The Art of Illustration

An influential teacher whose pen-and-ink drawings helped define the style of the early twentieth century, Edmund J. Sullivan sought to define the principles behind good illustration. His treatise richly illustrated with black-and-white engravings by Holbein, Drer, Rubens, Blake, and many others also offers suggestions on materials and methods. Sullivan, who came of age during the heyday of gr…

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 …

Art Nouveau Jewelry Designs

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Art Nouveau movement swept the world of decorative arts toward an excitingly modern direction. Inspired by both organic and geometric forms, the new trend abandoned historical styles in favor of flowing, natural forms accented by angular contours. Art Nouveau's curves and floral and animal motifs were particularly suited to adaptations in precious stone…

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…

The Love Affair as a Work of Art

This series of entwined biographical sketches recounts how, in the Romantic Era, love affairs, often illicit, were transformed into novels, memoirs, and published correspondences. We make the intimate acquaintance of great writers like Mme de Staël, Chateaubriand, George Sand, and Anatole France, who, however, fall gradually under the suspicion of pursuing their amorous entanglements for &…

MellencampPaintings and Reflections

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Temperaments: Memoirs of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Other Artists

In these five profiles, four of which originally appeared in the New Yorker, the author evokes the life and work of seven gifted artists. Among those presented, often through lively conversations, are Jean Hélion, Mark Rothko, R.B. Kitaj, and Dennis Creffield. Chief among those portrayed however is Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), the great French photographer and photojournalist who, …

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…

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of letters—more than eight hundred of them, addressed to his parents, to friends such as Paul Gauguin, and, above all, to his brother Theo. His letters have long been admired for their exceptional literary quality, …

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…