Lucy Fischer: 4 books

Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cinematic art direction, costuming, gender representation, genre, and theme. Though historians have long...

How is the look of a film achieved? In Art Direction and Production Design, six outstanding scholars survey the careers of notable art directors, the influence of specific design styles, the key roles played by particular studios and films in shaping the field, the effect of technological changes...

Alle Jahre Für und Wider Weihnachten … Die Zeit der peinlichen Krippenspiele, der unbedachten Geschenke, der kleinen und großen Wunder. Man verbringt die Feiertage zu Hause, auf dem Weg dahin im Zug – oder auch mal als Weihnachtsbaum verkleidet in den Ecken fremder Wohnzimmer. Wir feiern einsam,...

12 stories from the heart of South Minneapolis: Lake Street. Lake Street cuts across Minneapolis from west to east, from the urbane to the urban to the blue-collar. North and south, it is the dividing line between inner-city neighborhoods and tidy bedroom communities. Lake Street is a polyglot...