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Edgar Degas
Annotated Paintings
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Edgar Degas seems never to have reconciled himself to the label of "Impressionist," preferring to call himself a "Realist" or "Independent." Nevertheless, he was one of the group’s founders, an organizer of its exhibitions, and one of its most important core members....
by Jordan Raphael, Tom Spurgeon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Based on interviews with Stan Lee and dozens of his colleagues and contemporaries, as well as extensive archival research, this book provides a professional history, an appreciation, and a critical exploration of the face of Marvel Comics. Recognized as a dazzling writer, a skilled editor, a relentless...
Parish-Hadley Tree of Life
An Intimate History of the Legendary Design Firm
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
A lushly illustrated look inside the interior design firm that set the standard for America’s finest homes—serving the Astors, the Kennedys, and more.
Starting in the 1960s, one name was synonymous with gorgeous interior design and luxurious, stylish home décor: Parish-Hadley Associates,...
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My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Everybody loves beauty products. Even if you think you know nothing about them, or even if you think you hate them, you actually know plenty about them and, in fact, have several of them that you love. You have major opinions that lie barely beneath the surface. Women whomodestly/moralistically claim...
The Great Nadar
The Man Behind the Camera
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A dazzling, stylish biography of a fabled Parisian photographer, adventurer, and pioneer.
A recent French biography begins, Who doesn't know Nadar? In France, that's a rhetorical question. Of all of the legendary figures who thrived in mid-19th-century Paris—a cohort that includes Victor...
by John Callahan, David Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Now a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and Rooney Mara
Featuring more than 60 of Callahan's original cartoons
“When people laugh like hell and then say, ‘That’s not funny,’ you can be pretty sure they’re talking about...
King of Fashion
The Autobiography of Paul Poiret
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Paul Poiret’s autobiography tells the extraordinary story of
Welcome to the Silver Factory
The Birth of the Pop Art Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The 1st installment in a 3-part oral history, Welcome to the Silver Factory introduces the members of Andy Warhol’s inner circle and their dazzling world of art, parties, drugs, and drama
In the 1st volume of this fascinating oral history based on her documentary Andy Warhol’s Factory...
by Steven Hager
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
This book represents the Holy Grail of early hip hop journalism, written by the only professional journalist to travel to the South Bronx in the early 1980s to document the origins of the culture. For anyone interested in "first generation," this is the most authentic portrait of hip hop...
Cheng Man-ch'ing and T'ai Chi
Echoes in the Hall of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Cheng Man-ch’ing (1902–1975)—also romanized as Zheng Manqing— certainly played a lead role in popularizing tai chi ch'uan throughout the world and greatly influencing the way the art is perceived and practiced. This fact alone should drive all those interested in tai chi to study the man’s...
Querida Dra. Polo
Las Cartas Secretas de Caso Cerrado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 8, 2011
El libro de las cartas secretas a la reconocida jueza de televisión
Este libro va mucho más allá: revela en detalle historias tan impresionantes que no son apropiadas ni para un programa sin censura como Caso Cerrado. Sin lugar a dudas, el enorme éxito del libro se debe en gran medida a...
From the Fair
The Autobiography of Sholom Aleichem
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From the Fair by Sholom Aleichem (translated from the Yiddish by Curt Leviant, with an introduction by Curt Leviant; 114,000 words)
Sholom Aleichem (1859-1916) began writing his autobiography when he was 49 and was still working on it when he died at age 57. He considered From the Fair his...
Mistress of Modernism
The Life of Peggy Guggenheim
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
The life story of the bohemian socialite who rebelled against her famous family and became a renowned art collector.
Peggy Guggenheim was the ultimate self-invented woman, a cultural mover and shaker who broke away from her poor-little-rich-girl origins to shape a life for herself as the enfant...
In Montmartre
Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century
In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic...