ABRAMS Fall 2010 Catalog

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FALL 2010 ABRAMS 2 STEWART, TABORI & CHANG 64 ABRAMS IMAGE 94 DISTRIBUTIONS 108 5 CONTINENTS EDITIONS 110 BOOTH-CLIBBORN EDITIONS 115 ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS PUBLICATIONS 116 TATE PUBLISHING 119 THE VENDOME PRESS 127 V&A PUBLISHING 136

ALSO OF INTEREST 143 PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART CREDITS 148 CATEGORY INDEX OF NEW TITLES 149 INDEX OF NEW TITLES 151 INFORMATION TO THE TRADE 152

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Yves Saint Laurent ■

BY F LOR E N C E M Ü L L ER A N D FA R I D C HEN O U N E

■ 540 color illustrations

One of

■ 388 pages, 8⅞ × 10⅝"

designers of the second half of the 20th century, Yves

■ Hardcover

Saint Laurent takes his place in the pantheon of French

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the most distinctive and influential

couturiers alongside Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, and

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Jeanne Lanvin. This luxurious tome, the first comprehen-

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sive retrospective of his work, reveals the breadth and

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scope of the designer’s entire career.

Beginning with Saint Laurent’s early days working under Dior and later heading the House of Dior after his SELLING POINTS

mentor’s death, author Farid Chenoune guides the reader

■ Follows the success of Yves Saint Laurent: Style

as well as the muses who inspired them, including Loulou

through such iconic creations as the Le Smoking tuxedo,

■ Includes 84 pages of plates printed on special highquality photographic paper, showcasing Saint Laurent’s clothes as fine art

de la Falaise and Catherine Deneuve. With a preface by longtime companion Pierre Bergé, this is the definitive volume on Saint Laurent’s innovative style.

Florence Müller is a former director and curator at the Musée des Arts de la Mode, Paris. Among other titles, she has published Costume Jewelry for Haute Couture

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and Art & Fashion. Farid Chenoune is a fashion historian

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and author of several books, including A History of Men’s

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Fashion, and contributes to French Vogue.

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Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture TH E C OMP L E T E WO R KS , 19 6 2 – 2 0 0 2

SPECIFICATIONS ■ More than 9,000 color illustrations

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■ 4 volumes, each 276 pages, 12 × 15½" ■ Boxed set in wooden cabinet RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH

Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture is the definitive collector’s item for devotees of the late designer. A lavish limited edition

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of 500 boxed sets reproduces the complete sketches,

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runway notes, and fabric samples for every garment Saint SELLING POINTS

Laurent ever produced. In addition to 1,400 facsimile

■ Ultra-exclusive: only 50 are available in North America and the United Kingdom

plates showcasing the most loved (and most notorious)

■ More than 15,000 garments are represented in 1,283 production drawings and 9,200 sketches in the plates and bound books

collections, a viewing guide introduced by Pierre Bergé provides an index, biography, and bibliography, and a 180page program album compiles all 80 runway shows.

The plates and bound volumes are packaged in four clamshell boxes and shipped in a custom wooden cabinet.

Pierre Bergé is the lifelong partner of the late Yves Saint Laurent. After the close of the YSL couture house, he

Terms: 30% discount, nonreturnable, shipping in continental US $150.00,

became president of the Fondation Pierre Bergé–Yves Saint Laurent. He lives in Paris.

Canada $195.00 ISBN 978-2-7324-4079-8 US $2,750.00

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Telling Stories NORM AN ROC K W EL L F ROM T H E C OL L EC T I O N S OF GEORGE LUCAS AND STEVEN SPIELBERG ■

BY V IRG IN IA ME C K L E N BUR G

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ESSAY BY TODD McCARTHY

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 118 color illustrations and 25 black-and-white illustrations ■ 252 pages, 9 × 12" ■ Hardcover with jacket

A fresh look at the art of Norman Rockwell—as seen in the collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg—which explores the connections between his iconic images of American life and the movies

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■ The appeal of Norman Rockwell’s art is timeless ■ George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are figures of major influence and interest in American popular culture

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Telling Stories,

July 2, 2010–Jan 2011 based on

the Rockwell collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, is the first book to chart the connections between Rockwell’s iconic depictions of American life and the movies. Rockwell, the quintessential American mythmaker of the 20th century, was a storyteller on a par with the great Hollywood directors of his time, and touched the

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lives of the two most successful directors of our day. Within

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Rockwell’s art, the fantasies and foibles of ordinary people

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are given life, central among them the themes of love of country, the sanctity of family, and the value of personal honor. Telling Stories, which accompanies an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is richly illustrated

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with Rockwell images, photographs, and film stills.

Virginia M. Mecklenburg is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Among her books are Modern Masters, Edward Hopper: The Watercolors, and Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, which won the Alfred H. Barr Jr. award in 1997. Todd

Norman Rockwell’s

McCarthy is the longtime chief film critic for Variety. His

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books include Kings of the Bs, Howard Hawks, and Fast

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Women: The Legendary Ladies of Racing. He won an

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Emmy Award for writing the documentary Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer.

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BY M ELISSA C H IU AN D MIWAKO T E ZUKA

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WITH ESSAYS BY MIDORI MATSUI, MICHAEL WILSON, AND HIDEKI TOYOSHIMA

The fi rst major monograph on the work of art superstar Yoshitomo Nara

Created

in partnership with Asia Society

Museum in conjunction with a major retrospective, this is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of art superstar Yoshitomo Nara. It assembles 20 years worth of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and drawings that map the evolution of one of the most influential and internationally renowned artists working today. The book and exhibition will draw connections between Nara’s work and the sensibilities of youth subcultures worldwide, focusing on themes of alienation and rebellion, particularly in relation to rock and punk music, the inspiration and subject of many of Nara’s works.

Featuring artworks that have never before been exhibited and playlists selected by the artist, this is the book Nara’s legion of devoted followers have been waiting for.

Melissa Chiu and Miwako Tezuka are the director and associate curator of Asia Society Museum and cocurators of the 2010 exhibition. Midori Matsui is a noted Japanese art critic.

Michael Wilson is an associate editor for Artforum magazine.

Hideki Toyoshima founded graf design collective, which has collaborated with Nara on multiple installations.

“It was the Ramones! And then Sex Pistols, and the Clash, and Bob Marley. . . . They gave me an answer to how I’d live my life from then on.”

—Yoshitomo Nara

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■ Nara will be in New York for the opening of the Asia Society Museum exhibition ■ Packaged in a diecut slipcase that is a reproduction of one of Nara’s mixedmedia houses—inside and out!

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 300 color illustrations ■ 272 pages, 9½ × 12" ■ Hardcover with diecut slipcase

ISBN 978-0-8109-9414-0 US $60.00

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EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Asia Society Museum, New York, Sept 8, 2010–Jan 2, 2011

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How to Read World History in Art F ROM TH E C O D E O F H A M M U R A B I TO S E P T E M B E R 11 ■

BY BUR K HA R D S C HWETJ E A N D F L AV I O F EB B R A R O

The newest volume in the acclaimed How to Read series— with more than 50,000 sold ■ 220 color illustrations

How does

■ 400 pages, 6¾ × 9½"

of historical events alter our understanding of them?

■ Flexibind

Kings, queens, presidents, and generals from Alexander

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an artist’s interpretation

the Great to Theodore Roosevelt have commissioned

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paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs of major

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events, and artists have responded to important moments

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with works that forever shape historical memory.

The book deals with specific episodes, from the proc-

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lamation of the Code of Hammurabi to more recent events

■ A new title in a proven, well-reviewed series

such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It also deals with broader themes,

■ The scope of this material— both artistic and historic— appeals to a global audience

such as the founding of states (Persia, Rome, the Chinese Empire, the United States) and war (Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, Picasso’s Guernica). Here too are the

■ An affordable book in a stylish format

great voyages of exploration, the industrial revolution, and much more. World history is vividly elucidated in these works of art.

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Burkhard Schwetje has written about diverse facets

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of 19th- and 20th-century history. Flavio Febbraro has

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edited and contributed to many publications and websites dealing with art history.

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How to Read a Painting

How to Read a Modern Painting

How to Read a Photograph

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How to Read Italian Renaissance Painting

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Wild Wonders of Europe ■

BY PETER C AIRN S , F LOR IAN MÖL L E RS , STA F FA N WI DST R A N D, A N D B R I DG ET WI J N B ER G

A celebration of Europe’s marvelous landscapes and wildlife, published to coincide with the International Year of Biodiversity SPECIFICATIONS ■ 250 color photographs ■ 288 pages, 9½ × 12⅝" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH PUB MONTH: OCTOBER NATURE • PHOTOGRAPHY

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■ Wild Wonders of Europe has partnered with National Geographic, where many of the photographers in this book have been published ■ A slideshow and lecture series will travel around Europe during 2010

One of

the largest nature photography proj-

ects ever undertaken, Wild Wonders of Europe presents an astonishing view of the continent’s flora and fauna.

Organized by Staffan Widstrand, Florian Möllers, and Peter Cairns, award-winning nature journalists in their own right, this remarkable book reveals the wildlife and landscapes

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of all 48 European countries.

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From dramatic views of spectacular landscapes to

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intimate moments with strange and rarely seen creatures, 68 photographers capture the full range of animal and plant life throughout the continent. The accompanying essays focus on conservation and reintroducing vulner-

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able species to their natural habitats, expressing hope for the future of European biodiversity.

Staffan Widstrand is a founding fellow of the International League of Conservation photographers. He lives in Sweden. Florian Müllers is the director of the groundbreaking city-wildlife project “Wildes Berlin.” He lives in Germany. Peter Cairns is the lead partner in the “Tooth

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and Claw” project, raising awareness of the predators of the British Isles. He lives in Scotland.

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Sanctuary ■

PHOTOG R AP H S BY GR E GORY C R E W D S O N

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The new monograph from renowned photographer Gregory Crewdson SPECIFICATIONS ■ 40 duotone photographs ■ 96 pages, 15 × 12" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER PHOTOGRAPHY

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■ New York Times film critic A. O. Scott contributes an introductory essay ■ A stunning contrast to Crewdson’s acclaimed previous books ■ The book will coincide with an exhibition of the work that premieres at Gagosian Gallery, New York, before opening in London and Rome

While visiting

EXHIBITION VENUES Rome, world-

Gagosian Gallery, New York

renowned photographer Gregory Crewdson was invited to tour the legendary film studio Cinecittà, where directors

White Cube, London Gagosian Gallery, Rome

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such as Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini shot their iconic works. He found the elaborate film sets fallen into ruin and, captivated by their beauty, chose them as the subject of his next body of work. Although his earlier series were characterized by large production crews, custom-built soundstages, and hired actors, Crewdson

Beneath the Roses

returned to Rome with only a small team to create the

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haunting black-and-white portraits of deteriorating build-

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ings and deserted streets that are flawlessly reproduced

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in this book. Admirers of Crewdson’s work will find these new photographs are a bold departure, which yet convey the dramatic subtext and charged emotions that characterize his earlier works.

Gregory Crewdson is an internationally exhibited artist whose previous books with Abrams include Beneath the Roses and Twilight. He teaches at the Yale University School of Art and lives in New York City. A. O. Scott has been a film critic for the New York Times since 2000 and began his tenure as cohost of the television program At

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ISBN 978-0-8109-9199-6 US $60.00

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the Movies in 2009.

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Vera TH E ART A N D L I FE O F A N I CO N ■

BY S USAN S EI D WI T H J EN R EN Z I

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 300 color illustrations

The inspiring story of legendary designer Vera Neumann, told through her iconic art, sketches, and photographs of her travels

■ 208 pages, 9 × 9⅞" ■ Hardcover RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER FASHION

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■ Vera’s artistic designs are enjoying a comeback for modern-day fashionistas.

The Vera line is being sold everywhere from Anthropologie to Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s ■ Vera’s signature floral and geometric patterns, as well as her bright color schemes continue to influence and inspire contemporary designers such as Kate Spade, Tory Burch, and Anna Sui

Legendary

designer and artist

Vera Neumann (1907–1993) believed in art’s ability to inspire and enrich lives. An innovator and one of the most successful female entrepreneurs of her time, Vera built her company on a radical philosophy: fine art should be accessible to everyone, not just a select few. Known for her iconic images of cheerful flowers, trendy geometrics, and vibrant ladybugs, she believed people should surround themselves with beauty.

For the first time, Vera: The Art and Life of an Icon, tells her inspiring story through the art and designs she created. In this volume, richly illustrated with Vera’s original sketches, paintings, and photographs of her worldwide travels, readers are introduced to the amazing woman behind the dynamic designs that continue to inspire and influence art, design, and fashion.

Susan Seid is the owner of The Vera Company, based in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology and has held various executive positions in the retail and direct marketing industries. Jen Renzi ISBN 978-0-8109-9604-5 US $35.00

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has written for publications including the New York Times Magazine, Wallpaper, and Condé Nast Traveler. Previously a senior editor at House & Garden and Interior Design magazines, she is also the author of The Art of Tile.

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Saxophone Colossus A PORTRAIT O F SON N Y ROL L I N S ■

PHOTOG R AP H Y BY JOH N ABBOT T

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SPECIFICATIONS ■ 75 color illustrations

A remarkable celebration of Rollins’s work and an intimate look at his prolific career

■ 160 pages, 8½ × 10¼" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER MUSIC

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■ Rollins is, by consensus, the most important living jazz legend, and this is the first book to intimately examine his life and career ■ Rollins will tour the U.S. and Europe throughout the year to celebrate his 80th birthday ■ Rollins is the recipient of the 2010 Edward McDowell Award

Jazz

legend Sonny Rollins will celebrate his

80th birthday this fall, and Saxophone Colossus will be published to mark this occasion and honor his incredibly prolific career. This intimate appreciation combines the

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images of John Abbott, who as Rollins’s photographer of

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choice for the past 20 years has captured the saxophonist

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at home and at work, and the essays of Bob Blumenthal, a jazz critic who has chronicled Rollins and his art for nearly four decades.

Sonny Rollins has been at the center of jazz and its

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evolution virtually from his birth. Growing up in Harlem in the heyday of swing and coming of age as the first wave of modernists announced their discoveries, he quickly found himself sharing bandstands with his idols and making music of his own that continues to influence and inspire.

Three Wishes

Saxophone Colossus, named for the 1956 masterpiece

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of the same title, is Abbott and Blumenthal’s tribute to

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Rolins’s music and spirit.

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John Abbott’s award-winning jazz photography has been featured on more than 250 album and magazine

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covers. He has been the primary cover photographer for

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JazzTimes magazine since 2003. Bob Blumenthal is the

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winner of two Grammy awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jazz Journalists Association.

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DRUNK STONED THE WRITERS AND ARTISTS WHO MADE THE

NATIONAL LAMPOON INSANELY GREAT RICK MEYEROWITZ BY

From its first issue

in April, 1970, the

National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and sought out the survivors of its first electrifying decade to gather their most revealing and outrageous stories. The result is a mind-boggling tour through the early days of an institution whose alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture: Animal House, Caddyshack, Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, SCTV, Spinal Tap, In Living Color, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons—even Sesame Street counts a few Lampooners among its ranks.

Long before there was The Onion and Comedy Central news shows, there was the National Lampoon, setting the bar in comedy impossibly high!

Rick Meyerowitz was a prolific contributor to the National Lampoon for 15

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■ The absolute best of America’s absolutely best humor magazine ever, the National Lampoon ■ Never-before-seen original artwork and articles, as well as some personal effects of deceased comics ■ Profiles of every major contributor by writers and artists who knew them well, filled with warmth, humor, and occasional malice

years, during which time he created the iconic Animal House movie poster.

With Maira Kalman, he made the “New Yorkistan” cover of the New Yorker, the bestselling cover in that magazine’s history. He lives in New York City.

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 250 color and black-and-white illustrations ■ 320 pages, 9½ × 12" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER HUMOR ISBN 978-0-8109-8848-4 US $40.00

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BRILLIANT DEAD “Man, did this bring back great memories.” —Bill Maher

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The Night Bookmobile ■

BY AUD RE Y N I F F EN EG G ER

The first graphic novel by the international bestselling author Audrey Niffenegger SPECIFICATIONS ■ 40 color illustrations ■ 40 pages, 11½ × 7½" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICA PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER COMICS • GRAPHIC NOVEL

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■ The latest addition to Niffenegger’s illustrated oeuvre ■ Niffenegger’s books are book club favorites, and fans will love this new tale celebrating books and reading ■ The Time Traveler’s Wife was made into a major motion picture and has sold 7 million copies worldwide

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Audrey Niffenegger, the New York Times bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, has crafted her first graphic novel after the success of her two critically

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acclaimed “novels-in-pictures.” First serialized as a weekly column in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, The Night Bookmobile tells the story of a wistful woman who one night encounters a mysterious disappearing library on wheels that contains every book she has ever read.

Seeing her history and most intimate self in this library, she embarks on a search for the bookmobile. But her search turns into an obsession, as she longs to be reunited with

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her own collection and memories.

The Night Bookmobile is a haunting tale of both transcendence and the passion for books, and features the evocative full-color pen-and-ink work of one of the world’s most beloved storytellers.

The Adventuress

Audrey Niffenegger is the author of the international

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bestseller The Time Traveler’s Wife, as well as Her Fearful Symmetry. She is also the author and illustrator of two Abrams “novels-in-pictures,” The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress. She lives in Chicago.

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Faeries DELUXE COLLECTOR’S EDITION ■

BY BRIAN F R OUD AN D AL AN L E E

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A deluxe collector’s edition of the million-copy bestseller Faeries SPECIFICATIONS ■ 200 color and black-and-white illustrations ■ 208 pages, 85⁄16 × 12" 8 frameable prints, fold-out

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■ The 25th anniversary edition of Faeries (2002), has sold more than 100,000 copies ■ Brian Froud and Alan Lee both contributed new art and essays for the book ■ Includes a foreword by bestselling author Jane Yolen Previous edition ISBN 978-0-8109-3274-6

A quarter

of a century after its initial

publication, and with more than a million copies in print worldwide, Brian Froud and Alan Lee’s Faeries is a certified fantasy classic. Now, Froud and Lee return to their most enduring and beloved work in this deluxe

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anniversary edition. This ultimate collector’s book features

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eight new pieces of art by Froud and Lee with the original

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pencil drawings and watercolors.

More than just a reissue, this deluxe revised and updated edition contains essays from both Froud and Lee on the continuing influence of Faeries. There is also a

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foreword by bestselling author Jane Yolen.

Brian Froud is an artist, author, designer, and faery authority. He is the author of Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book, Good Faeries / Bad Faeries, The Faeries’ Oracle, Brian Froud’s Goblins!, and The Heart of Faerie. Alan Lee is an Academy Award–winning movie conceptual designer and

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illustrator. He is well known for his illustration of Tolkien’s

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Middle Earth books and The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

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Jane Yolen has written more than 200 books for children and adults, including the acclaimed The Devil’s Arithmetic.

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Jerry Robinson AMBASSADOR O F C O M I CS ■

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The first definitive illustrated biography of the legendary cartoonist and comics creator

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■ Robinson created the iconic villain the Joker, and cocreated Batman’s sidekick, Robin ■ Includes original sketches, ink drawings, and photo graphs, many of them shown here for the first time ■ Introduction by Pete Hamill, foreword by Dennis O’Neil, blurbs from Pulitzer Prize winners Michael Chabon and Jules Feiffer, comics legend Stan Lee, and comics scholar Professor John Lent ISBN 978-0-8109-7764-8 US $35.00

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Jerry Robinson

is one of the

living legends of American comics. As a member of the original Batman team, he created the first and most iconic of all supervillains, the Joker, and cocreated Robin, the archetypal sidekick. During the Golden and Silver Ages of comics, Robinson worked on every comic book genre there was, and brought to life his own super heroes

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such as London, Jet Scott, and Atoman. His artistry also

Kirby: King of Comics

extended beyond comic books into editorial cartooning

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and popular syndicated newspaper strips such as Still Life and Flubs & Fluffs, as well as magazine and book illustration, fine arts, academia, and humanitarian affairs.

Robinson has been an influential teacher, an important curator of cartooning art exhibits, and a tireless champion

The Art of Harvey Kurtzman

of artists’ rights. This rich, fully illustrated collection of his

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work was written in collaboration with the artist himself.

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N. C. Christopher Couch teaches the history of comics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at the

“Jerry Robinson knew how to explain the joy of

School of Visual Arts in New York. He is coauthor of The

comics. Afer all, he invented the form.” — Pete Hamill

Will Eisner Companion. He lives in Astoria, New York, and Florence, Massachusetts. Pete Hamill is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 books. He lives

“His greatest creations fascinate and haunt readers to this day.” — Michael Chabon

in New York City. Dennis O’Neil is an influential writer and

“Behold Robinson, the boy wonder: still on the

editor of Batman comics. He lives in Nyack, New York.

job, still full of surprises.” — Jules Feiffer

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Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss?

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SPECIFICATIONS ■ 150 color illustrations ■ 224 pages, 8½ × 11¾" ■ Hardcover with poster jacket,

A funny, honest, brash, and in-depth look at this iconoclast’s work and his take on graphic design

three-edge black stain, hot-pink ribbon bookmark RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER GRAPHIC DESIGN

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■ James Victore is one of the biggest names in graphic design today ■ Award-winning designer Michael Bierut contributes an introduction ■ Designed by Paul Sahre, a celebrated graphic designer and frequent visual contributor to the New York Times ■ A must-have for students, graphic designers, and anyone with an interest in the power of ink on paper

In his first

book, iconoclastic designer

James Victore gives fans a survey of his work and his noholds-barred take on the practice, business, and teaching of graphic design today. Known for making vivid, memorable, and often controversial work, Victore has sought

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comrades, not clients—brave, smart collaborators who

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have encouraged him to reinterpret old design solutions and to pressure viewers to think about issues in a new way.

Leading readers through this collection of “greatest hits,” Victore tells the stories behind his inspirations, his process, and the lessons learned. The result is an inspiring, funny,

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and honest book, which showcases a body of work that has been plastered on the streets of New York, hung at MoMA, and featured in magazines all over the world.

James Victore is a self-taught designer known for his brilliant and innovative design work. He is a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, has won countless design awards, and has lectured and exhibited worldwide.

Michael Bierut is a partner in the international consultancy Pentagram, recipient of the Cooper-Hewitt Design

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Mind Award, Senior Critic in Graphic Design at Yale, and author of Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design.

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Gene Roddenberry’s original pitch, which included character and set descriptions, began: Star Trek is a Wagon Train concept—built around characters who travel to worlds “similar” to our own, and meet the action-adventuredrama which becomes our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser S.S. Yorktown, performing a well-defined and long-range ExplorationScience-Security mission which helps create our format.

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The time is “Somewhere in the future.” It could be 1995 or maybe even 2995. In other words, close enough to our own time for our continuing characters to be fully identifiable as people like us, but far enough into the future for galaxy travel to be thoroughly established (happily eliminating the need to encumber our stories with tiresome scientific explanation).

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INTROD UC T ION BY D OROT H Y “D. C .” F O N TA N A

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 365 color illustrations ■ 744 pages, 9¼ × 6¼" ■ Hardcover RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER POP CULTURE • SCIENCE FICTION

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■ Since its second life in syndication during the 1970s, Star Trek has become one of the most popular entertainment properties in the world, spawning countless (and wildly profitable) films, television spinoffs, books, toys, and other merchandise

Star Trek

The Original Series 365 is

the definitive, authorized guide to Star Trek, Gene

The ultimate visual celebration of and guide to Star Trek, ideal for longtime and new Trekkers alike

■ Longtime and new Trekkers alike will marvel at the breadth of the coverage, both visually and in the writing, as all episodes and facets of the original series are covered

Roddenberry’s groundbreaking television program that first aired from 1966 through 1969 and went on to become a cultural phenomenon. A visual celebration of the original voyages of the Starship Enterprise, the book covers the entire series in unprecedented detail, combining in-depth commentary, behind-the-scenes histories, and interviews with writers, cast, and crew, with synopses for each of the series’ 79 episodes.

In addition to a wealth of never-before-seen images and newly commissioned photography, Star Trek presents a treasure trove of remastered stills from the CBS archives—bringing to vivid life the famous five-year mission

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of Captain Kirk, Mister Spock, Doctor McCoy, and countless other beloved characters for old and new fans alike.

Paula M. Block spent 19 years as publishing director for Paramount Pictures and CBS, and with Terry J. Erdmann, has written numerous books about the entertainment industry, including Star Trek 101, Star Trek: Deep Space

Creating the Worlds of Star Wars:

Nine Companion, and Star Trek: Action!. They live in

365 Days

Oregon. Dorothy “D. C.” Fontana served as writer and

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story editor for many beloved episodes of Star Trek: The

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Original Series. She was instrumental in the development

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of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She lives in California.

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Even Bad Dogs Go to Heaven MORE F ROM T H E D O G C H A P E L ■

W RIT T E N A N D I L LU ST R AT ED BY ST EPHEN HU N EC K

A companion to the dog owner’s favorite The Dog Chapel, featuring more about the Remembrance Wall SPECIFICATIONS ■ 33 color illustrations ■ 80 pages, 8½ × 8½" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER PETS

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■ Perfect for dog lovers of all ages, especially for anyone who has ever lost a special pet ■ Full of Stephen Huneck’s signature drawings, featuring his familiar black lab and other types of dogs, which will appeal to his longtime fans ■ The sequel to Huneck’s wildly popular Dog Chapel

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The Dog Chapel

introduced

readers to Stephen Huneck’s very special retreat for dogs and their owners, and Huneck’s dog-centric philosophy 6-copy counter pack

captured the public’s attention. In this book, a follow-up

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to that perennial seller, readers will learn more about

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the special affection owners reserve for dogs that have passed on.

Pet owners come to the Dog Chapel in Vermont to remember and memorialize their beloved dogs. All along the walls and on every available surface, visitors leave

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pictures, letters, and testimonials about the dogs that have passed away. People who have just lost a pet find comfort in this outpouring of emotion, and use the walls to bid farewell to their canine friends. This book celebrates this affection and reflects on the life cycle of beloved dogs.

It is the perfect gift for a bereaved pet owner, or anyone

The Dog Chapel

who believes that dogs have a special place in human life.

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Stephen Huneck was an internationally acclaimed painter and sculptor who passed away in 2010. He was the owner of Stephen Huneck Galleries in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.

