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|  | Brand by Henrik Ibsen, Robert D. MacDonald
Brand was Ibsen`s first masterpiece, a poetic drama composed in 1865 and published to tremendous critical and popular acclaim. The unsparing vision of a priest driven by faith to risk and witness the deaths of his wife and child gives Brand its icy ferocity. When he was writing it in Italy, Ibsen declared: `It is blessedly peaceful out here; no one I know; I read nothing but the Bible ...` Geoffrey Hill provides a new Preface to this third and revised edition of his great stage version of Brand. AUTHOR: Henrik Ibsen, Robert D. MacDonald
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | A Pound of Flesh by Art Linson
Have you ever wondered what a Hollywood movie producer actually does? In A Pound of Flesh, producer Art Linson takes us behind closed doors on a rare backstage tour through Hollywood. With amusing stories that recount his challenging experiences with a legion of players whose roster includes David Mamet, Robert De Niro, Jeff Katzenberg, Brian De Palma, Sean Penn, Ned Tanen, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, and Sean Connery, Unson sheds klieg lights on the mystery behind the moviemaking process. From acquiring scripts to hiring a writer, packaging the talent, and facing the horror of opening night, you'll glimpse the sweat on the brows of some of Tinseltown's hottest players as they sidestep minefields at the box office, grin through embarrassing defeats, and occasionally bow to the magic of success. A Pound of Flesh is the first guide by a true insider to exactly how movies get made in Hollywood. Linson maps the entire course, beginning with that initial spark of an idea that propels the producer into action, through unpredictable and often chaotic meetings with writers, agents, and movie executives, and even on to the fearsome task of confronting preview audiences and the critics. He chronicles his own disasters and successes, charting the bloody process by which a film is finally, and at times painfully, realized on the screen. We are brought into executive suites, made privy to cellular phone conversations, and escorted onto the sets of multimillion-dollar productions to see what it takes to get a movie made, as well as to learn why other projects, despite the vast effort and money behind them, can ultimately end up gathering dust on some studio's forgotten shelf, or in pieces on the cuttingroom floor. A Pound of Flesh is an engaging, informative, and oftentimes hilarious account of one man's odyssey to compete in America's cruelest, most glamorous industry. This is a book for film students, movie lovers, and anyone interested in the backstage drama of Hollywood. AUTHOR: Art Linson
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Dolly Wests Kitchen by Frank McGuinness
As this drama unfolds in World War II-era Ireland, the characters find themselves at a loss to cope with their changing world. AUTHOR: Frank McGuinness
PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Demons and Angels by June Rose
'I feel that I can do the best, most profound things and life is short. How I wish I was living in an age when man wanted to raise temples to man or God or the Devil.' Jacob Epstein was thirty when he wrote these impassioned words. Now recognized as a seminal figure in the history of twentieth-century art, his powerful and often explicit sculptures, monumental in scale, were hailed as the work of a genius by a few contemporary figures such as Ezra Pound and Augustus John, but produced hostility and censoriousness from the art establishment. His is a true rags-to-riches story. Epstein was born in 1880 in the Jewish Ghetto of New York but emigrated to Europe to live a bohemian life, with a wife and several mistresses in a domestic menage. By the time of his death in 1959 he had met almost everybody of importance in the art world and many in political and other spheres. He endured public scandals caused by the nudity of his so-called Strand Statues (1907-1908; destroyed 1937) and the debauched-looking angel on his 1912 memorial for Oscar Wilde, but in 1946 he modeled the portrait of Sir Winston Churchill and was himself knighted in 1954. It is a comment on changing tastes that Epstein?s magnificent carving in alabaster, ?Jacob and the Angel,? once refused by the Tate Gallery, now stands in the Central Sculpture Hall of Tate Britain. His sculpture, drawing, and other work are to be found in museums and art galleries all over the world. Daemons and Angels, the first biography in fifty years of this controversial sculptor, features black-and-white photographs throughout. AUTHOR: June Rose
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Little Women by Ann Douglas, Anna Quindlen, Beth Moulton, D. H. Howe, Devra Newberger Speregen
Description not available.Jo, Beth, Meg, Amy and their mother endure the hardships of poverty while the girls' father is away fighting in the Civil War AUTHOR: Ann Douglas, Anna Quindlen, Beth Moulton, D. H. Howe, Devra Newberger Speregen
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Marc Chagall by Mike Venezia
His childhood in Jewish Russian. The influence of such masters as Matisse and Picasso. The death of his wife. Marc Chagall drew from it all to create magical and mysterious art. This book, with engaging and clever illustrations, warmly traces the artist's life and work. AUTHOR: Mike Venezia
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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