From the desert vistas of Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico ranch to Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's Hamptons cottage, step into the homes and studios of illustrious American artists and witness creativity in the making.
This book presents the first detailed study of the place of contemporary art galleries and gallerists, especially within the art markets of Europe and the United States.
Quantitative and Statistical Approaches to Geography: A Practical Manual is a practical introduction to some quantitative and statistical techniques of use to geographers and related scientists.
Traumhafte Inseln, prächtige Tempel, spektakuläre Natur sowie eine faszinierende kulturelle und kulinarische Vielfalt: Thailand ist ein einzigartiger Sehnsuchtsort, der sich immer wieder neu entdecken lässt.
The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this vast and diverse state.
Frank Lloyd Wright's groundbreaking designs, innovative construction techniques, and inviting interiors continue to astound and inspire generations of architects and nonarchitects alike.
Samurai Castles features hundreds of stunning color photographs and little-known details about the most important and well-preserved Samurai castles in Japan, including their history, design and military features.
Whether readers are planning a trip to Bali or just fantasizing about one, Journey Through Indonesia makes for an unforgettable Indonesia travel guide.
Für alle, die Nürnberg und Umgebung schon zu kennen meinen, liefert dieser besondere Ideengeber neue, frische und kreative Sachen, um ganz unbekannte Seiten der fränkischen Metropolregion zu erleben.
Der beliebte Schweizer Museumsführer stellt in alphabetischer Reihenfolge rund 1200 faszinierende, spannende und ungewöhnliche Museen, Sammlungen und Ausstellungsorte der Schweiz und des Fürstentums Liechtenstein vor.
Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster is a memoir of a twenty-first-century literary pilgrimage to retrace the famous eighteenth-century Scottish journey of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, two of the most celebrated writers of their day.
A guide to the former Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, with "e;a good deal of historical information, much of it neglected in histories of the war"e; (The NYMAS Review).
This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-nineteenth century.
This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons.
Insight Guide to USA The Southis a pictorial travel guide in a magazine style providing answers to the key questions before or during your trip: deciding when to go to USA The South, choosing what to see, from exploring New Orleans to discovering the Grand Canyon or creating a travel plan to cover key places like Louisiana, Tennessee.
The Historian's Toolbox introduces students to the theory, craft, and methods of history and equips them with a series of tools to research and understand the past.
The Holocaust the murder of approximately six million Jewish men, women and children by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in the Second World War was a crime of unprecedented and unparalleled proportions, perpetrated in innumerable locations across the European continent.
This practical travel guide to Languedoc & Roussillon features detailed factual travel tips and points-of-interest structured lists of all iconic must-see sights as well as some off-the-beaten-track treasures.
Design Objects and the Museum brings together leading design historians, curators, educators and archivists to consider the place of contemporary design objects within museums.
This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons.
Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care attitude.
From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture.
What happens when the assumptions and practices of museum curators and art educators intersect with the assumptions and practices of publishing for children?
Pantalica is a large limestone promontory in southeast Sicily known chiefly for a series of extensive cemeteries comprising thousands of chamber tombs cut out of the rock, dating mainly between the 13th and 7th centuries BCE.
The presence of the once-powerful Cherokees is still evident throughout the southeastern United States in names like Chickamauga, Hiwassee, Chattahoochee, Unicoi, Oconee, and Tuscaloosa.
Tombez sous le charmede San Francisco Elle aime le style Art déco et la prochaine tendance techno, cultive des légumes bios sur ses toits et fait l'une des meilleures cuisines qui soient.
Discover London like never before with The London Year, your month-by-month guide to 200 of the city's most exciting, unusual and unforgettable events.
This practical travel guide to Cuba features detailed factual travel tips and points-of-interest structured lists of all iconic must-see sights as well as some off-the-beaten-track treasures.
The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling.
Sonnige Strände und Indian Summer, schroffe Bergketten und eine wilde Atlantikküste, unberührte Natur und gedeckte Fachwerkbrücken neben fotogenen Leuchttürmen – die Bundesstaaten in Neuengland sind so gegensätzlich wie abwechslungsreich.