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This beautiful book combines poetry, art, and prose to challenge its reader to live their best life. Life categories include challenges, courage, faith, death & loss, family, happiness, gratitude, lust, love, and living large. The turn of each page indulges the reader in vibrant colors and emotions. The words are inspiring and motivational. The messages are cause for pause and self-reflection. This book relates to all phases of life, from love and lust to death and sorrow. One of the most striking aspects of this book is the international artists who contributed. The artwork on these pages comes from all around the world. The imagery contained within these pages comes to you from Russia, India, Iraq, Hungary, Philippines, United States, China, Romania, Canada, United Kingdom, Lithuania, Portugal, Armenia, Lebanon, Nigeria, Colombia, New Zealand, Germany, Brazil, Wales, Spain, Taiwan, Egypt, Indonesia, Italy, Scotland, Syria, Zimbabwe, Iran, Algeria, Ukraine, Poland, France, Slovakia, Vietnam, Cameroon, Serbia, Norway, Bangladesh, South Africa, and Austria. This is a timeless treasure that will spark conversations and reflection and be the talk of your coffee table.
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Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.
A striking collection of presidential portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, this volume encapsulates the spirit of the most powerful office in the world. America's Presidents showcases the nation's largest collection of portraits of all the presidents beyond the White House's own, capturing the permanent exhibition that lies at the heart of the Portrait Gallery's mission to tell the American story through the individuals who have shaped it. The book explores presidential imagery through portraits ranging from the traditional, such as the iconic and newly restored "Lansdowne" portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, to the contemporary, such as Elaine de Kooning's colorful dep...