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|  | Collector's Style by Better Homes and Gardens Staff
Description not available.Richly illustrated with full-color photographs and featuring dozens of entertaining projects, this innovative home decorating handbook explains how to use one's personal hobbies, treasures, and collectibles to create unique and stylish designs and includes practical suggestions on how to arrange and dispay one's collections. 35,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Better Homes and Gardens Staff
PUBLISHER: Meredith Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Encyclopedia of Acting Techinques by John Perry
Practical and comprehensive, the Encyclopedia of Acting Techniques contains step-by-step exercises and improvisations for both the individual and groups. Fully illustrated in color throughout, the first part of the book shows you how to use your body and voice to maximum effect, how to prepare play texts, analyze the character you are playing, and use costume and props. The author also describes the different types of stages, tells you how to handle your moves on stage and gives advice on audition technique. Another section covers the art of stage make-up. In the second part of the book the world of the play gives an overview of comedy, tragedy, epic theatre and realistic drama, supported by biographies of leading playwrights. Practical exercises in each type of drama show you how to apply the skills you have learned to specific genres. AUTHOR: John Perry
PUBLISHER: F & W Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Art of Ancient Egypt by Gay Robins
From the awesome grandeur of the great pyramids to the delicacy of a face etched on an amulet, the spellbinding power of the art of ancient Egypt persists to this day. This beautifully illustrated book conducts us through the splendors of this world, great and small, and into the mysteries of its fascination in its day as well as in our own. What did art, and the architecture that housed it, mean to the ancient Egyptians? Why did they invest such vast wealth and effort in its production? These are the puzzles Gay Robins explores as she examines the objects of Egyptian art--the tombs and wall paintings, the sculpture and stelae, the coffins, funerary papyri, and amulets--from its first flowering in the Early Dynastic period to its final resurgence in the time of the Ptolemies. Spanning three thousand years, her book offers a thorough and delightfully readable introduction to the art of ancient Egypt even as it provides insight into questions that have long perplexed experts and amateurs alike. With remarkable sensitivity to the complex ways in which historical, religious, and social changes are related to changes in Egyptian art, she brings out the power and significance of the image in Egyptian belief and life. Her attention to the later period, including Ptolemaic art, shows for the first time how Egyptian art is a continuous phenomenon, changing to meet the needs of different times, right down to the eclipse of ancient Egyptian culture. In its scope, its detail, and its eloquent reproduction of over 250 objects from the British Museum and other collections in Europe, the United States, and Egypt, this volume is without parallel as a guide to the art of ancient Egypt. AUTHOR: Gay Robins
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Leonardo by Federico Zeri
Description not available.Focusing on his paintings, particularly The Last Supper, analyses Leonardo's works and his legacy, including discussion of his life and influences. AUTHOR: Federico Zeri
PUBLISHER: NDE Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | On the Technique of Acting by Nor Simpson
In the four decades since its first publication, Michael Chekhov's To the Actor has become a standard text for students of the theater. This new, definitive version of his master work clarifies the principles Chekhov taught Yul Brynner, Gregory Peck, Marilyn Monroe, and Anthony Quinn, among others. Line drawings. AUTHOR: Nor Simpson
PUBLISHER: HarperInformation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Bill Peet by Bill Peet
An autobiography of the artist, author, children's book illustrator, and cartoonist. Peet describes his difficult childhood and his years in school studying art, but mostly he concentrates on his life as an animator and story editor for Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on such films as Snow White , Dumbo , and 101 Dalmatians . Peet eventually left Disney to write and illustrate his own books for children, including Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent , Jethro and Joel Were a Troll , Randy's Dandy Lions , and Zella, Zack, and Zodiac . Illustrated with b&w drawings. AUTHOR: Bill Peet
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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