Monet by Random House Value Publishing Staff @ Art & Architecture book

Monet by Random House Value Publishing Staff
Here is an exclusive and brand-new jacketed, hardcover art series with a format that means value! The world`s most famous artists are highlighted in these concise and vibrantly colorful volumes. Each book in the series contains 80 pages of full-color reproductions along with authoritative text about the featured artist. A perfect souvenir for museum visits and a special gift for all art lovers.

AUTHOR: Random House Value Publishing Staff
PUBLISHER: Random House Value Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

The Evolution of Allure
The beauty of the human body has found a daring beholder in art historian George Hersey, who for the first time brings modern Darwinian theories of sexual selection into the history of art. Hersey shows how Western art has channeled mate choice, exploiting the cosmetics, clothes, muscles, organs, and ornaments that showcase the body. 146 illustrations.
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza by Nancy Heller
Description not available.A lighthearted guide explains how to refine analytical tools to understand and enjoy modern, traditional, and children's art, posing metaphorical examples to explain how art can depend on an individual's taste and how to see elusive aspects. Simultaneous. (Fine Arts)

AUTHOR: Nancy Heller
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Faust by C. F. MacIntyre, Cyrus Hamlin, David Luke, Howard Brenton, J. Prudhoe
Goethes masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust, Part 1, the tremendous versatility of Goethes genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethes characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchens tragic fate.This newly revised edition, which offers Peter Salms wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us Faust in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethe's words.

AUTHOR: C. F. MacIntyre, Cyrus Hamlin, David Luke, Howard Brenton, J. Prudhoe
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Caribbean Art by Veerle Poupeye
A strong link exists between Caribbean art and its popular culture and religion--such as Voodoo, Santaria, and Rastifarianism, as well as the influence of Trinidad carnival and similar traditions. This wonderfully illustrated survey covers a wide range of artists providing a compelling look at a great body of original and imaginative art. 200 illustrations. 35 in color.

AUTHOR: Veerle Poupeye
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Active Radio by Jeff Land
In a searing critique of the War on Drugs and other attempts to eradicate getting high, Lenson ventures outside the conventional genres of drug writing and looks at the drug debate from a lost, and often forbidden, point of view: the user`s. Walking a fine line between the antidrug hysteria prevalent in our culture and an uncritical advocacy of drug use, he describes in provocative detail the experiences and dynamics of drugs of pleasure and desire.

AUTHOR: Jeff Land
PUBLISHER: University of Minnesota Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture