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Manet Paints Monet: A Summer in Argenteuil
Willibald Sauerländer · Getty Research Institute; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Manet Paints Monet focuses on an auspicious moment in the history of art. In the summer of 1874, Édouard Manet 18321883 and Claude Monet 18401926, two outstanding painters of the nascent Impressionist movement, spent their holidays together in Argenteuil on the Seine River. Their growing... |
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The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure
Carl Hoffman · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary "Wild Men of Borneo." One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization - or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times... |
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1000 Ideas for Color Schemes: The Ultimate Guide to Making Colors Work
Jennifer Ott · Firefly Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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This handsome book is about choosing color combinations not necessarily for a specific use. Each spread contains about seven photographs and a color palette, like paint chips. The color palettes provide inspiration and reliable combinations for use in any number of projects: home décor,... |
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Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny
A S Byatt · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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This ravishing book opens a window into the lives, designs, and passions of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris, two remarkable artists who themselves are passions of the writer A. S. Byatt. Born a generation apart in the mid-1800s, Fortuny and Morris were seeming opposites: Fortuny a Spanish... |
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The Self-Portrait : a Cultural History
James Hall · Thames et Hudson
Pages: 288
Format: Book
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Focusing on a perennially popular subject, the book tells the vivid history of works that offer insights into artists personal, psychological, and creative worlds. Topics include the importance of the medieval mirror craze in early self-portraiture; the confessional self-portraits of Titian... |
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Chucks!: The Phenomenon of Converse: Chuck Taylor All Stars
Hal Peterson · W W Norton
Pages: 168
Format: Print book
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A sneaker's evolution from style dud to global icon.In this book, shoe enthusiast Hal Peterson takes an in-depth look at the history, significance, and magic of "Chucks." Originally a rubber shoe company, Converse rolled out the canvas All Star in 1917, nicknamed "Chucks"... |
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Lincoln's White House: The People's House in Wartime
James B Conroy · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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Lincoln's White House is the first book devoted to capturing the look, feel, and smell of the executive mansion from Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 to his assassination in 1865. James Conroy brings to life the people who knew it, from servants to cabinet secretaries. We see the constant... |
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Into the Dark
Mark A Vieira · Running Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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You know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting; the cynical detective; the femme fatale; and the twist of fate. Into the Dark captures this alluring genre with a cavalcade of compelling photographs and a guide to 82 of its best films.Into the Dark is the first book to tell the story... |
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The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement
Nate Parker · 37 Ink
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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This official tie-in to the highly acclaimed film, The Birth of a Nation, surveys the history and legacy of Nat Turner, the leader of one of the most renowned slave rebellions on American soil, while also exploring Turner's relevance to contemporary dialogues on race relations.Based... |
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Medford Through Time
Patricia Saunders · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 96
Format: Print book
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Medford, Massachusetts, has been a part of Massachusetts history since the 1630s when Governor John Winthrop travelled here, and named a rock in the Middlesex fells after the cheese in his lunch. In the span from that seventeenth century afternoon to the twenty-first, a lot has happened... |
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
William J. Mann · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerEdgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern... |
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Learn Drawing Quickly
Sharon Finmark · B T Batsford Ltd
Pages: 112
Format: Print book
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A drawing can be a sketch, a study, a visual diary of your holiday, or just sheer creative pleasure - and learning to draw is quicker and easier than you think. This practical, concise guide encourages beginners with simple exercises and instruction in basic shapes and mark-making using... |
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Trashures: The Beauty of Useless Stuff
Tineke Meirink · Bis Publishers
Pages: 64
Format: Print book
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Have you seen the Waste Land documentary? It's about the largest landfill in the world in Brazil where people make a living out of garbage in the dump. Until artist Vik Muniz comes and Art is born out of rubbish materials and ends up in Phillips, an auction house in London, one of the most... |
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Building the Successful Theater Company
Lisa Mulcahy · Allworth Press
Pages: 257
Format: Print book
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What makes a theater company successful? Lisa Mulcahy poses the question to leaders from nineteen of the country's most diverse and vital theater companies from the recent past and present, and offers answers in Building the Successful Theater Company. Producers, stage managers, directors... |
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