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|  | The Complete Plays by Alan Simpson, Brendan Behan
Description not available.Includes Behan's complete dramatic works in English, three-full length plays and three one-act plays, with biographical details on Behan and the Irish Republican Movement AUTHOR: Alan Simpson, Brendan Behan
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Closer by Patrick Marber
Description not available.A drama focusing on a quartet of strangers who fall in love and become caught up in a web of sexual desire and betrayal. AUTHOR: Patrick Marber
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Illustrated Star Wars Universe by Kevin J. Anderson, Ralph McQuarrie
Lucasfilm concept artist Ralph McQuarrie, the first person to visualize locations and creatures for Star Wars filmmakers, and New York Times best-selling Star Wars author Kevin J. Anderson present a jouney to these eight Star Wars locations: Tatooine, Coruscant, Hoth, Degobah, Endor, Bespin, Yavin 4, and Alderaan. AUTHOR: Kevin J. Anderson, Ralph McQuarrie
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Baby's Room by Jennifer Levy, Jessica Strand
Description not available.An inspirational decorating guide for expectant parents offers easy-to-follow and inexpensive suggestions for every element of room layout, from furniture and fixtures to lighting, window treatments, themes, and baby-friendly storage systems. Original. AUTHOR: Jennifer Levy, Jessica Strand
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Ruthless Hedonism by John O'Brian
Oh, do tell the American people that I am a normal man; that I am a devoted husband and father, that I have three fine children, that I go to the theatre. These words were spoken by Henri Matisse just before the Armory Show in 1913 -- a pivotal moment, after which his work was seen in America as an example of what should be admired or deplored in modern art. In this ambitious study, John O`Brian argues that Matisse`s sober presentations of himself were calculated to fit with the social constraints and ideological demands of the times. Matisse`s strategy included cooperating with museums, cultivating private collectors, playing off dealers one against another, and reassuring the media that, whatever his reputation as an avant-gardist, the conduct of his life was solidly bourgeois. Moving from the late 1920s, when Matisse`s output was shedding its outlaw reputation, to the early 1950s, when his work was canonized, O`Brian shows how the way Matisse`s work was viewed changed as attention shifted away from the seductiveness of his subject matter to the seductiveness of his paint. The art`s resolute rejection of political concerns, its deployment of decorative design for visual satisfaction, and its representations of pleasure encouraged American audiences, who in the 1930s deemed the art disreputable, to celebrate its gratifications by the early years of the Cold War. This intriguing, wide-ranging investigation of Matisse`s self-promotion, America`s uneasy embrace of modernism, and America`s consumer culture and politics provides a rich context to Clement Greenberg`s words published in the Nation in 1947: Matisse`s cold hedonism and ruthless exclusion of everything but the concrete,immediate sensation will in the future, once we are away from the present Zeitgeist, be better understood as the most profound mood of the first half of the twentieth century. AUTHOR: John O'Brian
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Room for You
Description not available.Offers ways for girls to decide how they would like to decorate their bedrooms, and provides advice on decorating styles, cleaning, sharing a bedroom, and other common issues.
PUBLISHER: Pleasant Company Publications
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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