An extensive study on Hopper, which accompanies a majortravelling exhibition and illuminates the life and work of one ofAmerica’s most celebrated artists. Illustrated with over 150 oils,watercolors, etchings and drawings with comments on their formaland technical characteristics, this exhibition’s catalog offers anupdated critical interpretation of Edward Hopper’s work and analternative view to the extensive literature that already exists onthis artist. Among the artworks included are Cape Cod Sunset,Second Story Sunlight, and some interesting self-portraits from theWhitney Museum of American Art; the famous Morning Sun from theColumbus Museum of Art, Ohio, and a number of lesser-knownwatercolors and oils from Hopper’s journeys to Paris. Also includedare essays by several noted scholars, and an extensive chronologyand bibliography. Perfect for casual perusing or serious study,this lavish exploration of Edward Hopper’s work is certain to finda wide audience.

In 1958, the first edition of Robert Frank's TheAmericans was published in Paris. Les Américains contained Frank's 83 photographs in the same sequence as allsubsequent editions, with the image on the right hand page, butjuxtaposed with historical texts about American society andpolitics, gathered by Alain Bosquet. The following year, in thefirst American edition, the French texts were removed and anintroduction by Jack Kerouac was added. Over the subsequent 50years, The Americans has been republished in many editions,in numerous languages, with a variety of cover designs, and even ina range of sizes. It is the most famous photography book everpublished, and it changed the face of the medium forever. Robert Frank discussed with his publisher,Gerhard Steidl, the idea of producing a new edition using modernscanning and the finest tritone printing. The starting point was tobring original prints from New York to G?ttingen, Germany, whereSteidl is based. In July 2007, Frank visited G?ttingen. A new forma

The fashion industry has always celebrated innovative design,and young, talented fashion designers can make a huge impact asthey explore new ideas and push boundaries. This book showcases thediverse and unique work of the best 100 new creatives in fashiondesign from around the world. As well as pinpointing the best newtalent worldwide, this visually stunning survey provides acomprehensive showcase of cutting-edge imagery, including originaldesign work, drawings and photography. The ultimate reference guideto the world's movers and shakers in fashion today, this is a bookall fashionistas will want to own.

YA. The large, full-color photographs in this excellent seriesare sure to catch the attention of even the most casual browsers.Readable texts explore the creatures' habitats, behaviors, andtheir complex relationships with their main predators, humans.Historical background is given as is a plea for ecologicalconservation. Photographs are well captioned. Each book lists theenvironmental organizations that are working to preserve theanimals under discussion. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Featuring 290 color images, many of them full-page, thislavish volume presents Cartier's most famous and complicatedwatches in a new never-before-published collection. Fromtheir forms to their movements, Cartier watches are unique. Theyare an enduring combination of the unexpected and theclassical. In the world of timepieces, the Cartier nameinevitably evokes a glamorous range of legendary, universallyadmired watches: the Santos, the Tortue, the Tank, the Baignoire,the Pasha de Cartier, the Panthère de Cartier, and others. This book chronicles Cartier's constant quest for excellence in themanufacture of complicated watches. From a Tortue single push-piecechronograph, created in 1929 to a contemporary Santos 100 skeletonwatch, Cartier interprets complications in its own inimitable way,always with a sense of design. Laziz Hamani's photographs capture these objects of exceptionalartistry while author and expert Jack Forster shares the spiritthat motivates each craftsman, engineer, and artist to create themost

对于提琴制作的业内人士来说，本书可以说是书。 读了本书，才会知道斯特拉蒂瓦里这个人以及他的琴是怎么回事。 《小提琴巨匠斯特拉蒂瓦里：他的生平和作品（1644-1737）》对所有知名的斯特拉蒂瓦里琴，它的出处，流传，以及它的特点都有描述。一些重要的琴都有尺寸。书后有索引，可以找到你要查的琴。 对于拉琴的人来说，你应当了解你拉的琴是怎么回事。小提琴绝非只是一件乐器那么简单。它有深刻的文化内涵，有许多讲究，有许多故事。《小提琴巨匠斯特拉蒂瓦里：他的生平和作品（1644-1737）》就是最好的入门。 对音乐爱好者来说，看《小提琴巨匠斯特拉蒂瓦里：他的生平和作品（1644-1737）》可以知道许多关于琴的知识。小提琴是一种艺术品，她诞生于文艺复兴时期，成为乐器之王，为什么她会迷倒那么多人，为什么一把斯特拉蒂瓦

