Gainesville, GA (Vocus) 30 September 2010

A new book by French academic, writer, historian and biographer Annie Cohen-Solal paints a detailed portrait of Leo Castelli, one of the most influential personalities in the art world in the late 20th Century and a man using Brenau University, a small private institution in the northern Georgia credited to seek in this world.


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solala a Leo and his circle :? ??? The life of Leo Castelli, â? recently published by Alfred A. Button, is a cultural biography of Castelli, who was America? s most influential art dealers to start or expand a career of pop art Andy Warhol icons credited, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg. Samples of all their works are currently part of the permanent art collection of Brenau University.

From 1991 until his death 11 years ago Castelli also a member of the Board of Brenau, which began as rubber boots rain boots? s College 132 years ago in Gainesville, about 50 miles north of Atlanta.

â? Leo talks about (future collector) that it OK to watch football on Sunday evening and enjoy Jasper Johns, Monday morning, one was? Cohen-Solal said in an interview for Brenau.


According to an article

Atlanta-based art critic Catherine Fox, Castelli, too? Brenau helped an impressive permanent art collection and improve its reputation in the world of art, it inhabited.â? Fox, longtime art critic for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is now chief spokesman for the visual arts

ArtsCriticATL.com.

Foxa? s article, from the University commissioned is to use the media, without charge, without restriction of copyright. Click here dmorrison the article or e-mail (at) brenau copy (dot) edu for a version in Microsoft Word or to obtain photos or get permission to use images from the universityâ? The permanent art collection.

AN BRENAU? Founded in 1878, Brenau University currently houses about 2,800 students in bachelor’s and doctoral programs of preparation on campus and online. The main campus of the institution in Georgia liberal arts based, the rubber boots rain boots includes Brenau? S College, in Gainesville with other locations in Augusta, Kings Bay and two locations Metro Atlanta, Norcross and Fairburn. Brenauâ? S 2011 ranking as one of the top 15 best values in higher education in the southeastern United States News & World Report marks the universityâ? The sixth consecutive year in this position for the journal? s America’s Best Colleges Guide. Brenau University has been cited as one of the best colleges and universities to work by The Chronicle of Higher Education and one of the best universities in the Southeast by Princeton Review.


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