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The essential book on the innovative American landscape painter, with a new preface by the author...

This book features recent works by some of the members of the Abstract Art movement, from 1954 to...

Austerities

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Looks at the development of the piano and the composers and musicians who made it a revolutionary...

An acclaimed American poet, Jay Parini is widely recognized for his ability to confront modern is...

Widely considered the father of Op Art, the Hungarian-born artist Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) was...

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The fables and fantasies in Snowman Snowman, 'written in a torrential poetic prose' (The New York...

The fifteenth U.S. Poet Laureate collects his latest essays on subjects ranging from poetry to hi...

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This beautiful series lavishly illustrates the world's major fresco cycles from the early fourtee...

From Constantinople, the great city of the so-called Dark Ages, Byzantine architecture was export...

Selected Early Poems spans the years 1963-1983 and includes works from Simic's first twelve colle...

Bertalanffy's selected writings on his theory of lawsapplicable to virtually every scientific fie...

Those who practice 'the miraculous art of stitching words into a web' have 'not merely the right ...

Yasmina Reza is best known as the author of the immensely successful Tony award-winning play Art....

An acclaimed American poet, Jay Parini is widely recognized for his ability to confront modern is...

The Inner Journey of the Poet, and Other Papers

Egon Schiele

'The happiest, sweetest, and liveliest little book imaginable.'--John Canaday.

A Caribbean resort specializing in faked cartel kidnappings is the site for Villoro's profound an...

Philadelphia architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) was one of the most influential American archite...

Joyce Carol Oates's fourth and most distinguished collection includes three flail-length plays, B...

Assigned to Zama, an Army hospital in Japan in September 1968, Glasser arrived as a pediatrician ...

'[A] work as remarkable for its text as for the photographs and drawings that illustrate it.'--Oc...

Examines the lives and careers of four distinguished Irish authors and analyzes the connections a...

In the Buddhist parable of the ox herder, a herdsman's search for his missing ox is likened to an...

Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, Janet Frame has long been admire...