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Orange Is the New Black Presents: The Cookbook
Jenji Kohan · Abrams Image
Format: Print book
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Staffed and run by a band of misfit inmates, the kitchen at Litchfield is in many ways the center of the popular show Orange Is the New Black—a setting for camaraderie, drug smuggling, power struggles, and plot twists. And then there is the food. With 65 recipes, 12 sidebars that expand... |
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Zombies: A Cultural History
Roger Luckhurst · Reaktion Books, 2015.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Add a gurgling moan with the sound of dragging feet and a smell of decay and what do you get? Better not find out. The zombie has roamed with dead-eyed menace from its beginnings in obscure folklore and superstition to global status today, the star of films such as 28 Days Later, World... |
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Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse
Stanley Meisler · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors, including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine and Jules Pascin dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name "the School of Paris" to set them... |
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If Venice Dies
Salvatore Settis · New Vessel Pr
Pages: 180
Format: Print book
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"A chilling account of the slow agony of Venice as illustrative of a global consumerist epidemic. Richly documented and imbued with deep angst about this supreme urban creation." - Philippe de Montebello, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtWhat is Venice worth? To whom... |
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Television Series of the 1960s: Essential Facts and Quirky Details
Vincent Terrace · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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By 1960, watching television had become the pastime of millions of viewers around the world. Week after week, audiences tuned in to watch their favorite programs and catch up with their favorite characters. During the 1960s, some of the most beloved shows of all time originally aired, including... |
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Portrait Manual
The Editors of Popular Photography · Weldon Owen
Format: Print book
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For beginners looking to master the portrait or lifelong photographers looking to try a new twist on the classic genre, this is your photo book. The Complete Portrait Manual provides over 300 tips techniques to help you successfully capture the portrait you want.The editors of Popular Photography... |
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Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema
Melody Bridges · Aurora Metro Press
Pages: 311
Format: Paperback
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It now emerges that more women were working at every level in the first 20 years of the film industry in the USA than at any point since. Early pioneers, such as Alice Guy Blaché, directed hundreds of films, invented techniques, ran businesses and set up distribution but with the rise... |
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The Malkovich Sessions
Sandro Miller · Glitterati Incorporated
Pages: 236
Format: Print book
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The product of a unique, almost 20-year artistic collaboration between two stars in their respective fields, the actor and cultural icon John Malkovich and the photographer Sandro Miller, The Malkovich Sessions represents a profound meeting of the minds. The centerpiece of this stunning... |
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Where Are the Women Architects?
Despina Stratigakos · Princeton University Press
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as architects remains stubbornly low, and the higher one looks in the profession, the scarcer... |
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The Art of Princess Mononoke
Hayao Miyazaki · VIZ Media LLC
Format: Hardcover
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The latest in the perennially popular line of Studio Ghibli artbooks, which include interviews, concept sketches, and finished animation cels from classics such as Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro.Princess Mononoke was the first Hayao Miyazaki film to break out into the American mainstream.... |
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The Camera Does the Rest: How Polaroid Changed Photography
Peter Buse · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In a world where nearly everyone has a cellphone camera capable of zapping countless instant photos, it can be a challenge to remember just how special and transformative Polaroid photography was in its day. And yet, there's still something magical for those of us who recall waiting... |
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Portraits
Carole Massey · Search Press
Format: Paperback
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Using graphite, pen and ink, and charcoal, Carole Massey demystifies the drawing process with a complete drawing course. Included are chapters on structure, proportions and features as well as valuable information on perspective, light and shade, composition and working with models.--Publisher. |
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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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