Books from Bulfinch Press
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Two Looks to Home: The Art of Tommy Simpson
By Tommy SimpsonTwo Looks to Home is a most unusual illustrated memoir/art book, illuminating his unique sensibility and how the work of an artist comes to be.
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The Thomas Kinkade Story: A 20-year Chronology of the Artist
By Thomas Kinkade, Rick BarnettProvides a retrospective of two decades of inspirational artwork, tracing the various periods in Thomas Kinkade's career, from his earliest days to his rise to critical and commercial success.
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Studio St. Petersburg
By Deborah TurbevilleWith brief texts drawn from the memoirs of artists and writers who experienced both Czarist and Communist rule, Studio St. Petersburg brilliantly summons up the lost world of imperial St. Petersburg and the embattled, brilliant culture of ...
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Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess
By Danny Sugerman, Daniel SugermanExcessive, scandalous, comic, cautionary and horrifying, it chronicles the 60s dream gone-to-rot and the early life of a Hollywood Wild Child who was just brilliant at being bad.
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Art and Architecture of Spain
By Xavier Barral i Altet, Javier ArceOrganized chronologically and spanning some 30,000 years, this volume surveys activity in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, and applied arts, focusing on masterworks and the major artistic personalities of each period.
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Historic Samplers: Selected from Museums and Historic Homes : with 30 Cross-stitch Charts for Authentic Reproduction
By Patricia Ryan, Allen D. BragdonAn illustrated introduction offers insight into the role samplers played in the lives of young girls and describes many of the technical characteristics common to the extraordinary works selected for this collection.
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Haunter of Ruins: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin
By Patricia Brady, John H. Lawrence, Clarence John LaughlinCompiled by the Historic New Orleans Collection, this volume brings together an eerie gallery of French Quarter facades, funerary sculpture, and other details that summon up the Acadian gothic described by six distinguished writers. 69 ...
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Landscapes of the Spirit
By William NeillA brilliant photographic account of the wonders of nature details the splendor, magic, and subtle, spiritual beauty of earthly creations and features sections accompanied by literary samplings from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rachel Carson, Annie ...
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The Gourmet Garden: The Fruits of the Garden Transported to the Table
By Geraldene HoltThis book guides the novice as well as the experienced gardener step-by-step along the delicious path to growing the very best kitchen produce. 120 color photographs; 30 full-color illustrations.
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Air and Space: The National Air and Space Museum Story of Flight
By Andrew ChaikinDepicts the milestones of aviation and spaceflight, from the first hot-air balloon to the Wright brothers, the Apollo moon landing, and beyond
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With Downcast Eyes: A Novel
By Tahar Ben JellounA young Moroccan girl in Paris confronts the sophistication of an unfamiliar country and the weight of a prophecy stating that she will one day discover a treasure that will save her Berber community. By the author of Sacred Night.
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Chasing Rainbows: Collecting American Indian Trade & Camp Blankets
By Barry Friedman, James Hannon Collins, Gary DiamondMore than 350 full-color and black-and-white photographs highlight this comprehensive guide to the art of Indian trade blankets, tracing the history of this beautiful Native American craft, offering helpful tips on caring for vintage ...
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André Kertész: His Life and Work
By André Kertész, Pierre BorhanThe first major retrospective of the celebrated photographer offers a complete overview of his life and career, from his early work in Hungary to his later use of "distortions," with essays by Laszlo Beke, Dominique Baque, and Jane ...
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Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses
By Ellis Peters, Robin Whiteman, Rob TalbotMore than 140 color illustrations accompany this one-year visit with a fictional twelfth-century monk, following him on his rounds as Shrewsbury's apothecary and healer, and teach readers about hundreds of herbs and their remedial powers.
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Ansel Adams at 100: A Postcard Folio Book
By Ansel Adams, John SzarkowskiThis postcard book features photographs that appear in the centennial book Ansel Adams at 100 and the accompanying touring exhibition of 2001/2002.
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Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
By Museum of Modern Art, John Szarkowski, N.Y.)Features new duotone reproductions of one hundred landmark photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art that chronicle the historical evolution of the photographic arts in works by Adams, Weston, Stieglitz, Steichen, and ...
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Secret Gardens: Revealed by Their Owners
By Rosemary VereyAll the secret gardens in this book are real, not imaginary, although they posses the beauty and mystery of their forebears.
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Georges Seurat, Drawings
By Georges Seurat, Bernd Growe, Erich FranzPublished on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, and Kunsthaus Zeurich, 1983/84.
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Muhammad Ali: Ringside
By John MillerIncorporating Ali's personal memorabilia and vintage photographs, a collection of essays celebrates the life and career of the legendary boxer
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Awash in Color: Homer, Sargent, and the Great American Watercolor
By Carol Troyen, Sue Welsh ReedFeatures the most beautiful watercolors in the impressive collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.