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Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman A CELEB RATION ■

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An illustrated collection of rare comic strips, photographs, paintings, memorabilia, essays, and interviews

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 200 color illustrations ■ 176 pages, 9 × 12¼" ■ Hardcover with tip-on plate RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER COMICS • GRAPHIC ART

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■ 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of the characters Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse ■ George Herriman is widely considered the first great comic strip artist ■ Herriman’s work has hung in museums, been the subject of academic treatises, been reprinted in prestigious tomes, and even appeared on a U.S. postage stamp

“George Herriman was one of the

Krazy Kat

very great artists, in any medium, of the 20th century.” —Michael

& the Art of George Herriman

is a tribute to one of the most influential and innovative

Chabon, author of The Amazing

comic strips and creators of all time. This unique collection

Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

of rare art, essays, memorabilia, and biography highlights the career of the first genius of comics, George Herriman, and his iconic creations, Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse.

During its 31-year run, Krazy Kat was enormously popular with the public, as well as influential writers,

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artists, and intellectuals of the time. This book includes

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original essays by Jay Cantor, Douglas Wolk, Harry Katz, Richard Thompson, Dee Cox (Herriman’s granddaughter), Craig McCracken, Bill Watterson, and authorized reprints of two seminal essays on Herriman by Gilbert Seldes

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and e. e. cummings, alongside newly discovered vintage essays by TAD, Summerfield Baldwin, and Toots Herriman.

With Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman, Craig Yoe reveals this influential artist and writer for a whole new generation.

Krazy Kat

Craig Yoe runs the New York design firm YOE! Studio with

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Clizia Gussoni, and is the author of more than 30 books,

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including The Art of Mickey Mouse and Secret Identity:

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The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator Joe Shuster. Yoe lives in Peekskill, New York.

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Eternal Chanel ■

BY JE AN L EY M A R I E

The definitive monograph on Coco Chanel SPECIFICATIONS ■ 160 color illustrations ■ 192 pages, 9½ × 11¼" ■ Hardcover RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICA PUB MONTH: OCTOBER FASHION

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■ Chanel is timeless, but there has been a cluster of films, novels, and biographies in the past few years, indicating a renewed interest ■ Long out of print, Jean Leymarie’s authoritative text seamlessly brings together modern art and fashion history ■ A new essay on Karl Lagerfeld and the Chanel brand updates the original 1989 volume

When

Jean Leymarie’s monograph on Coco

Chanel was originally published in 1989, he was known primarily as a curator and modern art historian, both in his native France and abroad. Bringing his expertise to bear on one of the most famous (and often controversial) coutuISBN 978-0-8109-9694-6 US $45.00

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riers of all time, Leymarie legitimized fashion as fine art.

Completely redesigned by Philippe Apeloig, Leymarie’s classic volume is back in print once more.

Beginning with a brief history of fashion, Leymarie takes the reader through Chanel’s early days, when she mingled with Jean Cocteau, Igor Stravinsky, and Luchino Visconti,

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through the development of her brand after her death by Karl Lagerfeld. A special essay on Lagerfeld’s contribution to the Chanel legacy, written by journalist Marc Lambron, brings this new edition up to date.

Jean Leymarie (1919–2006) was a prominent art historian

Chanel and Her World

who devoted his life to bringing contemporary art to

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national museums. He was chief curator at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris from 1968 to 1973, director of studies at the Ecole du Louvre, and director of the Villa Medicis French Academy of Art in Rome from 1977 to 1984.

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Monumental THE REIMAGINED WORLD OF KEVIN O’CALLAGHAN ■

BY D EBOR AH H US S E Y

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F ORE WOR D BY ST EV EN HELL ER

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In this richly illustrated work, Kevin O’Callaghan proves that any object, no matter how useless, ugly, or obsolete, can be turned into art

■ 300 color photographs ■ 240 pages, 10 × 10" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER DESIGN

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■ O’Callaghan’s massive exhibitions, often held in vast public spaces such as Vanderbilt Hall in New York’s Grand Central Terminal, have proven to be crowd pleasers, generating extensive national media coverage ■ O’Callaghan’s message of creative reuse of consumer and industrial objects is extremely relevant today

Kevin

O’Callaghan is a design wizard and

■ O’Callaghan is a leading design educator and teaches a famous course at New York’s School of Visual Art

Monumental is his manifesto, featuring hundreds of beautiful and useful design objects made out of obsolete, useless, cast-off technology. Since 1985, O’Callaghan has taught a now-legendary 3-D design class at New York’s School of Visual Arts, where students solder, rivet, and weld the flotsam of mass-produced consumer culture into new, different, and, most importantly, functional objects.

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For “Yugo Next,” an exhibition that toured the United

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States—and mesmerized the media wherever it went—students transformed so-called “useless” Yugo automobiles into a piano, a barbecue, a shower, a confessional, an accordion, a gigantic telephone, and a toaster that actually

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popped, among other things. O’Callaghan is a philosopher, comedian, entrepreneur, and social critic who shows how design can make the world a better place.

Deborah Hussey is an editor and writer who specializes in art-related topics. Steven Heller is a historian and critic of graphic design. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than 130 books on design and popular culture, including Abrams’ Graphic Style and Illustration. His career is intertwined with two great New York institutions, the

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New York Times (as an art director) and the School of Visual Arts (as program director and teacher).

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“I wanted to create a familiar type of adventure in an unfamiliar environment, by setting the classic tale of a newcomer to a foreign land and culture on an alien planet. I’ve dreamed of creating a film like this, set on another world of great danger and beauty, since I was a kid reading pulp science fiction and comic books by the truckload, and sitting in math class drawing creatures and aliens behind my propped-up textbook.” —James Cameron

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The Making of Avatar ■

BY JODY DUNCAN AND LISA FITZPATRICK

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 500 color illustrations ■ 272 pages, 9¼ × 11⅞" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD

The epic story behind the making of James Cameron’s groundbreaking movie Avatar

PUB MONTH: OCTOBER FILM • POP CULTURE

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■ Avatar is the highest grossing film of all time ■ Re-release of Avatar at digital and Imax 3D theaters in Summer 2010 ■ More than 100,000 copies sold of The Art of Avatar (Nov. 2009)

To create

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his epic Avatar, James Cameron

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and his crew had to invent the tools needed to achieve a transforming vision. The story of their journey—from Avatar’s conception to its realization on the screen—is an epic in itself.

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The Making of Avatar tells that epic story, from early brainstorming sessions in Malibu to a vast production effort spanning continents. Along the way, the filmmakers designed new techniques to bring the nuances of human performances to the screen, allow the director unprecedented control within the world he envisioned, and integrate 3D effects naturally.

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Jody Duncan, editor of Cinefex magazine, and Lisa

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Fitzpatrick, author of Abrams’ Art of Avatar, offer an

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authoritative and official record in words and pictures of the most significant film of our time.

Jody Duncan is the editor of Cinefex magazine, which is the leading publication on special effects in the movies.

She is the author of books on the making of groundbreaking films, including Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Lisa Fitzpatrick is the author of Abrams’ Art of Avatar. An award-winning editor, she has created books for a wide variety of films

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and television shows, including 24, Kung Fu Panda, and an anniversary edition for the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

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Hitchcock, Piece by Piece ■

BY L AURE N T B O U Z ER EAU

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This must-have for any film buff contains memorabilia and photographs from Hitchcock’s own archives SPECIFICATIONS ■ 120 color illustrations ■ 176 pages, 8¼ × 11" ■ Hardcover RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICA AND UK ENGLISH PUB MONTH: OCTOBER FILM • PERFORMING ARTS

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■ There are no other illustrated biographies of Hitchcock, and no other author has had access to his archives ■ 2010 is the 30th anniversary of Hitchcock’s death, as well as the 50th anniversary of the release of Psycho ■ In addition to the lavish and exclusive photographs, articles of removable ephemera—snapshots, letters, and more—help to frame the story

The first-ever

illustrated biogra-

phy of the master of the thriller, Hitchcock, Piece by Piece coincides with the 30th anniversary of his death and the 50th anniversary of the release of Psycho. Many of the photographs, from Hitchcock’s own archive, have never been published before, and the package includes removable memorabilia, such as letters, memos, and snapshots, which flesh out this portrait of a film icon.

With a foreword by Hitchcock’s daughter, Patricia Hitchcock O’Connell, this book includes all of his more than 50 feature films, as well as his eponymous television series. Author Laurent Bouzereau puts this incredible canon into perspective, examining the master’s life thematically: archetypal anti-heroes; complicated women; charming villains; and something Bouzereau calls “the Hitchcock touch”—elements of film that are, quite simply, Hitchcockian.

Director and producer Laurent Bouzereau has collaborated with Martin Scorsese, Mel Brooks, Steven ISBN 978-0-8109-9601-4 US $45.00

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Spielberg, and Clint Eastwood—among other Hollywood legends—on more than 60 documentaries about classic films. Also the author of Abrams’ The Art of Bond, he is based in southern California.

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The Poster 1,00 0 POSTER S F ROM TOU LOU SE -L AU TREC TO SAG M E I ST E R ■

BY CEES W. D E JON G, AL STON W. P URV I S , A N D M A RT I J N F. LEC O U LT R E

A complete and authoritative visual survey of world posters for designers and general audiences alike

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 1,000 color illustrations ■ 568 pages, 7½ × 9" ■ Flexibind RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH PUB MONTH: OCTOBER GRAPHIC DESIGN

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■ A sourcebook on design from Art Nouveau to the present, with an authoritative selection of 1,000 posters by all significant poster designers and artists ■ A visual history of international popular culture, covering movies, music, politics, war, advertising, food, travel, and the underground

This complete

international

■ Includes work by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Andy Warhol, and Stefan Sagmeister

history of poster design from the Art Nouveau to the present covers all of the significant developments in poster design, and every important type of poster, from wine and war to rock and rebellion. One thousand posters illustrate the work of virtually every significant artist and graphic designer who ever created a memorable poster, including a generous selection of contemporary work. Organized chronologically, with thematic sections devoted to design

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styles as well as popular history, The Poster is also a visual

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chronicle of world culture from the late 19th century to the

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present. Finally, The Poster is an appealing design object in itself, and a terrific way to experience the pleasures of graphic design.

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Martijn F. LeCoultre is one of the world’s leading poster

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collectors and the author of several books on 20thcentury graphic design.

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Mug Shots A N A RC H IVE O F T H E FA M O U S , I N FA MOU S, A N D M O ST WA N T E D ■

BY RAYN A L PELL I C ER

SPECIFICATIONS

A striking international collection of more than 250 mug shots, from prominent political activists to popular culture stars, and the most infamous suspects in modern history

■ 270 color and black-and-white photographs ■ 288 pages, 7½ × 91⁄16" ■ Paperback with flaps RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER HISTORY • PHOTOGRAPHY

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■ From Jimi Hendrix to Frank Sinatra, the famous and infamous are captured on film for minor misdemeanors and grand felonies

“This comprehensive and compelling book

■ This book covers a wide historical scope, including early mug shots from the late 19th century and cases as recent as the trials of O. J. Simpson and murder of Gianni Versace ■ Raynal Pellicer’s captivating narration of the most sensational crimes, manhunts, and trials of the modern era taps into the persistent popularity of true crime and long-running detective shows

makes art out of the mug shot.”

—Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter “These faces tell some amazing stories.”

—The New York Times

Since

Alphonse Bertillon developed the

“anthropometric photograph” in 1882, the mug shot has been an essential police procedure around the world.

Now available in paperback, Mug Shots presents more

Hardcover ISBN

than 250 booking photos spanning the history of this

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practice—the faces of mafia bosses and cold-blooded killers, as well as enemies of the state and prominent political activists.

On display in this international selection are notorious faces such as Al Capone, Fidel Castro, O. J. Simpson, and Robert Stroud, the “Birdman of Alcatraz,” as well as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jane Fonda.

Accompanying these gripping images is an illuminating commentary that puts both the criminals and their crimes in historical context, reconstructing some of the most dramatic events of the 20th century.

Raynal Pellicer is a director who has produced many documentaries, films, and television shows, including a

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series of 100 short films of people reacting to various art works. He was honored with the 1993 TV Director’s Grant in France. He is also the author of the upcoming Photobooth.

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Photobooth THE ART OF T H E AU TOMAT I C PORTRA I T ■

BY RAY NAL P E L L IC E R

From the author of Mug Shots, a collection of snapshots made using photobooths, from the invention’s early days in the 1920s to the present

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 250 color and black-and-white photographs ■ 304 pages, 7½ × 9⅛" ■ Hardcover with jacket, gatefolds, bookmark RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER PHOTOGRAPHY

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■ Salvador Dalí, Anne Frank, Allen Ginsberg, and Walker Evans are just a few of the often surprising subjects of self-portraits included ■ Photobooths remain widespread and popular more than 75 years after their invention, despite the advent of affordable digital photography, web cameras, and other snapshot technology

Since

■ Includes special tipped-in gatefolds that emulate the classic photobooth snapshot sequences, plus a removable bookmark its introduction to the public in

September of 1925 on a street corner in New York City, the automatic photobooth has captured the interest of the general public and fine artists alike. Raynal Pellicer, author of Mug Shots, examines the self-portraits—sometimes practical, sometimes whimsical—produced by this enduring 20th-century novelty.

The countless documents included here feature shots of Francis Bacon, Billy Childish, Allen Ginsberg, John F. Kennedy, Anne Frank, Salvador Dalí, André Breton, Wim Wenders, Walker Evans, and John Lennon, among others.

Photobooth draws a fantastic inventory of artistic variations on the snapshot, bringing together works of art and self-portraits of persons both known and unknown, from the 1920s to the present.

Raynal Pellicer is a director who has produced many documentaries, films, and television shows, including a

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series of 100 short films of people reacting to various art

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works. He was honored with the 1993 TV Director’s Grant in France. He is also the author of Mug Shots.

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UFO ■

BY ALBERT WATSON

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INTRODUCTION BY GAIL BUCKLAND

SPECIFICATIONS

An epic 40-year retrospective of one of the world’s most creative and productive photographers of portraiture, fashion, reportage, and still life

■ 350 color and black-and-white photographs ■ 400 pages, 11 × 14" ■ Hardcover with bellyband RIGHTS: US & CANADA PUB MONTH: OCTOBER PHOTOGRAPHY

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■ This is Watson’s first major retrospective since the highly successful and influential Cyclops, published in 1994 ■ An epic 40-year retrospective of an extraordinary photographic career, with more than 350 images ■ UFO will be the must-have photography monograph of 2010, with superb design and production values EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery in Chelsea, New York

One

of the world’s most successful photogra-

phers, Albert Watson is known for graphic, sculptural

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images that capture the essence of people, places, and things. His has been a career of unparallelled productivity, ranging from fashion to iconic portraits to reportage. His first book, Cyclops, published in 1994, established him as a leading photographic talent who combined a brilliant vision with extreme technical excellence.

UFO—which stands for Unified Fashion Objectives— presents a 40-year retrospective of Watson’s best work, pulled from his vast archive. In its pages, a memorable era of style, beauty, fashion, personality, and power is captured for posterity. UFO is a landmark publishing event from one of the world’s greatest photographers.

Albert Watson is a widely published photographer with more than 200 Vogue covers and 40 Rolling Stone covers to his credit. Born in Scotland, he lives in New York City.

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photography. Among her many accomplishments, she was photographic consultant to former Vice President Al Gore for An Inconvenient Truth, and she created the bestselling American Century with Harold Evans and Kevin Baker.

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I Am Plastic, Too THE NEXT GEN ERATION OF DE SIG N E R TOYS ■

BY PAUL BUD N IT Z

The designer toy explosion continues in Kidrobot’s second book, featuring hundreds of new artists and toys from around the world

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 1,000 color illustrations ■ 368 pages, 9¾ × 11½" ■ Hardcover RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER DESIGN • POP CULTURE

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■ Kidrobot owns and operates stores in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Miami, and Dallas ■ The designer toy phenomenon just keeps getting bigger, as does the buzz around the Kidrobot brand ■ The must-have item for devotees of urban street trends, fashion, and art

The designer toy

explo-

sion continues in Kidrobot’s second book, I Am Plastic, Too, which features a worldwide survey of the newest,

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rarest, and most sought-after toys. By offering designers,

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CAN $58.50

comic book artists, illustrators, and graffi ti artists a new

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outlet for their creative energies, these toys become miniature works of art, collected and coveted by fans everywhere. Showcasing examples from more than 140 artists and companies from six continents, this book

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includes images of scarce, limited-edition toys and extensive interviews with 13 of the hottest designers working today. Many of the most popular creators from the first book are back, along with new faces such as Amanda Visell, Brandt Peters, eBoy, Jon Burgerman, Kathie Olivas, and Tara McPherson.

Founded by designer Paul Budnitz in 2002, Kidrobot is the premier designer and retailer of limited-edition

I Am Plastic

art toys and apparel. They operate store-galleries in

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six cities and their products can also be found at select

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boutique retailers around the world and on their website, www.kidrobot.com.

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“I don’t go into the shoot with visual concepts; the images are co-authored—co-inspired—in the moment by the sitter and myself. This thrills me, every time. If you can capture it, that is what makes a photograph require repeat viewing.”

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Mary McCartney FROM WHERE I STAN D ■

BY MARY McCARTNEY

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PREFACE BY P E T E R BL AK E

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IN T RODU C T I O N BY C HR I S S I E HY N DE

The very best work selected from Mary McCartney’s complete archive from the 1990s to the present

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 175 color and black-and-white photographs ■ 192 pages, 8¾ × 10¼" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: US & CANADA PUB MONTH: OCTOBER PHOTOGRAPHY

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■ McCartney offers her perspective on the world—among her friends and subjects are Kate Moss, Michael Stipe, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joni Mitchell, Tracey Emin, Madonna, Dennis Hopper, her family, and many others

Mary McCartney

is the

newest talent to emerge from the great McCartney family, which has already given the world Sir Paul (her father); fashion designer Stella (her younger sister); and Linda, Mary’s late mother, a renowned photographer and Mary’s inspiration. In Mary McCartney: From Where I Stand, Mary reveals her own personal take on the world with her soulful, elegant, and emotionally resonant images. This collection, her first book, is comprised of the best from her archive of informal portraits of friends, family, and such famous faces as Kate Moss, Dennis Hopper, Helen Mirren, Michael Stipe, and Gwyneth Paltrow; of landscapes and still lifes taken at home and on the road; and of performers and entertainers taken both on- and off stage at concerts, fashion shows, the theater, and the ballet. This book offers rare, insightful glimpses of people, places, moments, and events that draw the viewer into private worlds with their intimacy, warmth, and charm.

Mary McCartney’s photographs have appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Tatler, and Interview. She has had three solo exhibitions since 2004. Sir Peter Blake is an English

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pop artist best known for his cover design of Sgt. Pepper’s

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Lonely Hearts Club Band. Chrissie Hynde is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and the leader of The Pretenders.

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Monet ■

BY JOS E P H B A I LLO, LAU R EN C E B ERT R A N D- DO R L ÉAC , J O HN HO U S E, L AU R EN CE

MAD E L IN E , SY LV I E PAT I N , SY LV I E PAT RY, A N N E R O Q U EB ERT, A N D R I C HA RD T HOM PS ON

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 300 color illustrations ■ 384 pages, 9¾ × 11½" ■ Hardcover with jacket, 3 gatefolds RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH PUB MONTH: OCTOBER ART

A vivid new perspective on Monet and his work

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■ Monet is the catalog of the first major international retrospective exhibition of this French Impressionist painter in more than a decade ■ Claude Monet is one of the world’s most beloved artists.

He is consistently in the top five artist searches on the Internet. His house in Giverny is one of the world’s great art destinations ■ More than 300 of Monet’s paintings are reproduced in this authoritative book, which includes 3 foldouts EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Grand Palais, Paris, Sept 20, 2010–Jan 24, 2011

Claude

Monet is one of the most beloved

painters in the history of art. His work appeals both to the broad general public and to artists, who are moved and challenged by his achievement over a working life that spanned six decades. Fall 2010 is the occasion of the first major international retrospective of this leading French Impressionist painter in more than 15 years, organized by the Musée d’Orsay and the RMN, Paris, which will be a must-see event for art lovers. With more than 300 illustrations of Monet’s greatest works and accessible essays by leading art historians, this lush volume offers a vivid new perspective on the artist and his work.

Joseph Baillo is a principal at Wildenstein & Co., Laurence Bertrand-Dorléac is a professor at the Institut des Sciences Politiques de Paris, John House is Walter H. Annenberg Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art,

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London, Laurence Madeline, Sylvie Patin, Sylvie Patry, and Anne Roquebert are curators at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and Richard Thompson is a professor at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Wharton Esherick THE J OURNEY OF A C RE AT I VE MIN D ■

BY M ANSF IE L D BAS C OM

An intimate look into the life and work of this celebrated American craftsman SPECIFICATIONS ■ 250 color and black-and-white illustrations ■ 276 pages, 11½ × 10½" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER ARCHITECTURE • DESIGN

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■ The first and only comprehensive look at Wharton Esherick’s life and work ■ Wharton Esherick’s studio, a National Historic Landmark for Architecture and now the Wharton Esherick Museum, in Paoli, Pennsylvania, greets between five and six thousand visitors annually

Wharton Esherick

(1887–

1970) lived to create. He found his true voice in sculpture,

■ A major exhibition entitled Wharton Esherick and the Modernists is opening at the University of Pennsylvania in fall 2010

working primarily in local woods he gathered from the forest surrounding his home and studio in rural Pennsylvania.

The spiritual father of the contemporary studio furniture movement in America, he pioneered the way for successive generations of woodworking artists to develop their original designs. His work blurs the traditional distinctions between sculpture and furniture, form and function.

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Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind

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is the first and only comprehensive look at the colorful life and work of this seminal artist. Written by Esherick’s son-in-law, and lavishly illustrated, it features photographs of Esherick’s most important artworks as well as the woodland studio he designed, built, and furnished over the

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course of several decades. Now a museum, preserved as Esherick left it, this remarkable structure and its contents are testament to the warmth, poetry, and passion of one of America’s most influential and celebrated craftsmen.

Mansfield Bascom, a retired architect and structural

Nature Form & Spirit: The Life and

engineer, has been married to Wharton Esherick’s daugh-

Legacy of George Nakashima

ter Ruth for more than 50 years. Bascom served as the Wharton Esherick Museum’s director until 1990, when he

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became its curator. He and Ruth live in Esherick’s former workshop in Paoli, Pennsylvania.

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FFROM

EARTH A YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND A revised and updated anniversary edition of the bestselling book by renowned aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Since

its original publication in 1999, Yann Arthus-

Bertrand’s Earth From Above has been a touchstone for the environmental movement throughout the world, selling more 3 million copies in all languages. The result of a five-year journey across five continents and 60 countries, this spectacular portrait of our planet is also an iconic reminder of its fragility.

In this anniversary edition, Arthus-Bertrand and one dozen experts on current environmental issues look back upon the past decade’s progress. With more than 100 striking new images and nine new essays, including frank discussions of climate change and the growing energy crisis throughout the world, Arthus-Bertrand poignantly juxtaposes Earth’s raw beauty with the evidence of humanity’s negative impact upon our home.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s many books include the multimillioncopy international bestseller Earth from Above. His photographs have been featured in National Geographic, Life, and Sierra, among other magazines.

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■ Includes 9 entirely new essays, and more than 30 photographs never before published in any edition of the book ■ Across all international editions, Earth From Above has sold more than 3 million copies, including more than half a million in North America alone

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 202 color photographs ■ 440 pages, 11¼ × 14⅜" ■ Hardcover with diecut jacket

Previous edition ISBN

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978-0-8109-5947-7

PUB MONTH: OCTOBER PHOTOGRAPHY • ENVIRONMENT

ALSO AVAILABLE ISBN 978-0-8109-9693-9 The New Earth From Above: 365 Days

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10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

ABOVE

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Chess Masterpieces ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF EXTRAORDINARY CHESS SETS ■

BY GE OR G E DEA N WI T H M A X I N E B R A DY

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INTRODUCTION BY GARRY KASPAROV

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 200 color illustrations ■ 272 pages, 10 × 12" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER COLLECTIBLES

The definitive collection of the world’s most beautiful and extraordinary chess sets

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■ Spanning more than two thousand years and four continents, the story of chess is illustrated with rare and beautiful sets ■ An introduction by Garry Kasparov underlines the importance of the sets included here ■ This book features two never-before-seen chess sets made by the Fabergé workshop, one of which was only recently discovered to be authentic

These

remarkable chess sets span civiliza-

tions, chronicling the game and its design beginning with the earliest known pieces and coming up to the surprising present. Considering chess through the perspectives of art and history, the engaging text touches upon the ISBN 978-0-8109-4923-2 US $65.00

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influences of local cultures and available materials, as well as the battles, rulers, and political factions that often inspired thematic sets. In addition to classic sets produced

by Wedgwood, Meissen, and Murano, Chess Masterpieces includes the first ever comparison of two sets created

by Fabergé (only one of which was previously known to

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exist), and extensive examples of 20th- and 21st-century sets crafted by artists such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí, and Damien Hirst.

George Dean is a practicing physician with a passion for collecting art. He has amassed one of the greatest chess

The Watch

collections in the world, which forms the basis for this

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book. He divides his time between Michigan and Florida.

Garry Kasparov is a chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion. He has written a number of books on chess, as well as an autobiography. He lives in New York.

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Joseph Urban ■

BY JOHN LOR IN G

A lavish celebration of this prolific artist, architect, and designer SPECIFICATIONS ■ 200 color illustrations ■ 224 pages, 9½ × 11" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER ARCHITECTURE • BIOGRAPHY

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■ Nearly half the illustrations in the book have never been published ■ This collection features marvelous examples of artwork in the Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Modernist styles ■ Urban designed Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach and the base of the Hearst Tower in New York

Joseph Urban

is a lavish

celebration of this prolific artist, architect, and designer, whose accomplishments include magnificent Art Deco buildings, spectacular Ziegfeld Follies productions, and dramatic sets for the Metropolitan Opera. Joseph Urban (1872–1933) began his career as an architect and artist in Vienna before moving to America in 1911. In 1914 he moved to New York, where he ultimately signed on as

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set designer of the Metropolitan Opera. He also became

US $50.00

CAN $64.99

immersed in an astonishing array of outside projects,

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designing nightclubs, hotel lounges, skyscrapers, theaters, stage and film sets, and even children’s books. Though his creative output was immense, little remains of his work except the Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, and the New

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School and the base of the Hearst Tower in New York.

