jane Livingston, Barnaby Conrad III

Chronicle Books, 2003

Collected here for the first time are rarely seen and largely unpublished figurative drawings and paintings on paper that represent a period of exploration and innovation for Richard Diebenkorn (1922?1993). Perhaps the most renowned West Coast painter of the twentieth century, Diebenkorn alternated between the figurative and the abstract. These pieces, dating from roughly the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, not only display his facility with the ...

Absinthe: History in a Bottle

24 reviews
Barnaby Conrad III

Chronicle Books, 1988

Absinthe is Exemplary
I gravitated towards this book for many reasons: As a culinarian, I was fascinated with the story of Absinthe, a once taboo liqueur; but which has many like variations around the world and which actually has deeper history than just the 19th century. I have also studied France and the 19th century history, including anthropology and sociology. This book brings together an incredible ...

Martini: an Illustrated History of an American Classic.

8 reviews
BARNABY CONRAD III

Publisher, 1995

Breezy, well-written look at a cultural phenomenon
Now HERE is a hip coffee-table book. It's true that it isn't as colorful (or fundamentally healthy in subject) as Drew Kampion's "Stoked: A History of Surf Culture" (ISBN 1575440628). Nor as vividly gothic as David King's "The Commissar Vanishes," containing photographs re-touched during the Stalin regime so that unpersons might become unremembered, while the old women with the thick glasses ...

The Cigar: An Illustrated History of Fine Smoking

3 reviews
Barnaby III Conrad

Chronicle Books, 1996

Finally, a book that actually understands Cigar Cuisine!
There are tons of cigar books out there, but this is the first I've found that actually explains how to cook with cigars. The rest of the book is great of course, wouldn't expect any less from Conrad, but the recipes are really where it starts to shine above the others. Unfortunately there is no mention of the cigar burrito (one of my personal favorite dishes), but all of the dishes I've tried ...

John Register: Persistent Observer

4 reviews
Barnaby Conrad III

Woodford Press, 1999

Register is the most important artist since Hopper.
Barnaby Conrad III is a high quality, well-educated author that is sensitive and brilliant in his ability to articulte and capture the essence of John Register in his suberb new book. This book is an important chronicle of a man who will become one of the important and accomplished artists of the twentieth century.