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A stunning visual story of a place of wonder and mystique for every American, this book features what is legendary and beloved about Alaska, a land of magnificent wilderness and beauty, virtually untouched by human ambition. It also focuses on the key point of interest in the state today: endangered Bristol Bay, which faces potential mining of the world's greatest deposits of copper and gold. Its pristine waters are the worlds' biggest salmon spawning grounds. If the gold is mined, the ecosystem is destroyed -but the impoverished locals have work for the next half-century. After that, the salmon and the mines are gone. Melford, paired with noted environmental storyteller David Atcheson, addresses the dilemma by bowling us over with the beauty and importance of the place for all time. Underwritten by the Renewable Resources Coalition, the book will be distributed among its more than 5,000 members.

Introducing the first collection of art books with detachable prints to decorate your walls. Everything you need to create your own private gallery at home! Plays on light and color from Japanese woodblock prints to Rothko's white cloud on a brilliant orange background. Each book contains a curated selection of twenty-one high-quality reproductions that can be easily removed from the book, framed in a standard-size frame, and displayed in the home. Step-by-step tips for grouping the works to create a harmonious gallery add an interior designer's touch to the ensemble. Graphic, colorful, or abstract; paintings, engravings, or drawings--each work of art is explained on the back of the print. Interesting details about the style of painting, the particular work of art, and biographical information about the artist are accompanied by a "frameable fact" that helps you understand the context of that particular work in the history of art. In addition, suggestions for where you can go to see additional examples of the artists' works allow the reader to expand his or her experience and learning. Artists include John Constable, Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Edgar Degas, Nicolas de Staël, Hermione Carline, Eugène Delacroix, René Magritte, Helen White, and Mark Rothko.

The architectural style of the classic American summer, the shingled house can suggest the beach, the countryside, the mountains, and even the city. AD100 architects Ike Kligerman Barkley, one of the most successful firms practicing in a traditional style today, presents 14 houses that celebrate the simple wood shingle's infinite flexibility--ranging from richly historic to sculptural and experimental. The New Shingled House includes examples throughout the fabled seaside resorts of New England--Martha's Vineyard, Block Island, and the Hamptons--as well as houses in California's Bay Area and Point Loma, on a pristine mountain lake in South Carolina, and a Scandinavian influenced family residence in Connecticut. All are characterized by a sense of graciousness and generosity that makes them unique spaces for the owners and enviable spaces for readers. The versatility of the shingle style allows the designers to explore formal ideas and to respond to client preferences and taste. The houses thus achieve the architects' fundamental goal: when their clients enter their new house for the first time, they should feel as though they have always lived there. This stunning visual presentation features new photography by noted interiors photographer William Waldron, who has captured the graciousness and generosity of the elegant interiors and welcoming porches and terraces that make these houses so inviting and timeless.

During the pivotal years between the world wars, Surrealist artists on both sides of the Atlantic responded through their works to the rise of Hitler and the spread of Fascism in Europe, resulting in a period of surprising brilliance and fertility. Monstrosities in the real world bred monsters in paintings and sculpture, on film, and in the pages of journals and artists' books. Despite the political and personal turmoil brought on by the Spanish Civil War and World War II, avant-garde artists in Europe and those who sought refuge in the United States pushed themselves to create some of the most potent and striking images of the Surrealist movement. Trailblazing essays by four experts in the field trace the experimental and international extent of Surrealist art during these years--and, perhaps most unexpectedly of all, its irrepressible beauty.

The inimitable style of renowned French interior designer Madeleine Castaing, chronicled in-depth for the first time. While many were drumming to the beat of modernism in the early- and mid-twentieth century, French antiquaire and decorator Madeleine Castaing created her own look that was a unique blend of neoclassicism, Proustian romanticism, and pure wit. Her distinctive aesthetic vision has inspired tastemakers on both sides of the Atlantic, and her devotees--both then and now--are legion. Ocelot carpeting, opaline blue, "coolie" lampshades, and an eclectic mix of neoclassical furnishings ranging from English Regency to Napoleon III all formed part of the vocabulary of "le style Castaing." This lavishly illustrated volume--the first on her work--explores in-depth the elements of her style, and examines how she crafted interiors so emotive that visitors felt that they had stepped into a Balzac novel or a Proustian recollection. Her entire life and career are chronicled, from her early years in Montparnasse, the epicenter of artistic activity in Paris, to her incomparable country house Leves and her legendary shop on rue Jacob in Paris.

The first book to explore the extraordinary musical life and remarkable paintings of one of America's greatest ever songwriters. Best known for having written and produced some of the seminal records of American popular culture--from 'Big Girls Don't Cry' for the Four Seasons to 'Silence is Golden' for the Tremeloes and 'Lady Marmalade' for LaBelle--Bob Crewe was a multifaceted artist for whom a passion for painting and the visual arts provided a lifelong counterbalance to music. Collected here are more than 80 of Bob Crewe's artworks, stretching from his first forays into abstract expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s to more complex, tactile compositions made on his full-time return to painting in the 1990s--accompanied by archival images and ephemera that reflect Crewe's simultaneous contribution to popular music. Essays by Jessica May and Peter Plagens explore the development of an artist whose influences ranged from Rauschenberg and Johns to Warhol and Bacon; legendary record producer Andrew Loog Oldham captures the period of radical experimentalism in which Crewe wrote many of the most memorable songs in the canon of modern pop; and Donald Albrecht's introduction ties together the many complementary aspects of Crewe's personal and creative lives.

Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886-1954) fue el representante más eminente de la gran «tradición alemana». Considerado, junto con Karajan, Bernstein o Carlos Kleiber, uno de los más legendarios directores de orquesta del siglo XX, por sus interpretaciones -donde algunos creen traslucir cierta noción de verdad-, Furtwängler fue y será siempre, para muchos, una especie de oráculo. La valía de su legado es más que evidente y sus grabaciones continúan siendo una referencia. Pero la clave de su permanencia en el inconsciente colectivo trasciende lo estrictamente musical. Para la política cultural nazi, la música jugó un papel de suma relevancia, destinada a cimentar la superioridad del pueblo alemán, su grandeza y eternidad, lo que llevó a apropiarse de los grandes clásicos alemanes y austríacos bajo la denominación ideológica de «música alemana». Sin la participación de los músicos coetáneos, dicha política cultural del Reich no hubiese sido posible.

El 27 de mayo de 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart se encontró en una tienda vienesa con un coqueto estornino que cantó una versión improvisada del tema de su Concierto para piano n.º 17 en sol mayor. Al percibir un espíritu afín en el joven pájaro, lo compró y se lo llevó a casa como mascota. Durante tres años, el estornino vivió con Mozart, influyendo en su obra y sirviéndole de compañero, distracción, consuelo y musa. Dos siglos después, los estorninos son vilipendiados incluso por los conservacionistas más compasivos. Como especie invasora no autóctona, invaden hábitats sensibles, compiten con las aves locales por los lugares de anidación y el alimento, y diezman los cultivos. La ornitóloga y naturalista Lyanda Lynn Haupt conoce bien las tensas relaciones de estas aves con otras especies y el medio ambiente. Pero, tras rescatar a una cría de estornino, quedó encantada con esa inteligencia y el espíritu juguetón que habían maravillado a su compositor favorito. Haupt explora el improbable y extraordinario vínculo entre uno de los compositores más apreciados de la historia y uno de los pájaros más comunes de la Tierra. Las historias entrelazadas de la mascota de Mozart y del estornino de Haupt ofrecen una insólita mirada a la amistad entre humanos y animales, al mundo secreto de los estorninos y a la naturaleza de la inspiración creativa.