In Legacy in Wood, Thomas Moser reflects on his long career and offers his thoughts on creativity, inspiration, and his design aesthetic. It gives an intimate look into the life and work of a pioneering craftsman, whose example shows that you can build a career working with your hands the old-fashioned way.
The Ottoman Touch is an introduction to the classical arts and crafts of the Ottoman period. Being both an academic and artist, Kusoglu discovers the subtle secrets of various traditional arts and crafts, depicting them with lucid texts and vivid images. This book deserves to be a handbook for all who are interested in the Ottoman and Turkish ......
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. The depth of these original perspectives on the literature, art, politics, science, and philosophy of transatlantic nineteenth-century culture will foster future conversations.
Joseph Cornell (1903–1972), the American pioneer of collage, montage, and assemblage art, is sometimes regarded as a solitary star within the constellation of great Surrealists. The essays in Joseph Cornell and Surrealism consider connections between Cornell and the Surrealist group during the 1930s and 1940s, during ......
Geoffrey Bradfield, the internationally renown interior designer who has worked for both royalty and the aristocracy, presents the second volume of his 21st Century Palace series which showcases his particular style, which is at once classic and cutting edge.
Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, and American History Painting
Explores history painting in the United States during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, as exemplified by Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851). Includes the work of artists such as Daniel Huntington, Lilly Martin Spencer, and Eastman Johnson.
Harriet Anstruther is a leading interior designer whose work has featured in the “New York Times T Magazine” amongst many others. This, Harriet Anstruther’s first book, showcases her projects and inspirations and provides an insight into her ......
The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920-1930
Examines the literary and visual works of the Spanish vanguardists, which engaged with and incorporated the mass-produced commodities of the Machine Age and anticipated the modern fields of material culture, technology studies, and network theory.
