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The Ballets Russes and the Art of Design
Edited by Alston Purvis, Peter Rand and Anna Winestein
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $50.00
The Ballets Russes was a phenomenon of the early twentieth century, permeating daily life wherever the company traveled and leaving a lasting impact on dance, theater, and the visual arts. Sergei Diaghilev, impresario from 1909 until his death in 1929, fused the most avant-garde, groundbreaking movements in dance, choreography, art, design... Read more >
Edited by Alston Purvis, Peter Rand and Anna Winestein
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $50.00
The Ballets Russes was a phenomenon of the early twentieth century, permeating daily life wherever the company traveled and leaving a lasting impact on dance, theater, and the visual arts. Sergei Diaghilev, impresario from 1909 until his death in 1929, fused the most avant-garde, groundbreaking movements in dance, choreography, art, design... Read more >
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Drawing Manga Animals, Chibis, and Other Adorable Creatures
Written by J.C. Amberlyn
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $21.99
Learn the Tricks of the Trade for Drawing Irresistibly Cute Manga-Style Animals and Chibis!
The world of manga is filled with strange creatures and adorable sidekicks. Just about every manga hero and heroine has an animal mascot, and all the most popular ones have a cute "chibi" form. This book teaches aspiring... Read more >
Written by J.C. Amberlyn
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $21.99
Learn the Tricks of the Trade for Drawing Irresistibly Cute Manga-Style Animals and Chibis!
The world of manga is filled with strange creatures and adorable sidekicks. Just about every manga hero and heroine has an animal mascot, and all the most popular ones have a cute "chibi" form. This book teaches aspiring... Read more >
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Landscape Painting
Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice
Written by Mitchell Albala
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00
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 >
Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice
Written by Mitchell Albala
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00
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 >
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Picasso
Written by Philippe Dagen
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $150.00
Art critic and scholar Philippe Dagen approaches Picasso as a subject through a series of questions. What does it mean to be an artist in the twentieth century? What does it mean to be an artist in the time of newspapers and museums, in a time when the art market has... Read more >
Written by Philippe Dagen
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $150.00
Art critic and scholar Philippe Dagen approaches Picasso as a subject through a series of questions. What does it mean to be an artist in the twentieth century? What does it mean to be an artist in the time of newspapers and museums, in a time when the art market has... Read more >
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Star Pieces
The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular Furniture
Written by David Linley, Charles Cator and Helen Chislett
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $65.00
Furniture has star qualities unlike any other object:
It is both functional and decorative, yet it can connect us to history and far-flung places around the globe in the same way a Renaissance painting sends us back in time or a photograph takes us to a beloved overseas locale. Furniture also... Read more >
The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular Furniture
Written by David Linley, Charles Cator and Helen Chislett
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $65.00
Furniture has star qualities unlike any other object:
It is both functional and decorative, yet it can connect us to history and far-flung places around the globe in the same way a Renaissance painting sends us back in time or a photograph takes us to a beloved overseas locale. Furniture also... Read more >
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The World in Vogue
People, Parties, Places
Edited by Hamish Bowles and Alexandra Kotur
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $75.00
This one-of-a-kind book of 300 photographs of some of the most celebrated actors, artists, models, First Ladies, and social figures draws on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue over the past four decades, as well as photographs from those stories that have never been published. These trendsetters and... Read more >
People, Parties, Places
Edited by Hamish Bowles and Alexandra Kotur
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $75.00
This one-of-a-kind book of 300 photographs of some of the most celebrated actors, artists, models, First Ladies, and social figures draws on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue over the past four decades, as well as photographs from those stories that have never been published. These trendsetters and... Read more >
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The Black Book
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >
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Design Thinking
Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value
Edited by Thomas Lockwood
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $24.95
Design Thinkingis packed with intriguing case studies and practical advice from industry experts. This anthology is organized into three sections that focus on the use of design for innovation and brand-building, the emerging role of service design, and the design of meaningful customer experiences. This book provides readers with the strategies... Read more >
Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value
Edited by Thomas Lockwood
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $24.95
Design Thinkingis packed with intriguing case studies and practical advice from industry experts. This anthology is organized into three sections that focus on the use of design for innovation and brand-building, the emerging role of service design, and the design of meaningful customer experiences. This book provides readers with the strategies... Read more >
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Superheroes and Beyond
How to Draw the Leading and Supporting Characters of Today's Comics
Written by Christopher Hart
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $21.99
Superheroes remain the most popular genre of characters in comics and comics-inspired movies. Superheroes & Beyond by Chris Hart shows aspiring artists how to create a huge array of original comic book heroes and villains. The characters found within these pages are broken down into step-by-step constructions that help the student... Read more >
How to Draw the Leading and Supporting Characters of Today's Comics
Written by Christopher Hart
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $21.99
Superheroes remain the most popular genre of characters in comics and comics-inspired movies. Superheroes & Beyond by Chris Hart shows aspiring artists how to create a huge array of original comic book heroes and villains. The characters found within these pages are broken down into step-by-step constructions that help the student... Read more >
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The Bauhaus Group
Six Masters of Modernism
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
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 >
Six Masters of Modernism
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
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 >
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The Bauhaus Group
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
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 >
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
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 a
hardcover.
