Explains how skyscrapers are built, from the preliminary designs through the floor by floor construction to the final building.

How Skyscrapers Are Made (How It Is Made)

Children's Books

Michael, Duncan

Carpenter, Ray

Literature & Fiction

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In his late eighties, American painter Charles Garabedian is hardly a household name. But he is a highly influential artist whose works are collected by LACMA, the Met, MoMA, the Whitney, the Corcoran and the Smithsonian, among other institutions, and the subject of this extensively illustrated exhibition catalog from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. This revelatory group of intimate representational paintings and drawings -- from Garabedian's first museum show in almost 30 years -- explores themes of war, music, the body, dismemberment, heroism, comic pretension, love and death. An exciting discovery of surprising importance.

Charles Garabedian: A Retrospective

Arts & Photography

Julie Joyce

Charles Garabedian

Christopher Miles

Nevin Schreiner

History & Criticism

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Pavel Tchelitchew: The landscape of the body : June 14-September 6, 1998

Pavel Tchelitchew

Katonah Museum of Art

F. Scott Hess: The Passing Hours: Recent Paintings, December 2-31, 1999

F. Scott Hess

Individual Artists

Hackett-Freedman Gallery

Richard Pettibone: A Retrospective

Ian Berry

Frances Young Tang Teaching Mu

Wild Ones

Urban Neighbours of Hope Publications

A Jackson Pollock in three dimensions is one critic s unforgettable description of a piece by Claire Falkenstein, whose life and work spanned the 20th century. The American artist and teacher was born in Oregon in 1908 and after living in San Francisco, Paris and New York died in Los Angeles in 1997. This lavishly produced book is amazingly the first monograph ever on the work of this ceaselessly inventive artist. Falkenstein called her sculptures, paintings and prints structures, she also designed furniture, fountains, screens, wallpaper and jewelry. A fresh look at her multifaceted work collected by major institutions ranging from MoMA to the tate Britain places Falkenstein in the company of better known peers and further credits her explorations as prototypical of the work of post minimal and contemporary artists.

Claire Falkenstein

Susan M. Anderson

Maren Henderson

Ram Publications

The quintessential visual artist of the Beat era, Wallace Berman (1926-1976) remains one of the best kept secrets of the late twentieth century. A crucial figure in California's postwar underground, Berman was a catalyst who traveled through many different worlds, transferring ideas and dreams from one circle to the next. His larger community is the subject of Semina Culture: Wallace Berman &amp; His Circle, a catalogue to the exhibition organized by the Santa Monica Muesum of Art including previously unexhibited works by 52 artists. Anchoring this publication is Semina, a loose-leaf art and poetry journal that Berman published in nine issues between 1955 and 1964. Although privately made and distributed to a mere handful of friends and sympathizers, Semina is a brilliant compendium of the most interesting artists and poets of its time. Showcasing the individuals who came to define a still potent strand of post-war beat counterculture, Semina Culture subtly outlines the energies, values, and foibles of this fascinating circle. Also reprduced here are works by various artists and writers who appear in Berman's own photographs--approximately 100 of which were recently developed from vintage negatives, and will be seen here for the first time.

Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle

Kristine McKenna

D.A.P./Santa Monica Museum of Art

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