Renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz chronicles twentieth-century popular American music in this collection of more than one hundred photographs.

This astonishing retrospective look at Goldin's career includes texts by writers Guido Costa, Enrique Juncosa, Catherine Lampert, Christine Macel and others on themes in Goldin's work, such as narrative, love, the family and gender politics.

The publication of Revelations coincides with the first major retrospective of Diane Arbus's work in thirty years, premiering at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in October 2003. The highly original production and presentation of this book mirror the originality of the artist and her photographs.

National Geographic's most expansive and sumptuous photography book ever - a celebration of more than a century of collecting and publishing photographs, with remarkable images from around the world.

In this evocative narrative history of art and artists with 300 illustrations in color, Paul Johnson has something new to say about almost every period of art. Whether he is describing the beauty of an Egyptian carving or the medieval cathedrals of Europe, the watercolors of Thomas Girtin or the utility of Roman bridges, the genius of Frederic Edwin Church or the tranquility of the Great Mosque at Damascus, Paul Johnson is always readable and provocative.

Published to celebrate the centennial of Joseph Cornell's birth in 1903, this book provides a fresh, multidimensional perspective on the pioneering artist. Lavishly illustrated with over seventy-five boxes and collages, this book communicates to the reader the sense of surprise and delight that one experiences upon viewing the actual boxes with their toys, stuffed birds, maps, clay pipes, marbles, and shells.

This authoritative and beautiful book, which accompanies a major retrospective opening at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., provides a provocative and absorbing look at a beloved artist. The Art of Romare Bearden showcases compelling examples of his pioneering work. The book includes a comprehensive overview by distingushed art historian and curator Ruth E. Fine based on extensive new research, as well as essays on Bearden's African sources, his writings (from art scholarship to songs), and his place in art and culture.

This seminal book on the paintings of the great Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci, first published by Abrams in 2000, has now been reissued in a compact, portable paperback format. As in the earlier volume, fresh photography and advanced printing techniques allow these precious masterworks to be reproduced with unparalleled accuracy and clarity, and every one of Leonardo's paintings is included, along with a text by one of the world's leading experts on the artist.

Robert Hughes now turns his renowned critical eye to one of art history's most compelling, enigmatic, and important figures, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. With characteristic critical fervor and sure-eyed insight, Hughes brings us the story of an artist whose life and work bridged the transition from the eighteenth-century reign of the old masters to the early days of the nineteenth-century moderns.

This classic reference work, the best one-volume music dictionary available, has been brought completely up to date in this new edition. Combining authoritative scholarship and lucid, lively prose, the Fourth Edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music is the essential guide for musicians, students, and everyone who appreciates music.

Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach to music that characterized his critically acclaimed Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn has written an even more illuminating celebration of saxophone legend John Coltrane's 1964 spiritual opus and masterwork. A Love Supreme is a passionate and revealing portrait of a timelessly resonant musical statement, artfully balancing biography, analysis, and a palpable enthusiasm that anyone from the casual listener to the avid fan will enjoy.

Samuel G. White and Elizabeth White here document the great non-residential works of America's greatest classical architects. In lavish color and archival photographs, the book includes the Boston Public Library, Newport Casino, the second Madison Square Garden, the Washington Memorial Arch, the Morgan Library, major works at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the campuses of Columbia and Harvard Universities, Pennsylvania Station in New York, Bank of Montreal, American Academy in Rome, the Century Association, and the Harvard, Metropolitan, and University clubs in New York, among others.

Tharp's time-tested techniques will help everybody reach their greatest creative potential, in a clear, easy-to-follow program that lifts the veil off the creative process and opens the door to the artist in everyone.

One of the world's greatest architects, Frank O. Gehry has produced an astonishing body of work over the past 40 years. This pioneering designer continues to receive worldwide praise from both peers and critics as the most talented and influential architect working today. This book includes 1,000 illustrations, 400 of them in color.