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Radical Invention

Title: Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917

Author: Stephanie D'Alessandro, John Elderfield

This book represents the first sustained examination of Matisse’s output from this important period, revealing fascinating information about his working method, experimental techniques, and compositional choices uncovered through extensive new historical, technical, and scientific research. The lavishly illustrated volume is published to accompany a major exhibition consisting of approximately 125 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints. It features in-depth studies of individual works such as Bathers by a River and The Moroccans, which Matisse himself counted as among the most pivotal of his career, and facilitates a greater understanding of the artist’s innovative process and radical stylistic evolution.

Exhibition Design Portfolio

Author: Philip Hughes

Visual material includes photographs of completed exhibitions by world-renowned designers, concept drawings, computer renderings, charts, and tables of information—all for a wide range of exhibitions around the world, permanent and temporary, including museums and galleries, visitor centers, brand experiences, festivals, and trade fairs. The book will inform and inspire, as well as equip students and new exhibition designers with a valuable guide to the profession.

Louise Bourgeois, The Blind Leading the Blind

Makhi Xenakis, Madeleine Vedel

Makhi Xenakis has been sketching, sculpting and writing since childhood. Born in Paris, she studied architecture under Paul Virilio, then began creating theater sets and costumes, notably with Claude Regy. In 1987 she moved to New York City for two years and met Louise Bourgeois. It was a turning-point.

Photography, A Cultural History

Author: Mary Warner Marien

A survey of international photography. It includes material from the research on Victorian photography's relationship to painting, photography's involvement with German and Russian art movement between the World Wars and influence of vernacular photography alongside art and commercial photography. It also documents the rise of digital photography

The Designer's Graphic Stew: Visual Ingredients, Techniques, and Layout Recipes for Graphic Designers

Author: Timothy Samara

Timothy Samara (Author)

Under the witty and metaphorical guise of a high-end cookbook, the author provides visual “ingredients,” such as grid structures, folios, border devices, type treatments, abstract graphic elements, categorized stylistically and functionally. These ingredients are shown in use through a “recipe” format to accomplish strategies such as movement, rhythm, organization, contrast, metaphor, etc. Ingredients are coded and cross-referenced among categories for mix and matching purposes as well as demonstrating varied alternate combinations to achieving different approaches to strategies.

Go Logo, a Handbook to the Art of Global Branding

12 Keys to Designing Successful Global Brands

Author: Mac Cato

Unique among branding or creative guideline books, this book examines the enormous influence of both “commercial persuasion” and “societal persuasion” branding—and looks closely at the crucial role creative brand warriors play in building and sustaining winning designs. A primary focus is on exploring what it takes to be a successful creative in the global branding wars as defined by the 12 branding determinants. Global brands, such as Starbucks, Google, Burger King, Delta Airlines, and more, demonstrate the unique traits that make them successful brands.

Art and Electronic Media

Author: Shanken, Edward A.

Art and Electronic Media is the latest installment in the THEMES AND MOVEMENTS series, a collection of groundbreaking sourcebooks on the prevailing art tendencies of our times. This is the first book to explore mechanics, light, graphics, robotics, networks, virtual reality and the possibilities afforded by the web from an international perspective. It outlines the importance of figures previously neglected by art history, including engineers, technicians, and collaborators. Included are works by over 150 artists, both familiar - Jenny Holzer, Bruce Nauman, James Turrell, Mario Merz - as well as emerging and recent pioneers, such as Robert Lazzarini, Blast Theory, Granular Synthesis, Simon Penny, Marcel.li Antunez Roca, Mikami Seiko, and Jonah Bruckner-Cohen. The book is divided into seven thematic sections arranged chronologically. Art and Electronic Media is a lucid, accessible, and authoritative evaluation of continually developing media.

William Blake

The Complete Illuminated Books

In his illuminated books, William Blake combined his handwritten text with his exuberant imagery on pages the like of which had not been seen since the great decorated books of the Middle Ages. To read such books as "Jerusalem", "America" and "Songs of Innocence" and of "Experience" in cold letterpress bears no comparison to seeing and reading them as Blake conceived them, infused with his sublime and exhilarating colors.

