Gathered for the annual charity fete at Backwater Hall in Mortshire, the host Lord Wherewithal is dead, Horace Gallop cavorts with Victoria Scone, and someone has offended decorum by disembowelling a stuffed thisby belonging to the Earl of Thump.

    Upon hearing her sing, Jasper Ankle becomes her deepest admirer, undaunted by perilous weather and abject poverty in his quest to hear her sing. As Ortenzia's star rises, Jasper sinks further into despair, until performer and fan collide in true Edward Gorey fashion. Exquisitely illustrated with Gorey's signature pen-and-ink crosshatching, The Blue Aspic is a heart-wrenching and oddly hilarious tale of unrequited love and the dangers of celebrity.Treasured by adoring fans since its original release in 1968, The Blue Aspic remains an iconic masterpiece from the one and only great Mr. Gorey.

    Within it he argues that the aesthetic quality of our environment depends as much on its workmanship as on its design, and that workmanship has been largely ignored. He proceeds to develop a new theory of the aesthetics of workmanship which can be applied to architecture, to the products of industry and to craft work. Mr Pye shows how and why we are conscious of finish and workmanship, goes on to ask why so much of our environment is impoverished and asks what can be done about it.

    In my estimation, the evoluting array and extraordinary breadth of his conceptioning realizations document a comprehensive artist without peer in our time." --R. Buckminster Fuller A Sculptor's World is the long-awaited reprint of Isamu Noguchi's 1968 autobiography. It remains Noguchi's most comprehensive statement about the art that brought him international acclaim. Told in words and images, A Sculptor's World is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the life and work of this seminal artist or a general interest in the art of sculpture. Also reprinted in this volume is the original foreword to the book by R. Buckminster Fuller, from which the above quote is taken.

    The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas.

    Replacement for Volume One in the two-volume set, Blake and Tradition.

    It begins with basic information and the characteristic qualities of each of the metals met by the craftsman, both precious and base. It then describes the various techniques in working metals, as well as methods of metal fabrication such as smithing, annealing, forging, and casting. The methods of metal finishing, as well as explanations of various hand tools and their uses are also included.

    The end of the story is sad but sweet, and it stars a nose that can light up a forest, light up the sky! The Dong is some kind of hero, certainly, and he can't help but win our hearts with that protuberant proboscis of his.The Dong with a Luminous Nose and The Jumblies (also published by Pomegranate Communications) present two of the most finely rendered suites of drawings ever created by Edward Gorey. With Edward Lear's irresistible verses, the books are timeless classics to be enjoyed through generations, by children of all ages, four to eighty-four.Text by Edward Lear; illustrated by Edward Gorey. 48 pages with 22 black-and-white illustrations. Smyth-sewn casebound book with jacket. Size: 8.5 x 6 inches.

    

    Listed alphabetically in the central section are over 4,000 locations. Here are to be found the man-made wonders of national importance, large and small, famous and little-known, easily accessible and off the beaten track. Here are the finest churchesm cathedrals, abbeys, minsters, palaces and great houses of town and country; gardens and arboreta; streets, squares, crescents and works of engineering; weapons, sculpture, wood-engraving, drawing, painting, ceramics; books, glass, jewels, gold, silver, pewter, furniture and tapestries; museums, galleries and collections, treasures of every kind from ships to stained glass windows. The whole of Ireland is similarly covered. Over 700 color photographs, 200 drawings, and 40 pages of maps.

    Offering an essential understanding of pre-Renaissance art and technology, the Benedictine author details pigments, glass blowing, stained glass, gold and silver work, and more — information of great importance to craftsmen and historians of art and science. Includes 34 illustrations.

    Natural returns along with his fabled creator. This book features 16 pages of new, rare material and an introduction by Crumb himself, filling readers in on what's happened since his seminal work was given to the world in the 1960s. Cartoons and comics.

    It features products offered to consumers more than 100 years ago. It is suitable for collectors of Americana, social historians, and general readers.

    

    Newly designed color borders and a fresh cover enhance the shelf appeal of this classic title, a companion volume to the successful First Prayers Life Favors® book.

    216 photos, 161 in full color.

    

    The author's intention is to avoid a pedantic exposition of serial principles and to include many technical details which are also valid in non serial contexts, being the common property of contemporary musical languages. Richard Smith Brindle (born 1917) is a native of Lancashire. He studied at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in Rome at the Academia di Santa Cecilia, and in Florence privately with Dallapiccola. His own music is influenced by he Italian avant-garde school of berio, Maderna, non, and others. From 1970 until his retirement in 1985 he was Professor of Music at the University of Surrey.

