Bare Witness
Photographs by Gordon Parks
Written by Maren Stange

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Skira
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 978-88-7624-802-3 (88-7624-802-1)

Novelist, memoirist, poet, film director, choreographer, and musician, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was renowned as a man of many talents. He is best known as a photographer, a career he took up in the 1930s. Starting with fashion and portraiture, he honed his skill and his passion for documenting social ills working... Read more >

New Eco-Style Graphics

Edited by Kaoru Takahashi

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: PIE International
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 978-4-7562-4057-6 (4-7562-4057-7)

Better package design alone will not save the environment; however, improvements in the quality of products may encourage people to shop more healthily, sustainably, and eco-consciously. The concept of “less is more” has caught on more than ever with consumers seeking refinement and honesty in the products they see on the... Read more >

Everything But the Burden
What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
Written by Greg Tate

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1497-0 (0-7679-1497-X)

Following the trail blazed by Norman Mailer’s controversial essay “The White Negro,” Everything but the Burden brings together voices from music, popular culture, the literary world, and the media speaking about how from Brooklyn to the Badlands white people are co-opting black styles of music, dance, dress, and slang. In this... Read more >

New Acrylics Essential Sourcebook
Materials, Techniques, and Contemporary Applications for Today's Artist
Written by Rheni Tauchid

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8230-9926-9 (0-8230-9926-1)

Rheni Tauchid’s bestselling The New Acrylics is an invaluable overview of modern acrylic paints. Her follow-up, New Acrylics Essential Sourcebook, is an in-depth, must-have resource for today’s acrylic artist. By guiding you to a higher level of adeptness and fluidity in the handling of your materials, it brings you closer to... Read more >

Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography, Revised Edition

Written by Brenda Tharp

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Amphoto Books
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Price: $25.99
ISBN: 978-0-8174-3961-3 (0-8174-3961-7)

A classic guide to creative nature photography, now updated for the digital world.

Amateur and experienced photographers interested in taking more compelling, personal images will love this new edition of Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography, now updated to address the exciting possibilities (and challenges) of digital image-making. Author Brenda Tharp’s inspiring approach... Read more >

Stage Makeup
The Actor's Complete Guide to Today's Techniques and Materials
Written by Laura Thudium

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Back Stage Books
On Sale: April 1, 1999
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-8230-8839-3 (0-8230-8839-1)

This up-to-date, full-color makeup manual is designed to lie open on the makeup table right as a guide for student, amateur, or professional performers.

Whether you are an actor in a summer-stock or regional theater, an acting conservatory program, a high-school or college production, a community theater, a local holiday pageant...or... Read more >

Memory Remains
9/11 Artifacts at Hangar 17
Photographed by Francesc Torres

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0833-1 (1-4262-0833-2)

This large landscape-format book, exquisitely designed and produced, features the remarkable photography created by Spanish artist Francesc Torres, who was granted special access to visit JFK International Airport’s Hangar 17 after it became the repository for all significant non-human materials salvaged from the site of the World Trade Center after the... Read more >

Corporate Brochure Designs

Edited by Minako Tsurikisawa
Foreword by Jochen Radeker

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: PIE International
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 978-4-7562-4051-4 (4-7562-4051-8)

Over a hundred of the world’s latest high-quality company brochures organized by industry for easy reference. The latest catalogs and annual reports for various enterprises, schools, and facilities from many countries are presented in this single volume. Both the covers and contents of each catalog are presented to provide a clear... Read more >

Superman
The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero
Written by Larry Tye

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6866-1 (1-4000-6866-5)

Seventy-five years after he came to life, Superman remains one of America’s most adored and enduring heroes. Now Larry Tye, the prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Satchel, has written the first full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators, designers, owners, and... Read more >

French Naturalist Painters (1890-1950)

Written by Emmanuel Van de Putte
Text by Serge Lemoine, Bertrand Dumas and Philippe Clerc

Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
Publisher: Skira
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-88-572-1442-9 (88-572-1442-7)

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The Art of Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Written by Mark Vaz

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: LucasBooks
On Sale: April 30, 2002
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-43125-7 (0-345-43125-1)

Mark Cotta Vaz provides the descriptive text in this information-packed book showcasing the concept art and sculptures used in making "Attack of the Clones".

This book also features the film's screenplay by George Lucas and Jonathan Hales.

Please Note: This title is not available at the examination price. Read more >

Magical Chorus
A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
Written by Solomon Volkov

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7786-1 (1-4000-7786-9)

From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia.

In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between... Read more >

A Cabinet of Curiosities
Inquiries into Museums and Their Prospects
Written by Stephen Weil

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: March 17, 1995
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-56098-511-2 (1-56098-511-9)

Reflecting critically on the current condition of museums and their possible futures, Stephen E. Weil argues that cultural institutions need to free themselves from a fascination with technique and process to concentrate more intently on purpose. He contends that to succeed, or merely survive, a museum must be able to project... Read more >

Making Museums Matter

Written by Stephen Weil

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: February 17, 2002
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-000-9 (1-58834-000-7)

In this volume of 29 essays, Weil’s overarching concern is that museums be able to “earn their keep”–that they make themselves matter–in an environment of potentially shrinking resources. Also included in this collection are reflections on the special qualities of art museums, an investigation into the relationship of current copyright law... Read more >

Rembrandt in America
Collecting and Connoisseurship
Contribution by George S. Keyes, Thomas E. Rassieur, Dennis P. Weller and Jon L. Seydl
Introduction by Dennis P. Weller

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3685-7 (0-8478-3685-1)

Published on the occasion of a major exhibition bringing together the best Rembrandt paintings from American collections. The great seventeenth-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn is one of the most important painters in the history of European art. This richly illustrated volume gathers some fifty of the finest paintings by the... Read more >

Classic Human Anatomy
The Artist's Guide to Form, Function, and Movement
Written by Valerie L. Winslow

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: December 23, 2008
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-8230-2415-5 (0-8230-2415-6)

After more than thirty years of research and teaching, artist Valerie Winslow has compiled her unique methods of drawing human anatomy into one groundbreaking volume: Classic Human Anatomy. This book provides simple, insightful approaches to the complex subject of human anatomy, using drawings, diagrams, and reader-friendly text. Three major sections–the skeletal... Read more >

We Own the Night: The Art of the Underbelly Project

Written by Workhorse and PAC
Foreword by Eric Haze AKA HAZE

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-7893-2494-8 (0-7893-2494-6)

From early 2009 to mid-2010, the Underbelly Project was the world’s best-kept urban art secret. This is the only book documenting the project, during which the world’s leading urban artists, such as Swoon, Faile, Revok, and Lister, made late-night trips to an abandoned New York City subway station, painting night after... Read more >

Artists in Times of War

Written by Howard Zinn

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 2, 2003
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-602-5 (1-58322-602-8)

“Political power,” says Howard Zinn, “is controlled by the corporate elite, and the arts are the locale for a kind of guerilla warfare in the sense that guerillas look for apertures and opportunities where they can have an effect.” In Artists in Times of War, Zinn looks at the possibilities to... Read more >