Paul Landacre: California Hills, Hollywood, and the World Beyond

Paul Landacre: California Hills, Hollywood, and the World BeyondWith his virtuosic prints of rolling California hills, classically inspired nudes, and natural and manmade formsfrom a seashell to his own printing pressPaul Landacre elevated wood engraving to a high art form in twentieth century America. Landacres ceaseless stylistic innovation placed his work in dialogue with California contemporaries like Edward Weston and Henrietta Shore; he was, in fact, central to an artistic milieu that has been described as a

and El Morocco

Nearly 150 alphabetical entries—30 of them new to this edition—explain the who

Georgia O'Keeffe

An essay by Daniel Fallu

this book is a first-person narrative of daunting travel and scientific discovery in the little-known country of Myanmar

The extra-large “double-elephant” format of that edition was chosen in homage to the famous double-elephant folio of The Birds of America

The eight states of India’s North Eastern Region make up only 8 percent of the country’s land mass

Legends of the NBA features illustrated profiles of twenty-eight retired basketball greats

and how Georgia O’Keefe captured a bird in flight using just a few curving lines

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which Strosberg aptly dubs “Human Expressionism

and superstitions