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Painting Below Zero
Notes on a Life in Art
Written by James Rosenquist and David Dalton
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $50.00
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 >
Notes on a Life in Art
Written by James Rosenquist and David Dalton
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $50.00
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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Painting Below Zero
Written by James Rosenquist and David Dalton
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $50.00
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 >
Written by James Rosenquist and David Dalton
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $50.00
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 a
hardcover.
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Art Without Compromise
Written by Wendy Richmond
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $24.95
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 >
Written by Wendy Richmond
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $24.95
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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Church Misericords and Bench Ends
Written by Richard Hayman
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $12.95
Although misericords were originally installed on the hidden undersides of church folding seats to provide comfort to those standing for long periods of prayer, the have gradually become more ornately carved and decorated. Now they, along with the benches installed in parish churches in the later middle ages, are the objects... Read more >
Written by Richard Hayman
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $12.95
Although misericords were originally installed on the hidden undersides of church folding seats to provide comfort to those standing for long periods of prayer, the have gradually become more ornately carved and decorated. Now they, along with the benches installed in parish churches in the later middle ages, are the objects... Read more >
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Master of Shadows
The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
Written by Mark Lamster
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $29.95
The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.
Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with the penchant for fleshy, pink nudes whose popularity was eclipsed by that of Rembrandt van Rijn. In his time, however... Read more >
The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
Written by Mark Lamster
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $29.95
The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.
Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with the penchant for fleshy, pink nudes whose popularity was eclipsed by that of Rembrandt van Rijn. In his time, however... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Master of Shadows
The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
Written by Mark Lamster
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $29.95
The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.
Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with the penchant for fleshy, pink nudes whose popularity was eclipsed by that of Rembrandt van Rijn. In his time, however... Read more >
The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
Written by Mark Lamster
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $29.95
The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.
Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with the penchant for fleshy, pink nudes whose popularity was eclipsed by that of Rembrandt van Rijn. In his time, however... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Tiepolo Pink
Written by Roberto Calasso
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $40.00
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around... Read more >
Written by Roberto Calasso
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $40.00
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Tiepolo Pink
Written by Roberto Calasso
Translated by Alastair McEwen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $40.00
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around... Read more >
Written by Roberto Calasso
Translated by Alastair McEwen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $40.00
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Manga Artist's Workbook
Easy-to-Follow Lessons for Creating Your Own Characters
Written by Christopher Hart
Format: Non-traditional book, 160 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $15.99
Master the basics of the most popular style of cartooning with The Manga Artist's Workbook by Christopher Hart, a bestselling author in the field of art instruction. You'll learn the fundamental proportions of the manga face and figure, how to draw those large sparkling eyes, and how to create hairstyles and... Read more >
Easy-to-Follow Lessons for Creating Your Own Characters
Written by Christopher Hart
Format: Non-traditional book, 160 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $15.99
Master the basics of the most popular style of cartooning with The Manga Artist's Workbook by Christopher Hart, a bestselling author in the field of art instruction. You'll learn the fundamental proportions of the manga face and figure, how to draw those large sparkling eyes, and how to create hairstyles and... Read more >
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The Art of Buddhism
An Introduction to Its History and Meaning
Written by Denise Patry Leidy
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
Read more >
An Introduction to Its History and Meaning
Written by Denise Patry Leidy
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
Read more >
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Dark Water
Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence
Written by Robert Clark
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $16.00
Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement.
Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the... Read more >
Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence
Written by Robert Clark
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $16.00
Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement.
Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the... Read more >
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Designers Don't Read
Written by Austin Howe
Designed by Fredrik Averin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $19.95
Designers Don’t Read is a love song to graphic design and graphic designers. Austin Howe is a creative director, writer, advocate, and cheerleader for design-but not a designer. He believes “in the wonder and exuberance of someone who gets paid-by clients to do what he loves.” Howe places immense value on... Read more >
Written by Austin Howe
Designed by Fredrik Averin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $19.95
Designers Don’t Read is a love song to graphic design and graphic designers. Austin Howe is a creative director, writer, advocate, and cheerleader for design-but not a designer. He believes “in the wonder and exuberance of someone who gets paid-by clients to do what he loves.” Howe places immense value on... Read more >
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Humongous Book of Cartooning
Written by Christopher Hart
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $21.99
Chris Hart's Humongous Book of Cartooning is a great value book covering everything the beginner needs to master cartooning. It teaches how to draw cartoon people, fantasy characters, layouts, background design and much more. This latest cartoon title from Chris Hart, the world's bestselling author of drawing and cartooning books, packs a... Read more >
Written by Christopher Hart
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $21.99
Chris Hart's Humongous Book of Cartooning is a great value book covering everything the beginner needs to master cartooning. It teaches how to draw cartoon people, fantasy characters, layouts, background design and much more. This latest cartoon title from Chris Hart, the world's bestselling author of drawing and cartooning books, packs a... Read more >
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Antoine's Alphabet
Watteau and His World
Written by Jed Perl
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he... Read more >
Watteau and His World
Written by Jed Perl
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he... Read more >
