Artists, Architects & Photographers 13

How did they do it? The story of Milan’s top-notch clothing designers, from ambitious beginners to global celebrities. The ideas, encounters and intuitions that turned talented stylists into fashion……続きを見る

Alice Dixon (1851-1910) was born into a comfortable middle class life in London that she eagerly left behind to travel to Yucatán as the young bride of Maya archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon. Worki……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS I.ーHis early Art Career II.ーDrawing for "London Society" III.ーIn London, the Harz Mountains, etc. IV.ーDr……続きを見る

The story of Chick Austin is the story, in Virgil Thomson's words, of "a whole cultural movement in one man." Becoming director of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum at the age of twenty-six, Austin imme……続きを見る

The wedding day is the big day for any bride and groom. And for any photographer to be able to capture their big day on print in a remarkable and memorable way is the mark of great talent. Some coup……続きを見る

Discover the book that puts a face on happiness In 2009, photographer Joseph Peter traveled through fifty African nations in seventy-five days and shot 150,000 imagesーmostly portraits of joyous, pr……続きを見る

Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using fo……続きを見る

Skillfully written and complemented with photos, this biography is the first to honor British actress-manager Lena Ashwell. In a rapidly changing world, Ashwell was crucial to the advancement of wom……続きを見る

Albalat explique son livre : « Flaubert gardait pieusement toute espèce de correspondance, jusqu’aux plus insignifiants billets. Ces lettres, la plupart inédites, que j’ai lues e……続きを見る

From James Rosenquist, one of our most iconic pop artistsーalong with Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtensteinーcomes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists, Ro……続きを見る

Tina Packer Builds A Theater by Helen Epstein (30,000 words) Anyone interested in theater should read this small, engaging biography about a woman who founded a regional theater. Tina Packer began a……続きを見る

Taking photographs is a wonderful way to preserve your precious memories. With a picture, you can freeze those special moments in time and capture them forever. Of course, scrapbooking has been arou……続きを見る

Franc-Nohain brosse dans ce charmant livre le tableau de la vie amoureuse de l'illustre fabuliste Jean de La Fontaine qui ratelait dans tous les carrés de sables. On voit défiler les duchesses, les ……続きを見る

Just like Cinderella, I thought I would live in fantasy. But it didn’t turn out that way at all. Not after years, not after decades. And I have come to realize  that what I wanted wasn’t Fanta……続きを見る

In The Geography of Arrival George Sipos revisits the city of London Ontario where his family settled after immigrating to Canada from Hungary in 1957. Divided into short chapters each related ……続きを見る

One of the makers of modern India. 'MV was a genius. Perfectly honest and devoted to his work, he set new standards of efficiency. This is the story of a poor boy who became the Grand Old Man of Ind……続きを見る

Antoine Albalat (1856-1935) est un spécialiste de la langue française, un auteur de romans et un critique littéraire écouté de son temps. Ce livre, publié en 1921, peint le milieu littéraire françai……続きを見る

Isabel Samaras's quirky, sexy, pop-surrealist art has had a cult following for years and now at long last her first monograph, On Tender Hooks, is here. Drawing her influence from classic TV shows a……続きを見る

In this brilliant, original and lavishly illustrated book, Edward Snow undertakes an inquiry into a single painting by the Flemish master Peter Bruegel the Elderーthe kaleidoscopic Children's Games……続きを見る

Walking through Arlington National Cemetery is an experience like no other. A quiet sense of respect persists, and the beauty is overwhelming. It is the final resting place of thousands of our natio……続きを見る

SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN HIS FAMILY AND HIS TIMES. WITH ORIGINAL LETTERS AND A DISCOURSE ON ARCHITECTURE HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED. 1585–1723. This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and……続きを見る

Back in late October of 2009, Michael Grace-Martin did a fine art nude photo session with semi-famous fine art nude model Sarah Ellis. Sarah has posed for many photographers–famous (including people……続きを見る

The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was arguably the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century. He was also--as James Lord persuasively argued in Giacometti: A Biography--a heroic figure ……続きを見る

SHERRY'S DREAMING-Dream Art 32 Dream Art Pictures for mind stimulation A workout for your thoughts Sheryl Trimble's life changed drastically at the age of eleven, she recently wrote a true story tha……続きを見る

“A striking portrait of a woman artist’s struggle for life.” ーArthur Miller Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her grandda……続きを見る

KEN KIRKBYーWARRIOR PAINTER is a remarkable biography about a very remarkable man. It is, also, an unusual book about a very unusual man. I have known Ken Kirkby since the day in 1990, when, as Spea……続きを見る

Once isolated from the modern world in the heights of the Andean mountains, the indigenous communities of Ecuador now send migrants to New York City as readily as they celebrate festivals whose root……続きを見る

Man's inclination to decorate his belongings has always been one of the earliest signs of civilisation. Art had its beginning in the lines indented in clay, perhaps, or hollowed in the wood of fami……続きを見る

The Guardians opens with a story from the July 24, 2008, edition of the Riverdale Press that begins, "An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night as i……続きを見る

Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the natu……続きを見る