ABRAMS FALL 2009 Catalog

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ABRAMS IS 60 THIS YEAR! Founded in December 1949 by Harry N. Abrams as the premier publisher and distributor of illustrated books, we retain that distinction today. What has changed is that we have grown and evolved. As a result, we’ve just achieved our best year ever.

115 West 18th Street New York, NY 10011 T: 212-206-7715 F: 212-645-8437 www.abramsbooks.com

This fall catalogue and the books herein showcase the breadth and depth of Abrams’ original vision as well as much that is new, vibrant, modern, and exciting.

ABRAMS is a subsidiary of La Martinière Groupe 2, rue Christine 75006 Paris T: +33 1-40-51-52-00 F: +33 1-40-51-52-05

All of our adult imprints—Abrams; Stewart, Tabori & Chang; STC Craft/Melanie Falick Books; Abrams Image; and the newly launched Abrams ComicArts—are together here for the first time. Our children’s and young adult imprints, Abrams Books for Young Readers and Amulet Books—now celebrating their 10th and 5th anniversaries, respectively—are still to be found in their own catalogue.

Michael Jacobs President and CEO T: 212-229-7112 F: 212-519-1310 E: mjacobs@abramsbooks.com

You will find our past, our present, and our future represented in this, our 60th year. We believe that our new logo sums it up succinctly: ABRAMS—The Art of Books Since 1949.

Leslie Stoker Senior Vice President and Publisher, STC and Abrams Image T: 212-519-1222 F: 212-519-1216 E: lstoker@abramsbooks.com

Thank you for your support, and for helping us celebrate 60 years of beautiful books.

Steve Tager Senior Vice President and Publisher, Abrams T: 212-519-1301 F: 212-229-0312 E: stager@abramsbooks.com

Michael Jacobs President and CEO

Mary Wowk Vice President, Sales & Marketing T: 212-229-7122 F: 212-414-5785 E: mwowk@abramsbooks.com

Marketing and Publicity Katrina Weidknecht Executive Director of Publicity T: 212-229-8812 F: 212-366-0809 E: kweidknecht@abramsbooks.com Julia Coblentz Director of Marketing T: 212-229-7128 F: 212-366-0809 E: jcoblentz@abramsbooks.com Claire Bamundo Publicity Director, STC and Abrams Image T: 212-229-8823 F: 212-366-0809 E: cbamundo@abramsbooks.com Jennifer Brunn Publicity Director, Abrams T: 212-519-1257 F: 212-366-0809 E: jbrunn@abramsbooks.com

Ashley Gillespie Marketing Manager, Abrams T: 212-519-1203 F: 212-366-0809 E: agillespie@abramsbooks.com Kerry Liebling Marketing Manager, STC and Abrams Image T: 212-519-1226 F: 212-366-0809 E: kliebling@abramsbooks.com

Trade Sales Marti Malovany Director, Museum Sales, Operations, and Distributions T: 212-229-7132 F: 212-414-5785 E: mmalovany@abramsbooks.com Erica Kochman Trade Sales Manager T: 212-519-1236 F: 212-414-5785 E: ekochman@abramsbooks.com Lawrence Adamo Senior Sales Representative, NYC T: 212-229-7101 F: 212-414-5785 E: ladamo@abramsbooks.com

Special Markets, Domestic and Foreign Rights, and Permissions Jody Mosley Director of Special Markets T: 212-519-1209 F: 212-414-5785 E: jmosley@abramsbooks.com Michael Freeman Manager, Special Markets T: 212-229-8801 F: 212-414-5785 E: mfreeman@abramsbooks.com Julia Carvalho Special Sales Coordinator T: 212-519-1303 F: 212-414-5785 E: jcarvalho@abramsbooks.com Sarah Carstens Sales Assistant T: 212-229-7184 F: 212-414-5785 E: scarstens@abramsbooks.com Jutta Pakenis Executive Director of Foreign and Subsidiary Rights T: 212-229-7103 F: 212-519-1216 E: jpakenis@abramsbooks.com

U.S. Book Trade Sales Representatives southwest (AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY)

Karel⁄Dutton Group 4911 Morella Valley Village, CA 91607 T: 818-762-7170 F: 818-508-5608 E: dory.dutton@att.net

selected northwest accounts (CA, CO, OR, WA)

Andrew Weiner 211 Vicksburg Street San Francisco, CA 94114 T: 415-285-5897 F: 415-285-7371 E: aweiner@abramsbooks.com

midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)

Fujii Associates, Inc. 1400 West 47th Street LaGrange, IL 60525 T: 708-354-2555 F: 708-354-6534 E: kathybogs@fujiiassociates.com

northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)

New England Book Sales 22 Cavender Road Hancock, NH 03449 T: 603-525-4378 F: 603-525-3046 E: febe@monad.net

mid-atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, WV)

Chesapeake and Hudson, Inc. 115 West Potomac Street Brunswick, MD 21716 T: 800-231-4469 F: 800-307-5163 E: janine@cheshud.com

south (AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA)

Southern Territory Associates 4508 64th Street Lubbock, TX 79414 T: 806-799-9997 F: 806-799-9777 E: sta77@suddenlink.net

International Representation Export sales to all countries except Canada: The Market Building 72-82 Rosebery Avenue London, U.K. EC1R 4RW Chuck Lang Managing Director Nicola Harris Sales Coordinator T: +44 0-20-7713-2063 F: +44 0-20-7713-2061 E: nharris@abramsbooks.co.uk

Canada Canadian Manda Group 165 Dufferin Street Toronto, Canada M6K 3H6 T: 416-516-0911 F: 416-516-0917 E: general@mandagroup.com

North American Ordering and Customer Service Information Hachette Book Group USA T: 800-759-0190 F: 800-286-9471 Pubnet: SAN 200-2205 (8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. E.S.T.)

Pricing and Shipping Prices in this catalog are suggested retail prices only. Any reseller is free to charge whatever he or she wishes for the books listed. Titles, prices, publication dates, and other contents of this catalog are subject to change without notice. Although Harry N. Abrams, Inc., will make every effort to follow reasonable shipping instructions, we will not accept responsibility or chargebacks for deviations from these instructions.

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Home

By Yann Arthus-Bertrand From the author of the multimillion-copy international bestseller Earth From Above comes a moving and brilliantly photographed new book. Home, scheduled to release in conjunction with a film of the same name, is a stunning visual odyssey.

A globe-spanning exploration of the planet, complete with Arthus-Bertrand’s unforgettable images and an informative text by the team at GoodPlanet, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable development, Home is a celebration of Earth’s beauty and an impassioned call to protect it from destruction.

Compelling and defiantly optimistic, Home voyages through over 50 countries,

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considering the environment’s current condition and factors which will play a role in determining its future. As ArthusBertrand says, “It isn’t the 50 percent of forest that has disappeared that’s important, but the 50 percent that’s left.” ˘ National print publicity

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˘ Outreach to environmental and

• 84 full-color illustrations

Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s more than 40

• 192 pages, 8W * 5V"

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photography publications ˘ Tie-in to Home film release June 5, 2009 ˘ Outreach to environmental websites and blogs

international bestseller Earth From Above.

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chairman of GoodPlanet, a nonprofit

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association for the promotion of sustain-

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able development. He also directed a series of four, 2-hour documentaries based on Earth From Above and is the director of the film Home. He lives in France.

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Avedon Fashion 1944–2000 Photographs by Richard Avedon, with texts by Carol Squiers, Vince Aletti, and Philippe Garner Avedon Fashion 1944–2000 encompasses seven decades of extraordinary images

by Richard Avedon, the most influential fashion photographer of the 20th century. This comprehensive volume offers a definitive survey, from Avedon’s groundbreaking early photographs for Harper’s Bazaar through his constantly inventive contributions to Vogue, Egoïste, and The New Yorker. Each carefully selected image represents an artistic collaboration with significant models, stylists, and designers. Avedon Fashion accompanies the first major exhibition to survey this body of work, at the International Center of Photography in May 2009. With critical essays by Carol Squiers, curator at the ICP, and photography critic Vince Aletti, as well as an appreciation by photo-historian Philippe Garner, Avedon Fashion chronicles an astonishing record of photographic achievement.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:

• 245 photographs, 45 in full color

Carol Squiers, curator at the International

International Center of Photography,

• 372 pages, 9X * 12V"

Center of Photography, has contributed

New York, May 15–Sept 6, 2009

• Hardcover with lenticular

to Artforum, the New York Times, Vogue,

World tour in progress ˘ National print publicity ˘ Outreach to fashion, art, luxury

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and Vanity Fair. She lives in New York.

Vince Aletti, adjunct curator at ICP and former art editor of The Village Voice, reviews photography exhibitions for The New Yorker. He lives in New York.

lifestyle, and photography

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publications

ITALIAN, FRENCH

Philippe Garner is International Head

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of Photographs and 20th Century

˘ Holiday gift book round-ups ˘ Tie-in to exhibition at the International Center of Photography

Decorative Arts & Design, Christie’s. He lives in London.

˘ Online promotions

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A Shadow Falls

By Nick Brandt Essays by Peter Singer and Vicki Goldberg Nick Brandt’s unforgettable photographs in A Shadow Falls, a much anticipated collection of new work created since the publication of his enormously successful On this Earth (2005), portray the great animals of East Africa. Brandt comes to lions, elephants, giraffes, and gorillas with the same empathy that other artists reserve for human subjects. His photographs, writes Jane Goodall, “arouse deep emotions. It’s almost impossible to look through his work without sensing the personalities of the beings whom he has photographed.” Out of this yearning for communion with our closest relatives in nature, Brandt achieves images that are, in the words of photographer Mary Ellen Mark, both “epic and iconic.”

A Shadow Falls reproduces 58 neverbefore-published images in stunning, oversized tritone plates. Philosopher Peter Singer and photography historian Vicki Goldberg explore the significance of Brandt’s photographs, and Brandt gives

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his own account of his work in Africa.

• 58 tritone illustrations

Nick Brandt’s first book, On This Earth, is

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one of the most popular photography

˘ National print publicity ˘ Holiday gift book round-ups ˘ Outreach to photography, art, and nature publications ˘ Custom posters available ˘ Feature at CAA ˘ Promote to nature and travel websites ˘ Promote at MSA

• Hardcover with jacket ISBN: 978-0-8109-5415-1 US $50.00

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books of this decade. He lives in Topanga, California. Peter Singer is the author of the influential Animal Liberation. He lives in New York City. Vicki Goldberg is

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America’s leading photography critic and

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historian. She lives in New Hampshire.

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Empty Quarter A Photographic Journey to the Heart of the Arabian Desert

By George Steinmetz Aerial photographer George Steinmetz, shooting from a motorized paraglider, has created an unparalleled portrait of Rub’ al-Khali, or “the Empty Quarter,” the largest and most likely the hottest sand desert in the world. Although only a fraction of the size of its giant neighbor, the Sahara, the Empty Quarter’s punishing terrain has rarely been captured on film, and never from such a striking perspective.

Old maps, satellite images, and a dose of Arabian hospitality enabled Steinmetz to travel where few have ventured.

He reveals in his photographs a true wilderness, without a single permanent human habitation or known point of water, preserved by its harsh climate and extreme remoteness, as well as a fascinating tradition of a hardy people living at its edges. For experienced travelers or explorers and for those who have never heard of the Empty Quarter, entering the heart of the Arabian Desert is truly the ultimate experience.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

• 200 full-color photographs

George Steinmetz has been a regular

• 208 pages, 12V * 9W"

contributor to National Geographic and

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GEO magazines for more than 20 years.

˘ National print, radio, and TV publicity

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˘ Outreach to photography,

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environmental, and international interest publications ˘ Holiday gift book round-ups ˘ Video and online promotions

CAN $51.99

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He has won numerous awards for photography including two first prizes from World Press Photo, as well as awards and citations from Pictures of the Year, Overseas Press Club, and the Eisenstadt Awards. He is the author of Abrams’ African Air and lives in New Jersey.

“An enthralling bird’s-eye view of the continent’s wildly varied landscape” —The Wall Street Journal on African Air ALSO AVAILABLE:

African Air ISBN: 978-0-8109-8403-5 US $40.00 CAN $44.00

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Red Star Over Russia A Visual History of the Soviet Union from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin

By David King Red Star Over Russia is a breathtaking visual history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the death of Stalin, using a vast array of material including posters, photographs, paintings, magazine covers, advertisements, and ephemera to illustrate the dramatic birth and eventual decline of the Soviet Union. The book’s urgent, cinéma vérité style plunges the reader into the shattering events that brought hope, chaos, heroism, and horror to the citizens of the world’s first workers’ state.

The Russian Revolution produced some of the most important advances in the fields of art, photography, and graphic design in the 20th century. More than 550 of these widely influential materials are reproduced here to the highest quality, accompanied by author David King’s accessible text. Zooming

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in from the epic to the particular, King

• 550 color illustrations

David King is the author of the classic

rescues from obscurity many lost heroes

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The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification

and villains through the work of the most

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of Photographs and Art in Stalin’s Russia,

brilliant Soviet artists, many of them anonymous or long forgotten.

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˘ National print publicity ˘ Outreach to cultural, art, photography, and graphic design publications

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and Ordinary Citizens: The Victims of Stalin. He was art editor of the Sunday Times Magazine from 1965 to 1975, and is

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the owner of one of the world’s preemi-

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nent collections of Russian artifacts. He lives in London.

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The TOON Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics is an unprecedented collection of the greatest comics for children, artfully compiled by two of the best-known creators in publishing and the field of comics—Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly.

This treasury created for young readers focuses on comic books, not strips, and contains humorous stories that range from a single-page to eight or even twenty-two pages, each complete and self-contained.

The comics have been culled from the Golden Age of comic books, roughly the 1940s through the early 1960s, and feature the best examples of works by such renowned artists and writers as Carl Barks, John Stanley, Sheldon Mayer, Walt Kelly, Basil Wolverton, and George Carlson, among many, many others.

Organizing the book into five categories (Hey, Kids!; Funny Animals; Fantasyland; Story Time!; and Wacky & Weird), Spiegelman and Mouly use their expertise in the area of comics to frame each category with an introductory essay, and provide brief biographies of the artists. The TOON

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A collection of comics stories that children and their parents will treasure forever, selected

by Art Spiegelman & Françoise Mouly

FEATURING—

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OVER 60 STORIES BY—

˘ Outreach to comics art and parenting publications ˘ Feature at New York and San Diego Comic-Cons, MoCCA, and Miami Book Fair ˘ Feature at ALA and NCTE conferences

Captain Marvel Dennis the Menace Donald Duck The Fox and the Crow Frankenstein Gyro Gearloose Little Archie

Carl Barks C. C. Beck Dave Berg Bob Bolling Dick Briefer George Carlson Jack Cole

Little Lulu The Pie-Face Prince Pogo Powerhouse Pepper Sugar and Spike Tubby Uncle Scrooge

Jules Feiffer Milt Gross Walt Kelly Harvey Kurtzman Sheldon Mayer John Stanley Basil Wolverton

. . . and many others!

˘ Poster promotion ˘ Academic marketing ˘ Teacher’s guide ˘ Online feature with teacher and librarian resources ˘ Q&A in Abrams Library Marketing e-newsletter ˘ Major online and social networking promotions

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Art Spiegelman is an American comics writer, artist, and editor. He is the creator of

• 300 full-color illustrations

Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids for Topps, and is best known for his Pulitzer

• 352 pages, 9W * 11W"

Prize–winning graphic novel memoir, Maus. Françoise Mouly is an artist and designer.

• Hardcover with jacket

Together with Art Spiegelman she edited the groundbreaking comics anthology Raw from 1980 to 1991. She is the art editor for the New Yorker, and publisher of TOON Books. Jon Scieszka is the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. He is

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the author of The Stinky Cheese Man, which won a Caldecott Honor medal, and the

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founder of Guys Read (guysread.com), a nonprofit literacy organization.

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“Wow. ‘Treasury’ is right. You have just entered the bank, the mint, the Ali Baba cave full of gold, silver, ruby, emerald, and diamond toons.”

—Jon Scieszka, from his introduction

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Mary

By Martina Degl’Innocenti and Stella Marinone The fourth book in Abrams’ successful series that includes Saints, Angels, and Myths, this volume tells the story of one of the most popular religious figures in the world—the Virgin Mary.

Beginning with biblical and apocryphal traditions concerning Mary’s place among the Bible’s other great women (Eve in particular), art historians Martina Degl’Innocenti and Stella Marinone illustrate Mary’s life with paintings from the early Christian period in Rome to the 20th century, including some unusual contemporary works from China, Russia, and America.

Mary’s unique position among saints is examined here as episodes from her life are portrayed through centuries of artistic movements in the West, as well as representations from the East. Packed with over 350 works of art in full color, along with some full-spread enlargements to show iconographic detail, this book is a perfect gift for anyone interested in the life and imagery of the

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Virgin Mary.

• 350 full-color Illustrations

Martina Degl’Innocenti and Stella

˘ National print publicity ˘ Outreach to religious, cultural, and art publications ˘ Holiday gift book round-ups ˘ Feature in the Abrams Academic e-newsletter

• 732 pages, 4V * 6"

Marinone are art historians specializing

• Hardcover

in religious painting and sculpture. They

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live in Italy.

CAN $25.95

6-copy counter display ISBN: 978-8109-8447-9 US $119.70

CAN $155.70

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New York Yankees 365 By the Associated Press Foreword by Don Mattingly Ruth. Gehrig. DiMaggio. Mantle. Maris.

Jackson. Jeter. Among sports teams the world over, the New York Yankees reign supreme. With a fan base that spans generations and continents, householdname players in every era of their existence, and an unparalleled record of success, the Yankees are as much an American institution as they are a famed and beloved baseball legacy. New York Yankees 365 is a colorful archive of and tribute to the history of the Yankees, giving a complete overview of the team’s ups and downs, heroes and antiheroes, and most memorable moments.

Charting their early struggles as the New York Highlanders to their first game in the new Yankee Stadium, New York Yankees 365 brings life to all the triumphs and icons—both on the field and off. Taken from the voluminous

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photo archives of the Associated Press, these images are joined by insightful

See pages 44-45 for other titles available in this format.

commentary and a running timeline of key Yankee milestones. ˘ National and local New York print publicity ˘ Outreach to sports and men’s publications ˘ Promote to baseball blogs and websites

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

• 91 full-color and 274 black-and-white

The Associated Press has covered New York sports teams longer and

illustrations • 744 pages, 9W * 6W"

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more extensively than any other organization. Founded in 1846, it has

• Hardcover

CAN $38.95

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received 49 Pulitzer Prizes, including 30 for photography, the most of any news organization. Don Mattingly is one of the most celebrated Yankees of all time.

He played first base for the team from 1982 to 1995 and was a hitting coach from 2004 to 2006.

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Remembering Yankee Stadium ISBN: 978-1-58479-716-6 US $45.00 CAN $48.95 101 Reasons to Love the Yankees ISBN: 978-1-58479-715-9 US $14.95 CAN $16.95 | FA L L 20 09 |

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Wisdom The Greatest Gift One Generation Can Give to Another

Andrew Zuckerman

Ideas Life

“Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.”

—Chuck Close

“You have to see it to be it.”

—Billie Jean King

Love

“The heart is what matters most of all.”

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Praise for Wisdom:

“If you could bottle up the been-there, done-that between these pages, you’d have an elixir for the ages.” —American Profile

Inspired by the idea that one of the greatest gifts one generation

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can give to another is the wisdom it has gained from experience,

• 50 color photographs

award-winning photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman

• 160 pages, 6 * 6"

has captured the voices, physical presence, and written word

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Wisdom: Ideas ISBN: 978-0-8109-8438-7 Wisdom: Life

of iconic over-65-year olds to create profound, honest, and truly

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revealing portraits. Based on his acclaimed large-format book

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Wisdom, published in Fall 2008, these new, well-priced smaller

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books and films—included here on DVDs—provide an extraordi-

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nary legacy for the generations that follow and timeless portraits

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of the common themes that unite us all.

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Each volume presents the thoughts and photographs of up to 21 accomplished individuals.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

˘ National print, TV, and radio publicity

Andrew Zuckerman was born in Washington, DC, in 1977. After

˘ Holiday gift book round-ups

an internship at the International Center of Photography in New

˘ Feature at ALA

York, he attended the School of Visual Arts. His work has been

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commissioned extensively for leading international brands and he has received many awards, including D&AD, One Show, BDA, and multiple annuals. His first film, High Falls, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 and won best short narrative at the Woodstock Film Festival. Wisdom, a book, film, and traveling exhibition, released in October 2008. With the support of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Zuckerman traveled the globe to photograph and interview eminent elders, creating a comprehensive account of their perspectives on life and an inspirational record to pass down

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for generations.

Wisdom was a top holiday book pick on Good Morning America, the CBS Early Show, and at Indigo. It was featured in People, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Parade, CNN.com, Time, and Reader’s Digest.

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Manga Kamishibai The Art of Japanese Paper Theater

By Eric P. Nash Introduction by Frederik L. Schodt Before giant robots, space ships, and masked super heroes filled the pages of Japanese comic books—known as manga—such characters were regularly seen on the streets of Japan in kamishibai stories. Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater tells the history of this fascinating and nearly vanished Japanese art form that paved the way for modern-day comic books, and is the missing link in the development of modern manga.

During the height of kamishibai in the 1930s, storytellers would travel to villages and set up their butais (miniature wooden prosceniums), through which illustrated boards were shown. The storytellers acted as entertainers and reporters, narrating tales that ranged from action-packed westerns, period pieces, traditional folk tales, and melodramas, to nightly news reporting on World War II. More than just explaining the pictures, a good storyteller would act out the parts of each character with different voices and facial expressions.

Through extensive research and interviews, author Eric P. Nash pieces together

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since 1986. He is the author of several books about architecture and design,

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and The Destruction of Penn Station.

the remarkable history of this art and its creators. With rare images reproduced

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Frederik L. Schodt is an author, inter-

for the first time from Japanese archives,

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preter, and translator who has written

including full-length kamishibai stories,

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extensively on Japanese culture and Japan-U.S. relations.

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Graffiti World Updated Edition Street Art from Five Continents

By Nicholas Ganz Edited by Tristan Manco

Graffiti World, now updated, is the most comprehensive and bestselling survey of graffiti art ever published. The original collection of more than 2,000 illustrations by over 150 artists around the world is joined by a new section devoted to work created in the five years since the book’s first edition.

Graffiti has long been a ubiquitous aspect of the urban landscape, since anonymous, largely unsung spray-can art first hit city walls in New York and Philadelphia in the late 1960s. As hip-hop culture spread from America, graffiti became a worldwide phenomenon, emerging in the 1980s as the symbolic artistic language of young people everywhere.

Today’s graffiti artists incorporate a variety of mediums—including stickers, stencils, oils, acrylics, and oil-based chalk—as well as an ever-expanding

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has traveled around the world to gather

influence on art, graphic design, and style around the world.

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material for this book. He is the author of Abrams’ Graffiti Women and lives in Essen, Germany. Tristan Manco is a graphic artist and the author of Stencil Graffiti, Street Sketchbook, and Street Logos.

