Presents two centuries of powerful, striking masks made by First Nations artists on the Pacific Northwest Coast. Some depict animals and supernatural creatures while others are human face masks representing ancestral spirits which descend from the heavens. The opening essay provides a look into the meaning and potency of masks from the viewpoint of a Native person, and the text surveys the four dimensions of the cosmos as perceived by the Native peoples of the Northwest Coast as well as underlying issues of aesthetics, art produced for sale, continuity and change, and the relations of artists to the market. Beautifully illustrated with 61 color and about 100 b&amp;w photographs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Down from the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast

Arts & Photography

JOSEPH, Robert

Grenville, Bruce

MacNair, Peter

Vancouver Art Gallery

History & Criticism

Univ of Washington Pr

Aganetha Dyck

Madill, Shirley J. R.

Dahle, Sigrid

Borsa, Joan

Hebert, Gilles

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Winnipeg Art Gallery

A groundbreaking, international review of comic art, graphic novels, animated cartoons, manga, anime, video games and visual art.
The public's appetite for comics, animated cartoons, anime, manga, graphic novels and computer/video games is at an all-time high. Visual pop culture in all its forms now dominates the globe. KRAZY! is a celebration of the growing significance of this delirious visual culture.
Organized into seven sections, one for each art form, the book highlights the greatest works of each genre, as chosen by seven great practitioners. The energy and intensity of the images leaps off every page, enhanced by behind-the-scenes commentary by such heavyweights as Art Spiegelman, Will Wright and Canadian comic book author and illustrator, Seth. Other contributors include Tim Johnson,! director of Antz and Over the Hedge, Kiyoshi Kusumi, a global authority on manga, and Toshiya Ueno, a highly regarded media theorist and critic. Published to accompany a landmark exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, KRAZY!! is a dizzying introduction to the art forms that will dominate the new century.
This book was published in partnership with the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Krazy!: The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art

Johnson, Tim

Spiegelman, Art

SETH

Kusumi, Kiyoshi

Humor & Entertainment

Douglas & McIntyre, Ltd

Janet Cardiff: Eyes of Laura

Cardiff, Janet

Ferguson, Deanna

Wakkary, Ronald

"My work has moved away from the idea of a painting as an object," Michael Lin (born 1964) observes. "I'm more interested in creating a painting as a space to occupy." Lin makes painted installations that reconfigure institutional spaces with designs appropriated from Taiwanese textiles. This publication is the first comprehensive overview of his work.

Michael Lin

BOURRIAUD, NICOLAS

Hanru, Hou

Reference

Hatje Cantz

From the hotel’s origin in humble inns dotted along ancient trade routes, to today’s worldwide Hilton and Hyatt networks, the concept of the hotel has come a very long way indeed. We now talk about boutique hotels and resort hotels, places that connote a relatively new lifestyle of perpetual leisure and transience, and as the role of the hotel has expanded, so too have architects and interior designers risen to the challenge, producing ever more spectacular structures. Today, the largest hotel in the world--the First World Hotel in Malaysia--boasts 6,118 rooms, and the tallest hotel--the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong--sits at the top of the 1,600-foot-high International Commerce Center. Grand Hotel is the most ambitious book on the subject yet published. Its scope is global and trans-historical: a tiny sampling of hotels featured includes the Dolder Grand Hotel and Curhaus in Zurich; SLS Bazaar in Beverly Hills; the Ace Hotel in New York; Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach; and the Lloyd Hotel and Cultural Embassy in Amsterdam. With 350 color illustrations, it includes extended blog entries, newly commissioned essays and interviews, plus reprints and excerpts from classic texts on the topic.

Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life

Baker, William

JOHNSON, Brad

Gannon, Todd

Klein, Norman

Architecture

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