Eiko Ishioka, Japan's most acclaimed designer, brought an eerie, sensual surrealism to film &amp; theater, album covers, the Olympics &amp; Cirque du Soleil, in the process earning an Oscar, a Grammy &amp; a string of other honors. Includes essays about Eiko by 15 Japanese artists, plus over 240 pgs. of four color offset lithograph prints of her work.

Eiko By Eiko: Eiko Ishioka-Japan's Ultimate Designer

Eiko Ishioka

Biographies & Memoirs

Chronicle Books, San Francisco

Eastern Wisdom: Zen, Tao, & Sufism (The Little Wisdom Library)

Chronicle Books

Labyrinth Publishing

Religion & Spirituality

Ruth Bernhard: The Eternal Body: A Collection of Fifty Nudes

For over half a century, acclaimed photographer Ruth Bernhard has worked to "simplify, isolate, and give emphasis to form with greatest clarity" in her radiant photographs of the female nude. Now, with Chronicle Books' timely reissue of her best-selling volume, The Eternal Body, Bernhard's most evocative images are once again available in a superb collection, complete with an insightfill text, that pays tribute to a living legend. Hauntingly sensual yet classically reserved, the book's ethereal duotone photographs appear to be illuminated from within so that even the simplest lines of the human form -- a draped torso, a curved neck, an angled limb -- take on a complexity not often seen in work of this kind. A master artist whose technical prowess places her among the ranks of the greatest photographers of our time, Ruth Bernhard has created a masterpiece of expression and sensitivity in The Eternal Body.

Ruth Bernhard. The Eternal Body. A Collection of Fifty Nudes (ISBN: 0811808017

Margaretta Mitchell

A sprawling compendium of Art Deco design from across Europe, Euro Deco features a broad range of exemplary graphic ephemera. Culled from Steven Heller and Louise Fili's popular International Deco series of inspirational reference books, the material in Euro Deco comes from Italy, Spain, the UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, primarily between WWI and WWII -- the time when the continent gave birth to modern graphic design. Well over a thousand images from posters, packaging, advertisements, menus, and brochures display the elegant geometry and harmonious marriage of typography and illustration that make deco a popular style to this day. A generous package at an attractive price, Euro Deco is poised to be a standard graphic resource for designers, collectors, and aesthetes alike.

Euro Deco: Graphic Design Between the Wars

HELLER, Steven

Fili, Louise

History

Top Chef: The Cookbook

Brett

MartÍn

Best of San Francisco

Travel

DON MARTIN

United States

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