ABRAMS Books
Encyclopedia
Abrams, formerly Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (HNA), is an American publisher of high-quality art and illustrated books, and the enterprise is presently a subsidiary of the French publisher La Martinière Groupe
. Abrams publishes the following imprints:
Run by President and CEO Michael Jacobs, Abrams publishes and distributes approximately 250 titles annually and currently has more than 2,000 titles in print. Abrams also distributes publications for the Victoria and Albert Museum
, Tate
, Royal Academy
, Vendome Press, Booth Clibborn Editions, Other Criteria, and 5 Continents.
in 1997.
, photography, graphic design
, interior and garden design, fashion, music, comic arts and graphic novels, and sports. The Abrams imprint is currently under the direction of Vice President and Editor-in-Chief Eric Himmel and Senior Vice President and Publisher Steven Tager. Books published by this imprint includes Himalayas
,The Art of Walt Disney
, Norman Rockwell's Christmas
, Gnomes
, Faeries
, Man’s Best Friend
, Avedon: Performance
, Vanity Fair: The Portraits
, Rolling Stone: 1,000 Covers
, Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
, The Diary of Frida Kahlo
, Earth from Above
, Twilight
, Tiffany Style
, Textile Designs, Slim Aarons: Once Upon a Time
, Tim Flach
: Equus, Dogs Gods, Graffiti World, Mom's Cancer
, Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century
, and R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues; Jazz & Country
, as well the bestselling "365" and "Discoveries" series. In Spring 2009, Abrams launched a sub-imprint devoted to comics and graphic novels, Abrams ComicArts. In addition to its own titles, Abrams distributes books for the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate, Royal Academy, Vendome Press, Booth Clibborn Editions, Other Criteria, and 5 Continents.
in 2000 and is now an imprint of ABRAMS under the direction of Senior Vice President and Publisher Leslie Stoker. STC is a publisher of illustrated inspirational and practical titles. The house specializes in the categories of cooking, crafts, interior design, sports, green living, sports, pets, and popular culture. Some of STC's bestselling titles are Alton Brown
's I'm Just Here for the Food, Last-Minute Knitted Gifts, Bunny Williams's Affair with a House, and Grandmother Remembers, which has sold 2 million copies. Over a dozen of STC's cookbooks have won James Beard
and International Association of Culinary Professionals
awards over the years, and three STC cookbooks have been named Best Book of the Year by those organizations.
; Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by 20th–Century American Art, 2002 winner of the coveted Michael J. Printz Honor Award; Maritcha by Tonya Bolden, 2006 winner of the Coretta Scott King
Honor Award; The Jellybeans and the Big Dance by bestselling author Laura Numeroff
; and Laurent de Brunhoff
’s Babar's Museum of Art
.
’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
, Lauren Myracle
’s Internet Girls series, Michael Buckley’s Sisters Grimm series, and Aidan Chambers
’s This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn.
and Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style
. Other notable titles include Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington, Pot Culture, The Facebook Book, Make the Bible Work for You, Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats, and No Wave: Post Punk. Underground. New York. 1976—1980, Office Mayhem: A Handbook to Practical Anarchy
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La Martinière Groupe
La Martinière Groupe is a French publishing house, the third largest after Hachette and Editis. It was formed in 1994. Subsidiaries include France's Éditions du Seuil and the United States' Abrams Books....
. Abrams publishes the following imprints:
- Abrams Books
- Stewart, Tabori & Chang
- Abrams Books for Young Readers
- Amulet
- Abrams Image
Run by President and CEO Michael Jacobs, Abrams publishes and distributes approximately 250 titles annually and currently has more than 2,000 titles in print. Abrams also distributes publications for the Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...
, Tate
Tate
-Places:*Tate, Georgia, a town in the United States*Tate County, Mississippi, a county in the United States*Táté, the Hungarian name for Totoi village, Sântimbru Commune, Alba County, Romania*Tate, Filipino word for States...
, Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
, Vendome Press, Booth Clibborn Editions, Other Criteria, and 5 Continents.
History
Founded by Harry N. Abrams in 1949, Abrams was the first company in the United States to specialize in the creation and distribution of art books. Times Mirror acquired the company in 1966, and Harry Abrams retired in 1977. For many years, the company was under the direction of Paul Gottlieb (publisher), until January 2001, eighteen months before his death. Abrams had been acquired by La Martinière GroupeLa Martinière Groupe
La Martinière Groupe is a French publishing house, the third largest after Hachette and Editis. It was formed in 1994. Subsidiaries include France's Éditions du Seuil and the United States' Abrams Books....
in 1997.
