In 1967, the phrase "flower power" transformed the commonplace flower into a Buddhist-inspired symbol of peace. In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of San Francisco's Summer of Love, this book showcases the expressive powers of flowers in Asian arts and cultures. Beginning in ancient times, a language of flowers, where certain blooms suggest specific themes, was communicated in art throughout Asia. Here forty artworks, all drawn from the Asian Art Museum's renowned collection, focus on six celebrated flowers - lotus, plum blossom, cherry blossom, chrysanthemum, tulip, and rose - and the messages they convey.
Asian Art Museum
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9780939117796
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Print book
Art of Renaissance Rome
By Marciari, John
John Marciari tells the story of the monuments, artists, and patrons of Renaissance Rome in this compelling book. In no other city is the ancient world so palpably present, and nowhere else is the mission of the church so evident. At the same time as the humanists sought to preserve and recreate the ancient city, giving it a new lease on life, the popes dispensed patronage much as any other contemporary Italian ruler. Rome was also the most international of the Renaissance cities with artists and architects generally training elsewhere before arriving in the city and introducing new trends.By adopting a chronological structure, covering the period c.1300-1600, Marciari is able to explore the nature of Roman patronage as it differed from papacy to papacy.
Laurence King Publishing
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9781786270559
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Hardcover
Pearl Jam Anthology - The Complete Scores
By Group), Pearl Jam (musical
(Transcribed Score) . This deluxe hard-cover book provides 130 complete lyrics and transcriptions of every song on the Pearl Jam albums Ten through Lightning Bolt. Over 800 pages of music contain lyrics and streamlined transcriptions of every instrument that was recorded for an amazing written documentation of this influential band. Guitar and bass parts are written in both standard notation and tablature.Songs include: Alive * Animal * Better Man * Black * Breakerfall * Corduroy * Daughter * Dissident * Do the Evolution * Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town * Even Flow * Given to Fly * Go * Grievance * Indifference * Jeremy * My Father's Son * Not for You * Nothing As It Seems * Once * Porch * Rearviewmirror * State of Love and Trust * Wishlist * Yellow Ledbetter * and more.
Hal Leonard; Box Deluxe edition
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9781495060410
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Hardcover
Helen Pashgian
By Pashgian, Helen
The Vermeer of California's Light and Space movement: the first comprehensive monograph on Helen Pashgian's infinitely subtle and mutable sculptureOver the course of her career, Pasadena-based artist Helen Pashgian (born 1934) has produced a significant oeuvre of sculptures comprised of vibrantly colored columns, discs and spheres, which often feature an isolated element appearing suspended, embedded or encased within them. Using an innovative application of industrial epoxies, plastics and resins, Pashgian's works are characterized by their translucent surfaces that appear to filter and somehow contain illumination. "One must move around to observe changes," she testifies: "coming and going, appearing and receding, visible and invisible -- a phenomenon of constant movement.
Radius Books
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9781942185758
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Hardcover
Meadow
By Parkinson, Iain
An exploration of Britain's vanishing hay meadows: vestiges of a rural past and sanctuaries for future biodiversity. The surviving hay meadows of the British Isles are an intrinsic part of the region's cultural heritage, standing as a pastoral equivalent to the great churches, castles, and stone monuments that dot the islands. These few extant meadows provide not only a tantalizing glimpse into a pre-industrial agrarian past, but also serve as present-day biodiversity hotspots, offering home and sanctuary to hordes of organisms.. Meadow explores the intimate and complex relationships between people, places, and plants that for centuries have shaped the color and character of the classic British hay meadow. Iain Parkinson carefully curates an evocative collection of personal accounts from notable experts in the worlds of science, conservation, and the arts, allowing the complex story of the hay meadow to be told by the people whose lives are deeply entangled with it.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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9781842467473
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Hardcover
BAM
By Yung, Susan
Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, founded in 1983 by impresario Harvey Lichtenstein, gathered performances in which genres mixed and traditions were upended. Events held in downtown lofts were given larger venues at BAM. Choreographers, directors, artists and musicians now had access to bigger audiences. The first festivals included New York artists Trisha Brown, Philip Glass, Bill T. Jones, Laurie Anderson, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucinda Childs and Robert Wilson. International companies were folded into the Next Wave, introducing New York viewers to Pina Bausch, Robert Lepage, Sankai Juku and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. During intermissions, art-world luminaries mixed with dance and theater makers. In 1999, Joseph V. Melillo took over the artistic reins of the festival.
Print Matters Productions, Inc.
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9780999297100
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Hardcover
The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste
By Varga, Balint Andras
Balint Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music, Varga has confronted thirty-three composers with quotations carefully chosen to elicit their thoughts about an issue that is crucial for any serious creative artist: How can one find courage to deal with the sometimes tyrannical expectations of the outside world? The result is an imaginary roundtable at which we encounter fresh, revealing, previously unpublished statements from such world-renowned composers as John Adams, Friedrich Cerha, George Crumb, Sofia Gubaidulina, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giya Kantcheli, Gyorgy Kurtag, Helmut Lachenmann, Libby Larsen, Robert Morris, and Wolfgang Rihm.
University of Rochester Press
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9781580465939
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Hardcover
Ferrari
By Nahum, Andrew
A substantial work, providing exceptional insights into Ferrari the man, Ferrari's design, and Ferrari the legend.Ferrari is an extraordinary company that emerged as World War II receded in Italy, combining collegiality, an almost religious dedication, and dictatorship in equal parts. Above all, it was impelled by the remorseless ambition of its founder Enzo Ferrari. Richly illustrated with personal ephemera, technical drawings, master models, and luxurious product shots, this in-depth exploration of Ferrari - the man, company, cars, and clientele - reveals what goes into the making of, many would argue, the world's most desirable car brand.
Phaidon Press
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9780714875187
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Hardcover
The Accidental Homesteader
By Lipp, Kathi
Homesteading [hohm-sted-ing] noun an act or instance of establishing a homestead. the act of loving where you live so much that you actively ignore the fact that your house is trying to kill you on a regular basis. For Kathi Lipp and her husband, Roger, buying a house in one of the most remote parts of Northern California was never part of the plan; many of life's biggest, most rewarding adventures rarely are. Kathi shares the hard-won wisdom she's gained on her homestead journey to help you accomplish more at home, gain fresh perspective, and give yourself grace in the process. Here's a handful of the lessons Kathi shares: Prepare before the need arises Everything is always in process, including us Your best household solution is time and patience You don't have to do everything the hard way Be open to new and better ways of doing things A lot of small changes make a huge difference.
Ten Peaks Press
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9780736977005
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Paperback
Acrylic Painting Mediums and Methods
By Tauchid, Rheni
This new, sophisticated, comprehensive reference book will inspire and instruct painters on how to handle today's acrylics in innovative and individualistic ways.Acrylics have grown into the most adaptable art material for the modern age. Developments in the pigment industry have given acrylics a remarkably permanent, rich, and abundant palette, making it the favorite medium of many contemporary artists. As colors are being developed, their chemical components are also enhanced for better texture and handling.Art-supplies vendors now offer acrylic mediums for thinning, thickening, glazing, molding, pouring, texturing, and dozens of other uses. Even experienced acrylic painters can be confused - even intimidated - by this staggering diversity of products.
Flower Power
By Chan, Dany
In 1967, the phrase "flower power" transformed the commonplace flower into a Buddhist-inspired symbol of peace. In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of San Francisco's Summer of Love, this book showcases the expressive powers of flowers in Asian arts and cultures. Beginning in ancient times, a language of flowers, where certain blooms suggest specific themes, was communicated in art throughout Asia. Here forty artworks, all drawn from the Asian Art Museum's renowned collection, focus on six celebrated flowers - lotus, plum blossom, cherry blossom, chrysanthemum, tulip, and rose - and the messages they convey.
Art of Renaissance Rome
By Marciari, John
John Marciari tells the story of the monuments, artists, and patrons of Renaissance Rome in this compelling book. In no other city is the ancient world so palpably present, and nowhere else is the mission of the church so evident. At the same time as the humanists sought to preserve and recreate the ancient city, giving it a new lease on life, the popes dispensed patronage much as any other contemporary Italian ruler. Rome was also the most international of the Renaissance cities with artists and architects generally training elsewhere before arriving in the city and introducing new trends.By adopting a chronological structure, covering the period c.1300-1600, Marciari is able to explore the nature of Roman patronage as it differed from papacy to papacy.
Pearl Jam Anthology - The Complete Scores
By Group), Pearl Jam (musical
(Transcribed Score) . This deluxe hard-cover book provides 130 complete lyrics and transcriptions of every song on the Pearl Jam albums Ten through Lightning Bolt. Over 800 pages of music contain lyrics and streamlined transcriptions of every instrument that was recorded for an amazing written documentation of this influential band. Guitar and bass parts are written in both standard notation and tablature.Songs include: Alive * Animal * Better Man * Black * Breakerfall * Corduroy * Daughter * Dissident * Do the Evolution * Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town * Even Flow * Given to Fly * Go * Grievance * Indifference * Jeremy * My Father's Son * Not for You * Nothing As It Seems * Once * Porch * Rearviewmirror * State of Love and Trust * Wishlist * Yellow Ledbetter * and more.
