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Cats in Art
DESMOND MORRIS · Reaktion Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The cat - that most graceful, stubborn, and agile of animals - has been a favorite subject of artists the world over from prehistory to the modern day. A spectacular 7,000-year-old engraving in Libya depicts a catfight. Figures modeled by the Babylonians remind us of their belief that the souls... |
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Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave
Hokusai Katsushika · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A major publication on Hokusai's remarkable late work, incorporating fresh scholarship on the sublime paintings and prints the artist created in the last thirty years of his life An acknowledged master during his lifetime, Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life,... |
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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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The Big Book of Less: Finding Joy in Living Lighter
Irene Smit · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrate the joys of living with less. Less stuff. Less stress. Less overthinking. Less judgment. Less excess.
Combining the hands-on activity and beautiful production value that made A Book That Takes Its Time a bestseller, with 204,000 copies in print, The Big Book... |
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Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story
Wayne Everett Goins · University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A member of Muddy Waters' legendary late 1940s-1950s band, Jimmy Rogers pioneered a blues guitar style that made him one of the most revered sidemen of all time. Rogers also had a significant if star-crossed career as a singer and solo artist for Chess Records, releasing the classic... |
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Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters
Leonard Cohen · Independent Pub Group
Pages: 604
Format: Print book
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Leonard Cohen, one of the most admired performers of the last half century, has had a stranger-than-fiction, roller-coaster ride of a life. Now, for the first time, he tells his story in his own words, via more than 50 interviews conducted worldwide between 1966 and 2012. In Leonard Cohen... |
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American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
Deborah Solomon · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Welcome to Rockwell Land, writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography of the painter who provided twentieth-century America with a defining image of itself. As the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, Norman... |
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I See a City: Todd Webb's New York
Todd Webb · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 175
Format: Hardcover
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An evocative portrait of New York City in the 1940s and 1950s by master documentary photographer Todd WebbI See a City: Todd Webb's New York focuses on the work of photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons... |
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Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community
Saul Austerlitz · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 406
Format: Paperback
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The form is so elemental, so basic, that we have difficulty imagining a time before it existed: a single set, fixed cameras, canned laughter, zany sidekicks, quirky family antics. Obsessively watched and critically ignored, sitcoms were a distraction, a gentle lullaby of a kinder, gentler... |
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