Abrams Books
Abrams Books publishes illustrated books on the subjects of art, architectureArchitecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
, photography, graphic design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
, interior and garden design, fashion, music, comic arts and graphic novels, and sports. The Abrams imprint is currently under the direction of Vice President and Editor-in-Chief Eric Himmel and Senior Vice President and Publisher Steven Tager. Books published by this imprint includes Himalayas
Yoshikazu Shirakawa
is a renowned Japanese photographer. He is particularly well known for his book Himalayas, published by Harry N. Abrams in 1971.-Bibliography:*Himalayas, preface by Arnold Toynbee & preface by Sir Edmund Hillary. New York: Harry N. Abrams ISBN 0810901625*The Alps, text translated by Max A. Wyss,...
,The Art of Walt Disney
The Art of Walt Disney
The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms is a book by Christopher Finch, chronicling the artistic achievements and history of Walt Disney and The Walt Disney Company...
, Norman Rockwell's Christmas
Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...
, Gnomes
Wil Huygen
Wil Huygen , was a Dutch book author. He is best known for the picture books on gnomes, illustrated by Rien Poortvliet....
, Faeries
Brian Froud
Brian Froud is an English fantasy illustrator. He lives and works in Devon with his wife, Wendy Froud, who is also a fantasy artist...
, Man’s Best Friend
William Wegman (photographer)
William Wegman is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.-Life and career:...
, Avedon: Performance
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."-Photography career:Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish Russian...
, Vanity Fair: The Portraits
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
, Rolling Stone: 1,000 Covers
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
, Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy, OBE is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.-Life and career:The son of F...
, The Diary of Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo de Rivera was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and perhaps best known for her self-portraits....
, Earth from Above
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist.- Early life :Yann Arthus-Bertrand was born in Paris on March 13, 1946 in a renowned jewellers' family founded in 1803 by Claude Arthus-Bertrand and Michel-Ange Marion. His sister Catherine is one of his...
, Twilight
Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.-Life and career:Crewdson was born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY...
, Tiffany Style
Tiffany & Co.
Tiffany & Co. is an American jewelry and silverware company. As part of its branding, the company is strongly associated with its Tiffany Blue , which is a registered trademark.- History :...
, Textile Designs, Slim Aarons: Once Upon a Time
Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons, born George Allen Aarons , was an American photographer noted for photographing socialites, jet-setters and celebrities.-Photography career:...
, Tim Flach
Tim Flach
Tim Flach is a photographer best known for his highly conceptual portraits of animals, particularly horses. His images of animals are a departure from traditional wildlife photography and he has been described as “a potent example of a commercially trained photographer who’s now reaching a global...
: Equus, Dogs Gods, Graffiti World, Mom's Cancer
Mom's Cancer
Mom's Cancer is a webcomic created by writer Brian Fies. The comic is an autobiographical story dealing with his mother's fight against metastatic lung cancer, as well as his family's reactions to it. Although the story is mostly a serious, insightful depiction of the subject, humor is present in...
, Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century
Worldchanging
Worldchanging is an American non-profit online magazine and blog about sustainability and social innovation. At 19/09/2011, it was taken over by Architecture for Humanity....
, and R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues; Jazz & Country
Robert Crumb
Robert Dennis Crumb —known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb—is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded...
, as well the bestselling "365" and "Discoveries" series. In Spring 2009, Abrams launched a sub-imprint devoted to comics and graphic novels, Abrams ComicArts. In addition to its own titles, Abrams distributes books for the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate, Royal Academy, Vendome Press, Booth Clibborn Editions, Other Criteria, and 5 Continents.
Stewart, Tabori & Chang (STC)
Stewart, Tabori & Chang (STC) was founded in 1981 by Andrew Stewart, Lena Tabori, and Nai Chang, three former Harry N. Abrams executives. STC was purchased by Éditions de La MartinièreLa Martinière Groupe
La Martinière Groupe is a French publishing house, the third largest after Hachette and Editis. It was formed in 1994. Subsidiaries include France's Éditions du Seuil and the United States' Abrams Books....
in 2000 and is now an imprint of ABRAMS under the direction of Senior Vice President and Publisher Leslie Stoker. STC is a publisher of illustrated inspirational and practical titles. The house specializes in the categories of cooking, crafts, interior design, sports, green living, sports, pets, and popular culture. Some of STC's bestselling titles are Alton Brown
Alton Brown
Alton Crawford Brown is an American television personality, author, actor, and cinematographer. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats and the mini-series Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and he is the host and main commentator on Iron Chef America...
