History & Criticism

This Book Presents One Of The Most Outstanding Private Collections Of 20th-century American Art In The World And Tells The Story Of How The Collection Evolv...

H.w. Janson. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.Categories: Arts & Photography History & CriticismHistory

Are You High Style Or Boho, Or Maybe Happy Modern Or Trad With A Twist? The Legendary Fabrics And Wallpapers House Of Schumacher Shows How You Can Use Their...

Make fun and straightforward papercraft models with this easy origami book!World-renowned origami author and expert Florence Temko brings you Origami for B...

Nineteen centuries of European fashions appear in a remarkable coloring book that doubles as a comprehensive fashion retrospective. From modest peasant garb...

This beautifully presented text tells the story of western art in its historical and cultural context. A History of Western Art introduces your students to ...

From the most delicate pastel tint to the boldest bright hue, color is a vitally important tool to you as an artist. Whether your preferred medium is acryli...

A groundbreaking, in-depth exploration of the movement and flexibility of the human body, featuring 1,000 stunning black-and-white photographs that showcas...

in This Technology-driven Age, It’s Tempting To Believe That Science Can Solve Every Mystery. After All, Science Has Cured Countless Diseases And Even Sen...

Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood; the Northwest pioneer epic The Living; and the nonficti...

Craft your fiction with scene-by-scene flow, logic and readability.An imprisoned man receives an unexpected caller, after which "everything changed..."And ...

This book holds a mountain of fun for rock artists of all ages! With the instructions inside, creating these critters is as easy as picking up a rock!Cate...

A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm's In the F...

From Men In Bowler Hats, Floating In The Sky, To A Painting Of A Pipe Above The Caption This Is Not A Pipe, Rene Magritte Created An Echo-chamber Of Object ...

A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. The Barnes & Noble Review ...

The Art And Architecture Of Greece And Rome Lie At The Heart Of The Classical Tradition Of The Western World And Their Legacy Is So Familiar As To Have Beco...

Encourages a detailed perception of the world that improves awareness as well as drawing skills, and includes Zen stories, quotations, proverbs, and anecdot...

Frank Whitford. 159 Illustrations, 29 In Color. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 207) And Index.Categories: Arts & Photography History & Crit...

In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature ...

Hone your drawing skills with 30 hands-on projects Discover how to draw still-lifes, landscapes, animals, people, and more! Worried that you don’t have en...

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times B...

The Fifth Book In The Bestselling Series Is Another Provocative Collection Of Never-before Seen, Artistically Created Postcards From Around The World Reveal...

“Art mattered in the Renaissance... People expected painting, sculpture, architecture, and other forms of visual art to have a meaningful effect on thei...

In 2003, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Mounted A Major Retrospective Of James Rosenquist's Works, Which Traveled To The Menil Collection, Museum Of Fine ...

A stunning full-color, illustrated, behind-the-scenes guide to the Good Omens television series, adapted for the screen by Neil Gaiman himself and starring...

Since Operation Desert Storm Against Iraq, Few Have Questioned The Notion That Countries Sometimes Go To War For Control Of Natural Resources. However, This...

Review\'Here's what I love about Russ Ramsey's latest project--it understands down deep that Truth is exclusive to no party or sect; that Goodness arrives i...

Seb Hunter wasn't just a heavy metal fan. He was a blind devotee who threw away his education and future prospects to become a rock star. In Hell Bent for ...

"This book combines stories about dogs with drawings of dogs, both by the famous Canadian artist and writer Emily Carr." "Starting with her decision to begi...

P.g. O'neill. English And Japanese. Cover Title: Nihon Jinmei Chimei Jiten.Categories: Reference Language Study & ReferenceGeneral

Pictorial archive of precisely detailed engravings of architectural elements — doors, windows, moldings, statuary, decorative stonework, columns, pedestal...

What is emo? For starters it's a form of melodic, confessional, or EMOtional punk rock. But emo is more than a genre of music–it's the defining countercu...

Snyder Transports Us To The Streets, Inns, And Guildhalls Of Seventeenth-century Holland, Where Artists And Scientists Gathered, And To Their Studios And La...

Lee Krasner, Best Known As Jackson Pollock's Wife, Reveals A Woman Who Was A Firebrand And Trailblazer For Women's Rights, Who Also Led A Fascinating Life, ...

Foreword by Roxane Gay "Debbie Millman brings her Design Matters podcast, 'about how the most creative people in the world create their lives,' to the pa...

An Oprah.com "Must-Read" BookAfter having shot a man in a Santa Fe bar, the famous artist Jim Stegner served his time and has since struggled to manage the ...

Von J. Edmund Güntz.Categories: Arts & Photography History & CriticismCriticism

Who Gave Jonathan Van Ness Permission To Be The Radiant Human He Is Today? No One, Honey. The Truth Is, It Hasn't Always Been Gorgeous For This Beacon Of Po...

A New York Times bestseller Jonathan and Drew Scott have taken HGTV by storm with their four hit shows, Property Brothers, Property Brothers at Home, Buyin...

The Definitive Story Of The International Modeling Business--and Its Evil Twin, Legalized Flesh Peddling--model Is A Tale Of Beautiful Women Empowered And S...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall—not to mention work...

Everyone knows what modern architecture looks like, but few understand how this revolutionary new form of building emerged little more than a century ago o...

Dante's Divine Comedy captivated medieval readers, and each successive era remains spellbound by its sublime portraits of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. In th...

The amazing New York Times bestselling adult coloring book featuring super-detailed animal images from artist Kerby Rosanes. The perfect stocking stuffer g...

Fabulosity (n): 1: a state of everything that is fabulous 2: a quality ascribed to that which expresses glamour, style, charisma, power, and heart Kimora...

from Snow White To Shrek, From Fred Flintstone To Spongebob Squarepants, The Design Of A Character Conveys Personality Before A Single Word Of Dialogue Is...

In This Follow-up To Love Is A Mix Tape, A Writer For Rolling Stone, After His Wife's Death, Finds Solace In Music, Which Leads Him To The Strangest Places ...

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 ...