Selected biographical sketches by the Renaissance artist reveal his interpretations of the lives and works of outstanding artists in Italy

Essays explore the ways in which we look at and derive meaning from paintings by Courbet, Turner, Magritte, and others, as well as nature, zoos, and photographs

Lovers Griffin and Sabine find their passion tested by new obstacles, including a mysterious intruder

H.R. GIGER'S NECRONOMICON: A startling milestone on the darkly lit road once traveled by the likes of Bosch, Brueghel, Lovecraft, Poe and Kafka. Giger's remarkable book of the dead gives us some of the most powerful images ever an artist drew from the well of the imagination.

"Large format, signed in doodles by illustrator in Dali style. Clean, unmarked, fine hardcover.

An illustrated history of Gothic art tracing its development and its influence on other styles of art

Reproduces a selection of da Vinci's drawings and paintings and provides information on their meaning and background

Essays and poems explore the emotions of the author and examine the natures of art, love, time, and poetry

From Sara Midda, the artist whose first book, In and Out of the Garden, evoked all the pleasures of the English garden and received international acclaim, comes a wondrous sketchbook from a year spent in the South of France--an artist's personal journal carried everywhere and crammed with drawings and notions and thoughts surprising and whimsical. Sara Midda captures the land, the people, the shimmering air--the whole feeling of Provence and the Cote d' Azur and the spell they cast over even those who haven't been. Describing her own work, Sara Midda says: "It is an evocation, an interpretation of the everyday. It is making discoveries about ordinary things. It is not merely landscapes and buildings, but the artifacts that are the bricks and mortar of a culture." The entire volume is printed on uncoated stock to convey the feeling and texture of an artist's sketchbook.

Third Printing.

Masterfully written discussion of the nature of beauty, form, expression; art, literature, and social sciences involved. Santayana covers the nature and materials of beauty, form, expression, and much more.