The California coast from its majestic redwoods and rocky shores to its palm trees and sandy beaches is an area of unsurpassed beauty. The new fifth edition of the California Coastal Access Guide is an essential handbook for anyone exploring the 1 100...
This is an indispensable reference to one of the most spectacular stretches of California s coastline. Beginning in the north with Point Ano Nuevo and ending some 120 miles to the south at Point Sur Jerry Emory provides a comprehensive guide to the...
The major writings of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) with the exception of the letters are collected here along with transcriptions of important interviews and broadcasts given at various stages of Matisse s career. Jack Flam provides a biography a general...
An erudite and spirited exploration of the Woman s Building at the 1893 Chicago fair and the unique opportunity it afforded American women to make public art Wanda Corn s fully contextualized account is a critically important contribution to the...
Ambitious and interdisciplinary this long-awaited collaboration is a landmark presentation of the writings of contemporary artists. These influential essays interviews and critical and theoretical comments provide bold and fertile insights into the...
From the beginning of the modern era in 1500 CE Western history has placed Europe at the center of worldwide political economic and cultural dynamism. But long before the European powers began to encroach upon the East Asia itself was the locus of...
Rituals are valued by students of culture as lenses for bringing facets of social life and meaning into focus. Jane Monnig Atkinson s carefully crafted study offers unique insight into the rich shamanic ritual tradition of the Wana an upland population...
The Okiek people of Kenya s forested highlands have a long history of hunting honey gathering and trading with their Maasai and Kipsigis neighbors; several decades ago they also began farming and herding. This book follows a traveling exhibition of...
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In this utterly original book Anita Albus tells the story--in the birth and triumph of oil painting the creation of perspective and the very nature of paint itself--of how when and why the eye became king of all the senses. Albus s subjects are the...
Rudolf Arnheim has been known since the publication of his groundbreaking Art and Visual Perception in 1974 as an authority on the psychological interpretation of the visual arts. Two anniversary volumes celebrate the landmark anniversaries of his...
From the opening sequence in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman s madness No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of...
