Artists, Architects & Photographers 9

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

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

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 WITH ORIGINAL LETTERS AND A DISCOURSE ON ARCHITECTURE HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED. 1585–1723.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

“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

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

This semi-autobiographical novel was first serialised in the magazine The Egoist from 1914 to 1915, and published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, New York. The first English edition w……続きを見る

American ingenuity reveals itself in the simplest and most forgotten places. From familiar brand names such as Wheaties (George Cormack) to the most mundane stop at the traffic light (Garrett August……続きを見る

Esta obra, acima de tudo, tem por fito dar a conhecer o quanto Lima Barreto, meritoriamente reconhecido como grande romancista e notável cronista e articulista, foi um magnífico criad……続きを見る

Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered one of the greatest American authors of all time; you know his work, but what about his life? Find out about the life and times of Nathaniel Hawthorne in this shor……続きを見る

From the Author of Frida, the Moving and Heroic Story of One of the Central Painters of the Twentieth Century Born in Turkey around 1900, Vosdanik Adoian escaped the massacres of Armenians in 1915 o……続きを見る

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Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building e……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The definitive biography for decades to come.”ーLeo Jansen, curator, the Van Gogh Museum, and co-editor of Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Letters Steven Naifeh and Grego……続きを見る

Winner of the 2012 Zia Award from New Mexico Press Women In 1973 Georgia O'Keeffe employed C. S. Merrill to catalog her library for her estate. Merrill, a poet who was a graduate student at the Univ……続きを見る

"The definitive life of O'Keeffe." ーHilton Kramer, Los Angeles Times Georgia O'Keefe (1887?-1986) was one of the most successful American artists of the twentieth century: her arresting paintings o……続きを見る

The poet and visual artist Mina Loy has long had an underground reputation as an exemplary avant-gardist. Born in London of mixed Jewish and English parentage, and a much photographed beauty, she mo……続きを見る

**“An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.” ーLos Angeles Times From the award-winning author of Orwell's Roses, a sti……続きを見る

In The Art Prophets, Richard Polsky introduces us to influential late twentieth-century dealers and tastemakers in the art world. These risk takers opened doors for artists, identified new movements……続きを見る

My name is Sir Duke. I am a pigeon. But certainly not a common pigeon by any means. Let me tell you how I got my name…I am the son of champion racer Boomerang and the grandson of Da Vinci. My mothe……続きを見る

In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L’Enfantーa young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained man……続きを見る

Cecil Beaton was one of the great twentieth-century tastemakers. A photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, he was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theate……続きを見る

A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he……続きを見る