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Art in Minutes
Susie Hodge · Quercus
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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This concise yet comprehensive guide to the history of art is the perfect handbook for all would-be art buffs. Art historian Susie Hodge takes you on a whistle-stop international tour of all the major philosophies, movements, phases, developments, artists, and themes, from prehistoric art to Hyperrealism.... |
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Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait
Kendra Bean · Running Press
Format: Hardcover
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Vivien Leigh’s mystique was a combination of staggering beauty, glamour, romance, and genuine talent displayed in her Oscar-winning performances in Gone With the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire. For more than thirty years, her name alone sold out theaters and cinemas the world over,... |
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
Bob Stanley · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An addictively readable, encyclopedic history of pop music in chapters as short and adrenaline-fueled as the best pop songs themselves. As much fun to argue with as to quote, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! is a monumental work of musical history, tracing the story of pop music through individual songs,... |
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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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The Joy of Acrylic Painting: Expressive Painting Techniques for Beginners
Annie O'Brien Gonzales · North Light Books
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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Now is the time to pursue creative fulfillment! Annie O'Brien Gonzales felt a passion for art from an early age. But not until 30 years later--after raising a family and working "a real job"--did she get serious about painting. Along the way, she experienced the pleasures... |
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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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Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
Gavin Edwards · It Books; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of acclaimed actor River Phoenix—a teen idol on the fast track to Hollywood royalty who died of a drug overdose in front of West Hollywood’s storied club,... |
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Roadshow!: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s
Matthew Kennedy · Oxford University Press US
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover
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Full-page newspaper ads announced the date. Reserved seats went on sale at premium prices. Audience members dressed up and arrived early to peruse the program during the overture that preceded the curtain's rise. And when the show began, it was--a rather disappointing film musical.In... |
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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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Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community
Saul Austerlitz · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 406
Format: Paperback
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The form is so elemental, so basic, that we have difficulty imagining a time before it existed: a single set, fixed cameras, canned laughter, zany sidekicks, quirky family antics. Obsessively watched and critically ignored, sitcoms were a distraction, a gentle lullaby of a kinder, gentler... |
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