Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision | 
| Creators: Jeremiah Goodman, Edward Albee, Sam Shahid
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 673686
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 14.6 x 11.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 1576873536
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.13
EAN: 9781576873533
ASIN: 1576873536
Publication Date: March 1, 2011 (In 173 Days)
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While most can only imagine the lavish living quarters filled with fine china, dramatic drapery, and regal furniture that lie behind the iron-clad gates of the most exclusive addresses in America, Jeremiah Goodman has had the rare opportunity to enter and paint his impressions of the residences of the rich and famous for the past 54 years. Goodman’s expressive watercolors not only act as an archive of interior design for the second half of the 20th century, but also provide a glimpse into the artist’s unique ability to infuse a depiction of domestic space with a sense of drama and emotion second only to being there. In addition to making art based on the interiors, Goodman painted studies for rooms-to-be, creating the beautiful plans on which the rooms themselves would be based.
Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision is a 208-page retrospective of Goodman’s career, with over 80 plates of Goodman’s work, photos and ephemera from his life, and reflections from Goodman himself. Over the span of his career, Goodman has made renderings of the homes of such influential icons as President Ronald and First Lady Nancy Reagan; legendary theatre personas Mary Martin, Sir John Gielgud, and Richard Rodgers; Baron and Baroness Philippe de Rothschild; jewelry designer Elsa Peretti; Greta Garbo; Cecil Beaton; Betsy Bloomingdale; the Duchess of Windsor; fashion designers Elsa Schiaparelli and Bill Blass; Vogue editor-in-chief and fashion icon Diana Vreeland; interior designers Billy Baldwin and Mario Buatta; and famed photographer Bruce Weber; in addition to illustrating rooms for House and Garden, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and Interior Design, a publication for which Goodman illustrated each month’s cover for 15 years. With an introduction by playwright Edward Albee, Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision offers a rare look at a true life of grandeur.
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ELEGANT GRANDEUR August 2, 2007
BOYWAY (new york city)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Mr. Goodman's remarkable talent to paint a portrait of an interior as lush, dramatic, grander than grand was clearly sought after by a legion of society's most celebrated style icons. Like the American painter John Singer Sargeant, Mr. Goodman's confident handling of paints thrusts the viewer into a world of impossible glamour. Environments that boasted the highest ceilings,gleaming marble floors, heavy gold frames,crystal ornaments, rare fabrics covering museum worthy pieces of furniture and forests of exotic plants all bathed in the most dramatically dappled sunlight easily, happily, transports the viewer to a dreamy never never land.We're talking rooms dressed to impress and then some!Homes belonging to high-style mavens like screen goddess-Greta Garbo,society designer- Bill Blass and the boy-crazy shutterbug who eroticized the male form in the public imagination, Mr. Bruce Weber. There's a history lesson here of decorating styles through the mid 20th century of both public and private settings. But the strength of the book is the spectacular painting technique and the rich, romantically luxurious point of view of the gifted artist, Mr.Goodman. In the 21 century world thats devoid of any masterful illustrations in the popular press, to see such skilled, dreamy, visionary work is a special treat indeed.
Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision October 23, 2007
Marion L. Erwin (Kentucky)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Previously I had viewed some of the material in various magazines and was eager to see more of Mr. Goodman's work. This book does not disappoint. As an interior designer I have always admired the art of "rendering." The book is a treasure to be enjoyed over and over again.
Lovely book October 25, 2007
S. West (Los Angeles)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you enjoy the early 60's aesthetic of the wealthy this is a fantastic book. Really gorgeous designs of a great designer at his best.
A beautiful book October 22, 2009
MaryB (Delaware)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very worthy of anyone's coffee table.
Not enough detail or context to provide actual design or decorative ideas but very pretty to look at.
Divine! May 29, 2010
Arabella Lafitte
Be prepared to be delighted upon reading and taking in this gorgeous, lush, rich red book. It is a book to return to again and again, to be moved by color and form, to be elevated by the arrangements, and placements of objects, by scale, and the synergy that arises, seemingly effortlessly, but oh so exquisitely. We witness things: things of beauty, rare things, lovely things that come together through Mr. Goodman's brilliance.
Translated for us via Mr. Goodman's vision and imagination, these are places relatively unknown to most of us, and he brings them to us with a sense of mystery that seduces one with shadow, light and air. Color becomes a living, vibrating joyful Being. These rooms are obviously exclusive, special....but not by the 'things' that are placed in a room; or the money that buys these 'things', but through the artist's innate understanding, sensitivity, translation, of what makes these 'things' so very precious and unique. And at this point 'things' cease to be 'things'. That is the adventure of this book.
And I feel I must comment on that ridiculously beautiful figure, Mr. Goodman, on the cover. It is just a flat out brilliant photograph, sort of heartbreaking, yet just so evocative. A face like an archangel, a laughing angel right in the middle of a sparse winter field.
I always feel I've traveled abroad for a month or so after spending an afternoon with this book. Energized, more alive and awake, and ready to absorb more beauty.
Thank you Mr. Goodman.
Arabella
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