Robert McInnes Knihy

Architecture meets art, film meets literature, and dance meets fashion in this fascinating collection of interviews culled from the Vogue archives. Throughout its history, Vogue has featured more than models wearing the latest trends. It has also included enlightening and fascinating dialogues and interviews between often unusual pairings of artists, filmmakers, writers, dancers, and fashion designers, among others. Forty of these dialogues have been brought together in a scintillating volume that captures the icons of modern culture in conversation. Here Patricia Highsmith talks with Sir Peter Ustinov, Lauren Hutton with Francesco Clemente, and Jenny Holzer with Helmut Lang. Milos Forman chats with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Frank Gehry with Sophie Calle, and Twyla Tharp with Richard Avedon. Accompanying these discussions are exceptional duotone photographs by Nan Goldin, Nick Night, David Bailey, and other Vogue regulars. Their images, and the artistic intersections they illustrate, are as provocative and diverse as their subjects. Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to UNICEF.

This wide-ranging volume brings together for the first time "official" and "nonconformist" Russian art from the post-Stalin era. Fans of Russian art will celebrate the publication of this vast catalog, which includes hundreds of art works, biographies of the artists, and scholarly assessments of careers that both defied and adhered to the Soviet Union's strict policies regarding style and content. Drawn from the internationally renowned Ludwig Collection, the pieces are presented without political prejudice so that they can be appreciated for their artistic value. Essays discuss the artists' significant contributions to European art. In addition, cultural critics respond to questions regarding the socio-political climate of the three decades preceding and immediately following Glasnost, rounding out this book, which examines the Russian and Soviet artistic output that appeared from 1962 to 1995.