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Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artistsIn Hollywood's heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department.

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Built by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the seventeenth century, the magnificent mission church at Acoma Pueblo in west-central New Mexico is the oldest and largest intact adobe structure in North America.

In a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, this book's author Joris Escher found two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.

In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love with France.

The motivation for this volume arose from a desire to bridge the gap between artists and their audience, facilitating a deeper understanding of the artists purpose and process.

In the early years of the twentieth century, Spokane was singled out for praise in the West for the quality of its architecture and the impressive way it had rebuilt after the devastating fire of 1889.

"e;A thoroughly invigorating, tightly focused piece of Chekhovian drama, wherein chatter about work and art .

A major reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today's leading art historiansThis is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century.

By the year 1900, architect Andrew Taylor had designed Bank of Montreal branches across the continent and much of McGill University, helped found the McGill School of Architecture, and played a critical role in creating the first professional organization for Quebec architects.

A TOUCHING MEMOIR OF ART AND MARRIAGE IN BOSTON'S VIBRANT SOUTH END In Love Made Visible, Jean Gibran portrays her role as spouse of a gifted artist and their often stormy family life together in Boston's diverse South End.

"The dream space," writes Sheldon Annis, "is the reflective experience of encountering yourself within a museum.

Twice a year, in summer and in winter, appointments to the Order of Canada are posted in newspapers across the country.

This first life of Cezanne in more than a quarter-century offers a vital reassessment of the invisible genius at the very inception of modern art.

After beginning his career as an architect in London, Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) came to the Hudson River valley in 1850 at the invitation of Andrew Jackson Downing, the reform-minded writer on houses and gardens.

Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art.

Unique perspectives from an acclaimed art historian on the relationship between drawing and paintingFrom Drawing to Painting interweaves biographical information about five renowned French artists-Nicolas Poussin, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres-with a fascinating look at dozens of their drawings and the links that they have to their paintings.

Soon after 1900 in both North America and Europe the evolution from the tradition of Mediterranean and Gallic architectural styles to modernism began.

Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artistsIn Hollywood's heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department.

A uniquely personal biographical account of Louchheim's life and work that takes readers inside the rarified world of architecture mediaAline B.

The controversy over filmmaker Jonas Mekass memories of his WWII Lithuanian youth are delicately and humanely approached in this book-length essay by a Mekas cinephile.

Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art.

A groundbreaking account of the role of writing in Michelangelo's artMichelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Pieta, and the dome of St.

Acclaimed photographer Kosti Ruohomaa is widely known for his photographs of hard scrabble Yankees in mid-century Maine.

Sir Nigel Thompson walked to school around the bomb craters of the London Blitz--it made him want to build things, rather than knock them down.

A uniquely personal biographical account of Louchheim's life and work that takes readers inside the rarified world of architecture mediaAline B.

In 1963, British inventor Alex Moulton (1920-2012) introduced an innovative compact bicycle.

From building office blocks in the charred ruins of post-war Tokyo to creating Japan's largest ever urban development, Mori Building Co.

*A Times and New Statesman Book of the Year**BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs and drawings'A masterpiece.

Hwo did the rise of metropolitan art institutions influence modernism and the modernisation of art in England?

The work of Bernard Maybeck has influenced generations of architects.

Despite a European training and an early career working with Peter Behrens, a migration from Vienna to the Australian state of Queensland positioned the architect Karl Langer (1903-1969) at the very edge of both European and Australian modernism.

En la década de 1960 comienzan a hacerse evidentes las fisuras en el modernismo arquitectónico europeo y norteamericano: las formas limpias y simples del llamado estilo internacional parecían agotadas.

When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one can't help but mention the brilliant names of their architects-Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others.

Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century.

During his career as an architect, he designed major public buildings such as the Quebec Music Hall, Laval University, Sainte-Marie de Beauce church, and Dufferin Terrace, and was supervising architect for the first Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.

The young Thomas Eakins's most revealing letters-published here for the first timeThe most revealing and interesting writings of American artist Thomas Eakins are the letters he sent to family and friends while he was a student in Paris between 1866 and 1870.

An intimate depiction of the visionary who revolutionized the art world A man who created portraits of the rich and powerful, Andy Warhol was one of the most incendiary figures in American culture, a celebrity whose star shone as brightly as those of the Marilyns and Jackies whose likenesses brought him renown.

Key Modern Architects provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era.

This exciting new series recognizes the tremendous potential of museum-based histories and the ways in which they can engage people with ideas about the past.

Josep Lluís Sert (1902–1983) was the last president of CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 1953 to 1969, where he founded the discipline of urban design.

An "e;immensely valuable"e; dual biography of the iconic American architect and the city that transformed his career in the early twentieth century (Francis Morrone, New Criterion).