This book is far more than just a photography catalogue, in the sense that it will depict, both in pictures and biographical text, the life and work of Mabel Julianelli, starting as a pattern designer in Brooklyn, NY. Beginning with her student years studying commercial art at Pratt Institute in the...
This groundbreaking study of Raphael's loggia has four parts. The first and second concern the grotesques and the Bible illustrations, respectively, while the third examines the lives and artistic styles of the members of Raphael's workshop - then the largest operation of its kind - who worked with...
The romance with the age of Steam and the Steam locomotives that revolutionised industry, travel and even holidays in the latter part of the 19th century, is all contained within this superbly illustrated publication. From the Golden Age of Steam through to the rise of preserved railways that have...
Carefully designed for quick and easy reference, this bilingual dictionary uses more than 3,600 handsome annotated illustrations to accurately define and describe more than 20,000 terms. The Italian entries are also identified with the gender. Two extensive indexes, one English and another in...
“Take It Easy.” “Lyin' Eyes.” “One of These Nights.” “Hotel California.” These songs are among the most memorable ever written, and they all came from one amazing band: the Eagles. This gorgeous volume traces the history of the group from the late 1960s through to the present....
Brandon T. Snider is a New York-based writer and actor who has penned books featuring Superman, Batman, and Green Lantern, in addition to fiction for The Official Smallville Magazine and humor for The Huffington Post. Brandon has also appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Chappelle's Show, and...
The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol is the first oral biography of the artist. First published in 1971, and pitched against the colorful backdrop of the 1960s, it assembles a prismatic portrait of one of modern art's least knowable artists during the early years of his fame. Each of its...
Often gardeners become so enslaved to maintenance and transformation that they neglect the meditative potential of their green space. Worrying over the details, the whole picture is sometimes lost. This is an attitude Herb Gustafson hopes to check in The Art of Japanese Gardens, a beautifully...