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The Purist movement in art, founded by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (better known as Le Corbusier) and Amedee Ozenfant, championed a traditional classicism while it simultaneously embraced new technologies and materials. The only book on Purism,..

Sunscreen: A series that offers good advice in an appealing, portable package> Ten percent of teenagers suffer from clinical depression and sixty percent of high schoolers have considered suicide. This timely and useful book examines dark moods and..

Still life painter Janet Fish is noted for her dynamic oil paintings and watercolors, through which she "captures the beauty of everyday objects." She has won praise for her exuberant brushstrokes and dazzling composition, but it is the movement of..

Length: 254 pages Publisher: HARRY N ABRAMS INC Language: English ISBN: 0810930935 Dimensions: 9.57 x 9.17 x 0.95 inches

Summary:A mystery story with a monstrous twistIn book three of the series, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm tackle their most important mystery: Who kidnapped their parents more than a year ago? Sabrina enters the hideout of the Scarlet Hand, the sinister..

The unique properties of amber (fossilized tree resin) have long intrigued many people, and never more so than now. This fascinating book, which accompanied the most comprehensive exhibition about amber ever mounted, organized by the American Museum..

As former MMA director Thomas Hoving wrote, "Lalique has become a vital force in the universe of decorative arts." He did for glass what Coco Chanel did for fashion. Lalique, like Chanel, is readily identifiable, unique, and at the same time..

Since 1995, Andy Goldsworthy has created a series of artworks in Northwest England in sheepfolds: stone enclosures found across the countryside that have been used for assembling, sheltering, and washing sheep for hundreds of years. After working on..

An alphabet book with fantastic and detailed pictures, bearing such labels as "Lazy lions lounging in the local library."

Yves Saint Laurent was the first couture house to launch the modern concept of luxury ready-to-wear clothing with a collection called Rive Gauche in 1966. Exploring Laurent s progressive approach to fashion, Saint Laurent Rive Gauche highlights the..

The author's inner vision combined with a grasp of the forms and settings of nature, give his golf courses a universal appeal.

Celebrated for his Art Nouveau stained-glass interpretations of birds, insects, fruits and flowers, Louis Comfort Tiffany was the foremost American designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His enormous influence on his father's famed..

1992 first printing/edition. An as new book in an as new dust jacket. Well kept from a private collection.

Holy cards offer comfort, consolation, and encour agement to Catholics, who often carry these portable images with them and use them in daily religious rituals. Given as remembrances at wakes and funerals, Communions, and confirmations, holy cards..

For one week in August the Burning Man Festival in Nevada s Black Rock Desert brings people together in a spirit of self-reliance and creativity. Art has become the defining feature of Burning Man, as the festival continues to be a testing ground..

Beginning in Spring 2001, Abrams began to reissue the backlist of original Laurent de Brunhoff Babar stories. For Spring 2002, Abrams presents its first two in a series of low-cost, small format books, Meet Babar and His Family and Babar's Little..

Far more than merely a display of wealth and taste, jewelry is an integral element in the lives of the people of India. Drawing on more than 35 years of collecting and research, Untracht surveys the major Indian jewelry forms and techniques,..

Timely and universal, everyone from your grandma to your teenage daughter knows that love is...a wild ride! Abrams is pleased to offer this second book of Kim Casali's beloved Love is... cartoons, first published in 1970, to a whole new generation...

Cooking School Teacher of the Year 2000--Bon Appetit Magazine Internationally renowned culinary expert Anne Willan, founder of the La Varenne Cooking School in France and author of more than 20 award-winning cookbooks, shares her special techniques..

This biography of 15th-century Dutch artist Hieronymus Boschis written and designed especially for young readers (ages10-15). While not much is known about the life of Bosch, author andscholar Gary Schwartz melds what little information there is..

A wide variety of authentic American rustic furniture is showcased, with dozens of historical and contemporary examples of this highly collectible style in room settings of every kind. The book offers scores of ideas for using and combining rustic..

"Nature is a good guide; it teaches us everything," says master floraldesigner Christian Tortu. It is the perfect summation of his work.Unpretentious yet stunningly beautiful, Tortu's arrangements have drawn inspiration directly from his childhood..

A thangka is a sacred religious icon in the form of a cloth scroll painted with luminous pigment made from powdered minerals, ground gem-stones, plants, insects and other natural substances. The 12 outlines in this colouring book enable readers to..