Art and Creativity

Master of graphical illusion, M.C. Escher, is brilliantly rendered in three dimensions in this pop-up book.

Jonathan Safran Foer's latest effort, Tree of Codes, is simultaneously a paean to his favorite book, Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz and a bold artistic experiment with the form of the physical book. What it delivers from a literary perspective is less obvious.

In I Wonder, Marian Bantjes fuses 13 essays on the themes of wonder, honour, and memory with nearly 200 pages of the intricately-wrought, hand-crafted artwork for which she is famous.

"Exquisite corpse" was a collaborative drawing game that grew out of the surrealism movement of the 1920's. The game involved three players, each of whom drew either the head, torso, or legs of a single character on a single piece of paper without seeing the contributions of the other two. The Exquisite Book, a joint effort between 100 artists,...

In Made by Hand, Frauenfelder hits some of the highlights of his do-it-yourself exploration, taking readers through his attempt at a variety of DIY prjects such as making guitars out of cigar boxes, growing his own food, and raising chickens.

This reincarnation of a piece Hugh MacLeod published years ago on his website entitled "How to Be Creative" is a small book with large type and lots of pictures, but MacLeod squeezes a lot of meaning into this small package, as with his business card drawings.

The Visionary State weaves text and image into a compelling narrative of religion, architecture, and consciousness in California, from neopaganism to televangelism, UFO cults to austere Zen Buddhism.

In Making Art Together, Boston-based artist Mark Cooper, with teacher Lisa Sjostrom, advocates for the power of collaborative art-making among school children. Cooper, an internationally recognized artist and a professor of art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Boston College, has led collaborative art projects in classrooms all over the country. In Making Art Together, he pulls this personal experience into a guide for teachers who would benefit from his work.

Writer and illustrator, Kate T. Williamson takes the reader on a watercolor visual journey down less travelled roads of Japanese culture.

Street Art is a look at an art movement that has been around for decades but that is just now beginning to emerge in the mainstream.

In de Kooning: An American Master, Stevens and Swann present de Kooning as a profoundly influential American artist who lived a rich and contradictory life.

Bound in sturdy recycled cardboard with a straight-edged ruler on the front cover, Berger and Hawthorne’s book itself exemplifies the multi-use ethic it espouses with more than 50 DIY projects within.

Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art is an exploration of books of obsessive wonder filled to their borders with drawings, sketches, watercolors, graphs, charts, lists, collages, portraits, and photographs.

Founder and director of the Yale Repertory Theater, as well as Harvard's American Repertory Theater, and the drama critic for The New Republic for going on thirty years, Robert Brustein is a living legend in theatrical circles.

Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today.

Superbly inventive maps charting voyages of the mind. Over 100 maps from artists, cartographers, and explorers.

Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg and the movement that preached a back-to-basics style of filmmaking at odds with mainstream trends.

Eight miles off the Eastern coast of Newfoundland, Canada lies Fogo Island, an inconsequential spot of land 15 miles in length and 9 miles wide.

How to say "I love you" in 43 different languages, including Zulu and Braille; the taxonomy of cattle-branding; a table of international clothes-washing symbols; the Glasgow coma scale; and a listing of all the James Bond films (thus far).