Chagall
Written by Jackie Wullschlager
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
Price: $40.00
“When Matisse dies,” Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.” As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long...
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Fundamentals of Photography
Written by Tom Ang
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Price: $26.95
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...
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Tara Donovan
Written by Tara Donovan
Text by Lawrence Weschler, Nicholas Baume and Jen Mergel
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Price: $45.00
Artist Tara Donovan uses commonplace consumer materials--toothpicks, tape, pencils, buttons, paper plates, and the like--to create her dazzling sculptural installations. Often biomorphic or topographical in character, her large-scale abstract works utilize systematic arrangements of thousands or even millions of units. Visually evocative and perceptually seductive, her pieces are at once organic...
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Paris-New York
Edited by Donald Albrecht
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Price: $50.00
A burst of creative energy in the fields of architecture, design, and fashion characterized the years between the two World Wars. Shaping new styles of buildings and furnishings, redefining contemporary dress, and giving visual form to avant-garde performing arts, architects and designers forged a still-influential modern aesthetic. The era's most creative...
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