Landscape Painting
Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice
Written by Mitchell Albala

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-8230-3220-4 (0-8230-3220-5)

Because nature is so expansive and complex, so varied in its range of light, landscape painters often have to look further and more deeply to find form and structure, value patterns, and an organized arrangement of shapes. In Landscape Painting, Mitchell Albala shares his concepts and practices for translating nature's grandeur... Read more >

I Love Lucy Book

Written by Bart Andrews

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Main Street Books
On Sale: August 13, 1985
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-19033-6 (0-385-19033-6)

Foreword by Jess Oppenheimer. This classic book traces the history of the popular comedy series, offers plot summaries, cast listings, ratings, and original air dates for all 179 episodes, and shares behind-the-scenes information about the show. Also includes researched notes on how the program was created, written, and filmed plus an... Read more >

Fundamentals of Photography
The Essential Handbook for Both Digital and Film Cameras
Written by Tom Ang

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71157-2 (0-375-71157-0)

The most comprehensive, accessible, and completely up-to-date guide available for today’s photographer: whether beginner or advanced, using a film camera or digital.

Award-winning photographer Tom Ang provides a thorough, explicitly detailed bottom-to-top understanding of modern photography, explaining all the techniques that will help anyone who uses a camera—in a professional capacity or... Read more >

Classical Drawing Atelier
A Complete Course in Traditional Studio Practice
Written by Juliette Aristides

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: November 1, 2006
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-8230-0657-1 (0-8230-0657-3)

Ateliers have produced the greatest artists of all time—and now that educational model is experiencing a renaissance. These studios, a return to classical art training, are based on the nineteenth-century model of teaching artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. Students begin by copying masterworks... Read more >

Classical Painting Atelier
A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice
Written by Juliette Aristides

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-8230-0658-8 (0-8230-0658-1)

Students of art hailed Classical Drawing Atelier, Juliette Aristides’s first book, as a dynamic return to the atelier educational model. Ateliers, popular in the nineteenth century, teach emerging artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. The educational process begins as students copy masterworks, then gradually... Read more >

100 Creative Drawing Ideas

Written by Anna Held Audette

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: March 2, 2004
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-105-0 (1-59030-105-6)

Here, in the first book ever of its kind, is a collection of interesting and original ideas for drawing projects, contributed by art instructors from all over the United States (and a few from Canada, Great Britain, and Australia) who have invented creative alternatives to standard exercises.

The accompanying illustrations demonstrate ways... Read more >

Three Blind Mice
How the TV Networks Lost Their Way
Written by Ken Auletta

Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 1, 1992
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74135-0 (0-679-74135-6)

Auletta chronicles the revolution in American business and popular culture that was the story of network television in the 1980s: the big three networks lost a third of their audience and more than half of their annual profits, while takeovers and coups turned NBC and ABC into assets of two megacorporations... Read more >

Epileptic

Written by David B.

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-42318-5 (0-375-42318-4)

From the highly-acclaimed French comics artist, a moving and powerful graphic memoir that describes growing up with an epileptic brother in France in the late 60s and 70s and the devastating effects of his illness on the entire family. David B. was born Pierre-Francois Beauchard in a small town outside of... Read more >

Conservation Concerns
A Guide for Collectors and Curators
Written by Konstanze Bachmann

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: April 17, 1992
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-56098-174-9 (1-56098-174-1)

Written in accessible, nontechnical language, this book’s twenty-three essays provide invaluable conservation guidelines for a variety of materials and media. Focusing also on proper storage techniques and environmental control, contributors offer information on emergency planning, disaster management, and identifying damages that may require professional treatment.

“The volume is remarkable for its clarity... Read more >

Saul Steinberg
A Biography
Written by Deirdre Bair

Format: Hardcover, 752 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52448-3 (0-385-52448-X)

From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists.

The issue date was March 29, 1976. The New Yorker cost 75 cents. And on the cover unfolded Saul Steinberg's vision of the world: New York City, the Hudson River, and... Read more >

Acting for Young Actors
For Money Or Just for Fun
Written by Mary Lou Belli and Dinah Lenney

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Back Stage Books
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8230-4947-9 (0-8230-4947-7)

Aimed at teens and tweens, Acting for Young Actors lets kids hone their skills and develop their craft. It begins with the five W's: WHO am I? WHAT do I want? WHY do I want it? WHERE am I? WHEN does this event take place? Sounds basic - but many young... Read more >

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

Written by John Berger

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 1992
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73656-1 (0-679-73656-5)

Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial experience of viewing... Read more >

Another Way of Telling

Written by John Berger

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 7, 1995
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73724-7 (0-679-73724-3)

As constructed by John Berger and Swiss photographer Jean Mohr, two of our most thoughtful and eloquent interrogators of the visual, offer a singular meditation on the ambiguities of what is seemingly our most straightforward art form. This theory includes images as well as words; not only analysis, but anecdote and... Read more >

Keeping a Rendezvous

Written by John Berger

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73714-8 (0-679-73714-6)

