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8 Featured Titles

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Kazan on Directing

Written by Elia Kazan
Preface by Martin Scorsese
Foreword by John Lahr


Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26477-0 (0-307-26477-7)

Elia Kazan was the mid-twentieth century’s most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this book shows us the master at work.

Kazan directed virtually back to back the greatest American dramas of the era—by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams—and revolutionized theatre and film with dynamic action, poetic staging, and rigorous... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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A Photographer's Life
1990-2005
Written by Annie Leibovitz


Format: Trade Paperback, 472 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7963-3 (0-8129-7963-X)

“I don’t have two lives,” Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990 to 2005. “This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.” Portraits of well-known figures–Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover.

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Hearts of the City
The Selected Writings of Herbert Muschamp
Written by Herbert Muschamp
Introduction by Nicolai Ouroussoff


Format: Hardcover, 912 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-40406-1 (0-375-40406-6)

From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work.

The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their... Read more >

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Art Without Compromise

Written by Wendy Richmond


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Allworth Press
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58115-666-9 (1-58115-666-9)

Combining 24 years of research and insight from her columns in Communication Arts magazine, artist, educator, and writer Wendy Richmond challenges artists to investigate their work through multiple lenses in her newest book, Art Without Compromise*. Her commentaries, exercises, and wide-ranging references to contemporary thinkers will inspire artists to change the... Read more >

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Painting Below Zero
Notes on a Life in Art
Written by James Rosenquist and David Dalton


Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26342-1 (0-307-26342-8)

From James Rosenquist, one of our most iconic pop artists—along with Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—comes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists, Rosenquist often works in three-dimensional forms, with highly dramatic shifts in scale and a far more complex palette, including grisaille and Day-Glo colors... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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California the Beautiful

Edited by Peter Beren
Photographed by Galen Rowell


Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Welcome Books
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-59962-074-9 (1-59962-074-X)

As America stands to the rest of the world, so stands California to America - a shining promise of endless possibility. This exquisite celebration of the Golden State has been updated with a new introduction, new cover design, and an enlarged size to suit the grandeur of its subject. California the... Read more >

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Black Jack, Volume 8

Written by Osamu Tezuka


Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
Publisher: Vertical
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-934287-61-3 (1-934287-61-X)

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The Bauhaus Group
Six Masters of Modernism
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber


Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26836-5 (0-307-26836-5)

Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
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