Bestselling author and award-winning chef Art Smith was cooking for celebrities but neglecting to take care of himself. His blood pressure and cholesterol levels were high, and his weight had ballooned to 325 pounds. But then, by changing his diet and starting an exercise routine while still enjoyin[...]

Dominated by spontaneous brushstrokes and vibrant colors and characterized by systemic process and serial repetition, Tennessee-born artist Josh Smith's work eschews formal representation in favor of an exploration of abstraction. Curator Anne Pontegnie explores how Smith uses his signature to struc[...]

The Future of Erotic Fantasy Art, sequel to the strong-selling Erotic Fantasy Art (Collins Design, 2008) gathers the finest, freshest, and most exciting talents in the world of erotic fantasy illustration. Artists from around the world-from China and Singapore to the United States and Europe-are rep[...]

Seize the competitive advantage with today's most powerful strategic tool: mergers and acquisitions Driven by rapid globalization, technological advances, and dramatic changes in public policy, industry restructuring has become "business as usual". Yet the failure rates in M&A have been high. The b[...]

Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today's multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that a historical approach offers the best answer to the quest[...]

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Effectively Britain's first modern art movement, the Brotherhood combined rebellion and revivalism, scientific precision, and imaginative grandeur. Today, the works of the Pre-Raphaelites are among the best known of all English pai[...]

* The new Isabel Dalhousie novel

The Total Work of Art provides a broad survey that incorporates many canonical artists into a single narrative. With particular attention to the influence of the Total Work of Art on modern theatre and performance, this brief introduction will also be of interest to students in such fields as film s[...]

To reflect the latest developments, in this fifth edition nearly half the book has been rewritten including a wide-ranging introductory chapter and seven new chapters that deal with the latest radical transformations in contemporary art, among them the increasing dominance of the photographic media,[...]

An unprecedented passion for saving lives swept through late Ming society, giving rise to charitable institutions that transcended family, class, and religious boundaries. Analyzing lecture transcripts, administrative guidelines, didactic tales, and diaries, Joanna Handlin Smith abandons the facile [...]