Towering spires of dolomite and slabs of grante worn smooth byancient glaciers,walls of ice sculpted by the wind-the world'shighest mountains are great spec-tacles of nature and rank amongthe most important arenas for adventure left to hummankind on thisplanet.

From every “beautiful mornin’” to “some enchanted evening,” thesongs of Oscar Hammerstein II are part of our daily lives, hiswords part of our national fabric. Born into a theatrical dynasty headed by his grandfather andnamesake, Oscar Hammerstein II breathed new life into the moribundart form of operetta by writing lyrics and libretti for suchclassics as Rose-Marie (music by Rudolf Friml), TheDesert Song (Sigmund Romberg), The New Moon (Romberg)and Song of the Flame (George Gershwin). Hammerstein andJerome Kern wrote eight musicals together, including SweetAdeline, Music in the Air , and their masterpiece, ShowBoat . The vibrant Carmen Jones was Hammerstein’sall-black adaptation of the tragic opera by Georges Bizet. In 1943, Hammerstein, pioneer in the field of operetta, joinedforces with Richard Rodgers, who had for the previous twenty-fiveyears taken great strides in the field of musical comedy with his longtime writing partner, Lorenz Hart. The first Rodgersand Hammerstein work

"I don't have two lives," Annie Leibovitz writes in theIntroduction to this collection of her work from 1990 to 2005."This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignmentwork are all part of it." Portraits of well-known figures-JohnnyCash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, MichaelJordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, JackNicholson, and William Burroughs-appear alongside pictures ofLeibovitz's family and friends, reportage from the siege ofSarajevo in the early Nineties, and landscapes. The pictures form anarrative of a life rich in contrasts and continuities. Thephotographer has a long relationship that ends with illness anddeath. She chronicles the celebrations and heartbreaks of her largeand robust family. She has children of her own. All the while, sheis working, and the public work resonates with the themes of thelife.

The End of Print is the definitive statement of the work of the great iconoclast designer, David Carson. In print for the first time in several years, this classic book has itself become part of the history of graphic design. It features work from the magazines where Carson first made his mark including Transworld Skateboarding, Surfer, Beach Culture and Ray Gun as well as his instantly recognizable advertisements for clients such as Nike, Pepsi, MTV and Sony. Lewis Blackwells text includes an interview in which Carson examines the origins of his approach and discusses the extreme reactions to his work.

The lack of space in big cities and the desire to preserve oldarchitecture of great value help to explain the continuing desireto retrieve spaces of the past as locations for new dwellings. Theadaptation of the conditions of the old building to present-dayliving needs demands delicate technical and documentary work by thearchitect. This volume explores a variety of ideas forreconditioning historical spaces for domestic use, complete withplans and pictures of the original state, the development of theproject and the final result, in which a suggestive, fertiledialogue is struck between past and present.

A spotlight on French landscape painters of the first half of the 20th century which is a true hymn to nature Eight French painters born after 1870 are brought together for the first time in an exhibition that highlights their mutual affinities and charts their respective influences and evolutions. Aside from Gaston Balande (1880-1971), who is well known for his art deco wall murals designed for transatlantic ships, and Paul Deltombe (1878-1971), who benefited from a retrospective exhibition in 1970, the work of the other painters collected here has remained uncelebrated for far too long. The present exhibition and its catalogue aim to repair this oversight, as well as to reignite the study of this generation of French painters who, without turning their back on the avant-gardists, concentrated primarily on the traditional genre of landscape, and to a lesser degree on still-lifes. The 80 works of art, mainly painted between the wars, are at the crossroads of the many influences of this creative period,

