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Draw Horses in 15 Minutes: Capture the beauty of the equine form
Diana Hand · Ilex
Pages: 112
Format: Print book
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Continuing the success of the Draw in 15 Minutes series, horse artist Diana Hand shows you how to express your love of horses through drawing. In a series of tutorials, she describes every stage from finding your model and learning the basic skills of drawing to portraying the movement... |
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Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India
Stephanie Schrader · J. Paul Getty Museum
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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This sumptuously illustrated volume examines the impact of Indian art and culture on Rembrandt (1606-1669) in the late 1650s. By pairing Rembrandt's twenty-two extant drawings of Shah Jahan, Jahangir, Dara Shikoh, and other Mughal courtiers with Mughal paintings of similar compositions,... |
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Starting At Zero: His Own Story
Jimi Hendrix · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book
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It took just four years in the spotlight for Jimi Hendrix to become an international cultural icon. The sheer impact and originality of his music and his unique mastery of the guitar placed him forever amongst musical giants. But what of the man behind the public image? Modest and intensely... |
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When They Were Boys: The True Story of the Beatles' Rise to the Top
Larry Kane · Running Press; 1 edition
Format: Book
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This is the story of the Beatles’ harrowing rise to fame: focusing on that seven-year stretch from the time the boys met as teenagers to early 1964, when the Fab Four made their momentous first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. From the boys’ humble beginnings in Liverpool,... |
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Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Terry Teachout · Gotham; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops A Life of Louis ArmstrongEdward Kennedy Duke Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth centuryand an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one not even his closest friends claimed to understand... |
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The Parthenon Enigma
Joan Breton Connelly · Knopf
Format: Paperback
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Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model... |
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America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s
Judith A Barter · The Art Institute of Chicago
Pages: 201
Format: Print book
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Through 50 masterpieces of painting, this fascinating catalogue chronicles the turbulent economic, political, and aesthetic climate of the 1930s. This decade was a supremely creative period in the United States, as the nation's artists, novelists, and critics struggled through the Great... |
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Picture This: How Pictures Work
Molly Bang · Chronicle Books
Pages: 134
Format: Print book
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Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas - about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story... |
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Johnny Carson
Henry Bushkin · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing and incisive account of the King of Late Night at the height of his fame and power, by his lawyer, wingman, fixer, and closest confidant.From 1962 until 1992, Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show and permeated the American consciousness. In the '70s and '80s he was the country's... |
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The Parthenon Enigma
Joan Breton Connelly · Knopf
Pages: 485
Format: Hardcover
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Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West's ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model... |
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Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters
Leonard Cohen · Independent Pub Group
Pages: 604
Format: Print book
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Leonard Cohen, one of the most admired performers of the last half century, has had a stranger-than-fiction, roller-coaster ride of a life. Now, for the first time, he tells his story in his own words, via more than 50 interviews conducted worldwide between 1966 and 2012. In Leonard Cohen... |
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