Product Description: The Age of Gold was one of the so-called 'commonplaces' inherited by the Renaissance from classical antiquity, a myth (taking many different forms) telling of an era of human happiness without war or want. Most writers used it as a convenient device, predicting its return as an age of peace and plenty upon the accession of a ruler or the signing of a treaty: others moralized it as a reformed or spiritually regenerated society...read more

Product Description: An exploration of the applications of linguistics (including both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistics perspectives) to clinical research in the field of communication disorders. This will interest graduate and postgraduate speech-language pathologists and applied linguists as well as psychologists and neuropsychologists...read more

Product Description: Miles Davis's seminal recording, known as "Birth of the Cool", is the starting point for this colorful, multi-disciplinary journey through 1950s West Coast America. 1950s West Coast style exuded "cool": from the smooth, hypnotic strains of a Miles Davis riff through Richard Neutra's elegant, modernist residences to the hard-edged paintings of Helen Lundeberg and Karl Benjamin...read more

Product Description: A pioneer of infusing abstract painting with influences from popular culture and craft traditions, Mary Heilmann is one of the very few female abstract painters of her generation. Her deceptively simple, even off-hand approach to painting - at once expressing ease and complexity - now permeates contemporary abstraction, testifying to her broad influence...read more

Product Description: From the editors of Where to Retire magazine, America's most authoritative source of information about retirement towns and developments, comes accurate and reliable help for all those seeking a great new town for retirement. Completely updated, the fourth edition is fact-filled with statistics on population, climate, cost of living, housing costs, taxes, education, transportation, health care and more...read more

Product Description: From the publishers of the hit exhibition catalogue Girls Night Out comes the Orange County Museum of Art's companion to the 2006 California Biennial, celebrating 31 of the most exciting emerging artists based in California today...read more

Product Description: Villa America: American Moderns, 1900-1950 documents for the first time one of the worldís most celebrated private collections of early twentieth-century American art. Curtis Galleries, Inc. founder Myron Kunin has spent much of his life slowly amassing major paintings by key American modernists including Georgia OíKeeffe, Romare Bearden, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Philip Guston, Marsden Hartley and Alice Neel--artists who reshaped Americaís understanding of itself at the beginning of the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: Published on the occasion of the Orange County Museum of Art's 2004 California Biennial, this catalogue celebrates the work of 27 of the most exciting emerging artists and artist collaboratives based in California. This exhibition--the largest and most ambitious Biennial in the museum's history--features artists working in a wide range of styles and media, representing the multi-national, multi-ethnic character of California's rich artistic environment...read more

Product Description: Imagine a girls' night out with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Elina Brotherus, Dorit Cypis, Rineke Dijkstra, Katy Grannan, Sarah Jones, Kelly Nipper, Daniela Rossell, Shirana Shahbazi, and Salla Tykkä. Imagine a very particular kind of girl talk, one that crisscrosses generations and nations, that openly and fluidly recognizes gender differences and sexual necessities, that delves deeply into psychology and lyricism...read more

Offers facts and figures for one hundred American towns, including information on population, climate, cost of living, property taxes, transportation, health care, and housing options.

Product Description: When printing first began, a new book automatically fell into the public domain upon publication. Only a special law or privilegium enacted by a competent authority could protect it from being reprinted without the consent of the author or publisher...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: High and low, sweet and sour, this witty but challenging collection embraces the contradictions, paradoxes, and double entendres of contemporary culture. Since 1991 Tom Patchett has amassed an iconoclastic collection that includes the work of antitraditionalists like Marcel Duchamp and provocative contemporary artists such as Chris Burden...read more

Product Description: This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Briefly traces the history of Tyler Graphics, shows examples of prints made by the firm, and discusses the techniques of print making and paper making

Product Description: Providing a new viewpoint of contemporary American printmaking, this illustrated volume surveys the work of a number of painters and sculptors whose contribution to printmaking is widely known. The artists discussed include Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg and Jennifer Bartlett...read more