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Dissenters by Peter Gay
The fifth and final volume in a history of the bourgeoisie during the 19th century, by the distinguished professor of history at Yale University. Gay puts particular emphasis upon the role played by the European bourgeoisie in the development of the avant-garde movements in art, music, and literature. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.

AUTHOR: Peter Gay
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

The Arts & Crafts Lifestyle & Design by Martin Charles, Wendy Hitchmough
Description not available.A richly illustrated celebration of the the Arts and Crafts style celebrates the impact of the revolutionary movement on the architecture and home furnishings of the early twentieth century, capturing the simple elegance and craftsmanship of key examples of the style in both England and the United States in terms of furniture, architecture, textiles, ceramics, and other accessories for the home.

AUTHOR: Martin Charles, Wendy Hitchmough
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Phedre by Jean Racine, Margaret Rawlings, Ted Hughes
The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful and haunting in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-1699), the dying queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus's love for the forbidden beauty Aricia has come to be regarded as one of the great stories of tragic infatuation, the model for dozens of works about twisted family love. Ted Hughes's tough, unrhyming avalanche of a translation (Paul Taylor, The Independent) replaces Racine's alexandrines with an English verse that serves eloquently to convey the protagonists' passions. The translation, performed to acclaim in London in 1998, will be staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1999, starring Diana Rigg. We are still catching up with Ted Hughes's gift for narrative verse after his Tales from Ovid , one English critic observed after the premiere. Little needs to happen on stage when there's a swirling action-packed disaster movie -- riddled with sex and violence -- in Hughes's free verse .

AUTHOR: Jean Racine, Margaret Rawlings, Ted Hughes
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

An Artist's Book of Inspiration by Astrid Fitzgerald
The purpose of art is to open the heart, to reaffirm to human beings that they may be the conscious builders of a new world. Far from the notion that art is dead , creativity and art are alive and well and can still express the unique ideas needed to give shape to a humane culture, by expressing new impulses out of the wisdom of the past and by locating for each generation the ground of our common being. This collection of thoughts from artists and thinkers of the past and present has been lovingly gathered over many years in the personal journals of the artist Astrid Fitzgerald and reveals something of the mystery in which creativity finds its way from the energies of the cosmos into the imagination and faculties of the individual artist and eventually into the solitude of the studio and finally into a work of art. From the reports of mystics to the observations of scientists, these passages have been arranged in this volume to provide brief glimpses into the recesses of artistic being, into the tentative formations in consciousness, the first glimmers of imagination, the distinctive faculties of the creative mind, and the tensions of artistic expression in the workshop and the creative life. Fitzgerald's great contribution has been to gather into a meaningful collection the words of 2,500 years of genius as a resource and inspiration for all those who would break out of creative limitations and take a bold step into the future.

AUTHOR: Astrid Fitzgerald
PUBLISHER: Anthroposophic Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Star Style by Patty Fox
Fox explores the real-life wardrobes of the film world's most celebrated actresses: Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Dolores Del Rio, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn. 130 photos.

AUTHOR: Patty Fox
PUBLISHER: Angel City Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Dirty Pictures by Micha Ramakers
This analysis of Tom of Finland's provocative illustrations of gay men includes a short biography of the artist and his notorious depictions of sailors, soldiers, and police men.

AUTHOR: Micha Ramakers
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture