Author: Deirdre Le Faye
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Keywords: novels, world, austen, jane
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0810932857
ISBN-13: 9780810932852

To peruse this lovely volume is to step back in time and experience the world of Georgian and Regency Britain-the world of Jane Austen’s enduringly popular fiction. From grand country houses to humble villagers’ cottages, from formal dinners to intimate family suppers, from the streets of Bath to the Cobb at Lyme Regis, the author revisits the places familiar to Austen and her characters as she explores in depth the social and physical environment that formed the backdrop for such classics as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. This meticulously detailed account i

Author: Joan Sinclair
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Keywords: clubs, sex, japan, inside, pink
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0810992590
ISBN-13: 9780810992597

In Pink Box, photographer Joan Sinclair takes us on a journey inside the secret world of fuzoku (commercial sex) in Japan, a world where kawaii (cute) collides with consumerism and sex. Unrivaled in their creativity and the sheer number of choices, the clubs featured in this book offer their clientele every fantasy imaginable. Subway groping, visits to the nurse’s office, and comic book character encounters are just the beginning of the immense list of possibilities that are played out in colorful playrooms for adults where no detail is overlooked. Sinclair’s photographs capture it all, whil

Author: Stanley Crouch
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Keywords: harris, teenie, charles, photographs, one, shot
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0810932725
ISBN-13: 9780810932722

From the 1930s through the 1970s, Charles "Teenie" Harris (1908-1998) traversed the alleyways, workplaces, and nightclubs of his native city, camera in hand, to capture the essence of community life for the Pittsburgh Courier. Backstage with Dizzy Gillespie, in the dugout with Jackie Robinson, or on the streets with children of the Hill district, Harris documented every aspect of African-American daily life during and after the Civil Rights movement. Although nicknamed "One Shot" for his habit of snapping just a single frame at any given event, Harris’s output-privately held until recent

Author: Richard Somerset-Ward
Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
Keywords: opera, story
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 081099254X
ISBN-13: 9780810992542

Now available in an affordable paperback format, The Story of Opera> celebrates the 400-year history of opera. With separate chapters devoted to the great national schools of opera-Italian, German, French, and Russian-it tells the stories of composers, librettists, impresarios, singers, conductors, and even audiences. Beautifully illustrated with historical images and a wealth of photographs from notable contemporary productions, this book offers both an introduction to the general reader and fresh insights for longtime buffs.

Author: Gary Schwartz
Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
Keywords: book, rembrandt
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0810943174
ISBN-13: 9780810943179

With international attention focused on the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt von Rijn’s birth, the world’s leading Rembrandt expert weighs in with a penetrating—and accessible—examination of the Dutch master’s life and art from both the biographical and the art historical perspective. Rembrandt was an esteemed artist in his own time as well as in the present, yet there is much debate over how many paintings and drawings can really be attributed to him, and popular scholastic opinion varies widely. In his lively text, accompanied by 700 full-color illustrations, Gary Schwartz addresses the c

Authors:Einar Mar Jonsson, Guillaume Cannat,  Patrick
Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
Keywords: iceland
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0810959488
ISBN-13: 9780810959484

An astonishing land of fire and ice, where active volcanoes, hot springs, and lava floes stand beside thundering waterfalls, glaciers, and ice fields in deserted, rocky landscapes, Iceland is home to some of the most dramatic scenery in the world. In this breathtaking volume, photographer Patrick Desgraupes has captured, in 175 original photos taken especially for this book, Iceland’s drama and mystery as no other photographer before him ever has. From the sweeping expanses of the island’s ocean reaches punctuated by twisted pillars of volcanic rock to sublime panoramas of mountain

Author: Marc Dachy
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Keywords: art, revolt, dada, discoveries
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0810992558
ISBN-13: 9780810992559

Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries(r) volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed, affordably priced, compact paperbacks bring ideas to life and amplify our understanding of civilization in a new way. Dada was one of the most important and influential movements in 20th-century art. Beginning in the anti-establishment climate around World War I, it encompassed painting, sculpture, photography, poetry and language, graphic design,