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Collage Sourcebook: Exploring the Art and Technique of Collage

Collage Sourcebook: Exploring the Art and Technique of Collage

by Jennifer L. Atkinson, Holly Harrison

The beauty of collage art appeals to all people. Anyone from the hobbyist to the fine artist can use collage techniques to add creativity and dimension to their work. This book provides creative instruction and inspiration through a wide range of projects, and is sure to stimulate ideas and help hobbyists and artists overcome creative blocks. Dozens of techniques are demonstrated in visual step-by-step... (more)

Piratica

by Tanith Lee

Artemesia—also known as Art—spent her childhood on a pirate ship, and she’s sick of practicing deportment at the Angels Academy for Young Maidens. Escaping, she sets out to find her mother’s crew and breezily commands them out to sea. Fiery Art soon shapes her men into the cleverest pirate band afloat. And then they meet the dread ship Enemy and her beautiful, treacherous captain, Goldie Girl. The Seven Seas... (more)

An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art: N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth

An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art: N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth

by Andrew Wyeth, N. C. Wyeth

From a major international exhibition, this stunning book captures three generations of art by the Wyeth family. This comprehensive collection is now in a paperback identical to the original clothbound edition. 130 color, 54 black-and-white illustrations.

Installationview

by Ryan McGinness

Somewhere between an artist’s book and a catalogue, Installationview provides insight into the works and process of artist Ryan McGinness. The book is a dense collection of new paintings, works on paper, installations, sketches and notes, inspiration snapshots, and pieces made specifically for its pages. “McGinness has developed an expansive vocabulary of eccentric, vaguely familiar symbols drawn from art... (more)

Dreamer from the Village: The Story of Marc Chagall

Dreamer from the Village: The Story of Marc Chagall

by Michelle Markel

Marc knew he was different from other boys. He saw things they didn't see. A beautiful introduction to the life and work of Marc Chagall In the imagination of Marc Chagall, all of life was an inspiration for the beautiful and strange pictures he created. He painted people, farm animals, religious symbols, visions, and feelings in a way no other artist had attempted. With vivid prose and exuberant... (more)

Paul Gaugin (The Library of Great Painters, series)John Rewald

Paul Gaugin (The Library of Great Painters, series)

by John Rewald

Hudson River School: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Hudson River School: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

by Alan Bartram, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser

Hudson River School paintings are among America's most admired and well-loved artworks. Such artists as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Albert Bierstadt left a powerful legacy to American art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature and the national idealism that prevailed during the middle of the nineteenth century. This book features fifty-seven major Hudson River School paintings from the... (more)

Rosie's Curl And Weave

by Donna Hill, Francis Ray

ROSIE'S CURL AND WEAVE: Four NovellasSTEP INSIDE FOR A DAY OF BEAUTY, LAUGHTER...AND LOVE.Whether you want a cut, weave or braid; a facial, manicure, or massage; there's always a helping hand-and a sympathetic ear-at Rosie's Curl and Weave on 125th Street in Harlem.And sometimes, when you least expect it, love walks in the door.So sit back, relax, put your feet up, and enjoy, as four talented writers render four... (more)

Lynch on Lynch

by David Lynch

David Lynch is one of the most original and distinctive film-makers of contemporary cinema - best known for "Twin Peaks", "Blue Velvet" and "Wild at Heart". This book presents the career of cinema's greatest surrealist, told in his own words.

The Renaissance Artist at Work

by Bruce Cole

This book gives the necessary background for the study and appreciation of Italian painting and sculpture from about 1250 to 1550. It tells how the artists learned their craft, the organization of their workshops, and the guilds they belonged to; how their customers or patrons treated them and where their work was displayed-churches, civic buildings, or private homes. The book discusses how art was made-tempera,... (more)

Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes

by Maya Ying Lin

“Utilizing the way in which scientists and computers see our world, drawing on images based on sonar views of the ocean floor, to aerial and satellite views of the land, I have started to create artworks that translate that technological view into sculptural forms.” (Maya Lin) One of the most celebrated artists working in the United States, Maya Lin (b. 1959) came to prominence in 1981 with her design for the... (more)

Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters: 100 Great Drawings Analyzed, Figure Drawing Fundamentals Defined

Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters: 100 Great Drawings Analyzed, Figure Drawing Fundamentals Defined

by Robert Beverly Hale

A book whose sales have not diminished but rather increased dramatically since its publication 45 years ago, this bestselling classic is the ultimate manual of drawing taught by the late Robert Beverly Hale, who’s famed lectures and classes at New York City’s Art Student League captivated artists and art educators from around the world. Faithfully producing and methodically analyzing 100 master drawings—including... (more)

WHERE THE RIVER BEGINS.

by Thomas Locker

As they watch the river flow past their house, Josh and Aaron make up stories about where the river begins--stories that prompt them to set out one day and locate the river's origin. Reprint. PW. AB. NYT.

Bill Peet: An Autobiography

by Bill Peet

Bill Peet tells his life story, including his years with Disney, with illustrations on every page.

I'm Not Stiller (Swiss Literature)

by Max Frisch

The unabridged version of a haunting story of a man in prison. His wife, brother, and mistress recognize him and call him by his name, Anatol Ludwig Stiller. But he rejects them, repeatedly insisting that he’s not Stiller. Could he possibly be right-or is he deliberately trying to shake off his old identity and assume a new one? Translated by Michael Bullock. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

On Writing Well : An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction 2nd Edition

On Writing Well : An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction 2nd Edition

by William Knowlton Zinsser

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly... (more)

Strangeland

by Tracey Emin

'Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this.' Tracey Emin's STRANGELAND is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and her own, private-public life in present-day London. Her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey retains a... (more)

Mars, Book 15

by Fuyumi Soryo, Nora Wong

Mars #4

by Fuyumi Soryo

Just when things are beginning to heat up between Kira and Rei, Rei's old girlfriend shows up and confesses that she never stopped loving him. When Rei tells her not to come around again, she walks into traffic and Rei is forced to rescue her. His act of heroism only intensifies her obsession, and soon the exiled ex refuses to get out of bed or eat until Rei agrees to see her. When Kira tries to give him some... (more)

Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective

Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective

by Adam Gopnik, Steven A. Nash

Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter, has produced works of complexity and distinction that appear deceptively simple in terms of subject matter and in their presentation yet draw on many historical sources. In fact, Thiebaud is part of the grand tradition of representational art from Chardin and Manet to the American Realist masters such as Eakins and Hopper. Best-known for his deadpan still-life... (more)

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