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Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns
Frank A. Farris · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks--a sort of potato-stamp method--Frank Farris offers a completely new waveform approach that enables you to create an endless... |
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Managing Your Band - Sixth Edition: Artist Management: The Ultimate Responsibility
Stephen Marcone · Hal Leonard
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
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(Book) . The business of being a musician has evolved into the entertainment business encompassing music creation, concerts, licensing, festival organizing, merchandising, fashion, and branding. Consequently, the management of musicians is complicated and important. There are as many artists... |
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Becoming Richard Pryor
Scott Saul · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A major biography—intimate, gripping, revelatory—of an artist who revolutionized American comedy.Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. Raised in his familys brothels, he grew up an outsider to privilege. He took to the stage, originally, to escape... |
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Garden Design: A Book of Ideas
Heidi Howcroft · Firefly Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Author Marianne Majerus was one of three photographers for the seminal book by Prince Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales, Highgrove: A Garden Celebrated, published in 2014, which Camilla Swift of Gardens Illustrated praised for its photographs, "images so breathtaking I want to jump... |
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Foundations in Comic Book Art: SCAD Creative Essentials
John Paul Lowe · Watson-Guptill
Format: Book
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A comprehensive guide to creating and developing comic book and graphic novel art, from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) , one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction.Artists seeking a way to break into the exciting world of sequential art first need to master... |
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Obama: An Intimate Portrait
Pete Souza · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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This is the definitive visual biography of Barack Obama's historic presidency, captured in unprecedented detail by his White House photographer--and presented in an oversize, 12"x10" exquisitely produced format, and featuring a foreword from the President himself. |
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Just Paint It!: The World's Most Enjoyable Painting Course. Ever!
Sam Piyasena · Barron's Educational Series
Format: Hardcover
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For anyone who has ever gazed longingly at a set of artists paints and brushes in a store and wished that they knew where to begin, this is the book for them. This companion to Barrons Just Draw It! relies on the belief that anyone can paint, and encourages readers to not only learn, but to experiment... |
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The Speedlight Studio: Professional Portraits with Portable Flash
Michael Mowbray · Amherst Media
Format: Paperback
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In this book, Michael Mowbray shows readers how to set up a completely speedlight-based portrait photography studio. He goes in depth regarding gear and techniques, providing photographers with scores of example portraits and lighting diagrams to make it easy to follow along and replicate... |
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American Titan: Searching for John Wayne
Marc Eliot · Dey Street Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the veteran New York Times bestselling biographer comes a major, in-depth look at one of the most enduring American icons of all time, "the Duke," John Wayne.As he did in his bestselling biographies of Jimmy Stewart and Clint Eastwood, acclaimed Hollywood biographer Marc... |
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Birds: The Art of Ornithology
Jonathan Elphick · Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover
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This remarkably beautiful volume gathers together a selection of the most important and vibrant ornithological art from London’s Natural History Museum. Birds tells the remarkable story of the development of ornithological art through the ages, from the earliest images of birds in the Renaissance,... |
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Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism
Thomas David Brothers · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 594
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of Louis Armstrong -- his life and legacy -- during the most creative period of his career. Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago's music scene under the tutelage of Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong is recognized as one of the most influential artists... |
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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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