878 results for '"Louis Auslander'

A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside out...

An authoritative English translation of Goethe’s classic autobiographical account of war and conquest in the age of revolutionIn August 1792, Goethe accompanied Karl August, Grand Duke of...

Danish artist Olafur Eliasson has received global acclaim for his works, which harness the power of light and color to striking effect. Renowned for his large-scale installations-which often extend...

Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a...

Featuring thirty-five outstanding abstract paintings made between 1950 and 1975 from the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this fascinating book casts a new glance at a renowned...

Bad Company begins with Joaquin Murieta, whose myth started in the early 1850s and who remains California's most glamorous outlaw. Then there's the story of Dick Fellows, who would have been a...

This long, complex poem, modeled on the Watts Tower, a Los Angeles folk architecture masterpiece, is the first Living Batch Press drive, he said book—a series honoring Robert Creeley's "I Know a Man...

A landmark survey of one of architecture's most controversial yet popular style The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance - and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most...

Make story time a little spookier with the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time! Every visit to the magic tree house leads to a time-travel adventure! Jack and Annie are on a mission to...

This dynamic collection presents a new way of writing national and global histories while developing our understanding of France in the world through short, provocative essays that range from...

A beautiful volume that brings to light the forgotten Le Nain brothers, a trio of 17th-century French master painters who specialized in portraiture, religious subjects, and scenes of everyday...

Product description Book by Lieberman, Laurence From Library Journal With his recent books, Lieberman has become America's "tourist poet"; this time he takes us along on a Caribbean...

His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien régime France. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France traces the merging of philosophical, sexual,...

The second in a series of scholarly catalogs on the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, this volume focuses on the museum's important holdings of French and British paintings of...

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton from 4 May-29 August 2022A stunning exhibition catalogue reuniting international contemporary artists around their usage of...

Ubuntu, a Bantu word which became the first term from an Indigenous language to enter a political constitution, is host to many meanings: ‘humanity’, ‘fraternity’, ‘compassion’ or even ‘forming a...

"These stories explore lost moments in time with intensity, emotion, and an eye to the past. In "Uncle High Lonesome," a young man recalls his Uncle Peter, whose even temper was marred only by his...

“Nobody—nobody—has produced a better parable about the condition of the national consciousness at century’s end.”—The Boston GlobeAn enduringly brilliant novel of trial and triumph set in America in...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. •  “Destined to become a special...

A 2025 National Parenting Product Awards WinnerInspiring, relatable, and totally true biographies tell the childhood stories of a diverse group of musicians, including Taylor Swift, Ella Fitzgerald,...