History & Criticism

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 ...

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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...

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 ...

Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media―from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonie...

Written In Accessible, Nontechnical Language, This Book's Twenty-three Essays Provide Invaluable Conservation Guidelines For A Variety Of Materials And Medi...

It Is A Sunny Summer Sunday In A Remote Swiss Village, And A Christening Is Being Celebrated At A Lovely Old Farmhouse. One Of The Guests Notes An Anomaly I...

Brilliantly exploring the life and work of American artist Joseph Cornell, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Simic utilizes a series of short prose pieces that sc...

With 32-pages of full-color inserts, and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Alex Danchev gives us the first comprehensive assessment of the revoluti...

With 294 illustrations, including 96 plates in full color. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Dust ...

"Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us--the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived." -Sasha Velour Th...

A Key To The Interpretation Of Rock Art Of The American Southwest, Providing Descriptions And Illustrations Of Rock Art Symbols, Along With Their Ascribed M...

The legendary icon tells his story—a tale of art, passion, commitment, addiction, as intense and hypnotic as the man himself. In a career spanning five d...

Twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein’s film theory and in particular his analysis of ...

An authoritative, balanced, and enlightened account of the history of art, ranging from the primitive art of hunters 30,000 years ago to examples of the mos...

Now In Paperback, The #1 New York Times Bestselling Chronicle Of The Rise And Fall Of A Legendary American Dynasty, From Cnn Anchor And Journalist Anderson ...

The Death Of Madonna -- A Magical Place -- The Arrogance And The Nerve! -- Jam Hot -- Sick And Peverted -- How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Madonn...

The Actress Best Known For Her Work On Parks And Recreation And Saturday Night Live Reveals Personal Stories And Offers Her Humorous Take On Such Topics As ...

A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia’s art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles me...

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle ...

The Relationship Between Artists And Their Patrons Has Always Been A Complex And Fascinating One. In The Case Of The Habsburg Rules Of The Sixteenth And Sev...

Over a long, turbulent life, Picasso continually discovered new ways of seeing the world and translating it into art. A restless genius, he went through a...

An experienced artist and teacher uses stunning examples of his own work to explain every facet of watercolor landscape painting. Explore the wide range of ...

Professional reporter O'Neil teaches how to craft engaging travel articles and essays by using a travel journal and viewing experiences with a writer's eye....

Called “tremendously entertaining” (The New York Times) Stephanie Storey’s brilliant bestselling debut, brings early 16th-century Florence, Leonardo d...

This Book Revisits A Major Figure From A Somewhat Neglected Generation Which Dominated The British Art Scene In The 1930s And 1940s. Focusing On The Period ...

Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks fro...

In Today's Art World Many Strange, Even Shocking, Things Qualify As Art. In This Very Short Introduction Cynthia Freeland Explains Why Innovation And Contro...

Under The New Authorial Leadership Of Alston W. Purvis, Meggs' History Of Graphic Design, Fourth Edition Offers Hundreds Of Full-color Images Supported By T...

Sixty splendidly reproduced black-and-white illustrations attest to Leonardo's achievements in many drawing media, depicting plants, landscapes, animals, ba...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Marjane Sartrapi, starring Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST “Vivid and ethereal”...

V. 1. 1900-1944 -- V. 2. 1945 To The Present. Hal Foster ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 690-694) And Index. Includes Web Resources.Ca...

In The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart, Cameron again draws from her extensive artistic and teaching experience to lead readers toward ever-...

Renown writer and artist Douglas Coupland's valentine to Canada looks at how it feels to be a Canadian now and imagines what it might feel like to be a Cana...

Friendswithyou Is A Contemporary Fine Art Collective That Has Been Spreading Their Unifying Message Of Magic, Luck, And Friendship Worldwide Since Their Fou...

Sidney Poitier is One of the Most Revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model...

Preface -- The Good Red Road -- Anodynes And Amulets -- Keep The Drum Playing -- Recovery And Transformation -- From The Inside: Looking At You -- Physical ...

The Diverse Essays Collected Here Constitute An Exploration Of The Emerging Interdisciplinary Field Of Visual Culture, And Examine Why Modern And Postmodern...

an Outstanding And Authoritative Biography Of One Of Britain's Greatest Masters. publishers Weekly phenomenal Drinking Habits, Chronic Sleep Deprivation, A...