Few artists have created as much controversy or survived itwith greater fame than Edouard Manet. In his day, the avant-gardewas not only a challenge to the traditions of art, but it was alsoa gunshot fired at society as a whole. With his painting Olympia(1869), Manet was to become, to quote Degas, as famous asGaribaldi. Yet how the urbane and diffident son of a bourgeoisfamily became the father of both Realism and Impressionism is acomplex and fascinating story that has too often been reduced totextbook clichés. As Manet has become recognized as a touchstonefor historical change but also for interpretations of how thatchange came about, his individual story has become all the morerelevant to the study of art history. Moreover, far from being anartists to shrink behind his work, one of Manets mostcharacteristic practices was to leave an indelible trace of his ownpersonal identity within his paintings, as illustrated throughoutthe volume by eminent scholar James H. Rubin. This lavishlyillustrated volume

What do you getwhen you cross a snail with the Indianapolis 500? If you’reDreamWorks, then the result is Turbo, an uplifting—andgear-shifting—story about the ultimate underdog, delivered with thedigital mastery, storytelling skill, and spellbinding imagery we’vecome to expect from the studio behind the Shrek and Madagascar.

From its ancient status as the jewel of an empire to itsmodern incarnation as a troubled, yet culturally vibrant Europeancapital, Rome has compelled the imagination of artists for over twothousand years. Now, in "The History of Rome in Painting", that

In her lavishly produced third book, accomplished editor and photographer Kelly Klein celebrates the myriad incarnations of the cross in photography of the past century. Here are images of the cross in both nature and the man-made world, in precious decorative objects and industrial architecture, in the shapes of the human body and the shapes of shadows. These pictures show how this most potent symbol can be transformed into the sacred, the ordinary, the profane, depending on its use and surroundings. This is the first book ever to distill the icon of the cross to its pure aesthetic essence, to explore its universal beauty. Photographs from the best photographers of the 20th century -- Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Fabien Baron, Erwin Blumenfeld, Nan Goldin, David Hockney, Horst, Andre Kertesz, Steven Klein, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Lindbergh, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Ellen Mark, Duane Michals, Tina Modotti, Francois Nars, Len Prince, Man Ray, Herb Ritts, Michael Robert

《历代文物装饰文字图鉴》内容简介：沉香以其浓郁的香味、独特的药用价值历来为人们所钟爱，沉香工艺品的收藏古已有之。《历代文物装饰文字图鉴》由沉香研究专家任刚先生主编，对沉香的分类、沉香的功用、沉香的收藏史，以及沉香摆件的制作工艺进行了深入浅出的叙述，对初涉沉香的收藏爱好者大有裨益。

对于提琴制作的业内人士来说，本书可以说是书。读了本书，才会知道斯特拉蒂瓦里这个人以及他的琴是怎么回事。《小提琴巨匠斯特拉蒂瓦里：他的生平和作品（1644-1737）》对所有知名的斯特拉蒂瓦里琴，它的出处，流传，以及它的特点都有描述。一些重要的琴都有尺寸。书后有索引，可以找到你要查的琴。对于拉琴的人来说，你应当了解你拉的琴是怎么回事。小提琴绝非只是一件乐器那么简单。它有深刻的文化内涵，有许多讲究，有许多故事。《小提琴巨匠斯特拉蒂瓦里：他的生平和作品（1644-1737）》就是最好的入门。对音乐爱好者来说，看《小提琴巨匠斯特拉蒂瓦里：他的生平和作品（1644-1737）》可以知道许多关于琴的知识。小提琴是一种艺术品，她诞生于文艺复兴时期，成为乐器之王，为什么她会迷倒那么多人，为什么一把斯特拉蒂瓦里的琴现在动辄几百

One of Victorian Englands most charismatic characters, DanteGabriel Rossetti painted and wrote with equal passion. He wassimilarly passionate in his personal life: his etherealartist-wife, his earthy blond mistress, and the ravishing JaneMorris are al