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Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of a

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The hottest directors, their coolest films . . . A complete guide to today's Japanese movie renaissance

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Writings on photography and photographers by Henri Cartier-Bresson

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This book covers photography from a minimalist perspective, proving that it is possible to take very good photographs with relatively cheap equipment. The minimalist process emphasizes the importance of first knowing what you want to achieve as a photographer and then choosing the most effective equipment, subject matter, and general approach.

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This richly illustrated publication traces the evolution of the Mint Project - a bold conservation and adaptation program to transform the 19th-century industrial coining factory buildings of the Royal Mint in Sydney into a 21st-century head office. The project has received many major architectural, conservation and design awards.

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This book explains both the origin and evolution of Miralles' system of representation, from his time as a student at the Barcelona School of Architecture to the latest projects he designed with Benedetta Tagliabue, including the heroic period with Carme Pins.

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Presents an account of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610) and the artist's revolutionary achievement. This book focuses on the emergence of the full-blown 'gallery picture' in Rome during the last decade of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth.

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The modern artist strives to be independent of the publicness taste - and yet depends on the public for a living. This book argues that the French Realist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) understood this dilemma perhaps better than any painter before him.

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The Moth Wing Diaries is a photographic narrative addressing themes of memory, providence, revival and dreams by Lori Vrba.

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Home to over 20,000 mind-boggling anatomic specimens, plaster casts, wax models, and paintings, the Mutter museum, founded in 1858, is part of the college of physicians of philadelphia. This book featrues over 100 photos, many in color, by a select group of renowned photographers whose work appears in the award-winning Mutter museum calendars.

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The Music Conservatory Guitar Method Book 1 covers instrument proficiency. The book is designed to help guitar players of all ages learn to read music, have an understanding of basic music theory and beyond.

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Depicts a number of design/build projects carried out by Travis Price in landscapes as diverse as Machu Picchu and Italy, Nepal and Ireland, and the Amazon, and Finland.

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The Nature of Design focuses on the design theory and practice, and presents previously unseen drawings.

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A fundamental reevaluation of how the Nazi past shaped postwar German art and architecture. Paul B. Jaskot fundamentally reevaluates pivotal developments in postwar German art and architecture against the backdrop of contentious contemporary debates over the Nazi past and the difficulty of determining who was or was not a Nazi perpetrator.

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Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate

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