This beautifully illustrated tribute is packed with more than 200 design drawings, renderings, and paintings, the majority of which were culled from the Joseph Urban archive in the Butler Library at Columbia University.

John Loring is design director emeritus of Tiffany & Co., where he worked for 30 years. He is the author of Abrams’

Tony Duquette

Tiffany books, including Tiffany Style, Tiffany Diamonds,

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Tiffany Flora and Fauna, and Tiffany in Fashion. Loring

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has been a contributing writer to Architectural Digest for

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This is the tale of our oldest, most faithful friend, the species that came in from the cold more than 15,000 years ago to keep us company and share our food.

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Dogs ■

BY TIM FLAC H

Tim Flach, author of Equus, returns with a stunning celebration of the dog SPECIFICATIONS ■ 125 color illustrations ■ 200 pages, 12 × 12" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH EX AUSTRALIA, NZ, S AFRICA PUB MONTH: OCTOBER PETS • PHOTOGRAPHY

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■ Tim Flach’s playful and inventive animal photography will appeal directly to anyone who has shared their life with dogs ■ Features more than 50 breeds of dogs ■ The perfect gift for dog lovers

Since the wolf

first snuck

into the caves of our ancestors to take warmth from the fire, dogs have been man’s constant companion. Dogs, multi-award-winning photographer Tim Flach’s stunning follow-up to the critically acclaimed Equus, delves deep into the psyche of this enduring bond with Canis familiaris

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to present an exquisite study of “man’s best friend.”

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From specimens on show at Crufts and Westminster

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promise to deliver one of the most appealing, popular, and exciting photographic tributes to dogs ever published.

Tim Flach studied fine art at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design and emerged with a fascination for photography, which has since led to numerous commissions, awards, solo exhibitions, and a presence in permanent collections and publications around the world. He is best known for the originality that he brings to capturing animal

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behavior and characteristics. Flach’s work has been featured in Creative Review and Stern.

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“Archie has had a place in people’s lives for generations and generations.

People are shocked at how much these characters still mean to them.” —The New York Times

THE HIT STORY—

70 Years in the Making —ALL COLLECTED IN ONE VOLUME

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W RITTEN BY MIC H AE L US L AN

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ILLUSTRAT E D BY STAN GOL D BE R G AN D B O B S M I T H

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INTRODUCTION BY DANICA McKELLAR

The eternal love

triangle that has been

the cornerstone of Archie comics for almost seven decades is finally untangled in this seven-part story written by Michael Uslan and illustrated by veteran Archie artist Stan Goldberg. The journey begins when Archie finds himself strolling up Memory Lane, and marries the wealthy and cultured Veronica Lodge. Later we see what happens when he strolls down Memory Lane and marries the wholesome, peppy girl next door, Betty Cooper.

This pivotal series of seven issues is bound in hardcover, encased in a double diecut slipcase, and packaged with a reprint of a classic Archie comic. The book includes all-new material created especially for this edition, including script outtakes, never-before-seen sketches, annotations, vintage covers, and exclusive interviews with the creators.

Michael Uslan is a writer and the executive producer of the Batman films. He was the first instructor to teach comics at an accredited university (Indiana University in 1970). He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Stan Goldberg is a veteran comic book artist who has worked more than 50 years in the industry and is best known for his work illustrating Archie comics. He lives in Beechhurst, New York. Bob Smith has been the main inker for Archie for the past several years, and he previously

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worked with DC Comics. He lives in Covington, Washington.

■ Archie is a beloved comic that spans generations and has loyal fans SPECIFICATIONS

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■ In the same special series as Abrams’ The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis book

■ 200 color illustrations ■ 208 pages, 7½ × 11"

■ Includes all seven of the comic books that make up the Archie wedding story, plus bonus material such as scripts, sketches, and creator interviews

■ Hardcover with double diecut slipcase and a 32-page comic book

■ Includes a bonus reprint of a classic Archie comic inserted in the back of the book

RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER COMICS • GRAPHIC NOVEL ISBN 978-0-8109-9620-5 US $24.95

CAN $32.50 52495

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■ As seen on CNN, the BBC, Late Show With David Letterman, The Early Show, The Colbert Report, The Rachel Maddow Show, and in the New York Times and on the front pages of major newspapers around the world

ISBN 978-0-8109-8837-8 US $24.95

CAN $32.50 52495

■ Introduction by Danica McKellar, Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years and the New York Times bestselling author of Math Doesn’t Suck, Kiss My Math, and the upcoming Hot X: Algebra Exposed ®

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Marries . . .

The groundbreaking comics story that created a media sensation is collected in hardcover

FRONT COVER

BACK COVER

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Shazam!

T H E G OL DEN AG E O F T H E WO R L D’ S M I G H T I E ST M O RTA L ■

BY C H IP K I DD

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WI T H PHOTO G R A PHY BY G EO F F S PEA R

An amazing collection of toys, ephemera, and artwork produced during the Golden Age of comics SPECIFICATIONS ■ 300 color illustrations ■ 246 pages, 9 × 12" ■ Diecut hardcover with gatefold RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER COMICS • GRAPHIC ART

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■ 2010 is the 70th anniversary of Shazam and the 75th anniversary of DC Comics ■ Chip Kidd is a notable designer and authority in the comics community

“Back when comic books were king, when they sold their most, Captain Marvel reigned supreme.

No one held a candle to him. This book celebrates my personal favorite super hero—the lost wonder who dominated the greatest period of the comic book art form.” —Alex Ross, artist, Shazam! Power of Hope

Shazam

made his debut in Whiz Comics

in 1940, and outsold his biggest competitor, Superman, by 14 million copies a month. It wasn’t long before a variety of merchandise was licensed—secret decoders, figurines, buttons, paper rockets, tin toys, puzzles, costumes—and a fan club was created to keep up with the demand. These collectibles now sell for outrageous prices on eBay or in comic book stores and conventions. Seventy years later, an unprecedented assortment of these collectibles are gathered together by award-winning writer/designer Chip Kidd and photographer Geoff Spear. Join Kidd, Spear, and the World’s Mightiest Mortal in this first, fully authorized celebration of ephemera, artwork, and rare, one-of-a-kind toys, and recapture the magic that was Shazam!

Chip Kidd is an award-winning graphic designer and writer, and an editor-at-large for Pantheon Books. His books on comics include Bat-Manga!, Peanuts: The Art

ISBN 978-0-8109-9596-3 US $35.00

CAN $45.00 53500

of Charles M. Schulz, and Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross. He lives in New York City. Geoff Spear is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared on numerous book covers. He lives in New York City.

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The Horror! The Horror!

COMIC BOOKS TH E G OVERN ME N T DI DN ’T WA N T YO U TO R E A D !

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SELECTED, E D IT E D, AN D C OMME N TARY BY J I M T R O M B ET TA

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The Horror! The Horror! shows exactly why the government censored the comic book industry

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 300 color illustrations ■ 304 pages, 7¾ × 10¾" ■ Flexibind with flaps, DVD RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER COMICS • GRAPHIC ART

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■ Bonus DVD—Confidential File, a rare 25-minute TV show that first aired on October 9, 1955, about the “evils” of comic books and their effect on juvenile delinquency ■ Rare comics: Much of this material has never been reprinted since it was initially published in the 1950s ■ A visual companion to David Hajdu’s The Ten-Cent Plague, which received rave reviews on NPR and in USA Today, the New Yorker, and the New York Times

The Horror!

■ Includes more than 200 covers and complete stories

The Horror! uncovers

■ Designed by Jacob Covey

a rare treasury of some of the most important and neglected stories in American literature—the pre-Code horror comics of the 1950s. These outrageous comic book images, censored by Congress in an infamous televised U.S. Senate subcommittee investigating juvenile delinquency in 1954, have rarely been seen since they were first published—and are revealed once again in all of their eye-popping glory. Jim Trombetta, in his commentary and informative text, provides a detailed history and context for these stories and their creators, spinning a tale of horror and government censorship as scary as the stories themselves.

Jim Trombetta has been a Shakespearean scholar, a reporter and editor for Crawdaddy, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications, and a writer of numerous TV shows, including Miami Vice, The Flash, and Star Trek. He

ISBN 978-0-8109-5595-0

lives in Los Angeles. R. L. Stine is the bestselling author of

US $29.95

CAN $38.95 52995

hundreds of horror novels, including the Goosebumps and Fear Street series.

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“She has been in the public eye since the day she was born. There has always been a fascination with her legendary beauty and originality, but the story beyond that is how Gloria Vanderbilt has emerged from her complicated family history to triumph as a thoroughly modern working mother and artist, driven by her determination and discipline.” —Wendy Goodman

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The World of Gloria Vanderbilt ■

BY WENDY GOOD MAN

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FOREWOR D BY AN D E R S ON C OOP E R

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 200 color and black-and-white illustrations ■ 224 pages, 9 × 12" ■ Hardcover with jacket, bellyband RIGHTS: WORLD

This illustrated biography celebrates Vanderbilt’s life as a style icon, designer, artist, and author

PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER BIOGRAPHY

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■ Gloria Vanderbilt, who has been in the public eye her entire life, plans to actively promote this illustrated biography, which includes material from her private collections ■ Vanderbilt was photographed throughout her life by superstars of the photography world, and many of their never-beforeseen images are included in this book

Gloria

Vanderbilt is many things: an heiress, a

painter, a muse, a designer, a model, a writer, an entrepreneur, an actor, a socialite, a survivor, an icon. She brought

■ Wendy Goodman is the coauthor of Abrams’ very succesful Tony Duquette and design editor of New York magazine

the Vanderbilt name out of the Gilded Age and into the Digital Age, reinventing herself over and over along the way. Hers is a story of charisma, glamour, and heartbreaking loss, told here by Wendy Goodman, who had intimate access to Vanderbilt for this book. The illustrations include portraits of Vanderbilt and her extraordinary homes, filled with original and influential decorating ideas, by such photographic legends as Richard Avedon, Louise DahlWolfe, Inge Morath, Horst P. Horst, Francesco Scavullo, and Annie Leibovitz. Vanderbilt’s son, Anderson Cooper, contributes a foreword.

Wendy Goodman is coauthor of Abrams’ Tony Duquette.

She is the design editor of New York magazine, a well as contributing editor for Departures magazine and German and French Architectural Digest. She lives in New York.

Anderson Cooper is the primary anchor on the CNN news

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show Anderson Cooper 360°, and author of the bestsell-

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ing memoir Dispatches from the Edge. He is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt and Wyatt Cooper and lives in New York.

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Star Wars: Visions ■

FOREWORD BY GEORGE LUCAS

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IN T R O DU C T I O N BY J . W. R I N Z L ER

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 120 color illustrations ■ 176 pages, 12½ × 10½" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER ART • POP CULTURE

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■ Star Wars has been and will continue to be one of the most popular and commercially viable properties in all of entertainment—especially as the Star Wars galaxy expands via new film and television properties ■ Star Wars: Visions will appeal to Star Wars fans as well as fine art, comics, design, and illustration fans

When Star Wars

debuted in

1977, it revolutionized mainstream American filmmaking, transporting fans to new galaxies and introducing them to countless now-classic characters, aliens, planets, and star-

Artists, illustrators, and designers celebrate their favorite characters, themes, worlds, and moments from the Star Wars universe

ISBN 978-0-8109-9589-5 US $40.00

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ships. In the decades since, the Star Wars Saga has become a phenomenon impacting cultures across the globe.

Just as George Lucas drew upon the work of N. C.

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Wyeth and Norman Rockwell for his own visual inspiration, he has now invited more than 100 well-known and

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promising artists to draw upon the entire Star Wars

■ 240 pages

galaxy for inspiration. Star Wars: Visions collects these

■ Includes 5 hand-signed, archival-

magnificent artworks for the first time. Featuring pieces by

quality 10 × 12" giclée prints

renowned artists such as Amano, Allan R. Banks, Harley

by Alex Ross, Moebius, Donato

Brown, Gary Carter, James Christensen, Michael Coleman, Kinuko Craft, Jim Dietz, Phillipe Druillet, Donato Giancola,

Giancola, Daniel Greene,

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and Jamie Wyeth, as well as

Ann Hanson, H. R. Giger, Daniel Greene, Ron Kleeman,

40 exclusive paintings and

Arantzazu Martinez, Syd Mead, Moebius, Paul Oxborough,

50 extra pages showing artists’ processes and sketches

Alex Ross, Anthony J. Ryder, Dolfi Stoki, William Stout, Dan

■ Hardcover cloth case, clamshell

Thompson, Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo, Scott Waddell, and

deluxe box

Jamie Wyeth, Star Wars: Visions is a breakthrough tribute The Cinema of George Lucas

to the worldwide inspiration that is Star Wars.

ISBN 978-0-8109-4968-3

J. W. Rinzler currently serves as executive editor at Lucasfilm. George Lucas is the founder and chairman

US $50.00

CAN $72.50

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CAN $520.00

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Portraits of the Mind V I SUA L I Z I N G T H E B R A I N FR O M A N T I Q U I T Y TO T H E 2 1ST CE N T U RY ■

BY CARL SCHOONOVER

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A visual history of our discovery of the human brain, from drawings by the earliest scientists to images produced by the advanced techniques used today

■ 120 color illustrations ■ 240 pages, 7½ × 9½" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER SCIENCE

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■ Appeals to both a neuroscientist and layman audience ■ Author provides insider knowledge and access to never-before-seen images on the cutting edge of research

ISBN 978-0-8109-9033-3 US $35.00

CAN $45.00 53500

Portraits

of the Mind follows the fascinat-

ing history of our exploration of the brain through images, from medieval sketches and 19th-century drawings by the founder of modern neuroscience to images produced using state-of-the-art techniques, allowing us to see the fantastic networks in the brain as never before. These black-and-

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white and vibrantly colored images, many resembling abstract art, are employed daily by scientists around the world, but most have never before been seen by the general public. Each chapter addresses a different set of techniques for studying the brain as revealed through the images, and each is introduced by a leading scientist in that

Far Out

field of study. Author Carl Schoonover’s captions provide

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detailed explanations of each image as well as the major insights gained by scientists over the course of the past 20 years. Accessible to a wide audience, this book reveals the elegant methods applied to study the mind, giving readers a peek at its innermost workings, helping us to understand

Vision and Art

them, and offering clues about what may lie ahead.

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Carl Schoonover is a doctoral candidate in neurobiology and behavior at Columbia University, where he is a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.

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BY A LLEGR A H IC K S

A look at what inspires fashion, interior, and textile designer Allegra Hicks’ signature patterns and interiors SPECIFICATIONS ■ 200 color illustrations ■ 224 pages, 10 × 12" ■ Hardcover RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER INTERIOR DESIGN

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■ Allegra Hicks designs women’s ready-to-wear, as well as a home collection featuring homeware and linens. Her interiors collection of fabrics, rugs, and wallpapers is also sold worldwide ■ Allegra Hicks is an international tastemaker.

Her unique elegance and effortless style has drawn attention all over the world and she has been featured in all the top fashion and lifestyle magazines

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Allegra Hicks

An Eye for Design

examines textile, interior, and fashion designer Allegra Hicks’ approach to design and luxury. The book retraces

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the genesis of her patterns over the past decades of her work. Season by season, Hicks presents her original textile and pattern designs alongside beautiful photography of interiors, landscapes, and unexpected points of nature.

Essays on design, color, and seasonal elements will inspire readers to look at interiors and fabrics in a new and

Glamorous Rooms

different way. Pairing original textile and pattern designs

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with inspiring photography of interiors and landscapes,

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the book is an internal voyage through Allegra Hicks’ mind.

Allegra Hicks is a London-based designer whose line of luxury fashion, homewares, and accessories is sold worldwide in department stores and boutiques as well as in her stores in London and New York. She is well known

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throughout the world for her unique textile designs, which she uses in her interiors as well as her fashion line.

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Music ■

BY A ND RE W ZUC K E RMAN

Andrew Zuckerman turns his lens to the most eminent musicians and performers around the globe SPECIFICATIONS ■ 100 color illustrations ■ 300 pages, 12 × 12" ■ Hardcover with jacket, DVD RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH EX AUSTRALIA, NZ, S AFRICA PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER MUSIC • PHOTOGRAPHY

SELLING POINTS

■ The breadth and depth of the list of famous musicians participating in this project is truly remarkable, touching on the most famous names in nearly every genre ■ Presented in the same format as the bestselling Wisdom, and features a DVD with added content ■ For music fans of all ages

Music

is Andrew Zuckerman’s extraordinary

sequel to the highly acclaimed Wisdom. With this new, ambitious project, he turns his unique perspective to the world of music. Sixty eminent individuals—artists, composers, producers, and performers from rock, rap, dance, soul, R&B, country, classical, reggae, pop, jazz, world, and more—have all been subjects of Zuckerman’s democratic

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interview technique and hyperreal photographic style,

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together creating an inspiring and illuminating glimpse into the inner life and personal philosophies of the world’s finest music-makers.

Music features new portraits of and interviews with Tori Amos, Billy Corgan, Peter Gabriel, Yoko Ono, Ozzy

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Osbourne, Tom Petty, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, Tom Waits, Philip Glass, Burt Bacharach, Danny Elfman, Quincy Jones, John Williams, Willie Nelson, Dave Brubek, Cindi Lauper, Ziggy Marley, Mary J. Blige, Ravi Shankar, Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens), and several other international music icons.

Andrew Zuckerman is a New York–based photographer,

Wisdom: The Greatest Gift One

author, and filmmaker. His book Creature (2007), a portrait

Generation Can Give to Another

series of animals, was released to critical acclaim and has

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reprinted numerous times. Wisdom (2008), a book, film,

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and traveling exhibition, is an ongoing project made with the support of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

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Camelot portrait of

a thousand days in the kennedy white house

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Published

to commemorate the 50th

anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s election as president of the United States, this book is a revealing and intimate portrait of a leader, husband, and father as seen through the lens of Cecil Stoughton, the first official White House photographer. Stoughton’s close rapport with the president and first lady gave him extraordinary access to the Oval Office, the Kennedys’ private quarters and homes, to state dinners, cabinet meetings, diplomatic trips, and family holidays.

Drawing on Stoughton’s unparalleled body of photographs, most rarely or never before reproduced, and supported by a deeply thoughtful narrative by political historian Richard Reeves, Portrait of Camelot is an unprecedented portrayal of the power, politics, and warmly personal aspects of Camelot’s 1,065 days.

Richard Reeves has received dozens of awards for his work in print, television, and film. He is Senior Lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Cecil Stoughton studied with Alfred Eisenstadt and Margaret Bourke-White in the U.S. Army photographer training program and then joined the Army’s Public Information Office. Harvey Sawler is a Canadian author who interviewed Cecil Stoughton extensively before the

includes

DVD of neverbefore-seen kennedy film footage

photographer’s death in 2008.

SELLING POINTS

SPECIFICATIONS

■ Includes an exclusive DVD of Stoughton’s rarely seen, intimate film footage of the Kennedy family

■ 500 color and black-and-white photographs ■ Hardcover with jacket, DVD

■ The Kennedys are of enduring interest

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■ Reeves is an award-winning, bestselling author, historian, and journalist whose works include the authoritative book on our 35th president: President Kennedy: Profile of Power

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■ The only book to delve into the vast Stoughton archive of formal and informal photographs of the Kennedy presidency

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September 13 The president ceremoniously signs S1956, an interstate crime bill. Standing behind him are New York Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, who was the bill’s principal sponsor, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and the president’s brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. (Within three years, Robert Kennedy would run against Keating and defeat him for the senatorial seat.)

A revealing and intimate portrait of the 35th president and fi rst family

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September 14 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy preferred gracious Newport, Rhode Island, where she had summered as a girl, to the rough and ready ocean life of the Kennedys of Hyannisport, Massachusetts. She had no trouble, however, getting her husband, the enthusiastic sailor, to Newport in 1962 for the 18th America’s Cup Final between the American sailboat, Weatherly, and Australia’s first contender, the Gretel. Both the Kennedys were in their element at the glamorous dinner before the race began. Said the president that night: “I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. We have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean.

And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.”

November 22 Suite 850 of the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth was decorated with a Monet, a Van Gogh, and a Picasso (the paintings were from local museums) when the Kennedys spent the night of November 21. In the morning the president looked out the window and saw a crowd gathering below to hear him speak. There were more people than he had expected. “Isn’t that terrific?” he asked his wife. A few minutes later, he looked out again and said to Kenny O’ Donnell: “Look at that platform. With all these buildings around it, the Secret Service couldn’t stop someone who wanted to get you.” When Kennedy got downstairs, the crowd cheered and someone shouted, “Where’s Jackie?” The president pointed up toward the eighth floor and said: “Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself. It takes longer, but of course she looks better than we do when she does it.” When the cheering stopped he went back into the hotel and the couple came out together and were driven to the airport for the short flight to Love Field in Dallas.

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The Tempest ■

BY W IL L IAM S HA K ES PEA R E

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SPECIFICATIONS

This edition of The Tempest, as adapted by acclaimed director Julie Taymor, is the perfect gift for Shakespeare lovers

■ 150 color illustrations ■ 176 pages, 11½ × 10¾" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER LITERATURE • PERFORMING ARTS

SELLING POINTS

■ Julie Taymor’s film The Tempest opens in December 2010 and is sure to be an Academy Award contender ■ The Tempest combines one of Shakespeare’s best plays with the enchantments of Julie Taymor, one of the world’s most imaginative filmmakers

The book

of The Tempest is both a

handsome edition of Julie Taymor’s eminently readable adaptation of Shakespeare’s play and a stunning visual narrative of her new film, which stars Helen Mirren as Prospera, the magician/alchemist in a bold, genderswitched realization.

One of Shakespeare’s greatest and most popular plays, The Tempest begs to be visualized by a master filmmaker.

Taymor’s definitive film version combines romance and ISBN 978-0-8109-9655-7 US $29.95

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tragicomedy in one powerful story. She uses all of her considerable storytelling skills to make the action and atmosphere of the play come vividly to life. With an artist’s touch, she combines extraordinary locations with experimental visual effects to create the magic that suff uses this great work.

ALSO AVAILABLE Julie Taymor is is an award-winning director of theater, opera, and film. The Tempest is her fourth feature film. She also directed Titus, Frida, and Across the Universe. Her stage adapation of The Lion King has been presented in 13 countries. Her production of The Magic Flute has become Julie Taymor

a modern classic and is in the repertory of the Metropolitan

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Opera. Jonathan Bate is well known as a critic, biographer, broadcaster, and Shakespeare scholar. Professor of English Literature at the University of Warwick, he is the author of many books, including The Genius of Shakespeare.

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Franco Zeffirelli COM PLETE WORK S—TH EATRE, OP E RA, F IL M ■

EDITED BY CATERINA NAPOLEONE

The definitive book on the life and work of this great master of spectacle SPECIFICATIONS ■ 800 color illustrations ■ 512 pages, 14¾ × 11" ■ Hardcover with slipcase RIGHTS: US & CANADA PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER FILM • PERFORMING ARTS

SELLING POINTS

■ Zeffirelli’s beloved opera productions, especially for New York’s Metropolitan Opera, are explored in depth, making this the perfect gift for opera lovers ■ Zeffirelli’s film of Romeo and Juliet (1968) turned a generation of viewers on to Shakespeare

In a career

spanning more than 60

■ Produced with the full cooperation of Zeffirelli and his family, with unprecedented access to his personal archives

years, Franco Zeffirelli established himself as the world’s most gifted, original, and flamboyant director of opera, theatre, and film. Here is the definitive book on the life and work of this great master of spectacle. Produced in full cooperation with Zeffirelli and his family, it explores every aspect of his astonishing achievement in the performing arts. The performance shots of classic stage productions are particularly revealing, each a lasting testament to Zeffirelli’s visual expertise. Even more suggestive are Zeffirelli’s costume sketches, set designs, and technical drawings, which reveal the artist’s mind through the artist’s hand. Both a monument to an artistic genius and a magnificent piece of bookmaking, Franco Zeffirelli: Complete Works is a must-have book for anyone who has beem moved by the works of the master.

Franco Zeffirelli first entered the theatre in 1945 as a set designer, working as an assistant to Luchino Visconti.

Soon he moved into direction, and from theatre into opera and cinema. His productions of La Boheme, Tosca, Pagliacci, Carmen, and Don Giovanni are definitive.

Among his films are Romeo and Juliet (1968), Hamlet

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(1990), and Tea with Mussolini (1998). Caterina Napoleone

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is an art historian. She has published numerous books, including Zeffirelli at The Met (2008).

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Louis Vuitton 100 LEGENDA RY TRU N K S ■

BY PIERRE L É ON F ORT E AN D É R IC P UJAL ET- PL A À

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SPECIFICATIONS ■ 600 color and black-and-white illustrations ■ 496 pages, 9½ × 12¼" ■ Hardcover with cloth spine RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER

The revolutionary luggage that changed the way people traveled

FASHION

SELLING POINTS

■ The Louis Vuitton trunk is the ultimate in stylish travel, making this book desirable to anyone who has owned (or dreamed of owning) this coveted piece of luggage ■ This is the natural follow-up to Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury, which has gone through three printings

Trains

and steamships transformed transporta-

tion in the mid-19th century and opened the world to a new breed of traveler. Louis Vuitton understood the need for more practical luggage, and strove to create products that were adaptable to all situations—and the travel trunk

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was born.

CAN $162.50 12500

Authors Pierre Léonforte and Éric Pujalet-Plaà curate 100 of the finest trunks the Louis Vuitton company has produced on commission, including boxes made for movie stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sharon Stone and couturiers from Jeanne Lanvin to Karl Lagerfeld, as well as cases

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designed for Ernest Hemingway, Leopold Stokowski, and Damien Hirst. Illustrated with 600 images taken from the Louis Vuitton archives and new photographs made especially for this book, this is the definitive history of personalized objects of both practicality and luxury.

