How to Draw Hip-Hop shows the principles of drawing and constructions, and combines them with the style and spirit of hip-hop culture through its gear, characters, graffiti, environments, and more to create a definitive guidebook for aspiring artists

In this handsome volume Philip Parisi offers a comprehensive view of these stunning and historic works of art - with 104 of the 127 images in full color. He tells the story of how they came to be, how the communities influenced and accepted them, and what efforts have been made to restore and preserve them. A map guides visitors to the locations of the extant treasures

This book is about great Pop Art painter Roy Lichtenstein. Author evocatively explores Roy Lichtenstein's work and life and his groundbreaking influence on the art world. In Roy's long career as a teacher, artist, and innovator, he changed the way that people thought about art and how artists thought about their subjects, challenging people to see familiar sights with new eyes

Edited and with an introduction by Sam Watters, American Gardens has more than 250 archival photographs and plans and an invaluable biography section profiling the schooling and projects of the landscape designers whose work is featured in the book. In a large landscape format, American Gardens captures estate gardens as they existed for one generation, a time when people had the land, the time, and the skill to fulfill the grandest gardening fantasies

Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop is the first fully illustrated tour of iconic print shop and also chronicles the long life and large cast of employees, entertainers, and American legends whose histories are intertwined with it. Complete with 190 illustrations - as well as a special book jacket that unfolds to reveal an original Hatch poster on the reverse - Hatch Show Print is a dazzling document of this legendary institution

Sara Cedar Miller, the official historian and photographer for the Central Park Conservancy, draws on extensive research to tell the captivating story of the park's creation, placing it in the context of 19th-century American art and social history and illuminating the roles of its designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and their associate Jacob Wrey Mould. Fascinating period views and original plans and drawings, many previously unpublished, are complemented by Miller's breathtaking new photographs, which reveal the restored park in all its glory

This work focuses on themes related to daily life, depicting the natural scenery along the banks of the Bian River, and the hustling and bustling life in the early twelfth-century city of Bianjing, then the capital of Northern Song Dynasty, as its citizens celebrate the Qingming Festival

The images in this book capture the entrepreneurial audacity for which the circus became famous, and also the remarkable personalities and energy of its performers

This book is about the most famous architect of all time, and certainly the most well known American architect, and he has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy

Accompanying the much-publicized travelling exhibition African American Masters, this book highlights influential and important African American 20th-century artists, from those of the early part of the century to important participants in the Harlem Renaissance, from self-taught and folk artists to urbane modernists, right up to the vigorous contemporary art scene. The text also includes sidebars highlighting individual pictures and creators, completing a wonderful chapter in the history of American art and in African American life and achievement