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Through Darkness to Light
Jeanine Michna-Bales · Princeton Architectural Press Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover
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They left in the middle of the night - often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search... |
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Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood
Grayson Perry · Penguin Books Format: Hardcover
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Grayson Perry's book will overturn everything you thought you knew about "art"Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called this book Playing to the Gallery... |
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A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen
Liel Leibovitz · W W Norton & Co Inc Pages: 281 Format: Hardcover
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Brings to life a passionate poet-turned-musician and what compels him and his work. Why is it that Leonard Cohen receives the sort of reverence we reserve for a precious few living artists? Why are his songs, three or four decades after their original release, suddenly gracing the charts,... |
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The Public Library: A Photographic Essay
Robert Dawson · Chronicle Books Llc Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150 photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and many more.Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent,... |
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Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
TIM MOHR · Algonquin Books Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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"In case you weren't sure just how political music, fashion, and a certain attitude can be: read this book. Burning Down the Haus is wonderful." - Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed "The true story of how teenage kicks turned into political opposition. With meticulous research... |
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Alfred Sisley: Impressionist Master
Mary Anne Stevens · Editions Hazan, Paris Pages: 191 Format: Hardcover
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Born in Paris to British parents, Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) abandoned his business studies early on in order to pursue training as a landscape artist and has become admired for his characteristic subtlety and highly restrained approach to painting. This beautiful publication offers an overdue... |
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The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster
Chris Adams · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pages: 238 Format: Hardcover
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In The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster, Chris Adams takes readers on a fascinating mystery tour to determine whether a Fender Telecaster bought secondhand in a London music store in 1973 was the one used by Jimi Hendrix to record "Purple Haze"... |
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Blind Spot
Teju Cole · Random House Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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In this innovative synthesis of words and images, the award-winning author of Open City and photography critic for The New York Times Magazine combines two of his great passions. "To look is to see only a fraction of what one is looking at. Even in the most vigilant eye, there is a blind... |
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Treasures of Asian Art: The Asia Society Museum Collection
Denise Patry Leidy · Prestel Pages: 431 Format: Hardcover
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Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Asia Society in New York, this elegant book explores the breadth and depth of the venerable museum's collection of traditional and contemporary Asian art. Reflected in the holdings of Asia Society, this book shows how contemporary artists from Asia... |
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Hand Lettering Step by Step: Techniques & Projects to Express Yourself Creatively
Kathy Glynn · Get Creative 6 Pages: 144 Format: Paperback
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A successful calligrapher and artist teaches you the skills of lettering beautifully - and gives projects to show them off! In today's digital age, people crave something personal and handmade - so hand lettering and calligraphy are becoming more popular than ever. If you're eager... |
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Mystical Landscapes: From Vincent van Gogh to Emily Carr
Katharine Jordan Lochnan · DelMonico Books Prestel Pages: 354 Format: Print book
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This richly illustrated volume explores mystical themes in European, Scandinavian, and North American landscape paintings from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. This book features works by Emily Carr, Marc Chagall, Arthur Dove, Paul Gauguin, Lawren Harris, Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt,... |
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