Patrick-Louis Vuitton directs custom workshop production and handles public relations for the company founded by his great-grandfather. Pierre Léonforte has been contributing to Maison Louis Vuitton for many years and is currently the editor in chief of the City Guide Vuitton

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series. Éric Pujalet-Plaà is assistant curator of fashion and textiles at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

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Egypt A VIE W F ROM A B OV E ■

BY P H IL IP PL I S S O N A N D C HR I ST I A N JAC Q

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 250 color illustrations ■ 336 pages, 11¼ × 12¼" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER PHOTOGRAPHY

A magnificent and unique view of ancient and contemporary Egypt from the air

SELLING POINTS

■ Brings together two tremendous talents: Christian Jacq, whose Egyptian novels have sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide, and Philip Plisson, whose breathtaking photographs of the ocean earned him the distinction peintre de la Marine, conferred by the Minister of Defense ■ Plisson’s arresting images, all taken from the air, capture the intersection of ancient and modern Egypt ■ Travelers, photography lovers, history buffs, and Egyptophiles alike will delight in this unique portrait of Egypt

Egypt’s

landscape, from sand-swept desert

ruins to the brilliant water of the Red Sea to the vibrant city of Cairo, is as legendary as its mythical history. Home to hieroglyphs, pharaohs, and the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt’s rich cultural heritage truly merits its place in the cradle of civilization.

In this breathtaking photographic journey down the Nile river, renowned photographer Philip Plisson travels by air with bestselling author and Egyptologist Christian Jacq to create this celebration of a spectacular landscape.

Plisson’s expert lens captures stunning icons of antiquity with the same grace and beauty as it presents the people of Egypt, subsisting as they have for centuries in communities along the Nile delta. Jacq’s illuminating text provides a history of the subjects of Plisson’s 250 splendid photos, inviting readers to rediscover Egypt as they have never known it before.

Philip Plisson is the author of more than 40 books, including The Sea, The Sea Day by Day, The Eternal Sea,

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Lighthouses, Ships, and Queen Mary 2. Christian Jacq is a novelist and an Egyptologist. He has written more than 50 books, including the bestselling Ramses series, which has been translated into 25 languages.

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Love Is . . . All Around ■

BY KIM CASALI

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INTRODUCTION BY STEFANO CASALI

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 365 black-and-white illustrations ■ 384 pages, 5½ × 6½" ■ Hardcover RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH PUB MONTH: FEBRUARY

This book features 365 of the best cartoons from the ’60s to the present

HUMOR

SELLING POINTS

■ The perfect Valentine’s Day gift ■ Love Is . . . enjoys continuing popularity through stationery, apparel, figurines, candy, and jewelry

ISBN 978-0-8109-7839-3 US $15.95

CAN $19.95 51595

6-copy counter pack ISBN 978-0-8109-9670-0 US $95.70

CAN $119.70 59570

Love is . . .

All Around, the newest book in

. . . togetherness

the successful Abrams series, features the all-time best of

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these beloved cartoons! The story behind the “Love is . . .” phenomenon is legend: In the 1960s, a shy artist named Kim Grove found she could best express her feelings to Roberto Casali, the man she eventually wed, through charming love notes. Casali treasured the drawings—and recognized their universal appeal. In 1970, he shared his wife’s work with the Los Angeles Times, and the rest

Love Is . . .

is history.

ISBN 978-0-8109-4940-9

An essay by Stefano Casali, Kim and Roberto’s son,

US $14.95

completes this special book, offering an insider’s knowl-

CAN $17.95 51495

edge of the heartfelt “Love is . . .” cartoons.

Kim Grove Casali began what became the “Love Is . . .”

Love Is . . . a Wild Ride

phenomenon in 1967 when she met and drew funny little

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cartoons for Roberto Casali, her future husband. Their son, Stefano Casali, has preserved and promoted his mother’s legacy of the universal messages of love since Kim’s

. . . the rock on which to build a relationship

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death in 1997.

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N O T L A N W O BR Good Eats 2

The Middle Years

picks up where the bestselling Good Eats: The Early Years left off. Showcasing everything Alton Brown fans (and they are legion!) have ever wanted to know about his awardwinning television show, The Middle Years is chock-full of behind-the-scenes photographs and trivia, science-of-food information, cooking tips, and—of course—recipes.

Brown’s particular genius lies in teaching the chemistry of cooking with levity and exuberance. In episodes such as “Fit to Be Tied” (meat roulades), “Crustacean Nation” (crab), and “Ill-Gotten Grains” (wheat products), Brown explains everything from how to make the perfect omelet to how to stuff your own sausages. With hundreds of entertaining photographs, along with Brown’s inimitable line drawings and signature witty writing, this comprehensive companion book conveys the same wildly creative spirit as the show itself.

Alton Brown is the writer, director, and host of the Food Network show Good Eats, which won a 2007 Peabody Award, and is the expert commentator on Iron Chef America and host of The Next Iron Chef America. In 2004 his STC book I’m Just Here for the Food won the James Beard Award in the reference category. Brown lives near Atlanta,

A mammoth work of mouthwatering importance!

Georgia, with his wife and daughter.

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Good Eats: The Early Years

I’m Just Here for the Food: Version 2.0 I’m Just Here for More Food

Alton Brown’s Gear for Your Kitchen

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ISBN 978-1-58479-696-1

US $37.50

CAN $48.95 53750

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RS A E Y E L D THE MID

Alton’s back with the next volume in his New York Times bestselling Good Eats series, with 200 recipes and a companion DVD— a must-have for fans!

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 1,000 color illustrations ■ 432 pages, 9 × 10" ■ Hardcover with jacket, DVD RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER FOOD & WINE

SELLING POINTS

■ More than 180,000 copies in print of the New York Times bestselling Good Eats: The Early Years and more than 1 million copies sold of Alton Brown titles in total ■ Book includes a bonus DVD with 15 mini-episodes from Good Eats ■ Good Eats, which has more than 20 million total viewers, will be airing new episodes this fall and will include on-air book advertising ■ Alton Brown will be supporting the book launch with a national tour

ISBN 978-1-58479-857-6 US $37.50

CAN $48.95 53750

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Grandmother Remembers Holidays A N A L BU M OF M E M O R I E S A N D P H OTO S FO R M Y G R A N D C H I L D ■

BY JUD IT H L EV Y

SPECIFICATIONS

Remember to stock up for the holidays on this new keepsake favorite!

■ Color illustrations throughout ■ 64 pages, 8½ × 11" ■ Hardcover RIGHTS: WORLD AVAILABLE NOW PARENTING

SELLING POINTS

■ The author’s first book was a New York Times bestseller and remains STC’s #1 backlist title ■ A perfect companion to the original book, focusing on holidays and special occasions with grandmother ■ With adorable full-color illustrations and room for photos, this fill-in journal will be a treasured keepsake

From ISBN 978-1-58479-841-5 US $19.95

CAN $25.95 51995

Judith Levy, author of the bestselling

Grandmother Remembers (more than 2 million copies sold), comes this new, adorably designed fill-in journal, with page after page of space for a grandmother to record precious memories of holidays, birthdays, vacation trips, and other family celebrations. Charming full-color illustrations and heartwarming verses enhance every holiday,

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and there’s plenty of room for grandmother’s treasured photos, too. Since children so often spend time with their grandparents on special occasions, Grandmother Remembers Holidays is a keepsake certain to be cherished by the grandchild lucky enough to receive it from a beloved grandmother.

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Judith Levy is the author of several bestselling books, including Grandmother Remembers, Mom Remembers, and Dad Remembers (all STC). She lives in Boca Raton, Florida, with her husband.

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Wee Wonderfuls 24 D OLLS TO SE W A N D LOVE ■

BY HILLA RY L AN G

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 135 color illustrations ■ 168 pages, 8½ × 9½"

Irresistible handmade dolls for children (and children at heart)

■ Hardcover with cloth spine RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: AUGUST CRAFT

SELLING POINTS

■ Answers the ongoing call for all things cute in the craft world ■ Certain to appeal to traditional doll- and toymakers as well as the new generation of DIYers ■ Detailed, illustrated instructions make each project easy to replicate ■ Wee Wonderfuls is a popular online brand, with more than 150,000 visitors to its website, weewonderfuls .typepad.com, each month

Super cute!

Darling! How adorable

is that?! Welcome to the world of Wee Wonderfuls. In this charming collection, acclaimed toymaker and popular blogger Hillary Lang presents a captivating gang of 24 huggable, lovable creatures to sew—from classics like Margot, a topsy-turvy doll, and the button-jointed teddy

ISBN 978-1-58479-858-3

bear Bjorn Bjornson, to irresistible Evelyn, a wool felt

US $27.50

CAN $35.95 52750

inchworm decked out in mod glasses and a kerchief, and Koji, a fiercely cute spiked softie monster. There’s something for everyone here—from kids to grown-ups and from beginning sewers to advanced dollmakers. Each pattern includes clear illustrations and pattern templates

ALSO AVAILABLE

to ensure perfect results.

Hillary Lang is the creator of the blog Wee Wonderfuls (weewonderfuls.typepad.com) as well as the online shop through which she sells doll and embroidery patterns. She has contributed to numerous books, including Last-Minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts (STC Craft) and Softies. Her work has been featured in the magazines BUST and Mary

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Engelbreit’s Home Companion, and on the websites Daily Candy Chicago and Craftzine.

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18 Game-Changing Lessons TA L K IN G G OL F W I T H L E G E N D S A N D P R O S ■

BY MAR K ST EI N B AU ER WI T H HU N K I Y U N

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 50 illustrations ■ 224 pages, 6 × 8" ■ Hardcover

An award-winning PGA professional brings together insightful golf instruction and personal anecdotes about learning from the pros

RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH PUB MONTH: AUGUST SPORTS

SELLING POINTS

■ Mark Steinbauer is an award-winning golf instructor who learned to fine-tune his game from the sport’s finest ■ Learn how Jack Nicklaus conquers the mental game, how Ben Hogan approaches his practice sessions, how Jim Flick’s methods can improve anyone’s swing— this book is a one-of-a-kind collection of insider tips ■ Illustrations throughout enhance Steinbauer’s explanations of how to improve one’s grip, stance, and much more

In

the tradition of Harvey Penick’s classic Little Red

Book, golf instructor Mark Steinbauer documents a lifetime of incredible experiences and life lessons from the world of golf. He learned to play the game from Penick, his longtime mentor and friend, and has since played ISBN 978-1-58479-812-5 US $19.95

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alongside pros such as Bobby Locke and Jack Nicklaus.

18 Game-Changing Lessons reveals the strategies and techniques that these pros have shared with Steinbauer throughout his 30-year career. Each chapter begins with a colorful narrative recounting a lesson learned from one of the sport’s greats, and sums up with instructional pointers for

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three skill levels. A perfect gift for a golf enthusiast, this small guide offers a fresh, insightful look at some of the biggest names in golf and what makes them masters of the game.

Mark Steinbauer is the director of golf at The Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas. He has taught at

The Seven Principles of Golf

the Academy of Golf and the Nicklaus/Flick Golf Schools,

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made appearances on the Golf Channel, and published

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articles in Golf Digest. Cowriter Hunki Yun is an editor for Links magazine and has also contributed to Golf Digest, Golf, and Sports Illustrated.

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Canning for a New Generation BOLD, FRESH F L AVORS F OR TH E MODERN PA N T RY ■

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SPECIFICATIONS ■ 100 color photographs

The go-to resource for canners looking for exciting, new flavors using reliable, time-tested methods

■ 200 recipes ■ 304 pages, 8 × 9" ■ Paperback, 36 detachable labels RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: AUGUST FOOD & WINE

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■ Dovetails with the current DIY trend toward homemade food production and desire for local and sustainable sources of fresh food ■ Offers both classic and unconventional canning recipes, from Sauerkraut to Plum Cardamom Jam, Dilly Beans to Pear and Ginger Preserves ■ Beautifully designed and photographed, with detachable canning labels— makes a perfect gift

“When

I was growing up, canning was for old

folks and cranks and separatists,” writes Liana Krissoff in

■ Includes companion recipes for dishes such as Asparagus Flan, Cherry Macaroon Tarts, HerbGlazed Grilled Pork, and Smoky Corn Chowder

her introduction to Canning for a New Generation. But not anymore. With soaring food prices and the increasing popularity of all things domestic and DIY, there’s never

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been a better time to revisit the centuries-old techniques

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of preserving food at home.

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This hip, modern handbook is filled with fresh and new ways to preserve nature’s bounty throughout the year. Organized by season and illustrated with beautiful photographs, it offers detailed instructions and recipes for

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making more than 150 canned, pickled, dried, and frozen foods, as well as 50 inventive recipes for dishes using these foods. Basic information on canning techniques and lively sidebars round out this refreshing take on a classic cooking tradition.

Good to the Grain

Liana Krissoff, a freelance recipe tester, editor, and writer, is the author of STC’s Secrets of Slow Cooking and Hot

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Drinks for Cold Nights. Krissoff lives with her husband and daughter in rural Carlton, Georgia.

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“We are now in the midst of a great change in thinking about how we want to live and go forward.

Individuals can make a difference every day. We can choose to repair and nurture our environment by supporting humane and responsible farmers, and by eating foods that enrich rather than pollute our bodies and the land. I hope this book will be one more link in the chain, helping you to make informed choices about how and what you eat.”

—from the Introduction

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Good Meat THE COM PLE T E G U IDE TO SOU RC IN G A N D C O O KI N G S U STA I N A B L E M E AT ■

BY D EBOR AH K RAS N E R

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SPECIFICATIONS ■ 50 color illustrations ■ 200 recipes ■ 400 pages, 9 × 10½" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER FOOD & WINE

A cookbook entirely devoted to the cause of sustainably raised meat and poultry, with recipes and sources

SELLING POINTS

■ National media outlets such as the New York Times and NPR are continually covering this topic ■ The only book on the market that shows, step by step, how to source and enjoy humanely raised meat ■ Features more than 200 recipes for pork, beef, lamb, poultry, and game—all accessible to the home cook

Good Meat

■ Krasner is a nationally known advocate for the sustainable food movement and grass-fed, pastured meat is a comprehensive

guide to sourcing and enjoying sustainable meat. With the rising popularity of the locavore and organic food movements—and the terms “grass fed” and “free range” commonly seen on menus and in grocery stores—people across the country are turning their attention to where their meat comes from. Whether for environmental reasons, health benefits, or the astounding difference in taste, consumers want to know that their meat was raised well.

With more than 200 recipes for pork, beef, lamb, poultry, and game, stunning photos of delicious dishes, and tips on raising sustainable meat and buying from local farmers, Good Meat is sure to become the classic cooking resource of the sustainable meat movement.

Deborah Krasner is a writer and food professional living in Vermont. She hosts culinary vacations in Italy and Vermont, which have been featured in GQ, Bon Appétit, and the Boston Globe. Krasner won a James Beard Award in 2003 for her cookbook The Flavors of Olive Oil. She

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appears regularly on NPR’s The Splendid Table and

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contributes to Bon Appétit and Real Simple, among other publications.

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Beyond the Family Tree A 21st-CENTURY GUIDE TO EXPLORING YOUR ROOTS AND CREATING CONNECTIONS ■

BY JE N N IF ER WO R I C K

SPECIFICATIONS

A modern handbook for creating a living family history, filled with tips on utilizing social media outlets

■ 50 color and black-and-white illustrations ■ 192 pages, 5¾ × 8½" ■ Flexibind RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICA PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER FAMILY • RELATIONSHIPS

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■ The only book to address documenting a family history via the Web ■ More than 1,000 artfully posed questions, divided by topic, to ask loved ones ■ Includes a guide to interviewing as well as forms and checklists to make sure all topics and family members are covered

S A M P LE QU E ST IONS

notes

Whether

Did you go to prom? If so, describe your outfi t (or supply a photo)

you have a great relationship

with your family or are separated by distance or differences, there is so much more to learn about one another.

Here is a handbook on how to forge better family relationships by initiating more interesting conversations and creating an online means of communication. With more than 1,000 insightful questions, the book helps the reader create a dialogue during family gatherings or one-on-one get-togethers. The book then shows how to share that information with the rest of the family (via private YouTube accounts, WIKIs, websites, e-mails, chat groups, and other ISBN 978-1-58479-797-5 US $15.95

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social media outlets) so a family can create a living history

What’s the most impressive dish you’ve ever made? Please supply the recipe.

Can you remember a favorite gift you received as a child?

What physical attribute are you most vain about?

Has there ever been a time that you questioned your faith?

Jennifer Worick has authored or coauthored more than

Which historic events have you witnessed? What affected you the most?

20 books on relationships, crafts, and pop culture. She

What do you sing in the shower?

is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Worst-

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Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating & Sex. Her

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What would the name of your autobiography be?

Where is the most surprising place you’ve visited?

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How did you decide on the career you went in to? What do you love about it?

and a place where a current, vibrant dialogue can continue.

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Which relative would you choose to be stranded with on a desert island?

writing has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Allure, BUST, and Woman’s Day. Worick

Where do you go when you want to be alone?

What parts of your family history do you most wish be handed down to future generations?

lives in Seattle.

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Crafting a Meaningful Home 27 DIY PROJECTS TO TELL STORIES, HOLD MEMORIES, AND CELEBRATE FAMILY HERITAGE ■

BY M EG MAT E O IL AS C O

A modern melding of craft, home decor, and scrapbooking SPECIFICATIONS ■ 225 color illustrations ■ 160 pages, 7⅜ × 9⅝" ■ Hardcover RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER CRAFT

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■ Crafting a Meaningful Home is a modern melding of three popular DIY communities: general craft, home decor, and scrapbooking ■ Author is well known in the craft and design communities thanks to her design studio, published books, and column on Design*Sponge blog ■ Well-connected contributors range from popular bloggers to clothing designers to gift shop owners

As

the second decade of the 21st century begins,

■ Author is launching her own magazine, Anthology, slated for Fall 2010

we’re more compelled than ever to find refuge in our homes and personalize our living spaces with DIY projects that celebrate who we are and where we’ve been. In Crafting a Meaningful Home, Meg Mateo Ilasco shares 27 projects that tell personal stories and celebrate heritage, all easily created on a budget. Learn how to decoupage

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a plate with photos of a best friend; silkscreen upholstery

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with folk motifs; artfully display love notes; sew a teepee from a vintage quilt top; or create family silhouettes for a festive banner. Contributed by a hip cast of well known designers from across the country, the projects are, at once, nostalgic, sentimental, and modern. Clear instruc-

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tions are easy to follow, even for beginning crafters.

Meg Mateo Ilasco is a designer, writer, and illustrator. She is the owner of Mateo Ilasco, a design studio in the San Francisco Bay Area that creates paper and home goods.

She is the author of Craft, Inc., Craft, Inc. Business Planner, Creative, Inc., and Space Planner: A Home-Decorating and Design Workbook. She writes a monthly business

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column for the Design*Sponge blog. Visit her website at mateoilasco.com.

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More Last-Minute Knitted Gifts ■

BY JOELLE H OVE R S ON

More than 30 quick, creative projects from bestselling author Joelle Hoverson SPECIFICATIONS ■ 80 color illustrations ■ 144 pages, 8½ × 9½" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER CRAFT

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■ More than 90,000 copies of Last-Minute Knitted Gifts sold ■ Hoverson’s NYC store (Purl Soho); website (purlsoho.com); and blog (purlbee.com), are world renowned ■ Hoverson’s blog attracts more than 260,000 unique visitors each month, including more than 16,000 subscribers

When

■ Knitters are always looking for quick, classic, creative projects STC Craft published Joelle Hoverson’s

Last-Minute Knitted Gifts in 2004, the response was overwhelming and today there are nearly 100,000 copies of this classic in print. Six years later, Hoverson is full of fresh, new ideas for beautiful gifts. So STC proudly presents More Last-Minute Knitted Gifts: an elegant collection of 30 projects organized according to the time it takes to

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complete them, from less than two hours to more than eight. Among the projects featured are sachets, bracelets, ornaments, mittens, gloves, hats, sweaters, baby blankets, and throws.

Understanding that knitters today love to personalize their projects but also need guidance along the way,

Last-Minute Knitted Gifts

Hoverson showcases many of the projects in several

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colors and yarn weights, and with optional embellishments

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and creative ideas for gift-wrapping.

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Joelle Hoverson is the author of the STC Craft books LastMinute Knitted Gifts and Last-Minute Patchwork & Quilted

Last-Minute Patchwork +

Gifts. She is the founder and creative force behind the

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yarn and fabric store Purl Soho in Manhattan, the website

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purlsoho.com, and The Purl Bee blog (purlbee.com). She is

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a former senior style editor for Martha Stewart Omnimedia

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Drinkology: Revised and Updated TH E ART A N D S CI E N C E O F T H E CO C KTA I L ■

BY JAME S WA L L ER

SPECIFICATIONS

The popular classic, updated with 40 new recipes and new topics in the world of cocktails

■ 60 black-and-white illustrations ■ 400 recipes ■ 384 pages, 5¼ × 6½" ■ Hardcover RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER FOOD & WINE

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“Boozehounds, never mind the bar.

■ The Drinkology series has sold more than 70,000 copies to date

Buy Waller’s book so you can learn to

■ Includes 40 new recipes, along with new sections on topics such as absinthe, sake, and infusing vodka

esque illustrations lend class, and

douse your wounds in enlivening spirits at home! . . . Glenn Wolff ’s woodcutmake you feel like you’re reading the Wall Street Journal.” —Library Journal

■ Comprehensive, entertainingly written, and designed with a stay-flat binding and spillproof cover for easy use at the bar

“Nicely designed, straightforward guide to 400 classic and contemporary cocktails.” —USA Today

Previous edition ISBN 978-1-58479-304-5

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For years,

Drinkology has been the

go-to guide to home bartending, equipping mixologists with everything they need to know to craft their own 6-copy counter pack

delicious cocktails. This fully revised and updated

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edition keeps all the essentials—instructions on setting

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up a home bar, stocking it wisely, and mixing up some splendid drinks—while greatly expanding on the original’s coverage.

The burgeoning universe of cocktail ingredients is explored and celebrated in new material on bitters,

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cachaça, and champagne—and a whole new chapter on sake-based mixed drinks. New sidebars detail the do’s and don’ts of infusing vodkas and making your own liqueurs. And the book’s more than 400 recipes include all the classic cocktails—from the Absinthe Drip to the Zombie—as well as dozens of new libations developed

Drinkology: Wine

especially for this edition.

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James Waller is a writer and editor who lives in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He is the author of STC’s Drinkology Wine and the forthcoming Drinkology Beer.

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Food Heroes SIXTEEN CUL IN ARY ART I SAN S P RE SERVIN G T R A D I T I O N ■

BY G EORG IA P E L L E GRIN I

A must-read for foodies and devotees of sustainability, profiling today’s leaders in the artisanal food movement

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 20 black-and-white illustrations ■ 32 recipes ■ 240 pages, 6 × 9" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER COOKING

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■ Taps into a trend that is evident everywhere, from the increasing availability of organic and local foods to the expanding popularity of the Slow Food movement and agri-tourism ■ Author is a star on the rise, with a new column, Georgia Pellegrini’s The Kitchen, on ESPNoutdoors.com, and a strong following on her blog at GeorgiaPellegrini.com

™3222£ c ont e nt s 1. The Potato Breeder 2. Smoking Hog 3. Seeing the Forest for the Fungus

In

Food Heroes, Georgia Pellegrini introduces readers

to the lively stories of artisanal food devotees such as

5. Fighting for Salami 6. Healing with Olive Oil

Washington State, and Ugo Buzzio in New York City, one

7. The Seed Saver

of the last makers of traditional dry-cured sausages in the

8. Hans and the 50,000,000 Sisters

United States. Filled with colorful anecdotes, photographs,

9. Finding the Beautiful Taste

and recipes, this book offers an accessible introduction to the artisanal food movement, and vicarious living for armchair travelers, food lovers, and others who might wonder what it would be like to drop everything and start an olive farm, or who yearn to make and sell their own clotted cream butter. Thirty-two fantastic recipes follow the profiles, and encourage readers to find their own local suppliers.

restaurants—Gramercy Tavern and Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

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Odor Is Profound 13. Sanctified Tamales

15. Close Your Eyes and See

the Whiskey

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16. Fig Heaven

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York, and has worked in two of New York’s most esteemed

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14. The Persimmon Masseuse

She is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New

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10. Between Sky and Earth, There

Georgia Pellegrini’s passion for artisanal foods began when she was a child growing up in the Hudson Valley.

■ Includes 32 of the artisans’ prized recipes

4. A Brewmeister in a Sea of Beer

New York mushroom forager Marion Burroughs, French fig collector Francis Honore, fish missionary Jon Rowley in

■ Food narratives are popular, and readers are hungry for books that can just as easily be bedside reading as they are cooking resources

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From the Introduction

“This book is a tribute to beloved American desserts—treats and baked goods that are regional gems, fading beauties, or family secrets. . . . Renato and I set about looking for the roadways and history to all things sweet and realized that there is no direct route. Most recipes we found had been altered and tweaked by so many hands that one person’s simple chocolate cake recipe was completely different from the next-door neighbor’s, not to mention the recipe from the person two states over. In some instances, we left recipes virtually unchanged from the version we were given. In other cases we performed a Baked makeover.

This is not a compendium, nor a voluminous history of baked goods. Think of it as an easygoing road trip with stop-offs at the quirky and unusual monuments.”

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Baked Explorations CLASSIC AMERICAN DESSERTS REINVENTED ■

BY M ATT LE W IS AN D RE N ATO P OL IAF ITO

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SPECIFICATIONS ■ 35 color photographs ■ 75 recipes ■ 224 pages, 9 × 9" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER FOOD & WINE

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■ The authors are national media darlings and are beloved among the biggest tastemakers in the U.S. ■ Reflects the authors’ tongue-in-cheek style that fans know and love, with a sharp design and whimsical recipe headnotes ■ Contains 75 mouthwatering recipes of the same unparalled quality that garnered rave reviews for the first book

Matt Lewis

and Renato Poliafito’s

2008 Baked was published to national critical acclaim and raved about across the blogosphere. Since then, their profile has gotten even bigger, with continued praise from Oprah and Martha Stewart; product availability in every Whole Foods across the U.S.; and a new bakery in Charleston, South Carolina, with even more traffic than their original Brooklyn location.

