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Paleoart
Presents the history of paleoart from 1830-1990. These are not cave paintings produced thousands of years ago, but modern visions of prehistory: stunning paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, mosaics, and murals that mingle scientific fact with unbridled fantasy
Palaeoartist's Handbook
Extinct worlds live again in palaeoart: artworks of fossil animals, plants and environments carefully reconstructed from palaeontological and geological data. Such artworks are widespread in popular culture, appearing in documentaries, museums, books and magazines, and inspiring depictions of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals in cinema. This book outlines how fossil animals and environments can be reconstructed from their fossils, explaining how palaeoartists overcome gaps in fossil data and predict 'soft-tissue' anatomies no longer present around fossil bones. It goes on to show how science and art can meet to produce compelling, interesting takes on ancient worlds, and it explores th...
Prehistoric Pets
What did your guinea pig's great-great-great-great-great-grandparents look like? Paleontologist Dr. Dean Lomax takes a close look at seven of our favorite pets and uses fossil clues to reveal who their prehistoric ancestors might be. Incredible pop-ups bring you face-to-face with awesome ancient creatures, including a velociraptor, a saber-toothed cat, and the giant snake Titanoboa. This book is packed full of fun facts about amazing animals and fascinating fossils.
Lisa Yuskavage: Babie Brood
Lisa Yuskavage: Babie Brood is the first survey of the artist’s small-scale paintings. While Yuskavage is primarily known for larger canvases, these intimate works offer a new window into her transgressive paintings and complex and influential oeuvre. Based on the artist’s imagination, live models, maquettes, and found and staged photographs, the small paintings in this book demonstrate Yuskavage’s methodical exploration of how images are created and their sources. Some of the small works are studies for large paintings, while others revisit preexisting images. Yet others are one-of-a-kind compositions only created on this intimate scale. As places for experimenting with color, form, a...
Nick Brandt
Als das dritte Kapitel von Nick Brandts globaler Serie The Day May Break visualisiert auf beeindruckende Weise die sich abzeichnende Realität, mit der viele Inselstaaten des Südpazifik konfrontiert sind. Die Menschen auf diesen Fotos, die vor der Küste der Fidschi-Inseln aufgenommen wurden, stehen stellvertretend für die Vielen, die davon bedroht sind, ihr Zuhause, ihr Land und ihre Lebensgrundlage zu verlieren, wenn das Wasser steigt. Die Bilder – alle tauchend mit der Kamera unter Wasser aufgenommen – sind von eindringlicher Schönheit. Doch über die unmittelbare visuelle Wirkung hinaus, gehen Brandts Aufnahmen tiefer: Wie sind wir an diesen Punkt gekommen? Was bringt die Zukunft für die Menschen der Pazifikinseln und anderer Küstenregionen unserer Erde? Können wir den Schaden mindern oder gar abwenden? Brandts empathische und zugleich kraftvolle Porträts verleihen dem oft abstrakten Konzept des Klimawandels Greifbarkeit und erinnern daran, dass hinter jeder Statistik über den steigenden Meeresspiegel eine menschliche Geschichte steht.
Nickelodeons and Black Vaudeville
"Amanda Thorp was a theater entrepreneur influential in bringing Black vaudeville and early movie theaters to Richmond, Virginia, and more widely to the southeastern US. Thorp, a White woman, opened theaters and nickelodeons exclusively for Black patrons during a period of entrenched segregation and outright opposition to Black patronage in the South. And though Thorp's mission was not expressly philanthropic, she nonetheless expanded access to early movies when demand for the silver screen had just begun to rival the theater business. Wong sheds light on Thorp's early life in Ohio, her travel to a culturally nascent Richmond, and her remarkable contributions to theater culture in the South"--
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.
Drunk
An "entertaining and enlightening" deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization--and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication (Daniel E. Lieberman, author of Exercised). While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first rigorous, scientifically-grounded explanation for our love of alcohol. Drawing on evidence from archaeology, history, ...
May It Please the Campus
A 2022 Green Bag Almanac & Reader Exemplary Legal Writing Honoree This is a groundbreaking study on the important and little known role that lawyers have played as leaders in higher education. The book traces the history of lawyer campus presidents from the 1700s to present, exploring dozens of topics such as: where lawyer presidents went to law school; the percentage of lawyer presidents serving at public, private, community, HBCUs, and religiously affiliated institutions; geographic concentrations of campuses led by lawyers, women lawyer presidents, pathways to the presidency for lawyers, commonalities in backgrounds, and more. The author explores reasons for an exponential increase in lawyers serving as campus leaders examining the growth of legal education and myriad legal and regulatory issues confronting higher education.
Frankenstein
This book will trace the journey of Shelley's Frankenstein from limited edition literature to the bloodstream of contemporary culture. It includes new research on the novel's origins, with a reprint of the earliest-known version of the creation scene; visual material on adaptations for the stage, in magazines, on playbills, in prints and in book publications of the nineteenth century; series of visual essays on many of the film versions and their inspirations in the history of art; and Frankenstein in popular culture on posters, advertisements, packaging, in comics and graphic novels.
