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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Legs McNeil · Grove Press
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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"No volume serves juicier dish on punk's New York birth . . . Tales of sex, drugs and music that will make you wish you'd been there." - Rolling Stone"Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time." - Time Out New YorkOnce the most reviled musical... |
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The Simpsons family history : a celebration of television's favorite family
Matt Groening · Abrams
Format: Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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So you think you know the Simpsons? Well, think again! The Simpsons Family History unravels 25 years of Simpsons facts and fun and presents them in a never-before-seen chronological format. Travel through time with Matt Groening as he pulls back the curtain and reveals the events that turned... |
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Botticelli Reimagined
Mark Evans · V&A Publishing
Pages: 359
Format: Print book
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Renowned for his iconic The Birth of Venus, Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is arguably one of the greatest artists of all time. His work has inspired countless others, and his legacy is easy to see in everything from Degas's drawings and Warhol's first... |
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Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels
Christopher Lloyd · J. Paul Getty Museum, 2014.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Edgar Degas (1834 -1917) was one of the outstanding draftsmen of the nineteenth century, and drawing was not only a central tenet of his art but also essential to his existence. Through an examination of his drawings and pastels, this book reveals the development of Degas's style as well... |
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Keyboard For Dummies
Jerry Kovarsky · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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The easy way to get keyed up on the keyboard Where Piano For Dummies helps budding musicians to master the black-and-white musical keyboard, Keyboard For Dummies helps them understand the possibilities that unfold when those black-and-whites are connected to state-of-the-art music technology.... |
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Women Photographers: From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman
Boris Friedewald · Prestel
Format: Hardcover
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This thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 19th century to today features the most important works of 55 artists, along with in-depth biographical and critical assessments. Since the inception of photography as an art form nearly 200 years ago,... |
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I'll Be Back Right After This: My Memoir
Pat O'Brien · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Best seller!Pat O'Brien was a skinny South Dakota kid with long hair, a rock and roll band, divorced parents and an alcoholic father. In all the familiar ways, he was on the road to nowhere until a professor, who envisioned his future as the household name he would... |
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TV
Alan Sepinwall · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible?For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown... |
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The Making of Gone With The Wind
Steve Wilson · University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives of David O. Selznick, the films producer, and his business partner John Hay Jock Whitney,... |
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Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary
Jason Loborik · DK, 2014.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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The successful guide to the Doctor's world - now updated and expanded for 2014 and the new Doctor. This lavishly illustrated guide to the Doctor's world is now expanded to include all the action from the new series with Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor. With 32 new pages of material, including... |
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On Bowie
Rob Sheffield · Dey Street Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, a thoughtful and loving meditation on the life of the late David Bowie that explores his creative legacy and the enduring and mutual connection he enjoyed with his fansInnovative. Pioneering. Brave. Until his death in January... |
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On the Road with Janis Joplin
John Byrne Cooke · Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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One of Parade's Top Ten Rock n' Roll ReadsAs a road manager and filmmaker, he helped run the Janis Joplin show - and record it for posterity. Now he reveals the never-before-told story of his years with the young woman from Port Arthur who would become the first female rock and roll... |
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Introduction to Drawing the Human Body
Giovanni Civardi · Pgw
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
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In this technical guide, Civardi imparts a thorough and intelligent understanding of how to draw the human body. Written with clarity and enthusiasm, and using numerous examples of his own work as teaching aids, Civardi provides the reader with a firm grounding in observation, anatomy,... |
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Robert Winthrop Chanler: Discovering the Fantastic
Robert Winthrop Chanler · Vizcaya Museum and Gardens ; New York
Pages: 254
Format: Print book
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In collaboration with Miami's Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, a rediscovery of a lost figure of American modernism - the early-twentieth-century American painter born into the Astor family, whose imagination and patrician clientele provide a fascinating artistic and biographical saga. American... |
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