Artists' Letters

These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research a...

Reducere. Boston born and bred, John Wieners was a queer self-styled po te maudit who was renowned among his contemporaries but ignored by mainstream critics...

Contributor(s): Editor: Glenn PhillipsEditor: Philipp KaiserContribution by: Doris ChonWidely regarded as the most influential curator of the secon...

Contributor(s): Editor: Ossian WardText by (Art/Photo Books): Nicholas LogsdailText by (Art/Photo Books): Alex LogsdailFeaturing work by more than ...

Reducere. DescriptionHip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop genera...

The world and creativity of Elio Fiorucci seen from the inside and recounted by those who took part in his fashion adventure. The fashion and store...

Reducere. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago, encompassing nearly eighteen thousand islands. The fourth-most populous nation in the world, it has a...

Luis Bu uel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most important and ...

Reducere. The Art of Ramona Quimby celebrates the artists behind Beverly Cleary's inimitable Ramona Quimby series. The adventures of her iconic heroine have ...

THIS IS NOT A CHILDREN'S BOOK. Its accounts of fairy experiences, mostly from the twentieth century, have come from business men and women, housewi...

Reducere. The second edition of Encyclopedia of Rock, Pop & Folk Music in Canada is the most comprehensive book of its kind. It details the wide diversity of...

Herschel B. Chipp's Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book By Artists and Critics is a collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and inter...

Reducere. DescriptionThis Armenian language textbook is one-of-its kind, innovative tool for everyone who wants to learn Armenian from A to Z. It is easy, fu...

Reducere. In September, 1922, the internationally known British writer D. H. Lawrence arrived with his wife, Frieda, at the railroad station in Lamy, New Mex...

DescriptionArnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile...

Reducere. In 1870, Louisa May Alcott and her younger sister Abby May Alcott began a fourteen-month tour of Europe. Louisa had already made her mark as a writ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the months before silent film icon Rudolph Valentino's death, he began a collaboration with Spanish journalist, Baltasar Fern ndez Cu...

Reducere. Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Bringi...

DescriptionSybil Andrews was one of Canada's most prominent artists working throughout the late twentieth century. From a cottage by the sea in Cam...

This is the complete, authorized collection of Donald Judd's early art criticism and polemical writings; it includes his landmark essay "Specific O...

Reducere. DescriptionOtto Dix (1891-1969) is considered one of the true lions of 20th-C art, a man who established himself as an uncompromising artist that r...

Reducere. FAIRYTALE is the first and only book to provide inside portraits of The Pointer Sisters' formative and professional life--June, Bonnie, Anita and R...

Reducere. THIS IS NOT A CHILDREN'S BOOK. Its accounts of fairy experiences, mostly from the twentieth century, have come from business men and women, housewi...

Reducere. In September, 1922, the internationally known British writer D. H. Lawrence arrived with his wife, Frieda, at the railroad station in Lamy, New Mex...

Reducere. A new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace--Renaissance Italy The period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 157...

Reducere. The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show featured some of the wittiest, most inspired, and relentlessly hilarious animation ever created. The legendary Jay Wa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Iris MoralesForeword by: Deborah ParadezLatinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA is a timely collection of poetry ...

Reducere. The period here covered reflects all the great experiences of Rilke's early adult life: his difficult beginnings, his relationships with Lou Andrea...

Reducere. "Immensely readable...a significant piece of scholarship."—Fred Volkmer, New York Sun He would become one of the most important poets of the twenti...

Reducere. Two artists engage in a 20-year correspondence across cultural and creative boundaries as part of Dis Voir's Encounters seriesArtist Gary Hill (bor...

DescriptionMichael Doran has gathered texts by contemporaries of Paul C zanne (1839-1906)-including artists, critics, and writers-that illuminate t...

Reducere. This book teaches history to children following the traditional, story-based method based on tales of heroes and kings. You will find here no moder...

The first major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects and ephemera in the Tate Archive and collection. Revealing over 150 e...

Diane Arbus: A Chronology is the closest thing possible to a contemporaneous diary by one of the most daring, influential and controversial artists...

Reducere. "Books and reality and art are the same kind of thing for me." One of the most famous artists in history, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was also a m...

Biography of three artists closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites whose letters give a vivid insight into the dramas of their personal life.

