Best of
Art-And-Photography

1992

Ansel Adams: Our National Parks


Ansel Adams - 1992
    Here are his greatest images of more than 40 national parks and monuments. 78 duotones.

Disney's Aladdin The Making of an Animated Film


John Culhane - 1992
    From screenplay to storyboard to recording studio--featuring interviews with the animators and 200 full-color photos--every facet of Aladdin's creation is explored in fascinating detail. This is a keepsake volume that every fan of the film must have.

Robert Doisneau


Jean-Claude Gautrand - 1992
    Fresh, unstaged, and full of poetry and humor, his photographs portray everyday people (in everyday places, doing everyday things) frozen in time, unwittingly revealing fleeting personal emotions in a public context. Doisneau's gift was the ability to seek out and capture, with humanity and grace, those little epiphanies of everyday Parisian life. This book traces Doisneau's life and career, providing a wonderful introduction to the work of this seminal photographer.

Jean Michel Basquiat


Richard Marshall - 1992
    Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1992-93, the book contains illustrations reproducing paintings, drawings, collages, silkscreens, and constructions, many previously unpublished.

Immediate Family


Sally Mann - 1992
    The photographs show the ambiguities and dramas of family life and hauntingly evoke the mysteries of childhood. Sally Mann herself says in the introduction: 'These are photographs of my children ... many of these pictures are intimate, some are fictions and some are fantastic, but most are of ordinary things every mother has seen. I take pictures when they are bloodied or sick or naked or angry. They dress up, they pout and posture, they paint their bodies, they dive like otters in the dark river.' The result is a book that is ethereal, tender and sometimes disquieting.

Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files


Mary Ann Caws - 1992
    His famous boxes, with their ineffably perfect choice of elements -- the stuffed birds, the buttons and toys, the fragments of old theatrical posters, the poignant allusions to the worlds of the nineteenth-century ballet and opera -- are some of the most recognizable signatures in all of twentieth-century art.From this extended selection of his diaries and other written material, Cornell emerges as a deeply dedicated and conscious artist, though one whose personality was every bit as unusual as many had perceived. Cornell used his diaries as he used his boxes, to capture and preserve his passing feelings, his momentary urges, and his anguished hesitations. He was an incessant and brilliant recorder of his thoughts as he considered his art or traveled to New York to haunt the antiquarian bookstores and shops where he collected material for his boxes.We see here his deep immersion in French symbolist poetry and his intense interest in his surrealist contemporaries. We see also his plangent yearning for les sylphides, the fairies of the ballet world who seemed to be reincarnated for him in the form of waitresses, dancers, actresses, and shop girls in his own world. Cornell corresponded with an astonishing range of people including Parker Tyler, Marianne Moore, Tony Curtis, Robert Motherwell, and Susan Sontag. His letters were often sent in the form of collages, and several of them are reproduced in this book.

Pictures from Home


Larry Sultan - 1992
    Photographs and text by Larry Sultan. Edited by Eric Himmel. Designed by Katy Homans, with Sayre Coombs.

The Art of Annemieke Mein: Wildlife Artist in Textiles


Annemieke Mein - 1992
    Each page is a treasure to be studied and then studied again.' -The Flying Needle, Council of American Embroiderers

Rescuers: Portraits in Moral Courage in the Holocaust


Gay Block - 1992
    Most of those interviewed felt their actions were done out of friendship and for people caught in a web of hatred and anti-Semitism.

Graven Images: The Best of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction Film Art from the Collection of Ronald V. Borst


Ronald V. Borst - 1992
    25,000 first printing.

Minor White: Rites and Passages


Minor White - 1992
    I do not make this statement lightly ...The sheer beauty of the medium of photography is tuned to the exact meaning of the visualized image." --Ansel Adams This selection of Minor White's superb photographs is accompanied by extensive, revealing excerpts from White's letters and amplified by James Baker Hall's perceptive observations of the artist-teacher at work.

The Art Pack


Christopher Frayling - 1992
    Filled with pop-ups, pullouts, and mobiles, The Art Pack is a completely new way to experience artists' use of color, line, composition, perspective, and optics, as well as a lavishly illustrated introduction to the history of Western art.With The Art Pack you can: Examine a three-dimensional model of an artist's studio painted by VermeerSee for yourself how an artist solves problems of perspective by using a replica of "Alberti's veil" and a pop-up viewerBreak up light with a "camera obscura" and a filtered "Claude glass" Study the combinations of colors that produce shades and tones, by manipulating a real color wheelHear (on audiocassette) why the world considers great paintings masterpieces, and see them reproduced in full colorAnd much more!

Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors


Stephen Jay Gould - 1992
    What these collections say about the collectors, and about human beings in general, is the subject of this strangely beautiful and rich compendium. Here are Purcell's wonderfully exotic photographs of teeth and other human artifacts from the collection of Peter the Great; moles, pigs, and dogs from van Heurn's many boxes of perfectly preserved skins; and all manner of preserved life from Rothschild's Birds of Paradise to the fish of Agassiz. Here also is Gould at his best, delighting in the unusual and making connections to our own history and evolution that only the most fertile and whimsical mind could imagine - and that few will be able to resist. This is a book for those with a craving for beauty, knowledge, and a fascination with the unusual.