Books: Art

The Good: Fantagraphics has done a beautiful job putting together this "coffee table" book. The production quality is high and the book is abundant with reproductions of Steve Ditko's comic book work from the beginning of his career in 1953 to his most recent efforts. And author Blake Bell has done his homework and presents an exhaustive history of... (See the whole review)

Announcing Publication of Walter Donway's New Book of Poetry Touched By Its Rays, Walter Donway's new book of poetry, will be published in mid-February and available from www.objectivismstore.com. Touched By Its Rays is a publication of the Atlas Society; all income from its sale will go to support its work. Book... (See the whole review)

My novel, Zeno’s Paradox, was inspired by the philosophy of the novelist Ayn Rand. ... (See the whole review)

Ronald Reagan wrote a candid handwritten diary during his two terms in office. The diaries are, according to his editor, extraordinarily revealing and not at all self-serving. As so often in the past, those who would mock the man as shallow or un-self-critical are shown to be mistaken given this evidence in his own hand. Not the tool of the reli... (See the whole review)

Henry Mark Holzer appeared on Book TV to speak about this book for approximately an hour on May 11th 2007. This show will probably be repeated. One can search at BookTV.org for future airings. From the website: The Supreme Court Opinions of Clarence Thomas, 1991-2006: A Conservative's Perspective from May 13, 2007 In his book "T... (See the whole review)

The story covered in this volume of Daredevil invloves Matt Murdock meeting his opposite number, Maya Lopez. Maya Lopez is a Native American girl who was born without a sense of hearing, her visual instincts more than make up for it though. She was able to master speech, art, dance, and musicianship from nothing but sight.  Her father was murdered ... (See the whole review)

Check out the images available on the Amazon site. ... (See the whole review)

The Pentagon’s New Map – War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century I highly recommend this book. What Barnett proposes has broad appeal across the political spectrum, with the exception of folks on the far left or the far right, which I consider a positive! In The Pentagon’s New Map, Barnett lays out a rational strategy for war and peace d... (See the whole review)

... Albert Einstein said that “The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhampered development of the individual.” But our institutions are the opposite. They enslave us – rule us by fear and deceit! ... Imagine – you're a child again. Filled with innocence, and wonder, and life. Remember how goo... (See the whole review)

This is perhaps the best book-length introduction to Wright's work. Plans, photos, sketches, and writings by Wright are accompanied by insightful articles on him - together they describe the sunlit genius of the greatest architect the world has ever seen.

The late Harold Schonberg's third and final edition of this perennial favourite includes updated accounts of all the serialists, tonalists, minimalists, and other -ists who have bored and bewildered audiences during the last 50 years or so. (For such music to change, he quotes musicologist Robert P. Morgan as saying, "the world will have to change.... (See the whole review)

As an illustrator and student of art, I say without reservation that this is the best damn book ever for learning how to draw the human face and body.  All the other books pale by comparison; this book is what they just don't teach in art classes any more, because postmodernism has destroyed all objective standards. I recently bought... (See the whole review)

In "Philosophy in a New Key", Suzanne Langer developed a theory of symbolism, there applied to music, which she felt could be developed to embrace all the arts. In "Feeling and Form" she did just that. It offers the reader nothing less than a systematic, comprehensive theory of art, applied in turn to painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, ... (See the whole review)

This book is a fantastic introduction to economics. It explains a simple but important idea, and the entire rest of the book is an elaboration on the idea. The "one lesson" is the need to look beyond the first order effect of an action or policy, and see the many different consequences.  Each subsequent chapter goes on to apply that lesson to diffe... (See the whole review)