Green : The History Of a Color

Julia Cameron

A year's worth of creative inspiration from "The Queen of Change" (The New York Times) The Daily Artist's Way is an inspirational collection of 365 daily reminders for a creative life, all from Julia Cameron, whose book The Artist's Way has transformed the lives of millions. Now, readers can easily and immediately apply Artist's Way practices to their lives day by day with this...

Laurence Leamer

From the New York Times bestselling author of Capote's Women comes an astonishing account of the revolutionary artist Andy Warhol and his scandalous relationships with the ten women he deemed his "Superstars"."Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil," Andy Warhol confessed, "of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them." Obsessed w...

Benoît Gallot / Casanave, Daniel / Arielle Aaronson

From the head curator of the most famous cemetery in the world--a moving story about a place where joy, grief, and wild nature converge in unexpected and inspiring ways. "Père-Lachaise in Paris, whose tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and many other artistic icons have made it a popular tourist draw, has become a haven for wildlife."--from the New York Times prof...

Charlier, Philippe

Discover the wonderfully eerie supernatural beings of Japanese lore in this magnificent hardcover edition which features an elegant silk coating as well as coloured edges and closing straps. Yo¯kai ghosts are a significant aspect of Japanese culture. In turns terrifying, playful and mischievous, they can take the form of malevolent spirits, seeking a place in the afterlife, or ...

Richard Aste / Lisa Small / Cora Michael

This splendid volume featuring fifty-nine works from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned European collection celebrates France as the artistic centre of international modernism from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II were characterised by profound social, intellectual and political change in France. T...

Brian Eno / Bette Adriaanse

Why do we need art? What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us. Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full of ideas and life, it is an inspiring call to imagine a different future. ...

Michel Pastoureau

¿Qué tienen en común el caballo de Troya y los jabalíes de Obélix, la famosa loba romana y el monstruo del lago Ness? ¿Qué sabemos realmente de los animales de la Biblia (la serpiente del pecado original), la Mitología (el Minotauro) y los cómics (Mickey, Donald?)? Gracias a su cordial erudición, el gran historiador Michel Pastoureau nos deleita, como en un diálogo que no quisi...

Michel Pastoureau

From the acclaimed author of Blue and other color histories, the beautifully illustrated story of pink, from the first ancient pigments to BarbiePink has such powerful associations today that it's hard to imagine the color could ever have meant anything different. But it's only since the introduction of the Barbie doll in 1959 that pink has become decisively feminized. Indeed, ...

Michel Pastoureau

u003cpu003eu003cbu003eFrom the acclaimed author of u003ciu003eBlueu003c/iu003e, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the presentu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eIn this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau—a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red—now traces the visual, soci...

Michel Pastoureau

u003cpu003eu003cbu003eA beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesu003c/bu003e u003cpu003eBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now cite it as their favorite color. In this fascinating history, the renowned medievalist M...

Michel Pastoureau

¿Qué queda de los colores de nuestra infancia? ¿Qué recuerdos conservamos? ¿Un conejo de peluche azul, un vestido rojo, una bicicleta de color amarillo? ¿Eran realmente de ese color? ¿Qué colores asociamos a nuestro primer amor, a nuestra vida adulta? ¿Transforma la memoria los colores a su antojo? ¿Por qué? Para tratar de responder a estas preguntas, y a muchas otras, Michel P...

Michel Pastoureau

u003cpu003eu003cbu003eA beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the agesu003c/bu003eu003c/pu003eu003cpu003eThe color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not just one color of ...