    Born in 1860 Wain became a household name for his cat illustrations in the 1890s.

    

    

    

    Descriptive information and drawings of over 30 Calcutta buildings and sites.

    20 drawings for "Fleurette's purple snails" --4 illustrations to "The story of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier des Grieux" --6 drawings for "The memoirs of Fanny Hill" --7 illustrations to "The indiscreet jewels" --5 illustrations to "La Bohème" --12 etchings for "La Bonbonnière" --15 illustrations to "Stories from Aretino" --15 drawings for "La Grenouillère" --10 illustrations to "The hundred new short stories" --8 drawings for "The pretty Andalusian" --15 drawings for "Tales at the dressing table" --Biography / by Johann Pilz --Franz von Bayros, "Concerning my morals" --10 illustrations to "The fairy tale of all fairy tales or the pentameron" --Bookplates (which were not circulated) --Various amorous bookplates --7 illustrations to "The beautiful maiden of Pao" --10 illustrations to "Genre pictures of our time" and "The story of Zairette" --Various frontispieces --5 illustrations to "The decameron" --5 illustrations and cover picture for "The small foot of the gracious lady and other stories" --9 drawings for "The garden of Aphrodite" --30 drawings for "Pictures from the boudoir of Madame CC" --4 illustrations and 2 vignettes for "Of kings and Jacobins" --6 drawings for "Lesbian round dance" --Franz von Bayros, "My bookplates".

    

    With sixteen color and thirty two black and white plates.

    A tour through the renowned Gallery, as offered in this volume, is a walk back in history to those glorious days.The Uffizi--a legend of beauty that boasts one of the richest artistic patrimonies in the world--houses magnificent examples of the works of nearly all the artists who played significant roles in the history of Western art. You can admire here superb reproductions of the paintings of the Early Renaissance masters, Giotto, Cimabue, Duccio and Simone Martini; here are all the great innovators, from Masaccio and Paolo Uccello to Piero della Francesca, from Leonardo da Vinci to Raphael and Michelangelo; here you can compare the geometric vigorr of Domenico Veneziano with the lyric splendor of Sandro Botticelli; here you can examine the opulent richness of Titian and Tintoretto and Caravaggio and the warm perfection of Bronzino and Pontormo. Nor are the Northern painters neglected, with the inclusion of splendid examples from the Gallery's collection of German, French, Dutch and Flemish paintings.Your personal escort will be the Uffizi's curator, Luisa Becherucci, the woman who rushed to "her" museum in November, 1966, amid the pandemonium of devastated Florence to salvage works of art endangered by the rising waters of the flooded Arno River. Prof. Becherucci will guide you through the palace begun in 1559 for Cosimo I de' Medici, which served as Offices (Uffizi) for the Florentine judiciary, and that now houses the world's finest collection of Renaissance art.This beautiful volume includes representative works of Italy's most prestigious museum and thus gives the reader a vivid idea of the Uffizi's vast artistic heritage. Each color reproduction is accompanied by a caption giving all the pertinent information about the artist and the work of art itself--its date, medium and technique, size and its history. In addition, each illustration is the subject of a critical analysis prepared especially for this volume by one of Europe's leading art historians.

    Dozens of artists represented, too many to list. 40 tipped-in color plates, 356 additional illustrations and photos.

    And That's Phil Ochs--Andy WickhamAbout the Author--Judy HenskeEncoresOutside of a Small Circle of FriendsIs There Anybody Here?I've Had HerThe Harder They FallRhythms of RevolutionCannons of ChristianityThe PartyTape From CaliforniaFlower LadyHalf a Century HighSung OutCross My HeartSanto DomingoWhen I'm GoneLove Me, I'm a LiberalThe Floods of FlorenceThe Critics RavedGuitar Chord Chart--Jerry SilvermanCops of the WorldThe Newport Pneumonia Fuzz FestivalChangesWhite Boots Marching in a Yellow LandCobbwebsJoe HillMirandaAn Interview with Phil OchsWhen in RomeI'm Going to Say it NowBraceroThe Torture GardenCrucifixiomThat Was the Year that Weren'tPleasures of the HarborHave You Heard? The War is Over!The War Is OverComing AttractionsCredits & Discography

    

    Traces the development of the elder Bruegel's style through a text and numerous reproductions of his paintings.