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|  | Creative Wedding Decorations You Can Make by Teresa Nelson
Here, readers will find more than 80 fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions for crafting elegant bouquets, veils, headpieces, floral arrangements and keepsakes. -- Multiple arrangements of silk floral bouquets for the bride and attendants -- Veils and headpieces in 15+ styles, featuring headbands, hats, wreaths and more -- Floral decorations for adorning the altar, pews, candles, wedding cake and reception area -- A variety of silk corsages and boutonnieres for all members of the family -- Gifts and accessories of all kinds, including picture frames, sachets, decorative candles and centerpieces AUTHOR: Teresa Nelson
PUBLISHER: F & W Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Roy Lichtenstein by Mike Venezia, Roy Lichtenstein
Description not available.Examines the life and work of the twentieth-century American artist whose paintings of cartoon panels, advertisements, and other subjects from popular culture helped to establish Pop Art. AUTHOR: Mike Venezia, Roy Lichtenstein
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Destruction of Penn Station by Peter Moore
To the casual observer in 1964 Peter Moore might have looked like just one more New Yorker moving through Penn Station on his way to or from some destination. Above his head -- and above the heads of the 200,000 commuters who transversed the station each day -- cranes were beginning to take down what had been one of the grandest public buildings of the 20th century. But a closer observer would have noted that Moore was carefully photographing both the building and the process of its destruction, visiting the Station again and again between 1962 and 1966 to document its architectural form as well as the drama of its unbuilding. The resulting photographs combine compositionally elegant images of architectural form and details with haunting pictures of glass and masonry stripped away from steel girders as the building is progressively demolished. Opened to the public in 1910, McKim, Mead & White`s Pennsylvania Station featured a dramatic vaulted glass ceiling over its expansive main concourse and was inspired in part by the Roman Baths of Caracalia, giving visitor and commuter alike an experience of grandeur in entering and leaving the city. The decision in 1962 to replace the old station and its subsequent demolition ultimately proved to be key moments in the birth of the historical preservation movement. In 1998, plans began to turn the neighboring General Post Office -- also designed by McKim, Mead & White -- into a new station reminiscent of the previous grandeur of the original Pennsylvania Station. AUTHOR: Peter Moore
PUBLISHER: Distributed Art Publishers/D. A. P.
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Le Corbusier by Kenneth Frampton
Le Corbusier's life and works are chronicled in this book by architectural historian Kenneth Frampton. AUTHOR: Kenneth Frampton
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | On Directing by Gabriella Giannachi, Mary Luckhurst, Peter Brook
Theater directors have a wealth of ideas about what they do, and this book collects a number of them. The British directors represented here write of their roles as ringmasters, mediums, therapists, and coaches, as well as paying tribute to heroes like Peter Brook and speculating on the future of directing. AUTHOR: Gabriella Giannachi, Mary Luckhurst, Peter Brook
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Imperial Rome & Christian Triumph by J. R. Elsner
This stimulating book offers an exciting new approach to the twin themes of the arts of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christian art. Beginning in the second century, with its rich revival of ancient Learning and artistic practices, and ending in the fifth with Christian narrative and Liturgical cycles and the pilgrimage arts, this book explores the art of the Roman Empire by tackling two inter-related periods of internal transformation: the 'Second Sophist' (c. AD 100-300), and the era of late antiquity (c. AD 250-450). For the first time, these two themes are treated together, throwing a more penetrating tight on the radical change undergone by the empire in becoming a Christian imperium. Vases, murals, statues, and masonry are explored in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. By examining questions of reception, viewing, and the culture of spectacle alongside the more traditional art-historical themes of imperial patronage and stylistic change, Elsner presents a fresh and challenging account of a rich cultural crucible in which many developments of later European art had their origins. AUTHOR: J. R. Elsner
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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