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Pat O'Neill: Views From Lookout Mountain Julie Lazar
 Book Description Views from Lookout Mountain is the first book to survey the films and visual art works of one of Los Angeles' most exceptional artists. It locates Pat O'Neill's masterful films in a visual arts context, where the works can be most fully appreciated as powerful projections of temporal painting, aural composition, and visual poetry. Views from Lookout Mountain features color film stills, reproductions of O'Neill's visual art works, documentary photographs, and a commissioned collaborative project between Pat O'Neill and Michael Worthington. Edited by Julie Lazar. Essays by Howard Singerman, Paul Arthur and Erika Suderburg. Interview by John Hanhardt. Hardcover, 10 x 12 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color and 24 duotones....
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Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery In 20th-Century Drawings Anja Chavez
 Book DescriptionInfinite Possibilities offers new perspectives on the phenomenon of seriality in the medium of drawings and the visual arts. It includes drawings from the 1960s to the present by twenty-nine artists from Japan, South America (Columbia), the United States, and Europe (Germany, England, Ireland). Whether looking at serial images in historical, political, mathematical, philosophical, or theoretical perspectives, Infinite Possibilities is a remarkable discourse on a fundamental aspect of contemporary artistic creativity. The artists included range from the emerging to the canonical: William Anastasi, Carl Andre, Stephen Antonakos, Jill Baroff, Jennifer Bartlett, Mel Bochner, Michael Ensminger, Sabine Friesicke, David Hunter, Ralph Iwamoto, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Ellen Keusen, Sol LeWitt, Linda Lynch, Robert Mangold, Stefana McClure, Tatsuo Miyajima, Lienhard von Monkiewitsch, Gloria Ortiz-Hernandez, Laurie Reid, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, Sara......
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Precious Melanie Dunea
 Book Description"What is the most precious part of your body?" What started as an idle thought between celebrity photographer couple Melanie Dunea and Nigel Parry quickly developed into a serious metaphysical investigation using today's most captivatingpersonalities. The resulting photographs, accompanied by a quote from each celebrity explaining their choice of body part, reveals the subject's personalities through their choice, their own words, and Dunea and Parry's eloquent images. Precious features: Harrison Ford, Dustin Hoffman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rosie O'Donnell, Johnny Depp, Joan Allen, Anthony LaPaglia, John Leguizamo, Mary-Louise Parker, Gloria Estefan, Juliette Lewis, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tommy Hilfiger, Bruce Willis, Eric McCormack, EllenDeGeneres, Pierce Brosnan, Stanley Tucci, Meg Ryan, Chloe Sevigny, Jason Schwartzman, Tony Hawk, Kiefer Sutherland, Illeana Douglas, Alan Cumming, Mariska Hargitay, Mickey Rourke, Lukas Haas, Diane von Furstenberg, Gia Carides,......
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No One's Perfect Hirotada Ototake
 Book DescriptionA boy born without arms or legs tells his own amazing story! Oto came home from school one day and told his parents he had signed up to play basketball. Most parents would be delighted; his were shocked. After all, Oto was born with no arms and no legs. But as this extraordinary young man has proven again and again, hard work, humor, versatility, and an upbeat approach to life are as valuable as limbs. No One's Perfect is his true account of how he slam-dunked one challenge after another, including basketball. In a style purposefully meant to reach all ages, Oto writes about his unique childhood in Japan, a country that traditionally has shielded the disabled from the public eye. But hide Oto? Try hiding the sun! From his earliest days, he brought such a winning optimism into the crowds around him-curious kindergartners, skeptical members of the public school board, gaping passersby-that it was hard to resist him. Now, as a young adult, Oto has taken on......
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Fall Guy : A Rachel Alexander Mystery (Rachel Alexander & Dash Mysteries (Paperback)) Carol Lea Benjamin
 Book Description Rachel Alexander hardly knew N.Y.P.D. Detective Timothy O'Fallon, who had a fatal "accident" while cleaning his service revolver in his Greenwich Village apartment. As a member of Rachel's 9/11 support group, O'Fallon had shared littleand revealed nothing, except a strong attachment to Rachel's dog, Dash. Yet, for some unknown reason, in his will he named Rachel as the executor of his estate. But as Rachel starts piecing together the sad, disparate pieces of Timothy O'Fallon's life, she comes to believe that this fatality was no accident ... or even, in some dark, disturbing way, the suicide that his colleagues suspect. For a bizarre, three decades-old tragedy hidden deep in the shadows of the dead man's family history has lefta legacy of violence, grief, and guilt -- and more victims will surely fall because of it....
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