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|  | I'll Be Home for Christmas by Thomas Kincade
The luminous windows of Thomas Kinkade's cozy English cottages and gracious Victorian houses welcome you home with the brilliant lights of Christmas. Eighteen images, including some of Kinkade's best-loved holiday scenes, highlight stories, quotes, poems, and carols that evoke the spirit of Christmas. Glowing candles and colorful lights illuminating snowy forests and frozen ponds capture the wonderful nostalgia of going home for the holidays. AUTHOR: Thomas Kincade
PUBLISHER: Harvest House Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | The Beach Houses by Richard Webb, Roberto Schezen
Description not available.Filled with beautiful images capturing some of the most interesting and compelling beach houses in the world, this inspiring introduction to the architecture of ocean-front living features 120 original photographs. AUTHOR: Richard Webb, Roberto Schezen
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Grouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: by Ang Lee, David Bordwell, James Schamus, Richard Corliss
Description not available.Commentaries about the making of the film accompany the complete screenplay of the martial arts drama set in ancient China. AUTHOR: Ang Lee, David Bordwell, James Schamus, Richard Corliss
PUBLISHER: Newmarket Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Richard III by Barbara A. Mowat, David Bevington, David Scott Kastan, Folio Theatre Players, Glenda Jackson
In this final play of the tetralogy describing the War of the Roses and the restoration (despite Richard III's efforts) of the Tudor Dynasty, is there nothing Richard will not do to save his crown? Bloodthirsty, spiteful, ambitious, and deformed, but gifted with wit, charm, and acumen, Richard III is Shakespeare's first major character and his second most substantial, after Hamlet, in terms of sheer lines. Shakespeare drew on several portraits of Richard by Tudor historians, none of which was sympathetic to him. In portraying a charismatic villain-hero, Shakespeare was borrowing the technique Marlowe mastered in TAMBURLAINE, which was immensely popular in its day. RICHARD III was probably written in 1591, and published in 1597, appearing later in the more reliable First Folio, 1623. AUTHOR: Barbara A. Mowat, David Bevington, David Scott Kastan, Folio Theatre Players, Glenda Jackson
PUBLISHER: Arden Shakespeare
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Tintoretto by Tom Nichols
Tintoretto Tradition and Identity Tom Nichols This book offers a critical reevaluation of the most unorthodox Venetian painter of the sixteenth century. During his long career, Tintoretto increasingly abandoned the traditional values of Renaissance painting, as typified by the works of Titian and Michelangelo, to develop his own radical style. AUTHOR: Tom Nichols
PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books, Limited
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Nude Photography by Peter C. Richter
The dawn of the daguerrotype 150 years ago brought not only the birth of photography, but a renaissance in the study of nudes as well. Peter-Cornell Richter has assembled this breathtaking volume to tell the story of nudes in the photographic medium, a seductive and sensuous sampler from the world's most important photographers. Starting with the pioneer Daguerre, whose 1839 photograph of a nude sculpture set artistic precedent, this book spans the decades to early twentieth century greats such as Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray, and Brassai, to contemporary photographers such as Robert Mapplethorpe, David Levinthal, and Duane Michals. The volume is a tour through a photographic gallery which treats the viewer to aspects of female beauty from the perspective of the camera lens. Set against a rich historical background, Masterpieces of Nude Photography contrasts the art of taking pictures and its exciting technological innovations with the academic tradition of painting nudes. The appearance of a new means of capturing the nude -- the camera -- introduced an entirely new dimension to the fine arts. Where once the painted figure reigned, as in Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' The Turkish Bath or Pablo Picasso's groundbreaking Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, suddenly the photographed figure staked its claim. The volume highlights the once fervent competition between the two media of photography and painting, with refinements in technology allowing the newer art form to free itself from convention and to come into its own. Each magnificent photograph is accompanied by a short essay that explains its story and interprets the photographic subjects. Biographical entries summarize the informationbelonging to each work. AUTHOR: Peter C. Richter
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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