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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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 | The Anaesthetics of Architecture by Neil Leach
In this short, intentionally polemical book, Neil Leach draws on the ideas of philosophers and cultural theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard to develop a novel and highly incisive critique of the consequences of the growing preoccupation with images and image-making in contemporary architectural culture. AUTHOR: Neil Leach
PUBLISHER: MIT Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Howard Hawks by Todd McCarthy
As a director, Howard Hawks is known as the maker of the first great gangster film ( Scarface ), aviation classics, some of the best screwball comedies ( Bringing Up Baby , Twentieth Century , and His Girl Friday ), two sizzling Bogart-Bacall melodramas ( To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep ), a dazzling musical ( Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ), and several towering Westerns. He is also known as the filmmaking partner of Howard Hughes, the drinking buddy of William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Chandler, and the co-founder of Hollywood's first elite motorcycle gang. Todd McCarthy penetrates the persona that Hawks so carefully constructed for himself and reveals one of the most complex and enigmatic figures of Hollywood's Golden Age. AUTHOR: Todd McCarthy
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Phantom Empire by Geoffrey O'Brien
Geoffrey O'Brien blurs the distiction between commentator and spectator as he analyzes--and at the same time exemplifies--the saturating effect of 100 of moving pictures on human culture and consciousness. AUTHOR: Geoffrey O'Brien
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Painted House by Graham Rust
Stunning trompe l'oeil paintings grace the walls of dozens of stylish homes in Europe and America. This fascinating style book showcases the best of Rust's work--from dramatic entryway scenes to elaborate murals for the bedroom. Includes projects for every home, from small chimney boards to folding screens to full-room scenic paintings. 260 color illustrations. AUTHOR: Graham Rust
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | How the Irish Saved Civilization by Donal Donnelly, Thomas Cahill
The author`s graceful mastery of both prose and history combine to express both the voice and content of Irish culture. Cahill traces Ireland`s pivotal role in the preservation and transmission of the intellectual legacy of the West, from the fall of Rome under the barbarian invasions that brought the Dark Ages to the rise of Medieval Europe which heralded its re-ascendance. In constructing the narrative that explains how Ireland became the isle of saints and scholars , the author manages to capture the majestic scope of his subject in the plaintive and yet rollicking rhythms which evoke both the liveliness of Irish culture and its contribution to the era which was to give rise to the Renaissance. AUTHOR: Donal Donnelly, Thomas Cahill
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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