On Art and PaintingVicente Carducho and Baroque Spain

This book is a collection of fourteen essays on the Dialogues on Painting, published by the Florentine-born Spanish painter and art theorist Vicente Carducho (1568–1638) in 1633. This was the first treatise in Spanish on the art of painting, written as part of a campaign led by Carducho in collaboration with other prominent painters working in Madrid, to raise the status of the artist from ar…

The Political Space of ArtThe Dardenne Brothers, Arundhati Roy, Ai Weiwei and…

This book studies the tension between arts and politics in four contemporary artists from different countries, working with different media. The film directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne film parts of their natal city to refer to specific political problems in interpersonal relations. The novelist Arundhati Roy uses her poetic language to make room for people's desires; her fiction is utterly…

Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia

Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia explores how visual representations shaped and were shaped by how the ethnic Chinese confronted the period of economic dislocation and radical social change during Dutch colonialism and the nationalist struggles in the decolonized Indonesia (including the post-1965 and 1998 social environments). How did the ethnic Chinese communities (re)presen…

Edna LewisAt the Table with an American Original

Edna Lewis (19162006) wrote some of Americas most resonant, lyrical, and significant cookbooks, including the now classic The Taste of Country Cooking. Lewis cooked and wrote as a means to explore her memories of childhood on a farm in Freetown, Virginia, a community first founded by black families freed from slavery. With such observations as “we would gather wild honey from the hollow …

So Much to CelebrateEntertaining the Ones You Love the Whole Year Through

Create meaningful, extraordinary celebrations and events that foster lifelong memories with the ones you love with inspiration from Katie Jacobs through her essential guide to entertaining. Create beautiful memories for your family and friends with help from Katie Jacobs, a stylist for Reese Witherspoon's lifestyle brand Draper James. She reveals her secrets for throwi…

MellencampPaintings and Reflections

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By the Skin of Our TeethThe Art and Design of Morning Breath

A lush, full-color, beautifully designed visual history that brings to life the innovative and creative world of Morning Breath Co. Inc., the Brooklyn-based boutique design studio whose collaborators including top musical artists (from Jay Z to the Foo Fighters) as well as such top brands as Vans and Adidas. In 1996 while working at the in-house design department at Think Skateboards in San Fr…

Gluten-Free in Lizard Lick100 Gluten-Free Recipes for Finger-Licking Food for…

The star of truTV's hit show Lizard Lick Towing joins with the owner of the acclaimed gluten-free Blackbird Bakery to create amazingly tasty gluten-free versions of beloved Southern classics. Amy Shirley, champion power lifter, mother of four, and the star of the hit television reality show Lizard Lick Towing is one tough mother. But this strong woman who can deadlift 450 pounds was nearly lic…

Reality Matters19 Writers Come Clean About the Shows We Can't Stop Watching

Top Chef. Americas Next Top Model. Survivor. Dancing with the Stars. American Idol. Big Brother. The Biggest Loser Everyone has a guilty reality television pleasure. Curated by Party Girl author Anna David, Reality Matters is a collection of hilarious yet revealing essays from novelists, essayists, and journalistsincluding Toby Young, Neil Strauss, and Stacey Grenrock Woods, among many othersab…

A Perfect RedEmpire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire

Youll finish [Greenfields] book with new respect for color, especially for red. With A Perfect Red, she does for it what Mark Kurlansky in Salt did for that common commodity.Houston Chronicle Interweaving mystery, empire, and adventure, Amy Butler Greenfields masterful popular history offers a window onto a world far different from our own: a world in which the color red was rare and preciousa…