Product Description: Transatlantic poems of love, loss, and celebration, this compilation features the work of an American poet based in the United Kingdom: Linda Chase. Inspired by paintings, gardening, memory, and love itself, this poetry reflects the author’s demotic style and underscores her voice: gentle, sharp, wry, honest, and curious...read more

Product Description: Through colorful photogra phs and firsthand narrative detail, Picturing Las Vegas tells the story of a city whose history mirrors that of America itself: a tale of the frontier, of corruption and greed, of beauty and loss and ineffable hope...read more

Product Description: With styles ranging from traditional to abstract, the works in this volume span late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century American art and include examples from both Europe and Latin America. The common thread is excellence. Many of the paintings play on the boundaries between reality and fantasy, contain elements of humor or satire, or are rendered in a highly colorful, expressive style which does not directly imitate the natural world...read more

Product Description: A British artist who spent two decades living and painting in the United States, John Salt came to prominence in the early 1970s as a leading and innovative Photorealist. His exquisite and intriguing evocations of abandoned cars and dilapidated trailers, often depicted in a bucolic rural setting, challenged the conventional definition of landscape and placed him among the foremost realist painters of his generation...read more

Product Description: Subtle interactions between nuclear family members are at the core of this light-hearted and witty collection of poems in which poignant observations are made about love, death, and human nature. The energies and cadences of speech are beautifully echoed in these revealing poems about passion, anger, tenderness, and gratitude...read more

Product Description: The third volume in Louis K. Meisel's definitive series, Photorealism at the Millennium continues to document the evolution of the movement through the 1990s. More than 600 full-color images present the work of twenty-eight artists, from the pioneers through the second generation to the newcomers who will advance the movement into the 21st century...read more

Product Description: The Wedding Spy is a double agent. Linda Chase has spent half her life in the United States and half in the United Kingdom. Understanding both countries, she belongs to each - and neither -and preserves an outsider's perspective wherever she goes...read more

Product Description: Biedermeier furniture and interior design are recognized today as the first great flowering of haute bourgeois taste in interior design. Beginning in the early 19th century, these bourgeois ideals in design were pursued by a wide range of society from the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollern rulers to the middle classes, from Middle Europe to Italy...read more

Describes the romantic style of interior decoration and design, explains how fabrics, furniture, and ornaments can be combined to produce different effects, and includes a resource guide. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Presents a guide to interior design that covers the conception, planning, and execution of ideas tailored to individual taste and lifestyle

Tina Paris, the first woman to work in the NYPD's Special Prosecutor's Office, must find evidence to convict a corrupt fellow officer while evading a serial rapist who seems to know everything about her. Reprint. K. PW.

More than fifty acrylics and watercolors of 1940s and 1950s art-deco movie houses are accompanied by an account of their history, transformations, and chief designer-architects

Shows Goings' paintings of diners, street scenes, stores, garages, and pickup trucks, discusses his influence on the photo-realism movement, and includes the artist's comments on his work