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A Portrait of Bowie
A tribute to Bowie by his artistic collaborators and contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
HIS LIFE WAS A WORK OF ART
Now, artists and musicians who worked with David Bowie during his lifetime - or who were his contemporaries - pay tribute to the icon through their own words on what it was like to work in collaboration with a man whose fluid artistic genius repeatedly broke boundaries,...
by Nathalia Brodskaya
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Lautrec studied with two of the most admired academic painters of the day, Léon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon. Lautrec’s time in the studios of Bonnat and Cormon had the advantage of introducing him to the nude as a subject. At that time life-drawing of the nude was the basis of all academic art training...
Someone has to set a bad example
An Anne Taintor Collection
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
We can't be good all the time, and no one knows it better than Anne Taintor. This generous collection of her most popular artwork includes more than 150 images in categories such as friendship (a real friend will help you hide the body), motherhood (WOW! I get to give birth AND change diapers!), money...
Hitler Saved My Life
WARNING—This book makes jokes about the Third Reich, the Reign of Terror, World War I, cancer, Millard Fillmore, Chernobyl, and features a full-frontal nude photograph of an unattractive man.
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
When advertising legend Jim Riswold is stricken with leukemia and prostate cancer, he quits the business that made him famous to become a “fake artist,” creating a controversial body of work with a controversial cast of characters, from Hitler to Mao to Kim Jong-Il. It was a decision that would...
by Reiko Chiba
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A Copybook for Japanese Ink Painting is designed for artists who are eager to find a new outlet for his talents.
The paintings are the work of Shutei Ota, an artist who has had a long career of introducing Japanese ink-painting to Westerners. As a teacher, she has found the language barrier...
A Trip around Iceland
History of the country and its people
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
The study of islands, whether the attention of the visitor is directed to their structure or their inhabitants, yields a peculiar pleasure. They are quite definite and unique units. They reveal interesting relations with neighboring continents, of which they so often are merely separated fragments,...
by Thomas S. Hischak
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
For more than a century, original music has been composed for the cinema. From the early days when live music accompanied silent films to the present in which a composer can draw upon a full orchestra or a lone synthesizer to embody a composition, music has been an integral element of most films....
A Theory of Craft
Function and Aesthetic Expression
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
What is craft? How is it different from fine art or design? In A Theory of Craft, Howard Risatti examines these issues by comparing handmade ceramics, glass, metalwork, weaving, and furniture to painting, sculpture, photography, and machine-made design from Bauhaus to the Memphis Group. He describes...
Capitalism Comes to Mao's Mausoleum
An Indian Goes Around the World - I
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
"I travel, therefore I am - apologies to Descartes for twisting his noble thought." This is how M.P. Prabhakaran explains his passion for travel. In terms of academic qualifications, he has a Ph.D. in Political Science from a prestigious university in America. But his greatest learning experience...
Albert Einstein
El genio tras la teoría de la relatividad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Albert Einstein, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Comprender los avances progresivos de la física a lo largo de la historia y su influencia en la física...
Outdated Advertising
Sexist, Racist, Creepy, and Just Plain Tasteless Ads from a Pre-PC Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This outrageous collection of inappropriate ads will have you turning the pages and shaking your head in disbelief.
Outdated Advertising: Memories from a Less-than-PC Era takes a look at print advertising from the mid-1850s through the 1980s with an eye toward ads that were notorious for their sexist,...
Reality Is Not What It Seems
The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
“The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they’re calling the next Stephen Hawking.” —**The Times Magazine
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.**
What...
by Jandos Rothstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
How does a designer create graphic solutions to the behind-the-scenes editorial challenges at a magazine? Designing Magazines is the complete guide to understanding the inner workings of magazines and their day-to-day management--and a great guide to using that knowledge to create visually stunning,...
The Hundred Dresses
The Most Iconic Styles of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The dress is the last bit of femininity in our closets; it's the only item of clothing which (most) men and women don't share. Wearing a dress is a powerful way for women to express themselves--and every style conveys a different message. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred...