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Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the years since his death. With his paintings now breaking auction records (Egyptian Queen sold for $ 5.4 million in 2019) he’s long overdue for this ultimate monograph.Born to a Sicilian immigrant family in Brooklyn, 1928, Frazetta was a minor league athlete, petty criminal and serial seducer with movie star looks and phenomenal talent. He claimed to only make art when there was nothing better to do – he preferred playing baseball - yet began his professional career in comics at age 16. Strip work led him to the infamous EC Comics, then to oils for Tarzan and Conan pulp covers. Both characters were interpreted by many before him, but as he explained in the 1970s, “I’m very physical minded. In Brooklyn, I knew Conan, I knew guys just like him,” and he used this first-hand knowledge of muscle and macho to redefine fantasy heroes as more massive, more menacing, more testosterone-fueled than anything seen before. As counterbalance he created a new breed of women, nude as censorship allowed, with pixie faces and multiparous bodies: thick thighed, heavy buttocked, breasts cantilevered out to there, yet still, with their soft bellies and hints of cellulite, believably real. Add in the action, the creatures, the twilit worlds of haunting shadow and Frazetta’s art is addictive as potato chips.

"Es peligroso ser un hombre honesto". —Michael Corleone, El Padrino IIIComo fotógrafo especial en los platós y los exteriores de la trilogía El Padrino de Francis Ford Coppola, Steve Schapiro tuvo la oportunidad excepcional de presenciar el trabajo de actores legendarios en algunas de sus interpretaciones más memorables. Schapiro inmortalizó a Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Caan, Robert Duvall y Diane Keaton en fotos que desde entonces se han convertido en imágenes emblemáticas, reconocibles al instante e imitadas hasta la saciedad. Reunidas por primera vez en este libro están las mejores fotografías de Schapiro de las tres películas de El Padrino, cuidadosamente reproducidas a partir de los negativos originales. Con ensayos y entrevistas que cubren la trilogía en su integridad, este libro contiene más de 300 imágenes a color y en blanco y negro. Las imágenes de Schapiro nos llevan tras las escenas de esta epica e inimitable saga cinematográfica, revelando el proceso de trabajo del director, captando las atmósferas y las personalidades involucradas y proporcionando interioridades de cómo se hacía la historia del cine.

Featuring innovative home offices that are inventive, accessible, and often wonderfully serene, this book is a rich source of ideas and inspirations embracing the call to work from home! Pavilions, sheds, studios, extensions—call them what you will, architects around the globe are experimenting with attached or detached workplaces and creating imaginative ateliers that strain the limits of “miniature”; one is just 100 square feet. It is a worldwide adventure in architectural experimentation and originality.

Forgoing the criteria of stateliness and opulence, this book is an exploration of the most captivating and unusual interiors in Ireland. Whether in the transformation of a derelict estate, the preservation of an historic hunting lodge, or the re-creation of a Gothic fantasy, each of the homes in this extraordinary book reflects a renewed vitality in the contemporary approach to Irish country houses.

Multi-award-winning interior designer Natale takes readers deeper than ever before into his intricate approach to layering—the process of curating and editing elements to create warm, welcoming interiors.