"All except you" by Roland Barthes and S. Steinberg
Texts in French by Roland Barthes about Saul Steinberg's works, illustrated with drawings by the artist. Published by Galerie Maeght in 1983.
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"Fashion Inside Out" by Daniel Vosovic
From inspiration to execution, from first sketches to final styling, from developing a collection to defining a look, "Fashion Inside Out" combines practical information on fashion design with an intimate look at the fashion scene today. Project Runway finalist Daniel Vosovic reveals exactly how designers make dreams become fashion reality. Where do fashion ideas come from? How does a designer capture a client’s personality? What is it really like to compete—and triumph—in the high-powered world of fashion? Vosovic tells all, and so do prominent magazine editors, photographers, stylists, and many other fashion industry professionals.
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"Le masque (The mask)" by Saul Steinberg
Texts in French by Michel Butor and by Harold Rosenberg illustrated in colour and in black and white with the gorgeous Steinberg graphic works. Photographs by Inge Morath-Magnum.
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"The Painted Word" by Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe's "The Painted Word" is an incandescent, hilarious, and devastating piece of writing in the tradition of Radical Chic, his unforgettable depiction of strange courtship between the Black Panthers and what were called (B.W.: Before Wolfe) limousine liberals. If anything, "The Painted Word" is more scathing, more brilliant, and funnier than its famous predecessor, and is destined for the same sort of scandalous renown.
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"Take Me Out" by Martyn Clayton
Lauren Seymour enjoys a well-ordered existence. Passing her time in York she likes nothing better than the occasional crisp sandwich, reality TV, listening to her CD collection and ignoring the advice of her big gay housemate. An early morning phone-call suddenly shakes her out of her comfortable groove. How do you react when the odd guy you once tried to avoid befriending whilst at university claims that you are now the only person on the planet who could possibly help him? When that man has been pulled half alive out of the icy-cold waters of the River Ouse after attempting to kill himself you might feel obliged to at least see what you could do.
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"Loot" by Sharon Waxman
Why are the Elgin Marbles in London and not on the Acropolis? Why do there seem to be as many mummies in France as there are in Egypt? Why are so many Etruscan masterworks in America? For the past two centuries, the West has been plundering the treasures of the ancient world to fill its great museums, but in recent years, the countries where ancient civilizations originated have begun to push back, taking museums to court, prosecuting curators, and threatening to force the return of these priceless objects.
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