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Glamorous Rooms

By Jan Showers Foreword by Michael Kors Glamorous Rooms showcases the elegant eclecticism of renowned designer Jan Showers’s interiors, including many projects unpublished until now.

Illustrated with dazzling photography, Showers’s accessible and useful design tenets will inspire readers to create their own luxurious yet relaxed homes.

Showers’s attention to detail seamlessly blends Hollywood high style, midcentury modernism, and classic 18th-century French styles with the local flavors of St. Barth’s, Paris, and Rome.

Her modern and timeless interiors, never overdone, have earned her a dedicated fan base of top designers, celebrities, and power brokers from Palm Beach to Del Mar. A must-have addition to any design enthusiast’s library, Glamorous Rooms is sure to be an instant classic. ˘ National and local print and TV publicity ˘ Outreach to interior design and luxury lifestyle publications ˘ Author tour: New York, Los Angeles,

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magazine in the world. For the first time,

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Showers's unique aesthetic is captured in a single volume. Michael Kors is an internationally renowned fashion designer. He lives in New York.

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Art Deco Complete The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s

By Alastair Duncan Art Deco Complete is the last word in Art Deco, the most glamorous decorative arts style, and the one that shaped popular ideas of modern luxury. It covers furniture and interior decoration, sculpture, paintings, graphics, posters and bookbinding, glass, ceramics, lighting, textiles, metalwork, and jewelry. It includes the work of all of the important Art Deco designers, from high-style French furniture makers to the creators of the popular “Streamline Moderne” style. And it is, in the spirit of Art Deco, a lavish and attractive book, as well as being authoritative and thorough.

This volume includes more than 1,000 color images of classic Art Deco objects and spaces.

Its author is the colorful and experienced Alastair Duncan, who was for years the expert who ran the 20thcentury decorative arts department at Christie’s in New York. Duncan is the author of many well-known books on Art Deco and Art Nouveau. This book will stand as his monument to Art Deco.

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authority on Art Deco and Art Nouveau decorative arts. He is the author of 34 books on the decorative arts including Abrams’ Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany and American Art Deco. He lives in New York City.

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GoreVidal This book is Gore Vidal’s visual memoir of his remarkable and famously well-lived life. In this collection of photographs, letters, manuscripts, and other selections from Vidal’s vast personal archives, readers are now escorted by one of America’s wittiest insiders into the Kennedys’ Camelot, as well as onto the set of Ben Hur, and into the private lives of Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, and Tennessee Williams, to name just a few.

Born into public life, here Vidal looks back on his days as an Army officer in WWII, his rise as a groundbreaking and controversial novelist, his years in Hollywood, his forays into the political arena, and his notoriously public triumphs and feuds. Written with Vidal’s legendary wit and literary elegance, this book reveals not only the personal reflections of one of the last of the great generation of American writers, but also a captivating social history of the 20th century told by one of our great raconteurs.

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In this stunning visual memoir, Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most provocative man of letters focuses his wicked wit and storytelling abilities on an amazing collection of personal photographs, letters, manuscript pages, and other glimpses of a most public, entirely private life.

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Lillian Bassman Women Essay by Deborah Solomon With more than 140 of her best images reproduced in stunning tritone, including many never published before and others not seen since they appeared in the pages of the legendary Harper’s Bazaar of the 1950s, Lillian Bassman: Women offers a retrospective view of an extraordinary career in photography.

At 91 and still hard at work, Bassman is a beloved figure in the pantheon of fashion photographers. Her signature style, once described by Richard Avedon as making “visible that heart-breaking invisible place between the appearance and the disappearance of things,” offered a sensuous and intimate vision of modern women. Says Judith Thurman, “Bassman’s women—perennially soulful, elusively chic—have the poignance of an endangered species.”

Well-known art writer and journalist Deborah Solomon contributes an introduction. An illustrated chronology gives a cinematic overview of a remarkable life.

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Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work

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of Joseph Cornell and Jackson Pollock: A Biography. She writes the weekly “Questions For” column in the New York Times Magazine, where she is also known for her profiles of people in the art world.

Previously, she was art critic for the Wall Street Journal. She lives in New York City.

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The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis

By Michael Rush and others The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University possesses one of the most extraordinary collections of any academic institution, spanning the last century in Western art, from the early European and American Modernists up to the 21st century. This catalogue of its holdings demonstrates the breadth of the collection.

Early purchases from the 1960s dominate the core of the collection, including works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem De Kooning, and Andy Warhol. Contemporary works by artists such as Nam June Paik, Richard Prince, Matthew Barney, and Gregory Crewdson add to its luster. Essays on individual periods by Brandeis faculty, alumni, and distinguished critics put the collection into perspective. ˘ National print and local New England publicity ˘ Outreach to art publications ˘ Feature in the Abrams Academic e-newsletter ˘ Promote at MSA

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Art Museum at Brandeis University and

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a widely published author and art critic.

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The Marchesa Casati Portraits of a Muse Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino Preface by Diane von Furstenberg Foreword by Judith Thurman Afterword by Lady Moorea Black “I want to be a living work of art.”

—The Marchesa Luisa Casati During the first half of the twentieth century, the Marchesa Luisa Casati (1881–1957) was Europe’s most notorious celebrity. Her extravagant lifestyle, eccentric personality, and scandalous escapades captivated and inspired some of the most influential artists of her time.

She was painted by Boldini and Augustus John, sketched by Drian and Alastair, and photographed by Man Ray and Cecil Beaton, among others. Jean Cocteau praised her strange beauty; Jack Kerouac dedicated poems to her; Fortuny, Poiret, and Erté dressed her. She continues to inspire top designers today, including John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld.

The Marchesa Casati is a visual biography, telling Casati’s captivating life

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story alongside the art and designs she

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family momentos, paintings, sculptures,

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seen, illustrate the artistic and cultural legacy she left behind. Runway images,

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Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino are the authors of the bestsell-

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ing her lifetime and beyond. Personal and photographs, some never before

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ing biography Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati. They are the Directors of The Casati Archives.

Diane von Furstenberg is an internationally renowned fashion designer.

sketches, and advertorials show her

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continuing impact on the present-day

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Award–winning writer. Lady Moorea

fashion community.

Black is Casati’s granddaughter.

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More Is More Tony Duquette

By Hutton Wilkinson Foreword by John Galliano More Is More, the exquisite second volume about Tony Duquette, delves into the creative process and personal life of this great American designer renowned for his fantastical artwork, sculpture, jewelry, gardens, film sets, and interiors. Using “The Enchanted Vision”—a three-day lecture delivered by Duquette at UCLA in the early 1970s—as its springboard, More Is More conveys through lavish illustrations Duquette’s artistic credo on the arts of living and the living arts. Author Hutton Wilkinson explains Duquette’s design philosophy, creative process, and studio practices, as well as the evolution of his exceptional style and vision.

While Duquette’s own work receives full attention, an entire chapter is devoted to the artwork and persona of his wife, Elizabeth “Beegle.” This personal dimension is further enhanced by countless anecdotes about the fabulous life they led together: their international

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Hutton Wilkinson is president of Tony

and gatherings, their homes and studios.

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Duquette, Inc., where he continues

The final chapter reveals that Duquette’s

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Duquette’s business as a jewelry and

travels, active social lives among royalty and the jet-set, their many dinner parties

legacy is alive and well as Wilkinson

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estate. John Galliano is chief designer of

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Christian Dior in Paris.

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PHOTO:BOX Edited and with an introduction

by Roberto Koch PHOTO:BOX presents a collection of 250 photographs by 200 of the world’s most prominent photographers, ranging from legendary masters to contemporary stars, in an appealing format with a portfolio binding. Photographers include Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliot Erwitt, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, David LaChapelle, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, and many more. Each image is accompanied by an engaging commentary and a brief biography of the photographer.

The book is organized by subject and theme, offering a fresh perspective on the medium: from reportage to nature, and also covering war, portraits, still lifes, women, travel, cities, art, fashion, the nude, and sports. PHOTO:BOX is an irresistible and amazingly affordable survey of photography. ˘ National print publicity ˘ Outreach to fashion, art, and

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for which he received the 1991 Kodak Award. As publisher of Contrasto, one of the world’s leading publishers of photo books, and founder and CEO of Forma, the International Center of Photography in Milan, he is deeply knowledgable about photography. He lives in Rome and Milan.

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Johnny Cash I See a Darkness

By Reinhard Kleist The first and only illustrated biography of “The Man in Black”—Johnny Cash—the most famous country singer of all time Cash was a 17-time Grammy winner who sold more than 90 million albums in his lifetime and became an icon of American music in the 20th century. Graphic novelist Reinhard Kleist depicts Johnny Cash’s eventful life from his early sessions with Elvis Presley (1956), through the concert in Folsom Prison (1968), his spectacular comeback in the 1990s, and the final years before his death on September 12, 2003.

Already a bestseller and award-winner in Europe, Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness vividly portrays the unpredictable life of a loner, patriot, outlaw, and music rebel, making this unique biography a compelling read for multiple generations of graphic novel and music fans. ˘ National print publicity

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comics art publications

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graphic novel author and artist. His pre-

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The Art of Osamu Tezuka God of Manga

By Helen McCarthy Osamu Tezuka has often been called “the god of manga” and “the Walt Disney of Japan,” but he was far more than that. Tezuka was Walt Disney, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Tim Burton, and Carl Sagan all rolled into one incredibly prolific creator, changing the face of Japanese culture forever. Best known for Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion, Tezuka was instrumental in developing Japanese animation and modern manga comics.

The Art of Osamu Tezuka is the first authorized biography celebrating his work and life and featuring over 300 images—many of which have never

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been seen outside of Japan. With text by respected manga expert Helen McCarthy, The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga pays tribute to the work of an artist, writer, animator, doctor, entrepreneur, and traveler whose curious mind spawned dozens of animated films, and over 170,000 pages of comics art in one astonishingly creative lifetime.

The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga also includes an exclusive 45-minute DVD documentary covering

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books about Japanese animation and

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comics, including the first book in the

Tezuka’s prolific career, from his

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English language devoted to anime: Anime! A Beginners Guide To Japanese Animation (1993). She is also the curator

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Far Out A Space-Time Chronicle

By Michael Benson In Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle, author and ďŹ lmmaker Michael Benson assembles an outstanding collection of astronomical images from observatories around the world and in space. We live in a golden age of astronomical observation. Some of the resulting images are well known and have inspired millions of people; others, equally breathtaking, have never been published before. For this book, Benson has culled the very best, and organized them into a thrilling journey through space and time to the universeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great places, ranging from â&#x20AC;&#x153;nearbyâ&#x20AC;? nebulae in our own Milky Way galaxy to the light of the Hubble Deep Field that has traveled billions of light-years.

Every bit as innovative and beautiful as the authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s successful Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes but far grander in conception, Far Out is an inspiring work of art and science on the cutting edge of human perception.

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â&#x20AC;˘ 300 full-color illustrations

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(Abrams) saw print in ďŹ ve languages and won a First Prize for Design award at the 2004 New York Book Fair. He has contributed articles to the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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The engine driving Carinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seething star formation are several open clusters containing about a dozen O-type stars. These very rare, extremely massive stars shine in predominantly ultraviolet light with a million times the Sunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brightness or more. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re from 50 to over 100 times the Sunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mass â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so large and powerful that the outwardly directed force of their radiation is almost enough to counter the in-pulling eďŹ&#x20AC;ects of their gravity, meaning theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re forever on the verge of going supernova. In this theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re near the so-called Eddington Limit, named after English astrophysicist Arthur Stanley Eddington, who ďŹ rst calculated it.

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GrafďŹ ti New York

By Eric â&#x20AC;&#x153;DEAL CIAâ&#x20AC;? Felisbret, with contributions by Luke â&#x20AC;&#x153;SPAR ONEâ&#x20AC;? Felisbret Foreword by James Prigoff Decades after the movement globalized, New York is still the mecca of grafďŹ ti culture. Painting there is a badge of honor, with grafďŹ ti artists from around the globe making pilgrimages to New York for that purpose. This is the city where it all began, yet few know the back story.

GrafďŹ ti New York ďŹ lls that gap, detailing the concepts, aesthetics, ideals, and social structures that have served as a cultural blueprint for grafďŹ ti movements across the world. The book features approximately 1,000 images, complemented by texts by the authors and relevant players in the movement, as well as descriptive graphics and sidebars.

Ranging from the birth of simple signature tags to todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vibrant murals, and covering the ups and downs of the movement, the cultureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s value system, its social framework, the various forms of grafďŹ ti, and signiďŹ cant artists and crews, GrafďŹ ti New York is a major addition to

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Former grafďŹ ti artist Eric â&#x20AC;&#x153;DEAL CIAâ&#x20AC;?

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Luke â&#x20AC;&#x153;SPAR ONEâ&#x20AC;? Felisbret is a grafďŹ ti artist and historian whose work has been widely exhibited. Together they

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Good Times, Bad Times Led Zeppelin

By Jerry Prochnicky and Ralph Hulett Good Times, Bad Times: Led Zeppelin captures the public and private lives of rock gods Led Zeppelin through rare and iconic photographs. More than any other band, they embodied the rock-star lifestyle of sex, drugs, and rock and roll and came to define the music and culture of the 1970s. Forty years after the release of their first album in 1969, Led Zeppelin—Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham— continues to fascinate and inspire legions of fans, young and old alike.

A general overview of the band’s history will introduce the core of the book: a gallery of more than 200 photographs, laid out in chronological order, more than half of which have never been published. Whether onstage, backstage, recording in the studio, on tour, or at home—the band is shown as never before. From their very first performance in Denmark on September 7, 1968 (as the New Yardbirds) to their last performance in London in 2007, this collection of

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the group became, and remains, one of

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the greatest and most notorious bands in the history of rock and roll.

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Jerry Prochnicky has been researching the Led Zeppelin story for more than 40 years. He is the co-author of Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison. Ralph Hulett is a rock photographer and writer whose work has appeared in music magazines and on television programs, such as VH1’s Behind the Music. The two co-authored Whole Lotta Led: Our Flight with Led Zeppelin.

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Golf’s Dream 18s Fantasy Courses Comprised of Over 300 Holes from Around the World

By David Barrett Golfers love to dream about exotic courses they can play only in their dreams—courses made up of real holes from around the world.

Here, in Golf’s Dream 18s, are fabulous courses made up of great holes, each meant to test particular skills and to give particular pleasures. Among them are Scenic Holes, Historic Holes, Short Holes, Long Holes, Water Holes, Strategic Holes, Bunkerless Holes, and more. At the end there is the Ultimate Course, made up of the best of the best from the other 17.

Each course is designed on the same blueprint as regular courses, with the usual mix of par threes, par fours, and par fives—and a variety of challenges.

So it’s a dream, but a dream based on real golf.

Each hole is described with loving care, giving tips on how to play it, where the hidden dangers lie, who designed it, and why it fits into a particular Dream 18.

The photographs, carefully selected to show each hole at its best, bring the challenges to life.

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Courses of the U.S. Open.

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15th Hole, 190 Yards, Par 3

Many courses have a par 3 that is known as a “redan hole.”

This one is the Redan Hole—all others are copies of this template.

The 15th at North Berwick dates back to 1869, when the course expanded from six to nine holes. The designer is unknown. It’s slightly uphill, with a green that is mostly not visible from the tee and slopes from right to left and front to back. The green is angled diagonally from right to left, with a deep bunker guarding the left side at around the

midpoint of the green. There are also a couple of bunkers to the right. A club member who had been an officer in the Crimean War said the hole reminded him of a redan, a French word (since adopted in English) for a V-shaped salient on a fort. All of the holes at North Berwick have names, so this one was tagged “Redan.”

This type of par-3 hole was popularized by early American golf architect C. B. Macdonald, who liked to incorporate features of Scottish holes on his courses. Later architects also copied the design, some with exact replicas and some with approximations. A hole does not need to be uphill or have bunkers on the right to be considered a redan, but the diagonal nature and slope of the green and the placement of the left bunker are considered essential.

No. 4 Myopia Hunt Club, South Hamilton, Massachusetts !

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4th Hole, 392 Yards, Par 4

Back around the turn of the twentieth century, Myopia was the most feared course in the country for U.S. Open competitors.

Hosting four U.S. Opens between 1898 and 1908, Myopia accounts for three of the highest seventy-two-hole winning totals in history, including a ghastly 331 in 1901. At one of those Opens, a player is reputed to have putted off the green on the 4th hole—and lost his ball in a swamp.

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The course, playing as it does at 6,539 yards from the back tees, is not quite so formidable with modern equipment. It’s still a good test, though, and a classic design laid out by one of the club’s own members, Herbert Leeds. The 4th is a hole that doglegs around a wetland to the left, and has impressed observers through the ages. English golf writer Bernard Darwin wrote in 1913 that the 4th and 5th “are two as good consecutive holes as can be seen at any course in the world.” Some eight decades later, golf architect and observer Tom Doak said that the 4th “might very well be the best hole of its length in the free world.”

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Exceptional Treehouses

By Alain Laurens and La Cabane Perchée In Exceptional Treehouses, author and treehouse builder Alain Laurens reveals 30 gorgeous treehouse structures, 25 of which are entirely new creations, all illustrated with Daniel Dufour’s beautiful watercolors as well as photographs

by Jacques Delacroix, commissioned specially for this book.

As in his first book, Treehouse Living, Laurens demonstrates his commitment to sustainable building and environmentalism with his designs, all executed with ecological ideals in mind. In 2000 Laurens started his company, La Cabane Perchée, to design and build treehouses around Europe. Each house takes into account the local environment, as well as the tree in which the structure stands, and the photographs show details of how the treehouses are constructed without driving nails into any part of the host tree. Exceptional Treehouses is the perfect inspiration for treehouse lovers, eco-friendly architects, and enthusiastic amateurs. ˘ National print publicity ˘ Outreach to architectural, design, and environmental publications ˘ Holiday gift book round-ups

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The New Earth From Above 365 Days

The international bestseller, now revised and updated

By Yann Arthus-Bertrand The New Earth From Above: 365 Days is now fully revised and updated. Reaching across the continents, from the icebergs of Antarctica to the cotton fields of India, the breathtaking, full-color photographs are accompanied by informative new text that describes the environmental concerns related to each location. Each chapter of the book opens with an insightful introduction by a different noted author who addresses a subject critical to the future of our planet: agriculture, biodiversity, sustainable development, energy, forests, water, and global warming.

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heads of WWF France and the Observatory of Renewable Resources, and the president

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of Alter Eco, a fair trade firm.

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beauty of our planet and are reminders of our capacity to save or destroy it.

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Golf 365 Days: A History

Underwater Eden: 365 Days

Sports

Natural World

History

New York Yankees 365

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Baseball 365 Days Color Photographs from the Archives of Major League Baseball

World War II 365 Days From the Library of Congress ISBN: 978-0-8109-9637-3

New York 365 Days From the Photo Archives of the New York Times ISBN: 978-0-8109-4942-3

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The New Earth from Above 365 Days ISBN: 978-0-8109-8461-5

Underwater Eden 365 Days ISBN: 978-0-8109-9311-2

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Grand Old Game 365 Days of Baseball

The American Civil War 365 Days From the Library of Congress

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365 Ways to Save the Earth New & Updated Edition ISBN: 978-0-8109-8406-6

Space Golf Courses of the World 365 Days

Astronomy 365 Days ISBN: 978-0-8109-5715-2

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Gardens Around the World 365 Days ISBN: 978-0-8109-4980-5

Golf 365 Days A History

The Universe 365 Days

African Odyssey 365 Days

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Creating the Worlds of Star Wars庐 365 Days

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The Beatles 365 Days

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Spirituality

Wisdom 365 Thoughts from Indian Masters

Devotions Wisdom from the Cradle of Civilation

Offerings Buddhist Wisdom for Every Day

Awakenings Asian Wisdom for Every Day

Revelations Latin American Wisdom for Every Day

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6 Billion Others Portraits of Humanity from Around the World

By Yann Arthus-Bertrand For everyone who loved Family of Man, a new look at the human experience The latest project from bestselling photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 6 Billion Others presents the photographic portraits and transcribed responses of 500 men and women, interviewed on video over the past six years. This understated yet compelling look at ways of life both familiar and strange creates an instructive, affecting biography of modern humanity.

Inspired by the idea that “every single person has got something interesting to say, and every single person has the right to say it,” Arthus-Bertrand created a questionnaire of 40 prompts on universal topics such as family, happiness, money, and love, and dispatched six filmmakers to interview more than 5,000 subjects in 75 countries around the world. About one-tenth of the resulting 3,500 hours of film is available online,

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25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom

By Alan Moore, edited by Eva Prinz “Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages, and the Holocaust.” — Alan Moore With each new technological advance, pornography has proliferated and degraded in quality. Today, porn is everywhere, but where is it art? 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom surveys the history of pornography and argues that the success and vibrancy of a society relates to its permissiveness in sexual matters.

This history of erotic art brings together some of the most provocative illustrations ever published, showcasing the evolution of pornography over diverse cultures from prehistoric to modern times. Beginning with the Venus of Willendorf, created between 24,000–22,000 bce, and book-ended by contemporary photography, it also contains a timeline covering major erotic works in several cultures. 25,000 Years of

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Alan Moore is most famous for his

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sexual spirit, making this book a treatise

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acclaimed comic books Watchmen, V for

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Vendetta, and From Hell. In 2006 Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie released Lost Girls, an illustrated series of erotic art exploring the possible sexual meanings in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He lives in Northampton, England. Eva Prinz is a New York–based editor and curator.

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The Stooges The Authorized and Illustrated Story

By Robert Matheu Foreword by Alice Cooper Formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1967, the Stooges are icons of modern rock, influencing the fledgling sounds of punk, heavy metal, and hard core. From the beginning, lead singer and provocateur Iggy Pop (b. James Osterberg) astounded audiences with his outrageous stage performances, accompanied by guitarist Ron Asheton, his drummer brother Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander with their raw and bracing sound. The group disbanded in 1974, but reunited in 2003 to play before a vastly expanded fan base of over 10 million devotees worldwide, and they continue to tour today.

In this book, rock photographer Robert Matheu compiles the first ever authorized book about the band, including iconic photographs, classic interviews, and vintage articles and ephemera dating from the band’s breakout performances in Detroit in the late 1960s through their most recent shows in 2009. With new interviews from every significant member of the Stooges, past and present, previously unpublished photography, and a Stooges

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based in Los Angeles who began working

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for CREEM magazine in the late 1970s. He photographed the Stooges at some of

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their earliest shows and has maintained a close relationship with the group. His

’n’ roll icon with over 50 million albums sold who continues to record and tour.

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Japan Season by Season

By Sandrine Bailly Illustrations and photographs, each paired with an eloquent quotation, take the reader on a tour of the Land of the Rising Sun in Japan: Season by Season.

The images include some of the earliest photographs taken in Japan, in addition to the work of contemporary photographers, plus traditional and modern prints and designs. The accompanying texts are taken from classic works like The Tale of Genji, as well as more modern literature, each one revealing a piece of wisdom from the East for each season of the year.

