"Gym!" by Le Bendalier
Introducing a new approach to the female form, this collection depicts the beauty of women's gymnastics through classical nude photography. Combining action shots, color images, and black and white techniques, this compendium captures a variety of engaging moments, both stills and those in movement.
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Roger Munier and Dominique Gutherz, Femme (Woman)
Text in French by Roger Munier, together with an original drawing by Dominique Gutherz. One of the ten copies of this book, on Japon nacré paper, with an original drawing by the artist, numbered I to X and signed by the authors.
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"Green Roofs in Landscape Design" By Steven L. Cantor
Roof gardens offer aesthetic as well as environmental benefits. "Green Roofs" provides an in-depth view of current design and technology, assesses their impact on the built environment, and shows how they can be integrated into contemporary buildings as well as existing structures. Sixty case studies illustrate specific applications and offer inspiring models. 300 color illustrations.
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Bram van Velde, Les Lithographies III
Two texts written in French by Rainer Michael Mason and Jacques Putman introduce this catalogue raisonné of the lithographs by Bram van Velde, from 1979 to 1981. The reader will find a biography, a list of the personal exhibitions and a bibliography at the end of the catalogue.
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"The $12 Million Stuffed Shark" By Donald N. Thompson
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million?
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"A Camera, Two Kids and a Camel" By Annie Griffiths Belt
In a unique publishing event that’s perfectly timed for Mother’s Day, National Geographic photographer Annie Griffiths Belt discloses the secrets of a peripatetic life...revealing in often hilarious detail how she managed to juggle two children, bulky cases of camera equipment and everything needed for a nurturing family life as she traveled to far-flung destinations around the world.
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"Fixed Ecstasy: Joan Miró in the 1920s" By Charles Palermo
"Fixed Ecstasy" advances a fundamentally new understanding of Miró’s enterprise in the 1920s and of the most important works of his career. Without a doubt, Joan Miró (1893–1983) is one of the leading artists of the early twentieth century, to be ranked alongside such artists as Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, and Pollock in his contributions to Modernist painting. Still, Miró’s work has eluded easy classification. He is best known as a Surrealist, but, as Charles Palermo demonstrates, Miró’s early years in Barcelona and Paris require a revisionist account of Miró’s development and his place in modernism.
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"Monuments of Afghanistan" By Warwick Ball
Afghanistan, a country which for generations has inspired writers, travellers and explorers, does not lend itself to easy categorization. Straddling Central Asia, and situated at the edges of the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East, Afghanistan distills elements and characteristics from all three of these regions. For Afghanistan is part of them all--and at the same time a part of none. And, as Warwick Ball shows in this richly illustrated and timely book, herein lies an explanation for Afghanistan’s allure, its cultural wealth, and ultimately perhaps its tragedy. For it is a country whose complex essence is hard to define, a land which has always taken on aspects from outside, but which remains as stubbornly individualistic as its own mountainous landscape. That challenge posed by its distinct component parts looking in different directions has resulted in multi-layered and sometimes problematic questions of identity.
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"The Substance and the Shadow" By Paul Smith
In 1878, the author Marius Roux, a noted friend of Emile Zola and Paul Cézanne, published "La proie et l'ombre", a little-known roman à clef featuring a thinly disguised Cézanne as the main character, Germain Rambert. The text prominently features several conversations drawn from famous Impressionist discussions on the nature of art. "La proie et l'ombre" offers a unique insight into the thoughts and lives of the Impressionists. Cézanne scholar Paul Smith has resurrected this all-but-forgotten novel, recognizing its value in expanding our understanding of the Impressionists’ world in general and Cézanne’s in particular.
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