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|  | The Royal Palaces of India by Antonio Martinelli, George Michell
As early as the fourteenth century, stories glorifying the exotic palaces of Indian rulers began to circulate in the West, stories which closer acquaintance only confirmed. Even today, they are magical places -- small towns rather than single buildings, in which the Hindu and Muslim rulers of the subcontinent dispensed their laws and enjoyed their wealth. The beauty and atmosphere of these palaces are displayed here in Antonio Martinelli's exceptional color photographs. George Michell, a recognized authority on Indian architecture and art, tells the story of the palaces. He evokes life within the complexes and describes their many elements: defenses, spacious audience halls and courtyards, temples and mosques, private apartments and service quarters. These fascinating edifices are receiving increasing numbers of visitors each year, yet there has been no in-depth survey of them since 1925. Here is a superb record of the palaces, living witnesses to a regal aspiration to recreate heaven on earth. AUTHOR: Antonio Martinelli, George Michell
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Homicide by David P. Kalat
A companion to the popular, award-winning police drama. AUTHOR: David P. Kalat
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Modeling the Figure in Clay by Bruno Lucchesi, Margit Malmstrom
Text and photos by Margit Malmstrom. Deserves to become a standard reference . -- American Artist. This longtime bestseller shows how a famous sculptor creates a complete figure in clay. Covers the skeleton, male and female anatomical figures, and skin and hair, with close-up details. AUTHOR: Bruno Lucchesi, Margit Malmstrom
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Collage Techniques by Gerald F. Brommer
One of many exhilarating artistic developments that took place during the early twentieth century, the fine art medium of collage emerged from the cubist gluing and pasting explorations of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. As a result of its experimental genesis, collage has continued to serve not only as a primary form of expression for many prominent artists, but as a principal means of evaluating and developing new creative strategies. Conceived and written by renowned artist, author, and teacher Gerald Brommer, Collage Techniques first presents the medium within the context of a wide variety of materials, including washi (oriental and rice papers) and watermedia; stained, prepared, and found papers; photographs; and fabrics and fibers. Each category of material is examined through a step-by-step demonstration and works by artists who approach collage in original and refreshing ways. The latest trends in technologically enhanced collage, including such high-tech applications as multiple photocopying and digital scanning, are also discussed. The author then explores how the elements and principles of design are used in collage, and how they in turn are employed in all the major genre, including still life, landscape, the human figure, abstraction, and nonobjective imagery. Beautifully illustrated with the work of more than eighty noted artists, including Edward Betts, Jae Carmichael, Margo Hoff, Katherine Chang Liu, and Fred Otnes, Collage Techniques is an essential reference for all artists and illustrators, regardless of their creative focus or choice of medium. AUTHOR: Gerald F. Brommer
PUBLISHER: Allworth Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934 by Eve Blau
In 1919 the Social Democrat city council of Vienna initiated a radical program of reforms designed to reshape the city`s infrastructure along socialist lines. The centerpiece and most enduring achievement of Red Vienna was the construction of the Wiener Gemeindebauten, 400 communal housing blocks, distributed throughout the city, in which workers` dwellings were incorporated with kindergartens, libraries, medical clinics, theaters, cooperative stores, and other public facilities. The 64,000 units housed one tenth of the city`s population. Throughout this socialist building campaign, however, Austria was ruled by a conservative, clerical, and antisocialist political majority. Thus the architecture of Red Vienna took shape in the midst of highly charged, and often violent, political conflict between left and right. In this book, Eve Blau looks at how that ideological conflict shaped the buildings of Red Vienna--in terms of their program, spatial conception, language, and use--as well as how political meaning itself is manifested in architecture. She shows how the architecture of Red Vienna constructed meaning in relation to the ideological conflicts that defined Austrian politics in the interwar period--how it was shaped by the conditions of its making, and how it engaged its own codes, practices, and history to stake out a political position in relation to those conditions. Her investigation sheds light both on the complex relationship among political program, architectural practice, and urban history in interwar Vienna, and on the process by which architecture can generate a collective discourse that includes all members of society. Published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program. AUTHOR: Eve Blau
PUBLISHER: MIT Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Homing Instinct by John Connell
Description not available.Demystifies the process of home planning, design, and construction and explains each stage in the creation of a house, including framing, roofing, window installation, and electricity AUTHOR: John Connell
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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