Product Description: Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) is to cakes and pastries what Cézanne is to apples: his renderings of sugary treats are more mouthwatering than the treats themselves, so creamily and lusciously depicted are they. Despite friendships with Johns and Rauschenberg, Thiebaud was never personally affiliated with a particular movement, though his pop-culture subject matter has tended to ally him with Pop...read more

The Physiology of Taste or Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin; 1 April 1755, Belley, Ain – 2 February 1826, Paris, was a French lawyer and politician, and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: "Grimod and Brillat-Savarin. Between them, two writers effectively founded the whole genre of the gastronomic essay." His famous work, Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste), was published in December 1825, two months before his death. The full title is Physiologie du Goût, ou Méditations de Gastronomie Transcendante; ouvrage théorique, historique et à l'ordre du jour, dédié aux Gastronomes parisiens, par un Professeur, membre de plusieurs sociétés littéraires et savantes. The book has not been out of print since it first appeared, shortly before Brillat-Savarin's death. Its most notable English translation was done by food writer and critic M. F. K. Fisher, who remarked "I hold myself blessed among translators." Her translation was first published in 1949. The body of his work, though often wordy or excessively - and sometimes dubiously - aphoristic and axiomatic, has remained extremely important and has repeatedly been re-analyzed through the years since his death. In a series of meditations that owe something to Montaigne's Essays, and have the discursive rhythm of an age of leisured reading and a confident pursuit of educated pleasures, Brillat-Savarin discourses on the pleasures of the table, which he considers a science. His French models were the stylists of the Ancien Régime: Voltaire, Rousseau, Fénelon, Buffon, Cochin and d'Aguesseau.

Wayne Thiebaud's delectable paintings, etchings, and drawings make this board book as much an introduction to contemporary art as it is a delicious first book of numbers. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter, has produced works of complexity and distinction that appear deceptively simple in terms of subject matter and in their presentation yet draw on many historical sources. In fact, Thiebaud is part of the grand tradition of representational art from Chardin and Manet to the American Realist masters such as Eakins and Hopper...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Known for his bright, whimsical paintings of simple household items, Thiebaud's delightfully accessible style renders even the most ordinary objects new and appealing. This spectacular array of originial prints--from bowties and gumballs to landscapes and figures--is accompanied by insightful essays on the artist and his work...read more

Colorful paintings complement 'America the Beautiful,' depicting the America's sweeping landscapes, scenes of small-town life, and principles of freedom and justice, as described in the nineteenth-century poem, the origin of the beloved song. IP.

Product Description: Known for his bright, whimsical paintings of simple household items, Thiebaud's delightfully accessible style renders even the most ordinary objects new and appealing. This spectacular array of originial prints--from bowties and gumballs to landscapes and figures--is accompanied by insightful essays on the artist and his work...read more

Product Description: Known for his bright, whimsical paintings of simple household items, Thiebaud's delightfully accessible style renders even the most ordinary objects new and appealing. This spectacular array of originial prints--from bowties and gumballs to landscapes and figures--is accompanied by insightful essays on the artist and his work...read more