Antoine's Alphabet

Written by Jed Perl

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2008
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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

The Mailroom
Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
Written by David Rensin

Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.00

It’s like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. But for many, it happens to be true. Some of the biggest names in entertainment—including David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Michael Ovitz— started their dazzling careers in the lowly mailroom. Based on more than... Read more >

Stick
Great Moments in Art, History, Film, and More...
Written by Jeffrey Metzner

Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95

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Color
A Natural History of the Palette
Written by Victoria Finlay

Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00

In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist’s palette, Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through the ages, illuminating how the colors we choose to value have determined the history of culture itself.

How did the most precious color blue travel all... Read more >

The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

Written by Giorgio Vasari
Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere
Introduction by Philip Jacks

Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95

A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits with a decidedly modern... Read more >

The Cave Painters
Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists
Written by Gregory Curtis

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.95

The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.

Gergory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells us what is known about their creators, the Cro-Magnon... Read more >

Selected Essays of John Berger

Written by John Berger

Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $21.00

The writing career of John Berger–poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist–has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger’s seminal essays.

Berger’s insights make it impossible... Read more >