Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity

No one skewers the popular movements of American culture like Tom Wolfe. In 1975, he turned his satirical pen to the pretensions of the contemporary art world, a world of social climbing, elitist posturing, and ingeniously absurd self-justifying the...

Why does man exist? In the gears of reality and eternity there is a very promising reason. And the perspectives from which it is told includes that of a profound individual. He is a most powerful extradimentional being that has been around for milli...

The Advisor Playbook: Regain liberation and order in your personal and professional life Practice management is often misunderstood. The Advisor Playbook will take the mystery away. Practice management is confused with marketing, or is limited to s...

Some of the twentieth centurys most important artists and writersfrom Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Frank OHara to Jean Staffordlived and worked on the East End of Long Island. The home they made there, and its effect on their work, is the sub...

The true story of Americas greatest art forger! Ten years ago, an FBI investigation was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality le...

In Reason in Art, Santayana explores the social and psychological origins of art. He examines its moral and ideal functions, its lapses into tastelessness, and the distinctive character of music, speech, poetry, and prose. The Spanish-born philosoph...

In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry, intrigue, and searing ambition. At the center...

Yale professor R. Howard Bloch reveals the history, the hidden meaning, the deep beauty, and the enduring allure of the Bayeux Tapestry, the world's most famous textile.

In this fascinating true story of artistic genius and personal triumph, the author brings to life Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti, two talented, passionate artists, and the competitive drive that united and divided them. As this lush, imag...