Art & Architecture 6

Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical inv……続きを見る

In The Way You Wear Your Hat, author Bill Zehme presents a masterful assembly of the most personal details and gorgeous minutiae of Frank Sinatra's way of livingmatters of the heart and heartbreak, ……続きを見る

Bag, tag, and label design is critical in the world of marketing and sales, yet can be challenging to execute successfully. The Big Book of Bags, Tags and Labels is a unique visual collection featur……続きを見る

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-y……続きを見る

In the early 1960s, Richard Avedon was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar to create Observations, a column that consisted of a series of nine photographic essays. The subject of the first essay was Joh……続きを見る

Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what ……続きを見る

Neil Strauss can uncover the naked truth like nobody else. With his groundbreaking book The Game, Strauss penetrated the secret society of pickup artists. Now, in Everyone Loves You When You're Dead……続きを見る

A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by allーand a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of legen……続きを見る

Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” Selection All wars are fought twice, the first time on the……続きを見る

This early work by William Morris was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. William Morris was born in London, England in 1834. Arguabl……続きを見る

First published in 1988. This book shows how censorship as a set of institutions, practices and discourses was involved in the struggle over the nature of cinema in the early twentieth century. It a……続きを見る

Over the past 50 years, the subject of garden history has been firmly established as an academic discipline. While many have explored what was created in gardens throughout history, the reasons as t……続きを見る

Bridget Rose Dugdale was a debutante before the Queen of England in 1958. Her father was an executive with Lloyd's of London and her mother was a wealthy woman whose family grew rich on cotton. Rose……続きを見る

2017 American Book Award Winner from the Before Columbus Foundation In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City took the lives of 146 workers, most of them young immigrant wo……続きを見る

In this follow-up to the first volume of Everyday Analysis articles, Why are Animals Funny?, the EDA Collective tracks through an ABC of modern phenomena ordered by analytic theme, widely r……続きを見る

Une fiche de référence sur Lettre de Sibérie, un chef-d'oeuvre de Chris Marker. Initié par l'association France-U.R.S.S. comme un film de commande, soucieux de transmettre une certaine vision de l'U……続きを見る

The Ghent Altarpiece or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb is a 15th century polyptych painted by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck. One of its twenty panels was stolen from St. Bavon Cathedral in Ghent on the nigh……続きを見る

Thomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephan……続きを見る

During the Cold War, culture became another weapon in America's battle against communism. Part of that effort in cultural diplomacy included a program to arrange the exhibition of hundreds of Americ……続きを見る

Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, th……続きを見る

This first-of-its-kind compendium unites perspectives from artists, scholars, arts educators, policymakers, and activists to investigate the complex system of values surrounding artistic-educational……続きを見る

In this brilliant collection of diverse works-essays, short stories, poems, translations-which spans a lifetime's engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing……続きを見る

À Paris, le Centre Georges-Pompidou présentait, du 15 octobre 2008 au 26 janvier 2009, une exposition consacrée au Futurisme à Paris, significativement sous-titrée, d'après Mikhaïl Larionov, «une av……続きを見る

Ein Prosaband voller Poesie gestaltet von Reina de Brun. Eindrucksvolle Bilder untermalen bewegenden Texte. 続きを見る

How one woman helped to shape the Australian art world Kiffy Rubbo was a dynamic and unique force in Australian art in the 1970s. It was the time of ‘the personal is political’, of the Vietnam War a……続きを見る

On March 17, 2011, many Syrians rose up against the authoritarian Asad regime that had ruled them with an iron fist for forty years. Initial successes were quickly quashed, and the revolution seemed……続きを見る

Quand un circuit automobile devient un champ de bataille. Formula 1 Istanbul Conflict Park présente une variation graphique autour de représentations géopolitiques. La série de cartes a été créée à ……続きを見る

A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the worldーand that makes all the difference. “How to live in the face o……続きを見る

Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. ……続きを見る

Paul Clements champions the creative underground and expressions of difference through visionary avant-garde and resistant ideas. This is represented by an admixture of utopian literature, manifesto……続きを見る