Japan has held a certain fascination for many Westerners since its reopening

by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854.

Thanks to two centuries of isolation, its classical traditions and customs survived industralization and globalization, resulting in a unique blending of old and new.

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Sandrine Bailly received a Master’s

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School of African and Oriental Studies in

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Next Houses Architecture for the Twenty-First Century

By Ron Broadhurst Presenting a collection of 25 houses on five continents, Next Houses is a tour of the finest residential architecture of this young century. Author Ron Broadhurst has selected examples from nine countries, showcasing established superstars and emerging architects, including UNStudio, David Adjaye, and David Chipperfield, among others.

The products of dialogue between demanding clients and innovative designers, these houses represent the best and most innovative living spaces, including homes created with sustainability and ecofriendliness in mind—such as Werner Sobek’s H16 and Krauss Schönberg’s Haus W—as well as homes constructed on challenging sites—such as Tadao Ando’s 4x4 House or Álvaro Leite Siza Vieira’s Casa Tóló. An authoritative collection, Next Houses demonstrates uniquely of-the-moment architecture, and offers up a vision of how we will think of homes in the decades to come. ˘ National print publicity ˘ Outreach to interior design,

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Ron Broadhurst is formerly Director of Communications for Richard Meier

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& Partners Architects and, prior to

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that, was architecture editor at Rizzoli

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T H E A R T O F JA M ES CA M ERON ’S

By L I S A F I T Z P A T R I C K Foreword by P E T E R J A C K S O N Introduction by J O N L A N D A U

Academy Award–winning writer/director James Cameron, the maker of Titanic and the creator of the Terminator series, has been crafting Avatar for over four years. The film follows the story of an ex-marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on a distant planet filled with exotic life forms. As an avatar, a human consciousness in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people. The Art of Avatar, the companion book to this epic 3-D action adventure, explores the developmental and conceptual art used by the creative team to create the original world of Avatar.

With over 100 exclusive full-color images including sketches, matte paintings, drawings, and film stills, The Art of Avatar reveals the process behind the creation of set designs for the imaginative vistas, unique landscapes, aerial battle scenes, bioluminescent nights, and fantastical creatures. Interviews with art directors, visual effects designers, animators, costume designers, and creature makers bring insight into this creative process. The Art of Avatar brings readers behind the scenes of this unprecedented moviegoing experience.

“My goal is to rekindle those amazing mystical moments my generation felt when we first saw 2001: A Space Odyssey or Star Wars. It took me ten years to find something hard enough to be interesting.”

—James Cameron

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Lisa Fitzpatrick has been a writer and editor for over 15 years. She has

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movie release, December 2009

shows including Kung Fu Panda, 24, Star Wars, Shrek, Madagascar,

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and The X-Files, as well as anniversary editions for Sony Pictures Imageworks and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She lives in San Francisco. Peter Jackson is a three-time Academy Award–winning director, producer, and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Jon Landau is an Academy Award–winning producer and former executive vice president at Twentieth Century Fox, and is

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On December 18, Academy Award– winner James Cameron will debut the most immersive, engaging, and visually innovative universe ever realized on film. Using groundbreaking advances in SFX and 3-D technology, Avatar promises to redefine the cinema-going experience, as well as the craft of filmmaking itself.

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\ Twentieth Century Fox will launch the movie with major corporate partnerships and Avatar will enjoy a massive presence in the media and marketplace this fall. \ Groundbreaking visuals: The filmmakers invented the proprietary new fusion camera system called FUSION 3D, a combination of virtual production and 3-D photography, specifically for the film.

\ Visual effects by Pete Jackson’s Oscarwinning Weta Visual (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong). \ Cameron’s films have grossed $3.5 billion worldwide and Titanic still holds the title of highest grossing film of all time. \ Avatar combines elements of massive spectacle with intimate character development—a combination this team has used to previous box office success.

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Evidence of Evolution Photographs by Susan Middleton Text by Mary Ellen Hannibal Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Evidence of Evolution uses exquisite images by distinguished photographer Susan Middleton to reveal beautiful and surprising patterns of evolutionary development in animals and plants. These photographs, of rare and remarkable specimens from the collections of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, are accompanied by a clear, accessible overview of the key evolutionary concepts that explain life on Earth, by science writer Mary Ellen Hannibal.

Virtually a natural history museum in a book, Evidence of Evolution expresses the power of Darwin’s vision in images and words that bridge art and science. ˘ National print publicity ˘ Outreach to science, nature, photography, and art publications ˘ Cross-promotion with San Francisco’s city-wide celebration of the

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• 145 full-color illustrations

Susan Middleton is a photographer

publication of On the Origin of Species

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plants. She is co-author of four books on the world’s natural heritage, including Archipelago and Witness. She lives in San Francisco. Mary Ellen Hannibal is the author of Leaves & Pods (Abrams). Her writing has appeared in publications such as the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, and Elle. She is the founder of Evolve 2009 and lives in San Francisco.

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Dread & Superficiality Woody Allen as Comic Strip Written and illustrated by Stuart Hample Introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller “Some artists achieve immortality through their work. I prefer to achieve mine through not dying.”

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”

—Woody Allen Woody Allen’s classic neurosis, humorous life philosophy, and complex relationships, are embodied in the classic comic strip “Inside Woody Allen,” syndicated daily by King Features from 1976 to 1984, illustrated by Stuart Hample. Dread & Superficiality: Woody Allen as Comic Strip

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is a compilation of 220 of the best of the comic’s comics, all reproduced from the original art, along with sketches, photographs, and development work.

An all-new preface by Hample provides a rare glimpse into the creation of this material, revealing a long-overlooked facet of Allen’s career that is smart and funny and as timeless as the man who has inspired a generation with his unique vision.

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Stuart Hample, chronic self-doubter,

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writer, cartoonist, and “multi-media

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failure,” has written, edited, and illustrated more than two dozen books, including the international bestseller Children’s Letters to God. Woody Allen

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Planet Golf USA The Definitive Reference to Great Golf Courses in America

By Darius Oliver Foreword by Ben Crenshaw A companion volume to Abrams’ hugely successful Planet Golf, which Golf Magazine called “absolutely superb, a stunning achievement,” this gorgeous book features superb photographs and detailed reviews of more than 140 of America’s finest golf courses, making it the most comprehensive directory ever published on the nation’s outstanding layouts. Included are reviews of every Top 100 ranked course in the United States, according to Golf Digest and Golf Magazine, including Augusta National, Cypress Point, Pine Valley, Shinnecock Hills, Pebble Beach, Whistling Straits, Oakmont, the National, Winged Foot, Pacific Dunes, Bandon Dunes, Oakland Hills, Medinah, and many more.

Author Darius Oliver, a regular contributor to golf rating panels, visited every course he reviews in this book and provides readers with a detailed ratings section that outlines the best, hardest, and most dramatic golf courses and golf holes in the country, as well as a

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• 270 full-color photographs

A respected writer, course rater, and

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international golf consultant, Darius

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Oliver is one of the game’s best-traveled

unique Planet Golf World 100 ranking

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the planet and is sure to generate much interest and discussion. ˘ National print publicity ˘ Outreach to sports, men’s, and lifestyle publications ˘ Holiday gift book round-ups

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commentators and the world’s most authoritative voice on course design and architecture. His previous book, Planet

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1,000 COLLECTIBLES

MEMORABILIA AND STORIES FROM A G A L A X Y FA R , FA R AWAY

BY STEPHEN J. SANSWEET WITH ANNE NEUMANN Star Wars: 1,000 Collectibles takes the reader on a journey through cool and kitsch, from toys and costumes to life-size statues made of LEGO bricks to consumer goods such as candy, clothing, toothpaste—and much more. Drawn from the largest private Star Wars collection in the known universe, this stunning treasure trove of memorabilia and colorful anecdotes mixes fun with nostalgia, delighting both the casual fan and the serious collector. Since the first Star Wars film opened in 1977, George Lucas’s epic space fantasy has become not only one of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time, but also an obsession for collectors around the globe, who have spent more than $15 billion on Star Wars merchandise. These collectibles range from the offbeat—C-3PO tape dispensers, fan-made bantha piñatas, and Darth Vader popcorn poppers—to the everyday—Boba Fett cake pans, Yoda PEZ dispensers, and “Cream of Jawa” soup. Here for the first time is a chronicle of the constantly expanding, all-encompassing, often-surreal lifestyle of collecting Star Wars—filled with incredible stranger-than-fiction stories from the galaxy’s foremost collector.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Stephen J. Sansweet is the author or coauthor of 14 books (12 of them on the Star Wars saga) and the director of content management and head of fan relations at Lucasfilm. He was formerly the Los Angeles bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal. Over the years, Sansweet has amassed the largest private collection of Star Wars memorabilia in the world, which he houses at a place called Rancho Obi-Wan. He lives in Northern California. Anne Neumann is the resident collection manager at Rancho Obi-Wan, where she uses complex databases and photography to track and organize the more than 75,000 items in the collection.

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Robert Mangold Beyond the Line: Paintings and Project 2000–2008 Essays by Douglas Dreishpoon and Marla Prather Commentary by William Pedersen Interview with Robert Mangold Robert Mangold: Beyond the Line celebrates the vision of an artist who has earned a distinguished place in the grand tradition of abstract painting.

Marking a forthcoming exhibition at the prestigious Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York, this book tracks Mangold’s artistic roots and development and documents the varied series he has made during the last eight years. It also marks his important window commission for the new Federal courthouse in Buffalo, slated for completion in 2010, and designed

by Kohn Pedersen Fox as part of the U.S. General Services Administration Design Excellence Program.

Insightful essays and an in-depth interview with the artist afford an intimate look into Mangold’s creative process, from the austere geometric paintings of the 1970s to his recent work on windows and the vibrant Ring Images he is creating today.

Luxuriously packaged, each volume

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• 75 full-color and 30 black-and-white

Douglas Dreishpoon is Chief Curator of the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New

illustrations • 128 pages, 10 * 13" • Hardcover with slipcase

contains a woodcut reproduced by offset

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artist in the print, suitable for framing and made especially for, and available only with, this book.

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York. Marla Prather is Senior Consultant in the Department of NineteenthCentury, Modern, and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. William Pedersen is a

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Pedersen Fox in New York.

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The Artist’s Eyes

By Michael Marmor and James Ravin In this fascinating juxtaposition of science and art history, ophthalmologists Michael Marmor and James Ravin examine the role of vision and eye disease in art. They focus on the eye, where the process of vision originates, and investigate how aspects of vision have inspired—and confounded—many of the world’s most famous artists.

Why do Georges Seurat’s paintings appear to shimmer? How come the eyes in certain portraits seem to follow you around the room? Are the broad brushstrokes in Monet’s Water Lilies due to cataracts? Could van Gogh’s magnificent yellows be a result of drugs? How does eye disease affect the artistic process? Or does it at all? The Artist’s Eyes considers these questions and more.

Using key works of art as well as innovative illustrations that simulate different artists’ vision, Marmor and Ravin shed new light on the story of art. ˘ National print publicity ˘ Outreach to art and medical/health

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Michael Marmor is one of today’s lead-

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ing experts in retinal disease and retinal

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physiology, and the author of more than

publications

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150 scientific papers. He is Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine. He lives in Stanford, California.

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an interest in the effects of illness on artists. His investigations have been featured on CNN, The Today Show, and in other national media. He lives in Toldedo, Ohio.

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The History of Beads From 100,000 b.c. to the Present Revised and Expanded Edition

By Lois Sherr Dubin Since its publication in 1987, The History of Beads has become the world’s definitive guide for bead lovers, collectors, and scholars. In this new edition, bead expert Lois Sherr Dubin updates all chapters with the latest archeological discoveries, pens a new chapter on contemporary adornment since the 1980s, with a focus on glass beads, and best of all, adds 200 beads to what is considered by many to be the pièce de résistance: the eight-page gatefold timeline that guides readers through the remarkably rich history of the world’s first form of adornment. The latest revisions include the oldest bead ever discovered, dating to 108,000 b.c. and explain why beads worn on the human body were the original media communication system.

Updates include the numerous maps scattered throughout, which have been

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modernized and are now in color; 72

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Lois Sherr Dubin has collected and

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researched beads for over 50 years.

formerly black-and-white images have been replaced with full color; and 125

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edition. Beautifully packaged with a new cover, this revised and expanded edition is a must-have for devotees of the first

ISBN: 978-0-8109-5174-7 US $75.00

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She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in landscape architecture and a strong background in ecology. Her international practice in this field enabled her to travel widely and to obtain beads from many countries. The

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Flower Arranging the American Way A World Association of Flower Arrangers Book

By Nancy D’Oench, coordinated by Deen Day Sanders, with major photography by Mick Hales Showcasing more than 250 designs by more than 130 gifted amateur arrangers under the auspices of the World Association of Flower Arrangers (WAFA USA), Flower Arranging the American Way is a contemporary celebration of an art form dating back to the third millennium bce. Superbly photographed by Mick Hales and other talented photographers, with each arrangement explained in clear and inviting detail by author Nancy D’Oench, the selection of designs shown here is distinctly American.

In addition to flowers and foliage, each design incorporates natural materials from the seashore, the roadside, and even the compost heap to make dramatic mixedmedia creations. Arrangers at all skill levels will find inspiration and advice aplenty.

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• 252 full-color illustrations

Nancy D’Oench is a writer, award-

Chicago, Pennsylvania, Wilimington,

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winning flower arranger, lecturer,

and Washington, DC

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and longtime member of the Garden

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Club of America. She lives in Portland, Connecticut. Deen Day Sanders is vice president for publications for WAFA

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USA. Mick Hales is a noted landscape

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photographer and writer whose books include Gardens Around the World: 365 Days and Gardens Private & Personal.

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Egypt

By Philip Plisson and Christian Jacq From sand-swept desert ruins to the brilliant water of the Red Sea to the vibrant city of Cairo, Egypt’s landscape is as legendary as its mythical history.

Home to hieroglyphs, pharaohs, and the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt’s rich cultural heritage truly merits it a place in the Cradle of Civilization.

In this breathtaking photographic journey, renowned photographer Philip Plisson travels with bestselling author and Egyptologist Christian Jacq to celebrate the many places and faces of this spectacular land. Plisson’s expert lens captures stunning icons of antiquity with the same grace and beauty as it presents the people of Egypt—at work, at play, subsisting as they have for centuries in communities along the Nile Delta and, at the same time, enjoying all that modernity has to offer. Jacq’s illuminating text provides insight to Plisson’s 250 splendid photos, inviting readers to rediscover Egypt as they’ve never known it before.

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• 250 full-color illustrations

Philip Plisson was born in 1947. He is the

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author of more than 40 books, including

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The Sea, The Sea Day by Day, The Eternal

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Sea, Lighthouses, Ships, and Queen Mary 2.

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Norman Rockwell’s Christmas Book

The million-copy classic bestseller— now revised and updated with 8 frameable prints

Carols, Stories, Poems & Recollections Revised and Updated Originally published by Abrams in 1977, Norman Rockwell’s Christmas Book is a holiday classic that has remained a bestselling family treasure for over 30 years. With over 85 images from Norman Rockwell’s archive of art, this fully redesigned edition brings a fresh, contemporary appeal to the original vintage volume.

This holiday favorite features timeless art, including images of children sleigh-riding, families caroling, and Santa preparing for his big night, in addition to 15 new images culled from Rockwell’s extensive archive and eight ready-toframe limited-edition prints. Alongside these lush illustrations are Christmas poems and stories from beloved writers such as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Hans Christian Andersen, and Lewis Carroll; as well as Christmas carol music and lyrics and Christmas dinner recipes from Fannie Merritt Farmer’s 1896 cooking tome. Norman Rockwell’s Christmas Book is the perfect present under the tree for Rockwell fans young and old.

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20th-century American painter known

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A LTO N BROWN

The Early Years alton brown is a foodie phenomenon: a great cook, a very funny guy, and—underneath it all—a science geek who’s as interested in the chemistry of cooking as he is in eating. (Well, almost.) Here, fi nally, are the books that Brown’s legion of fans have been salivating for—two volumes that together will provide an unexpurgated record of his long-running, award-winning Food Network TV series, Good Eats .

From “Pork Fiction” (on baby back ribs), to “Citizen Cane” (on caramel sauce), to “Oat Cuisine” (on oatmeal), every hilarious episode is represented. Each book—the second will be published in fall 2010—is illustrated with behind-the-scenes photos taken on the Good Eats set. Each contains more than 140 recipes and 1,000 photographs and illustrations, along with explanations of techniques, lots of food-science information (of course!), and more food puns, food jokes, and food trivia than you can shake a wooden spoon at.

1,000 photographs and illustrations More than 140 recipes 400 pages, 9 * 10" Hardcover with jacket / fold-out poster ISBN 978-1-58479-795-1

A LT O N B R OW N is the writer, director, and host of the Food

Network show Good Eats, which won a 2007 Peabody Award, and is the expert commentator on Iron Chef America . In 2004 his STC book I’m Just Here For the Food won the James Beard Award in the reference category. Brown lives near Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and daughter.

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feature, and media attention

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Knitted Socks East and West 30 Designs Inspired by Japanese Stitch Patterns

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Japanese stitch patterns bring a fascinating new dimension to sock design

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Whether short or long, fi ne or bulky, simple or complex, each of the 30 designs in Knitted Socks East and West is named afer an intriguing aspect of Japanese culture. For example, the leg of the Origami crew socks appears to fold in and out; the Sumo slipper socks are named after the heavy, organic movement of the cables in their thick yarn; and the Ikebana knee socks highlight a textural floral design. Step-by-step text and easy-toread charts are included for each design, along with illustrated directions for the new Japanese techniques introduced.

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One More Skein

30 Quick Projects to Knit

By LEIGH R ADFORD p Photographs by JOHN MULLIGAN

Beautiful projects that can be completed quickly, with minimal yarn

“two needles and one (or one more) skein of yarn—the possibilities never cease to amaze me,” writes Leigh Radford in the introduction to her new book. Radford’s fascination with the creative potential of these raw materials is evident throughout One More Skein , where she melds the alternative approach to knitting and felting she introduced in AlterKnits and AlterKnits Felt with the magic she worked with a single skein of yarn in the bestselling One Skein.

One More Skein features 30 diverse projects that can be completed with one or two average-sized skeins of yarn or multiple bits of leftover yarn. Projects include an earflap hat sized for the whole family; fi ngerless mitts; sweaters, britches, and capelets for baby; hemp jewelry embellished with jump ring “beads”; a felted, pleated sleeve to dress up a vase; and a multicolored blanket worked from assorted stash yarn. All of them are quick and relatively easy to make, without sacrificing beauty or ingenuity.

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Perfect for knitters looking to make quick gifts

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Felt (STC) and One Skein , a highly sought after teacher, and the former art director of Interweave Knits magazine.

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Weekend Knitting and Handknit Holidays (both STC). Visit her website at www.leighradford.com.

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La Maison du Chocolat Timeless Classics with a Twist

By GILLES M ARCHAL p Photographs by VÉRONIQUE DURRUT Y

The famous gourmet chocolatier brings us 40 recipes, from classic to avant-garde

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Lush photographs combine the look of fashion photography with the sensual appeal of chocolate

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la maison du chocolat is one of the best-known high-end chocolate makers in the world. With 16 shops in Paris and other locations (including New York), their award-winning creations are synonymous with gourmet chocolate. In this luxurious book, the brilliant chocolatier and pastry chef Gilles Marchal, head of La Maison du Chocolat, revisits the recipes that made the shop famous and brings us a host of creative new recipes as well.

The recipes include timeless classics like chocolate éclairs, pralines, and truffles; unusual variations like chocolate tagliatelle; and audacious concoctions like red and black ganache floating in champagne, foie gras dipped in chocolate fondue, and a macaroon made with chocolate, black truffle, and pear.

The fi nished recipes are magnificently photographed by Véronique Durruty to convey the luxury and drama of these delectable chocolate creations.

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Chocolat in 2007. Passionate and audacious, he has dedicated himself to experimenting with new flavor combinations. He is the author of a previous book, La Fraise.

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Harvard Square An Illustrated History Since 1950

By MO LOTM AN p Essays by JOHN UPDIKE, GOVERNOR BILL WELD, BILL M C KIBBEN, TOM RUSH, A M ANDA PAL MER, and PAUL BAR ANAY

A visual journey through six decades of this historic urban space what do barack obama, Samuel Beckett, Fidel Castro, Joan Baez, Conan O’Brien, Natalie Portman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower have in common? Their footsteps have all crossed paths in Harvard Square. This well-trod patch of Cambridge turf at the corner of the United States’ most renowned university has long been a crossroads where poetry, retailing, politics, design, performance, and every other cultural endeavor intersect.

From the square’s tweedy aspect in the 1950s through its many transformations in the ’60s,’70s, and beyond, author Mo Lotman gives a decade-by-decade account of Harvard Square’s history, traditions, and lore. The bookstores, the billiard parlors, the barbershops, the booze and burger joints: they’re all here. Based on interviews with more than a hundred of the square’s denizens, illustrated with archival photographs, and graced with texts by John Updike, Bill McKibben, Governor Bill Weld, and others, Harvard Square brings “the smartest urban space in America” to vivid life.

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A must-have for the 270,000 living Harvard alums as well as current students, faculty, residents, tourists, and architecture and history buffs

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Essays by well-known writers John Updike, Bill McKibben, and others 500 color and black-andwhite photographs

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Giuliano Hazan’s Thirty Minute Pasta 100 Quick and Easy Recipes

By GIULIANO HA Z AN p Photographs by JOSEPH DE LEO

One of America’s foremost pasta experts and cooking teachers offers authentic, simple recipes for busy cooks

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now that america’s low-carb obsession is over, home cooks are once again looking to prepare well-balanced meals that include everyone’s favorite food—pasta. Few of us, though, have the leisure to create a traditional Bolognese meat sauce from scratch. For those who are as pressed for time as they are starved for a toothsome bowl of beautifully sauced pasta, Giuliano Hazan has created 100 scrumptious pasta dishes that can be put together in half an hour or less.

Hazan’s repertoire—hearty pasta soups, fresh-from-thegreenmarket vegetarian dishes, and meat and seafood sauces that take their cue from the classics of Italian cuisine—will let you bring healthful, hunger-satisfying pasta back to your family’s weeknight-supper table. Included are recipes for lastminute dishes, as well as useful advice on stocking your pasta pantry, choosing cooking equipment, and figuring out which pasta shape goes with which kind of sauce.

G I U L I A N O H A Z A N is the son of famed Italian cookbook writer Marcella

Hazan. He runs a cooking school in Verona with his wife and won the IACP award for Cooking Teacher of the Year in 2007. He is a contributor to Cooking Light magazine and author of The Classic Pasta Cookbook, Every Night Italian, and How to Cook Italian.

