An in-depth account of the life and career of Minnesota's first modern architect 2024 Docomomo US Modernism in America Award of Excellence 2021 Finalist, Minnesota Book Award, Emilie Buchwald Award for Minnesota Nonfiction Elizabeth "Lisl" Scheu Close (1912–2011) left an indelible mark on Minnesota's built landscape during her six decades as an architect. In 1938, with her husband, Winston …
Color Mixing Guide for Artists, Painters, Decorators, Printing Pressmen, Show Card Writers, Sign Painters, Color Mixers is an indispensable manual designed for anyone working with color in a professional or creative capacity. This comprehensive guide provides detailed, practical instructions on how to achieve a vast array of colors by mixing pigments in specific proportions, making it an essent…
The Vorticists, a rebellious cohort of young artists in early twentieth-century England, defied the conventions of the art world with their distinctive abstract creations. Despite the brevity of their existence, from 1911 to 1914, their startling innovations left an indelible mark on English art history. In this book James King explores the personalities and lives of these colourful individuals…
Celebrate your love of classic Disney animated films and make your kitchen magical with this comprehensive cookbook, inspired by beloved Disney films from 1937 to now, including Fantasia, Mulan, and more! Experience delicious dishes inspired by your favorite Disney animated films from 1937 to now with Disney: Cooking With Magic: A Century of Recipes! Featuring Disney’s classic films like…
Sugar, spice, and everything nice: these were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girls and the perfect recipes for breakfast foods, entrees, desserts, snacks, and drinks in The Powerpuff Girls: The Official Cookbook. Inspired by the many crime-fighting heroes, villains, and food references from Townsville, this official, action-packed cookbook includes 55+ recipes from Beat Yo…
Few works of art better illustrate the splendor of eleventh-century painting than the manuscript often referred to as the "precious gospels" of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim, with its peculiar combination of sophistication and naïveté, its dramatically gesturing figures, and the saturated colors of its densely ornamented surfaces. In The Bernward Gospels, Jennifer Kingsley offers the first in…
American Workman presents a comprehensive, novel reassessment of the life and work of one of America's most influential self-taught artists, John Kane. With a full account of Kane's life as a working man, including his time as a steelworker, coal miner, street paver, and commercial painter in and around Pittsburgh in the early twentieth century, the authors explore how these occupations shaped …
The first part of a planned three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 provides an overview of the period between 1975 and 1990, during which the discipline first became established in the academy. Tracing critical positions, personnel, and institutions across this formative period, Noel King, C…