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Buildings and Landmarks of 20th- and 21st-Century America: American Society Revealed
Elizabeth B. Greene · Greenwood
Pages: 321
Format: Hardcover
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This engaging book uses buildings and structures as a lens through which to explore various strands of U.S. social history, revealing the connections between architecture and the cultural, economic, and political events before and during these American landmarks' construction.* Provides... |
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Peter Lindbergh & Garry Winogrand: Women
Peter Lindbergh · Koenig Books
Pages: 140
Format: Print book
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Women presents more than 60 works by two world-famous photographers: Peter Lindbergh and Garry Winogrand. A meditation on American street photography, it juxtaposes the classic black-and-white series Women Are Beautiful by New York photographer Garry Winogrand (born 1928) , first published... |
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Gustave Moreau: History Painting, Spirituality, and Symbolism
Peter Cooke · Yale University Press
Pages: 252
Format: Book
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The acclaimed French painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) strove to renew history painting by creating epic art in a nonacademic manner. In this thought-provoking book, Peter Cooke explains how Moreau essentially created pictorial Symbolism through his novel approach to the genre of history... |
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Joan Miro
Rosa Maria Malet · Rizzoli; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Briefly recounts the Spanish painter's life and shows examples of his ceramics, tapestries, sculpture, prints and painting. |
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Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton
PHILIP NORMAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as remarkable as his music, which transformed the sound of a generation.
For half a century Eric Clapton has been acknowledged to be one of music's greatest virtuosos,... |
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Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop
Vikki Tobak · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An inside look at the work of hip-hop photographers told through their most intimate diaries - their contact sheets. Featuring rare outtakes from over 100 photoshoots alongside interviews and essays from industry legends, Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop takes readers on a chronological... |
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Jackson Pollock:An American Saga
Steven W Naifeh · C.N. Potter
Pages: 934
Format: Book
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Based on family letters and documents, lengthy interviews with his widow, Lee Krasner, as well as his psychologists and psychoanalysts, this book explodes the myths surrounding his death in 1956. 12 color and 175 black-and-white photos and reproductions. |
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2013 Songwriter's Market
Roseann S Biederman · Writer's Digest Books
Pages: 363
Format: Paperback
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The Most Trusted Guide to Songwriting SuccessIt's an exciting time to be a songwriter, especially if you have an entrepreneurial spirit. Whether you're a perfoming or nonperforming songwriter, chances are that your primary goals are perfecting your craft and maximizing your work's... |
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Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings
James Crawford · Picador
Pages: 566
Format: Hardcover
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An inviting, fascinating compendium of twenty-one of history's most famous lost places, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers
Buildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They... |
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The Way of the Masks
Claude Levi-Strauss · University of Washington Press
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
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Claude Levi-Strauss?s fascination with Northwest Coast Indian art dates back to the late 1930s. ?Sometime before the outbreak of the Second World War,? he writes, ?I had already bought in Paris a Haida slate panel pipe.? In New York in the early forties, he shared his enthusiasm with a group... |
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Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Vol. 1
Mark Twain · University of California Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away - to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain... |
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2015 Songwriter's Market: Where & How to Market Your Songs
James Duncan · Writer's Digest Books; Thirty-eighth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The most trusted guide to songwriting success!There is a home out there for every song you've written, but in order to place those songs and advance your music career you must arm yourself with steadfast determination, unending passion, and the most accurate music business knowledge... |
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Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium
John Corbett · Duke University Press Books
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record fiend's mind, documenting and reflecting... |
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More Theatre
Alvin H. Marill · Scarecrow Press
Pages: 1648
Format: Hardcover
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Supplementing the late William Leonard's original two-volume work, published in 1981, this book lists nearly 150 plays staged in America (on and off Broadway and in significant regional productions) , Great Britain, and elsewhere, that were made into films and dramatized for television.As... |
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Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife
Pamela Bannos · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century... |
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