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Learn how to make a table from an old basketball hoop— and 44 other ways to creatively repurpose garden-variety cast-offs

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TOSSED&FOUND UNCONVENTIONAL DESIGN FROM CAST-OFFS

By Linda and John Meyers

what some view as trash, Linda and John Meyers see as raw material. The wife-and-husband team—subscribers to the “reduce, reuse, recycle” ethos—have perfected a design strategy that will save you money, help the planet, and provide hours of DIY fun. The strategy? First, visit a yard sale, construction-site dumpster, or even your own attic.

Select something that somebody (even you) thought had outlived its usefulness. Then, transform that cast-off into a piece that’s interesting and usable.

In this witty book, they apply their ingenious approach to seating (a chair made from pool noodles), lighting (a lamp from discarded pastry bags), storage (an umbrella stand from industrial steel pipe), tables (a wall-mounted table from a rusty basketball hoop), and all manner of decorative objects (Astroturf pillows, a pickle-jar terrarium). These super-clever authors show you that with a little ingenuity and elbow grease, everything old becomes new again.

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This Green House Home Improvements for the Eco-Smart, the Thrifty, and the Do-It-Yourselfer

By JOSHUA PIVEN p Illustrations by OWEN SHERWOOD

Save the planet . . . one home improvement at a time

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By the New York Times bestselling author of the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbooks

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Includes more than 70 do-it-yourself projects, each accompanied by cost estimates

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Sidebars offer money-saving tips, shortcuts for completing projects, and fascinating facts and figures on the environment

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just the thought of “going green” can make you feel blue.

Trying to live sustainably sounds like a whole lot of work and a whole lot of deprivation. Well, Josh Piven aims to both shrink your carbon footprint and soothe your eco-anxiety. In a guidebook that’s as funny as it is practical, Piven shows you how to green every room of the house—and have a good time doing it.

Projects range from the playful (raising trout in your swimming pool) all the way to big-time, serious home alterations (installing a root cellar) that will have your neighbors green with envy. Don’t fret if you’re not a natural wrench-turner: Most of Piven’s suggestions are inexpensive and totally approachable, and many are accompanied by clear illustrations. This Green House is likely to be the most entertaining homeowner’s manual you’ve ever used.

J O S H UA P I V E N is the New York Times bestselling author of

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series. He has appeared on numerous television programs as a survival expert, including Today, ABC News , CNN, and the BBC.

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101 Reasons to Love™ Alabama Football

By RON GREEN, JR .

101 Reasons to Love™ Notre Dame Football

By DAVID GREEN

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the university of alabama and the University of Notre Dame boast two of the greatest teams in college football.

Alabama’s Crimson Tide, with 12 national championships, 19 Hall of Fame players and coaches, and a history of achievement that reaches back to the 1920s, is one of the most successful athletic institutions in American sports. Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish claim seven Heisman Trophy winners and the most consensus All-Americans of any school, and are the No. 1 team in the hearts of college football fans (according to the Harris Poll).

Two new books in STC’s popular “101 Reasons to Love” series focus on the personalities, games, and traditions that make these teams so special. From Notre Dame’s Four Horsemen, Knute Rockne, and famous marching band to Alabama’s legendary Paul “Bear” Bryant, elephant mascot, and Rammer Jammer cheer—these books offer devoted students, alums, and football fans plenty of reasons to cheer their favorite teams.

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Design in Orangeburg, New York.

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The “101 Reasons” series, with more than 200,000 copies in print, has strong brand recognition Packed with archival and contemporary images, team trivia, and fun facts A great gift for students and alumni of the two schools, as well as football fans Both books: 100 color and black-andwhite photographs 120 pages, 7 * 7 "

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Fifty More Places to Play Golf Before You Die Golf Experts Share the World’s Greatest Destinations

By CHRIS SANTELL A

Tee off with the newest book in Chris Santella’s bestselling series!

fifty more places to play golf before you die is the sixth of Chris Santella’s popular “Fifty Places” books (more than 300,000 copies in print), and the fi rst to return to golf— the series’ most popular subject. In this new book Santella interviews 50 luminaries in the golf world about their favorite courses and experiences. Experts range from seasoned touring professionals (Amy Alcott, Fred Funk) to journalists and photographers (James Dodson, Brian Morgan) to golf course architects (Robert von Hagge, Bob Harrison) to travel specialists (Gordon Dalgleish, Mike Lardner).

Old Country favorites like Royal Dornoch and Machrihanish in Scotland are featured, but so are venues far off the linksters’ beaten path, like Nirwana, Indonesia, where the course runs beside rice paddies in the shadow of ancient temples, and China’s Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, where players tee off at the base of the Himalayas. More than 40 spectacular photos capture the allure of these unforgettable golf destinations. p

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well as Fifty Favorite Fly-Fishing Tales (all STC).

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uted to the New Yorker, Travel & Leisure, Golf, and Delta Sky. Santella is the author of five other titles in the “Fifty Places” series, as

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sultant based in Portland, Oregon. A regular contributor to

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D E S T I N AT I O N S INCLUDE: Cypress Point Club c alifornia

Recommended by Joe Passov

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Golf Club china

Recommended by Jeff Wallach

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Recommended by Brian Morgan

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Recommended by Ian Baker-Finch

Chambers Bay Wa shington

Recommended by Bruce Charlton

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Le Creuset Mini-Cocotte 25 Sweet and Savory Recipes

By LISSA STREETER p Photographs by LOÏC NICOLOSO

Fun, stylish recipes for Le Creuset’s popular single-serving cookware

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With a low price point, the book is accessible to all home cooks and a great gift idea

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the mini-cocotte is the perfect marriage of style and function. With these diminutive casseroles, home cooks can make individual servings of pot pies, stews, soups, appetizers, and even desserts in attractive cookware that moves easily from oven or stove to table. Le Creuset Mini-Cocotte offers 25 recipes for this compact cookware, which range from traditional to innovative, savory to sweet, and can be served for everyday meals or special occasions.

Both easy and inventive, the recipes featured in the book include savory dishes like spinach soufflé, œufs cocottes with foie gras, sweet potato crumble with pecan and maple syrup, and fresh goat cheese ravioli with pistou and pine nuts.

Chocolate cake with orange zest, rose and violet soufflé, and coconut flan are among the delicious desserts. The dishes appear throughout in Le Creuset’s mini-cocottes, enamelcoated cast-iron cookware with tight-fitting lids that seal in moisture and flavor.

L I S S A S T R E E T E R was a shoe designer in New York, Milan, and Paris

before she began working as a chef and food stylist. Today she is a food writer for both magazines and books.

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The Heart of Bordeaux The Greatest Wines from Graves Châteaux Text by JA MES L AW THER p Preface by HUGH JOHNSON p Introduction by MICHEL BET TANE

The only book that covers the history and current production of the most prestigious Graves estates this beautiful and informative book reveals both the history and the distinctive characteristics of the 16 wines that comprise the Crus Classés (classified growths) of Bordeaux’s Graves region. Named for the area’s gravelly soil, Graves is known for its fi ne reds (primarily Cabernet Sauvignon) and whites (Sauvignon blanc and Sémillon).

With individual chapters on each of the châteaux, including Haut-Brion, Bouscaut, Olivier, Pape Clément, Smith Haut Lafitte, Domaine de Chevalier, and ten others, the book describes in detail the history of the estate and its wine production. Gorgeous photographs of the vineyards, the residences, and the surrounding countryside are accompanied by archival material that gives a sense of the great history of this area. As an added bonus, The Heart of Bordeaux features recipes created by some of the world’s great chefs—Daniel Boulud, Pierre Gagnaire, and Eric Ripert among them—to complement one of the fi ne wines of Graves’ classified growths.

JA M E S L AW T H E R , a former wine merchant, obtained the prestigious

Master of Wine diploma in 1993. Now based in Bordeaux, he is an independent consultant, lecturer, and writer, notably for the British magazine Decanter.

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Reversible Knitting

50 Brand-New, Groundbreaking Stitch Patterns

By LYNNE BARR p Photographs by THAYER ALLYSON GOWDY

A compendium of totally new reversible stitch patterns, along with original reversible projects

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The contributing designers are among the best known and most highly regarded in the knitting world, many with successful books of their own 250 color photographs 192 pages, 8V * 9HŠi" Hardcover

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most of the stitch dictionaries on knitters’ shelves are remixes of familiar stitch patterns already published elsewhere. Not so for Lynne Barr’s groundbreaking book Reversible Knitting. Not only is every one of the 50 stitch patterns presented completely new and never before seen, but each is also reversible—for a total of 100 different looks!

Reversible stitch patterns can be used to create garments where either side can face outward, or where two sides of the piece are visible simultaneously (such as a scarf or a sweater with collar or cuffs that fold up or down). In addition to stitch patterns, the book features 20 such projects—from accessories like scarves, hats, and socks to sweaters and dresses—designed by the author and by 12 top knitwear designers, including STC authors Véronik Avery, Norah Gaughan, and Teva Durham.

Completing this totally original work are in-depth, illustrated instructions for the specialized techniques required for reversible work.

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Kata Golda’s Hand-Stitched Felt 25 Whimsical Sewing Projects

By K ATA GOLDA p Photographs by FR ANK WHITE

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with no more than felt and thread, Kata Golda creates toys and practical items for the home that are undeniably charming, stylish, and sweetly imperfect. Her whimsical creations have been selling at high-end boutiques for several years, and now, in Kata Golda’s Hand-Stitched Felt, she shows crafters of all skill levels how to make 25 of her favorites at home.

Ranging from children’s fi nger puppets and a tooth-fairy pillow to photo “brag” books, messenger bags, and curtains and blankets, most of these projects can be completed in an hour or less. They are made from basic shapes of wool felt sewn together and customized with unique details, all using simple, large stitches. Step-by-step instructions and templates, along with adorable photos and hand-drawn illustrations, make each project simple to replicate. Playful tutorials, such as how to personalize projects with a variety of facial expressions, add to the charm of this delightful book.

K ATA G O L DA creates and sells a line of hand-stitched felt

items with the help of several other women out of her home in Port Townsend, Washington. Her line is available in

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high-end stores and boutiques, including ABC Carpet, Bloomingdale’s, Neiman Marcus, and Kate’s Paperie. Visit her website at www.katagolda.com.

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Terry John Woods’ New Farmhouse Style

By TERRY JOHN WOODS with DALE WEST p Photographs by KINDR A CLINEFF

Eclectic and personal, the decor of this Vermont homestead inspires us to discover our own style

needham house, an 1820s farmhouse nestled in Vermont’s Green Mountains, is artist Terry John Woods’ beloved home— and it’s the canvas on which he works out his design ideas.

Here, Woods has reinvented his family homestead while adding visual and tactile pleasure to every part of the house and garden. His eclectic, mix-and-match sensibility is unafraid to combine the fi nely polished with the charmingly weathered, the treasured heirloom with the just-discovered flea market fi nd.

It’s an approach that invites you to use your own interpretation of light, color, texture, and form to assemble an environment that showcases your personal style. Apartment dwellers, suburban homeowners, and those lucky enough to possess their own rural retreats will be equally inspired by Woods’ farmhouse and by his reflections on a way of living that embraces the moment, comforts the body, and kindles the spirit.

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in national publications. In the 1980s he began creating vintage-style teddy bears, which are now collected internationally. Woods’ antiques shop and studio are attached to his family farmhouse in Shrewsbury, Vermont.

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Donnie Brown Weddings From the Couture to the Cake

By DONNIE BROWN

The charismatic host of Whose Wedding Is It Anyway? unveils everything a bride should know about planning her big day

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Brown is nationally known as a wedding-industry expert and host of Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?

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The book includes a comprehensive checklist to keep planning on track

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Sidebars, tips, and more than 75 photographs provide inspiration for the bride-to-be 75 color photographs 208 pages, 7X * 9W" Hardcover with jacket ISBN 978-1-58479-791-3 US $35.00 CAN $45.50

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appearances

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first, a bride-to-be needs a groom. Next—and almost as important—she needs the expert assistance of celebrity wedding planner Donnie Brown. Although other wedding planners may excel at arranging for the flowers, caterer, and music, Donnie stands alone in the charm, good humor, and calm professionalism he brings to a truly demanding job. That easygoing attitude, which shines through every page of this book, makes for an efficient planning process that might just turn out to be enjoyable, too.

Donnie Brown Weddings covers it all—booking the venue, tailoring the guest list, selecting the menu, buying the gown. To ensure that his readers hire the right people, Donnie lists not only what questions to ask each vendor, but also what to expect from their answers. Complete with detailed timelines and checklists, this hardworking guide makes certain that every last thing gets done within budget and on time. Who said that a diamond is a girl’s best friend? When it comes to her wedding, it’s Donnie Brown.

Brown Weddings, where his clients have included LeAnn Rimes, Dixie Carter, and Emma Thompson. Since 2003 he has been a host on the Style Network’s Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?

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More than 25 inspiring essays about quilters who stitch for charity, plus 15 projects for anyone who wants to join in

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PEACE MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE ONE STITCH AT A TIME

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A follow-up to STC’s bestselling Knitting for Peace (more than 50,000 copies sold)

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Features uplifting profiles of more than 25 groups in the U.S. and abroad that quilt for a cause

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An inspirational guidebook for anyone who wants to get involved in this centuries-old tradition

as crafters of all ages take to their sewing machines in unprecedented numbers, many of them join a movement to distribute hope and warmth to those in need through quilting. These are volunteers who have inherited a tradition of comfort and protest, and a belief that they can make the world a better place one stitch at a time.

Quilting for Peace, the follow-up to STC’s Knitting for Peace, includes more than 25 inspirational essays about individuals and organizations devoted to making quilts and other necessities for the needy. The efforts range from Newborns in Need, a group that stitches clothing for premature babies; to Quilts of Valor, which makes quilts to honor wounded soldiers; to the Sleeping Bag Project, which distributes 100,000 homemade sleeping bags to the homeless every year. This timely and motivating book also includes 15 projects, plus guidelines for quilters who want to contribute to an existing effort or establish a new one.

K AT H E R I N E B E L L is a writer, editor, and quilter. Her

fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2006, and she works as an online managing editor for Harvard Business Publishing. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

20 color photographs 144 pages, 8W * 7X" Hardcover

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An Event to Remember Designing Spectacular Special Occasions

By JERRY SIBAL p Foreword by M ARILYN HOME

The stunning environments and floral extravaganzas of a celebrated event designer

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Gorgeous photos provide inspiration for your own special event

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interest, women’s, and wedding publications

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jerry sibal is no mere party planner. He’s a worldrenowned artist of unforgettable celebrations of every description. Each of Sibal’s projects—whether for a private birthday party or holiday dinner, a lavish wedding or bar/bat mitzvah, a corporate retreat or charity ball—is a distinctive work of art. An Event to Remember presents a portfolio of some of Sibal’s fi nest and most visionary work—with dramatic photographs that will make you wish you’d been there.

Throughout, Sibal reveals how he coordinates architecture, lighting and audiovisual systems, interior decor, tabletop arrangements, and his trademark floral extravaganzas to create such gloriously spellbinding environments. Venues from all over the country are featured, from New York City’s Rainbow Room, to Miami Beach’s Setai Hotel, to Atlantic City’s Borgata Casino, to outdoor settings such as the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and a California hillside with breathtaking Pacific Ocean views.

J E R RY S I B A L is the founder of New York City–based Design

Fusion. He earned a degree in architecture, taught traditional Chinese brush painting, and worked for floral designer Preston Bailey before opening his own fi rm with partner Edwin Josue. Sibal’s work has been featured in Bride’s Magazine, Inside Weddings , and Daily Candy.

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Weddings in Italy

Gorgeous weddings, and a host of stylish ideas, from two Italian wedding planners

By ANGELO GARINI and ENZO MICCIO

enzo miccio and angelo garini, partners in an event planning company with offices in Paris and Milan, have an eye for both the sweeping gesture and the subtle detail. Trained as an interior designer and an architect, respectively, Miccio and Garini create weddings that have the beauty and drama of a stage setting, where the story is centered on the personalities of the bride and groom.

In this gorgeous book, the authors—who host a wedding show on Italian television—present 18 of the lyrical weddings they’ve planned in spectacular locations throughout Italy.

Whether it takes place in an ancient theater, a seaside abbey, a Tuscan villa, or Venice’s Piazza San Marco, each wedding is an elegant and unique creation. More than 400 photographs capture the locales, as well as the flowers, cakes, table settings, and decorations, for each celebration. Overflowing with ideas for sophisticated and stylish touches that can be incorporated into weddings large and small, this is a dream book for those planning their own special day.

A N G E L O G A R I N I is an architect who has worked on numer-

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Contains myriad ideas for flowers, decor, dress, and other details for an unforgettable wedding 400 color photographs 240 pages, 9X * 11W"

E N Z O M I CC I O , trained as an interior designer, has been an

formed their own event planning company. They host the program Wedding Planners on Italian TV.

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event planner for many years. In 2001 Garini and Miccio

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The best of classic French cooking, in one gorgeous, encyclopedic volume

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FRENCH FEASTS 299 Traditional Recipes for Family Meals & Gatherings

BY STÉPHANE REYNAUD PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARIE–PIERRE MOREL

More than 500 photographs and illustrations

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in france, where eating is a national pastime, the long, leisurely Sunday lunch is a feast for the senses. It is this quality that acclaimed chef and author Stéphane Reynaud captures so perfectly in his paean to traditional French cooking. Rustic and approachable, humorous and convivial, French Feasts features 299 recipes for beloved dishes like pâtés, gratins, savory tarts, and braised meats that are the essence of French weekend fare.

From classic stews like navarin and boeuf bourguignon, to foie gras prepared six different ways, to crème brulée and gâteau Basque, the recipes come from all over France and even some former colonies (couscous is a national favorite). The book also includes beautiful, earthy photographs, whimsical illustrations, profiles of local producers, and fact-filled sidebars—a guide to cognac and Armagnac, how to make the perfect croissant, and much more—that evoke the considerable pleasures of the French table.

regarded restaurant specializing in pork. The grandson of a village butcher on the Ardèche plateau in

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Reynaud’s reputation as a renegade chef has made him a media darling in the U.S. and France

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France, Reynaud is the author of Pork & Sons and Terrine.

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Chrismukkah Everything You Need to Know to Celebrate the Hybrid Holiday

By RON GOMPERTZ

N OW IN PA P E RBA CK !

A colorful, light-hearted guide to the merry mish-mash holiday

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Filled with humor, trivia, fun facts, and lots of illustrations in a delightful package

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The perfect holiday gift for interfaith couples Color illustrations throughout

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christmas meets hanukkah for millions of mixed-faith families—who deck their trees with Stars of David and spin the dreidel under mistletoe. Here is a one-of-a-kind, amusingly illustrated and endlessly entertaining book on the joys—and oys—of celebrating Chrismukkah, the hybrid holiday.

Now published in paperback, this handy (and hilarious) guide walks us through all the Chrismukkah history and lore.

You’ll learn about hybrid holiday traditions in decorating (ornaments, wreaths, menorahs, dreidels); innovative tchotchkes (cards, stockings, lights); and a plethora of menorah options (Godzilla or snowman?). Plus, the book includes rollicking games and songs, along with recipes for Latkes with Sugar Plum Fairy Sauce, Blitzen’s Blintzes, and other Noel Noshes.

Your yuletide happy hours will never be the same once you’ve mixed a Meshugga Nog or Manishewitz Mulled Wine.

So light the menorah and the Christmas tree, and celebrate in style!

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Christmas Memories Gifts, Activities, Fads, and Fancies, 1920s–1960s

By SUSAN WAGGONER

A nostalgic sleigh ride down memory lane oh, those christmas memories. We all have them, locked away in our hearts. But what about the Christmases we weren’t there for? The one our favorite heirloom ornament came from, or the one we know only from a picture of our newlywed parents smiling under the mistletoe?

In Christmas Memories , Susan Waggoner, author of STC’s It’s a Wonderful Christmas and Under the Tree, looks at bygone holidays from the perspective of those who lived them.

Beginning with “Christmas in the Melting Pot,” which depicts yuletide in the early 1920s, the author presents detailed snapshots that re-create holiday seasons past. She chronicles the gifts, activities, fads, and fancies that made each Christmas unique; indulges in fantasy shopping at yesterday’s prices; shares thoughts from letters, diaries, and magazines of the era; and makes the past pop to life with vibrant period art. Readers will revel in the irresistible nostalgia of Christmas Memories.

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Filled with vintage and retro holiday art, along with excerpts from diaries and letters

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Covering five decades of Christmas past, the book will appeal to a wide range of readers Color illustrations throughout

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S U S A N WAG G O N E R has written numerous books of fiction

and nonfiction. She is the author of STC’s It’s a Wonderful Christmas, Under the Tree, Classic Household Hints, and,

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with Robert Markel, Cocktail Hour, Vintage Cocktails, and Make Mine Vodka . Waggoner lives in New York City.

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Bouquets with Personality

By LUCINDA ROONEY p Photographs by MICK HALES

A fresh approach to floral design, based on the “psychology” of flowers

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The author’s unconventional approach to flower design sets this book apart from others on the topic

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Rooney lectures widely and has appeared on the PBS garden series The Victory Garden

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some flowers are team players, content to let their gently expressive hues and textures take a supporting role in an arrangement or bouquet. Others have a domineering, outgoing nature and always insist on being the center of attention.

Recognizing flowers’ differing personalities—and blending the meek and the bold together in unusual, romantic, and harmonious ways—is at the heart of Lucinda Rooney’s floral philosophy.

In Bouquets with Personality, Rooney divulges her secrets: the materials and tools she’s most fond of using, her design influences, her theory of color, and, most important, her insightful “psychology” of the botanical realm. It’s that indepth understanding of how flowers and plants convey emotion that makes this book such an informative and inspirational resource for beginning flower-arrangers, seasoned professionals, and anyone who just loves flowers. The pages are graced, throughout, by Mick Hales’ lovely photos of both individual flowers and completed bouquets.

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L U C I N DA R O O N E Y is a Vermont-based artist and horticul-

turist whose creative approach to flowers has been featured in Victoria, Horticulture, Country Living, and other maga-

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Power of Gardens

By NANCY GOSLEE POWER p Foreword by BUNNY WILLIA MS

Spectacular gardens, public and private, by a master landscape designer

nancy power is to landscape what Frank Gehry is to architecture, or Bunny Williams to interiors—a master, a visionary, a seasoned professional at the very pinnacle of her craft. The designs Power creates—whether for parklands, playgrounds, or private sanctuaries—reflect the meticulous attention she pays to each place’s particularity and to the desires and living patterns of those who will use and enjoy her gardens.

From residential gardens in Santa Monica and Malibu to street planning for downtown Beverly Hills and play zones for the Pasadena Children’s Museum, the selection of Power’s work in this beautiful book reveals her multidimensional aesthetic.

Her approach can range from the lavishly leafy to the meditatively restrained, from the comfortably homey to the superlatively (though always quirkily) formal. But no matter what the look, no matter who the client, each of her projects reminds us of the power that gardens have to refresh the body, center the mind, and liberate the spirit.

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N A N C Y G O S L E E P OW E R is a celebrated garden and land-

scape designer based in Santa Monica. She was formerly an interior designer in New York, then West Coast editor for House Beautiful . Her fi rm, Nancy Goslee Power & Associates, has designed countless gardens in the United States, Australia, France, and Germany.

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New Classic Interiors

By ALESSANDR A BR ANC A with CHRISTINE PIT TEL

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Branca’s work has been widely published, and she was named a top designer by Traditional Home and House Beautiful

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Branca design firm

for alessandra branca, living means living comfortably.

Growing up in Rome, Branca was always surrounded by exquisite art and architecture. She learned early on that beauty is meant to intermingle with everyday life, and to this day her interior designs, while abiding by classical principles, comfortably accommodate her clients’ lifestyles. “You can’t just do something that looks pretty,” she says. “It has to work.”

In this book, the designer—based in Chicago—generously reveals her creative working process, offering invaluable guidance to anyone who wants a home that is both gorgeous and livable. Beginning with her own Chicago townhouse and interweaving insights drawn from several other prominent projects, she shows how she assesses each space’s form and function, selects foundation elements, chooses furniture and lighting, and, fi nally, incorporates decorative elements that reflect the resident’s personality. Illustrated with 200 lush photographs, the book offers a welcome introduction to Branca’s enchanting and livable interiors.

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furniture, rug, tabletop, textile, and lighting designs.

Branca’s award-winning work has been featured in such publications as House Beautiful, Traditional Home, Veranda , and Elle Decor.

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The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Pastry Arts

By THE FRENCH CULINARY INSTITUTE with JUDITH CHOATE p Photographs by M AT THEW SEP TIMUS

The most comprehensive cookbook ever produced for home bakers and aspiring pastry chefs

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Provides all the essential information, techniques, and recipes for becoming an excellent home baker or a beginning professional pastry chef

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Based on the successful curriculum created by Jacques Torres, the FCI’s pastry dean

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Includes more than 650 photographs showing techniques, ingredients, and finished dishes

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The FCI has trained some of America’s leading pastry chefs 650 color photographs More than 200 recipes 496 pages, 10 * 9 " Hardcover with jacket ISBN 978-1-58479-803-3 US $75.00 CAN $97.50

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an indispensable addition to any serious home baker’s library, The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Pastry Arts covers the many skills an aspiring pastry chef must master.

Based on the internationally lauded curriculum developed by master pâtissier Jacques Torres for New York’s French Culinary Institute, the book presents chapters on every classic category of confection: tarts, cream puffs, puff pastry, creams and custards, breads and pastries, cakes, and petits fours.

Each chapter begins with an overview of the required techniques, followed by dozens of recipes—many the original creations of distinguished FCI graduates. Each recipe even includes a checklist to help you evaluate your success as measured against professional standards. Distilling ten years of trial and error in teaching students, The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Pastry Arts is a comprehensive reference with hundreds of color photographs, a wealth of insider tips, and highly detailed information on tools and ingredients—quite simply the most valuable baking book you can own.

Western cuisine through its “Total Immersion” curriculum.

With a world-class faculty, including deans Jacques Pépin, Alain Sailhac, André Soltner, and Jacques Torres, the FCI is among the leading schools of its kind anywhere.

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Monday Hearts for Madalene

By PAGE HODEL

A touching collection of one hundred heart-shaped artworks when a person falls in love, the universe—and everything in it—comes vividly alive. It happened to San Francisco artist Page Hodel when she found the love of her life, Madalene Rodriguez. She expressed her devotion in an unusual way: Early every Monday morning, Page would create a heart for Madalene and leave it for her to discover on her doorstep.

Tragically, Madalene died of ovarian cancer less than a year after she and Page met. But Page’s love goes on, beautifully symbolized in the hearts she continues to create from a plenitude of objects.

Here are photographs of one hundred of Page’s hearts for Madalene, fashioned from a magical, surprising diversity of materials: acorns and asparagus; berries, buttons, and bungee cord; cardboard, clothespins, corks, and candy corn. True love embraces the world, and Page’s art is testimony to its enduring faith.

PAG E H O D E L , a San Francisco Bay native, is an interna-

tionally renowned DJ and nightclub promoter. As a DJ, she has been booked at major dance venues in San Francisco as well as clubs in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Paris.

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A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Women’s Cancer Resource Center in Oakland, California 115 color photographs 112 pages, 7V * 7V" Hardcover with jacket ISBN 978-1-58479-778-4 US $16.95

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Bunny Williams’ Point of View ISBN 978-1-58479-624-4 US $60.00 CAN $72.00

An Affair with a House ISBN 978-1-58479-470-7 US $55.00 CAN $66.00

Grandmother Remembers ISBN 978-0-9414-3432-4 US $18.95 CAN $20.95

Simple Stunning Weddings ISBN 978-1-58479-365-6 US $32.50 CAN $39.95

Simple Stunning Wedding Organizer ISBN 978-1-58479-348-9 US $19.95 CAN $23.95

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Knitting for Peace

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Some like it hot!

Marilyn Monroe Your Personal Fashion Consultant

By MICHAEL FEDER and K AR AN FEDER

Marilyn Monroe—with her hourglass curves and blonde waves—was destined to become a Hollywood icon and the archetype ype for 1950s fashion. Today, whether you’re dressing for an afternoon at the ballpark or a birthday party at the White House, Marilyn’s lyn’s sensual style will provide inspiration iration for any occasion.

This book features dazzling archival photographs and savvyy fashion quips, but the fun doesn’t end there.

You can “Punch Out and Play” with each fabulously dressed Marilyn Monroe nroe to create twelve paper dolls in fantastic ntastic poses.

The perfect novelty gift, Marilyn yn Monroe: Your Personal Fashion Consultant ant celebrates a timeless beauty and the reason son why gentlemen prefer blondes.

18 full-color illustrations 32 pages, 7 * 11" Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8109-8008-2 US $12.95

MICHAEL FEDER a and d K ARAN FEDER

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Fashion Consultant, Personal Fashio

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Personal Fashion Elvis: Your P on

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A smart, stylish guide to navigating trends and developing personal style

Who What Wear Celebrity and Runway Style for Real Life

By K ATHERINE POWER and HILL ARY KERR

A smart and stylish fashion and beauty guide from the creators of the popular website WhoWhatWear.com. Now, the creators share their tricks of the trade, translating high fashion in a low-fuss, accessible way. Hillary Kerr and Katherine Power, two former Elle magazine editors, are the fashionable duo behind the booming website. In Who What Wear they’ve compiled the best of their tips and advice into one stylish compendium.

Trends come and go at a dizzying pace and it can be challenging to just get dressed in the morning! Kerr and Power banish those fashion faux-pas fears and give readers the tools necessary to update their own personal styles and recognize and incorporate the latest runway and Hollywood looks.

Celebrity contributors such as Rachel Zoe, Nicole Richie, and Rachel Bilson also dish their insider style secrets alongside images from the runway and beyond.

60 full-color photographs 160 pages, 6V * 9 " Paperback with ribbon marker ISBN: 978-0-8109-8045-7 US $18.95 CAN $24.95 6-copy counter display ISBN: 978-0-8109-8455-4 US $113.70

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A profusely illustrated tell-all account of the rise and fall of the grunge movement

Grunge

By MICHAEL L AVINE and THURSTON MOORE

More than a decade after his death, alienated, awkward, heavily eye-lined Kurt Cobain continues to sit front and center in the arena of popular culture, as the subject of books, music, fashion, gossip, and inspiration for major motion pictures and documentaries. Together with flannelsporting music-obsessed communities emerging (in the late 1980s and early 1990s) from the chilly Pacific Northwest, Nirvana, Sound Garden, and Pearl Jam changed the scene with wild aggressive sounds and truly alternative records.

Author Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth)—who introduced Kurt Cobain to David Geffen (Geffen Records), a meeting that resulted in Nirvana’s first major debut, Nevermind, in September 1991, which by December was selling 400,000 copies a week—writes about the discovery of Seattle punk youth, the seminal bands that defined the movement, the exploitation of the subculture, and the backlash of grunge, as well as the death of his longtime collaborator and intimate Cobain.

180 black-and-white photographs 160 pages, 10 * 8 " Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8109-5317-8 US $24.95

CAN $32.50

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photographer. T H U R S T O N M O O R E is the

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A gifty reissue of Stephen Huneck’s classic first book with new material es Includ new f o s 8 page work ar t

My Dog’s Brain

By STEPHEN HUNECK

Stephen Huneck’s beloved black Labrador Sally has spawned a whole series of successful children’s books, as well as woodcut prints, mugs, T-shirts, stationery, sculpture, tote bags, and even rugs, but the genesis of this world was his nowclassic first book, My Dog’s Brain. In it, Huneck illustrates the predicaments, pleasures, and appetites that make up a dog’s life, whether it’s sleeping on the couch, stealing a lick from an ice cream cone, or barking for no good reason.

The new smaller trim, a paper-overboard binding, and eight pages of neverbefore-published artwork make this a perfect gift for Huneck fans and dog lovers who are curious as to just how their best friends really tick.

Full-color illustrations throughout 104 pages, 7 * 6" Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8109-8287-1

S T E P H E N H U N E C K is an internationally

US $14.95

acclaimed painter and sculptor. He is the owner

CAN $19.50

of Stephen Huneck galleries in Stowe, Vermont, 6-copy counter display

and on Dog Mountain in St. Johnsbury, Vermont,

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where Stephen’s world-famous Dog Chapel

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CAN $117.00

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A nostalgic look at disappearing objects and ideas

Obsolete An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By

By ANNA JANE GROSSM AN p Illustrated by JA MES GULLIVER HANCOCK

Thanks to advancing technology and shifting mores, the amount of change we experience in our lifetimes is truly exceptional. Objects and practices that are commonplace can very quickly become outmoded. In this witty and informative collection of short essays, journalist and social commentator Anna Jane Grossman takes a thoughtful look at what everyday apparatuses, ideas, and behaviors are quickly disappearing—or else have already left the building.

Obsolete contains essays and entries on more than 100 alphabetized fading subjects, including Blind Dates, Mix Tapes, Getting Lost, Porn Magazines, Looking Old, Operators, Camera Film, Hitchhiking, Body Hair, Writing Letters, Basketball Players in Short Shorts, Privacy, Cash, and, yes, Books. This ode to obsolescence also includes 25 quirky pen-and-ink line illustrations to further help us remember exactly what we’re missing.

25 line illustrations 192 pages, 5W * 7V" Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8109-7849-2 US $15.95

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6-copy counter display A N N A J A N E G R O S S M A N is a New York–based

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freelance writer specializing in lifestyle and

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arts and entertainment features. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications, including the New York Times, Salon.com, the Washington

CAN $125.70

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The incredible adventures of a Victorian-era robot

By PAUL GUINAN and ANINA BENNET T

Meet Boilerplate, the world’s first robot soldier—not in a present-day military lab or a science-fiction movie, but in the past, during one of the most fascinating periods of U.S. history. Designed by Professor Archibald Campion in 1893 as a prototype, for the self-proclaimed purpose of “preventing the deaths of men in the conflicts of nations,” Boilerplate charged into combat alongside such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia.

Campion and his robot also circled the planet with the U.S. Navy, trekked to the South Pole, made silent movies, and hobnobbed with the likes of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla.

You say you’ve never heard of Boilerplate before? That’s because this book is the fanciful creation of a husbandand-wife team who have richly imagined these characters and inserted them into accurate retellings of history. This full-color chronicle is profusely illustrated with graphics mimicking period style, including photos, paintings, posters, cartoons, maps, and even stereoscope cards. Part Jules Verne and part Zelig, it’s a great volume for a broad range of fans of science fiction, history, and robots.

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PA U L G U I N A N and A N I N A B E N N E T T have been

collaborating on comics and graphic novels since 1989, including the Eisner Award–nominated sciencefiction comic series Heartbreakers. Paul is an artist and writer whose clients include the History Channel and the Cartoon Network. Anina is a writer and editor who has worked with Dark Horse Comics and international publisher Egmont. They live in Portland, Oregon.

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A spectacular example of Steampunk, the ever-growing sci-fi genre that melds advanced technology with Victorian style

350 full-color and blackand-white illustrations

ISBN: 978-0-8109-8950-4

160 pages, 8V * 11"

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Hairy is bringing sexy back

Hairy Hunks A Celebration of Shaggy Stallions Foreword by LUCY PORTER

From Burt Reynolds to Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Selleck to Orlando Bloom, the men in Hairy Hunks seduce and sizzle on every page, with the very hottest in lustrous, page luxurious, luxu and sexy hair.

In I the bestselling tradition of God’s Gift Gif , this hilarious, kitschy follow-up showcases s over three decades of the most beloved actors, athletes, and musicians, with one thing in common. c Whether your tastes run to long lo manes, furry chests, or manly muttonchops, mutt you’ll swoon for their hair.

Stuffed St f with pictures of gorgeous man-candy—paired with hilarious captions—in a fun and colorful package, Hairy Hunks is bound to please. Oh, yeah.

80 full-color color photogra photographs aphs 160 pages, 4X * 6DŠi" Hardcover with jacket ISBN: 978-0-8109-0646-4 US $10.95 CAN $14.50 6-copy counter display ISBN: 978-0-8109-8444-8

L U C Y P O R T E R is a stand-up comic, writer,

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and admirer of hairy men. After developing an

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early affection for fuzzy chests, Lucy’s thing

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for hirsute men grew over the years—she was at an impressionable age during the eighties

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An oversize collection of vintage posters that actually glow under black light

Ultraviolet

69 Classic Blacklight Posters from the Aquarian Age and Beyond

By DANIEL DONAHUE p Foreword by MGMT

One of the most ubiquitous items of the 1960s and 1970s, the black-light poster represented some of the most imaginative, colorful, and “out there” creativity of the period; Ultraviolet is the first book to ever celebrate this alternative art form.

Daniel Donahue, an amateur historian of counterculture, has collected hundreds of vintage blacklight posters and chosen 69 of the best for this volume. Covering some of the more relevant subjects of the period, including Sex, Drugs, Rock ’N’ Roll, Earth Awareness, Black Power, and Astrology, Ultraviolet has been printed with flourescent inks so that the pages will actually glow under black light. This hip volume is a gift from the fifth dimension for anyone interested in alternative culture or graphic design.

D A N I E L D O N A H U E is an artist, designer,

songwriter, and amateur historian and collector of counterculture memorabilia. He lives in Brooklyn. M G M T is an alternative neopsychedelic band based in Brooklyn. Their debut release, Oracular Spectacular, was named best

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The first photography book on one of the world’s most popular bands

Red Hot Chili Peppers Me and My Friends

By TONY WOOLLISCROF T p Introduction by CHAD SMITH

Formed in 1983, the Red Hot Chili Peppers attracted legions of fans across the globe with their unique rock/funk sound and California style. They’ve sold over 50 million albums, won seven Grammy Awards, and have had numerous top ten singles. UK photographer Tony Woolliscroft has been on a journey with the band for almost 20 years, documenting them from their start in small venues to selling out stadium tours.

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Me and My Friends not only reveals Woolliscroft’s amazing and energetic photography but also the personal stories behind each picture. Featuring many never-before-seen images, anecdotes, and an introduction by drummer Chad Smith, this collection is a must-have for any fan of one of America’s most influential and entertaining bands.

250 full-color photographs 224 pages, 9V * 11" Hardcover

T O N Y W O O L L I S C R O F T has been closer to

the Red Hot Chili Peppers than any other

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photographer. He braved a typhoon with them in Japan, captured Anthony Kiedes walking off the edge of a skyscraper in Venezuela, and had Chad Smith’s drumsticks thrown at him many times. He lives in Staffordshire, England.

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A holiday anthology for people who aren’t so crazy about the holidays

The Dreaded Feast Writers on Enduring the Holidays Edited by MICHELE CL ARKE and TAYLOR PLIMP TON p Introduction by P. J. O’ROURKE

The Dreaded Feast will act as a balm for the millions of people who face Christmastime with a mixture of dread and obligation. Whether it’s the last-minute shopping, the unappealing office party, or the prospect of more than 24 hours with family, it’s never easy. The anthology, which includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry on these and many more related subjects, deflates the notion of the “perfect” holiday season, and allows the reader to commiserate and bask in the glow of a little dark, neurotic, and unflinchingly honest humor.

The star roster of contributors includes Jonathan Ames, Dave Barry, Robert Benchley, Billy Collins, Greg Kotis, Lewis Lapham, Jay McInerney, Fiona Maazel, George Plimpton, David Rakoff, Charles Simic, Hunter S. Thompson, James Thurber, Calvin Trillin, and John Waters.

192 pages, 5W * 7V" Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8109-8265-9 US $15.95

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6-copy counter display ISBN: 978-0-8109-8454-7 US $95.70

CAN $125.70 M I C H E L E C L A R K E has worked at The Paris

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Review and recently helped Lewis Lapham launch the Agora Foundation, which publishes

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Lapham’s Quarterly. He lives in New York City.

interest, pop culture, literary, and humor publications

TAY L O R P L I M P T O N is a New York–based

freelance writer and editor, who previously was

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political satirist and the bestselling author of

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A fascinating, designed book of facts from the celebrated New Yorker columnist

One Million

By HENDRIK HERTZBERG

Originally published in 1970, One Million has been out of print for some time, and its author, the highly esteemed New Yorker editor and columnist Hendrik Hertzberg, has been prompted by fans to create a new edition. Originally, the project was inspired by the author’s journalistic impulse to try to make the newsworthy, large, and rather abstract number more concrete for people. To that end, he has created a book in which each of 200 pages features five thousand dots, but on each page, a few of the dots are called out from their place in numerical order with little pieces of statistical information that add up to really bring the concept home.

Fully updated and revised, Hertzberg’s book is a fascinating compendium of random statistics, but the author’s trademark intelligence and wit are on display through his choices and juxtaposition.

• 43,766 Miles traveled by a bee to gather the makings of a pound of honey

• 100,874 Pounds of food eaten by the average American in a lifetime

• 974,731 To 1, the odds against dying a nonviolent death, if you are a codfish

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Talk of the Town.” Hertzberg originally joined

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the New Yorker in 1969, after serving as an

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officer in the U.S. Navy. He left after the 1976

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Presidential election to serve as President Jimmy Carter’s chief speechwriter from 1979 until 1981. From 1981 until 1992 he was associated with the New Republic and served two terms as its editor. In 1992, he returned to the New Yorker.

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HUMOROUS AND FROM THE

Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style

Plato and a Platypus / Aristotle and an Aardvark Boxed Set

Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats

God’s Gift

Pot Culture

11,002 Things to Be Miserable About

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ISBN 978-0-8109-9451-5 US $9.95 [NCR]

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Star Wars Punch Out and Play

Poem in Your Pocket

I Lick My Cheese

Spott’s Canine Miscellany

New York Dolls

The Facebook Book

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Scottish Jewellery A Victorian Passion

By Diana Scarisbrick From 5 Continents Editions Through the centuries, the distinctive character of Scottish jewelry has enchanted collectors from around the world. In the mid-19th century, demand for the Highland specialties was so high that the supply from local craftsmen had to be supplemented by versions made in England in the same materials and patterns. In this spectacular, authoritative volume, leading jewelry historian Diana Scarisbrick presents 360 treasures from the renowned Ghysels Collection.

Examples include brooches, kilt pins, bracelets, earrings, tie pins, buttons, and belt buckles, many made by renowned designers such as Rettie & Sons of Aberdeen, Jamieson, and Ellis.

One hundred beautiful illustrations highlight the exquisite craftsmanship of traditional Scottish designs executed in local materials—agates, cairngorms, amethysts, garnets, freshwater pearls— set in silver or gold to harmonize with the bright colors of the clan tartans. The

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Scotland and explains the significance

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ing in jewelry and cameos who has pub-

of the various motifs—Celtic, heraldic,

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book also traces the history of jewelry in

lished many books and articles, including Royal Jewels: From Charlemagne to the

sporting, religious, naturalistic, military,

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and sentimental.

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exhibitions in France, the U.S., and Japan.

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Monet’s Garden in Giverny Inventing the Landscape

By Marina Ferretti Bocquillon, Françoise Heilbrun, and Gabrielle van Zuylen From 5 Continents Editions Water lilies, ponds, a Japanese footbridge, and blankets of glorious flowers: nothing evokes Claude Monet’s Impressionist paintings quite like these images from his garden at Giverny in northern France. After moving to Giverny in 1883, Monet (1840–1926) discovered a profound source of artistic renewal in his garden, a motif he would paint for the rest of his life.

Published to accompany the opening of the new Musée des Impressionnismes in Giverny, this gloriously illustrated book celebrates these beloved works and the landscape that inspired them. Monet’s Garden in Giverny showcases Monet’s paintings of his garden side by side with photographs of the artist in the garden.

With 30 paintings, over 60 photographs, numerous archival documents, a

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detailed chronology, and commentary

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Marina Ferretti Bocquillon is the curator

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gorgeous volume is an essential addition

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Giverny. Françoise Heilbrun is chief cura-

to any art lover’s library.

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Persona Masks of Africa: Hidden and Revealed Identities

By Anne-Marie Bouttiaux From 5 Continents Editions Based on an exhibition of 180 masks— more than 100 from the outstanding collection at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium—and works by contemporary African artists, this extraordinary book offers a new interpretation of the mask as the universal object that both hides and reveals. Beautifully designed, Persona presents masks organized by their usage, the dances, and rituals they serve and the belief system they display. The contemporary works, selected for their artistry, formal boldness, and intrinsic messages, arouse a similar aesthetic response, but serve a different function from the ritual masks.

This stunningly illustrated and engaging book explores both the real and emblematic roles of the mask, as objects which are “devitalized” when placed in museums but which nevertheless prompt questions of identity, selfesteem, and conceptions of the other in Western society.

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• 250 full-color illustrations

Anne-Marie Bouttiaux is Head Curator

• 272 pages, 9V * 12"

of the Ethnographic Section of the

• Paperback with flaps

Royal Museum of Central Africa of

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Tervuren, Belgium. She is also Editor of the Visions of Africa series published by 5 Continents Editions.

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Slash Paper Under the Knife

By David Revere McFadden From 5 Continents Editions Eclectic, eccentric and tirelessly innovative, art crafted from cut paper has experienced an exciting renaissance in recent years. Published to accompany a traveling exhibit opening at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Slash: Paper Under the Knife examines the resurgence of traditional handcraft materials and techniques in contemporary art and design. Highlighting the work of forty-five international artists, among them Olafur Eliasson, Tom Friedman, William Kentridge, and Kara Walker, the book features not only cut but also burned, torn, laser-cut, shredded and sculpted paper art.

In addition, the book includes cut paper animation, as well as cut paper incorporated in photography and fashion. Works range from small-scale intricate cuttings to large-scale architectural inventions and sculptures.

With an essay by well-known decorative arts expert David Revere McFadden, this singular book reveals that, with ingenuity and craftsmanship, one of our most familiar implements can be transformed into unforgettable works of art.

