Author: Jim Heimann
Publisher: Taschen
Keywords: icon, 70s, fashion
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 383651432X
ISBN-13: 9783836514323
From hippie to disco to punk, this look book relives 1970s fashion via clothing advertisements from the decade. In between its covers youll find bell-bottoms and feathered hair mingling with platform shoes, Diane Von Furstenberg wrap dresses and endless amounts of polyester (what were they thinking?).
Author: Neil Olson
Publisher: HarperTorch
Keywords: icon
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0060748397
ISBN-13: 9780060748395
In a remote Greek village, Captain Elias and his guerillas in the resistance are engaged in battle with the Nazis. A church is burnt to the ground and several people die trying to save a religious icon. Sixty years later the icon surfaces on the New York art market.
Author: Frederick Forsyth
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: icon
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1997-09-02
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0553574604
ISBN-13: 9780553574609
From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow’s headlines.It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets.For the West, Russia is a basket case. But for Igor Komarov, one-time army sergeant who has risen to leadership of the right-wing UPF party, the chaos is made to order. As he waits in the wings for the presidential elect
Author: Owe Wikstrom
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Keywords: pocket, icon
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2008-01-09
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0852446675
ISBN-13: 9780852446676
Practically everybody loves to travel; to discover something new. We want to escape, to be free, to feel the sun on our faces. So we venture forth to far away places. But whether we are package tourists, culture vultures or backpackers the questions can still arise: Is this really all there is? Is there nothing beyond what we can see - something MORE? Can we find space and time on our journey to find new realities? The outward journey can be the start of an inner journey. This book, superbly translated from the original Swedish, reflects on our modern obsession with travel whilst discus
Author: L. Evseyeva
Publisher: Grand Holdings Publishers, Moscow
Keywords: painting, icon, history
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 2005-01-08
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0955008905
ISBN-13: 9780955008900
A History of Icon Painting is among the most comprehensive single books on the subject of iconography. High quality and sumptuously illustrated with 500+ full color illustrations, it offers an integral picture of the artistic, cultural, aesthetic and spiritual values which icons have reflected for many nations in different periods of history. Printed on high quality glossy paper, virtually every page contains multiple full color illustrations. Table of Contents include: Theological Fundamentals of the Icon and Iconography; Icon painting techniques; The Byzantine Icon in the 6th to 15th centur
Author: Philip Nel
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: icon, american, seuss
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2004-02-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0826417086
ISBN-13: 9780826417084
Dr Seuss: American Icon celebrates one of the most influential authors and artists of the 20th century: Theodor Seuss Geisel, best known as ’Dr Seuss’. Dr Seuss’s ascendance from children’s author to American icon confirms that his cultural significance rests not just with the beginning reader, but with the scholar, the artist, and the poet. Seuss’s Beginner Books (starting with The Cat in the Hat in 1957) have obscured the enormous range of his contributions to American literature. Similarly, his art actually covers a range of styles, including Surrealism, Art No
Author: Philip Nel
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Keywords: icon, american, seuss
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2004-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0826414346
ISBN-13: 9780826414342
Published in time for the centenary of Seuss’s birth in March 2004, Dr. Seuss: American Icon, celebrates one of the most influential authors and artists of the 20th century: Theodor Seuss Geisel, best known as ’Dr. Seuss’. Dr Seuss’s ascendance from children’s author to American icon confirms that his cultural significance rests not just with the beginning reader, but with the scholar, the artist, and the poet. Seuss’s Beginner Books(starting with The Cat in the Hat in 1957) have obscured the enormous range of his contributions to American literature. S
