Monumental Paris presents breathtaking panoramic views of Paris’s famed monuments and historic sites, as well as little-known gems. Covering many fascinating styles and periods, it features the sprawling Louvre museum complex, imposing churches and abbeys, such as Notre Dame and St. Denis, tranquil parks and gardens, and royal palaces and extravagant mansions in the Marais. Straddling the swiftly flowing Seine, and spreading out beneath the heights of Montmartre and Montparnasse, Paris is an apt subject for the panoramic photographer, and in Hervé Champollion the City of Light has found a talented heir to Paris’s photographic tradition.
Read MoreAs trade with the exotic East grew in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through the activities of English, French, Portuguese, and Dutch merchants, Chinese-inspired design—Chinoiserie—became highly fashionable in the French court, and in its many imitators throughout Europe. Since then, stylistic influences from the Far East, India, and the Islamic world have been a significant factor in the decorative arts and interior design of Europe and America.
Read MoreIn 1900, at around the time of his nineteenth birthday, Pablo Picasso went to Paris to visit the Universal Exhibition and to have his first experience of the art capital of the world. His training had been in provincial Spanish art schools, but the following year he was offered a large exhibition at the prestigious Vollard Gallery and he became familiar with the bohemian district of Montmartre and its gaudy pleasures. Yet only a few years later he was challenging Matisse for the position of leader of the French avant-garde and was set on his revolutionary path as a universal artist.
Read MoreIn Chicks with Guns, Lindsay McCrum has created a cultural portrait of women gun owners in America through photographs that are both beautiful and in a sense unexpected. The book explores an indelible part of our national identity, but is not thrown off balance by the natural suspicions and political ideology often associated with firearms. It examines issues of self-image and gender through the visual conventions of portraiture and fashion, but guns are presented here not as superimposed props but as the very personal lifestyle accessories of the subjects portrayed. And it defies stereotypes often associated with aspects of the popular culture of both guns and women.
Read MoreThe homes of some of the world's most celebrated artists are featured in this lavishly illustrated volume. From Frederic Church's castle on New York's Hudson River to Claude Monet's house and garden at Giverny in France to Giorgio de Chirico's sophisticated Roman apartment and William Morris's Arts and Crafts–style Kelmscott Manor, this book reveals each artist's tastes and fashionable flair.
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