Title: Embroidered Textiles: A World Guide to Traditional Patterns

Author: Sheila Paine

Embroidery has been practiced for thousands of years, and the variety is astonishing: gold-embroidered Chinese court insignia, landscape-worked Japanese kimonos, Sumatran sarongs, Indian saris, Afghan chain-stitched purses, Turkish napkin borders, Ghanaian patchwork banners, Egyptian head shawls, Moroccan cushion covers, Hungarian sheepskin jerkins, Slovakian bed curtains, German folk dress, Dutch bonnets, Breton coifs, Sicilian ecclesiastical cloths, Spanish sleeves, North American Indian quillwork pouches, Mexican blouses, Panamanian molas, Peruvian Nasca textiles, and more.

Title: John Singer Sargent, The Sensualist

Author: Trevor J. Fairbrother

One of the most beloved American painters, Sargent (1856-1925) is lately undergoing critical reevaluation. Fairbrother concentrates on the quality in his work that, more than any other, appeals most powerfully to most viewers. Sargent was, museum official Mimi Gardner Gates says in the foreword, "a reserved person who made exuberant art." Essential to that exuberance is the keen attractiveness of the figures, male and female, clothed and nude, in his work.

Jane Austen's 235th birthday !

Jane Austen is a well known and much-loved English author. Her fans today number in the millions and since the advent of motion pictures, her novels have been turned into film at an almost regular pace. Although only six novels were published, those few works have become the model for true romance stories since the early 1800's.

Today, Jane Austen is as popular as ever and revered as much as any literary figure in history.

GRAFFITI New York !

"Graffiti New York" is the comprehensive history of New York City graffiti from the late 1960s up until present day. In a fashion that strikes a balance between strong visuals and brief but substantive text and interviews, it presents the big picture of the city that gave birth to a global visual/social revolution. Decades after the movement globalized, New York is still the Mecca of graffiti culture. Painting there is a badge of honor, with graffiti artists from around the globe making pilgrimages to New York for that purpose. This is the city where it all began, yet few know the back story. "Graffiti New York" fills that gap, detailing the concepts, aesthetics, ideals and social structures that have served as a cultural blueprint for graffiti movements across the world. The book features approximately 1,000 images, complemented by texts by the authors and other relevant players in the movement, as well as descriptive graphics and sidebars. Spanning the birth of simple signature tags to today's vibrant murals, covering the movement's growth, its social framework and values, the various forms of graffiti and significant artists and crews, "Graffiti New York" presents the big picture like no other.

Ernest Hemingway- Green Hills of Africa

This is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man.

The Beatles !

What more can be published about the Beatles? Flying in the face of opinion that yet further books on the subject can only be superfluous isThe Beatles: A Diary, proving that there is still much more of value to be discovered and enjoyed about the Fab Four phenomenon. Written by close friend of the band Barry Miles it acts as a marvellous accompaniment to Many Years From Now, his bestselling authorised biography of Paul McCartney. In chronological order, the Diary begins in wartime Liverpool and the births of each member of the group and quickly progresses to 1960 and the birth of the Beatles as a band. It then travels on a day-by-day basis through their entire 10-year career to the demise of both the Swinging Sixties and the Beatles themselves, detailing events as they unfolded, never glossing over the arguments or being afraid to confront controversies such as the drugs and sex stories that surrounded them.

Fully illustrated, the book is also a visual treat and is packed with hundreds of superb colour and black-and-white photographs and contains many quotes from members from within and without the band; some rare, some common, all classic.

Both defining and influencing the Sixties, the Beatles were and will remain the biggest band in the world and The Beatles: A Diary is the perfect testament of their life and achievements. Despite the familiarity of some of the history, Miles' sharp and refreshing style and the extraordinarily extensive chronology ensure the Diary to be invaluable to any fan. It is the definitive Beatles chronicle. --Robert Brookes --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010 !

'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one'. Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor's grand, central London apartment. It's a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you had less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends' losses. And it's that very evening, at exactly 11:30pm, as Treslove hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country as he walks home, that he is attacked. After this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. "The Finkler Question" is a scorching story of exclusion and belonging, justice and love, ageing, wisdom and humanity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.