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The Simpsons
An Uncensored, Unauthorized History
Faber and Faber, Inc.
The Simpsons is one of the most successful shows to ever run on television. From its first moment on air, the series's rich characters, subversive themes, and...
One Million Mandalas
For You to Create, Print, and Color
St. Martin's Griffin
Mandalas are one of the most popular aids to meditation, with people worldwide finding enlightenment through the simple task of bringing a sparse outline to...
Loot
The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
Times Books
“Fast-paced and compelling . . . Waxman has an array of wondrous tales to tell . . . Considerable, admirable, and totally absorbing.”—The Boston Globe
For the...
How Fiction Works
Picador
In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic...
Design Your Life
The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things
St. Martin's Griffin
Design Your Life is a series of irreverent and realistic snapshots about objects and how we interact with them. By leading design thinker Ellen Lupton and her...
The Photographer
Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
First Second
In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter’s arduous and dangerous...
The Great Funk
Styles of the Shaggy, Sexy, Shameless 1970s
Sarah Crichton Books
Avocado kitchens! Shag rugs! Dacron leisure suits! Earth shoes!
At long last, the author of the beloved celebration of 1950s and ’60s design Populuxe turns...
Lives of the Artists
A John Macrae Book
Whether writing about Jasper Johns or Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman or Richard Serra, Calvin Tomkins shows why it is both easier and more difficult to make art...
The Painted Word
Picador
"America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post)
Wolfe's style has never been...
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The Animator's Survival Kit
A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators
Faber and Faber, Inc.
The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Animation is one of the hottest areas of...
On Photography
Picador
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.
One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977...
Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
North Point Press
A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design.
There is a growing movement...
What People Wore When
A Complete Illustrated History of Costume from Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society
St. Martin's Griffin
What People Wore When combines the studies of two classic nineteenth-century illustrators Auguste Racinet and Friedrich Hottenroth for the first time. Their...
Men's Style
The Thinking Man's Guide to Dress
Thomas Dunne Books
Guys don’t wear wolf pelts anymore, but not much else has changed in the world of men’s clothes: the right suit, or tie, or shirt, or shoes still projects...
Camera Lucida
Reflections on Photography
Hill and Wang
This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and...
A Giacometti Portrait
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
When we look at a painting hanging on an art gallery wall, we see only what the artist has chosen to disclose--the finished work of art. What remains...
Reading American Photographs
Images As History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans
Hill and Wang
Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize
In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting them not as...
Jackie
Her Life in Pictures
St. Martin's Griffin
A legendary life shown in rare, mostly never before published photographsArguably the most famous woman of the century, certainly one of its most photographed,...
The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture
Holt Paperbacks
Architectural historian Rachel Carley offers a richly detailed guide to 500 years of American home design. More than 600 precisely detailed illustrations show...
Subway Art
Holt Paperbacks
Two gifted photographers have documented every aspect of this extraordinary urban subculture, complete with 239 full-color photographs.
Off the Wall
A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg
Picador
Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazing at...
Betty Page Confidential
St. Martin's Griffin
Curvaceous, friendly and wholesome-looking, Playboy pinup Betty Page was the perfect compliment to the still-innocent fantasies of young men during the...
New York Sketchbook
St. Martin's Press
Venice is seen through the eyes of artist Fabrice Moireau, with sketches in watercolor and pencil. This resident of the world's most romantic city is the...
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