Who are today's artists? Why do they do what they do? How do they describe their work? A companion volume to the fourth season of the Emmy-nominated "PBS" series, which introduces seventeen artists who draw on a variety of subjects, experiences and aesthetic influences to create their work, this volume addresses such questions.
As any host or hostess knows, dinner parties are often recipes for disasters. This collection of tales of culinary catastrophe presents facts about each party - the hosts, the number of guests, the menu - followed by a first-person description of the disaster. It is accompanied with sidebars that offer real-life solutions.
"At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they're no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love and having a future that feels wide open"--
Featuring photographs ranging from densely packed urban centres to small, remote villages, from migrating herds of wildebeests and elephants to infinite miles of desert, this book presents a celebration of the majesty and splendour of Africa's breathtaking landscapes. It portrays sky, land and water in various ways.