Helen Pashgian
By Pashgian, Helen
The Vermeer of California's Light and Space movement: the first comprehensive monograph on Helen Pashgian's infinitely subtle and mutable sculptureOver the course of her career, Pasadena-based artist Helen Pashgian (born 1934) has produced a significant oeuvre of sculptures comprised of vibrantly colored columns, discs and spheres, which often feature an isolated element appearing suspended, embedded or encased within them. Using an innovative application of industrial epoxies, plastics and resins, Pashgian's works are characterized by their translucent surfaces that appear to filter and somehow contain illumination. "One must move around to observe changes," she testifies: "coming and going, appearing and receding, visible and invisible -- a phenomenon of constant movement.
Meadow
By Parkinson, Iain
An exploration of Britain's vanishing hay meadows: vestiges of a rural past and sanctuaries for future biodiversity. The surviving hay meadows of the British Isles are an intrinsic part of the region's cultural heritage, standing as a pastoral equivalent to the great churches, castles, and stone monuments that dot the islands. These few extant meadows provide not only a tantalizing glimpse into a pre-industrial agrarian past, but also serve as present-day biodiversity hotspots, offering home and sanctuary to hordes of organisms.. Meadow explores the intimate and complex relationships between people, places, and plants that for centuries have shaped the color and character of the classic British hay meadow. Iain Parkinson carefully curates an evocative collection of personal accounts from notable experts in the worlds of science, conservation, and the arts, allowing the complex story of the hay meadow to be told by the people whose lives are deeply entangled with it.
BAM
By Yung, Susan
Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, founded in 1983 by impresario Harvey Lichtenstein, gathered performances in which genres mixed and traditions were upended. Events held in downtown lofts were given larger venues at BAM. Choreographers, directors, artists and musicians now had access to bigger audiences. The first festivals included New York artists Trisha Brown, Philip Glass, Bill T. Jones, Laurie Anderson, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucinda Childs and Robert Wilson. International companies were folded into the Next Wave, introducing New York viewers to Pina Bausch, Robert Lepage, Sankai Juku and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. During intermissions, art-world luminaries mixed with dance and theater makers. In 1999, Joseph V. Melillo took over the artistic reins of the festival.
The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste
By Varga, Balint Andras
Balint Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music, Varga has confronted thirty-three composers with quotations carefully chosen to elicit their thoughts about an issue that is crucial for any serious creative artist: How can one find courage to deal with the sometimes tyrannical expectations of the outside world? The result is an imaginary roundtable at which we encounter fresh, revealing, previously unpublished statements from such world-renowned composers as John Adams, Friedrich Cerha, George Crumb, Sofia Gubaidulina, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giya Kantcheli, Gyorgy Kurtag, Helmut Lachenmann, Libby Larsen, Robert Morris, and Wolfgang Rihm.
Ferrari
By Nahum, Andrew
A substantial work, providing exceptional insights into Ferrari the man, Ferrari's design, and Ferrari the legend.Ferrari is an extraordinary company that emerged as World War II receded in Italy, combining collegiality, an almost religious dedication, and dictatorship in equal parts. Above all, it was impelled by the remorseless ambition of its founder Enzo Ferrari. Richly illustrated with personal ephemera, technical drawings, master models, and luxurious product shots, this in-depth exploration of Ferrari - the man, company, cars, and clientele - reveals what goes into the making of, many would argue, the world's most desirable car brand.
The Accidental Homesteader
By Lipp, Kathi
Homesteading [hohm-sted-ing] noun an act or instance of establishing a homestead. the act of loving where you live so much that you actively ignore the fact that your house is trying to kill you on a regular basis. For Kathi Lipp and her husband, Roger, buying a house in one of the most remote parts of Northern California was never part of the plan; many of life's biggest, most rewarding adventures rarely are. Kathi shares the hard-won wisdom she's gained on her homestead journey to help you accomplish more at home, gain fresh perspective, and give yourself grace in the process. Here's a handful of the lessons Kathi shares: Prepare before the need arises Everything is always in process, including us Your best household solution is time and patience You don't have to do everything the hard way Be open to new and better ways of doing things A lot of small changes make a huge difference.
Acrylic Painting Mediums and Methods
By Tauchid, Rheni
This new, sophisticated, comprehensive reference book will inspire and instruct painters on how to handle today's acrylics in innovative and individualistic ways.Acrylics have grown into the most adaptable art material for the modern age. Developments in the pigment industry have given acrylics a remarkably permanent, rich, and abundant palette, making it the favorite medium of many contemporary artists. As colors are being developed, their chemical components are also enhanced for better texture and handling.Art-supplies vendors now offer acrylic mediums for thinning, thickening, glazing, molding, pouring, texturing, and dozens of other uses. Even experienced acrylic painters can be confused - even intimidated - by this staggering diversity of products.