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Award-winning photographer Jonathan Singer has produced another remarkable artistic feat--"Tulipae Hortorum, " a collector's portfolio of ten magnificent prints of tulips. Now Singer focuses his lens on this popular garden plant in breathtaking, close-up portraits that reveal the delicate structure of the tulip at a level of detail unachievable with brush and paint. "Tulipae Hortorum" includes ten 24 x 30 in. prints on museum-quality paper hou...

The four decades between 1910 and 1950 were the golden age of the American movie poster, an era when wonderful films wer promoted through the talents of legendary illustrators like Thomas Hart Benton, Norman Rockwell, Howard Chandler Christy and Jmes Montgomery Flagg, as well as a small army of unknowns. It was a time when big studios lavished fortunes on poster campaigns - from modest one-sheets posted on neighbourhood fences to the gargantua...

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Every beautiful photograph in this informative volume will make readers itch to experiment with simple color washes for walls, new uses for handwoven fabrics, and innovations in applying tiles in the home. The author imaginatively interprets global decoration on a domestic scale, devoting the second part of the book to practical ways to introduce ethnic style into a personal decor.

Featuring artists and professionals who worked outside America's three main cities - Boston, Philadelphia and New York - by 1920, this work chronicles the development of painting in cities and towns. It examines such issues as the evolution of art education, patronage and exhibition.

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A lavishly illustrated biography and critical study of one of the masters of French Impressionism. This fascinating volume sheds new light on an immensely talented, intensely private artist. Magnificently reproduced paintings, pastels, drawings, and sculptures confirm Degas's stature as a brilliant and incisive interpreter of humanity. 294 illustrations, 194 in full color.

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Georges Braque is one of the best-known and least-understood artists of our century. Though he has long been acknowledged as an essential figure in the evolution of contemporary art, it has been less clear whether he should be defined as a radical innovator or elegant stylist, as a serene classicist or temperamental individualist, as Picasso's sidekick or the grand old man of French painting. From his friends' affectionate recollections, Braqu...

Art, like politics, makes for strange bedfellows indeed, and the development of an avant-garde in the U.S. depended as much on socializing as on aesthetics. This lively social history recounts the adventures and amours of America's first practitioners of the modern arts. Diagrams of the convoluted relationships, a chronology, a cast of characters, and much more shed additional light on an immensely appealing period. 220 illustrations, 20 in co...

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The sun-splashed countries of the Mediterranean are shown here as never before. Photographer Jeffrey Becom focuses on how people live and celebrate living in the exquisite details of their humble dwellings in six Mediterranean countries. Becom's dazzling images complement his graceful narrative guide.

In this splendid sequel to The Great Book of French Impressionism, Diane Kelder chronicles the brilliant innovations of the artist who challenged and extended the triumphs of Impressionism. 413 illustrations, 236 in full color.

Magowan blends his intriguing account of the turbulent history and unique architecture of the fabled cities of Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva--Mysterious oasis paradises deep in the deserts of Soviet Central Asia. 160 full-color illustrations.

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