Books from Abbeville Press Publishers
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Frank Lloyd Wright: America's Master Architect
By Kathryn SmithFrank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is unquestionably America's most celebrated architect. Even today, almost forty years after his death, he continues to tower over the architectural landscape. In fact, his career...
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A History of Women Photographers
By Naomi RosenblumWomen have had a special relationship with the camera since the advent of photographic technology in the mid-nineteenth century. Photographers celebrated women as their subjects, from intimate family portraits and...
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California Impressionism
By William H. Gerdts, Will SouthIn recent years, the richly colored, exuberantly painted canvases by artists such as Franz Bischoff, Alson Clark, Joseph Raphael, Guy Rose, and William Wendt have attracted an expanding circle of...
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Land of Nine Dragons: Vietnam Today
By Joseph R. YogerstMost accounts of contemporary Vietnam take the retrospective approach: veterans or correspondents return for the first time since the war and compare what they see today with memories of combat...
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Italian Frescoes: The Baroque Era, 1600-1800
By Steffi RoettgenThe fifth and final volume of the only comprehensive survey in modern times of the surviving Italian frescoes from the Baroque era, 1600 to 1800, this groundbreaking work is an...
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Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait
By Martha Frick Symington SangerWith unprecedented access to personal letters, private family diaries, and the Frick archives at the Frick Collection in New York City and at family residences in Pittsburgh, Martha Frick Symington...
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Maya Script: A Civilization and Its Writing
By María LonghenaThis volume presents about 200 Maya glyphs (symbolic figures). Some are ideograms (pictorial symbols representing things, not words); others are phonetic signs. The glyphs express people, animals, things, and such...
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The Great Wall of China
By Roland Michaud, Sabrina Michaud, Michel JanA wondrous engineering feat rarely matched in the history of the world, the 1,500-mile-long Great Wall stretches the whole length of China's northern borders from the shores of the Pacific...
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Artspeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present
By Robert AtkinsMore than 115 entries clearly explain the who, what, when, and where of art since 1945. Some entries deal with concepts, such as formalism, multiculturalism, and the picture plane; some...
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The Florida Keys Dive Guide
Abbeville launches a new series of scuba diving guides more complete than any other guides on the market.Full-color, three-dimensional maps of each dive site offer what no book has ever...
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The Florida Keys Dive Guide
By Diving Science and Technology CorpDescribed as an excellent investment for divers in the press, Abbeville's exciting scuba diving travel books combine the best in underwater photography with the most complete, in-depth, and practical information...
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Maya Color: The Painted Villages of Mesoamerica
By Sally Jean AbergColor-and the symbolic ways that the Maya of Mexico and Central America paint their homes, places of worship, and dwellings for their dead-is the focus of this breathtakingly beautiful and...
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Egyptian Wall Painting
By Francesco TiradrittiAncient Egyptian civilization developed its own highly individual manner of expressing visible and invisible worlds--earth and the domain of the gods--through distinctive "languages." These languages included both two-dimensional portrayals (paintings...
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Artspeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present
By Robert AtkinsComplementing the entries are two additional noteworthy features. The first, a one-page ArtChart, presents the movements of the postwar years in a concise format that makes their chronological connections immediately...
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Gardening for Pleasure: A Practical Guide to the Essential Skills
By Ursula BuchanUrsula Buchan's enjoyment of gardening is contagious. Insisting that gardening and plants are meant to be enjoyed, she explains which gardening tasks should be undertaken at different times throughout the...