Absinthe: History in a Bottle

One hundred forty-four proof, notoriously addictive, and the drug of choice for nineteenth-century poets, absinthe is gaining bootleg popularity after almost a century of being banned. Due to popular demand, Absinthe: History in a Bottle is back in paperback with a handsome new cover. Like the author's bestselling The Martini and The Cigar, it is a potent brew of wild nights and social history, fact and trivia, gorgeous art and beautiful artifacts. As intoxicating as its subject, Absinthe makes a memorable gift for anyone who knows how to celebrate vice.

Absinthe

Conrad III, Barnaby

Religion & Spirituality

Chronicle Books+

Mark Stock's paintings connect viewers to the euphoria, loneliness and sometimes fatal entanglements of romance. Often melodramatic and tinged with irony, Stock's images illustrate love's power to provoke our best, and most illicit, behavior. A well-dressed voyeur peeks past the curtain of a mansion window, silent and intent on the object of his desire. Picnicking lovers look into each other's eyes. An attractive woman smokes a cigarette as she sits next to a man's corpse, which has been rolled neatly in a carpet, ready for disposal. A butler steals a moment to treasure lipstick left on a glass by the woman who employs him. Stock's paintings tell the story of each character with remarkable subtlety and, in many cases, with humor. Stock is, after all, a master of the realist style, and he uses color, shadow and line to amazing effect. Details in facial expression, body language and background tell you there's more going on here than rapture, scandal and dangerous liaisons. These paintings keep you coming back for another look, for clues to life's telling moments.

Mark Stock: Paintings

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Woodford Pub

Pan Am: An Aviation Legend depicts the dramatic impact of the world’s most iconic airline that blazed a trail in the skies over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, changing the face of commercial aviation. Richly illustrated and painstakingly compiled, this is a loving tribute to the greatest airline of the 20th century.

Pan Am: An Aviation Legend

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Council Oak Books

About the Author\nBorn in San Francisco, Barnaby Conrad III graduated from Yale with a B.A. in Fine Arts in 1975. In New York he served as Senior Editor of Art World and Horizon, and Editor-at-Large at Forbes Life. In Paris he was a correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1982-87. Among his ten books are Absinthe: History in a Bottle (1988), Ghost Hunting in Montana (1994), The Martini, (1995) Les Chiens de Paris (1995), and Pan Am: An Aviation Legend (1999).\nIn 1949 an aristocratic bohemian named Jacques Mahé de La Villeglé was walking down the Boulevard Montparnasse in Paris when a billboard of shredded posters caught his eye. The colors and jagged shapes looked like an abstract painting. So he ripped them down, mounted them on canvas, and pronounced it Art. “You see the street was really my atélier”, says Villeglé, now 95- years-old and still making art in Paris. His work hangs in every major contemporary art museum in the world and Paris’s Pompidou Center gave him a huge retrospective in 2008. Today he’s considered the precursor to street artists like Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Banksy.

Jacques Villeglé and the Streets of Paris

Inkshares

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