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Audubon, Homer, Whistler and nineteenth-century America (Lamplight collection of modern art)

John Wilmerding · Lamplight Pub
Pages: 91
Format: Hardcover

Nineteenth century collection of modern art.
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Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life

Philipp Kaiser · The Broad ; Munich ; London ; New York
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

This magnificent book encompasses the full scope of Cindy Sherman's career, with a special focus on the cinematic quality of her oeuvre. Known for slipping seamlessly behind the rotating masks of fairy tale characters, centerfold models, historical figures, and clowns, Cindy Sherman...
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Drawing Perspective: How to See It and How to Apply It

Matthew T Brehm · Barron's
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Here's a hands-on guide to perspective that's for anyone who wants to draw or paint--in any genre or medium. It's partly about learning how to draw a set of straight lines that meet at a point, but it's not filled with lots of dull, dry theory (although it does explain how it all works)...
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The Complete Photography Course

Michael Joseph · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A guide to taking photographs features discussions of lighting, lenses, film, accessories, and basic equipment, thirty diagrams, and six hundred photographs. 20,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.
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American Titan: Searching for John Wayne

Marc Eliot · Dey Street Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the veteran New York Times bestselling biographer comes a major, in-depth look at one of the most enduring American icons of all time, "the Duke," John Wayne.As he did in his bestselling biographies of Jimmy Stewart and Clint Eastwood, acclaimed Hollywood biographer Marc...
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Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation

MINDY JOHNSON · Disney Editions
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the earliest origins of animated imagery, the colorful link between paper and screen was created by legions of female artists working on the slick surface of celluloid sheets. With calligraphic precision and Rembrandtesque mastery, these women painstakingly brought pencil drawings...
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Jonas Kaufmann
Format: CD

Gustav Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" is a symphony of six songs, usually performed by a tenor and a mezzo-soprano or baritone, as specified in the score. This 2017 Sony Classical release features superstar tenor Jonas Kaufmann as the soloist throughout, so the expected...
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Managing Your Band - Sixth Edition: Artist Management: The Ultimate Responsibility

Stephen Marcone · Hal Leonard
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback

(Book) . The business of being a musician has evolved into the entertainment business encompassing music creation, concerts, licensing, festival organizing, merchandising, fashion, and branding. Consequently, the management of musicians is complicated and important. There are as many artists...
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Mom in the Movies: The Iconic Screen Mothers You Love

Turner Classic Movies Inc. · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 231
Format: Hardcover

Turner Classic Movies and film historian Richard Corliss present Mom in the Movies: The Iconic Screen Mothers You Love (and a Few You Love to Hate) , the definitive, fully illustrated book that shares the many ways Hollywood has celebrated, vilified and otherwise memorialized dear old Mom.With...
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Into the Dark

Mark A Vieira · Running Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

You know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting; the cynical detective; the femme fatale; and the twist of fate. Into the Dark captures this alluring genre with a cavalcade of compelling photographs and a guide to 82 of its best films.Into the Dark is the first book to tell the story...
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The Public Library: A Photographic Essay

Robert Dawson · Chronicle Books Llc
Format: Hardcover

A gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150 photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and many more.Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent,...
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Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images

Terence Dickinson · Firefly Books
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover

From Booklist
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