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|  | Art of Getting Over by Stephen Powers
This book traces the history of graffiti from early artists in the late 1960s to graffiti art's omnipresence in American pop culture some 30 years later. Includes artist interviews and color illustrations. AUTHOR: Stephen Powers
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | The Simple Art of Ribbon Design by Deborrah Hery
Learn how to create rose, pansy, poppy, peony, daisy, and leaf patterns, plus ribbon tassels, cords, and fringes as adornments for vests, hats, wreaths, pillows, and other items. 200 color illustrations. AUTHOR: Deborrah Hery
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | What Makes a Degas a Degas? by Richard Muhlberger
Description not available.Explores artistic style, composition, color, and subject matter as they relate to twelve works by Degas. AUTHOR: Richard Muhlberger
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Circus Age
A century ago, daily life ground to a halt when the circus rolled into town. Across America, banks closed, schools canceled classes, farmers left their fields, and factories shut down so that everyone could go to the show. In this entertaining and provocative book, Janet Davis links the flowering of the early-twentieth-century American railroad circus to such broader historical developments as the rise of big business, the breakdown of separate spheres for men and women, and the genesis of the United States' overseas empire. In the process, she casts the circus as a powerful force in consolidating the nation's identity as a modern industrial society and world power. Davis explores the multiple shows that took place under the big top, from scripted performances to exhibitions of laborers assembling and tearing down tents to impromptu spectacles of audiences brawling, acrobats falling, and animals rampaging. Turning Victorian notions of gender, race, and nationhood topsy-turvy, the circus brought its vision of a rapidly changing world to spectators--rural as well as urban--across the nation. Even today, Davis contends, the influence of the circus continues to resonate in popular representations of gender, race, and the wider world.
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Redesigning the American Dream by Dolores Hayden
Americans still build millions of dream houses in neighborhoods that sustain Victorian stereotypes of the home as woman's place and the city as man's world. Urban historian and architect Dolores Hayden tallies the personal and social costs of an American architecture of gender for the two-earner family, the single-parent family, and single people. Many societies have struggled with the architectural and urban consequences of women's paid employment: Hayden traces three models of home in historical perspective--the haven strategy in the United States, the industrial strategy in the former USSR, and the neighborhood strategy in European social democracies--to document alternative ways to reconstruct neighborhoods. Updated and still utterly relevant today as the New Urbanist architects have taken up Hayden's critique of suburban space, this award-winning book is essential reading for architects, planners, public officials, and activists interested in women's social and economic equality. AUTHOR: Dolores Hayden
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Artists Books by Stefan W. Klima
Stefan Klima`s text is an invaluable resource for anyone wishing explore the development of critic debates on artists` books. Beginning with documentation from the 1960s Klima carefully charts the discussion of several central issues: the identity of artists` books, their ? origins, and their current status...His bibliography is a thoroughly useful guide to the critical and historical texts. It has the advantage of being well focused on the topic and then serves as an essential point of departure for any student, librarian, critic, or collect interested in pursuing the literature on artists`books . AUTHOR: Stefan W. Klima
PUBLISHER: Granary Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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