Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives. When deployed wisely, it can bring us pleasure, choice, strength, decency and more. But if its power is abused, the outcome can be wasteful, confusing, humiliating, even dangerous. This title explores design's influence on our lives. ...
In this posthumous collection of John Updikes art writings, a companion volume to the acclaimed Just Looking (1989) and Still Looking (2005), readers are again treated to remarkably elegant essays (Newsday) in which the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work until a d...
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Beginning with early American portraits and landscapes, and moving on to two 19th century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, this book considers the eccentric pre-modern James McNeill Whistler, and concludes with appreciations of Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. It is a collect...
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