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• 230 full-color illustrations

David Revere McFadden is Chief Curator

• 224 pages, 8 * 10"

and Vice President for Programs and

•Paperback with die-cut cover and flaps

Collections at the Museum of Arts &

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Design in New York City. He served as Curator of Decorative Arts and Assistant Director for Collections and Research

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1978 to 1995. McFadden has organized

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Kuba

Masks of the Himalayas

Visions of Africa Series

By Dominique Blanc, Arnaud d’Hauterives,

By David A. Binkley and Patricia Darish

Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter, and François Pannier

From 5 Continents Editions

From 5 Continents Editions

The latest volume in the Visions of Africa series explores the

Mysterious, sacred, and unusual, the masks of the Himalayas only

intriguing sculpture and decorative art of the Kuba people of the

became accessible to collectors following the opening up of Nepal

Democratic Republic of Congo. Best known for their king figures (ndop), considered among the greatest sculptural achievements of

in the 1960s. Spanning all religious influences in the Himalayan region—Hindu and Buddhist, animist and shamanic—and cover-

Sub-Saharan Africa, the Kuba actually produced little freestanding

ing the entire area from Ladakh to Indian Kashmir, Nepal, Bhutan,

sculpture. Instead, they focused on a variety of decorative works

Arunachal Pradesh, and Tibet, this is the first book dedicated

that indicated success and achievement, and initiation-related

exclusively to this subject.

Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the

pieces such as masks.

The first book on this subject, Kuba examines the tribe’s artistic

Fondation Bernard et Caroline de Watteville in Martigny,

development from the 17th century through the turbulent colonial

Switzerland, Masks of the Himalayas highlights pieces of rare

and post-colonial periods. The authors also explore the impact

quality and sheds new light on this enchanting art.

of Kuba beliefs on their art and discuss the pervasive concerns that inform the tribe’s artmaking. With 50 beautifully reproduced

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Fondation Bernard et Caroline de Watteville,

introduction to African art.

Martigny, Switzerland, May 15, 2009–Dec 2010

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David A. Binkley is former

• 145 full-color illustrations

Dominique Blanc is a

Chief Curator and Senior

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journalist at Connaissance

• 160 pages, 6V * 9V"

Curator for Research and

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Interpretation at the National

and-white illustrations

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Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Patricia Darish taught African

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art history in The Kress

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ITALY AND FRANCE

Foundation Department

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of Art History, University

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des Arts. Arnaud d’Hauterives is Secretary of the Académie des Beaux Arts of France.

Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter is editor-in-chief of the magazine Tribal Art. François Pannier is a specialist in Asian art.

of Kansas

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Crosses and Crucifixes Treasures from the 8th to 19th Centuries

By Oleg Zastrow From 5 Continents Editions The cross and crucifix are the most important symbols of Christianity.

Renowned art historian Oleg Zastrow’s unprecedented volume is a richly illustrated collection of these sacred treasures, many of which have never been published before. Remarkable for their outstanding interest and extreme rarity, the works are featured here in stunning colorplates with numerous close-up details.

This exceptional and varied collection spans 12 centuries, and includes reliquary, altar, wall, table, pictoral, benedictional, ornamental, and devotional crosses.

Made from silver, copper, bronze, iron, ivory, bone, marble, stone, and wood, these expertly crafted artifacts are decorated by gilding or silvering, polychromy, enamelling, or gems and pearls.

Gathered from around the globe, the book is the product of impassioned and knowledgeable collecting, and a new and important resource on a topic that has long been neglected in the history of art.

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Oleg Zastrow is known internationally

• 352 pages, 9V * 13"

for his studies on the history of Christian

• Hardcover with jacket ISBN: 978-88-7439-523-1

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• 254 full-color illustrations

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ecclesiastical culture. Zastrow has published more than 200 works, of which 60 or so are substantial volumes.

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Unveiled New Art from the Middle East

By Saatchi Gallery A Booth-Clibborn Editions Book “At its best, this candid collection from the Islamic world is inventive and truly fearless.” —The Observer, London This lavish volume, published to accompany an exhibition at London’s Saatchi Gallery, is a striking collection of contemporary art from the Middle East. As Lisa Farjam, founder of Bidoun magazine, writes in her foreword, “The Middle East today is routinely viewed through the all-too-predictable prism of strife, oppression and terrorism, which obscures a great deal.”

With works gathered from artists of Middle Eastern origin living all over the world, Unveiled reveals a region of dizzying complexity and energy, characterized by diverse cultural, historical and political influences that stretch back centuries. Diana Al-Hadid, Ahmed Alsoudani, Nadia Ayari, Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh, Barbad Golshiri and Shadi

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Ghadirian are just a few of the artists

• 100 full-color illustrations

The Saatchi Gallery aims to provide an

whose work is represented in these

• 208 pages, 11W * 12V"

innovative forum for contemporary art,

vibrant, stunning pages.

• Hardcover with jacket

presenting work by largely unseen young

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artists or by international artists whose work has rarely or never been exhibited in the UK.

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History of the Saatchi Gallery Edited by Edward Booth-Clibborn With contributions by Richard Cork, Brian Sewell, Sir Norman Rosenthal, and Steve Martin A Booth-Clibborn Editions Book Forward-thinking, trailblazing, and fearless, collector Charles Saatchi opened the Saatchi Gallery in London in 1985 and has since launched the careers of hundreds of young artists and has had an immeasurable influence on contemporary art for over twenty years.

This comprehensive, elegantly produced book, the first volume to chronicle the history of the gallery, presents works by 150 of the most important artists exhibited there, among them Lucien Freud, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Brice Marden, Cindy Sherman, and Cy Twombly. The History of the Saatchi Gallery also chronicles important exhibitions such as the infamous Sensation, Young British Artists, and New Chinese Art. The book is divided into seven sections, reflecting the growth and transformation of the gallery from its beginnings in a former paint factory to its current home in the Chelsea section of London.

Engrossing essays are provided by leading art critics Richard Cork, Brian

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the actor Steve Martin. History of the

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books. Richard Cork is an art critic, historian, and broadcaster. He is senior art critic at The Times (London) and winner

• Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-86154-315-8

with Kraken Group.

Edward Booth-Clibborn is a publisher, author, and editor of many award-winning

Sewell, and Sir Norman Rosenthal, and Saatchi Gallery is published in association

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of the Bannister Fletcher Award. Brian Sewell is the award-winning art critic of the London Evening Standard and author

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Anish Kapoor

By Homi K. Bhabha, Nicholas Bourriaud, Jean de Loisy, and Sir Norman Rosenthal A Royal Academy of Arts Publication Anish Kapoor’s majestic, beguiling sculptures, awesome in their size and simple beauty, at once demand a physical response and suggest a metaphysical realm. With stunning photographs of signature works, including new pieces that have never been published, Anish Kapoor is the first major monograph on this internationally renowned and popular artist.

Employing intense colors and refined surfaces, and working with contrasts between form and void, light and darkness, Kapoor’s work evokes the mystical, and creates optical effects that challenge perceptual certainties.

Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, this richly illustrated book traces Kapoor’s artistic development over the course of a career spanning more than 30 years. Eminent scholars explore the philosophical issues pertinent to his

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work and examine its place in the history

• 125 full-color illustrations

Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F.

of modern sculpture and in the context

• 184 pages, 9FŠi * 11HŠi"

Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities

of contemporary practice.

• Hardcover with jacket

and Director of the Humanities Center

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at Harvard University, and an expert in

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post-colonial studies. Nicholas Bourriaud

CAN $78.00

is a curator and art critic and former

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recently curated the fourth Tate Triennial

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at Tate Britain, London. Jean de Loisy

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Wild Thing

Paul Sandby

By Christopher Baker, John Bonehill, Stephen Daniels,

By Richard Cork

and Sarah Skinner

A Royal Academy of Arts Publication

A Royal Academy of Arts Publication Long considered the father of English watercolor painting, Paul

In a sustained burst of daring creativity before World War I, sculptors Jacob Epstein (1880–1959), Eric Gill (1882–1940), and

Sandby (1731–1809) painted views throughout Britain, finding

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891–1915) revolutionized modern British

new scenes in a country undergoing rapid social and commercial

sculpture. In this compelling study, celebrated critic Richard Cork

development.

provides an in-depth examination of the artists’ influences and

Today, Sandby’s paintings appear in collections around the

works, exploring the idea of wildness that lay at the center of their

globe. In this comprehensive survey, published to celebrate the

artistic creed. Reaching beyond the classical canon to gain inspira-

artist’s bicentenary, leading authorities draw on new research

tion from what Gaudier-Brzeska called “the barbaric peoples of

to offer fresh perspectives on the development of 18th-century

the earth (for whom we have sympathy and admiration),” the

British art and Sandby’s role in popularizing and professionalizing

three artists produced bold, sexually explicit work that shocked

the medium of watercolor. The authors also explore the artist’s

viewers and ignited controversy.

influence as a teacher and his innovations in printmaking, as well as the cultural and geographical scope of his work.

Spectacular examples of these sculptures illustrate Cork’s text, including Epstein’s masterpiece, Rock Drill, and Gaudier-Brzeska’s monumental bust of Ezra Pound. With new research on the artists,

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Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, July 25–Oct 18, 2009

Wild Thing is an essential reference for lovers of modern sculpture.

National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Nov 7, 2009–Feb 7, 2010

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Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 13–June 13, 2010

Royal Academy of Arts, London, Oct 24, 2009–Jan 24, 2010

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• 150 full-color illustrations

Christopher Baker is Deputy

• 180 full-color illustrations

Richard Cork is an art critic,

• 216 pages, 10FŠi * 9FŠi"

Director of the National

• 160 pages, 9 * 11"

historian, broadcaster, and

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Gallery of Scotland. John

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Bonehill teaches at the University of Leicester.

Stephen Daniels is a

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professor at the University of

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Nottingham. Sarah Skinner is

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curator. His award-winning books include Vorticism and Abstract Art in the Machine Age, and Art Beyond the Gallery in Early Twentiethcentury England.

Keeper of Art at Nottingham Castle.

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Richard Long Heaven and Earth Edited by Clarrie Wallis From Tate Publishing Exhibited across the globe and winner of the 1989 Turner Prize, Richard Long, born in 1945, is one of Britain’s most important living artists. Long belongs to a generation of British sculptors who reimagined the traditional materials and methods of their medium. His work, rooted in his deep affinity with nature, developed during solitary walks through landscapes around the world, from the Andes to Africa to the Mongolian steppes. Often geometric in shape, Long’s sculptures are always made with materials encountered during his walks.

This fascinating book, extensively illustrated and designed in collaboration with the artist, surveys Long’s entire career, beginning with key early works including A Line Made By Walking (1967), A Ten Mile Walk (1968), Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro (1969), A Sculpture Left By The Tide (1970), and A Circle In Africa (1978). Featuring an essay by Tate curator Clarrie Wallis and including previously unpublished photographs, Richard Long is an insightful look at a major artist.

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• 120 full-color illustrations

Clarrie Wallis is Curator of Contemporary

• 240 pages, 8W * 10FŠi"

British Art at Tate Britain.

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Per Kirkeby Edited by Achim Borchardt-Hume with a contribution by Richard Shiff From Tate Publishing Born in Denmark in 1938, Per Kirkeby gained renown as a leading figure in the New Painting movement of the 1980s, alongside artists such as Georg Baselitz and A.R. Penck. Kirkeby’s fervent excavation of art history across a range of styles and media reflects his training as a geologist. This lavishly illustrated book, the most comprehensive volume on Kirkeby ever published in English, traces the trajectory of an artistic career that has spanned half a century.

Beginning with Kirkeby’s early history paintings and moving through his engagement with pop art, sculpture, large-scale “heroic” paintings, and his pastoral Walden series of the 1990s, the book contrasts his monumental works with previously unpublished small-scale watercolors of Greenland landscapes, etchings, and the blackboards on which Kirkeby mapped out his ideas.

With a new essay by Richard Shiff, an interview with the artist conducted

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by curator Achim Borchardt-Hume,

• 130 full-color illustrations

Achim Borchardt-Hume is Curator of

and a selection of Kirkeby’s own

• 144 pages, 8FŠi * 10HŠi"

Modern and Contemporary Art at Tate

extensive writings, the book provides

• Paperback

Modern and the author of Rothko and

invaluable insight into the mind of an inimitable artist.

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CAN $34.95

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Tate Modern, London,

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Albers and Maholy-Nagy. Richard Shiff is Professor of Art History at the University of Texas in Austin and the author of Critical Terms for Art History and Cézanne and the End of Impressionism.

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Cage 6 Paintings by Gerhard Richter With an essay by Robert Storr From Tate Publishing German artist Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) is widely regarded as one of the most important painters at work today. His diverse body of work has been exhibited at major institutions worldwide, and in 2001 he was given a solo retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Cage Paintings, conceived as a single coherent group and first displayed at the Venice Biennale in 2007, pay homage to the American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992), who famously declared “I have nothing to say and I’m saying it.” Richter, equally suspicious of ideologies, shies away from giving psychological interpretations of his paintings, preferring to allow viewers and critics to make up their own minds.

In this strikingly illustrated volume, critic Robert Storr considers the importance of the Cage Paintings within Richter’s practice and within the wider context of abstract art. A series of extraordinary photographs document the development of each of these monumental canvases, giving unique insight into Richter’s artistic approach.

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• 100 full-color illustrations

Robert Storr, an artist, critic, and curator,

• 160 pages, 9HŠi * 9HŠi"

is Dean of the Yale University School of

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Art, where he is also professor of paint-

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ing. He has lectured around the world.

From 1990 to 2002 he was a curator in the department of painting and sculp-

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York, where he curated the exhibition Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting.

In 1997 he was the Director of the Venice Biennale. Storr is the author of numerous catalogues, articles, and books.

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Altermodern

Glenn Brown

Edited by Nicolas Bourriaud

Edited by Francesco Bonami and Christoph Grunenberg with

From Tate Publishing

contributions by Lawrence Sillars and Michael Stubbs

With the title of the Tate’s fourth Triennial exhibition, leading

From Tate Publishing

critical theorist and curator Nicolas Bourriaud introduces an

One of the most admired painters of his generation, Glenn Brown

exciting new direction in art. Made in today’s global context,

(b. 1966) borrows from art history and popular culture to inves-

“Altermodern” is a reaction against cultural standardization

tigate the languages of painting. Nominated for the Turner Prize

and commercialization. Characterized by artists’ cross-border,

in 2000, Brown is fascinated by how reproductions of paintings

cross-cultural negotiations, and the celebration of difference

distort the qualities of the originals. The most thorough investiga-

and singularity, Altermodern works are on the cutting edge of

tion of the artist’s work in print, this book features contributions by leading international critics and over 70 paintings, sculptures,

contemporary art and thought.

With essays and contributions from Tom McCarthy, TJ Demos,

and previously unpublished new works.

Carsten Höller, and others, this captivating survey focuses on the

Working from books or projecting reproductions onto a blank

four main facets of Altermodern art: the end of postmodernism,

surface, Brown transforms familiar images into alien ones by mak-

cultural hybridization, traveling as a new way to produce forms,

ing changes in size, color, surface texture, and brushwork, and his

and the expanding formats of art.

playful technique juxtaposes elements of kitsch and the sublime.

Published to accompanying a major exhibition, Glenn Brown is the

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premier testament to a sensational body of work.

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Nicolas Bourriaud

• 70 full-color illustrations,

and-white illustrations

co-founded the Palais de

6 gatefold sections

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Francesco Bonami is Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum

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Tokyo in Paris and is Curator

• 144 pages, 9HŠi * 12W"

of Conemporary Art, Chciago.

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for Contemporary Art at

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Director, and Lawrence Sillars is curator, at Tate Liverpool.

Michael Stubbs is an established artist based in London.

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Rodchenko and Popova Defining Constructivism Edited by Margarita Tupitsyn With an essay by Christina Kiaer From Tate Publishing Following the Russian Revolution, Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891–1956) and Liubov Popova (1889–1924), propelled the avant-garde in an exciting new direction.

As pioneers of the Constructivist movement, Rodchenko and Popova created an astonishing array of iconic work that reflected the new political and cultural landscape of their nation.

In this groundbreaking book, leading authorities on Constructivism and the Russian avant-garde shed new light on the artists’ achievements and examine the extent of their influence on 20thcentury graphic design, fashion, theater, and film. For the first time, the issue of gender in the Constructivist movement is explored in depth.

Extensively illustrated with striking examples of the artists’ work, including previously unpublished pieces, Rodchenko and Popova is a comprehen-

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• Over 200 full-color illustrations

Margarita Tupitsyn is a leading expert

sive account of their creative develop-

• 192 pages, 8W * 10FŠi"

on and curator of Russian avant-garde

ment, from their movement through

• Paperback

art and photography, and is the author

different media to their passionate rejection of “art for art’s sake.” Published

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to accompany a major exhibition at Tate

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Modern, this is an indispensable guide to a fascinating period in art history.

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of Malevich and Film. Christina Kiaer is Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, Illinois, and

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specializes in Russian and Soviet art, the

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politics of the avant-garde, and feminist theory and art.

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Turner and the Masters Edited by David Solkin From Tate Publishing Turner and the Masters juxtaposes J.M.W. Turner’s greatest paintings alongside works by old masters and contemporaries that he hoped to imitate, rival, and surpass. Published to accompany a major international exhibition, it explores for the first time how Turner’s responses to other artists were both acts of homage and a sophisticated form of art criticism, designed to demonstrate his understanding of great art and his ability to equal and even outshine the most celebrated exponents of the landscape tradition.

With some 100 works reproduced in glorious colorplates, the book includes paintings by Claude, Canaletto, Ruisdael, Van de Velde, Poussin, Rubens, Rembrandt, Constable, Bonington, and many others who Turner knew personally. The paintings and text together reveal the artist’s debts and rivalries in an exciting and often unpredictable way, serving to further re-establish Turner’s reputation as the one of the greatest—and most beloved—of landscape painters.

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• 170 full-color illustrations

David Solkin is Professor of the Social

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History of Art at the Courtauld Institute,

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University of London.

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Frescoes of the Veneto Venetian Palaces and Villas Text by Filippo Pedrocco, Massimo Favilla, and Ruggero Rugolo Photography by Luca Sassi From the Vendome Press Soon after Giorgione introduced the fresco to Venice in the early 16th century, Venetian noble families began to commission the greatest masters of European painting to create grand fresco cycles for the interiors of their city palaces and their splendid villas on the mainland. This superbly photographed volume celebrates these frescoes, among the supreme achievements of Italian art and culture, providing an expertly guided tour of the beautiful residences in which they appear.

From complex allegories to Baroque masterpieces to fanciful distant worlds, Frescoes of the Veneto explores the changing nature of this tradition over the course of three centuries and features work by major artists such as Andrea Urbani and Giambattista Tiepolo,

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as well as lesser-known painters such

• 430 full-color illustrations

Filippo Pedrocco, a Venetian art

as Giovanni Antonio Fasolo, Luca Ferrari

• 432 pages, 10FŠi * 12X"

historian, is director of the Ca’ Rezzonico

da Reggio, and Jacopo Guarana. This

• Hardcover with jacket

Museum of Eighteenth-Century Venice.

splendid volume will be irresistible to lovers of Italian art and architecture and

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aficionados of the Veneto alike.

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Massimo Favilla has taught urban and regional planning at the Università IUAV in Venice and now teaches the history

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of art criticism at the Università Ca’

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Foscari. Ruggero Rugolo has taught the history of modern art at the Università Ca’ Foscari. Luca Sassi is a photographer and a publisher of art, architecture, and photography books.

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Sphinx The Life and Art of Leonor Fini

By Peter Webb From the Vendome Press Talented, glamorous, and ambitious, Leonor Fini (1908–1996) was one of the most influential female artists of the mid-20th century. From her opulent, bohemian childhood in Italy to her debut in a group exhibition at the age of seventeen and her rise in the international art world, Fini was legendary for both her vivacious personality and her ethereal subjects. This is the first comprehensive look at Fini’s life and art.

Fini’s figures—sphinxes, felines, nymphs, priestesses, nudes— are bold proclamations of female sexuality that convey a powerful feminine subconscious. Also renowned for her theatrical set design, costumes, and posters, the artist developed close relationships with other avant-garde Surrealists including Andre Breton, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover.

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s nude portrait of Fini in a pool, taken while they were vacationing together, recently sold at auction for a record sum.

Leonor Fini is a fascinating portrait of a magnetic woman who lived her

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• 160 full-color and 139 black-and-white

Peter Webb, a British art historian, has written widely on 20th-century British,

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American, and European Surrealism and

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erotic art and photography.

life with panache and elegance, deftly

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wrapping drama into her art.

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The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé Text by Robert Murphy Photography by Ivan Terestchenko From the Vendome Press One of the most talented and influential couturiers of his time, Yves Saint Laurent began his career as Christian Dior’s protégé and went on to become a legendary arbiter of 20th-century style. Saint Laurent’s extraordinary taste went well beyond the world of fashion, and in this lavish volume, the eight splendid homes he shared with friend and lifelong business partner Pierre Bergé are presented in immaculate detail.

Notoriously shy, the designer and Bergé lived in luxury, surrounded by incomparable collections of furniture and art. From the serene interiors of their apartment on the Rue Babylone in Paris to the incandescent beauty of the Villa Majorelle in Marrakech, Bergé’s and Saint Laurent’s sensibilities come alive.

Taken after Saint Laurent’s death in 2008, Ivan Terestchenko’s photographs

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capture these exquisite surroundings

• 218 full-color and 38 black-and-white

Robert Murphy is a journalist and

in full, showcasing 19th-century French

illustrations

writer. He is the Paris correspondent

décor, important paintings by modern

• 280 pages, 11 * 12W"

for W and Women’s Wear Daily. Ivan

and Romantic artists, and masterpieces

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Terestchenko is an internationally

of furniture, sculpture, and silver ranging from the Renaissance to the Art Deco era. Though the homes presented here are now empty, The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé is a testament to a rare union of passion,

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CAN $123.50

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renowned photographer whose work has appeared in several books and in W, Casa Vogue, World of Interiors, Elle Decor, and Architectural Digest.

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elegance, and supreme connoisseurship. ˘ Publicity in conjunction with the collection from the Chateau Gabriel be auctioned by Christie’s in November 2009 ˘ Christie’s February 2009 sale of the contents of many of these homes earned more than $500 million dollars

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Coast to Coast Vintage Travel in North America

By Antony Shugaar, Marc Walter, Catherine Donzel From the Vendome Press Coast to Coast presents an extraordinary journey—via rail, steamboat, automobile, and even horseback—across a continent just beginning to discover itself. Traveling through the great cities, magnificent landscapes, and highways of a bygone America, the book is illustrated with vintage photographs, posters, travel brochures, and other charming ephemera.

By the end of the 19th century, North America was fully settled, and the era’s robust economy led to the invention of affordable popular tourism. Even people of modest means could comfortably tour the continent, and a wealth of tourist attractions awaited: Niagara Falls, Crater Lake, the Grand Canyon and other sites in the brand-new national parks, New York’s Pennsylvania Station, San Francisco’s Embarcadero, the French Quarter in New Orleans, the Banff Springs Hotel, and many more.

