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The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement
Nate Parker · 37 Ink
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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This official tie-in to the highly acclaimed film, The Birth of a Nation, surveys the history and legacy of Nat Turner, the leader of one of the most renowned slave rebellions on American soil, while also exploring Turner's relevance to contemporary dialogues on race relations.Based... |
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Heritage of Japanese Art
Masao Ishizawa · Kodansha USA Inc
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Based on a comprehensive work produced by Japan's art scholars, this volume is a chronological and historical overview of Japanese painting, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, woodblock prints, lacquer ware and metalwork. |
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Victoria and Albert: A Royal Love Affair
DAISY GOODWIN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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More than 16 million viewers watched the first season of the Masterpiece presentation of Victoria, created and written by Daisy Goodwin -- the highest-rated PBS drama in twenty years, second only to Downton Abbey. But what happened after the Queen married her handsome prince? Did they live... |
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Artists Unframed: Snapshots from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
Merry A. Foresta · Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover
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Tucked away among the letters, diaries, and other ephemera in the Smithsonian's archives lies a trove of rarely seen snapshots of some of the twentieth century's most celebrated artists. Unlike the familiar official portraits and genius-at-work shots, these humble snaps capture... |
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What's the Story: Essays about art, theater and storytelling
Anne Bogart · Routledge
Pages: 153
Format: Book
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Anne Bogart is an award-winning theatre maker, and a best-selling writer of books about theatre, art, and cultural politics. In this her latest collection of essays she explores the story-telling impulse, and asks how she, as a 'product of postmodernism', can reconnect to the primal... |
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive
John Desmond · The Museum of Modern Art
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Unpacking Wright's archive of more than two million objects, on the 150th anniversary of the master architect's birthPublished for a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalog reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, a designer so prolific and familiar... |
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Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater
Eddie Shapiro · Oxford University Press, 2014.
Pages: 364
Format: Print book
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In Nothing Like a Dame, theater journalist Eddie Shapiro opens a jewelry box full of glittering surprises, through in-depth conversations with twenty leading women of Broadway. He carefully selected Tony Award-winning stars who have spent the majority of their careers in theater, leaving... |
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The World According to Star Wars
Cass R Sunstein · Dey Street Books
Pages: 223
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 Washington Post Bestseller There's Santa Claus, Shakespeare, Mickey Mouse, the Bible, and then there's Star Wars. Nothing quite compares to sitting down with a young child and hearing the sound of John Williams's score as those beloved golden letters fill the screen.... |
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Last Chain On Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top
Carol Bradley · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Against the backdrop of a glittering but brutal circus world, Carol Bradleys Last Chain on Billie charts the history of elephants in America, the inspiring story of the Elephant Sanctuary and the spellbinding tale of a resilient elephant who defied the system even as she struggled to conquer... |
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Art in detail : 100 masterpieces.
Susie Hodge · W W Norton
Format: Print book : English
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A comprehensive yet accessible sourcebook for curators and amateurs alike that examines the finer points of 100 well-known works of artGreat paintings cannot be fully understood in a single encounter. Art lovers want to revisit and reconsider the masterpieces again and again throughout... |
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The Library Book
Alberto Manguel · Aperture
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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In pre-Revolutionary War America, libraries were member-driven collections for the elite; it was not until 1790 that Benjamin Franklin helped to establish the first public lending library. Throughout the subsequent centuries the library has evolved, but always remained central to the cultural... |
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Dear Evan Hansen
NOT AVAILABLE. · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of 6 Tony Awards!The official behind-the-scenes book of the new hit musical.A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to finally fit in. Both... |
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