David Galloway

Born in Qazvin, Iran, in 1944, Koorosh Shishegaran is considered one of the most expressive and emotive artists of the contemporary Iranian art movement. He has participated widely in solo and group exhibitions in the region and internationally. Best known for his political posters and abstract linear oil paintings, Shishegaran's work testifies to a wide array of experiments on different media and a range of approaches. With essays and contributions from leading experts in the field and featuring over three hundred plates, this collection will bring together the life and work of Shishegaran for the first time, highlighting the artist's progressive approach, which merged Persian traditional and Western modern art.

Henry James Jr. (1843-1916) came from a well-to-do family in New York City that associated with such intellectuals as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau. After studying medicine at Harvard, James went on to write the groundbreaking Principles of Psychology, praised by the Society for Psychical Research. Although he wrote, “I don’t want everyone to like me,” in A Portrait of a Lady, it seemed that everyone did, and he found critical and commercial success with such brilliant works as Daisy Miller, The Bostonians, The Turn of the Screw, and Washington Square. Published in 1916, Henry James is a critical study.

17 stories: Metzengerstein -- [Assignation]( Ligeia -- [Fall of the House of Usher]( [William Wilson]( The man of the crowd -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The oval portrait -- [Masque of the Red Death]( [Pit and the Pendulum]( [Tell-tale Heart]( [Black Cat]( [Purloined Letter]( The imp of the perverse -- [Cask of Amontillado]( Hop-frog -- The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket -- 32 poems: Tamerlane -- Song ("I saw thee on thy bridal day") -- A dream within a dream -- The happiest day, the happiest hour -- Sonnet: To science -- Al Aaraaf -- Romance -- Fairy-land -- To Helen -- Lenore -- Israfel -- The city in the sea -- The sleeper -- The valley of unrest -- The coliseum -- To one in paradise -- The haunted palace -- Sonnet: Silence -- The conqueror worm -- Dream-land -- [Raven]( Ulalume -- For Annie -- Eldorado -- [Annabel Lee]( The bells -- O, Tempora! O, Mores! -- Alone -- Imitation (The first or 1827 version of "A dream within a dream") -- To ---

Photographer Boris Smelov (1951- 1998) was a legend oft the St. Petersburg school of photography and received adoration from anyone ever connected with the art of 'light-painting'. The name of Smelov is well-known to photographers, collectors, critics and historians of photography. And its impossible for contemporary photographers from St. Petersburg to avoid his influence.

Presents information about the modern American artist, Keith Haring, along with a number of his pictures accompanied by "stories" about what they depict.