With five maps and nine color inserts of facsimile menus, guidebooks, and vintage postcards displaying everything

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• 411 color and black-and-white

Antony Shugaar, a well-known translator and author, is the recipient of a 2007

illustrations • 320 pages, 8W * 10F/i"

NEA fellowship for his translation of

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Sandokan. He has translated books by

from cog railways running up Mount

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Washington to ostrich farms outside

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Pasadena and Arkansas’s spectacular Hot Springs, this brilliantly researched book provides a tour of an America just beginning to flex its muscles as a world-class tourist attraction. ˘ Target travel and luxury publications

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Primo Levi and other notable authors, and writes for the Boston Globe and Washington Post. He is the co-author of

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Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator. Marc

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Walter is a photographer and graphic designer whose most recent book is Empire Splendor. Catherine Donzel writes on travel and lifestyle. Her most recent book is The Little Book of Tea.

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Country Color Perfect Palettes for Every Room

By Judith Miller Photography by Simon Upton From the Vendome Press Whether cool and pale or bright and warm, country color plays a pivotal role in bringing a stylish, cozy, and comfortable mood to rooms that emphasize the charms of rural life. Showcasing both traditional and modern country houses, celebrated interiors expert Judith Miller demonstrates how to achieve the perfect balance of colors and textures to create a warm and inviting refuge from the outside world.

In this innovative guide, colors and textures commingle to weave a highly original and imaginative interior that forges a powerful connection with the land around it. And to make the book even more useful, swatches for fabrics and paints as well as codes to match paints from Benjamin Moore, Ralph Lauren, and Farrow & Ball are provided.

In New England, deep wood colors are matched with rich burgundy, while in the rural South, long porches and large, open rooms are painted in cool colors to offset the heat. In warm climates such as North Africa, Spain, and New Mexico, bright white and terra-cottas reflect the

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York. Simon Upton is one of the most

includes sections on natural materials—

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choosing and decorating with furniture,

books. She began collecting antiques in the 1960s. She lives in London and New

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pottery, and fabrics.

Judith Miller is a TV personality and bestselling author of more than 100

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warm sand of the arid desert. The book wood, stone, and earth—and on

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sought-after interiors photographers in the world. His work appears frequently in book and magazines, including Elle Decor and World of Interiors.

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New Classic American Houses The Architecture of Albert, Righter & Tittmann Text by Dan Cooper Foreword by Robert A. M. Stern From the Vendome Press Named one of the best architecture firms of 2008 by Best of Boston®, Albert, Righter & Tittmann Architects create finely crafted houses that pay homage to classic American house styles yet are adapted with skill, mastery, and a good dose of irreverence to suit contemporary life. At first glance, the Cambridge Cupola House looks like a typical mid19th-century Greek Revival house, but on closer inspection, one realizes that nothing is quite where it should be. The grand, cupola-topped rotunda entrance, for instance, is located not in the front, but on the side of the house! The reason?

To increase the living space for the inhabitants.

Illustrated with specially commissioned photographs, as well as with plans, drawings, and watercolors, this

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sumptuous volume celebrates AR&T’s

• 200 full-color and 30 black-and-white

timeless, innovative designs and

illustrations

explores the historical styles on which

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Dan Cooper writes about architecture, interior design, and antiques. A nationally

they are based—from Classical to Shingle, from Carpenter Gothic to Cape.

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recognized expert on historic carpeting, he is consulted by museums, state capitols, and individuals throughout the U.S. and Canada. He lives in western Massachusetts and New York. Robert A. M. Stern, founder

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Architects, is Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the AIA New York Chapter’s President’s Award.

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First Class Legendary Ocean Liner Voyages Around the World Text by Catherine Donzel From the Vendome Press Not so long ago, magnificent ocean liners—unmatched in opulence by today’s vessels—sailed the seas from New York to Rio, Alexandria to Marseilles, and from Southampton to Singapore.

In this enchanting book, presented in a slipcase made to resemble a battered steamer trunk, these legendary ships—The Normandie, The Mauretania, and The Majestic—are gloriously resurrected through photographs, posters, watercolors, advertising art, memorabilia, and more.

Catherine Donzel, author of Luxury Liners: Life on Board, leads readers on an illustrated tour of these great liners, from glamorous dining rooms and gleaming table services to elaborate staterooms and exquisite salons. Divided into six fantastic journeys, First Class is an unparalleled celebration of the elegance, sophistication, and comfort of a bygone era in ocean travel. ˘ Outreach to cruise lines ˘ Target travel and luxury publications ˘ Online outreach to magazines and blogs ˘ Holiday gift book promotion

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

• 160 full-color and 150 black-and-white

Catherine Donzel, a French journalist,

• 360 pages, 8X * 5HŠi"

travel, architecture, and life style.

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First Class: Legendary Train Journeys Around the World ISBN: 978-0-86565-188-3 US $35.00 CAN $42.00

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Outrageous Yachts

By Jill Bobrow and Kenny Wooton Principal Photography by Dana Jinkins Foreword by George Nicholson From the Vendome Press Owning a yacht is the ultimate status symbol. Universally perceived as the exclusive domain of the rich and the famous, yachting is a decidedly rarified world. Arguably the most well-known private yacht of all time, the 325-foot (99-meter) Christina O, owned by Aristotle Onassis in the 1950s and 60s, was the playground for heads of state such as Winston Churchill and the Kennedys, opera diva Maria Callas, and Hollywood sweethearts such as Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor. Pictured here along with the newly rebuilt Christina O are 20 other megayachts, including the newly completed and wildly colorful Guilty, it exterior designed

by Jeff Koons for the art collector Dakis Joannou; Tom Perkins’ modern sailing yacht Maltese Falcon, the ultramodern sailing yacht Esense, and the refit classic Delphine.

The yachts pictured here are special for many reasons: they are the fastest, or the most innovative, or the most tech-

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• 250 full-color and 10 black-and-white • 232 pages, 9 * 12"

provides information about the yachts’

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the magnificent vessels—ranging in size from 138 to 424 feet (42 to 129 meters).

ISBN: 978-0-86565-257-6 US $50.00

Jill Bobrow is Editor in Chief of ShowBoats International, the world’s

illustrations

nologically advanced. Outrageous Yachts builders and designers, and tours each of

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premiere luxury yacht publication.

Kenny Wooton is Executive Editor of ShowBoats International. Dana Jinkins is co-founder, art director, and principal photographer of Concepts Publishing

This volume promises to be irresistible

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Inc., which specializes in books on yachts

to anyone who has a yacht or dreams of

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and yachting destinations worldwide.

owning one.

George Nicholson is chairman of Camper & Nicholsons International, the world’s

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oldest leisure marine company.

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Chanel and Her World

Available Now!

Friends, Fashion, and Fame

By Edmonde Charles-Roux “A model pictorial biography.”

—The New York Times “This Chanel biography is as elegantly turned out as its subject.”—The Washington Post “This lavish photo tome brings depth to Chanel’s sleek façade while revealing the fascinating woman behind it.”—W “If style never goes out of fashion, then a biography of Coco Chanel shouldn’t either.”—Publishers Weekly Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883–1971) is a fashion icon unlike any other. This illustrated biography includes a wealth of photographs amassed by the author over decades of friendship with Chanel, and sheds new light on one of the great stories of the modern age.

Chanel invented modern clothing for women: at the height of the Belle Époque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair,

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put them in bathing suits, and sent them

• 381 illustrations, 41 in full color

Edmonde Charles-Roux began her

• 384 pages, 7X * 10W"

journalistic career at Elle and ultimately

out in the sun. She introduced slacks, costume jewelry, and the exquisitely comfortable suit. She made the first cou-

• Hardcover with jacket

ture perfume—No. 5—which remains

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the most popular scent ever created. In

US $60.00

this beautiful volume, the glorious life of the incomparable Coco Chanel shines again through hundreds of illustrations

CAN $65.00

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

became editor-in-chief of French Vogue.

She has published three novels, among them To Forget Palermo (Oublier Palerme), which won the Prix Goncourt in 1966.

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and the lively prose of Edmonde Charles-Roux, her official biographer and close friend. First published almost 30 years ago and recently reissued with a wealth of new color and black-and-white illustrations, Chanel and Her World is, clearly, a classic. ˘ Targeted publicity in conjunction with two major motion pictures of Chanel’s life to be released in Fall 2009 ˘ Coco Avant Chanel, made with Karl Lagerfeld’s support and starring Audrey Tautou, is based on the original French version of this book T H E V EN D OM E PRESS | FA L L 20 09 |

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Maharaja The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts Edited by Anna Jackson and Amin Jaffer V&A Publishing The word “maharaja”—literally “great king”—conjures up a vision of splendor and magnificence: ropes of pearls, huge diamonds, jeweled turbans, elaborately carved furniture, shimmering textiles in every imaginable color. This lavishly illustrated book, published to accompany a major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, examines the real and perceived worlds of the maharaja from the early eighteenth century to 1947, when the Indian Princes ceded their territories into the modern states of India and Pakistan.

The book explores the spectacular material culture of India’s rulers, showcasing rich and varied objects that reflect different aspects of royal life. Paintings, photographs, textiles and dress, jewelry, jeweled objects, metalwork, and furniture—Indian objects as well as pieces imported to India from the West—are considered within a broader historical context, exploring royal status and identity, court culture, and patronage.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

• 200 full-color illustrations

Anna Jackson is Deputy Keeper of the

• 240 pages, 9X * 12W"

V&A’s Asian Department. She co-curated

• Hardcover with jacket

Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and

ISBN: 978-1-85177-573-6 US $55.00

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Europe 1500–1800 with Amin Jaffer and co-edited the accompanying book. She is also the author of Japanese Textiles and EXPO and a contributor to Art Deco. Amin Jaffer is International Director of Asian Art at Christie’s. He was previously Senior Curator in the V&A’s Asian Department and is the author of Furniture from British India and Ceylon and Made for Maharajas.

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Chinese Ceramics

Tipu’s Tigers

By Stacey Pierson

By Susan Stronge

V&A Publishing

V&A Publishing

Chinese ceramics are among the most widely admired and

Tipu’s Tiger is one of the V&A’s most enduringly famous and

collected in the world. From elegant Song celadons to decorative

fascinating objects. Commissioned in the 1790s by Tipu Sultan

Ming vases and colorful Qing famille rose, ceramics produced

of Mysore, India, this extraordinary wooden automaton of a tiger

in China have influenced taste and daily life globally. This new

devouring a British soldier was a symbol of the Sultan’s authority

design history draws on the V&A’s comprehensive collection to

and a reflection of his opposition to the British. After Tipu was

look at the production, consumption, aesthetics, and transfer of

killed in 1799, the tiger, which houses pipes that simulate its roar

Chinese ceramics.

and the shrieks of its victim, was shipped to London, where it has

Stunning new photography illustrates more than 200 pieces, including previously unpublished objects. It also explores ceramics

inspired artists and writers, frightened children, and entertained the public ever since.

made in the 20th and 21st centuries, from Republic period porce-

This new book tells the story of the tiger, and also illustrates

lain to propaganda ware and studio pottery, a first for any survey

and discusses some of the most splendid of Tipu Sultan’s other

history of the subject.

treasures—his throne, textiles, and spectacular weapons, all decorated with the ruler’s iconic tiger forms and patterns.

Tipu’s Tiger is a perennial favorite of visitors to the V&A.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

• 200 full-color illustrations

Stacey Pierson is Lecturer

• 70 full-color photographs

Susan Stronge is Senior

• 144 pages, 8V * 10FŠi"

in the History of Chinese

• 96 pages, 9V * 8BŠi"

Curator in the Asian

• Hardcover with jacket

Ceramics at the School of

• Hardcover with jacket

Department of the V&A. Her

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CAN $58.50

Oriental and African Studies, London. She has published widely on the subject and is

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CAN $25.95

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currently working on a cul-

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tural history of the Ming vase.

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many previous publications include BidriWare, The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms, and Painting for the Mughal Emperor.

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Dior

By Alexandra Palmer V&A Publishing “Never in the history of fashion had a single designer made such a revolution in his first showing.”—Time In 1947 Christian Dior rocked the fashion world with his New Look, which dominated postwar fashion and firmly secured the name of his house in the minds of the public and the industry.

Based on new research, this absorbing and beautifully illustrated book examines the seminal years of Christian Dior—1947 to until his death in 1957—from a truly international perspective.

Dior drew on historical models of femininity and utilized the unique skills of the Parisian haute couture in textiles, embroidery, cutting, and sewing techniques to produce stunning designs that captured the new mood of optimism after World War II. Dior also designed and marketed readymade luxe lines and broke new ground by creating and controlling innovative licensing agreements for all Dior products, from perfume to stockings, jewelry, bathing suits, and even men’s ties.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Alexandra Palmer is Senior Curator,

photographs

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• 80 full-color and 20 black-and-white

Textiles and Costume, at the Royal

• 128 pages, 8W * 9FŠi"

Ontario Museum, where she has

• Paperback

curated numerous exhibitions including

ISBN: 978-1-85177-578-1 US $30.00

CAN $38.99

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Elite Elegance: Couture Fashion in the 1950s. Her books include Couture and Commerce: the Transatlantic Fashion Trade in the 1950s, Old Clothes, New Looks: Second Hand Fashion, and Fashion: A Canadian Perspective, as well as contributions to RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion.

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V&A Pattern V&A Publishing The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is the world’s greatest museum of art and design, with a vast collection that been an unparalleled resource for designers for 150 years. This new series of pattern books presents the range of the V&A’s superb collections. Beautifully designed, accessible, and informative, these little books are a repository of ideas and inspiration for designers of all kinds. Included in each volume is a CD of all the images shown within—to be redrawn, reworked, or even licensed for further use.

The books are available individually or in a beautiful decorative slipcase.

EACH VOLUME:

• 68 full-color illustrations, hi-res CD • 80 pages, 5 * 7" • Hardcover US $12.95

CAN $16.95

Boxed set

V&A Pattern

ISBN: 978-1-85177-590-3

William Morris

US $47.50

Text by Linda Parry

CAN $61.95

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William Morris’s world-famous designs

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possess a timeless quality and appeal that is surprising in work created over a century ago. He began designing pat-

˘ Outreach to design websites and blogs

terns in the 1860s, for his own use and as part of an effort to improve the general standards of decorative design.

ISBN: 978-1-85177-584-2

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Linda Parry is a world expert on William Morris and former senior curator at the V&A. She curated the highly successful V&A exhibition on William Morris in 1995 and edited the accompanying catalogue.

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V&A Pattern

V&A Pattern

V&A Pattern

Indian Florals

The Fifties

Digital Pioneers

Text by Rosemary Crill

Text by Sue Prichard

Text by Honor Beddard

Luscious patterns derived from plants

The Fifties produced some of the most

and flowers have been used in India for

inventive and innovative twentieth-

After World War Two computers offered

centuries. Lotus flowers and floral mean-

century pattern designs as the emerging

the opportunity to explore innovative

ders are seen in third-century Buddhist

trend for abstraction in the fine artsas

ways of creating images that would

sites, and were given an additional

exemplified by Miró, Calder, and Klee, for

demonstrate an unexpected purity in

dimension by European prints and books

instance—acted as a stimulus for many

their natural patterning, symmetry,

that made their way to the subcontinent

European and American designers.

and order.

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and Douglas Dodds

in the early seventeenth century.

ISBN: 978-1-85177-585-9

ISBN: 978-1-85177-587-3

ISBN: 978-1-85177-586-6 ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Sue Prichard is curator of contemporary

Honor Beddard is Computer Art

Rosemary Crill is senior curator of South

textiles at the V&A. She has curated a

Project Curator at the V&A, currently

Asia at the V&A. She has published

number of textiles exhibitions and is

researching and documenting the V&A’s

widely on Indian textiles and paintings.

currently working on a major quilts book

Computer Art holdings. Douglas Dodds

and exhibition to be held at the V&A

is Head of Central Services and a Senior

in 2010.

Curator in the V&A’s Word and Image Department.

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Medieval Jewellery In Europe 1100–1500

By Marion Campbel V&A Publishing Jewelry holds a special significance in all cultures. The jewelry worn in medieval Europe was important as an indicator of the wearer’s social status and wealth, faith and superstition, allegiances and literacy. This stunning book draws on the major collection at the V&A to focus on the heart of the Medieval period from 1100 to 1500.

Royalty and the nobility wore gold, silver, or precious gems, while humbler ranks wore base metals, copper or pewter, sometimes set with colored glass, in imitation of gems. This richly illustrated book, one of very few on this subject, looks at the jewels themselves—rings, bracelets, necklaces, amulets, crosses and crucifixes—as well as contemporary portraits and sculpture to place the jewelry in its cultural context.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

• 90 full-color illustrations

Marian Campbell is a Senior Curator

• 112 pages, 8W * 9FŠi"

of Metalwork in the Department of

• Hardcover with jacket

Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics and

ISBN: 978-1-85177-582-8 US $30.00

CAN $38.99

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Glass at the V&A. She has lectured in major museums in Europe and America.

She is author of Introduction to Medieval Enamels and Decorative Ironwork.

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Renaissance Secrets Recipes & Formulas

By Jo Wheeler V&A Publishing From recipes for aphrodisiacs to formulas for everything from lip balm to stain removers to paint pigments, this book unveils the secret world of Renaissance lotions and potions. Superbly illustrated with relevant objects from the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Renaissance Secrets reveals a myriad of concoctions once used to create medicines, cosmetics, printing materials, even amulets meant to ward off the plague.

New and extensive research offers intriguing insights into the use of obscure, exotic and toxic ingredients and explains now-unfamiliar or arcane techniques. Renaissance Secrets reveals the compelling stories behind the original recipes. ˘ Outreach to Renaissance Fairs

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

• 90 full-color illustrations, marbled

Jo Wheeler lives and works in London.

endpapers

He received his PhD from the University

• 112 pages, 6W * 11HŠi"

of Warwick, England. He has published

• Hardcover with jacket

on neighborhood and local loyalties, as well as stench and disease in

ISBN: 978-1-85177-577-4 US $29.95

Renaissance Venice.

CAN $38.95

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MEDICINE FOR LOVERS FOR HUSBANDS WHO HAVE HAD TOO MUCH SEX WITH THEIR WIVES, so that they weaken their bodies […] There are many [men], indeed the majority of the young, who in the first days of marriage let themselves be so carried away by carnal pleasures that they find themselves excessively weakened, or lose their sight, memory, or other accidents befall them […] To restore lost spirits […] firstly it is necessary to comfort and strengthen the stomach with drinks, compresses and plasters […] to improve the digestion. Medicines to warm the heart are also advisable; in fact they are one of the best things that can be employed […] During this time, foods should be delicate and good; and be humid and somewhat hot [in nature]: such as chickens, partridges, capons and their broth, from which minestra with egg yolks, a little saffron or other aromatic and moderately hot spices is made. Avoid eating too much; and highly nutritious foods and sweet odoriferous wine are called for. Sheep’s or cow’s milk comfort greatly and restore the spirits, but must be taken on an empty stomach in the morning […] white bread soaked in white wine works fast against weakness. Bathing is highly recommended, but wash your hands and feet in water, in which roses and willow leaves have been boiled. Sleep is similarly beneficial, as by extension is rest […] a ball made from labadanum, cloves, musk, sandalwood and saffron, carried in the hand, comforts; and apothecaries have all these things.

MOTH REPELLENT M

fede ring, Germany.

Its two interlocking circles join to clasp the two hands in a widely recognized symbol of love and commitment.

The joining of hands was a significant moment in the betrothal process, a tradition enduring from Roman times.

Inscriptions inside these rings were common: here CLEMEN.KESSELR. DEN-25 AUG AD.1607 may commemorate the wedding date of the owner.

and silk, Flanders, c.1540–55. This immense tapestry was woven for the Italian humanist Paolo Giovio, and once furnished the Palazzo Giovio in Como.

Tapestries were usually reserved for special occasions and stored in protective canvas bags to help preserve them from damage.

YOUR APPAREL WITH AN ORDINARY BRUSH AND SIMILARLY

YOUR HANGINGS.

OTHERWISE USE A BRUSH MADE FROM A FIG FRAIL [A BASKET MADE OF RUSHES USED TO PACK FIGS], UNTIL YOU HAVE GOT ALL THE DUST OUT OF THEM. THEN BRUSH THEM THOROUGHLY TWO OR THREE TIMES A YEAR AS THEY HANG, WITH A BRUSH MADE OF WORMWOOD TOPS. TO BE SURE, RUB THE REVERSE SIDE WITH WORMWOOD. I HAVE HEARD THAT IT IS CUSTOMARY IN SUMMER TIME AMONGST THE ITALIANS HERE TO HANG WALNUT-TREE LEAVES ON THREADS, IN SUCH A WAY THAT NONE TOUCHES EACH OTHER. WHEN THOROUGHLY DRIED OUT, THEY STREW THEM IN THEIR CHESTS AND PRESSES [LINEN CUPBOARDS], AMONGST THEIR CLOTHES AND FURNITURE OF THEIR CHAMBERS AND BEDS, AND BETWEEN THE SEVERAL FOLDS OF EVERY GARMENT.

The ritual exchange of gifts was central to the culture of love and marriage in the Renaissance. New brides therefore received a special power breakfast after their first night – which might include eggs for fertility and sweetmeats for love.

In Florence, friends and relatives of the husband’s family offered foodstuffs on the eve of the wedding and the next day brought small gifts of sweetmeats for the collation. In Rome, after the exchange of rings, gifts given to the bride by the husband’s closest relatives included ‘rings or other little presents’. Fede rings (from the Italian for ‘faith’, ‘trust’) featuring two clasped hands (illustrated above) were wedding rings or love tokens given as signs of everlasting love and fidelity. Also, images of pierced hearts and joined hands on maiolica plates (illustrated opposite) suggest their probable function as gifts to commemorate and celebrate married love.

V&A: 256–1895

Authors of books of secrets were acutely aware that tapestries and other hangings were extremely vulnerable to the ravages of moths. Above, Sir Hugh Plat (see p.xx) in his Jewell House of Art and Nature advocates the use of wormwood to protect them, following ancient authorities such as Pliny and Dioscorides. A source read and heavily annotated by Plat, the Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont, which he nevertheless criticised for publishing untested and overly complicated recipes, reiterates this advice: ‘Take wormwood, or southernwood, the leaves of a cedar tree, and valerian and lay them in your coffers or presses where your clothes be, or in the pleats of your garments.’ But Ruscelli’s text also provides a clear rationale for why these substances in particular were thought to be effective: ‘These leaves and herbs are bitter of taste, and the savour or smell is very strong, which the vermin do abhor and cannot abide.’ In Renaissance Europe, textiles were often stored in cedar or cypress chests, since the natural resins in these wood were known to be a moth repellent. Shakespeare alludes to this practice in The Taming of the Shrew, when Gremio mentions ‘In cypress chests my arras counterpoints’ (tapestry quilts).

M

oths, from a volume of drawings commissioned by the Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605), comprising 44 figures of insects, 8 of quadrupeds, 9 of fish, and 26 of shells and minerals.

