In photographs and words, this beautifully presented book rekindles memories while providing glimpses of the 1960s in Australia: the Vietnam War and the conscription lottery; the Swinging Sixties, w……続きを見る
On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled ……続きを見る
Living off the landーhunting, fishing, and farming, along with a range of specialized crafts that provided barter or cash incomeーwas a way of life that persisted well into the twentieth century in ……続きを見る
Imagine being an artist. What it would be like to NOT be labeled a "starving" artist, to be viewed as successful instead. Imagine being able to read a book that does not rob you of your creative ene……続きを見る
One of the truly great minds of all time, the 15th-century Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci was uncannily ahead of his time, giving the world not only the Mona Lisa and his other extraordinary works……続きを見る
著者:Edward Ball
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年01月22日
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron wh……続きを見る
著者:Tom Kupsh
出版社: Chicago Review Press
発売日: 2008年06月01日
In addition to hundreds of whimsical welded sculptures, Tom Every poured most of his effort into the Forevertron, the world's largest sculpture built by a single person, and in the process, he disco……続きを見る
This interesting book about Rembrandt and his paintings was first written in 1905, and is just as enjoyable today. Featuring colour prints of 16 of his best paintings, this excellent introduction to……続きを見る
著者:Harvey Rachlin
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年03月27日
The secret histories of the world’s most famous masterpieces
Caravaggios, Rembrandts, Monetsーthe works of immortal artists such as these are indelibly imprinted in the public mind; they are pricele……続きを見る
This book profiles five fascinating visionaries who exemplify outstanding leadership, a passion for their work, cutting-edge ideas, and a commitment to quality. All winners of the prestigious J. C. ……続きを見る
著者:Friderike Zweig
出版社: Plunkett Lake Press
発売日: 2012年12月06日
Married to Stefan Zweig by Friderike Zweig (translated from the German by Erna McArthur, with an introduction by Helen Epstein, a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life and a bibliography of works by and……続きを見る
Harold Mortimer-Lamb’s name is in the index of almost every book written on the history of Canadian art, yet his place in that world has never been clear. Photographer, writer, painter, promoterーhe……続きを見る
著者:Fritjof Capra
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年10月30日
Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first ……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Potok
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
Andrew Potok is an intense, vigorous, sensual man--and a gifted painter. Then, passing forty, he rapidly begins to go blind from an inherited eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Depressed and angry, ……続きを見る
著者:Helen Epstein
出版社: Plunkett Lake Press
発売日: 2012年12月06日
Meyer Schapiro: Portrait of an Art Historian by Helen Epstein (19,700 words)
This is the only profile available of art historian Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996). A polymath, revered for his extraordinary……続きを見る
著者:Marcy Italiano
出版社: P.I.C. Publishing
発売日: 2012年11月12日
THE BEST POSSIBLE PLACE
THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME
On August 27, 2005, a Carnival cruise ship docked at the harbor of New Orleans. Amongst the arrivals were Canadian writer Marcy Italiano and her husba……続きを見る
Imagine one of history's master artists placing hidden images in his paintings and never telling anyone he did so. Then imagine that no one noticed these hidden images for nearly a century aft……続きを見る
These are stories about beautiful women, stories of love, betrayal, rejection and loss. We start with a beautiful painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and follow the thread to disc……続きを見る
著者:Franklin Toker
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a ……続きを見る
The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spiri……続きを見る
A charming memoir from one of America’s best-loved novelists, William Wharton, author of war-time classic ‘Birdy’.
Before even penning his first novel, William Wharton had left his home in Los Angel……続きを見る
著者:James A. Burgess
出版社: Ramsey Ponderosa Publishing
発売日: 2013年01月16日
Art Collecting for Beginners: A Quick Start Guide to Art Design, Buying Paintings and Collecting Art Work and Art Auctions
Buying and collecting art intelligently can be done by anyone. That's right……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Forrest
出版社: John Murray Press
発売日: 2012年07月27日
Vincent Van Gogh had a profound gift of communication, and he remains an icon of modern art to this day. This book will explore Van Gogh's life, influences, English connections, painting techniques,……続きを見る
著者:Vincent Eaton
出版社: hidden people
発売日: 2012年09月07日
Brussegem is both a place and a person. But mainly it is a painter. A fully dedicated and fairly isolated American painter living in Europe whose creed is art, and only art.
Until Veronica Weise, th……続きを見る
Caroline Walker (b. 1982, Dunfermline) has established herself as one of the UK’s most exciting figurative painters of her generation working internationally today.
By means of an elegant and seduct……続きを見る
Everyone says Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest artist whoever lived…but why? What makes him so great? At a single glance, the Mona Lisa just looks like a normal painting of a woman. Why is h……続きを見る
Arthur Boyd's legacy is a collection of masterpieces that define the history of Australian art in the last century. But the man himself - enigmatic, inarticulate, modest - has remained in the shadow……続きを見る
After attending New York/New Wave at P.S. 1, I discovered Futura's subway car "Break," which opened my eyes to the realization that a highly creative subculture was flourishing underground in New Yo……続きを見る
Life with a filmmaker, artist and musician. Cliff Guest won Madonna's highly touted video contest"Make My Video Contest" in the 1980's. Cliff Guest and Angel Gracia won the contest and were whisked ……続きを見る