$17 width=”300″ height=”300″ class=”none” /> $17 Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life There’s no shortage of Coco Chanel biographies but this one details Coco’s fascinating mix of contradictions in a new way. From an impoverished childhood she rose to the top of society, enjoying liaisons with some of the century’s greatest artists as well as some of its darker elements. Chaney explores the themes of art, …
One of the best-known artists of the Edo period and famous for his ukiyo-e series 36 Views of Mount Fuji, which includes his ubiquitous wave print, Katsushika Hokusai greatly influenced artists from Monet and the Impressionists to Picasso. Hokusai began painting at age six, instigating a lifetime dedicated to both serious and casual art-making, which he viewed as an expression of self-help. He was also …
In Digital Apollo, MIT professor of the history of engineering David Mindell plumbs the archives at the university in order to explore the tenuous relationship between man and machine during the Apollo landings. While machines had long defined human undertakings, it was the rise of software and intelligent machines that caused the most pronounced shift in mechanical interactions. As Mindell puts it, “Astronauts and their …