Life and Beyond: Poems and Appropriations

By Lawrence Salander

Life and Beyond is a collaboration between the prize-winning film director Jonah L. Salander, who is responsible for the beautiful and profound photographs in this volume, and his father, the artist and poet Lawrence Salander.

This book is the result of Jonah Salander’s habit of walking the streets of New York City , where for various reasons—including his love for the city and his profound regard and empathy for the people who live there, and as a tool for his work as a film director—he photographs those vignettes he discovers. These photographs inspired the photographer’s father Lawrence to write the accompanying poems.

Lawrence Salander is also the author of Art as I See It, published by Austin Macauley in 2019.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Jan 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9781528997478

Lawrence Salander

Salander owned and directed the internationally renowned Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in New York City for the entire 40 years of its existence. He presented over 600 exhibitions to the public over that period of time, including the work of artists such as Rembrandt, Donatello, Bernini, Corot, Tiepolo, Pollock, Gorky, de Kooning, Titian, Tintoretto, Constable, Delacroix, Géricault, Bonnard and many others. He has written extensively on the subject of art and is also a working artist whose work has been the subject of many one-man shows in both museums and commercial galleries. His work is owned by museums such as the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, etc. He believes that his work as a working artist and an art dealer has put him in a unique position to understand art in a way few others have. The father of seven lives and works in Duchess County, New York. He is also a poet.

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About the Authors

Jonah Salander is a prize-winning director of films including Solace, Rewind, Ezra, Eight, and Privileged. He was awarded Best Director honors for the forty-eight-hour film festival in New Haven, Connecticut in 2014 and directed Sonnet 103 for the Shakespeare Exchange Project at the Algonquin Hotel in 2015.

Lawrence Salander was the owner of the world-famous Salander-O’Reilly Galleries in New York and was responsible for presenting over 600 museum-quality exhibitions to the public. He has been a working and exhibiting artist for over 50 years. He is the author of numerous articles and essays on the subject of art, most recently a book entitled Art As I See It (Austin Macauley). He is the father of seven and lives in Dutchess County, New York.

Dedications

To Cara my love and partner

To my mom for all her support in every way.

To Josh Ash for his great gift and friendship

To the memory of Gerald B (Jerry) Greenberg (ACE)

for teaching me what it means to be a filmmaker.

To J, J, J, and P.

– JLS

To all my children and Layla

Lawrence & Jonah Salander

Life and Beyond

Poems and Appropriations

Text by Lawrence Salander

Photographs by Jonah Salander

Copyright © Lawrence & Jonah Salander 2022

The right of Lawrence & Jonah Salander to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.

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Revelation

Emerald dot from nowhere

The story of art

A crossed star

The place over the rainbow

And Entity from Outer Space

Constable’s Soul

The sword of Constantine

Ascensions

Revelations

Metaphysical Phenomena

Satan’s signs

Judgement Day

Mystical magical revelation

Now you see it

Now you don’t

Tombstone cattle 

Star trekking