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Out of Line

The Art of Jules Feiffer

by Martha Fay
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015

Everyone knows a Feiffer illustration when they see one: His characters leap across the page, each line belying humor and psychological insight. Over Feiffer’s prolific 70-year career, his nimble and singular imagination has given us new perspectives as well as biting satires on politics, love,...

Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve

What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing

by Ben Blatt
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

Data meets literature in this “enlightening” (The Wall Street Journal), “brilliant” (The Boston Globe), “Nate Silver-esque” (O, The Oprah Magazine) look at what the numbers have to say about our favorite authors and their masterpieces. There’s a famous piece of writing advice—offered...

Gothic Machine

Textualities, Pre-cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture, 1670-1910

by David J. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Gothic Machine is a ground-breaking exploration of relations between Gothic literature, pre-cinematic media such as magic lanterns, phantasmagoria and dioramas and the first films 1670-1910. Starting with the earliest projections of horror images, continuing through the development of Gothic fiction...

Conrad Wise Chapman

Artist and Solider of the Confederacy

by Ben Bassham
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

Conrad Wise Chapman (1842-1910) is unique among Civil War artists: he painted and sketched while on duty as a Confederate soldier who served in three theaters of the war. Chapman’s first-hand knowledge is evident in his work. Ben Bassham has written both a critical study of Chapman’s art and a...

Twenty Over Eighty

Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design

by Aileen Kwun, Bryn Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

Twenty Over Eighty is a collection of insightful, intimate, and often irreverent interviews with twenty architecture and design luminaries over the age of eighty. Revealing conversations with leaders from a variety of fields—including graphic designers Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser, Lora Lamm, and...

Graphic Content

True Stories from Top Creatives

by Brian Singer
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014

63 top creatives speak out on art, inspiration, life, and random things that happened. *"We watched as 60 yards away this man fought for his life. And I felt like a coward." "The pole they have behind the spot in the parallel parking test? Yeah, I hit that." "I pretty much punched...

Model Girl

by Jean Dawnay
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017

Jean Dawnay (now Princess George Galitzine) describes her rise from airline steward to the top of the modelling world in the late 1940s and ’50s. Photographed by greats such as John French and Cecil Beaton and working with Balmain, Carven, Lanvin, Pucci and Christian Dior, where she was a house...

In My Fashion

by Bettina Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017

Bettina Ballard, Paris-based correspondent and later Fashion Editor for US Vogue, was at the centre of the fashion world from the 1930s to the ’50s and an intimate of Coco Chanel, Cristóbal Balenciaga and Elsa Schiaparelli. With journalistic flair, she captures the spirit of pre-war Paris, the...

The World of Carmel Snow

by Carmel Snow
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017

Carmel Snow (1887 – 1961), the notorious publishing rival of Vogue editor Edna Woolman Chase, left Vogue in 1932 to become fashion editor, then editor of Harper's Bazaar. This vibrant memoir recalls the glamour and all-consuming work of her passionately conducted career. Determined and opinionated,...

Changing Fashion

A Critical Introduction to Trend Analysis and Meaning

by Annette Lynch, Mitchell Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007

Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents for the first time a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change, bringing together theory from fashion studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and art history,...

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

by Wassily Kandinsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012

A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and...

Mass Culture and Everyday Life

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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

Mass Culture and Everyday Life is a collection of lively work from the small but seminal journal Tabloid. The book offers a clarification of the study of mass culture as it transforms daily life, providing a detailed survey of a wide range of the mass culture phenomena that have defined our everyday...

Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

by Molly Ivins
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010

Whether she's writing about redneck politics in her native Texas or the discreet charms of Bushwazee, Molly Ivins in never less than devastatingly honest—and hilarious. Our toughest, funniest, and savviest columnist delivers the goods on: -Texas politics: "Well, our attorney general...

Florence Broadhurst New Edition

by Helen O'Neil
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

This deluxe edition of Helen ONeills award-winning book is a must for lovers of design. With stunning full-page prints of Florence Broadhursts distinctive fabric and wallpaper designs, together with gorgeous photographs of interiors from around the world using her amazing patterns, this is a beautiful...