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At War With War - 5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks, Illustrated by Seymour Chwast
Category: History
At War with War visualizes humanity's 5,000-year-long state of conflict, chaos, and violence on a continuous timeline. Seventy pages of stark black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings and woodcuts illustrate history's most notorious battles-from 3300 BCE to the present day. Interspersed are contemplations on ...Show more
Canterbury Tales by Seymour Chwast
Category: Graphic Novels
Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way-on motorcycles, of course-to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the travelers, including a battle-worn knight, a sweetly pretentious prioress, the bawdy Wife of Bath, and an emaciated scholar-clerk, come up with a plan to pass time o ...Show more
Dante's Divine Comedy: A Graphic Adaptation by Seymour Chwast
Category: Graphic Novels
A revolutionary of visual culture, Seymour Chwast is one of the most influential illustrators of the last half century. In his version of "Dante's Divine Comedy", Dante and his guide Virgil don fedoras and wander through noirish realms of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in this classic satire of human foi ...Show more
Get Dressed! by Seymour Chwast
Category: Children's
Legendary illustrator and designer Seymour Chwast celebrates the daily routine of getting dressed in this fittingly whimsical and satisfyingly unique novelty book. Unlike more traditional books on the subject that deal with the "how" of getting dressed, Chwast deals with the "why":Get dressed to read ab ...Show more
Hell - The People and Places by Seymour Chwast; Steven Heller
Category: Western
A descent into discovering different versions of hell and its realms of torture around the world across literature, religions, culture, and folklore, gorgeously illustrated and accompanied by writing on the origins and details of each hell. Whether it's a real place, a human construct, an idea, or a sup ...Show more
Hell - The People and Places by Seymour Chwast + Steven Heller
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Whether it is a real place, a human construct, an idea or a superstition, hell holds a place of honour in cultures and religions throughout the ages. There are many different hells to be found, and each one is distressing in its own way. But they all share the same essence: they are terrible places guar ...Show more
Miracle of Hanukkah by Seymour Chwast
Category: Picture Books
In the year 165 B.C.E., Mattathias and the Maccabees defeated the Syrians and reclaimed their Great Temple in Jerusalem. Though they planned an eight-day celebration to rededicate the Temple, they had lamp oil for only one day. Miraculously, the oil burned for eight days. Every year Jews around the worl ...Show more
She Sells Sea Shells: World Class Tongue Twisters by Seymour Chwast
Category: Children's Poetry
It won't only be the words that get readers tongue-tied; these wacky, witty, and wonderful illustrations by Seymour Chwast will have everyone speechless with delight! Chwast, the artist and co-founder of the infamous Pushpin Studios, had an enormous influence on design and illustration everywhere. Now, ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer; Seymour Chwast
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
Seymour Chwast, an icon of the graphic design world, has delighted audiences with his adaptations of The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. Now he turns to Homer's Odyssey, one of the best-known stories in history. The tale is one that begs for visual interpretation, filled with mythic characters w ...Show more
The Pancake King by Seymour Chwast
Category: Children's
Henry Edgewood wakes up one morning with an irresistible urge to make pancakes. He does, and from that moment on, his life is not the same. Henry loves making pancakes--any time, anywhere, in any number, for anyone. He gets so good at it that word gets around and eventually the formidable Arthur J. Jink ...Show more
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