A wonderful and original tribute to the curious, comical Dodoand the beautiful island of Mauritius. Award-winning Finnishphotographer Harri Kallio creates the illusion that thesefascinating creatures are alive and abundant, living as they oncedid in their own unspoiled haven, the island of Mauritius.Accompanied by a thorough history of this extraordinary bird,including eyewitness accounts and pictorial sources, the book wasthe winner of the 2004 European Publishers’ Award forPhotography.
The world of the fashionista is brought to vivid life with 101introductory lessons on such topics as how a designer anticipatescultural trends and "sees" the fashion consumer, the workings ofthe fashion calendar, the ways a designer collection is conceived,the manufacture of fabric, fashion illustration, and more. Illustrated in the distinctly unique packaged style of thebestselling101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, this newbook on fashion design will be a perfect book for any fashionschool wannabe, a recent graduate, or even a seasonedprofessional.
The fourth, but the earliest volume chronologically, of theonly comprehensive survey in modern times of the surviving Italianfrescoes from the end of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance andMannerism, this groundbreaking oeuvre is an achievement inschol
As the 587 colorful images in this magnificent volume reveal,animals were a constant -- and delightful -- presence inilluminated manu*s throughout the Middle Ages. Manyproto-zoological illustrations, of great charm but variableaccuracy, are found in the bestiaries, or compendiums of animallore, that were exceedingly popular in the twelfth and thirteenthcenturies. But animals are depicted in every other sort ofilluminated manu* as well, from the eighth-century EchternachGospels, with its geometrically schematized symbols of theEvangelists, to the early fifteenth-century Tres Riches Heures duDuc de Berry, with its famously naturalistic scenes of peasant andaristocratic life. In his insightful opening chapters, the noted art historianChristian Heck explains that the prevalence of animals inilluminated manu*s reflects their importance in medievalthought, an importance due in part to the agricultural society ofthat age, in which a variety of species--and not just docilepets--were the daily companions of man. Anim