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Art in Minutes
Susie Hodge · Quercus
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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This concise yet comprehensive guide to the history of art is the perfect handbook for all would-be art buffs. Art historian Susie Hodge takes you on a whistle-stop international tour of all the major philosophies, movements, phases, developments, artists, and themes, from prehistoric art to Hyperrealism.... |
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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr · W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and Finalist for the National Book Award. The definitive biography of Americas greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker.John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams... |
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Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel
Sherill Tippins · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The next best thing to having a room key to the Chelsea Hotel during each of its famous—and infamous—decades The Chelsea Hotel, since its founding by a visionary French architect in 1884, has been an icon of American invention a cultural dynamo and haven for the counterculture, all in one astonishing... |
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The Public Library: A Photographic Essay
Robert Dawson · Chronicle Books Llc
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150 photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and many more.Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent,... |
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Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Leander Kahney · Portfolio Hardcover
Format: Book
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“Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something that’s genuinely better is very hard.” —Jony Ive In 1997, Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO with the unenviable task of turning around the company he had founded. One night, Jobs discovered a scruffy... |
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Picture This: How Pictures Work
Molly Bang · Chronicle Books
Pages: 134
Format: Print book
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Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas - about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story... |
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5-Minute Sketching -- Architecture: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings
Liz Steel · Firefly Books
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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Sketching has become very popular. In more than 60 cities around the world, from New Jersey, San Diego, and Montreal to as far as Moscow and Australia, "sketch crawls" find artists drawing what they see. A new social network has emerged where these sketch artists meet for group... |
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Idiot's Guides: Playing Guitar
David Hodge · ALPHA; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Learning to play the guitar has never been easier! Idiots Guides Playing Guitar begins with an introduction to different types of guitars and their parts, followed by helpful information on how to choose a guitar. Youll learn how to tune the guitar supplemented with online audio, how to correctly... |
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Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open
Phoebe Hoban · New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Pages: 174
Format: Print book
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Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced. Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the first biography to assess Freud's work and life,... |
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Women Who Write Are Dangerous
STEFAN BOLLMANN · Abbeville Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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A sequel to the best-selling Women Who Read Are Dangerous, presenting portraits and profiles of fearless women writers past and presentWriting has not always been considered a suitable career for women. Indeed, it was once common for women authors to adopt a masculine pseudonym in order... |
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