Van Gogh Portfolio

Author	Wassily Kandinsky
ISBN	0486234118

A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and...

Author	Georgia O'Keeffe
ISBN	0140046771

I recommend reading this book after Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, which I gave five stars. The first is a biography of her whole life. With that as a background you easily recognize the people and the places she speaks of. Here, the artist speaks only of her art. This is a large format...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0743474465

Nightwings, Robert Silverberg’s 1969 work is a very Ursula K. LeGuin type novel.

It is actually, three novellas put together to make a novel sized work, anchored by the Hugo award-winning novella Nightwings.

This is set in the far future, thousands of years, and the earth has survived,...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0425036790

Hawksbill Station was Robert Silverberg’s most Kilgore Troutian concept.

Kilgore Trout was, of course, the recurring fictitious science fiction writer from Kurt Vonnegut’s canon, based loosely upon fellow writer Theodore Sturgeon. According to Vonnegut, Trout would come up with...

Author	Madeleine E. Robins
ISBN	0765343061

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Fallen Woman

of good family must, soon or late, descend to whoredom.

Miss Sarah Tolerance refuses to follow the path of the Fallen Women who have gone before her. She's a straight shooter, with her pistol as well as her wit, and her mind is...

Author	John H. Vanderpoel
ISBN	0486204324

This great classic is still unrivalled for its clear, detailed presentation of thousands of fundamental features of the human figure. Every element of the body (such as the overhang of the upper lip; the puckering at the corners of the mouth; the characteristic proportions of the head, trunk, limbs,...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0380022621

It is the future, technology is advanced, lives are long, and the galaxy has been partially colonised by humans. Linking the disparate human worlds together are diplomats and agents who travel the starways. One of these men is Richard Muller, and now he has the greatest opportunity of his career.

Humans...