Reducere. God has blessed Ketty Lester to achieve so much in her lifetime. Growing up in the cotton fields of Little Rock, Arkansas, to her first performance...

Reducere. The Renaissance began in Italy, but it grew out of European civilization, with roots in Antiquity, in Christian dogma, and in Byzantium. The artist...

Reducere. America is at a crossroads. Conflicting political and social perspectives reflect a need to collectively define our moral imperatives, clarify cult...

Reducere. The Beat Generation freed American arts and letters from the ivy-covered shackles of academia. The names of its primary figures are familiar as old...

Reducere. A Spicing of Birds is a unique and beautifully illustrated anthology, pairing poems from one of America's most revered poets with evocative classic...

Reducere. This absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896), a musician of remarka...

Reducere. Two New York Times fact-checkers spark a multidisciplinary meditation on truth and fictionThis volume connects two seemingly contradictory paradigm...

Over the last decade of his life, the great Italian film director Federico Fellini, one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John C. KirklandWhen words of love do not come to you on their own, then read these letters. Complete, actual love letters ...

Showcasing Japan's astonishingly varied culture of cute, this volume takes the reader on a dazzling and adorable visual journey through all things ...

A treasure trove of noteworthy letters, arranged thematically to provide an insight into the lives and work of great artists.

Reducere. DescriptionGet inspired by 60 hand-lettered alphabets and the artists who draw them This beautiful follow-up to 100 Days of Lettering helps you mas...

Reducere. FAIRYTALE is the first and only book to provide inside portraits of The Pointer Sisters' formative and professional life--June, Bonnie, Anita and R...

Now in paperback, this beautiful and important collection of more than 150 of Van Gogh's letters paired with more than 250 works of art Vincent Van...

This book explains, in simple steps and non-mathematical terminology, how to create repeat patterns in a line, on the plane, as tiles, and as Esche...

From the artist behind the popular Pigeon Letters website, a complete guide to learning and perfecting brush lettering, a forgiving style of modern...

Reducere. Hip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop generation. It ha...

Reducere. In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg's quest to correct h...

Reducere. Beloved storyteller Ivan Coyote returns with their most intimate and moving book yet. Writer and performer Ivan Coyote has spent decades on the roa...

THREE POPULAR BOOKS NOW IN ONE VOLUME The step-by-step instructions provide an invaluable resource for artists, designers, and craftspeople.A Begin...

Reducere. "An invaluable reminder of the purposes and possibilities of modern art. Exemplary." -- Kirkus ReviewsIn 1911, modernist painter Wassily Kandinsky ...

Reducere. In this volume noted typographer Dan X. Solo has compiled a treasury of attractive, eye-catching typefaces that will add decorative flair to almost...

A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis Culture was integral to the smooth running ...

Reducere. Translated and Edited by Sister Dorothea Olga McCants, Daughter of the CrossIn Our People and Our History, originally published in French in 1911 a...

Reducere. Mattie "Tootsie" Crosby arrived in Alaska at a time when African American women were viewed as a mere novelty by white people and brown-skinned Nat...

Reducere. "Let me say at the outset that this book is not about Bear (he would be spoken of in the singular and masculine, capitalized and without an article...

Reducere. There has never been a better time for a book on Gram Parsons. At the thirty-year anniversary of his death, his sound, a mix of country and rock 'n...

Contributor(s): Editor: Wade HudsonEditor: Cheryl Willis HudsonFifty of the foremost diverse children's authors and illustrators--including Jason R...

Reducere. Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now available in a beautiful hardcover Penguin editionAt the start of the twentieth ...

Reducere. In this third book in a series on the history of the Florida Keys, John Viele tells the true story of the Florida Keys wreckers, the daring seamen ...

Reducere. The alphabet thief stole all of the B's, and all of the bowls became owls...When night falls, along comes a peculiar thief who steals each letter o...

DescriptionLearn the art of drawing and painting beautiful letters in watercolour. Hand lettering is the art of drawing beautiful letters, and is t...

DescriptionChicago-based jewelry engraver J. M. Bergling (1866-1933) created thousands of letter styles, signets, monograms, and ciphers. A noted a...

Reducere. A fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture, written by France's first professional wo...