Offerings
10 best books like Offerings (Brom): Color: A Natural History of the Palette, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts, Griffin and Sabine, Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book, Amphigorey, A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, Gnomes, The Art Book, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh, Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
| Author | Victoria Finlay |
| ISBN | 0812971426 |
Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors.
For example: Cleopatra used saffron—a source of the color yellow—for seduction. Extracted from an Afghan mine, the blue “ultramarine” paint used by Michelangelo was so expensive he couldn’t afford to buy it himself....
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
| Author | Simon Garfield |
| ISBN | 1592406521 |
What’s your type? Suddenly everyone’s obsessed with fonts. Whether you’re enraged by Ikea’s Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach Boys have in common with easy Jet or why it’s okay to like Comic Sans, Just My Type will have the answer. Learn why using upper case got a New Zealand health worker...
| Author | Nick Bantock |
| ISBN | 1551924013 |
It all started with a mysterious and seemingly innocent postcard, but from that point nothing was to remain the same in the life of Griffin Moss, a quiet, solitary artist living in London. His logical, methodical world was suddenly turned upside down by a strangely exotic woman living on a tropical island...
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book
| Author | Terry Jones |
| ISBN | 1857933362 |
Based on the series of turn-of-the-century photos of the supposed “Cottingley Fairies”, Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book is definitely not a children’s book, but rather a morbid fantasy told through journal entries about a horrid imp of a girl who makes a hobby of crushing fairies in...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0399504338 |
The title of this deliciously creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. As always, Gorey's painstakingly cross-hatched pen and ink drawings are perfectly suited to his oddball verse and prose. The first book of 15, "The Unstrung Harp,"...
| Author | Terri Windling |
| ISBN | 0684855593 |
Mr. Froud’s fascination and delight with the idea of hidden worlds shine through in this story about a fuzzy, furry creature who gets tossed willy nilly into a quest to rouse a sleeping queen and aid her worried spouse. The posed figures easily capture the fey spirit of the imaginary paths Sneezle must...
| Author | Rien Poortvliet |
| ISBN | 0810909650 |
Abrams launched Gnomes into the hearts of Americans in 1977 and quickly racked up astrognomic sales in bookstores across the country, ultimately achieving a 62-week run on the New York Times best-seller list. Come join in the 20th-anniversary fun as gnomania strikes again!Did you know that gnome...
| Author | Phaidon Press |
| ISBN | 0714836257 |
An A to Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times, it debunks art historical classifications by throwing together brilliant examples of all periods, schools, visions and techniques. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of a definitive work, accompanied...
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
| Author | Vincent van Gogh |
| ISBN | 0140446745 |
A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this Penguin Classics edition, the letters are selected and edited by Ronald de Leeuw, and translated by Arnold...
Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
| Author | Andy Goldsworthy |
| ISBN | 0810933519 |
My kids are ooohh-ing and aaahh--ing behind me right now looking at the amazing art photographs in this book. We want to try to do some of this art. Amazing and beautiful stuff!
NOTE: If you can get your hands on a DVD called Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides, get it and watch it. It is Andy Goldsworthy...
| Author | David Riche |
| ISBN | 1843400952 |
From the gothic fantasies of Amy Brown to Myrea Pettit’s gentle, playful creatures, this breathtaking collection of superbly reproduced paintings celebrates the finest in fairy art. Each illustrator has chosen his or her favorite pieces, and all the artists reveal their inspiration, preferred...
Drawing inspiration from the gnarled shrubbery of England's windswept moorlands, Brian Froud is best known for being the mad genius behind Jim Henson's film The Dark Crystal and illustrating such best-sellers as Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book. In this volume, a long-awaited sequel to his...
| Author | Brian Froud |
| ISBN | 0810949415 |
Anyone who brings home this book will be in big trouble. Renowned artist Brian Froud and scholar Ari Berk have conducted a thorough investigation into the goblin realm. (For the uninformed, goblins, a subspecies of faery, are those maleficent creatures that cause all manner of havoc in the human realm.)...
| Author | Brian Froud |
| ISBN | 0684847817 |
"Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc..." In the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller "Faeries",...
| Author | Amy Brown |
| ISBN | 0974461229 |
The Art of Amy Brown is the first collection of Amy Brown's wildly popular art. It was published by Chimera Publishing in 2003. The book is 157 pages of art, with a commentary by Amy Brown for every piece of artwork. The Art of Amy Brown has an introduction by the well-known author Charles de Lint. There are...
Spectrum 1: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
| Author | Arnie Fenner |
| ISBN | 1887424458 |
This lavishly illustrated book features the work of today's best-selling creators of fantasy and science fiction art. From the popular and well-regarded Spectrum annuals, over 100 artists are represented, chosen from a jury of award-winning professionals. The introduction is written by Pulitzer...
Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials: Great Aliens from Science Fiction Literature
| Author | Wayne Barlowe |
| ISBN | 0894803247 |
The extraterrestrials are here. One man has seen them.
Wayne Dougles Barlowe's brilliant portraits of science fiction creatures are the result of exacting studies made during a lifetime in the field. He now presents anatomical drawings, cutaway and locomotive studies, and at-hand observations...
| Author | Frank Frazetta |
| ISBN | 1887424717 |
The incredible paintings of Frank Frazetta have brought him worldwide fame, legions of loyal fans, and scores of imitators. His darkly dramatic Conan the Barbarian oils and the equally powerful and erotic compositions for the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs have become the ultimate standards of excellence...
