Authors


  • Clifton Boudman, Belief and Desire.  (Available for Purchase)


  • William Manchester, A World Lit only by Fire.


  • Philip Larkin, Required Writing.


  • Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere.


  • Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony.


  • Luis Bunuel, My Last Breath.


  • Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities.


  • Thierry de Duve, Kant after Duchamp.


  • Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past.


  • Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building.


  • Salima Ikram, The Mummy in Ancient Egypt, Equipping the Dead for Eternity.


  • Mary Bittner Wiseman, The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes.


  • Gavin Menzies, 1421.


  • Arthur C. Danto, After the End of Art.


  • Neal Benezera and Olga M. Viso, Regarding Beauty.


  • Jennifer Mundy, Surrealism, Desire Unbound.


  • Max Rodenbeck, Cairo.


  • Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, The Deathbed Edition.


  • E.H. Gombrich, A Little History of the World.


  • Linda Weintraub, Art on the Edge and Over.


  • Robert M. Quest, Pyramid Egypt.


  • Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams.


  • Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia and Vita Nuova.


  • Okakura Kakuro, The Book of Tea.


  • B.H. Liddell Hart, History of the Second World War.


  • Pietro C. Marani, Leonardo da Vinci.


  • Danny Danziger, 1215 and The Year 1000.


  • Alec Guinness, My Name Escapes Me.


  • Tom Harrison, Living Through the Blitz.


  • Norman F. Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague.


  • Jonathan Raban, Bad Land, An American Romance.


  • Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artists.


  • Mark Musa, The Portable Dante.


  • Muriel Spark, Curriculum Vitae.


  • Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods.


  • Cynthia Freeland, But is it Art?


  • Robert Fagles, The Iliad and The Odyssey.


  • Whitney Chadwick and Isabelle de Courtivron, Significant Others.


  • Bill Beckley, Uncontrollable Beauty and Sticky Sublime.


  • Simon Schama, Citizens and Rembrandt's Eyes.


  • H. Allen Brooks, Le Corbusier.


  • C. W. Ceram, Gods, Graves and Scholars.


  • Elias Canetti, The Human Province.


  • John G. Cawelti, The Six-Gun Mystique.


  • Andrew Harvey, Mystics.


  • William Dalrymple, From the Holy Mountain.


  • Iain Crichton Smith, Consider the Lilies.


  • Colin Wilson, Dreaming to Some Purpose.


  • Barry Green, The Inner Game of Music.


  • Norman Sherry, Graham Greene, 1, 2 and 3.


  • Irene annd Alan Taylor, The Assassin's Cloak.


  • Edwin Williamson, Borges.


  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince.


  • Jill Lloyd and Michael Peppiatt, Christian Schad.


  • Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard.


  • Accademia Valentino, Roma, Omaggio a Balthus.


  • Alexander McCall Smith, 44 Scotland Street.


  • Barbara Rieti, Strange Terrain.


  • James Buchan, Crowded with Genius.


  • Germano Celant, Joel Peter Witkin.


  • Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish.


  • Richard Adams, Watership Down.


  • Steven Jay Schneider, Movies You Must See Before You Die.


  • Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubin Buidingc

Films/Actors/Authors

Here are my highly recommended guilty pleasures in film and writing from my personal library. Also, I list actors

Actors


  • Mervyn Johns


  • Daniel Day-Lewis


  • Alida Valli


  • Nigel Patrick


  • Robert Ryan


  • Anton Walbrook


  • Richard Basehart


  • Brian Cox


  • Victor Sen Yung 


  • Raymond Burr


  • Marius Goring


  • Thelma Todd


  • Joseph Cotten


  • Robert Mitchum


  • Dolores del Rio


  • Conrad Veidt


  • Robert DeNiro


  • Paul Muni


  • Jeff Bridges


  • Luther Adler 


  • William Boyd


  • Martin Kosleck


  • Zachary Scott


  • Trevor Howard


  • Richard Widmark 


  • Alec Guinness 


  • John McIintire


  • Everett Sloane


  • Thelma Ritter


  • James Ellison


  • Ann Todd 


  • Celia Johnson


  • Claude Rains


  • Orson Welles 

Artist Imagist and Professor of Fine Art, Emeritus
Here you can keep track of my travels and European Fine Art Study Tours, my sculpture and portrait drawing, my photography and my thoughts on current events.

Film 


YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE- 1937- FRITZ LANG - UNITED ARTISTS

ON DANGEROUS GROUND- 1952- NICHOLAS RAY- RKO RADIO

TWILIGHT- 2008- CATHERINE HARDWICKE- SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT

THE DEAD ZONE- 1983- DAVID CRONENBERG- DINO DE LAURENTIIS/ PARAMOUNT

THE CLAIRVOYANT- 1935- MAURICE ELVEY- GAUMONT BRITISH

THE PICKPOCKET- 1959- ROBERT BRESSON- COMPAGNIE CIMEMATOGRAPH DE FRANCE

HEART OF THE MATTER- 1953- GEORGE MORE O'FERRALL- BRITISH LION

THE BLACK CAT- 1934- EDGAR G. ULMER- UNIVERSAL

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI- 1948- ORSON WELLES- COLUMBIA

THE SEVENTH VEIL- 1945- COMPTON BENNETT- GENERAL FILM DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED

I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING- 1945- MICHAEL POWELL, EMERIC PRESSBURGER- RANK, THE ARCHERS

LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN- 1946- JOHN M. STAHL- 20TH CENTURY FOX

THE THIRD MAN- 1949- CAROL REED- BRITISH LION

JOURNEY INTO FEAR- 1942- NORMAN FOSTER- RKO RADIO

THE KILLERS- 1946- ROBERT SIODMAK- UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL

LAST HOLIDAY- 1950- HENRY CASS- ASSOCIATED BRITISH PATHE LIMITED

THE PURPLE PLAIN-1954- ROBERT PARRISH- GENERAL FILM DISTRIBUTERS LIMITED

THE SEVENTH VICTIM- 1943- MARK ROBSON- RKO RADIO

SHADOW OF A DOUBT- 1943- ALFRED HITCHCOCK- SKIRBALL, UNIVERSAL 

THE CLOUDED YELLOW- 1950- RALPH THOMAS- RANK DISTRIBUTORS

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- 1971- STANLEY KUBRICK- HAWK FILMS LIMITED

PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN- 1951- ALBERT LEWIN- DORKAY PRODUCTIONS

THE SEARCHERS- 1956- JOHN FORD- C. V. WHITNEY PICTURES

THE SOUND BARRIER- 1952- DAVID LEAN- BRITISH LION

IN A LONELY PLACE - 1950- NICHOLAS RAY- COLUMBIA

OUT OF THE PAST- 1947- JACQUES TOURNEUR- RKO RADIO

THE RED SHOES- 1948- MICHAEL POWELL, EMERIC PRESSBURGER- RANK, THE ARCHERS

DISHONORED- 1931- JOSEF VON STERNBERG- PARAMOUNT

SUNRISE- 1927- F.W. MURNAU- WILLIAM FOX PICTURES 


ARTIST in RESIDENCE, IMAGIST, PROFESSOR OF FINE ART