Over Her Dead Body: Femininity, Death and the Aesthetic
Routledge, August 1992. Trade Paperback. More
Art & Architecture
Montage Eisenstein (Theories of representation and difference)
BFI Publishing. Trade Paperback. As is. Light foxing on the edges of the print block. More
Discoveries: Cezanne
Harry N. Abrams, February 1994. Trade Paperback. Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed, affordably priced, compact paperbacks bring ideas to life..... More
A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to 1990s
Fuel, May 2022. Paper Back. Featuring over 550 graphically arresting record-shop bags, plus informative, humorous histories of the stores and their famous staff, this book reveals a previously undocumented side of British popular culture This exhaustive collection of record-store bags provides a unique perspective on record shopping in the UK..... More
Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style
Reel Art Press, October 2021. Hardcover. How Black culture reinvented and subverted the Ivy Look Named one of the best books of 2021 by The Financial Times From the most avant-garde jazz musicians, visual artists and poets to architects, philosophers and writers, Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style charts a...... More
Gender, Orientalism and the Jewish Nation: Women in the Work of Ephraim Moses Lilien at the German Fin de Siècle
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, January 2020. Hardcover. Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925) was one of the most important Jewish artists of modern times. As a successful illustrator, photographer, painter and printer, he became the first major Zionist artist. Surprisingly there has been little in-depth scholarly research and analysis of Lilien's work available..... More
The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics (Central European University Press Book)
Central European University Press, February 1995. Trade Paperback. Forgacs examines the development of the Bauhaus school of architecture and applied design by focusing on the idea of the Bauhaus, rather than on its artefacts. What gave this idea its extraordinary powers of survival? Founded in 1919, with the architect Walter..... More
Faeries
Harry N Abrams, December 1978. Oversized Hardcover. The two artists who have created this book, Alan Lee and Brian Froud, have studied fairy history, myths, legends, and folklore, and embodied their findings in 185 paintings and drawings. All the fairy types are identified and pictured - water fairies elves, gnomes..... More
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Landscapes: Pacific Coast Photographs [Impressions No. 16] (SIGNED)
Impressions, January 1976. Soft Cover. Thin silver softcover binding. Spine lightly wrinkled. More
Theory of Colours
MIT Press, March 1970. Paper Back. Octavo. Underlining, side notes & doobles in ink & pencil. Dust stains & foxing to textblock edges. Reading copy. [423 pages]. More
From Caligari to Hitler A Psychological History of The German Film
Princeton University Press, 1974. Reprint. Trade Paperback. A landmark, now classic, study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic, From Caligari to Hitler was first published by Princeton University Press in 1947. Siegfried Kracauer--a prominent German film critic and member of Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's intellectual circle--broke..... More
Gilliamesque
Harper Design, September 2016. Reprint. Paper Back. The screenwriter, innovative animator, highly acclaimed visionary film director, and only non-British member of Monty Python offers an intimate glimpse into his world in this fascinating memoir illustrated with hand-drawn sketches, notes, and memorabilia from his personal archive. From his no-frills childhood in..... More
Eyes on the Street
Knopf, September 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day. Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal..... More
Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital
Mit Press, February 2015. Oversized Hardcover. A generously illustrated examination of the enduring influence of and many variations on the classical Roman capital letter. The fiftieth anniversary of Helvetica, the most famous of all sans serif typefaces, was celebrated with an excitement unusual in the staid world of typography and..... More
Ralph Lauren: Revised and Expanded Anniversary Edition
Rizzoli International Publications, September 2017. Oversized Hardcover. The landmark volume celebrating the life and work of Ralph Lauren--the vision of the brand as told and presented by Lauren himself--in a smaller, more portable edition, with additional photographs updated to the present. In this visually stunning book, Lauren speaks candidly about..... More
Peacock & Vine
Knopf, August 2016. Hardcover. From the winner of the Booker Prize: A ravishing book that opens a window into the lives, designs, and passions of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris, two remarkable artists who themselves are passions of the writer A. S. Byatt. Born a generation apart in the mid-1800s..... More
Visions of Home: Timeless Design, Modern Sensibility
Rizzoli International Publications, March 2021. Hardcover. A new volume from the esteemed architecture firm Historical Concepts features extraordinary homes rooted in tradition and enriched with a modern sensibility. Known for designing welcoming Southern homes, Historical Concepts, one of today's leading traditional architecture firms, is now working on diverse projects across..... More
The Perfect Kitchen
Rizzoli, March 2020. Oversized Hardcover. A chic, polished guide to creating your dream kitchen from the cofounder of Waterworks, with hundreds of images and practical advice. The kitchen is the heart of the home, the destination of every party, everyone's favorite gathering spot, where style and functionality must go hand..... More
Richard Hambleton: Godfather of Street Art
Rizzoli International Publications, March 2022. Hardcover. The first definitive career retrospective of the visionary underground godfather of street art at the center of New York's 1980s urban art scene. Richard Hambleton (1954-2017) was a Canadian artist known for his pioneering street art. He was a surviving member of a group..... More
Going There
Back Bay Books, June 2022. Paper Back. This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name. ?For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her..... More
The Twilight World
Penguin Press, June 2022. Hardcover. The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to..... More
Figures of Architecture & Thought: German Architecture Culture: 1880-1920
Rizzoli, April 1990. Paper Back. Octavo. Paperback with cardstock jacket. Edgeworn, heavily at top of spine. Clean, unmarked interiors. [344 pages]. More
Otto Wagner: Reflections on the Raiment of Modernity
J. Paul Getty Trust Publications, July 1996. Soft Cover. These essays explore the parameters of Wagner's rich literary and architectural creations. These essays explore the parameters of Wagner's rich literary and architectural creations. More
Venice and the Renaissance
MIT Press (MA), January 1990. Oversized Hardcover. In this study of the process of decision-making about building and urban planning in Venice, the author examines the intersections of Venetian culture from the beginning of the 16th century to the first decades of the 17th to show how that process affected..... More