Now, in Baked Explorations, the authors give their signature “Baked” twists to famous desserts from across

The Baked boys return with an homage to America’s famous desserts—with their signature modern twist

■ The authors are tireless promoters, constantly developing their brand visibility, with nationwide distribution of their granola and a sky-rocketing mailorder business

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the country. Here is their take on our most treasured desserts: Banana Cream Pie, Black & White Cookies, Mississippi Mud Pie, and more—from the overworked to the underappreciated. Readers will love this collection of

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75 recipes from breakfast treats to late-night confections and everything in between.

Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito left their day jobs in advertising five years ago to open their bakery, Baked, in Brooklyn, NY, to immediate praise from fans across the country. The authors have been featured on Oprah, the Today show, the Food Network, and Martha Stewart. Their

Baked ISBN 978-1-58479-721-0 US $29.95

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first book, Baked, was an IACP award nominee. Lewis and Poliafito live in New York City.

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Material Obsession 2 MORE MODERN QUILTS WITH TRADITIONAL ROOTS ■

BY K AT H Y DO U G HT Y A N D SA R A H F I ELK E

The much anticipated sequel to the first Material Obsession SPECIFICATIONS ■ 325 color illustrations ■ 224 pages, 8¼ × 10" ■ Paperback with flaps, pull-out pattern sheet RIGHTS: US & CANADA PUB MONTH: OCTOBER CRAFT

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■ Authors boast strong online presence through store website (materialobsession .com.au) and SEWN, an online quilting community (sewn.net.au) ■ More than 10,000 copies of Material Obsession sold since release in May 2009 ■ Material Obsession quilts appeal to traditional stitchers as well as the new generation of DIYers looking for modern flair and fresh fabrics ■ Projects are rated by difficulty, with plenty of choices from easy to advanced

By nature,

quilters are fascinated by

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Doughty have been feeding that fascination ever since the publication of their first book, Material Obsession (STC Craft, 2009). In Material Obsession 2, the popular team presents more than 20 new quilts in their trademark style, combining fresh, modern fabrics with traditional designs. The quilts were created in pairs: that is, the two

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quilters started with the same concept, then worked independently, producing completely different, equally beautiful results. Patterns range from easy to advanced, with a comprehensive technique section so quilters of all levels can join the fun.

Material Obsession

Kathy Doughty is the owner of the quilt store Material

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Obsession, located in Australia but renowned worldwide (materialobsession.com.au). Sarah Fielke is the editor and creative director of SEWN, an online quilting community (sewn.net.au).

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Modern Top-Down Knitting SWEATERS, DRESSES, SKIRTS & ACCESSORIES INSPIRED BY THE TECHNIQ U ES OF BA RBA RA G . WAL K E R ■

BY KRISTIN A Mc GOWAN

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 116 color illustrations ■ 160 pages, 8½ × 9⅞" ■ Hardcover

A classic knitting technique gets a modern makeover

RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER CRAFT

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■ Endorsement from knitting legend Barbara G. Walker ■ Fashionable top-down designs are in demand ■ Top-down construction makes it easy for knitters to customize ■ Special techniques are clarified with detailed stepby-step photos

For decades,

knitters have been

constructing garments using the wonderfully efficient top-down technique made famous by Barbara G. Walker in her renowned tome Knitting from the Top. But never have

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the results looked as glamorous and city-chic as they do

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in Modern Top-Down Knitting. In this sophisticated wom-

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photo tutorials that make top-down techniques easy to understand and sizing and style adjustments a cinch to achieve. Detailed instructions are also included for finishing garments with couture-quality trims and linings, so they look just as elegant on the inside as they do on the outside.

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Kristina McGowan is a New York City–based knitwear

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designer. Formerly an editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, she holds a doctorate in sociology from Syracuse University.

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FIFTY PLACES SERIES ■ In the bestselling Fifty Places series, 50 experts reveal their favorite destinations to author Chris Santella.

Fifty Places to Hike Before You Die SPECIFICATIONS

OUTDOOR EXPERTS SHARE THE WORLD’S GREATEST DESTINATIONS

■ 40 color illustrations

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■ 224 pages, 7 × 8"

BY C H RIS SA N T ELL A

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F O R EWO R D BY B O B PEI XOT TO

■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER

Fifty Places

SPORTS

is the latest offering in the bestselling Fifty Places series.

to Hike Before You Die

Chris Santella, along with top expedition leaders, explores the world’s greatest walking adventures. Some, such as

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the Lunana Snowman Trek in Bhutan and the Kangshung

■ The seventh book in the Fifty Places series (more than 300,000 copies in print)

Valley Trek in Tibet, are grueling multiweek adventures at high altitudes. Others, such as Japan’s Nakesando Trail, move leisurely from village to village, allowing walkers

■ More than 40 million people hike each year, according to the National Sporting Goods Association

to immerse themselves in the local culture. Whether it’s climbing the Rwandan mountains to view mountain gorillas or strolling through bistros along Italy’s Amalfi Coast, there’s a memorable hike at everyone’s level within these

■ Features top names in the field, including experts from the American Hiking Society, L.L. Bean, and the Nature Conservancy

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50 chapters. With commentaries from expert trekkers and insider tips that lead the reader off the beaten path, Santella has again captured the special characteristics that make these must-visit destinations.

6-copy counter pack

Chris Santella is a freelance writer and marketing consultant

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based in Portland, Oregon. A regular contributor to the New

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York Times and Forbes.com, he has also contributed to the

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New Yorker, Travel & Leisure, Golf, and Delta Sky. Santella is

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Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die

Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before

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Jane Goodall 50 Years at Gombe A TRIBUTE TO FIVE DECADES OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND CONSERVATION ■

BY JA NE G OODAL L W IT H T H E JAN E GOO DA LL I N ST I T U T E

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 130 color illustrations ■ 144 pages, 8½ × 10" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jane Goodall’s groundbreaking research at Gombe and her enduring vision, with a new format, fully updated text, and new photography

A great

deal has happened since the

publication of Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe in 1999.

Most recently, endeavors at the Gombe field site have included landmark research related to AIDS progression; establishing programs to improve sanitation, health care, and education in neighboring Tanzanian communities;

PUB MONTH: OCTOBER NATURE • PHOTOGRAPHY

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■ Dr. Jane Goodall, a worldrenowned primatologist and conservationist, is one of the most beloved public figures of the 20th century ■ The publication of this revised edition coincides with the 50th anniversary of Dr. Goodall beginning field research in Gombe, and will be promoted throughout the Jane Goodall Institute’s two-year-long celebration ■ As Dr. Goodall’s only fully illustrated book, Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe features exquisite nature photography ■ Jane Goodall will be touring the U.S. and Canada to promote the book’s publication and the 50th anniversary

and partnering with local people to pursue reforestation initiatives. The accomplishments of the past 10 years

Previous edition ISBN

alone have given the Jane Goodall Institute a great deal to

978-1-55670-947-0

celebrate. In honor of the field site’s 50th anniversary, STC is proud to release Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe, a compelling pictorial tribute to Dr. Goodall’s life, her studies of chimpanzee behavior, and her unflagging efforts to motivate people to make this world a better place. With a new format, a modern design, more than a dozen new photographs, and updated text throughout, this revised edition retraces five decades of compassion and discovery.

Dr. Jane Goodall is one of the world’s most recognized scientists, the recipient of numerous awards, and a bestselling author. At age 76, Dr. Goodall spends more

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than 300 days of the year traveling the world, spreading

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her message of hope, and fundraising for her causes. She lives in Bournemouth, England. www.janegoodall.org

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The World’s Best Whiskies 7 50 ESSEN TIA L D R A M S FR O M T E N N E S S E E TO TO KYO ■

BY D OMIN I C R O S K R OW

SPECIFICATIONS

An authoritative survey of 750 of the world’s best whiskies, with an intimate look at the stories behind their production

■ 300 color illustrations ■ 288 pages, 8¼ × 10⅝" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICA PUB MONTH: OCTOBER FOOD & WINE

SELLING POINTS

■ Roskrow is an in-demand whisky expert who travels and speaks at tastings around the world ■ The first whisky book to offer fans behind-the-scenes stories and legends on their favorite brands ■ Features tasting notes on 750 whiskies—including long-standing popular brands and new microdistilleries

Whisky

is a spirit steeped in tradition and

passion. Everyone has his or her preferred brand: old-time favorites like Bushmills from Ireland or Maker’s Mark from the U.S.; or new distilleries such as California’s St. George or Oregon’s Rogue. In The World’s Best Whiskies Dominic Roskrow, editor of Whiskeria magazine and longtime whisky enthusiast, delves into the stories behind 750 of the best whiskies. Unlike previous whisky books, The World’s Best Whiskies is based on fresh interviews with each of the distillers and includes anecdotes about the regions that produce the whiskies and some of the colorful characters who make them. Traditional tasting notes for each dram combined with these previously unknown stories make this the most comprehensive guide for both whisky lovers and neophytes.

Dominic Roskrow is an experienced whisky journalist, who started writing about the drinks industry in 1991. He currently edits Whiskeria, a consumer whisky magazine.

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As the author of Need to Know Whiskies and Collins Gems: Whiskies Roskrow is an in-demand whisky expert. He regularly travels around the world visiting distilleries and speaking at whisky tastings. Roskrow lives in Great Britain.

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Timeless Elegance THE HOUS ES OF DAV I D E ASTON ■

BY DAV ID E ASTON W IT H AN N E T T E TAP ERT

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A stunning collection of the work of one of America’s preeminent architects, interior designers, and landscapers

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 200 color illustrations ■ 240 pages, 9 × 12" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER INTERIOR DESIGN

SELLING POINTS

■ Foreword by the acclaimed interior designer Albert Hadley ■ Features dazzling photography as well as black-and-white sketches, architectural plans, and watercolors of the finished rooms

In this rare

examination of the work

of one of America’s preeminent interior designers and architects, David Easton, we are treated to a retrospec-

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tive of his storied career. The versatility of his talent is displayed in examples of his work that range from a 45-room Georgian-style house in Charlottesville, Virginia, to a Mediterranean stucco house in Mexico and a modern

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house in Aspen, Colorado. Black-and-white pencil drawings alongside museum-quality watercolors by Easton’s partner, James Steinmeyer, show the conception and development of the rooms, accompanied by stunning photographs of the finished interiors. Written with Annette Tapert, author of The Power of Style and former contribut-

New Classic Interiors

ing editor to Architectural Digest, and with a foreword by

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famed designer Albert Hadley, Timeless Elegance will

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serve as an homage to David Easton as well as an inspira-

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tion to his many fans.

David Easton is one of the world’s most sought-after

American Modern

interior designers and architects, and his firm, David

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Easton, Inc., is one of the nation’s premier interior design

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and architecture firms. Easton was named to the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 1992 and is based in New York City.

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Bunny Williams’

SCR APBOOK FOR LIV ING Bunny Williams is renowned for her glamorous design and attention to every little detail in her clients’ homes.

Using her incredible knowledge of design and decor, and drawing on her wealth of experience, Williams takes the reader through several homes room by room, showing creative ways to organize and add personal touches. From dining rooms (place a chest of drawers near the dining table to store flatware, napkins, place mats, and votives) to lighting (place sconces on the wall at eye level to cut the glare from ceiling lights), and pets (find interesting flat-bottom bowls for water—small Chinese fish bowls or the bottom of a porcelain tureen work perfectly!), Williams empowers the reader with her practical and inspiring tips for making a house a home.

Bunny Williams, a world-renowned interior designer and garden expert with her own Manhattan-based company, is the author of STC’s An Affair with a House and Bunny Williams’ Point of View. With her husband, antiques dealer John Rosselli, she owns Treillage Ltd., a home and garden decor shop in New York City.

Williams has homes in Manhattan, Connecticut, and Punta Cana.

SELLING POINTS

■ Bunny Williams’ previous books, An Affair with a House and Bunny Williams’ Point of View, have sold more than 100,000 copies combined ■ Williams’ fans are eager for her next installment. Her audience will love her personal take on the intimate details that make a home special to those who live there ALSO AVAILABLE SPECIFICATIONS ■ 100 color photographs ■ 224 pages, 10⅝ × 10⅝" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER INTERIOR DESIGN ISBN 978-1-58479-859-0 US $60.00

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Bunny Williams’ Point of View

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Bunny Williams’ most intimate book yet, detailing all the personal elements that make a house a home

{ LI V I NG RO OM S } Deep sofas should have lots of big pillows across the back to adjust the depth of the sofa.

Chairs with higher seat heights should be shallower, whereas a lower-seated chair can be much deeper.

Place a bench under a table or in front of a fi replace for extra seating when needed.

A low coffee table or upholstered ottoman should be in place in the middle of a seating group. This offers a surface for holding books, magazines, or a plate of hors d’oeuvres.

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Grands Crus Classés TH E G RE AT WI N E S O F B O R D E AU X W IT H REC I PES FR O M STA R C H E FS O F T H E WO R L D ■

BY S OP H IE B R I S SAU D

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SPECIFICATIONS

A celebration of the best Bordeaux wines paired with recipes from internationally renowned chefs

■ 375 color illustrations ■ 384 pages, 9⅝ × 12⅝" ■ Hardcover RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER FOOD & WINE

SELLING POINTS

■ Sophie Brissaud celebrates the best of the best, the Sauternes and Médoc wines of Bordeaux ■ Original recipes from renowned chefs, including Thomas Keller, Charlie Trotter, Daniel Boulud, Alice Waters, and 80 others, are paired with some of the best wines in the world ■ The lush and intimate photography offers a “private tour” of the prestigious chateaux

This lavishly

produced book

celebrates the best of the world-renowned wines of Bordeaux. Each of the 87 wines classified in 1855 as Grands Crus Classés is described in detail and placed in ISBN 978-1-58479-877-4 US $65.00

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the context of the beautiful vineyards and chateaux where they are produced. In addition, every wine is carefully paired with an original recipe by a superstar chef such as Alice Waters, Charlie Trotter, Thomas Keller, Paul Bocuse, or Nobu Matsuhisa.

The book also offers an inside look at the spirit and

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history of each chateau, with more than 400 photographs that capture these architectural treasures and the landscapes in which they reside. An appendix offers practical details about the chateaux, including how to visit, making Grands Crus Classés a treat for wine lovers, foodies, and Francophiles alike.

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Sophie Brissaud is a journalist and writer specializing in foreign cuisine. She has worked with some of the best chefs and sommeliers in the world, and chronicles her experiences in the blog “Chez Pittpois.”

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Bettane and Desseauve’s Guide to the Wines of France ■

BY M ICHE L BE T TAN E AN D T H IE RRY D E S S EAU V E

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 832 pages, 5⅝ × 11" ■ Hardcover RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER FOOD & WINE

A comprehensive guide to thousands of French wines, by distinguished French wine experts

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■ The authors are acknowledged experts in the field, each with more than 20 years of experience ■ Covers thousands of wines, both older, established wineries and up-and-coming new producers ■ The U.S. is the world’s largest importer of French wines, ensuring a large market for the book

Michel

Bettane and Thierry Desseauve are

French wine experts known all over the world by wine professionals and consumers alike. Now they bring their expertise to the English-speaking market in their encyclopedic Guide to the Wines of France.

This comprehensive buying guide is organized by region, including not only such celebrated areas as Burgundy and Bordeaux, but also lesser-known wine-making provinces such as Languedoc and Jura.

Within each chapter, a complete picture of the region is presented through entries for individual wineries and detailed information about their wines; each wine is rated using the familiar 100-point scale. Written in clear, user-friendly language, the guide is accessible even to wine novices. Whether you’re looking to stock your cellar or to expand your wine-tasting horizons, Bettane and Desseauve’s Guide to the Wines of France is the oenophile’s essential companion.

ISBN 978-1-58479-732-6

Michel Bettane is one of the best-known wine tasters

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in the world. Thierry Desseauve is a journalist and the former publisher of the Revue du Vin de France.

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Frank Fontana’s Dirty Little Secrets of Design ■

BY F R AN K F O N TA N A

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 75 color illustrations ■ 204 pages, 7¾ × 9¾" ■ Paperback with flaps

The popular HGTV host and design expert reveals the tips and tricks to chic home makeovers on a dime

RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER INTERIOR DESIGN

SELLING POINTS

■ Frank Fontana is the host of HGTV’s Design on a Dime and is a regular on NBC’s Today show ■ Confirmed Today show appearance timed to book release ■ Designing with a budget in mind is a popular news topic these days, and this book goes room by room to give budget options and DIY projects

Interior

design is difficult enough without

the added stress of doing it on a budget. Frank Fontana— nationally renowned design expert and guru of low-cost, high-style design—is HGTV’s go-to guy for chic makeovers on a dime. In a witty, conversational tone, Fontana shares his techniques, breaking down the process room ISBN 978-1-58479-855-2 US $24.95

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by room, project by project, and divulges his secret tips and tricks for how to create high-style homes the low-cost way. Fontana analyzes several beautiful homes, dissects the individual design components of each room, and applies his “Look for Less” principle to help readers build their own look on a budget. The book also includes DIY

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projects that are accessible and doable for readers of various skill levels, as well as advice on how to be a savvy shopper when looking for home decor items or furniture.

Frank Fontana is the host and lead designer for one of HGTV’s longest-running, top-rated design shows, Design

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on a Dime, and is regularly featured on NBC’s Today show.

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Fontana is a contributing writer to OPRAH.com’s “home

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4 design” section. He is also a contributing expert to design-related publications and media outlets nationwide.

Fontana lives in Chicago.

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Simple Stunning Wedding Organizer PLANNING YO U R PERF E C T C EL EBRAT I ON ■

Revised & Updated

BY KA REN BUS S E N

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 160 pages, 95⁄16 × 95⁄16" ■ 3-ring binder RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: JANUARY WEDDINGS

With its gorgeous new design and the latest trade secrets, brides will find this second edition fresh, pretty, and practical

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■ The original Simple Stunning Wedding Organizer has sold more than 100,000 net copies since 2004. Year after year, it’s one of STC’s bestselling backlist titles ■ This revised edition will have a fresh, modern design, updated text throughout, and more bells and whistles ■ Brides who purchase the Simple Stunning Wedding Organizer will have exclusive access to a number of digital wedding-planning tools on Karen Bussen’s website, karenbussen.com

Revised

and updated, Karen Bussen’s

bestselling Simple Stunning Wedding Organizer is filled with invaluable insight, planning tools, and tips. This orga-

■ Due to its small format, this organizer easily fits inside a tote bag or purse

nizer leads couples through the whole process, helping them create a tension-free wedding for any taste, location, or budget. Six tabbed sections, six large pockets, and two sheets of business card holders give brides a place to

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neatly stash every kind of information, sample, or swatch.

US $22.50

CAN $29.50

With an elegant new design, this binder will undoubtedly

52250

remain a keepsake long after the last thank-you note has been checked off the list.

Karen Bussen is one of America’s most exciting wedding

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and entertaining experts, and the author of seven books in the Simple Stunning series. Having designed parties for A-listers such as Robert Downey Jr. and Martha Stewart, Karen now shares her insider ideas with readers and viewers everywhere. She is a favorite among producers and editors for her fun, approachable style, and her press clips

Simple Stunning Weddings

include appearances on the Today show, CBS Early Show,

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LX-NY, Good Day NY, and features in InStyle Weddings,

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Bridal Guide, Fitness, Cosmopolitan, and numerous other publications. She lives in New York City.

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PHOTO CHALLENGE: SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION

Set your camera on autotimer, and start telling a story. Don’t look at the camera; look at an imaginary “me” beyond the camera. Snap! Do it again, but this time, tell me a joke. Snap! Tell me a secret. Snap! Look for the one that reveals your candid beauty and add it to your portfolio.

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Nigel Barker’s Beauty Equation REVEALING A BETTER AN D MORE BEAU T I FU L YO U ■

BY NIG EL BAR K E R

SPECIFICATIONS 100 color photographs 208 pages, 8 × 9"

Fashion photographer and America’s Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker reveals his ten-step beauty program where the ultimate project is a better and more beautiful you

Paperback RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER HEALTH & BEAUTY

SELLING POINTS

■ Celebrity author Nigel Barker is a judge on America’s Next Top Model, which airs in 125 countries and has more than 100 million viewers. Barker will promote the book with major national and local television, print, and radio ■ Major national mall advertising and tour campaign tied to “Win Your Big Break” photo-shoot contest

Drawing

■ Devoted website, www.beautyequation.com, where readers can join a community by creating their own online portfolio of self-portraits

on 20 years of experience in the

beauty business and 14 seasons of judging on America’s Next Top Model, photographer Nigel Barker has discovered the formula for revealing inner beauty that will have readers looking great and feeling even better.

■ Includes photography and lighting tips and tricks to help readers create picture-perfect portraits

Casting aside conventional rules (be tall! be skinny! have flawless skin!) Nigel shares the elements that, when added together, equal true beauty: humor, honesty, and confidence, to name a few. Armed with their own cameras,

■ Packed with insider fashion tips that top photographers and models use to transform so-so into stunning

readers are guided through a series of self-portrait challenges that mirror the weekly challenges on ANTM. Along

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the way, Nigel shares tips and advice on fashion, style, hair, and make-up, showing readers how to turn perceived negatives into positives, celebrate their uniqueness, and be their personal best.

Nigel Barker is a fashion photographer and judge on America’s Next Top Model. His photographs have been printed in the pages of many major fashion magazines. He is a star on the personal appearance circuit and appears

Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality,

in promotions for Sony and Microsoft, among other

Taste & Style

brands. In addition to his work as a photographer, Barker

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is devoted to his humanitarian work for organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States and the

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Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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P.S.- I Made This . . .

I SE E IT. I L IK E I T. I M A KE I T. ■

BY E R IC A DO M ES EK

SPECIFICATIONS

Part designer DIY, part style guide, this unique book includes 25+ projects inspired by fashion-forward trends and runway styles

200 color photographs and illustrations 180 pages, 7½ × 9" Paperback RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER FASHION • CRAFT

SELLING POINTS

■ P.S.- I Made This . . . will appeal to craft audiences as well as fashion readers, creating the perfect crossover book ■ Author is extremely well connected in the design and fashion worlds, styling campaigns for major brands including Anthropologie, Kate Spade, Bloomingdale’s, and Helmut Lang. She has been a spokesperson for Sharpie and Dasani water ■ Features more than 25 never-before-published projects for craft and fashion lovers alike ISBN 978-0-8109-9603-8 US $18.95

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It’s a movement.

It’s a call

to action: reimagine, reuse, and reinvent. P.S.- I Made This . . . will inspire and encourage readers to embrace the concept of I see it, I like it, I make it.

Part designer DIY, part fashion and lifestyle inspiration guide, P.S.- I Made This . . . was born from Erica Domesek’s

6-copy counter pack

popular website of the same name. Domesek’s collection

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CAN $149.70 11370

of unique projects will tempt any fashionista who’s ready for DIY style!

The book features more than 25 projects inspired by iconic fashion looks, runway trends, and celebrated style mavens for readers to create themselves. The

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user-friendly “Designer DIY” projects, ranging from lucite bangles to faux-fur vests to studded heels, are featured alongside inspirational, vivid fashion montages and clear, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.

Erica Domesek is the founder of the innovative DIY

Who What Wear

brand P.S.-I Made This . . . and website psimadethis.com.

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Erica’s projects have been featured in publications such as Glamour and Teen Vogue, among others. Based in New York City, Erica has styled campaigns for big-name fashion brands.

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Max’s Kansas City A RT, GLAM OUR, ROC K A N D ROL L ■

BY STEVE N K AS H E R

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SPECIFICATIONS 200 color and black-and-white photographs 160 pages, 9 × 11" Hardcover

“Max’s Kansas City was the exact place where Pop Art and pop life came together. . . .”

—ANDY WARHOL

RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER MUSIC / POP CULTURE

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■ Includes photographs by Anton Perich, Bob Gruen, Billy Name, and more ■ A lasting chronicle of the famed venue, featuring some of the most celebrated artists and musicians in history ■ Published in conjunction with a photography exhibition in New York City

At no other time

in history

has there been a more exciting collision of art, music, and fashion than at Max’s Kansas City from the 1960s to the early 80s. Max’s was the place where you could stare at Andy Warhol, argue about art with Willem de Kooning or John Chamberlain, discuss literature with William S.

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Burroughs, and get a record deal just by showing up. If

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downstairs the artists were paying their tabs with original

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art, upstairs was home to the iconoclastic New York music scene, with performances by Max’s house band, the Velvet Underground; the irreverent New York Dolls; and undiscovered musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, Bob

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Marley, Blondie, Iggy Pop, and Madonna.

A luminous collection of photographs that captures the exuberance and decadence of the coolest club of all time, as well as essays by Lou Reed, Lenny Kaye, Danny Fields, and Steven Watson, Max’s Kansas City is a stunning souvenir of one of New York City’s most important cultural landmarks.

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Steven Kasher is the owner and curator of the Steven

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Kasher Gallery. He lives in New York City. Please visit www.maxskansascity.com.

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TUSCAN LANDSCAPE (COVER) INGREDIENTS Trees and foliage-flat leaf parsley, curly parsley, basil Cypress trees-Romano peppers, green chiles Cart-dried pasta Cart wheel-mushroom Sacks-garlic bulbs Wall-pine nuts Ground-fresh pasta covered with cinnamon, risotto rice, chopped herbs Hill and fields-fresh pasta covered with chopped herbs Hilltop village-Parmesan buildings with red pasta roofs Clouds-mozzarella balls

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Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes ■

BY CA RL WAR N E R

A stunningly creative and fun visual expression of the foodie movement SPECIFICATIONS 125 color photographs 128 pages, 10 × 8" Hardcover RIGHTS: WORLD ENGLISH PUB MONTH: OCTOBER FOOD & WINE

SELLING POINTS

■ Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes brand is growing: the images have been licensed for calendars, jigsaw puzzles, and even cutting boards ■ The images went viral online and have appeared in TV features, ads, and newspapers and magazines worldwide ■ In an era when foodie and culinary interest is at an alltime high, Food Landscapes is a unique and appealing volume on the subject

In recent years

, Carl Warner’s

photographs have been unofficially circulating on the Internet and in mass e-mailings, to the pleasure of thousands upon thousands of viewers. Now, these images and many new ones are collected in one volume.

In the spirit of Play with Your Food, Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes is a colorful and fantastically imaginative collection of landscapes constructed entirely from fruits and vegetables, cheeses, breads, fish, meat, and grains.

