This book explores how, since then, american social and artistic history has shaped what we know as contemporary art, and how American art has respondes to the unique cultural conditions of recent times

Global Sport Sponsorship is the first text to provide a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary analysis of this industry. Leading scholars from marketing, management, sociology, cultural studies, tourism, and gender studies address issues central to current debates in each of these disciplines

This catalogue is published to coincide with an exhibition in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. The five sections cover: early America, high style rococo, East meets West, Pennsylvania German and classical style. Approximately 300 examples of decorative arts made or used in America between 1640 and 1840 - including furniture, textiles, paintings, ceramics, glass and metalwork - form the collection at the museum

This book offers a fascinating pyscho-social biography of Winslow Homer. More than a biography, it offers much discussion of his art and his artistic motivations, along with outstanding quality reproductions

Robert Gardner is one of the most original, as well as controversial, nonfiction filmmakers of the last half century. This volume is a collective effort to grapple with the new knowledge of reality that Gardner"s work provide us - its innovation, but also its influences and effects in the larger fiedls of art, cinema, and anthropology in which it has carved out its niche

Invaluable tips can help you to gain a vital competitive edge, from goal-setting and motivation to running psychology and race tactics. Assess and develop your technique under clear no-nonsense guidance with detailed visuals to help you understand what your body is going through. Key pre- and post-run step-by-step stretches help you to protect yourself from injury and core and resistance-training exercises can help you to run faster and further

The book contains black and white photographs of the American West

The book is dedicated to one of the famous villas of Italy - Villa Giuseppina

Photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand spent several months in a helicopter all over Turkey, photographing its renowned Greco-Roman ruins in Ephesus and Pergamon, dramatic mountains, and dazzling coastline that is a mecca for international yachtsmen. Also here are the stunning mosques, churches and palaces of Istanbul--once capital of the Ottoman sultans and center of one of the most powerful empires of all time