Robert Motherwell - The Making of an American Giant (Jacobson Bernard)(Pevná vazba)

Robert Motherwell - The Making of an American Giant (Jacobson Bernard)(Pevná vazba)

In Robert Motherwell: The Making of an American Giant, published to coincide with Motherwell's centenary, author Bernard Jacobson examines Motherwell's art in the context of 20th-century American culture. America's music and literature were indigenous triumphs, while its art was slowly learning to

The Writings of Robert Motherwell (Motherwell Robert)(Paperback)

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the leading American Abstract Expressionist painters, was also a theorist and exponent of the movement. His writing articulated the intent of the New York school -Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, and others-during

American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds (Shaw Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy (Kuttner Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Bernard Plossu: Western Colors (Plossu Bernard)(Pevná vazba)

Bernard Plossu has been called 'the most American of French photographers' by his friend and colleague Lewis Baltz. Although he is best known for his work in black and white, often capturing a bohemian world of free-spirited adventure, Plossu has also shot in color throughout his career.This book

Robert Frank: Peru (Frank Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The weathered faces and dusty roads of Peru, compiled and sequenced by the master of the American photo-essayIn March 1949, Robert Frank mailed a birthday gift to his mother in Switzerland: A maquette of a series of photographs he had made during a visit to Peru between June and December of the

Working Girls: An American Brothel, Circa 1892 / The Private Photographs of William Goldman (Johnson Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Working Girls chronicles the unique and artful private photographs of commercial photographer William Goldman, whose collection of work captures the deep appreciation and understanding of the group of women who lived and worked at a brothel in Reading, Pennsylvania, circa 1892. Taken two decades

West: The American Cowboy (Krantz Anouk Masson)(Pevná vazba)

-Exceptional fine art photography - several years in the making - of the American cowboy/cowgirl and rodeo communities, the horse and cattle ranches, and the remarkable landscape of America's Wild West, by celebrated and award-winning photographer, Anouk Masson Krantz -Intimate explorations and

Bernard Frize (Rhodes David)(Pevná vazba)

This book focuses on the paintings of Bernard Frize, an artist whose work straddles movements and styles from Colour Field to Minimalism, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. It provides a detailed consideration of all stages of Frize's development, from the earliest works to the

Still Not Safe: Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine (Wears Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Caro Robert A.)(Pevná vazba)

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library's hundred greatest

Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon (Laurie Greg)(Pevná vazba)

Join Greg Laurie, pastor and bestselling author of Steve McQueen: The Salvation of an American Icon, as he takes you on a personal journey into the life and legend of Johnny Cash. At the peak of his career, Cash had done it all--living the ultimate rags-to-riches story of growing up on a cotton

Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet (West Martha Ullman)(Pevná vazba)

Martha Ullman West illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a stylistically diverse expression of a democratic culture. West places at center stage two artists who were instrumental to this story:

An Unsettled Grave (Schaffer Bernard)(Pevná vazba)

In this brilliantly chilling follow-up to The Thief of All Light, veteran police officer Bernard Schaffer digs deep into the past--and the haunted psyches of the detectives who search for truth . . . at any cost. 'There's a thousand scavengers in these woods.'Before being promoted to detective,

Calhoun: American Heretic (Elder Robert)(Pevná vazba)

A new biography of the intellectual father of Southern secession--the man who set the scene for the Civil War, and whose political legacy still shapes America today. John C. Calhoun is among the most notorious and enigmatic figures in American political history. First elected to Congress in 1810,

Addicted to Americana: Celebrating Classic & Kitschy American Life & Style (Phoenix Charles)(Pevná vazba)

An adventure through the classic, the vintage, the kitsch, the nostalgic, and the fun of Americana culture guided by showman Charles Phoenix.'Addicted to Americana...unfurls the most colorful, most creative, and most interesting facets of mid-twentieth century American culture in a joyful,

A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology (Brandom Robert B.)(Pevná vazba)

Forty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philosophy by one of the world's best-known and most influential philosophers. In this much-anticipated work, Robert Brandom presents a completely new retelling of the

Bfg (Dahl Roald)(Pevná vazba)

A tale of a girl and a vegetarian giant with an odd manner of speaking, who together save the country from Fleshlumpeater, Bonecruncher, Gizzardgulper and other hideous

Hidden Valley Road (Kolker Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the

Handbags: The Making of a Museum (Wilcox Claire)(Pevná vazba)

An exploration of the role of the handbag in the history of culture, fashion, and material production The history of the handbag--its design, how it has been made, used, and worn--reveals something essential about women's lives over the past 500 years. Perhaps the most universal item of

The Devil's Pulpit (Taylor Robert)(Pevná vazba)

In 1831, Reverend Robert Taylor, formerly an ordained priest in the Church of England, was indicted for blasphemy and sentenced to serve two years in prison for challenging the rigid religious dogma of his time. His crime: daring to renounce the accepted teachings of the Church and suggest his own

The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt (Kitroeff Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

Magnificent--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the largest, most economically powerful, and geographically and socially diverse of all European communities in Egypt. Although they benefited from the privileges extended

Monarch of the Glen (Gaiman Neil)(Pevná vazba)

A special illustrated edition of The Monarch of the Glen, an American Gods novella from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. Illustrations by celebrated artist Daniel

Robert Ryman (Ryman Robert)(Paperback)

An affordable introduction to the American abstractionist whose ingenious use of white allowed 'other things to become visible'The second volume of the Lambert Collection Icons series collects some of the finest works by one of America's foremost abstract painters, and narrates the creation of his