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|  | Ideas for Great Kitchens by Sunset Editors
Efficiency is a key ingredient in any well-planned kitchen. This book will show you how to create a kitchen that is both stylish and functional, whether it's an inviting kitchen in which to entertain or a more professional place to prepare elegant meals. AUTHOR: Sunset Editors
PUBLISHER: Sunset Books/Sunset Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Tuscany by Angelo Guillaume, Angelo Lomeo, Sonja Bullaty
A book of 150 photographs, arranged thematically, portraying the Tuscan landscape, by the photographers of Provence . It features the castles, vineyards, and cypress trees, as well as art and architecture, people, and views of Florence, Siena, and Pisa. Text by Marie-Ange Guillaume discusses the influence the region has had on scores of notable artists, writers, and other creative people, including Michelangelo, Leonardo, Dante, Shelley, the Brownings, and Henry James. AUTHOR: Angelo Guillaume, Angelo Lomeo, Sonja Bullaty
PUBLISHER: Abbeville Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Odyssey by A. F. Garvie, A. T. Murray, Adrian Mitchell, Albert Cook, Allen Mandelbaum
Perhaps the most celebrated of all Western narratives, the Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's roundabout voyage home to Ithaca where his beloved Penelope awaits. In stories along the way, he famously encounters Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and many, many others. This translation renders the classic more economically than others. AUTHOR: A. F. Garvie, A. T. Murray, Adrian Mitchell, Albert Cook, Allen Mandelbaum
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Painting the Impressionist Landscape by Lois Griffel
Impressionism - its techniques as well as its practitioners, past and present - continues to excite the passion of artists and art enthusiasts alike. From the plein-air landscapes first painted near the forests of Barbizon outside Paris, through the fields of Givemy that Monet immortalized, to the art of American expatriates such as John Singer Sargent and the European-trained American nativists like William Merritt Chase, the influence of impressionism on American art has had a long and distinguished history. Through artistic principles developed by Charles Hawthorne, an influential American impressionist and educator who studied with Chase and founded The Cape Cod School of Art, the rich legacy of the impressionist tradition was passed on to several generations of twentieth-century American artists. In Painting the Impressionist Landscape, Lois Griffel, the current director of The Cape Cod School of Art and an accomplished artist in her own right, explores and illustrates Hawthorne's philosophy and theories about color and light, enabling artists at every level of ability and experience to apply his insights to their own work. The first part of the book, Fundamentals of Color and Light , elaborates on the circumstances and individuals that contributed to the development of impressionism. The author then outlines the progression of the study of color and light that is covered in detail later in the book, from simple block studies - the most effective way to learn to use pure color to express the effects and quality of light - through the more complex rounded forms in still lifes and portraits, to the most challenging forms intrinsic to landscape. Griffel then discusses the essentialsof color - its terms, the impressionist palette, and color mixing - as well as how established color theory expresses and influences the impressionist approach. The second part of the book, Impressionism in Practice , takes readers through a series of explorations that guides them tow AUTHOR: Lois Griffel
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Designer's Guide to Color 4 by Ikuyoshi Shibukawa, Yumi Takahashi
A veritable dictionary of color , this compact guide provides an abundance of color schemes for tones in the same group as well as for those in different groups that go well together. Full-color illustrations. AUTHOR: Ikuyoshi Shibukawa, Yumi Takahashi
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | An American Daughter by David Birney, Denise Nichols, Kevin McCarthy, Mary McDonnell, Wendy Wasserstein
Lyssa Dent Hughes is a privileged, well-educated daughter of a republican senator and fifth-generation granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, the wife of a professor, the owner of a pleasant Georgetown home. She is also the president's nominee for surgeon general. Then members of the media discover a mistake from her past: not to have responded to a call for jury duty. A relatively minor misstep--were it not for a good friend who uses the incident to make a point, scarcely thinking of the consequences. From that moment on, Lyssa Dent Hughes sits helplessly by while the press investigates her family and friends, shattering her privacy, her career, and her world. AUTHOR: David Birney, Denise Nichols, Kevin McCarthy, Mary McDonnell, Wendy Wasserstein
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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