The book offers a trip around the world in 25 international tableaux constructed from appropriate regional ingredients. Each photo is spectacular on its own, but the effort of constructing it is equally fascinating. Every image in the book is followed by an essay about the creative process and stories from the photo shoots, as well as behind-thescenes material such as preliminary sketches, making-of photos, detail shots, and a list of the ingredients and their position in the final picture.

Carl Warner, a professional still life photographer with a

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studio in London, has worked in the advertising industry

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for more than 20 years. He is married with four children and lives in Kent.

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Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights ■

BY AN TON Y A N D T HE J O HN S O N S

SPECIFICATIONS

A beautifully produced package of visual art that includes the new full-length CD Swanlights by Antony and the Johnsons

75 color illustrations 144 pages, 9¼ × 10¼" Hardcover with CD RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER MUSIC • ART APPRECIATION

SELLING POINTS

■ Antony and the Johnsons have sold 1 million albums worldwide ■ Cross-promotion with record label in conjunction with new CD release ■ Lou Reed, an early supporter of Antony’s musical work, Rufus Wainwright, and Devendra Banhart have all collaborated with Antony on the critically acclaimed, award-winning album I Am a Bird Now

“[Antony] appears to be exploring the ways that nature leaves every living thing perfect but incomplete. It’s a fitting message from [someone] who voices his species’ joy and sorrows in sounds only he can produce.” —SPIN

Antony

of Antony and the Johnsons pres-

ents his debut collection of visual art, thought-provoking dreamscapes composed of paintings, drawings, photography, collage, song lyrics, and writings. Often fragmentary images, these pieces capture liminal states and elements of the unconscious. Some images are reclaimed and reconfigured in order to transcend their previous form.

The intersecting mediums inform each other and create an interesting dialogue with Antony’s music, his creative muse, and personal mythology.

Fans and collectors will relish this lavishly produced volume, which includes Antony’s newest full-length CD Swanlights, and reveals the creative process of one of the world’s most gifted artists.

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Antony and the Johnsons were the recipient of England’s prestigious Mercury Prize. Antony’s visual art has been the subject of numerous exhibitions throughout Europe. He lives in New York City.

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The Boombox Project THE MACHINES, TH E MU SI C , AN D TH E U RB A N U N D E R G R O U N D ■

BY LY LE OW E RKO

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F ORE WOR D BY S PI K E LEE

SPECIFICATIONS 100 color and black-and-white photographs

A highly visual and star-filled history of the old-school hip-hop icon

160 pages, 9 × 11" Hardcover RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER MUSIC • POP CULTURE

SELLING POINTS

■ Spike Lee and other high-profile personalities and musicians offer up never-before-told boombox memories ■ Classic hip-hop and punk are big, mainstream subjects, and this is a fresh and unique take on those cultures ■ A guy-friendly gift that’s part “gadget porn,” part cool music history

On the heels

of the graffiti

renaissance comes a vibrant look at an old-school icon that figured prominently in the hip-hop, rock & roll, and punk movements of the 1970s and 80s. The Boombox Project features contemporary fine art portraits of an array of vintage boomboxes, as well as scores of documentary photographs of the people who brought the boombox movement to life back in the day.

The book is more than just a collection of images, though; it’s also an oral history of the early days of hip-hop, featuring memories from Fab Five Freddie, Bob Gruen, Rosie Perez, Kool Moe Dee, LL Cool J, Lisa Lisa, DJ Spooky, and Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, among others, on the role this once ubiquitous machine played.

Part pop cultural history and part “gadget porn,” this lively and highly stylish volume is one of the cool books of the season.

Lyle Owerko is a New York–based filmmaker and photographer whose clients have included the Sundance Channel and MTV. He has also directed music videos for artists such as Rufus Wainwright and American Hi-Fi. Owerko shot the cover photograph for the September 11,

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2001 issue of Time, which was ranked as one of the 40

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“If you page through this book, you’ll see example after example of love and art and joy. Ever since I encountered Threadless, I’ve been in awe of their willingness to be different. My hat’s off to the crazy (smart) people at Threadless.” —Seth Godin, bestselling author and influential business blogger

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Threadless TEN YEARS OF T-SH IRTS F ROM TH E WORL D’ S M O ST I N S P I R I N G O N L I N E D E S I G N CO M M U N I T Y ■

BY JA K E N IC K E L L

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A highly stylish compilation and history of T-shirt designs from the hugely successful website

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■ Massive exposure via Threadless website (1 million registered users) and Twitter (1.5 million followers) ■ Publication will kick off a celebration of Threadless.com’s 10th anniversary, including a 30-city double-decker bus tour and launch events in Chicago and Boulder ■ Features more than 400 very cool and entertaining T-shirt designs, as well as think-pieces from and profiles of influential designers

Threadless.com

is the

phenomenally successful T-shirt company with more than 4 million tees sold since it began in 2000. It pioneered the online business model of crowd-sourced or communitydriven design, in which people submit designs that are

■ More than just a design book, Threadless tells the story of the company’s innovative business model of community-driven design

voted on by the site’s 1 million users and printed. Over the past 10 years, the company has amassed a vast archive of very cool, very hip, and often very entertaining designs, and Threadless is a spectacular showcase of 400 of the very best T-shirts created by the community—a barometer of art and design over the past decade.

Much more than a book of extraordinary graphics, Threadless tells the extremely interesting story that inspired Inc. magazine to hail Threadless.com as “the most innovative small company in America.” There are also profiles of individual designers and “think pieces” from influential admirers, including design guru John Maeda, Jeff Howe of Wired, and bestselling business/marketing writer Seth Godin.

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Jake Nickell is cofounder of Threadless.com and lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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Reefer Movie Madness T H E U LTIMATE STO N E R FI L M G U I D E ■

BY S H IR L E Y HA L PER I N A N D ST EV E B LO O M

SPECIFICATIONS 200 black-and-white photographs 256 pages, 6 × 9" Paperback RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER FILM

From the authors of Pot Culture, a highly entertaining movie guide with specific stoner appeal that is packed with hundreds of reviews and celebrity contributions

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■ Pot Culture, the authors’ first book, has sold more than 60,000 copies ■ More than 400 stonercentric movie reviews ■ Dozens of sidebars, many featuring celebrity interviews ■ Scores of photos in a highly designed package ■ The authors are go-to authorities on the subject ■ Highly designed multi-color interior

Reefer

Movie Madness is the perfect

follow-up to Halperin and Bloom’s big-selling Pot Culture.

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It’s the most extensive guide ever to movies for the stoner audience, a real market that has proven its mass appeal with the successful Harold and Kumar franchise and the Judd Apatow library (Pineapple Express, Superbad ).

In addition to entries on more than 420 films, there

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DIY INVENTIONS BY CLEVER MOVIE STONERS

Gas Mask Pipe (Knocked Up) Honey Bear Bong (True Romance)

are contributions from well known actors, movie direc-

Jumper Cable Roach Clip (Scary Movie)

tors, musicians, and celebrities, including Jason Mraz,

Cross Joint (Pineapple Express)

comedian Andy Milonakis, Snoop Dogg, Doug Benson, and Cheech & Chong. Reefer Movie Madness covers it

Shofar Bong (Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle)

all, from pot-fueled comedies and druggy dramas to sci-fi

Rifle Hit (Platoon)

flicks and 1960s artifacts to documentaries, musicals, and

Belt Buckle Pipe (Dazed and Confused)

blockbusters. With its colorful, easy-to-follow format and

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lots of eye-grabbing photos, sidebars (“Real Pot or Not? An On-Set Exposé”), lists (“DIY Inventions by Clever Movie

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Stoners”), and Q&As, Reefer Movie Madness is the guide-

Will Ferrell Movies to Watch Stoned Smoking Animals An Interview with the Real Big Lebowski Stony Character Names Real Pot or Not? An On-Set Exposé Snoop Dogg’s Stony Tips Best Buds Stony Dream Sequences

book that bong-hitting movie buffs have been longing for.

Pot Culture

Shirley Halperin, based in Los Angeles, has been a senior

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writer at Entertainment Weekly, and an editor at Us Weekly.

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Steve Bloom is a New York–based author who was formerly the editor of High Times. He also publishes the popular website celebstoner.com.

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Understand Rap EXPLANATION S OF C ON F U SIN G RA P LYRIC S YOU AND YOU R G RA N DMA C A N U N DE RSTA N D ■

BY WILLIA M BUC K H OL Z

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A hilarious compendium of hip-hop lyrics wryly paired with dry, academic translations

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■ Rap music is one of the strongest and most popular forces in American culture today ■ The popular website UnderstandRap.com has received more than 500,000 visitors since its launch last year

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Rap

songs are famous for their double entendres,

clever turns of phrase, and general ingenuity, but that

LYRIC FROM SONG “FORGOT ABOUT DRE”

doesn’t mean things always make sense the first time around. Enter Understand Rap, a very funny pop-cultural

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reference book based on the website of the same name, which precisely explains the confusing lyrics and terms

BY ARTIST DR. DRE

used in rap songs using language that even the most un-hip person can understand. The juxtaposition of a dry, academic tone with hip-hop terminology results in a book that’s as entertaining as it is informative.

Understand Rap features the lyrics of hip-hop artists of

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When you were still a child and

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had no concerns other than

all names, colors, and creeds, and organizes them into the

playing with dolls in the comfort

following categories: Cars, Money, Drugs/Alcohol, People,

and safety of your home, I was

Places, Fashion, Crime/Weapons, Insults, Skills/Pride, and Sex/Relationships.

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carrying guns around in my

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William Buckholz is a freelance writer living in Seattle.

dangerous urban neighborhood.

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Tate Publishing Vendome Press V&A Publishing

Laboratory Obsession ■

BY MASSIMILIANO CAMELLINI

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WI T H C O N T R I B U T I O N S BY M AS S I M O CEN T IN I, J ON N Y

C OSTAN T IN O, M A R A G R A N ZOT TO, A N D G EO R G ES V ER C HEVA L ■

FROM 5 C O N T I N E N TS E DI T I O N S

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This book

■ 52 duotone photographs

explores the human desire to

create life, as seen in the work of special-effects creators.

■ 120 pages, 8¾ × 7¼" ■ Bilingual: English and Italian

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is perhaps the most famous

■ Hardcover

work of literature to deal with man’s obsession with the creation of life, an attempt to take the place of God and

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nature. The theme has been taken further in the world of

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cinema and theater, where special-effects creators have produced automata, androids, and monstrous beings.

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These creators attempt to make their characters real, so that they “emerge” from the film itself and remain stamped

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on the memories of viewers, even though, once the movie

■ A look at a hidden world— special-effects labs

ends, they are destined to be mere props. Here, extraordinary photographs trace the progress of these creatures,

■ Appeals to those interested in film, photography, theater, and psychology

from inanimate materials to lifelike wonders.

Massimiliano Camellini is a widely published Italian photographer. Massimo Centini is chair of cultural

ISBN 978-88-7439-540-8 US $40.00

anthropology at the Università Popolare di Torino. Jonny

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Costantino is a journalist and film critic. Mara Granzotto is

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a curator and photographer. Georges Vercheval founded the Photography Museum of Charleroi.

Geometry Beyond Limits LATIN AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY ART ■

TEXTS BY DOMITILLE D’ORGEVAL, LAURENT SALOMÉ, AND MATTHIEU POIRIER

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Visionary,

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inspired, and original,

contemporary Latin American artists draw from influences

■ 248 pages, 9½ × 11" ■ Bilingual: English and French

near and far. This colorful survey, which features 178

■ Hardcover

carefully selected works, celebrates some of the most

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exciting modern Latin American artworks to date, and also shows North American and European works that offered

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inspiration to these artists. Included are works by such masters as Alexander Calder and Joaquin Torres-Garcia,

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and by younger artists such as Carmelo Arden Quin, Juan SELLING POINTS

Bay, and Alberto Biasi. The book covers New Realist

■ Highlights the extraordinary Jean and Colette Cherqui Collection, one of the world’s most important collections of Latin American art

and geometric abstract art of the 1940s and 1950s;

■ Includes work by well-known geometric abstractionists

optical and kinetic art from the 1950s and 1970s; and contemporary works from the 1970s to the present day, including abstract art, architecture projects, and art that incorporates new technologies.

Domitille d’Orgeval has taught contemporary art at the Sorbonne. Laurent Salomé is director of the Musée

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des Beaux-Arts and the Musées de la Ville de Rouen.

Matthieu Poirier is a teacher and researcher at the Sorbonne. Serge Lemoine is the former director of the Musée d’Orsay.

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Charlotte Perriand: Photography A WID E-ANGL E EYE ■

BY JACQUE S BAR SAC

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FOREWOR D BY AL F R E D PAQUE ME N T

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SPECIFICATIONS ■ 438 color and duotone photographs ■ 376 pages, 9½ × 11¾" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD EX ITALY &

The first look at famed furniture designer Perriand’s stunning photography

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■ Perriand is known for her interior and furniture designs, many of which are still produced today ■ Published to coincide with exhibitions in Zurich and Paris, the first devoted to her photographs ■ The perfect visual inspiration for photography and furniture design buffs, and fans of avant-garde art

In 1927,

when 24-year-old Charlotte Perriand

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(1903–1999) walked into Le Corbusier’s studio and asked

Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich

him to hire her as a furniture designer, he responded,

July 15–Oct 24, 2010

“We don’t embroider cushions here.” After seeing her

Musée Nicéphore Niépce,

remarkable designs, however, Le Corbusier enjoyed a

Chalon-sur-Saône

long collaboration with Perriand, who would go on to work

April 2011

as an architect, town planner, and political activist. This

Musée du Petit Palais, Paris

revelatory book is the first to show Perriand’s photography,

Late 2011

an important tool in her creative process and intellectual development, and a reflection of her political views. Made from the late 1920s through 1941, these striking images, many previously unpublished, testify to the collaborative spirit of the avant-garde movement, in which painters, architects, and photographers worked together to achieve creative breakthroughs.

Jacques Barsac is an award-winning documentary film-

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maker. François Cheval is director of Musée Nicéphore

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Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône. Alfred Paquement is director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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Powerful Headdresses AFRICA AND ASIA ■

BY ANNE VAN CUTSEM-VANDERSTRAETE AND MAURO MAGLIANI

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Hats, crowns, caps, helmets—all variety of exotic headgear made from natural materials from throughout Asia and Africa

■ 120 color illustrations ■ 192 pages, 9½ × 11¼" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD EX ITALY & FRANCE PUB MONTH: OCTOBER ART

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■ Features 120 headdresses from two continents and 30 countries ■ All the works are from a private collection and most are never before published ■ These traditional headdresses will interest amateur and professional anthropologists, fashion designers, and those interested in art history

In Powerful

Headdresses, 120

African and Asian headdresses come to life in marvelous reproductions. Made by remarkably skilled craftsmen, each distinctive form of headwear has an opulence and symbolism of its own. Constructed with plant materials such as fibers, seeds, leaves, and flowers, as well as feathers, shells, teeth, and fur, each of these articles was designated for a different member of society. The headdresses were worn by initiates, hunters and warriors, religious dignitaries and healers, rulers and notables, unmarried girls, married women, and young mothers.

Some examples also include iron, copper, silver, and gold.

Powerful Headdresses illustrates and explains the signifi cance of these important cultural symbols, and explains how, as trade increased, knowledge of new techniques and methods of fabrication advanced the decorative beauty of historic headwear.

ISBN 978-88-7439-551-4 US $85.00

CAN $110.50 58500

Anne van Cutsem-Vanderstraete, an art historian, is the author of many books, articles, and catalogs on ethnic art and culture. Mauro Magliani is an Italian fine-art photographer.

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Babembe Sculpture ■

BY RAOUL L E H UARD

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Richly

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■ 110 color illustrations

devoted to the work of the Babembe people, who live on

■ 212 pages, 9½ × 11"

the banks of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic

■ Hardcover with jacket

of Congo. Their anthropomorphic statues, carved from wood, are characterized by incisions representing tattoos, scarifications, or skin decorations that the Babembe use during initiation ceremonies. These striking works, many

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of which have never been published before, are adorned with fabric, tools made of horn or stone jewels, and eyes

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made from faience or shell. The works represent ancestral

■ Of significant interest to those interested in African art and artifacts and spiritual and ritual practices

spirits who link the sculpture’s commissioner with supernatural forces of the Babembe’s animist religion. Here, scholars analyze the aesthetic quality, style, and meaning of each fascinating sculpture.

Raoul Lehuard studied at the Sorbonne, founded the magazine Arts d’Afrique Noire, and is an expert in the art

■ This is the first book dedicated exclusively to the sculpture of the Babembe people

of the Congo. Daniel Klein, a collector of African and preColumbian art, is one of the creators of the new museum

ISBN 978-88-7439-544-6

of pre-Columbian archaeology (the Casa del Alabado)

US $90.00

CAN $117.00

in Quito, Ecuador. Alain Lecomte is a gallery owner and

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African art critic.

Artists of Nigeria ■

ONY EM A O F F OE D U-OK E K E

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FROM 5 CON TIN E N TS E D ITION S

Artists

SPECIFICATIONS of Nigeria charts the chronological

■ 1,158 color illustrations

development of modern Nigerian art, analyzes work by

■ 720 pages, 9½ × 12"

significant Nigerian artists, and explores art movements

■ Hardcover with jacket

both within the country and beyond its borders. The

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vibrant creative accomplishments of Nigerian artists,

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which are often overlooked in global publications, are

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here given the attention they deserve. An engaging text

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examines the influence of different cultural institutions and cultures on the development of modern and contemporary Nigerian art over the past 100 years. Among the featured artists are Olowere, whose work is in the collections of the British Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Smithsonian Institution; Chike Aniakor, who has a PhD from Indiana University; and Uche Okeke, whose work has been shown at the Sherman Gallery at Boston University.

Onyema Offoedu-Okeke is an artist, curator, and art

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■ This is a landmark survey, the first book to document a century of Nigerian art ■ An essential visual reference for collectors and students of African art history

historian whose work documents contemporary art in Nigeria and Africa. His work has been shown in important

ISBN 978-88-7439-547-7

international exhibitions.

US $95.00

CAN $123.50 59500

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VISIONS OF AFRICA SERIES ■ All of the books in the acclaimed Visions of Africa series are based on extensive field research and written by leading experts, and feature both masterpieces and rare objects from museums and private collections.

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 64 color and 15 black-and-white

Benin

illustrations ■ 160 pages, 6½ × 9½" ■ Flexibind

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BY BAR BA R A PLA N K EN ST EI N ER

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The Benin

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kingdom of the Edo people

flourished in West Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries. The latest volume in the highly regarded Visions of Africa series explores the remarkable court art of this

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powerful empire. Their unique bronzes and stunning ivory and wood carvings enjoyed a place in the royal

■ The newest volume in the successful Visions of Africa series, this is the only monograph available that is dedicated exclusively to the art of the Benin people

palace grounds of Benin City until 1897, when the empire succumbed to British rule and the works were scattered around the globe. These works were essential elements in court rituals and representation, and are reassembled here for the first time. In this beautifully illustrated study of a fascinating chapter in African art history, a leading

■ An essential resource for collectors, curators, scholars, and students

scholar introduces the complex history, iconography, and function of Benin royal art and discusses various approaches to its interpretation and stylistic development.

Barbara Plankensteiner is curator of the Department of Subsaharan Africa at the Museum fur Volkerkunde in Vienna, and lecturer at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna. She curated

ISBN 978-88-7439-410-4 US $34.95

the international exhibition Benin: Kings and Rituals, held

CAN $45.50

at the Art Institute of Chicago as well as in Vienna, Berlin,

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and Paris.

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Fang

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Pende

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Ahmed Mater Aseeri ■

BY VENETIA PORTER WITH TIM MACKINTOSH SMITH, CATHERINE DAVID,

RA JA A LEM , A H ME D AL OMR AN

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A B OOT H - C L I B B O R N E DI T I O N S B O O K

An illuminating

SPECIFICATIONS look at one of

■ 160 color illustrations

the Middle East’s pioneering contemporary artists, this

■ 160 pages, 8⅝ × 11"

survey is the first to explore the life and work of Saudi

■ Hardcover with jacket

artist Ahmed Mater Aseeri. Mater’s work, exhibited at

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the Venice Biennale and in the collection of the British

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Museum, is informed by his education and life as a medical doctor, as well as by religious symbols and Saudi culture. His work is described as being neither painting nor calligraphy, but combining elements of both. The book examines four of Mater’s most important works, and includes essays by leading scholars and critics. Catherine David’s foreword positions Mater’s work within the cultural context of the Persian Gulf, while the book’s elegant design evokes the artist’s Middle Eastern sensibility.

Venetia Porter is curator of the Islamic and contemporary Middle East department at the British Museum. Tim Mackintosh Smith has written extensively on his travels

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■ The first book on one of the leading artists of the Middle East, Ahmed Mater Aseeri, an acclaimed multimedia artist and practicing Saudi medical doctor ■ Mater is the first Saudi artist whose work has been purchased by the British Museum

in the Middle East. Catherine David is head curator at

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the Direction des Musées de France. Raja Alem is one of

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the leading female writers of the Arab world. Ahmed Al Omran is a well known Saudi blogger.

Don’t Art, Fashion, Music CHICKS ON S P E E D ■

BY MELISSA LOGAN AND ALEX MURRAY-LESLIE

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A BOOTH -CLIB B ORN E D ITION S B OOK

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I N T R O DU C T I O N BY J U DI T H WI N T ER

This highly

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■ More than 200 color illustrations

book documents the dynamic art group Chicks on Speed’s

■ 240 pages, 8¼ × 6"

recent Objeckt Instruments project and 2010 exhibition at

■ Flexibind

Dundee Contemporary Arts. Chicks on Speed (COS) are

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an ever-changing multidisciplinary art group who apply a

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punk-inspired DIY ethic to explore the boundaries of art,

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craft, fashion, and music. This latest endeavor is the result of collaborations between international artists, scientists,

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and designers, including Turner Prize–winner Douglas

■ Appearing as a band, an art collective, and as DJs, Chicks on Speed have an international following

Gordon. These artistic dialogues, technical innovations, and craft experiments have produced fantastical creations, including a high-heeled shoe guitar worn by Lady Gaga, a cigar-box orchestra, and a theremin tapestry, all documented in lush color—from developmental inception to public display. The book includes an introduction by Judith Winter and a revealing conversation with Chicks on

■ An affordable and colorful look at Chicks on Speed’s unique blend of crafts, technical innovation, and art

Speed about their art and process.

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Melissa Logan and Alex Murray-Leslie are the prime

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members of Chicks on Speed. Judith Winter is head of arts, Dundee Contemporary Art, Scotland.

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Royal Academy Illustrated 2010 ■

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The Royal

■ 170 color illustrations

Academy of Art’s Summer

■ 192 pages, 8 × 9½"

Exhibition in London has been an annual event since

■ Paperback

1769. Today, about 1,000 works are selected to be shown each year from more than 10,000 entries. The exhibition,

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which includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and

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architectural designs and models, continues to be the largest open exhibition in the UK. First published in the 1870s, Royal Academy Illustrated is an excellent way to stay current with trends in contemporary British art by

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surveying the highlights of each year’s show. This colorful

■ A fine way to keep abreast of trends in contemporary art

collection features a cross-section of the works on display at the Summer Exhibition, accompanied by installation

■ Documents one of the most popular events in the art calendar

shots of the galleries and an insightful introduction to the theme of the show.

Richard Cork is an art critic, historian, broadcaster, and curator. His many books include a four-volume collection of his critical writings on modern art, published in 2003,

ISBN 978-1-905711-56-7 US $35.00

CAN $45.00 53500

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and Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill, published

Royal Academy of Arts, London

by the Royal Academy in 2009.

June 14–Aug 22, 2010

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This first

■ 120 color illustrations ■ 160 pages, 9⅝ × 11½" ■ Hardcover with jacket

comprehensive survey of the

work of John Carter (b. 1942) explores his contribution to the postwar flowering of British abstraction. Carter’s

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work is a subtle reimagining of the relationship between

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sculpture and painting. Here, his best-known reliefs are shown together with examples of his drawings, prints, and

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public sculpture to reveal the originality of his mind and the love of exactitude and clarity that drives his practice.

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With commentaries from the artist and in-depth analyses

■ The first complete examination of John Carter’s well-known abstract reliefs— as well as his drawings, prints, and public sculpture

of key pieces, this lavishly illustrated volume traces the artist’s development from his early interest in the forms of architecture to his recent experiments with geometry, situating the work in the context of European art.

Formerly dean of art and head of art history at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, Chris Yetton has written extensively on postwar British abstract art. Britta E. Buhlmann is director of the Pfalzgalerie,

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Kaiserslautern. Mel Gooding is an art critic, writer, and exhibition organizer.

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A fresh look at the prints of acclaimed pop artist Joe Tilson, whose works are in major collections throughout the world

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■ The most comprehensive survey of Joe Tilson’s graphic works to date ■ Joe Tilson’s printmaking is handsomely celebrated in 200 illustrations ■ Tilson’s works are found in major American collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Walker Art Center

Originally

associated with pop art, in

the past 50 years, Joe Tilson (b. 1928) has achieved international acclaim for the individuality and originality of his paintings, constructions, painted reliefs, prints, and multiples. As an artist who refused the traditional boundaries of printmaking, his multiples often include found objects or newspaper cuttings, fusing a cubist approach with his pop sensibility. His more recent prints mix silkscreen, woodcut, and etching to produce radiant matrixes of rich color, embedded with butterflies, birds, and objects loaded with symbolic meaning. Richly illustrated and produced, this book confirms Tilson’s reputation as one of the most innovative and exciting artists of his generation.

Enzo Di Martino is a curator and art critic. His many works

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include Mimmo Paladino Graphic Work: 1974–2001 and

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The History of the Venice Biennale. Philip Rylands is director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.

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SPECIFICATIONS ■ 50 illustrations

Published

■ 96 pages, 5½ × 6⅝"

architect Ian Ritchie’s poems, aphorisms, and etchings

■ Hardcover with jacket

attest to a profound engagement with the built environ-

here for the first time,

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ment. Ritchie (b. 1947) is one of Britain’s most visionary

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architects, with an eclectic practice embracing urban planning, public sculpture, and industrial design. His

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calligraphic etchings imagine the shape or spirit of commissions in simple but powerful strokes. Variably SELLING POINTS

pragmatic and philosophical, often witty, his aphorisms on

■ This intimate book provides a window into an awardwinning architect’s creative process and aesthetic

work and life—from the importance of light to the nature and possibility of progress—reveal a modernist’s belief in the potential of architecture to improve society. These lines of thought, committed to paper before any designing begins, demonstrate that, for Ritchie, being an architect is

■ Ritchie’s poems, aphorisms, and etchings have never been published before

many more things besides.

