Art:

Painting Below Zero
Notes on a Life in Art
Written by James Rosenquist and David Dalton

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $50.00

From James Rosenquist, one of our most iconic pop artists—along with Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—comes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists, Rosenquist often works in three-dimensional forms, with highly dramatic shifts in scale and a far more complex palette, including grisaille and Day-Glo colors... Read more >

Manga for the Beginner
Everything you Need to Start Drawing Right Away!
Written by Christopher Hart

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $21.95

Got manga? Christopher Hart’s got manga, and he wants to share it with all his millions of readers—especially the beginners. With Manga for the Beginner, anyone who can hold a pencil can start drawing great manga characters right away. Using his signature step-by-step style, Hart shows how to draw the basic... Read more >

The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics

Written by Freddie E Williams II
Foreword by Brian Bolland

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $22.99

At last–the first guide to drawing comics digitally! Artists! Gain incredible superpowers...with the help of your computer! The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics shows how to give up pencil, pen, and paper and start drawing dynamic, exciting comics art entirely with computer tools. Author Freddie E Williams is one... Read more >

How to Draw What You See

Written by Rudy De Reyna

Format: Trade Paperback, 178 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1996
Price: $18.99

When it was originally published in 1970, How to Draw What You See zoomed to the top of Watson-Guptill’s best-seller list—and it has remained there ever since. “I believe that you must be able to draw things as you see them—realistically,” wrote Rudy de Reyna in his introduction. Today, generations of... Read more >

I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon)

Written by Richard Polsky

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $23.95

In early 2005, Richard Polsky decided to put his much-loved, hard-won Warhol Fright Wig, up for auction at Christie's. The market for contemporary art was robust and he was hoping to turn a profit. His instinct seemed to be on target: his picture sold for $375,000. But if only Polsky had... Read more >

The Draw 50 Way
How to Draw Cats, Puppies, Horses, Buildings, Birds, Aliens, Boats, Trains and Everything Else Under the Sun
Written by Lee J. Ames

Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2005
Price: $9.95

For more than thirty years, the bestselling Draw 50 series has shown children how to create everything from puppies to ships, horses to skyscrapers, and aliens to racing cars. In this new addition to the beloved series, Lee J. Ames shows you how to draw sixty of his popular sketches step-by-step... Read more >

The Bauhaus Group
Six Masters of Modernism
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber

Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00

Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories... Read more >

Draw 50 Animals

Written by Lee J. Ames

Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1985
Price: $8.95

Fifty furry, scaly and feathered friends are here for aspiring young artists to draw. Read more >

Humongous Book of Cartooning

Written by Christopher Hart

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $21.99

Chris Hart's Humongous Book of Cartooning is a great value book covering everything the beginner needs to master cartooning. It teaches how to draw cartoon people, fantasy characters, layouts, background design and much more. This latest cartoon title from Chris Hart, the world's bestselling author of drawing and cartooning books, packs a... Read more >

Rogues' Gallery
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross

Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95

“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this...

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