Aged 80, Aldrovandi published a seven-volume work, De animalibus insectis (On Animal Insects).

Alert to such dangers, the physician Giovanni Marinello (see p.xx) in Delle medicine partenenti all’ infermità delle donne (Medicines pertinent to women’s illnesses) (Venice, 1563; revised and expanded 1574), provided the sure-fire remedy opposite. Diet was central to the conservation of health, so his advice focused on eating the right nourishing foods.

Enamelled gold gimmel

BRUSH

V&A: 8900 – 1863

Renaissance physiology held that regular sex was beneficial to health, restoring the balance of the humours, like other forms of evacuation. Excessive sex though was both debilitating and harmful. It was most dangerous for men: according to Baldassare Castiglione’s Cortegiano, or Book of the Courtier (1528), men ‘dry out more than women in intercourse’. This belief rests on a cluster of ideas transmitted from antiquity, right back to Aristotle: first, that the female body was colder and wetter; secondly, that sperm was generated from excess blood remaining after the body was nourished, in conditions of great heat; thirdly, that sex for men involved a major loss of vital heat and humidity.

Tapestry. Wool

How to keep garments of cloth, or hangings of tapestry, dornicks and say from eating by moths

aiolica dish.

Italy, 1500–10. It depicts the handclasp, and was probably a commemorative gift, perhaps used during wedding celebrations.

A pierced heart surrounded by flames was another popular design representing love.

Fondo Aldrovandi, University of Bologna: Tavole, volume 007, Animali, f.127

From the last decades of the sixteenth century, new compilations of secrets appeared in England, marketed as household recipe books, with a female audience in mind. One such text was Plat’s Delightes for Ladies (1602). The first, though, was John Partridge’s Treasurie of Commodious Conceits and Hidden Secrets (1573). And this book includes a description of a ‘fumigation for a press and clothes that no moth shall breed therein’. The recipe calls for a powder made of cypress wood, juniper, dried rosemary, storax, benzoin and cloves, combined with a powder from wormwood leaves. These ingredients were to be set on the coals in a chafing dish.

V&A: 854–1871

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Medicine

Medicine

71

60

Textiles & clothing

Textiles & clothing

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| FASHION / DECORATIVE ARTS |

Death and Art Europe 1200–1530

Fashion and Armour in Renaissance Europe

By Eleanor Townsend

Proud Lookes and Brave Attire

V&A Publishing

By Angus Patterson

In Medieval and Renaissance Europe, where life expectancy was under 40 and the Catholic Church taught that, after dying, the soul faced a terrifying and uncertain onward journey, death was a major cultural preoccupation. This fascinating book sets out the beliefs surrounding death and the afterlife in a mainly Catholic Europe, and explores how these shaped attitudes to the visual arts.

Explaining Medieval and Renaissance concepts of the afterlife, indulgences, purgatory, and salvation, this volume reveals how people of every background commissioned devotional works and wore protective amulets, built tombs, and went on pilgrimages— all to improve their soul’s chances after death. Fully illustrated with images from a wide range of media including sculpture, jewelry, and painting, this is a unique look at the art of death.

V&A Publishing Of all the riches of the sixteenth-century European nobleman, none spoke more powerfully of his heroism, wealth, and taste than his armor, clothing, and weapons.

Drawing on the Victoria and Albert Museum’s popular arms and armor collection—which includes the armor of such notables as Henry IV of France and Philip III of Spain—Angus Patterson looks at the suits designed to kill, protect, and impress.

Here are parade suits, lavishly embossed and gilded, decorated with plumes of ostrich feathers, and draped with colorful silk sashes, as well as swords, daggers, pistols, and gunpowder flasks slung from elaborate belts. Paintings, sculpture, and beautiful new photographs—including many close-up details—bring this very particular aspect of Medieval and Renaissance fashion to life.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

• 60 full-color illustrations

Eleanor Townsend is a curator

• 100 full-color illustrations

Angus Patterson is Curator

• 96 pages, 7DŠi * 8BŠi"

at the V&A. She co-curated

• 112 pages, 8W * 9FŠi"

of European Arms and

• Hardcover with jacket

the exhibition Gothic: Art for

• Hardcover with jacket

Armour and Base Metals

ISBN: 978-1-85177-583-5 US $22.50

CAN $29.50

England 1400–1547 at the V&A and is a member of the team delivering the V&A’s new

ISBN: 978-1-85177-581-1 US $30.00

CAN $38.99

at the V&A, responsible for collections of armor, weapons, pewter, brass, cutlery, cut

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Medieval and Renaissance

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steel, Sheffield Plate, and

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Galleries.

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electrotypes. He is editor of the Journal of the Antique Metalware Society.

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Medieval and Renaissance Art People and Possessions

By Glyn Davies and Kristin Kennedy V&A Publishing This important and beautiful book accompanies the opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s spectacular new Medieval and Renaissance galleries.

Among the textiles, paintings, sculpture, glass, metalwork, prints, manuscripts, furniture, ceramics and jewelry featured here are such renowned treasures as the Devonshire tapestries, the Leonardo Notebooks, Donatello’s Ascension relief, the reliquary casket of St. Thomas Becket, and many more astonishing works.

Organized thematically, the book explores the social contexts responsible for these captivating objects. Rather than adopting the traditional sharp distinction between the Medieval and Renaissance, the authors explore aspects of the whole of this long period in European design and manufacture— an approach that emphasizes the continuities and gradual developments

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

that were often as significant as

• 350 full-color illustrations

Glyn Davies is a Research Fellow and

sudden upheaval.

• 320 pages, 9X * 11W"

Curator of the Medieval and Renaissance

• Hardcover with jacket

Galleries at the Victoria and Albert

A general historical introduction to the social and political background is followed by chapters that explore

ISBN: 978-1-85177-579-8

concepts of art, workshops, and sales,

US $80.00

the classical past, ornament, religious art, health and body, and the ways in which objects themselves express the attitudes

CAN $104.00

Museum. Kirstin Kennedy is Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Silver at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She

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worked on the Medieval and Renaissance

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Galleries.

of their owners.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

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Fashion in Detail Series V&A Publishing The bestselling books in the acclaimed Fashion in Detail series are now all available in paperback with gorgeous new covers. The series features the Victoria and Albert Museum’s world-famous collection of historical dress, seen in glorious close-up, with line drawings showing the construction of the complete garment.

“Meticulously detailed as well as gorgeous. . . . The color photographs— which cover page after page and capture these intricate designs in close-up—are the main source of delight.” —Time Out (London) “A visual feast for all fashion lovers, and an essential resource for curators, collectors, students and designers.”

—Antique Dealer and Collectors’ Guide

Twentieth-Century Fashion in Detail

By Valerie D. Mendes and Claire Wilcox V&A Publishing With a gorgeous new cover, this extensively illustrated book is a celebration of the V&A’s magnificent collection of 20th-century fashion. The latest title in the highly successful Fashion in Detail series, this book offers a detailed look at some of the most stunning garments in the collection. In meticulous detail, the book features line drawings of each garment’s structure and specially commissioned close-up photographs of each item’s most impressive aspects: fastenings, necklines, cuffs, hemlines, fringes, and more. The result is a visual banquet of textures, patterns, and craftsmanship and an eye-opening testament to the

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variety and creativity of modern dress.

• 83 full-color illustrations

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

• 144 pages, 9 * 11X"

Valerie D. Mendes is a fashion and textiles historian who became Chief Curator of

• Paperback with flaps

and 100 line drawings

the former Textiles and Dress Department at the V&A. She has curated numerous exhibitions and published widely on twentieth century dress and textiles. Claire Wilcox is Senior Curator of Twentieth Century and Contemporary Fashion at the V&A. She was curator of the highly successful V&A exhibitions Vivienne Westwood (2004) and Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957 (2007).

ISBN: 978-1-85177-571-2 US $39.95

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World Dress Fashion in Detail ISBN: 978-1-85177-568-2

Seventeenth and EighteenthCentury Fashion in Detail ISBN: 978-1-85177-567-5

Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail ISBN: 978-1-85177-572-9

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PHOTOGRAPH AND ART CREDITS

FRONT COVER Courtesy Michael Benson, from Far Out (p. 35) BACK COVER Top left: © Michael Lavine, from Grunge (p. 114); top right:

© Yann Arthus-Bertrand, from Home (p. 4); middle left: from Good Eats (p. 70); middle right: © Nick Brandt, from A Shadow Falls (p. 7); bottom left: © Thibault Jeanson, from New Classic Interiors (p. 102); bottom right: © Paul Guinan, from Boilerplate (p. 118)

1 © Page Hodel 2–3 Jonas Bendiksen, Abitanti del villaggio raccolgono rottami di una navicella spaziale precipitata, circondati da migliaia di farfalle bianche. Regione di Altai, Russia, 2000, © Jonas Bendiksen/ Magnum Photos 4 all images © Yann Arthus-Bertrand 5 top: Jean Shrimpton, collage for Harper’s Bazaar, April 1965, based upon original design by Ruth Ansel; bottom left: Renée, “The New Look of Dior,” Place de la Concorde, Paris, August 1947; bottom center: Veruschka, dress by Kimberly, New York, January 1967; bottom right: Kara Young with Reinaldo, Milan, December 1994 Versace Home advertising campaign, Spring–Summer 1995; Photographs Richard Avedon © 2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation 6–7 all images © Nick Brandt 8 all images © George Steinmetz 10–11 Compilation copyright © 2009 Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly. Individual images used by permission. All rights reserved. 12 left: AKG-Images, Berlin; center: Courtesy of private collection; right: The Bridgeman Art Library, London 13 all images © 2009 AP Photo 14–15 all images © Andrew Zuckerman 16 Top left, top right and middle left: courtesy of The Osaka International Children’s Library Collection, Osaka; middle right, lower left, and lower right: courtesy of The Tama Library Collection, Tokyo. 17 Photographer unknown 19 Left: Bandit, London, 2008; right: Eine, London, 2008; all photographs by Sam Clark 20 all images courtesy of Jan Showers 21 Left: Harold von Doren and John Gordon Rideout; center: Carl Paul Jenneweir; right: Donald Deskey 22 Jacket image: Arnold Newman/Getty Images; with Charlton Heston: from the Collection of Gore Vidal; with Mick Jagger: from the Collection of Gore Vidal; from The Simpsons: Courtesy Photofest 23 With Kennedy: property of Houghton Library, Harvard University; with Buckley: property of Houghton Library, Harvard University; with Newman: from the Collection of Gore Vidal; bumper sticker: from the Collection of Harry Kloman; boyhood portrait: property of Houghton Library, Harvard University; group photo: © Karl Bissinger 24–25 all images © Lillian Bassman 26 all images courtesy the Rose Art Museum 27 all images courtesy of the Casati Archives 28 top left: courtesy Tony Duquette Archive; top right: © Tim Street-Porter; center right: courtesy Tony Duquette Archive; bottom left: courtesy Eliot Elisofon; bottom right: courtesy William Harris 29 left: © Bob Willoughby; right: courtesy Tony Duquette Archive 30 top: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Domenica sulle rive della Marna. Francia, 1938 © Henri Cartier-Bresson/ Magnum Photos; bottom left: William Klein, Gun 1, 1955. Dipinto nel 1999 © William Klein; bottom right: Martin Schoeller, Angelina Jolie, 30. 2004 © Martin Schoeller/vh-artists.com 31 left: Alex Webb, Davanti alla Moschea Blu durante il Ramadan. Istanbul, 2001 © Alex Webb/Magnum Photos; right: Herb Ritts, Stephanie, Cindy, Christy, Tatjana, Naomi. Hollywood, 1989 © Herb Ritts Foundation; 32 all images © Reinhard Kleist 33 all images © Tezuka Productions 34–35 all images courtesy Michael Benson 36–37 all images courtesy Eric Felisbret 38 top left: © James Cummins; top right: © Robert Knight; center left: © Terence Spencer; center right: © James Fortune; bottom left and bottom center: © James Fortune; bottom right: © RETNA 39 © David LeVine 40 Contact HNA, Inc. for image credits 42 all images courtesy Éditions de la Martinière 43 all images © Yann Arthus-Bertrand 46 all images © Yann Arthus-Bertrand 48 Left: Cupid and Psyche by Francois Gerard, courtesy Louvre Museum, Paris, France; center: Erotic Woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai, courtesy British Museum, London, England; right: Young Man Sitting by the Seashore by Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, courtesy Louvre Museum, Paris, France 49 left and center: © Mick Rock; right: © Ed Caraeff 50 all images courtesy Éditions de la Martinière 51 Left: Courtesy Andreas Fuhrimann and Gabrielle Hächler; center: © Christobal Palma; right: © Christian Richters 52–53 Avatar Motion Picture © 2009

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Kapoor Studio, London; Blood Mirror. Courtesy Lisson Gallery, London, Photo Dave Morgan, London; 1000 Names. Collection Celine and Heiner Bastian, Berlin 138 Paul Sandby, Roche Abbey, Yorkshire (detail). Royal Academy of Arts, London 138 Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound (replica realized in 1973). Instituto di Storia Dell’Arte, Fondazione Giorgio, Venice 139–144 all images courtesy Tate Publishing 145–154 all images courtesy The Vendome Press 155– 164 all images courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum

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INDEX OF TITLES

101 Reasons to Love Alabama Football

81

101 Reasons to Love Notre Dame

Golf’s Dream 18s

25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom 6 Billion Others

48

Good Eats

45

Gore Vidal

Anish Kapoor

139

Graffiti New York

22 37

Grunge

Art of Osama Tezuka, The 33

Hairy Hunks 120

Artist’s Eyes, The 61

Harvard Square

114

100

Cage: 6 Paintings by Gerhard Richter

143

156

Chanel and Her World

75 63

Richard Long

Rose Art Museum Collection, The 26

72

Maharaja

157

Stooges, The

Dior 159

Manga Kamishibai 17

Donnie Brown Weddings 90

Marchesa Casati, The 27

Dread & Superficiality: Woody Allen as

Marilyn Monroe Mary

124

8

Event to Remember, An

94

Style

112

12

TOON Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics, The 10

Medieval and Renaissance Art 165

Turner and the Masters

Medieval Jewellery 162

Twentieth-Century Fashion in Detail 166 105

Monet’s Garden in Giverny 131

Exceptional Treehouses 42

More Is More: Tony Duquette

Fashion and Armour in Renaissance Europe

164

Fifty More Places to Play Golf Before You Die

82

29

116

My Dog’s Brain

V&A Pattern: The Fifties

New Earth From Above, The

43

13

Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-

Arts, The 104 Giuliano Hazan’s Thirty Minute Pasta 76

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51

One Million

125

One More Skein 140

161

V&A Pattern: William Morris

160

Wary Meyers’ Tossed & Found 78 113

Who What Wear Wild Thing 140 Wisdom: Ideas

73

Outrageous Yachts Paul Sandy

161

161

Weddings in Italy 95

Common Things Passing Us By 117 147

East 136

New Classic Interiors 102

Next Houses

Fundamental Techniques of Classic Pastry

Unveiled: New Art from the Middle

V&A Pattern: Indian Florals

Flower Arranging the American Way 64 Frescoes of the Veneto

Ultraviolet 121

New Classic America Houses 153

New York Yankees 365

96

146

V&A Pattern: Digital Pioneers

First Class 154 French Feasts

80

Tipu’s Tigers 158

Monday Hearts for Madalene

35

89

This Green House

Evidence of Evolution 54 Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle

49

Terry John Woods’ New Farmhouse

Masks of the Himalayas 134

Egypt 65

148

Star Wars: 1,000 Collectibles 58

Maison du Chocolat, La 74

Comic Strip 55

Slash: Paper Under the Knife 133 Fini

Lillian Bassman 25 135

Shadow Falls, A 7 Sphinx: The Life and Art of Leonor

84

Death and Art 164

Dreaded Feast, The

88

134

Le Creuset Mini-Cocotte

Crosses and Crucifixes

145

Scottish Jewellery 130

Kuba: Visions of Africa

Country Color 151

60

Japan 50

Knitted Socks East and West

150

141

Robert Mangold

Rodchenko and Popova

Chrismukkah 98

Empty Quarter

137

Home 4

Kata Golda’s Hand-Stitched Felt

Coast to Coast

86

Reversible Knitting

Johnny Cash 32

99

163

Renaissance Secrets 85

Chinese Ceramics 158 Christmas Memories

9

Red Star Over Russia

History of the Saatchi Gallery, The

Bouquets with Personality

122

Red Hot Chili Peppers

History of Beads, The

118

92

Quilting for Peace

Heart of Bordeaux, The

Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical

149

Pierre Bergé, The

19

Art of Avatar, The 52

5

Power of Gardens 101 Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and

Graffiti World

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

132

31

Planet Golf USA 57

70

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Marvel

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Good Times, Bad Times: Led Zeppelin 39

21

142

Persona: Masks of Africa 41

Altermodern

Art Deco Complete

Per Kirkeby

144

Glenn Brown

81

Football

20

Glamorous Rooms

15

Wisdom: Life 15 155

Wisdom: Love Wisdom: Peace

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I N F O R M AT I O N T O T H E T R A D E

ABRAMS IS 60 THIS YEAR! Founded in December 1949 by Harry N. Abrams as the premier publisher and distributor of illustrated books, we retain that distinction today. What has changed is that we have grown and evolved. As a result, we’ve just achieved our best year ever.

115 West 18th Street New York, NY 10011 T: 212-206-7715 F: 212-645-8437 www.abramsbooks.com

This fall catalogue and the books herein showcase the breadth and depth of Abrams’ original vision as well as much that is new, vibrant, modern, and exciting.

ABRAMS is a subsidiary of La Martinière Groupe 2, rue Christine 75006 Paris T: +33 1-40-51-52-00 F: +33 1-40-51-52-05

All of our adult imprints—Abrams; Stewart, Tabori & Chang; STC Craft/Melanie Falick Books; Abrams Image; and the newly launched Abrams ComicArts—are together here for the first time. Our children’s and young adult imprints, Abrams Books for Young Readers and Amulet Books—now celebrating their 10th and 5th anniversaries, respectively—are still to be found in their own catalogue.

Michael Jacobs President and CEO T: 212-229-7112 F: 212-519-1310 E: mjacobs@abramsbooks.com

You will find our past, our present, and our future represented in this, our 60th year. We believe that our new logo sums it up succinctly: ABRAMS—The Art of Books Since 1949.

Leslie Stoker Senior Vice President and Publisher, STC and Abrams Image T: 212-519-1222 F: 212-519-1216 E: lstoker@abramsbooks.com

Thank you for your support, and for helping us celebrate 60 years of beautiful books.

Steve Tager Senior Vice President and Publisher, Abrams T: 212-519-1301 F: 212-229-0312 E: stager@abramsbooks.com

Michael Jacobs President and CEO

Mary Wowk Vice President, Sales & Marketing T: 212-229-7122 F: 212-414-5785 E: mwowk@abramsbooks.com

Marketing and Publicity Katrina Weidknecht Executive Director of Publicity T: 212-229-8812 F: 212-366-0809 E: kweidknecht@abramsbooks.com Julia Coblentz Director of Marketing T: 212-229-7128 F: 212-366-0809 E: jcoblentz@abramsbooks.com Claire Bamundo Publicity Director, STC and Abrams Image T: 212-229-8823 F: 212-366-0809 E: cbamundo@abramsbooks.com Jennifer Brunn Publicity Director, Abrams T: 212-519-1257 F: 212-366-0809 E: jbrunn@abramsbooks.com

Ashley Gillespie Marketing Manager, Abrams T: 212-519-1203 F: 212-366-0809 E: agillespie@abramsbooks.com Kerry Liebling Marketing Manager, STC and Abrams Image T: 212-519-1226 F: 212-366-0809 E: kliebling@abramsbooks.com

Trade Sales Marti Malovany Director, Museum Sales, Operations, and Distributions T: 212-229-7132 F: 212-414-5785 E: mmalovany@abramsbooks.com Erica Kochman Trade Sales Manager T: 212-519-1236 F: 212-414-5785 E: ekochman@abramsbooks.com Lawrence Adamo Senior Sales Representative, NYC T: 212-229-7101 F: 212-414-5785 E: ladamo@abramsbooks.com

Special Markets, Domestic and Foreign Rights, and Permissions Jody Mosley Director of Special Markets T: 212-519-1209 F: 212-414-5785 E: jmosley@abramsbooks.com Michael Freeman Manager, Special Markets T: 212-229-8801 F: 212-414-5785 E: mfreeman@abramsbooks.com Julia Carvalho Special Sales Coordinator T: 212-519-1303 F: 212-414-5785 E: jcarvalho@abramsbooks.com Sarah Carstens Sales Assistant T: 212-229-7184 F: 212-414-5785 E: scarstens@abramsbooks.com Jutta Pakenis Executive Director of Foreign and Subsidiary Rights T: 212-229-7103 F: 212-519-1216 E: jpakenis@abramsbooks.com

U.S. Book Trade Sales Representatives southwest (AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY)

Karel⁄Dutton Group 4911 Morella Valley Village, CA 91607 T: 818-762-7170 F: 818-508-5608 E: dory.dutton@att.net

selected northwest accounts (CA, CO, OR, WA)

Andrew Weiner 211 Vicksburg Street San Francisco, CA 94114 T: 415-285-5897 F: 415-285-7371 E: aweiner@abramsbooks.com

midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)

Fujii Associates, Inc. 1400 West 47th Street LaGrange, IL 60525 T: 708-354-2555 F: 708-354-6534 E: kathybogs@fujiiassociates.com

northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)

New England Book Sales 22 Cavender Road Hancock, NH 03449 T: 603-525-4378 F: 603-525-3046 E: febe@monad.net

mid-atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, WV)

Chesapeake and Hudson, Inc. 115 West Potomac Street Brunswick, MD 21716 T: 800-231-4469 F: 800-307-5163 E: janine@cheshud.com

south (AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA)

Southern Territory Associates 4508 64th Street Lubbock, TX 79414 T: 806-799-9997 F: 806-799-9777 E: sta77@suddenlink.net

International Representation Export sales to all countries except Canada: The Market Building 72-82 Rosebery Avenue London, U.K. EC1R 4RW Chuck Lang Managing Director Nicola Harris Sales Coordinator T: +44 0-20-7713-2063 F: +44 0-20-7713-2061 E: nharris@abramsbooks.co.uk

Canada Canadian Manda Group 165 Dufferin Street Toronto, Canada M6K 3H6 T: 416-516-0911 F: 416-516-0917 E: general@mandagroup.com

North American Ordering and Customer Service Information Hachette Book Group USA T: 800-759-0190 F: 800-286-9471 Pubnet: SAN 200-2205 (8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. E.S.T.)

Pricing and Shipping Prices in this catalog are suggested retail prices only. Any reseller is free to charge whatever he or she wishes for the books listed. Titles, prices, publication dates, and other contents of this catalog are subject to change without notice. Although Harry N. Abrams, Inc., will make every effort to follow reasonable shipping instructions, we will not accept responsibility or chargebacks for deviations from these instructions.

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