Ian Ritchie is an internationally acclaimed architect. His built designs include the Leipzig Glass Hall, the Spire of

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Dublin, the elevator shafts for the Centro de Arte Reina

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Sofía, Madrid, and the RSC Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-

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upon-Avon, winner of the RIBA National Award in 2007.

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■ 110 color illustrations ■ 248 pages, 11 × 11" ■ Hardcover with jacket

A volume

that spans nearly 250 years of

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architecture, this handsome publication features projects—

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known as Diploma Works—by some of the most illustrious members of the Royal Academy of Arts. Diploma Works

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were presented by the architects upon their election to

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■ This is the first book to explore these important architectural works by well known architects such as Soane, Smirke, Wilkins, Waterhouse, Lutyens, and Grimshaw ■ An essential reference for architects and architecture students ISBN 978-1-905711-83-3 US $70.00

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the Academy and represent the scope and vision of their creative process. They include Sir John Soane’s designs for a new House of Lords, Sir Robert Smirke’s reconstructive interpretation of the Acropolis at Athens, William Wilkins’s designs for the gateway and screen at King’s College, Cambridge, Alfred Waterhouse’s Manchester Town Hall, Sir Edwin Lutyens’s work in New Delhi, and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw’s Waterloo International Terminal. The incisive text illuminates each work.

Neil Bingham is an architectural historian and design commentator. He was a curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects for nearly 20 years and is presently consulting curator of architectural drawings at the Royal Academy.

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Chris Ofili ■

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“Opulent, glittery, dazzling, gorgeous. . .

The adoration of color is obvious in each beautifully worked surface, the devotion is all there in the making. This is painting as an act of worship.”

—The Guardian

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■ The most thorough assessment of Ofili’s work to date, the book coincides with a major exhibition ■ Includes new works created especially for the Tate exhibition ■ Features a new interview with the Turner Prize– winning artist

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British

painter Chris Ofili (b. 1968) is one of the

most remarkable artists of his generation. This vibrantly illustrated survey, which accompanies a major Tate exhibition, sheds new light on Ofili’s inspiration and technique.

Ofili’s paintings often refer to his Nigerian heritage and the wider African-American and Afro-Caribbean experience. He uses a range of materials in his works, including sequins, glitter, map pins, and his trademark, varnished elephant dung. Because of this, Ofili’s painting The Holy Virgin Mary was declared “blasphemous” by former New York City mayor Rudy Guiliani when it arrived at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999 for the Sensation exhibition.

An outstanding artist whose work garners attention worldwide, Ofili was closely involved with the preparation of this volume.

Judith Nesbitt is chief curator at Tate Britain. Okwui

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Enwezor was director of Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany.

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Ekow Eshun is director of the I.C.A. in London. Attillah Springer is a Trinidad-born writer and television producer.

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Arshile Gorky ■

BY MATTHEW GALE

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This book celebrates the extraordinary life and work of one of the most powerful American painters of the 20th century

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■ Extensively illustrated, the book accompanies a major traveling retrospective exhibition of Gorky’s work ■ Gorky is one of the most important modernists ■ The author is an authority on Gorky’s life and career

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A leading

figure in the Abstract

Expressionist movement, Arshile Gorky (1904–1948) is a pivotal figure in American painting who bridged European modernism and the New York School. This attractive introduction, published to coincide with a major traveling exhibition of his work, provides new insight into the tragic life and important career of one of the 20th century’s greatest painters.

After fleeing the Turkish incursion into Armenia, Gorky arrived in New York in 1920 and swiftly became an integral part of the American art scene. His most famous early work, The Artist and his Mother, was inspired by a single surviving photograph of his family, while his later style impressively incorporated biomorphic, abstract, and surrealist elements.

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Matthew Gale is head of displays, curator of modern art at Tate Modern and the editor of Dalí and Film and coeditor, with Chris Stephens, of Francis Bacon.

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Afro Modern J OURNEYS TH ROU G H T H E BL AC K ATL A N T I C ■

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ED OUARD G L IS SAN T, C OURT N E Y J. MART IN , KO B EN A M ER C ER , HU EY C O PEL A N D, THELM A G OL D E N , AN D GL E N N L IGON ■

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“Full of startling insights” —The Guardian

■ 100 color illustrations ■ 208 pages, 8⅞ × 10⅛" ■ Paperback with flaps RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICA AVAILABLE NOW ART

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■ This is the first book to explore visual art in relation to the concept of the Black Atlantic ■ Accompanies Tate exhibition ■ Extensively illustrated, the book showcases work by Basquiat, Bearden, Walker, Picasso, Brancusi, and many more ■ Features a timeline of key figures and events and an extensive bibliography

In this

comprehensive book, published to

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coincide with a groundbreaking Tate exhibition, leading

Tate Liverpool

scholars examine how “the Black Atlantic,” a key concept

Jan 29–Apr 25, 2010

in post-colonial studies coined by British academic Paul Gilroy in 1993, applies to art, and in doing so confirms the centrality of artists of African descent to the formation of modernity. Topics explored include the early 20th-century Parisian avant-garde; the Harlem Renaissance; the cultural links between Africa and Brazil; contemporary and “postblack” art; and the way Paul Gilroy’s original concept of the Black Atlantic remains relevant to current discussions of migration and exploitation. The book includes works by leading artists from throughout the 20th century and into the 21st.

Tanya Barson is curator of international art at Tate Modern.

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Peter Gorschlüter is head of exhibitions and displays

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at Tate Liverpool. The contributors include distinguished scholars and curators from the U.S., Britain, and elsewhere.

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“Copy first the works of God, and then the works of Turner.” —Edward Lear

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How to Paint Like Turner ■

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W ITH CON T R IBUT ION S BY JOYC E TOW N S EN D, M I K E C HA PLI N , A N D TO N Y S M I B ERT

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Turner’s watercolor techniques made accessible to everyone who enjoys painting

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■ Reveals the secrets of one of the world’s greatest watercolor painters ■ Full of practical tips on technique and equipment from watercolor experts ■ Includes gorgeously reproduced illustrations and a glossary of technical terms ■ Perfect for artists, art lovers, and fans of J.M.W. Turner’s work

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British

Turner: In the Tate Collection

artist J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) painted

ISBN 978-0-8109-6253-8 US $39.95

unforgettable watercolors and was revered for his

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masterly use of shifting light and dramatic cloudscapes.

Now, this clear, accessible book reveals the secrets of Turner’s technique, making his magical effects possible for today’s painters. The book examines the materials Turner used and suggests modern-day equivalents to recreate his effects. Using his works as examples, chapters explore themes such as sky, water, trees, people, moonlight, and more. Step by step, contemporary artists explain how

The Turner Book

to emulate the examples and master the techniques to

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create other compositions. Only the Tate, the global center

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for Turner scholarship, could create this instructional gem.

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Nicola Moorby works at Tate on the Turner Bequest. Ian Warrell is curator of 18th- and 19th-century British art at

Turner’s Painting Techniques

Tate. Joyce Townsend is senior conservation scientist at

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Tate and the author of Turner’s Painting Techniques. Mike

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Chaplin is a watercolor expert. Tony Smibert is a painter

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based in Tasmania.

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TATE MODERN ARTISTS SERIES ■ These books are part of the Tate Publishing series focused on living artists. Generously illustrated, accessible, and affordable, the Modern Artists Series is an essential reference for all those interested in contemporary visual culture.

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Louise Bourgeois

■ 100 color illustrations ■ 128 pages, 8¼ × 10⅝" ■ Paperback RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICA

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This engaging

ART

survey probes

the spellbinding life and work of Louise Bourgeois, whose artworks are among the most memorable of the 20th

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century, and now the 21st. Bourgeois, born in Paris in 1911,

■ An affordable introduction to a major contemporary artist’s entire career

has produced a body of work that is as diverse in its use of materials as it is consistent in its themes. While placing her within key art historical traditions, each chapter focuses

■ The book will appeal to fans of modern art in many forms, including painting, sculpture, assemblage, and environmental art

on the artist’s use of different media and techniques, from painting and assemblage to sculpture, paper ephemera, and beyond. Quotations and interviews with the artist provide insight into her motivations and concerns. As Bourgeois approaches her own centenary, still active and

■ Features more than 100 illustrations

creating new work, this accessible introduction is a fitting

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Ann Coxon is assistant curator of displays at Tate Modern.

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tribute to the achievement of an astonishing artist.

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Antony Gormley

Ed Ruscha

Peter Blake

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Douglas Gordon

Jeff Wall

Rachel Whiteread

Tracey Emin

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Picasso PEACE AND FREEDOM ■

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FROM TAT E P UB LISHIN G

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 200 color illustrations ■ 256 pages, 9¼ × 11¼" ■ Hardcover

Picasso as political artist: a wholly new view of the greatest artist of the 20th century

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■ The first book to focus on Picasso as a political artist ■ Features graphics, posters, ceramics, and ephemera, along with masterpieces ■ Includes extracts from letters and papers, giving new insight into the depth of Picasso’s political commitment

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Tate Liverpool May 21–Aug 30, 2010 Albertina, Vienna Sept 16, 2010–Jan 16, 2011

Picasso

Louisiana Museum of Peace and Freedom is the first

Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

in-depth examination of Picasso as a politically and

Feb–May 2011

socially engaged artist, from the 1940s, when he defiantly remained in Paris during the Nazi occupation, through the Cold War period. Picasso was a member of, and a huge financial donor to, the Communist Party from 1944 until his death in 1973. Both the FBI and MI5 held substantial files

ISBN 978-1-85437-952-8

on him. Picasso’s political commitment and its implications

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for his work represent the last undiscovered territory in the study of the artist.

Rather than treating him as an isolated titan of modern art, this book considers Picasso as a history painter and looks at key works from 1944 to 1973. Precisely dated, the

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works can be connected to world events of the time, from Franco’s activities in Spain to the Cuban missile crisis.

A key image is the Dove of Peace, which became the emblem of the Peace Movement in the 1960s.

This important book reinstates a key element in our The Picasso Book

understanding of Picasso.

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Lynda Morris is a senior lecturer at Norwich University

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College of the Arts. Christoph Grunenberg is director of Tate Liverpool.

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Rude Britannia FROM HOGARTH TO NOW ■

E D IT E D BY M A RT I N M Y R O N E

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F R O M TAT E P U B L I S H I N G

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This highly

■ 100 color illustrations

entertaining, irreverent

■ 160 pages, 9⅞ × 9⅞"

history celebrates the humor, mischief, and wit of British

■ Flexibind

comic art. From Hogarth to Spitting Image, Rude Britannia

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is a testament to the bawdy, absurd, and often political

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nature of British comic art from the 18th century to the present day. Starting with caricatures, the book discusses

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cartoons, comic books, film, photography, audio, and SELLING POINTS

contemporary art. It traces the development of different

■ A playful, illustrated survey of comic art from the 18th century to the present day

genres, techniques, and media, from engravings to newspapers and blogs. Featuring work by classic and modern caricaturists and cartoonists, including Gillray,

■ The perfect source of inspiration for fans of cartoons, caricatures, political satire, and comic art history

David Low, and R. Crumb, and writing by well known critics and comedians, Rude Britannia is a lively account of an art form’s past, present, and future.

Martin Myrone is curator of 18th- and 19th-century British art, and Tim Batchelor is assistant curator, at Tate Britain.

Cedar Lewisohn is programmer for Tate Media.

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CAN $45.50 53495

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Tate Britain, London June 9–Sept 2010

The Vorticists ■

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Vorticism

■ 120 color illustrations

was a brief but pivotal avant-

garde art movement that emerged in London on the eve

■ 192 pages, 8⅝ × 10⅞"

of WWI and came to an end in 1919. Led by the dynamic

■ Paperback RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICA

and controversial British artist Wyndham Lewis and

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named by American poet and critic Ezra Pound, Vorticism swiftly forged its own identity, helped by Lewis’s radical

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the movement included Jacob Epstein, Alvin Langdon

■ A comprehensive survey of a pivotal early 20th-century avant-garde art movement

Wadsworth, Frederick Etchells, and Dorothy Shakespear.

Coburn, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, David Bomberg, Edward This book provides a thorough examination of Vorticism, its origins, and its impact on both sides of the Atlantic.

Mark Antcliffe is professor of art, art history, and visual studies at Duke University. Vivien Greene is associate curator at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

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Peggy Guggenheim Collection,

Tate Britain, London

North Carolina

Venice

June 22–Sept 28, 2011

Sept 20, 2010–Jan 29, 2011

Feb 5–May 15, 2011

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The Irish Country House ■

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FROM THE VENDOME PRESS

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A private tour for those who love Ireland, interior design, and architecture

black-and-white photographs ■ 192 pages, 9¼ × 12¼" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICA PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER ARCHITECTURE • INTERIOR DESIGN • TRAVEL

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■ The book includes four previously unpublished houses: Lisnavagh, Burtown House, Huntington Castle, and Tarbert House ■ Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of Glin, is the leading authority on Irish architecture and interiors ■ Offers entertaining anecdotes about each home’s owner and history

A land

of legend and lore, Ireland is also

home to some of the most breathtaking residences in the world, ten of which are explored in this charming book.

Take a once-in-a-lifetime tour through these historical homes and castles—all still owned and lived in by the original families—furnished with heirlooms and cherished hand-me-downs. From cabinets filled with monogrammed china to cabbage-rose slipcovered sofas nestled beneath tall Gothic windows, the lavish living rooms and bedrooms, print-lined hallways, and well-used mudrooms capture the distinctive personalities of their owners.

Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of Glin, is president of the Irish Georgian Society and a governor of the National Gallery of Ireland. He has written numerous books on Irish art, furniture, and architecture. James Peill is the curator of Goodwood House in West Sussex, England. He was formerly a vice president of Christie’s, where he was a

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specialist in the European furniture department. James

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Fennell’s photographs have been published in Condé Nast Traveler, World of Interiors, and Architectural Digest.

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Lars Bolander’s Scandinavian Design ■

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A practical, idea-filled room-by-room guide to the classic and new looks of Scandinavian design

■ More than 300 color illustrations ■ 192 pages, 8½ × 11" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICA PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER DESIGN • ARCHITECTURE • INTERIOR DESIGN

“A private, exclusive tour of the best of Scandinavian design . . .

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This book is a new treasure for my

■ An essential companion full of fresh ideas for designers and Scandinavian design enthusiasts alike

design library, one I will refer to over and over.” —Bunny Williams

■ Helpfully organized by room type ■ Informative sidebars on key Scandinavian design elements, from Mora clocks to Danish Modern chairs ■ Extensive list of sources in the US and Canada ■ Alternate Selection of the HomeStyle Book Club

Clean,

elegant lines, delicate color schemes,

well-proportioned, light-filled spaces, and natural materials—the hallmarks of Scandinavian design are unmistakable. As the trend in residential design continues to move toward pared-down, comfortably elegant, environmentally friendly homes, the Scandinavian aesthetic has become a global influence in interior design. Lars Bolander, one of Sweden’s foremost interior designers, has been creating the Scandinavian look in homes all over the world for decades. In this impressively illustrated volume, he and author Heather Smith MacIsaac, a former editor of House & Garden magazine, share their expert knowledge of the very best in Scandinavian design, past and present, offering guidance on how to achieve the Scandinavian look, incorporate the trademark elements into any decor, and mix and match traditional and modern, humble and grand.

Lars Bolander is known for bringing a Swedish neoclassical sensibility to his designs. The Lars Bolander stores in ISBN 978-0-86565-258-3 US $40.00

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New York and Palm Beach feature a sophisticated mix of antiques and modern pieces, textiles, and decorative arts.

Heather Smith MacIsaac writes on design and travel for Elle Décor, Travel & Leisure, and other publications.

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Young Michelangelo THE PATH TO T H E SI ST I N E A BIOGRAPHY ■

BY JOHN T. S P IK E

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A prodigiously informative and compelling account of the early years of Michelangelo— and the world he lived in

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■ A highly engaging read, this is the first comprehensive study of Michelangelo’s early life and art in more than a century ■ Not just for art historians, the book captures the essence of life in Renaissance Italy, casting the artist’s achievements against the major historical events of his time ■ John Spike is the highly praised author of books on Masaccio, Fra Angelico, and Caravaggio, and is slated for a five-city promotional tour

Truly

in a class of its own, Young Michelangelo is

the most definitive and eye-opening study of the artist’s early life to come along in a generation.

In this compelling account, renowned art historian John Spike paints a vivid portrait of one of the world’s greatest artists and the places and people—Lorenzo de’ Medici, Leonardo, Machiavelli—that inspired and defined his early life and career. Spike’s masterful text probes the thinking, evolution, and desires of a young man whose awareness of his exceptional talent never wavered. Michelangelo’s complex personality is revealed through lively examinations of the Pietà, the David, and all other major works. Drawing on a rich background of Italian Renaissance politics and culture, Spike deftly navigates the fiery Florentine master’s struggle to surpass da Vinci’s artistic mastery, and his troubled relationships with Julius II and other key figures of the era.

John T. Spike, critic, curator, and art historian, is the author of more than 20 significant books on Italian painting and

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artists, including Caravaggio. He lives in Florence and

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teaches in the Sacred Arts Masters program at Regina Apostolorum University in Rome.

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—Louis Begley

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Lost Lives, Lost Art J EWIS H COLL E C TORS, N AZ I A RT T H E F T, AND T H E Q U E ST FO R J U ST I CE ■

TEX T BY M E L IS SA MÜL L E R AN D MON IK A TAT Z KOW

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The tragic stories of 15 Jewish art collectors whose art and lives were stolen by the Nazis, and the gripping drama of their heirs’ attempts to recover their inheritance

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 75 color and 125 black-and-white illustrations ■ 256 pages, 8 × 10" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICA PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER HISTORY • ART

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■ An affecting chronicle of one aspect of Nazi cruelty, the outcome of which is still unfolding in the news today ■ A page-turner for fans of historical thrillers and art world scandals, the book is a powerful indictment of collusion between German and Swiss art dealers and Nazi officials ■ Includes a foreword by Ronald S. Lauder, Chairman of the Commission for Art Recovery and President of the World Jewish Congress

The legendary

names include

Rothschild, Mendelssohn, Bloch-Bauer—distinguished bankers, industrialists, diplomats, and art collectors. Their

■ Author Melissa Müller will go on a five-city tour in October 2010 to coincide with Jewish book month

diverse taste ranged from manuscripts and musical instruments to paintings by Old Masters and the avant-garde. But their stigma as Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe doomed them to exile or death in Hitler’s concentration camps. Here, after years of meticulous research, Melissa Müller (Anne Frank: The Biography) and Monika Tatzkow (Nazi Looted Art) present the tragic, compelling stories of 15 Jewish collectors, the dispersal of their extraordinary collections through forced sale and/or confiscation, and the ongoing efforts of their heirs to recover their inheritance.

For every victory in the effort to return these works to their rightful heirs, there are daunting defeats and long court battles. This real-life legal thriller follows works by Rembrandt, Klimt, Pissarro, Kandinsky, and others.

Melissa Müller wrote the bestselling Anne Frank: The Biography, and is coauthor with Traudl Junge of Until the

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Final Hour: Hitler’s Last Secretary, which was the basis for

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the film Downfall. Monika Tatzkow, a historian, is coauthor of the restitution-case handbook Nazi Looted Art.

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Living Jewels CORAL, PEARLS, HORN, SHELL, WOOD & OTHER EXOTICA ■

BY RUT H PELTAS O N

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Nearly 200 years of priceless jewels created from nature SPECIFICATIONS ■ 320 color illustrations ■ 224 pages, 9¾ × 8¾" ■ Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICA PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER JEWELRY

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■ A feast for the eyes, this is the first-ever book to focus on organic materials in jewelry ■ An exceptional gift for jewelry aficionados as well as students of jewelry design and art history ■ The book covers a vast range of periods and designers and includes a number of previously unpublished pieces ■ Features pieces from the collections of the Duchess of Windsor, Diana Vreeland, Elizabeth Taylor, and Ellen Barkin, as well as from the archives of the world’s major jewelry designers

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“Stylish, witty and glamorous as the treasures it celebrates, Living Jewels is destined to become an instant, indispensable reference . . . and an irresistible delight.” —Holly Brubach

Nothing

compares to the exquisite

elegance and design of jewelry made from natural materials. This lavish visual feast features jewelry crafted from pearls, shells, coral, horn, and more, spanning the Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, art nouveau, art deco, retro, and contemporary periods. Many of the items

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showcased are revealed here for the first time, including brooches, necklaces, dog collars, rings, earrings, and tiaras. Unusual treasures such as the Baroda Pearls are explored in depth, and jewelers’ profiles feature Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, Tiffany, Fabergé, Bulgari, and many more world-famous jewelers.

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Ruth Peltason worked with Elizabeth Taylor on the New York Times bestseller My Love Affair with Jewelry. A writer and editor of books on the visual arts, she now runs Bespoke Books in New York.

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Peter Pennoyer Architects APARTMENTS • TOWN HOUSES • COUNTRY HOUSES ■

BY A NNE WAL K E R

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SPECIFICATIONS ■ 250 color illustrations and 30 black-and-white plans

A lavishly illustrated volume on the work of one of America’s leading classically inspired architects

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■ An elegant assembly of Pennoyer’s finest accomplishments—visual inspiration for architects and interior designers ■ The extensively illustrated book provides not only photos, but also beautifully rendered elevations and plans ■ Includes an illustrated catalogue raisonné of the firm’s projects

For 20 years,

■ The foreword is written by Robert A. M. Stern, with whom Pennoyer studied at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture Peter Pennoyer

Architects has designed elegant, classically based homes in both urban and country settings in what Pennoyer calls “classicism with a twist.” The firm’s projects, distinguished by an inventive spirit and a thorough grasp of architectural

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history, are impressively diverse—ranging from a triplex

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on New York’s Fifth Avenue to a farmhouse in the Virginia countryside. The 20 projects featured in this stately volume illustrate the firm’s uniquely fluid style and its solid grounding in the classical idiom. A guided tour of each project allows an insider’s perspective of the space, lend-

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ing further insight into the firm’s timeless designs.

Peter Pennoyer, a graduate of Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, formed Peter Pennoyer Architects in 1990. The firm has designed

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houses and institutional projects from New York to California and received numerous awards. Anne Walker is an associate at Peter Pennoyer Architects. Robert A. M.

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Stern is one of the world’s leading architects and dean of the Yale School of Architecture.

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Paris Between the Wars 1919–1939 A RT, L I F E & CU LT U R E ■

BY VIN C E N T B O U V ET A N D G ÉR A R D DU R OZO I

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SPECIFICATIONS ■ 175 color and 300 black-andwhite illustrations ■ 416 pages, 6 × 9"

The worlds of art, architecture, ballet, film, fashion, graphic design, literature, music, and photography collide in Paris between the wars

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■ An ambitious history that appeals to art lovers of all stripes, from museumgoers to photography and film buffs, to those intrigued by the architecture and literature of the era ■ The brightest minds in the era’s arts are explored, including Mondrian, Cartier-Bresson, Chanel, Le Corbusier, and Hemingway ■ A visual feast that incorporates hundreds of paintings, drawings, photographs, posters, film stills, performances, and plans

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During

the années folles following World

War I, Paris underwent a creative fever that brought artists and intellectuals from around the world to the City of Light.

The bohemian charms of Montparnasse attracted artists such as Picasso, Chagall, and Giacometti, while a vibrant café culture provided a forum for disputes between

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Dadaists and Surrealists and gave rise to a group of expa-

Moscow & St. Petersburg

triate writers. The creative energy was all-encompassing,

1900–1920

establishing Paris as the epicenter of new trends in the

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arts, a position it would occupy until World War II. This newest title in a celebrated series addresses such diverse topics as aesthetics, literature, the changing role of women, and the transformation of avant-garde culture.

Berlin: The Twenties

Vincent Bouvet is an art historian specializing in 19th- and

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20th-century decorative arts. Gérard Durozoi, a French philosopher and art historian, is editor of a dictionary of modern and contemporary art and author of the acclaimed History of the Surrealist Movement.

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The Worlds of Hunt Slonem ■

BY D OM IN IQUE N AH AS

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SPECIFICATIONS ■ More than 600 color illustrations ■ 272 pages, 11 × 14" ■ Clothbound hardcover

Profuse. Profound.

Transcendent.

Jubilant. In life as in art, Hunt Slonem is all of these things and more

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■ The ideal introduction to a popular and highly public artist, featured in multiple blogs and YouTube videos ■ Perfect for fans of contemporary art or Slonem’s successful Tiffany ceramics collection, introduced in 2008 ■ Coincides with major retrospectives at several U.S. museums

Just in time

for several major

ISBN 978-0-86565-265-1

retrospectives, The Worlds of Hunt Slonem investigates

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the life and work of a fascinating artist. Once the enfant terrible of New York’s art world, Hunt Slonem (b. 1951) depicts both natural subjects—birds and butterflies—and portraits—voodoo saints and Abraham Lincoln—in his jubilant, singular paintings. Using multiplicity as a governing

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principle, Slonem has created a body of work as inimitable as it is recognizable. This in-depth monograph, which features more than 600 vibrant illustrations, reveals what informs and influences this original and enigmatic artist.

Dominique Nahas is an art critic and independent curator based in Manhattan. He is also a regular reviewer for Art in America and other publications, teaches art history at Pratt

Donald Sultan ISBN 978-0-86565-192-0 US $75.00

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Institute, and is critic-in-residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art Hoff berger School of Painting.

