Showcasing more than sixty pieces from the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation and the Museum of Lace and Fashion collections, Sheer highlights the designer’s mastery over trans...więcej »
Islamic Culture in Medieval Sicily illustrates how the great artistic and cultural heritage of the Arabs who ruled the island in the 10th and11th centuries was assimilated and reinterpreted duri...więcej »
The modern Western is so intent on portraying the West as it really was that the end product comes across as a tedious, dimly photographed exercise in grime, gloom and doom. Westerns of the 1940...więcej »
There are no two ways about it-the 1950s was the decade in which the American Western flourished and attained an absolute peak of perfection. So cowboy, saddle up, strap on your shooter...więcej »
Times Square was once America's most notorious red light and theater district. Its main artery was the Deuce, a tiny strip of neon and concrete coldly fleshing out 42nd Street between 7th and 8th A...więcej »
All too often, the movies of Sofia Coppola have been dismissed as 'all style, no substance.' But such an easy caricature, as this engaging and accessible survey of Coppola's oeuvre demonstra...więcej »
"Sokunge/As if ". "Sokunge", is a Shona word that describes phenomena that is intrinsically something else other than their appearance. More like deception or dissimulation of form, concept, or ...więcej »
If you think you're funny and you want others to think so? The this is book for you. Dean has cracked to joke structure code, and then developed an original joke writing system, The Joke Pro...więcej »
Growing up in the rural South, Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field work and child tending, entertaining her young companions with chants and riddles or joining them for a rousi...więcej »
On the back cover of one of his most groundbreaking solo albums, . . . Nothing like the Sun of 1987, Sting (Gordon Matthew Sumner, b. 1951 in Wallsend, UK) somberly stands close to a statue of Mary...więcej »
As a veteran in the art of circus with more than 50 years of experience in training, performing, and instructing Mongolian contortion, this book will prove ...więcej »
When it was originally published in 1999, Techno Rebels became the definitive text on a hard-to-define but vital genre of music. Author Dan Sicko demystified techno’s characteristics, infl...więcej »
It never made it to the air, but in 1953, Frank Sinatra starred in a proposed private eye series called Blues in the Night. Also not becoming series were adaptations of old time radio p...więcej »
Mockumentary is now an established part of the spectrum of television styles, with both deep roots in television history and a key part of innovations in the sitcom genre since the 1990s. Tracing t...więcej »
Horror fantasy anthology television series reached bonfire proportions with this original series created by D. J. MacHale and Ned Kandel aired from August 15, 1992 to April 20, 1996 on Nickelode...więcej »
2013 Reprint of 1945 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Camillo Sitte (1843-1903) was a noted Austrian architect, painter and theo...więcej »
The Art Project is an essential guide to commissioning art for public spaces and creating corporate art collections.Emilya Colliver, founder and director of Sydney's respected ar...więcej »
In 1994, historian Scott Allen Nollen published the critically acclaimed Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen, the only volume dedicated to screen adaptation...więcej »