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A new perspective on woman's role in the world of art jewelry at the turn of the twentieth century-from Art Nouveau in France and the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, to Jugendstil in Germany and Austria, Louis Comfort Tiffany in New York, and American Arts and Crafts in Chicago-and the most extensive survey to date of the sheer diversity and beauty of art jewelry during this period. Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition at The Richard ...

The South Fork of Long Island extends only forty miles, stretching east into the Atlantic Ocean from the Shinnecock Canal to the majestic bluffs at Montauk Point. Dotting the coastline are the stylish Hamptons—Southampton, East Hampton, Westhampton Beach, and Bridgehampton—and villages of Sag Harbor, Amagansett, Watermill, and Sagaponack. The landscape in which these towns sit is unique in the United States. It is not one landscape but a colle...

A vibrant account of Ballroom Marfa's ground-breaking first two decades of art and musicSince its founding in the storied but remote West Texas town of Marfa in 2003, Ballroom Marfa has punched above its weight. From one of its debut shows including renowned artist Takashi Murakami, to Elmgreen & Dragset's now-iconic Prada Marfa installation, to live performances by Sonic Youth and shock-master John Waters, and large-scale commissions from Agn...

In the Early Nineteenth Century, the unknown and uncharted American West lured travelers and explorers from around the world. Today the fascination with this dramatic odyssey remains. The records of the expeditions by such legendary trailblazers as Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, John Fremont, John Powell, and Jedediah Strong Smith - exist only in their notebooks, journals, and diaries. Westward re-creates these treacherous and inspiring journe...

Cinematic in scale, Harvey Lloyd's aerial photographs beautifully capture the magnificent sacred lands of the Southwest - the desert, the uplands, and the plateau areas of the Southwest region of the United States. This phenomenal landscape, a natural and miraculous recording of millennia, remains unique in the world in its ever-changing yet eternal vistas. Principal photography takes place above the spectacular region of the Colorado Plateau,...

The Dumbarton Oaks Research and Study Center in Washington, D.C., administered by Harvard University, is a famed museum and study center specializing in pre-Columbian art, Byzantine studies, and garden history and design. Long known for its museum pavilion, designed by the noted architect Philip Johnson, Dumbarton Oaks sits within one of the most spectacular gardens in America. The founders of Dumbarton Oaks, Mildred and Robert W. Bliss, were ...

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Thirteen exquisite houses create a portrait of life in one of America's most exclusive coastal destinations, along the beaches of Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod. Hutker Architects, led by founding principal Mark A. Hutker, has designed more than three hundred houses along the New England shore. A member of the close community on Martha's Vineyard since his arrival in 1985, Hutker has become an expert at interpreting the ideal lifestyles of his...

A revered teacher and the most influential feminist artist of our time, Judy Chicago provides an autobiographical look at higher education in art, a must-read for aspiring artists and educators in studio art programs.How should womenand menbe prepared for a career in today's art world? For more than a decade, Judy Chicago has been formulating a critique of studio art education, in colleges or art schools, based upon observation, study, and, mo...

The official publication celebrating Judy Chicago's feminist art masterpiece, The Dinner Partyinstallation at the Brooklyn Museum, and an introduction to outstanding women in history.Judy Chicago'sThe Dinner Partyis a defining work of feminist and contemporary art that brought women's history to light on the national stage when it was completed in 1979. Published to coincide with Chicago's 75th birthday and a nationwide series of events and ex...

The Photographer's Black & White Handbook is your complete guide to making and processing stunning black and white photos in the digital era. You'll find inspiration, ideas, techniques, and tools to use in your black and white photography, along with a soup-to-nuts workflow to take you from black and white pre-visualization through capture and post-production. Along the way you will lean over Harold's shoulder as he travels to exciting photo d...

Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New Yorkhas attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, populatio...

Photographer and teacher Brenda Tharp marries photography craft with artistic vision to help intermediate photographers translate what they see into a personal impression of a subject in nature.Using single images, along with before-and-after and with-or-without examples, Expressive Nature Photographyteaches how to make exposures that are creative, not necessarily correct. Inspiring photographers to get out early and stay out late, this book e...

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Blurred Zones: Investigations of the Interstitial presents seventeen design projects, both built and unbuilt, and twelve essays that attempt to illuminate and illustrate the conceptual activity of blurring.

Charlotte Perriand: A Life of Creation--published in France in 1998--is the autobiography of the acclaimed French designer, who died in 1999. Perriand recounts her time in the atelier of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret (where she developed the sculptural chaise longue and the grand confort chair), her experiences in Russia, the Far East, and South America, and the projects she worked on after leaving Le Corbusier's atelier in 1937. Her fasci...

Not only a showcase for caricaturist Robert Risko's work, "The Risko Book" is a fascinating portrait of the newsmakers, both famous and infamous, of the last two decades of the 20th century. Includes portraits of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Queen Elizabeth, Stephen King, Madonna, and Sean Connery. 150 color illustrations.

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