Michael Taylor: Seven Colours Hill Above Andean Village of Quebrada De Humahuaca, Purmamarca, Argentina

The life and work of the groundbreaking interior designer and inventor of the "California Look." One of the most innovative, imitated, and internationally respected design icons of the twentieth century, Michael Taylor brought with him a new vision that changed California's, and the profession's, approach to interiors. More than fifty ...more

Prior to the 1960s, Andrew Wyeth enjoyed a stellar reputation as a rising star in the art world. Since then, critics and scholars have largely ignored him. Wyeth, however, who is age 88 at the date of publication, has continued to paint, to the delight of his admirers, collectors, and ...more

Now available in paperback, this lavishly illustrated and astonishingly comprehensive volume stands as the definitive study of the influential but deliberately elusive international Dada movement of the early twentieth century. Organized according to the primary city centers where this shifting, quintessentially avant garde movement emerged, Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, ...more

THE ART OF MICHAEL PARKES First Edition 2006 New Release Complete Book of Michael Parkes Art Work. Paper/Substrate: Silk Colors: 4 Size in inches: Size in cm: 11 x 12 28 x 30 ...more

Throughout 2006, all the world will celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest portrait painters that ever lived, the Dutch seventeenth-century master Rembrandt. (The exhibition Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt’s Prints and Drawings alone, which opens in November at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, ...more

A pioneer in the field, Christian Metz applies insights of structural linguistics to the language of film. "The semiology of film . . . can be held to date from the publication in 1964 of the famous essay by Christian Metz, 'Le cinéma: langue ou langage?'"—Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Times Literary Supplement ...more

For centuries handcrafted tile has been a predominant decorative surface in tropical climes from Middle East through the Gulf of Mexico to California. California tile makers excelled in their craft during the first half of the twentieth century, producing richly patterned designs for building facades, interiors, garden ornamentation, furniture, and ...more

In its ten years of its existence, Adams Kara Taylor has become one of the most innovative engineering firms working today. Through frequent collaborations with leading architects like Zaha Hadid, Foreign Office Architects, Norman Foster, and Will Alsop, the members of AKT have become the engineers of choice for ground-breaking ...more

In PAPER TANGOS, classically trained dancer and anthropologist Julie Taylor examines the poetics of the tango, while recounting a life lived crossing the borders of two distinct and complex cultures. Drawing parallels among the violence of the Argentine Junta, tango dancing, and her own life, Taylor weaves the line between ...more

This is the first biography of the last surviving member of Hollywood's illustrious Rat Pack, Joey Bishop. ...more