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|  | Rooms to Remember by Barbara Stoeltie, Rene Stoeltie
With delightfully spirited text and gorgeous photos, Rooms to Remember captures an original approach to decoration--inspired but not enslaved to the past. Color photos. AUTHOR: Barbara Stoeltie, Rene Stoeltie
PUBLISHER: Adams Media Corporation
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Lives of the Artists by George Bull, Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conway Bondanella, Nadia May, Peter Bondanella
Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects was first published in Florence in 1550. Vasari, a painter and architect, had traveled throughout Italy sketching the buildings and art works he encountered when he contemplated compiling a record of great Italian artists and their work. The Lives was revised and expanded in 1568, and remains perhaps the most reliable and complete source of biographical information on the Italian artists of the late 13th century to the Renaissance. AUTHOR: George Bull, Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conway Bondanella, Nadia May, Peter Bondanella
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Palaces of Rome by Roberto Schezen
Built by the greatest architects of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, decorated by the most important artists of Italy, Roman palaces are grand beyond description. This magnificent book showcases 24 such dwellings--from the Palazzo Farnese, designed by Michelangelo, to the Palazzo Quirinale, headquarters of the President of the Republic--all photographed by the renowned Roberto Schezen. 450 color illustrations. AUTHOR: Roberto Schezen
PUBLISHER: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Career Movies
Achieving the American Dream became inextricably linked with career/business success after World War II, as an increasingly consumerist America learned to define the dream through possessions and status. Not surprisingly, Hollywood films in the postwar years reflected the country's preoccupation with work and career success, offering both dramatic and comedic visions of the career quest and its effects on personal fulfillment, family relations, women's roles, and the creation (or destruction) of just and caring communities. In this book, Jack Boozer argues that the career/business film achieved such variety and prominence in the years between 1945 and 2001 that it should be considered a legitimate film genre. Analyzing numerous well-known films from the entire period, he defines the genre as one in which a protagonist strives for career success that often proves to be either elusive despite hard work, or unfulfilling despite material rewards and status. Boozer also explores several distinct subgenres of the career movie--the corporate executive films of the 1950s; the career struggles of (single, married, and/or parenting) women; the entrepreneurial film as it is also embodied in texts about immigrants and racial and ethnic minorities and business-oriented femmes fatales; the explosion of promotionalism and the corporatization of employment; and, finally, the blurring of work and private life in the brave new world of the televirtuality film.
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Michaelangelo by Diane Stanley
A biography of the turbulent artist, Michelangelo Buonarroti. The author examines Michelangelo's amazing talents as a painter, sculptor, and architect but also discuses how, frustrated by what he perceived as a lack appreciation for his artistry, he was often at odds with family, friends, and the patrons who commissioned his work. The watercolor, colored pencil, and gouache illustrations include computer-manipulated images of works created by Michelangelo himself. AUTHOR: Diane Stanley
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Watson-Guptill Sketchbook by Watson-Guptill Publications Staff
Now available in four colors and three sizes, these sketchbooks are ideal for artists on the go. Both serious artists and casual doodlers have found dozens of uses for these handsome sketchbooks, which are now offered in four colors and three sizes. Many choose the popular 8 1/4 x 11 format for working outdoors or toting to art class. Others like to toss the smaller 51/2 x 8 1/4 size or the new 4 x 6 size (hunter green only) into a purse or backpack so they are always ready to jot down visual ideas or sketch an interesting character. The archival-quality, vellum-finish paper is especially appealing to artists. It will not yellow with time, ensuring the preservation of their drawings, and its smooth surface readily accepts pencil, ballpoint, pen-and-ink, charcoal, marker, and other drawing mediums. Artists also appreciate the rounded and sewn bindings, which allow the books to lie flat while they work. The covers have a leather finish but are actually tough, waterproof Kivar. Trim size, number of pages, and other specifications are printed on a peel-off sticker. AUTHOR: Watson-Guptill Publications Staff
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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