's I'm Just Here for the Food, Last-Minute Knitted Gifts, Bunny Williams's Affair with a House, and Grandmother Remembers, which has sold 2 million copies. Over a dozen of STC's cookbooks have won James Beard
James Beard
James Andrew Beard was an American chef and food writer. The central figure in the story of the establishment of a gourmet American food identity, Beard was an eccentric personality who brought French cooking to the American middle and upper classes in the 1950s...
and International Association of Culinary Professionals
International Association of Culinary Professionals
The International Association of Culinary Professionals is a United States based not-for-profit professional association whose members work in culinary education, communication, or the preparation of food and beverage....
awards over the years, and three STC cookbooks have been named Best Book of the Year by those organizations.
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Abrams Books for Young Readers was launched in 1999, under the direction of Senior Vice President and Publisher Howard W. Reeves. The books range from story books to poetry to the fine arts and other nonfiction. Some highlights of this award-winning children’s line for preschool to middlegrade readers include the bestselling Enigma by Graeme BaseGraeme Base
Graeme Rowland Base is an Australian author and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book, Animalia published in 1986, and third book The Eleventh Hour which was released in 1989....
; Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by 20th–Century American Art, 2002 winner of the coveted Michael J. Printz Honor Award; Maritcha by Tonya Bolden, 2006 winner of the Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.Mrs...
Honor Award; The Jellybeans and the Big Dance by bestselling author Laura Numeroff
Laura Numeroff
Laura Joffe Numeroff is an American author and illustrator of children's books who is best known for her work If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.-Early life:...
; and Laurent de Brunhoff
Laurent de Brunhoff
Laurent de Brunhoff is an author and illustrator, known primarily for continuing the Babar series of children's books, created by his father, Jean de Brunhoff....
’s Babar's Museum of Art
Babar's Museum of Art
Babar's Museum of Art was the collaborative product of Laurent de Brunhoff and his wife Phyllis Rose de Brunhoff for the Babar the Elephant series. The aim was to introduce different notable works of art found in museums around the world, mostly paintings, but also including sculptures...
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Amulet Books
Amulet Books is a list of novels and nonfiction for young adults and middle grade readers, launched in 2004, under the direction of Senior Vice President and Publisher Howard Reeves and Associate Publisher Susan Van Metre. Since its inception, Amulet has published many bestselling and award-winning books, including Jeff KinneyJeff Kinney (writer)
Jeffrey "Jeff" Kinney is an American game designer, cartoonist, producer, and author of children's books including the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series. He is also attributed to be the creator of the children-oriented website Poptropica...
’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a series of fiction books written by American author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney. The books are the journals of the main character, whose name is Greg Heffley. Befitting a child's diary, they are filled with hand written notes and simple drawings of his daily adventures...
, Lauren Myracle
Lauren Myracle
Lauren Myracle is an American author of young adult books. She is the oldest of three sisters and has three older brothers. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia where she attended Trinity School and The Westminster Schools...
’s Internet Girls series, Michael Buckley’s Sisters Grimm series, and Aidan Chambers
Aidan Chambers
Aidan Chambers is an award-winning British writer of novels for children and young adults.- Life and work :Born near Chester-le-Street, County Durham in 1934, Chambers was an only child, and a poor scholar; considered "slow" by his teachers, he did not learn to read fluently until the age of nine...
’s This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn.
Abrams Image
Abrams Image was launched in Spring 2006 to publish stylish illustrated and nonillustrated books with a little more edge in the categories of music, humor, reference, photography, design, and popular culture. Highlights of the list include the national bestsellers Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a BarPlato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar – Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes is a book that explains basic philosophical concepts through classic jokes. Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, graduates of Harvard in philosophy, collaborated on the book...
and Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style
Tim Gunn
Timothy M. "Tim" Gunn is an American fashion consultant and television personality. He was on the faculty of Parsons The New School for Design from 1982 to 2007 and was chair of fashion design at the school from August 2000 to March 2007, after which he joined Liz Claiborne as its chief creative...
. Other notable titles include Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington, Pot Culture, The Facebook Book, Make the Bible Work for You, Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats, and No Wave: Post Punk. Underground. New York. 1976—1980, Office Mayhem: A Handbook to Practical Anarchy
Office Mayhem: A Handbook to Practical Anarchy
Office Mayhem: A Handbook to Practical Anarchy is a book published by Abrams Books on September 1, 2007. It covers techniques to "bring down the post-industrial office complex and unite the worlds workers." To do this, it gives you a list of pranks to pull in the office, each one softening the...
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