Product Description: Gardens reveal the relationship between culture and nature, yet in the vast library of garden literature few books focus on what the garden means - on the ecology of garden as idea, place, and action...read more

The catalog of the 51st Carnegie series of international exhibitions offers descriptions of its drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photographs

Product Description: This book reveals the social basis for public space use, design and management. The authors - an architect/environmental designer, a landscape architect, an environmental psychologist, and an open space administrator - offer a well-integrated perspective of how to integrate public space and public life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Tom Wesselmann (1931-) was one of the most prominent Pop artists of the 1960s. Whilst in the army he began drawing cartoons and afterward studied art at the Cincinnati Art Academy and then the Cooper Union. It was after his first one-man exhibition at the Tanager Gallery, New York, that he became known as one of the leading figures in American Pop art...read more

Today's merging of art and fashion is in large measure the legacy of Andy Warhol. This book, which accompanies a major exhibition opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, shows the decisive impact of his work on fashion and glamor and how the "Warhol style" influenced contemporary art. For anyone who loves fashion, glamour, and Andy Warhol, here is the book of the year. 380 photos, 150 in color.

A tie-in to an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art explores Andy Warhol's impact on the fashion industry and the art world as a whole throughout the years, complete with photographs of his department store displays, his silkscreen portraits, and more.

Product Description: The original and varied articles comprising Who is Andy Warhol? were specially written by an amazing variety of authors--including Christopher Hitchens, Peter Wollen, and Victor Bockis--for an event held at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh...read more

Product Description: The original and varied articles comprising Who is Andy Warhol? were specially written by an amazing variety of authors--including Christopher Hitchens, Peter Wollen, and Victor Bockis--for an event held at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The beauty, resources, and natural processes of the California landscape are brought to the home garden in Mark Francis and Andreas Reimann's fine testament to ecological gardening. The authors connect history, culture, region, and design to help us understand how California and its human population have evolved historically and how individuals today can make a difference in the state's future in their own backyards...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The most comprehensive published volumes of Warhol's drawings to date features both well-known images; fun, frivolous portraits; and still lifes, covering the artist's life and career from 1942 to 1987. (view table of contents)

Featuring: Richard Hamilton, Gavin Turk, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Anish Kapoor, Tracey Emin, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sam Taylor-Wood, Bridget Riley, Tacita Dean and many others. "The year-long project at Fig-1 has been an excellent antidote to the lumbering and ungainly bombast of recent high-profile shows." --John Tozer Edited by Cristina Colomar, Mark Francis and Christabel Stewart. 180 color. 11 x 8 in.

Product Description: Botanical themes are rare in the earlier paintings of Cy Twombly, but here they blossom in recent plaster and bronze sculptures, large works on paper, and photographs of tulips, peonies and a polychrome sculpture. Exhibited in the serendipitous context of a great botanical garden and library, Twombly's ever more colorful work moves the senses to bloom...read more

Product Description: Research has shown that successful public spaces are ones that are responsive to the needs of their users, are democratic in their accessibility, and are meaningful for the larger community and society. While considerable research has been done on needs and conflicts in open space, no one document integrates all this knowledge and makes it available to professionals, students, and researchers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Village Homes neighborhood in Davis, California is one of the few long-standing examples of sustainable community design. Mark Francis has been studying Village Homes for more than two decades and brings together existing research and writing on the community, studies about the children of Village Homes he conducted throughout the 1980s, and interviews with many parties involved with the project including designers, residents, gardeners, and maintenance people...read more

Product Description: The ideas of the English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) profoundly shaped Victorian thought regarding evolutionary theory, the philosophy of science, sociology, and politics. In his day, Spencer's works ranked alongside those of Darwin and Marx in their importance to the development of disciplines as wide-ranging as sociology, anthropology, political theory, philosophy, and psychology...read more

Product Description: On January 26, 1957, Richard Hamilton wrote a now-famous letter outlining his definition of what “Pop Art Is.” This volume celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Hamilton’s prophetic document, presenting the works of more than forty artists from his own generation of Pop artists (among them Hamilton himself, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol) and from artists of subsequent generations who have contributed to the development and dissemination of Pop Art (Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Mike Kelley, Damien Hirst, and others)...read more

Product Description: From the late 1950s to the late 1960s the word 'Pop' described any example of art, film, photography and architectural design that engaged with the new realities of mass production and the mass media. In addition to key artworks by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Richard Hamilton and many others, this book includes works of photography and avant-garde film, as well as what the critic Reyner Banham defined as pop architecture, ranging from Alison and Peter Smithson's House of the Future to Archigram's Walking City and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Learning from Las Vegas...read more