The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China
by Hannah Pakula
By David Bouchard with illustrations by noted artist Zhong-Yang Huang
An illustrated fictionalised memoir of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi.
The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty
James C. Y. Watt(Editor)
Edith Head: The Fifty-Year Career of Hollywood's Greatest Costume Designer
by Jay Jorgensen
Fornasetti: The Complete Universe
by Mariuccia Casadio
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
by Jonathan D. Katz
...companion volume to an exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, traces the defining presence of same-sex desire in American portraiture...
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5 comments:
oh my god, what a booklist. and i was going to try to stop buying books (a new year's resolution). well, i will have to get on it now (ordering some of these -- i wish all) if i am to stay with that lofty plan, yes?
happy, happy holidays most beautiful hobac. and a splendid 2011.
These all look wonderful -- nothing like a little escapism via table tome.
Thanks for aiming so haute ;)
Alcira
nerochronicles.com
i think i need to fornasetti book!
Some wonderful selections- I gravitate to the Dragon of Heaven- an illustrated fictional Memoir-How could I not be? The Last Empress will be spectacular- have you read it? I think I will be getting the Herb Ritts book sometime in the near future. books are a sure bet -always there is more room on the floor!
I NEED THAT FORNASETTI BOOK!!!!
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