Product Description: Cultural Writing. Travel. THE NORTH POLE is a compelling account of a summer trip the author made to the North Pole on a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker. Brown intersperses her narrative with excerpts from the journal of Fritdjof Nansen, who explored the area a hundred years ago, and with conversations with travelers, scientists, and a polar archivist about ideas concerning the Arctic that affect the world today, including the issue of global warming...read more

Product Description: Art. Music. Cultural Writing. JOHN CAGE VISUAL ART is an exquisite book which includes 116 color images. It is presented in three parts. The first is a text wrtten from Kathan Brown's own experience. In it, she often uses Cage's words to describe particular works, and she reflects upon how the art can be used in the world...read more

Product Description: Cultural Writing. Art. WHY DRAW A LANDSCAPE talks about the relationship of the self to the real world, and looks at different approaches to landscape by eleven painters and sculptors whose styles ranges from Realist to Conceptual...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This handbook discusses various printmaking techniques and how to distinguish between them. Some techniques included are etching, woodcut, silkscreen, lithography and ink jet. With black and white illustrations. The handbook is an abbreviated version of the technical portion of ink, paper, metal, wood: Painters & Sculptors at Crown Point Press, published by Chronicle Books...read more