American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank - RJ Smith

Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863-1930) was also the most widely viewed British-Australian ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Gabrielle SelzIllustration(s): 22 b-w photos, 11 color photosNumber of pages: 392Publication da...

Reducere. Amrita Sher-Gil was always making art--as a little girl in Budapest, as a young woman in Northern India, and as an art student in Paris, she filled...

Contributor(s): Author: Robert StorrIn a career spanning nearly 75 years, Louise Bourgeois created a vast body of work that enriched the formal lan...

Reducere. A master of what he called "the sculpturing of space, " Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure for modern public art. Born to an American mother and a Ja...

CEO of Peak Potentials, Adam Markel presents his practical program for people who are looking to reinvent themselves.Publisher: Atria BooksAuthor(s...

Reducere. DescriptionWords and images come together in this inspiring collaboration between renowned poet Ntozake Shange and Kamoinge Inc., a group of acclai...

Reducere. Poignant, multilayered portraits of America's future farmersA new book by award-winning Minneapolis-based photographer R.J. Kern (born 1978), The U...

Here, from Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Paul Goldberger, is the first full-fledged critical biography of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Imagine a man fascinated with the history and cultures of the world, who spoke multiple languages, and who could express his passion in virtually a...

Leon of Juda is the seventh book in Robert Frank's (born 1924) acclaimed series of visual diaries, which combine iconic photos from throughout his ...

American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds, published to coincide with an exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, reveals the beauty, historic...

A strident argument about the dangers of compromise in art, politics, and everyday life On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal s...

Savor the richness and beauty of wool appliqué—its texture, depth, color, and design. Well-known, award-winning folk artist Rebekah L. Smith will i...

Reducere. During the course of his military career, through World War II, Korean, and then Vietnam, Bud Day received every available combat medal, escaped de...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edward Lucie-Smith"Richly illustrated...brings to life the work of many lesser-known artists throughout the continent." Cho...

Reducere. America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history--the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and traumatic...

Reducere. In this ambitious and moving book, Frank Pommersheim, who lived and worked on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation for ten years, challenges the do...

A Personal Growth Finalist in the 2004 Word Guild Canadian Writing Awards"My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me." Jesus takes it ...

Reducere. The definitive, award-winning biography of the legendary chief and his dramatic role in the history of westward expansionReviled by the United Stat...

Reducere. The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine documents the life of a Maine dairy-farming family in the 1930s through '60s. The Ames family worked the same land...

Reducere. The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine documents the life of a Maine dairy-farming family in the 1930s through '60s. The Ames family worked the same land...

American Grotesque is a lavish retrospective of grotesque, occult, and erotic images by the forgotten Hollywood photographer William Mortensen (189...

Reducere. Who was Peter and what was his true stature in the early church? For Protestants at least, Peter seems caught between two caricatures: the rustic f...

Reducere. This landmark book shows how five African civilizations--Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River--have informed and are reflected in the aest...

DescriptionSince taking up photography in the mid-1960s, Robert Adams (born 1937) has quietly become one of the most influential chroniclers of the...

Provides an in-depth examination of the strategies deployed by painters Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and sculptor Mary Lewis that enabled th...

The only one-volume introduction to modern and post-modern art from Latin America, perhaps the most exciting and rewarding art scene in the world t...

Reducere. The Forgiving Life offers scientifically supported guidance to help people forgive those in their lives who have acted unfairly and have inflicted ...

The bookmaker photographer: 30 years of Robert Frank's collaborations with SteidlExploring Robert Frank's rich bookmaking history with Steidl, and ...

Reducere. Description"War is over; the heroic French population reaffirms superiority. Love, Paris, and Flowers ... but London was black, white, and gray, th...

Reducere. Because of the importance of Robert Frank's The Americans; because he turned to filmmaking in 1959, the same year the book appeared in the United S...