When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. With the luminous essays in Keeping a Rendezvous we are given to see the world as Berger sees it--to explore themes suggested by the work... Read more >

Sense of Sight

Written by John Berger

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 30, 1993
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73722-3 (0-679-73722-7)

With this provocative and infinitely moving collection of essays, a preeminent critic of our time responds to the profound questions posed by the visual world. When Berger writes about Cubism, he writes not only of Braque, Leger, Picasso, and Gris, but of that incredible moment early in this century when the... Read more >

A Place of Remembrance
Official Book of the National September 11 Memorial
Written by Allison Blais and Lynn Rasic
Foreword by Michael R. Bloomberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0807-2 (1-4262-0807-3)

On September 11, 2011, the world will be watching as the National September 11 Memorial opens on the site of the World Trade Center. With photographs and architectural plans never before published, paired with comments in the very voices of those who witnessed the event, those who struggled in its shadow... Read more >

Starting to Draw

Written by Wendon Blake

Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: October 1, 1981
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-8230-4916-5 (0-8230-4916-7)

“Drawing is a skill that anyone can learn,” says the author in his introduction—and this book has been teaching that skill for twenty-five years. Now it has been elegantly redesigned to start teaching to the next generation of artists. Lots of books are great for the more advanced sketcher—but Starting to... Read more >

The Frenzy of Renown
Fame and Its History
Written by Leo Braudy

Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 25, 1997
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77630-7 (0-679-77630-3)

For Alexander the Great, fame meant accomplishing what no mortal had ever accomplished before. For Julius Caesar, personal glory was indistinguishable from that of Rome. The early Christians devalued public recognition, believing that the only true audience was God. Marilyn Monroe owed much of her fame to the fragility that led... Read more >

Portrait Painting Atelier
Old Master Techniques and Contemporary Applications
Written by Suzanne Brooker
Foreword by Domenic Cretara

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-8230-9927-6 (0-8230-9927-X)

The art of portraiture approached its apex during the sixteenth century in Europe with the discovery of oil painting when the old masters developed and refined techniques that remain unsurpassed to this day. The ascendance of nonrepresentational art in the middle of the twentieth century displaced these venerable skills, especially in... Read more >

Expressive Figure Drawing
New Materials, Concepts, and Techniques
Written by Bill Buchman

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 978-0-8230-3314-0 (0-8230-3314-7)

Throughout the history of art, figure drawing has been regarded as the very foundation of an artist’s education and the center of the art-making process. Bill Buchman’s Expressive Figure Drawing presents the classic fundamentals of this genre, but with a distinctly contemporary twist—celebrating freedom, expressiveness, and creativity. This unique method incorporates... Read more >

Youth and Beauty
Art of the American Twenties
Edited by Teresa A. Carbone
Contribution by Bonnie Costello, Randall R. Griffey, Sarah M. Lowe and The Brooklyn Museum

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3725-0 (0-8478-3725-4)

Accompanying a nationally touring exhibition, this critical history of American art of the 1920s provides a fresh perspective on the strikingly original modernist imagery of the Jazz Age. Youth and Beauty is the first wide-ranging look at American art during the period following the Great War and before the onset of... Read more >

The Portrait Photographer's Lighting Style Guide
Recipes for Lighting and Composing Professional Portraits
Written by James Cheadle and Peter Travers

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Amphoto Books
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 978-0-8174-0005-7 (0-8174-0005-2)

In The Portrait Photographer's Lighting Style Guide, today’s most popular portrait styles are broken down with lighting diagrams and exposure information, as well as the story behind the shot, to create an indispensable reference for anyone interested in creating more up-to-date, professional-style portraits.

Inside you’ll find:

• Diagrams for lighting 60... Read more >

Norman Rockwell
A Life
Written by Laura Claridge

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: March 25, 2003
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6723-4 (0-8129-6723-2)

“[An] excellent and thorough new biography.” —Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times

Norman Rockwell’s hundreds of memorable covers for The Saturday Evening Post made him a twentieth-century American icon. However, because of the very popularity of his idealized depictions of middle-class life, his more serious paintings have been largely ignored, and he... Read more >

Girl Singer
An Autobiography
Written by Rosemary Clooney and Joan Barthel

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0555-8 (0-7679-0555-5)

The legendary singer and actress shares the personal story of her extraordinary life and career, detailing her rise to success in the entertainment world, her troubled marriage to Jose Ferrer, her battle with addiction and depression, and the new triumphs in her life.

"Warm, intimate…Clooney's writing conveys the same kind of honesty... Read more >

Check the Technique
Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Written by Brian Coleman
Introduction by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Villard
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7775-2 (0-8129-7775-0)

A Tribe Called Quest • Beastie Boys • De La Soul • Eric B. & Rakim • The Fugees • KRS-One • Pete Rock & CL Smooth • Public Enemy • The Roots • Run-DMC • Wu-Tang Clan • and twenty-five more hip-hop immortals

It’s a sad fact: hip-hop album liners have... Read more >