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Biscuits
Every day we pass a thousand people in the street or squash up against strangers in the underground. Like every city, London is teeming with life: diverse, beautiful, messy, incongruous life, and every face seen fleetingly in the crowd carries a story or two. Some are sad, some are funny, some are boring, but none are ever quite what you would guess. In Biscuits, Jenny Robins takes a look at a handful of women's stories in the city as they defy and comply with our expectations, and as they step out of the cookie cutter mould of what it means to be a woman today.
Scratch
A collection of essays from today’s most acclaimed authors—from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzen—on the realities of making a living in the writing world. In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job, but your ultimate goal should be to quit your day job. It’s an endless, confusing, and often controversial conversation that, despite our bare-it-all culture, still remains taboo. In Scratch, Manjula Martin ha...
Art Made from Books
Artists around the world have lately been turning to their bookshelves for more than just a good read, opting to cut, paint, carve, stitch or otherwise transform the printed page into whole new beautiful, thought-provoking works of art. Art Made from Books is the definitive guide to this compelling art form, showcasing groundbreaking work by today's most showstopping practitioners. From Su Blackwell's whimsical pop-up landscapes to the stacked-book sculptures of Kylie Stillman, each portfolio celebrates the incredible creative diversity of the medium. A preface by pioneering artist Brian Dettmer and an introduction by design critic Alyson Kuhn round out the collection.
The Art of Travel
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'Honest, funny and dripping with witty aphorisms. Extremely entertaining and enlightening [...] all the way to journey's end' Herald One of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life, presents a travel guide with a difference - an exploration of why we travel, and what we learn along the way... Few activities seem to promise as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel to, we seldo...
You'll Be Fine
After her mother dies of an accidental overdose, Alex takes leave from her job as a writer for a Washington, DC, lifestyle magazine to return home to Maryland’s Eastern Shore. There, she joins her brother Owen, a study in failure-to-launch, in sorting out their mother’s whimsical and often self-destructive life. Alex has proposed to her editor that while she is home she profile Juliette Sprigg, her former high school fling, owner of a wildly popular local restaurant, and celebrity chef in the making. While working on the story and trying for a second chance with Juliette, Alex meets Carolyn Massey, editor of the town newspaper, and wonders if there’s more to life than reheating leftovers. Enter Alex and Owen’s Aunt Johanna, who arrives from Seattle to help with arrangements. When Johanna reveals a family secret, Alex may have to accept her family for who they are rather than who she hoped they would be. And just maybe apply the same philosophy to her heart and herself.
The Lives of the Muses
In her fascinating and provocative new book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between artist and muse. The Lives of the Muses is a collection of exquisitely written biographical essays on nine remarkable women and the artists they inspired. Among the nine muses there are many variations on the theme: from the young Alice Liddell, who inspired Oxford don Charles Dodgson to write Alice in Wonderland, to celebrities in their own right such as Gala Dali and Yoko Ono, who defy the stereotype of the muse as a passive beauty put on a pedestal and oppressed by a male artist. The muses are: Hester Thrale (Samuel Johnson); Alice Liddell (Lewis Carroll); Elizabeth Siddal (Dante Gabriel Rossetti); Lou Andreas-Salome (Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud); Gala Dali (Salvador Dali); Lee Miller (Man Ray); Charis Weston (Edward Weston); Suzanne Farrell (George Balanchine); and Yoko Ono (John Lennon).
The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti
Bursting with color and energy, this revised edition of the definitive guide to street art and graffiti covers the world's most significant artists, styles, and the urban landscapes that form their canvas Ten years after its original publication, The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti is recognized as the definitive guide to the most significant artists and styles of street art and graffiti around the world. This revised edition brings the content up to our present moment, expanding its geographic breadth to six continents. Featuring more than 700 full-color photographs of raw, energetic, whimsical, and eye-catching art, the book is visually exciting as well as an essential survey of the...
cc&d v210 (07/10) "give what you can"
This book "Give what you can" is the July 2010 issue of cc&d magazine (v210) through Scars Publications. It is the first issue that has been released in tow formats: one with an ISSN number, and THIS 6" x 9" version, released with an ISBN number.Contributors to this book include poetry by Charlie Newman, Je'free, Erica Hegenderfer, Henry Sosnowski, CEE, Matthew Czerwinski, Michael Cersolo, kalifornia, Colin James, Mike Berger, PhD, and Julie Kovacs, (with photography and art by John Yotko, Paul Baker, Tray Drumhann, Tracy M. Rogers, Christine Sorich, Mark Graham, David J. Thompson, and a David Sowards catroon), prose by Valor Brown, Mike Wilson, Billie Louise Jones, Kevin Phillips, Alison Balaskovits, Brian Haycock, Bob Rashkow, Jess Dunn, and Skibo LeBlanc, (with art - including drawings, photography and paintings - by Aaron Wilder, Cheryl Townsend, Nick Brazinsky, Jay Marvin, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, David Matson, and the HA!man of South Africa).
Ornament and Order
Over the last forty years, graffiti and street-art have become a global phenomenon within the visual arts. Whilst they have increasingly been taken seriously by the art establishment (or perhaps the art market), their academic and popular examination still remains within old debates which argue over whether these acts are vandalism or art, and which examine the role of graffiti in gang culture and in terms of visual pollution. Based on an in-depth ethnographic study working with some of the world’s most influential Independent Public Artists, this book takes a completely new approach. Placing these illicit aesthetic practices within a broader historical, political, and aesthetic context, i...
Six Six Six
"Six Six Six" is the 6" x 9" ISBN# book version of the September 2010 issue of cc&d magazine (cc&d: "Children, churches and Daddies", the UN-religious, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine, founded 1993), v212, from Scars Publications. It has poetry by Je'free, kalifornia, CEE, Casey Cole, Max Evans, Christopher Woods, Rose E. Grier, Douglas Holder, John Thompson, Kevin Michael Wehle, Janet Kuypers, David E. Cowen, John A. Grochalski, R. N. Taber, Christopher A. Scarber, Michael S. Morris, K.D. Iredale, and Tom (WordWulf) Sterner, prose by Skibo LeBlanc, Rufus Ryan, Brian Duggan, Michael Hoag, Jason Marc Harris, Jim Meirose, and John Duncklee, and art by Nick Brazinsky, Paul Baker, Jay Marvin, Tray Drumhann, the HA!man of South Africa, Eric Bonholtzer, Mark Graham, Uzeyir Lokman CAYCI, Aaron Wilder (with Kim Rottas), David Thompson, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, and Cheryl Townsend.
