Seymour Chwast

The founding partner of Push Pin Studios puts his own artistic spin on this graphic adaptation of Dante Alighieri's 1321 epic poem chronicling his journey through the afterlife and visiting both Heaven and Hell.

A Graphic Adaptation

Dante's Divine Comedy

Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way-on motorcycles, of course-to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the travelers, including a battle-worn knight, a sweetly pretentious prioress, the bawdy Wife of Bath, and an emaciated scholar-clerk, come up with a plan to pass time on the journey to Thomas à Becket's shrine by telling stories. The twenty-four tales, which range from high romance set in ancient Greece to low comedy in contemporary England, are adapted into graphic novel form by Seymour Chwast-a pitch-perfect transposition of Chaucer's pointed satire. Chwast's illustrations relate tales of trust and treachery, of piety and bawdiness, in an engaging style that will appeal to those who have enjoyed The Canterbury Tales for years, and those for whom this is a first, delectable introduction.

The Canterbury Tales

Little Lessons

Going Home

Steven Heller

From Victorian to Digital

Graphic Style

5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks, An Illustrated Timeline

At War with War

Hugh Lofting

Dr. Dolittle

A Quarter Century of Innovative Design and Illustration

The Push Pin Graphic

"Pus Pin's place in design history is nowhere better revealed than in its signature periodical The Push Pin Graphic - a stylish, brash, free-form showcase for the studio's talents and personal interests. For The Push Pin Graphic: A Quarter Century of Innovative Design and Illustration, Chwast and Glaser join design historian Steven Heller and designer Martin Venezky to cull the best of the studio's quirky, celebrated periodical. Featuring the covers and select spreads from each of the eighty-six issues of the publication, The Push Pin Graphic is the first comprehensive account of this design milestone - a unique glimpse into the creative output of a firm that continues to inspire designers to this day."--BOOK JACKET.

Phillis La Farge

Relates the saga of Henry who, because he could not stop making pancakes, became wealthy and famous.

The Pancake King

By tracing the roots and development of style, the authors aim to show how graphic design has interacted with the material culture, how it has served both as an adjunct to and as the vanguard in the development of broader period styles.

From Victorian to Post-modern

Filled with five hundred color and black-and-white illustrations, a visual history of the art of illustration spans more than one hundred years of art, showcasing a broad spectrum of editorial work and advertising illustration, profiling the artists who created it, and critically analyzing its important influence on modern culture, commerce, and society.

A Visual History

Illustration

In this Seymour Chwast's version of Dante Alighieri's epic poem, Dante and his guide Virgil don fedoras and wander through noirish realms of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. Along the way they catalog a multitude of sinners and saints--many of them real people to whom Dante tellingly assigned either horrible punishment or indescribable pleasure--and meet both God and Lucifer face-to-face. Chwast creates a visual fantasia that fascinates on every page. His inventive illustrations capture the delirious complexity of this classic of the western canon.

This fascinating and full-color volume presents a superb collection of 270 jackets promoting a wide range of books--from high-brow novels and biographies to mass-market romances and mysteries--while showcasing the talent of some of the era's most exciting illustrators and designers. Offers a unique resource for graphic artists, illustrators and book lovers.

Jackets Required

With bright, whimsical art, this humorous guessing game and visual puzzle from a legendary graphic designer will delight design fans of all ages. Is that a table--or a cow? You won't believe your eyes as this humorous guessing game and visual puzzle from award-winning graphic designer Seymour Chwast, co-founder of the legendary Push Pin Studios, transforms a simple object into something completely different. Each delightfully drawn initial image is revealed, after a page turn, to be part of a larger or more elaborate thing. The objects become both more complex and sillier--ball and toaster? Nah, it's a bulldog--as we make our way to the final transformation, a pair of scissors that becomes the face of the cat we've been waiting for. Readers young and old will giggle as they see the importance of recognizing odd but simple shapes and learning how they work together to form more complicated images.

Where's My Cat?

Martin Moskof

"This Dover edition...is a republication of the work originally published in 1971 by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York"--Copyright page.

A Colorful Counting Book

Still Another Number Book

A homage to the vitality, power, beauty and magic of a great city in which paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints by leading twentieth-century artists have been gathered together to form an insightful, loving portrait of "Oz on the Hudson." The editors have selected images that time and again reveal truths about the experience of living in New York: luminous skyscrapers against the night sky; a couple sunbathing on a roof; fantastic giant zebras straddling Midtown; crowds strolling past hot-dog stands on the Coney Island boardwalk; the quiet interior of an empty office at twilight. They include gritty cityscapes by Bellows and Glackens, cool architectural studies of Sheeler, O'Keefe, Feininger and works by Hassam, Marin, Mondrian, Hopper and Christo. ISBN 0-8109-1809-9 : $49.50.

The Art of New York

Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way - on motorcycles, of course - to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the travellers, including a battle-worn Knight, sweetly pretentious Prioress, the bawdy Wife of Bath and emaciated scholar-Clerk, come up with a plan to pass time on the journey to Thomas a Becket's shrine by telling stories. The twenty-four tales, which range from high romance set in ancient Greece to low comedy in contemporary England, are adapted by Chwast in a pitch-perfect rendering of Chaucer's pointed satire. His illustrations and diagrams relate tales of trust and treachery, of piety and bawdiness, in an engaging style that will appeal to those who've enjoyed The Canterbury Tales for years, and those for whom this is a first, delectable introduction.

D. J. R. Bruckner

A survey of antiwar art features the works of over one hundred artists from many countries, including Breughel, Goya, Manet, Kandinsky, Munch, Sloan, and Searle

400 Years of Protest in Art

Art Against War

Barbara L. Cohen

Barbara Kay Cohen

Illustrations and excerpts from fiction, essays, and poems describe life in New York City

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