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Medieval Ivory Carvings EA RLY C H RIST I A N TO R O M A N E S Q U E ■

BY PAUL WI LL I A M S O N

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This authoritative,

■ 450 color illustrations ■ 480 pages, 9¾ × 11"

accessible survey is the first since 1927 devoted entirely

■ Hardcover

to ivories of the Middle Ages. Color photographs display the V&A’s significant collection, which is especially strong

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in Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon, and English Romanesque

ART

examples. Following an essay on the V&A’s collecting and study of these masterpieces, the book features major

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works from every era of the period: the Symmachi Panel

■ The first catalogue on the material in more than 75 years

from late antiquity; the front cover of the Lorsch Gospels

■ Includes 120 new photographs of exquisitely carved items

St Nicholas Crozier; the enigmatic whalebone carving

from the Carolingian era; the Ottonian Basilewsky Situla; the Veroli Casket from 10th-century Byzantium; the of the Adoration of the Magi from the Romanesque 12th century; and numerous others. Each entry provides a full physical and scholarly discussion, synthesizing the exist-

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nonreturnable

Paul Williamson is keeper of sculpture, metalwork, ISBN 978-1-85177-612-2 US $150.00

ceramics, and glass at the V&A. He has written and

CAN $195.00

lectured extensively on medieval ivory carvings. His

15000

many books include Gothic Sculpture 1140–1300 and Netherlandish Sculpture.

At Home In Renaissance Italy SPECIFICATIONS

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■ 350 color illustrations

Now

■ 420 pages, 9¾ × 11¼"

draws together an impressive range of ideas and objects—

■ Paperback

from sumptuous paintings and textiles to kitchen utensils,

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in paperback, At Home in Renaissance Italy

popular prints, jewelry, and everyday dress—to reveal

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how the homes of the upper and middle classes made a

INTERIOR DESIGN •

crucial contribution to the flowering of the visual arts in

ART HISTORY

15th- and 16th-century Italy. Drawing on a wide array of sources, including contemporary letters, inventories, and archaeological surveys, and presenting luminous works by

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artists such as Ghirlandaio, Titian, Della Robbia, and other

■ Now in paperback

Renaissance masters, it offers a completely fresh and

■ A comprehensive resource and visual reference ■ The first in-depth look at the place of the Renaissance house in Renaissance art and culture

in-depth exploration of the fascinating domestic world of Renaissance Italy.

Marta Ajmar curated the related V&A exhibition The Renaissance Home and works in the research department at the V&A. Flora Dennis is a research fellow at the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior.

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Iranian Textiles ■

BY JENNIF E R W E AR D E N AN D PAT R IC IA L . B A K ER

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Lush new photography of exquisite textiles made in Persia from 1795 to 1925

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 180 color illustrations ■ 176 pages, 10 × 12" ■ Hardcover RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICA

Sumptuous

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Iranian textiles from the

ART • DECORATIVE ARTS

V&A’s unrivalled collection are displayed in this beautiful book. A new title in a successful series, Iranian Textiles

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presents more than 200 examples produced during the

■ Full of inspiration for interior and textile designers

first half of the 19th century, with close-up photographs that reveal the unique woven, printed, and embroidered designs.

Jennifer Wearden is former senior curator of textiles at the V&A. She continues to work with the museum’s collections and is an honorary research fellow. Patricia L. Baker (1942–2008) was a lecturer, consultant, and author

■ Gorgeous photographs showcase the works, published here for the first time in color ■ A new title from the V&A’s successful textile series

specializing in the study of Islamic textiles and glass.

ISBN 978-1-85177-615-3 US $55.00

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Toiles de Jouy FRENCH PRINT E D C OT TON S, 1 7 6 0– 1 8 30 ■

BY SARAH GR AN T

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V& A P UB LISHING

Made famous

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by Marie

■ 140 color illustrations

Antoinette and Empress Josephine, toile de Jouy, a family

■ 144 pages, 10 × 12"

of charming printed fabrics, has recently enjoyed a vibrant

■ Hardcover

revival. This unique introduction from the V&A Textile

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series explores the history, design, and dyeing and print-

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ing of this popular fabric.

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Exquisite close-up photographs showcase the V&A’s extensive toile collection and the cotton’s diverse and

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delightful designs—floral, literary, antique, allegorical,

■ A must-have resource for designers, textile enthusiasts, and fans of this popular fabric

bucolic, and “exotic,” among others—offering inspiration to everyone with an interest in textiles and interiors.

Sarah Grant is an assistant curator of prints at the V&A, and formerly an assistant curator in the museum’s textiles and dress section.

■ The newest title in the successful V&A Textile series

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■ Sumptuous photographs show close-up details as well as entire garments

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ISBN 978-1-85177-617-7 US $55.00

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Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909–1929 ■

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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Sergei Diaghilev’s famed Ballets Russes, which expanded the frontiers of theater and the dance forever

SPECIFICATIONS ■ 240 color illustrations ■ 240 pages, 9½ × 12" ■ Hardcover RIGHTS: NORTH AMERICA PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER ART • PERFORMING ARTS

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■ A major touring exhibition on Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes opens at the V&A in fall 2010 ■ Published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first performance of the Ballet Russes ■ The book features previously unpublished objects, including the V&A’s renowned Ballets Russes costumes ■ People who are passionate about dance, theater, art, fashion, or music will embrace this comprehensive book

While

the early 20th century was rich with

creative energy, no one brought theater and dance to the forefront of culture quite like Sergei Diaghilev did with his extraordinary Ballets Russes. From 1909 to 1929, the Ballets Russes attracted the involvement of major artists, composers, and designers. Now, on the 100th anniversary of the company’s first performance, this book delves into a rarely seen V&A collection to explore Diaghilev’s life and work, and the creative process behind his spectacular ballet productions. Featuring works by Picasso, Stravinsky, Chanel, and many others, this beautiful book showcases artistic collaboration at its finest, and traces the origins, development, and long-term influence of the Ballets Russes.

ISBN 978-1-85177-613-9 US $55.00

Jane Pritchard is curator of dance at the V&A. Geoffrey

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Marsh is director of the Theatre and Performance Collections at the V&A.

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400 Years of Fashion ■

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Now

■ 120 color and black-and-white

with a new jacket, this breathtaking

overview of 400 years of Western dress is a lively history

illustrations

of fashion that stands as a classic in its field. With 120

■ 176 pages, 8¼ × 11"

illustrations, the book is a visual delight that draws on

■ Paperback

the V&A’s unrivaled apparel collection. From a dress

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worn at the court of George II in the 1700s to Vivienne

FASHION

Westwood’s contemporary Pirates Collection, to pieces by leading designers such as Fortuny, Poiret, Charles James,

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and John Galliano, this book is an outstanding resource

■ Covers more than 400 years of fashion, using spectacular examples from the V&A’s collection

that also features a wide range of accessories, including

■ The perfect book for anyone interested in the social and aesthetic evolution of apparel

dress at the V&A.

shoes, fans, and hats.

Natalie Rothstein was formerly keeper of textiles and

“Excellent . . . fascinating” —Collections

ISBN 978-1-85177-301-5 US $39.95

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British Asian Style FASH ION & T E X T I L E S / PAST & P R E S E N T

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E D IT E D BY C HR I STO PHER B R EWA R D, PHI L I P C R A N G , A N D R O S EM A RY CR IL L

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■ 180 color illustrations

East and West

■ 208 pages, 8¼ × 11"

gorgeous exploration of South Asian textiles and their

intersect in this

influence on British fashion and dress. From 17th-century

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chintzes to 19th-century silks and paisleys to the oriental-

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ism craze of the 1960s, these lush, patterned fabrics

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have long had an impact on Western style. Complete with stunning photographs of items from the V&A’s collections, as well as historical images and more recent

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photos of catwalk and street fashions, the book focuses

■ Required reading for contemporary fashion or textile enthusiasts

on contemporary British Asian designers, South Asian

■ Beautiful illustrations from leading designers, plus images of fashion-forward celebrities such as Madonna and the Beatles

textile production, and the presence of South Asian style in shops and urban spaces.

Christopher Breward is head of research at the V&A. Philip Crang is professor of cultural geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Rosemary Crill is senior curator in the Asian department at the V&A.

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The V&A THE WORLD’ S G REATEST MU SE U M OF A RT & D E S I G N ■

BY LUCY T RE N C H

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An insider’s guide to the wonderful and diverse treasures of the Victoria and Albert Museum

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■ The V&A is the world’s greatest museum of art and design ■ Highlights of the V&A’s collections include fabulous fashions, exquisite jewelry, stunning silver and ceramics, and much more ■ For anyone interested in art and design

The Victoria

and Albert Museum,

London, was founded in 1837, and since that time it has grown to be one of the world’s greatest museums. This lasting celebration of this unique and much-loved institution reveals the often surprising range of its collections, and is a fascinating introduction to its treasures.

The V&A’s riches include ancient textiles, modern chairs, sculpture by Michelangelo, paintings by Constable and Raphael, photographs by Cartier-Bresson, fabulous Indian jewelry and miniatures, 10" platform heels by Vivienne Westwood, wallpaper designs by William Morris, Leonardo’s Codex Forster I, and more than 34,000 ceramics. The chronological and cultural ranges of the V&A’s collections and displays offer many different perspectives.

The objects can be seen as examples of craftsmanship and design, as witnesses to history and culture, or simply as superb works of art—things of beauty in and of themselves.

ISBN 978-1-85177-508-8

Lucy Trench is interpretation editor at the V&A. She is the

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author of Buildings and Monuments in the Royal Parks and editor of Materials and Techniques in the Decorative Arts.

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FASHION IN DETAIL SERIES ■ “Meticulously detailed as well as gorgeous . . . The color photographs—which cover page after page and capture these intricate designs in close-up—are the main source of delight.” —Time Out London

SPECIFICATIONS

Underwear

■ 100 color illustrations and 90 line drawings

FASH ION I N D E TA I L

■ 224 pages, 9 × 11¾"

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Get intimately

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acquainted with

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this eye-opening visual history. From camisoles to corsets,

■ The essential visual reference for any student of fashion

basques to boudoir caps, Underwear: Fashion in Detail traces the peculiar evolution of underwear. Revealing photographs highlight close-up details in the garments, while intricate line drawings show their masterly construc-

■ The book features famous pieces by Christian Dior, Vivienne Westwood, and many others

tion. A wide range of designs is represented, from rare 16th-century examples to Dior’s curvaceous New Look, to Calvin Klein’s notorious briefs.

■ The newest title in the highly successful Fashion in Detail series

Eleri Lynn is a fashion curator at the V&A and was the assistant curator of the V&A’s major exhibition The Golden Age of Couture (V&A 2007). She contributed to the accompanying book of that title.

ISBN 978-1-85177-616-0 US $49.95

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Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail

Twentieth-Century Fashion in Detail

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A Shadow Falls ■

BY NICK B RAN DT

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AB RAMS

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In A Shadow Falls,

■ 58 tritone illustrations

which features 58 recent images in stunning, oversize

■ 132 pages, 15 × 12"

tritone plates, Nick Brandt continues his ambitious and

■ Hardcover with jacket

ongoing photographic project to memorialize the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa. Brandt’s wide-screen panoramas of animals and landscapes capture an epic vision of Africa that has not been seen before. His iconic portraits of its majestic animals are filled with an empathy

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usually reserved for human subjects.

From the opening images in A Shadow Falls, of a verdant world filled with multitudes of animals, to the closing images of small bands of creatures moving across a parched, dusty earth, Brandt portrays a mythic Africa Brandt, who has no use for telephoto lenses, closes in on the perfect shot with the patience of a predator— or an artist so in love with his subjects he could gaze until the end of time. —O, The Oprah magazine Brandt’s achingly gorgeous oversize black-

struggling against tragic forces. In years to come, we will look back at these powerful photographs and wonder why humanity did not do more to preserve this rare corner of earthly paradise.

Nick Brandt’s first book, On This Earth, is one of the most

ISBN 978-0-8109-5415-1

and-white photos capture the nobility and the

popular photography books of this decade. He lives in

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precarious future of East Africa’s dwindling

Topanga, California.

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animal populations. —USA Today

The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World ■

PHOTOG RAP H S BY GUIL L AUME D E L AUB I ER

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A BRA MS

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Now back

■ 200 color photographs

in print in its original format:

an internationally renowned photographer takes the reader on a journey to more than 20 of the most historic of the world’s libraries, all architectural treasures. National, scholarly, and religious libraries in 12 countries are fea-

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tured—from the dramatic, baroque Library of the Institut de France in Paris to the splendid Vatican Library in Rome and the famed New York Public Library, a Beaux-Arts masterpiece. The accompanying text traces the history of libraries to the present day, and describes how they came to serve famous personalities and men of letters.

“Offers a stunning variety of beautiful, ornate monuments to reading.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Have bookcases ever looked so grand?” —USA Today

ISBN 978-0-8109-4634-7

“The images show that a library is more than a

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glorified collection of shelves. It’s a monument to learning.” —Dallas Morning News

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BY AN GE L A FA R R I S WAT K I N S , PHD

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I LLU ST R AT ED BY ER I C V EL ASQU EZ

■ 32 pages

In this inspiring

■ Full color

Martin Luther King Jr.—told from the perspective of his

■ 9 × 11⅞”

young niece—readers will gain personal insight into one

story about

of the most influential figures of the 20th century. As

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Angela Farris Watkins introduces children to her uncle, she

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presents them with a rare glimpse into his life at home,

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including special family moments. What unfolds is a story

AGES 4 TO 8

of character and service to God, family, and mankind, and

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of how one man’s extraordinary love changed the history of the United States. Told with visually stunning art by Eric

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FRONT COVER Hellcat from Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool, © Yoshitomo Nara. Collection of Elizabeth Blair and Michael Kelter BACK COVER

Mona Gorilla by Rick Meyerowitz, from Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant,

Dead INSIDE FRONT COVER Marshmallow Chocolate Cups from Baked Explorations; photograph by Tina Rupp INSIDE BACK COVER

Doodle from Threadless by Jake Nickell

PAGE 1 Paper Shredder by Young Sung Lee, for the exhibition The Next Best … Ding, from Monumental by Kevin O’Callaghan PAGE 2 top: Hoth Snow Battle (The Empire Strikes the Rebel Stronghold) by Jason Askew from Star Wars: Visions, © 2010 Lucasfilm Ltd. and ™. All Rights Reserved.

Used Under Authorization; bottom: from Dogs, © Tim Flach. PAGE 3 top: from Portrait of Camelot, photograph by Cecil Stoughton/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; bottom: from Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman, KRAZY KAT and related characters copyright © 2010 King Features Syndicate, Inc. ™ Hearst Holdings, Inc. PAGE 5 © SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN. Printed by permission of the Norman Rockwell Family Agency PAGES 6–7 All images © Yoshitomo Nara. top left: Courtesy Aomori Museum of Art, Japan; top right: Courtesy Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; middle: Courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; bottom left: Courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; bottom right: © graf. Courtesy Blum & Poe, Los Angeles PAGES 10–11 © Gregory Crewdson PAGE 12 images courtesy of The Vera Company PAGE 13 all images courtesy John Abbott PAGE 18 The Joker and Robin copyright © 2010 DC Comics. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Top right: copyright © 2010 Playbill, American Theatre Press, Inc. All other images courtesy Jerry Robinson copyright © 2010. All rights reserved. PAGE 19 top left: © James Victore; top right: Courtesy Nuts; middle left: Courtesy Time magazine; middle right: Courtesy Esquire magazine; bottom left: Courtesy School of Visual Arts; bottom right: © James Victore PAGES 20–21 ™ ® & © 2010 CBS Studios Inc. STAR TREK and related marks are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved. Page 20, center row, right: courtesy of Curt McAloney, David Tilotta, and Dave Rohlf at startrekhistory.com; bottom row, left: courtesy of Richard G. Van Treuren; bottom row, center: courtesy of Megomuseum.com; bottom row, right: courtesy of Christie’s Inc. PAGE 23 (and PAGE 25 (top to bottom) MYKO Photography; Tia Magallon; MYKO Photography; Buddi Sherman PAGE 29 Images courtesy VK Projects, The Netherlands PAGE 32 All images © Albert Watson. Cover shown is concept only and subject to change. PAGE 33 All images © Kidrobot. Top: Da TeamBronx; middle: Junko Mizuno; bottom left: Joe Ledbetter; bottom right: Shawnimals PAGE 36 Images courtesy Musée d’Orsay, Paris PAGE 37 cover image: Don Freeman; top right: Susan Sherman, courtesy Estate of Wharton Esherick; middle: Bret Morgan; bottom: Bret Morgan PAGE 40 images copyright © 2010 George Dean PAGE 41 Courtesy of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the Butler Library, Columbia University PAGES 42–43 All images © Tim Flach.

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by Daniel E. Greene, N.A.; Untitled by Moebius; Luke’s Lesson by Jacob A. Pfeiffer; Runaway Slave by Bill Patterson; Dawn of Maul by Will Wilson; The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of by Peter Ferk. Page 51: Regrets by Masey (Cover Not Final). PAGE 52 cover image: Thomas Deerinck, Mark Ellisman; top right: Tamily Weissman, Jeff Lichtman, Joshua Sanes; middle: drawing by Santiago Ramon Cajal, courtesy of Dr. Juan A. de Carlos, Cajal Legacy, Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Madrid; bottom: Henning U. Voss, Nicholas D. Schiff PAGE 53 All images Emanuele Mascioni PAGES 54–55 All images © Andrew Zuckerman. Cover shown is concept only and subject to change. PAGES 56–57 Cecil Stoughton/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum PAGE 58 All images © 2010 Tempest Productions LLC PAGE 59 middle image: Courtesy Bob Penn; bottom image: Franco Zeffirelli PAGE 63 Text and illustrations copyright © 2010 Mini Kim Holland B.V. Licensed with TLC. PAGE 64 top: from Bunny Williams’ Scrapbook for Living, photograph by Amy Archer; bottom: from Good Meat, photograph

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CATEGORY INDEX OF NEW TITLES

Monet 36 Paris Between the Wars 1919–1939 134

ARCHITECTURE

Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman 23 Night Bookmobile, The 16

Picasso 125

Shazam! 46

Powerful Headdresses 112

The Horror! The Horror! 47

Royal Academy Illustrated 2010 116

Star Wars: Visions 51

Ian Ritchie 118

Telling Stories 5

Faeries Deluxe Collector’s Edition 17

FASHION 400 Years of Fashion 140 British Asian Style 140

Rude Britannia 126

Architecture at the Royal Academy 118

FANTASY

Eternal Chanel 24 Louis Vuitton: 100 Legendary Trunks 61

Irish Country House, The 127

Tilson 117

P.S.-I Made This 98

Joseph Urban 41

Toiles de Jouy 137

Threadless 105

Lars Bolander’s Scandinavian Design 128

V&A, The 141

Underwear (Fashion in Detail) 142

Vorticists, The 126

Vera 12

Paris Between the Wars 1919–1939 134 Peter Pennoyer Architects 133

Worlds of Hunt Slonem, The 135

CRAFT

Yoshitomo Nara 6

Crafting a Meaningful Home 75 Material Obsession 2 82

Wharton Esherick 37 ART HISTORY ART Afro Modern 121

At Home in Renaissance Italy 136 Vorticists, The 126

Yves Saint Laurent 4 Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture 4

Modern Top-Down Knitting 83 More Last-Minute Knitted Gifts 77

FILM

P.S.-I Made This 98

Franco Zeffirelli 59

Wee Wonderfuls 67

Hitchcock, Piece by Piece 28

Ahmed Mater Aseeri 115

Making of Avatar, The 27

Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights 102

DECORATIVE ARTS

Reefer Movie Madness 106

Iranian Textiles 137

Arshile Gorky 120 Artists of Nigeria 113 Babembe Sculpture 113

DESIGN

Benin (Visions of Africa) 114

I Am Plastic, Too 33

Chris Ofili 119

Lars Bolander’s Scandinavian Design 128

BIOGRAPHY

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909–1929 139

Joseph Urban 41

Don’t Art, Fashion, Music 115

World of Gloria Vanderbilt, The 49

Geometry Beyond Limits 110

Young Michelangelo 129

Monumental 25 Toiles de Jouy 137 Wharton Esherick 37

How to Paint Like Turner 123 How to Read World History in Art 8

COLLECTIBLES

Iranian Textiles 137

Chess Masterpieces 40

John Carter 116 Laboratory Obsession 110 Lost Lives, Lost Art 131 Louise Bourgeois (Tate Modern Artists) 124 Medieval Ivory Carvings 136

ENVIRONMENT

Jerry Robinson 18

Baked Explorations 81 Bettane and Desseauve’s Guide to the Wines of France 91

Earth From Above, 10th Anniversary Edition 38

Canning for a New Generation 71

FAMILY

Drinkology: Revised and Updated 78

COMICS Archie Marries… 44

FOOD & WINE

Beyond the Family Tree 74

Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes 101

Food Heroes 79 Good Eats 2 66

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Good Meat 73

INTERIOR DESIGN

PARENTING

Star Wars: Visions 51

Grands Crus Classés 90

Allegra Hicks 53

Threadless 105

World’s Best Whiskies, The 86

At Home in Renaissance Italy 136

Grandmother Remembers Holidays 68

Bunny Williams’ Scrapbook for Living 88

PERFORMING ARTS

Frank Fontana’s Dirty Little Secrets of Design 92

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909–1929 139

Irish Country House, The 127

Franco Zeffirelli 59

Lars Bolander’s Scandinavian Design 128

RELATIONSHIPS Beyond the Family Tree 74

Hitchcock, Piece by Piece 28 Tempest, The 58

Peter Pennoyer Architects 133 Timeless Elegance 87 PETS GRAPHIC ART

Dogs 43

Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman 23

JEWELRY

Even Bad Dogs Go to Heaven 22

Living Jewels 132

Shazam! 46 The Horror! The Horror! 47

LITERATURE Tempest, The 58

GRAPHIC DESIGN Poster, The 29

SCIENCE

Charlotte Perriand: Photography 111

Portraits of the Mind 52

Dogs 43 MUSIC

Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss? 19

PHOTOGRAPHY

Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights 102 Boombox Project, The 103

Earth From Above, 10th Anniversary Edition 38

SCIENCE FICTION Star Trek The Original Series 365 21

Egypt 62

GRAPHIC NOVEL

Max’s Kansas City 99

Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe 85

Archie Marries . . . 44

Music 55

Laboratory Obsession 110

18 Game-Changing Lessons 70

Jerry Robinson 18

Saxophone Colossus 13

Mary McCartney 35

Fifty Places to Hike Before You Die 84

Mug Shots 30

Night Bookmobile, The 16

SPORTS

Music 55 HEALTH & BEAUTY Nigel Barker’s Beauty Equation 97

Photobooth 31

TEXTILES

Portrait of Camelot 56

British Asian Style 140

Sanctuary 11

Underwear (Fashion in Detail) 142

UFO 32

HISTORY

Wild Wonders of Europe 9

Lost Lives, Lost Art 131

TRAVEL Irish Country House, The 127

Mug Shots 30 Portrait of Camelot 56

Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe 85

HUMOR Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead 14 Love Is . . .All Around 63 Understand Rap 107

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Boombox Project, The 103

WEDDINGS

I Am Plastic, Too 33

Simple Stunning Wedding Organizer 93

Making of Avatar, The 27 Max’s Kansas City 99 Star Trek The Original Series 365 21

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INDEX OF NEW TITLES

18 Game-Changing Lessons 70

Eternal Chanel 24

Max’s Kansas City 99

Underwear (Fashion in Detail) 142

400 Years of Fashion 140

Even Bad Dogs Go to Heaven 22

Medieval Ivory Carvings 136

V&A, The 141

Afro Modern 121

Faeries Deluxe Collector’s Edition 17

Modern Top-Down Knitting 83

Vera 12

Monet 36

Fifty Places to Hike Before You Die 84

Monumental 25

Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss? 19

More Last-Minute Knitted Gifts 77

Vorticists, The 126

Mug Shots 30

Wee Wonderfuls 69

Music 55

Wharton Esherick 37

Nigel Barker’s Beauty Equation 97

Wild Wonders of Europe 9

Night Bookmobile, The 16

World of Gloria Vanderbilt, The 49

P.S.-I Made This 98

World’s Best Whiskies, The 86

Paris Between the Wars 1919–1939 134

Worlds of Hunt Slonem, The 135 Yoshitomo Nara 6

Peter Pennoyer Architects 133

Young Michelangelo 129

Photobooth 31

Yves Saint Laurent 4

Picasso 125

Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture 4

Ahmed Mater Aseeri 115 Allegra Hicks 53 Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights 102

Food Heroes 79

Archie Marries . . . 44

Franco Zeffirelli 59

Architecture at the Royal Academy 118

Frank Fontana’s Dirty Little Secrets of Design 92

Arshile Gorky 120

Good Eats 2 66

Artists of Nigeria 113

Good Meat 73

At Home in Renaissance Italy 136

Grandmother Remembers Holidays 68

Babembe Sculpture 113 Baked Explorations 81 Benin (Visions of Africa) 114 Bettane and Desseauve’s Guide to the Wines of France 91

Grands Crus Classés 90 Hitchcock, Piece by Piece 28 How to Paint Like Turner 123 How to Read World History in Art 8

Beyond the Family Tree 74

I Am Plastic, Too 33

Boombox Project, The 103

Ian Ritchie: Lines 118

British Asian Style 140

Iranian Textiles 137

Bunny Williams’ Scrapbook for Living 88

Irish Country House, The 127

Canning for a New Generation 71

Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe 85

Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes 101

Jerry Robinson 18

Charlotte Perriand: Photography 111

Joseph Urban 41

John Carter 116

Chess Masterpieces 40

Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman 23

Chris Ofili 119

Laboratory Obsession 110

Crafting a Meaningful Home 75

Lars Bolander’s Scandinavian Design 128

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909–1929 139 Dogs 43

Living Jewels 132 Lost Lives, Lost Art 131

Portrait of Camelot 56 Portraits of the Mind 52 Poster, The 29 Powerful Headdresses 112 Reefer Movie Madness 106 Royal Academy Illustrated 2010 116 Rude Britannia 126 Sanctuary 11 Saxophone Colossus 13 Shazam! 46 Simple Stunning Wedding Organizer 93 Star Trek The Original Series 365 21 Star Wars: Visions 51 Telling Stories 5 Tempest, The 58

Don’t Art, Fashion, Music 115

Louis Vuitton: 100 Legendary Trunks 61

Drinkology: Revised and Updated 78

Louise Bourgeois (Tate Modern Artists) 124

Threadless 105

Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead 14

Love Is . . . All Around 63

Timeless Elegance 87

Earth From Above, 10th Anniversary Edition 38

Making of Avatar, The 27

Toiles de Jouy 137

Mary McCartney 35

UFO 32

Egypt 62

Material Obsession 2 82

Understand Rap 107

The Horror! The Horror! 47

Tilson 117

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