An Affair with Beauty: The Mystique of Howard Chandler Christy
by James Philip Head
Autobiography of the visionary, contemporary artist David Alexander English...350 pages
The Thunderbird Remembered
by Dorothea Lange, John Dixon, and Daniel Dixon
Dreaming Inside Out (Mary's Search for Self Through Dreams) (Dreaning Inside Out, #9780985605)
by Kiraya Kestin
One of the most important and underappreciated visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college years and emerged as a painter during the 1930s, at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance and in time to be part of a significant community of black artists supported by the WPA. Though light-skinned and able to "pass, " Bearden embraced his African heritage, choosing to paint social realist canvases of African-American life. After World War II, he b...
The Flute and Flute-Playing
by Theobald Bohm and Bohm Theobald 1794-1881
In November 1963, a British inventor and reluctant industrialist named Alex Moulton introduced a radical new small-wheeled, dual suspension bicycle at the Earl's Court Cycle Show in London. It was covered in several articles by Reyner Banham, an architecture and design critic and associate editor of Architectural Review and Architects' Journal. Banham believed that the Moulton Bicycle would give rise to "a new class of cyclists," young urban radicals who would cycle out of choice, and not out of...
The Life and Art of George Fertig (Unheralded Artists of BC, #3)
by Mona Fertig
Pugin was one of Britain's greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and widowed. Nineteen years later he died, insane and disillusioned, having changed the face and the mind of British architecture. Pugin's bohemian early career as an antique dealer and scenery designer at...
