Somewhere in the Night by Nicholas Christopher @ Art & Architecture book

Somewhere in the Night by Nicholas Christopher
An analysis of the atmosphere and visual style of the film noir movies produced in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

AUTHOR: Nicholas Christopher
PUBLISHER: Holt, Henry & Company, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Make Your Own Patterns by Rene Bergh
It's the book every sewer must have. You'll never have to buy a pattern again. See the easy way professionals take accurate body measurements to make patterns for shirts, dresses, jackets, and trousers. Try the tricks for collars, sleeves, and necklines. Glorious style photos will inspire you, and quarter-scale patterns for every item will help you succeed. No home sewer can afford to be without it.

AUTHOR: Rene Bergh
PUBLISHER: New Holland Publishers, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

On a Grander Scale by Lisa Jardine
A biography of Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), the great architect of 17th-century England, whose buildings include St Paul`s, the Royal Exchange, and Greenwich Observatory.

AUTHOR: Lisa Jardine
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Loving Picasso by Christine D. Baker, Fernande Olivier, Michael Raeburn
Fernande Olivier, who lived with Picasso for nine years, wrote this candid account of their life together as well as of her bohemian existence before she met the painter. The memoir, which is unsparing about Picasso's faults, reputedly infuriated him when it was first published in the early '30s. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

AUTHOR: Christine D. Baker, Fernande Olivier, Michael Raeburn
PUBLISHER: Abrams, Harry N. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

The Faustian Bargain by Jonathan Petropoulos
Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the subject of two history bestsetters, Hector Feliciano`s The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas`s The Rape of Europa. But such books leave us wondering: What made thoughtful, educated, artistic men and women decide to put their talents in the service of a brutal and inhuman regime? This question is the starting point for The Faustian Bargain, Jonathan Petropoulos`s study of five key figure in the art world of Nazi Germany. Petropoulos follows the careers of these prominent individuals who like Faust, that German archetype, chose to pursue artistic ends through collaboration with diabolical forces. Readers meet Ernst Buchner, the distinguished museum director and expert on Old Master paintings who repatriated Van Eyck`s Ghent altarpiece to Germany, and Karl Haberstock, an art dealer who fitted German museums with works bought virtually at gunpoint from Jewish collectors. Robert Scholz, an art critic in the Third Reich, became an officer in the chief art looting unit in France and Kajetan Muhlmann -- a leading art historian -- headed tooting agencies in Poland and the Netherlands. Finally, there is Arno Breker, a gifted artist who exchanged his modernist style for monumental realism and became Hitler`s favorite sculptor. If it is striking that these educated men became part of the Nazi machine, it equally is striking that most of them lived comfortably after the war. Based on previously unreleased information and recently declassified documents, The Faustian Bargain is a gripping read about the art world during this period, and a fascinating examination of the intense relationship betweenculture and poetics in the Third Reich.

AUTHOR: Jonathan Petropoulos
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Writing for Design by Stephen Kliment
Although written and oral communication are crucial components in the business of design professionals, few design schools offer courses geared towards the acquisition of these specific skills. This valuable manual offers advice and tips on successfully producing marketing and promotion materials, oral presentations, and effectively communicating with clients,

AUTHOR: Stephen Kliment
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture