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From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", Rene Magritte (1898-1967) created an echo chamber of object and image, name and thing, reality and representation. Like other Surrealist works, Magritte's paintings combine a precise, mimet..

In I Love You, Mario Testino presents a celebration of weddings. A beginning in life —that is also a culmination and a public promise – captured by a unique photographic point of view which shows beauty not only in emotion and tradition, but in the complete intimacy of shared joy.Feat..

Since Galileo first observed Mars in 1610, the Red Planet has been an endless source of fascination, inspiring human imagination and scientific inquiry. Explore its polar ice caps, windswept dunes, and more unique landscapes through the eyes of NASA’s orbiters, probes, and rovers, from the..

After an epic Amazonian journey through Brazil and Peru from 1817 to 1820, German botanist Carl von Martius compiled a catalogue of all known genera of palm trees. This encyclopedic work, reproduced in our volume, is a jewel of 19th-century botany and is celebrated for its detail..

Graphic beauty Michelangelo s breathtaking drawings Very few artists can claim such lasting and worldwide fame and importance as Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 1564). The nickname il divino ( the divine one ) has been applied to him since the 1530s right through to today: his achievements as a sculpt..

A tribute to David Bowie from the artist’s official photographer, Mick Rock. Compiled in 2015 with Bowie’s blessing, this collection includes stage shots, backstage candids, and more, charting the musical, theatrical, and sexual revolution of the 1972–73 Ziggy Stardust world tour, and..

Over the past two decades, Mickalene Thomas's critically acclaimed and extensive body of work has spanned painting, collage, photography, video, and the immersive installations that have become her signature. With influences ranging from nineteenth-century painting to popular culture, Thomas's art a..

Traces the evolution of mid-century houses and demonstrates how they are experienced and lived in today.This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, ..

From the creators of Modernist Cuisine comes a title that translates the art of fine dining to classic home dishes and brings restaurant quality delicacies to the amateur’s kitchen. This 456-page volume includes all the essential information to stock and run a modern home ki..

Along with Turner, no artist has sought more than Claude Monet (1840—1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cezanne called "only an eye, but my God what an eye!" who stayed completely true to the principle of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation, pain..

In dialogue with Edward Munch—discover the many ways the expressionist painter’s work has influenced modern and contemporary artists.While Munch’s pessimistic, melancholy world view crucially defines our understanding of his work, many important postwar and contemporary artists have drawn inspiratio..

Architect Mark Hutker and his firm design residential heirlooms deeply rooted in New England vernacular but with a modern sensibility—beach camps with driftwood-hued timber and open-flow rooms; modern, multilevel homes set seamlessly into their landscape; shingle-style dwellings with distilled detai..

From the building of the Brooklyn Bridge to immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the slums of the Lower East Side to magnificent art deco skyscrapers, New York’s remarkable rise, reinvention, and growth is not just the tale of a city, but the story of a nation. This beautiful book lays out..

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated with shifting art styles and trends, but rather with her own unique vision, based on finding essential and abstract forms in nature.O’Keeffe’s primary subjects..