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Patina Style

Brooke Giannetti · Gibbs Smith
Format: Print book

The Giannettis have developed a design style that embraces Patina, the beauty that the passage of time brings to objects in your life.Patina Style is a color palette, a romance with subtlety, an attraction to natural materials and architectural details,  and is at once old-world and mildly...
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New Street Art

Claude Crommelin · ACC Art Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Documents 150 street artists actively producing work right nowPhotographs by renowned photographer ClaudelondonIncludes new artists as well as some better known street artists, such as Banksy, Invader, and StikStreet art is part of every cityscape. By street art, we mean the crazy and wonderful...
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Olivia Bee: Kids in Love

Olivia Bee · Aperture
Pages: 135
Format: Print book

Olivia Bee (born 1994) is celebrated for her dreamy, evocative portraits and landscapes rich with implied narratives of intimacy, freedom and adventure. Olivia Bee: Kids in Love showcases two bodies of photographic work, including the series Enveloped in a Dream that first brought Bee recognition...
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Music Composition For Dummies

Scott Jarrett · Wiley
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Want to turn that haunting tune in your head into an awesome sound in your ear? You can! Music Composition For Dummies demystifies the process of composing music and writing songs. It guides you through every step of writing your own music, from choosing the right rhythm and tempo to creating...
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Rock Art!: Painting and Crafting with the Humble Pebble

Denise Scicluna · Barron's Educational Series
Format: Print book

Great uses for rocks: throwing, skipping, kicking ... how about painting? Rock painting is one of the oldest forms of artistic expression known to man. The varied surfaces, shapes, and sizes of rocks also make them perfect for crafts. From brooches to bookends, paperweights to place cards,...
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The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed

Jay Margolis · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Marilyn Monroe died under suspicious circumstances on the night of August 4, 1962. In The Murder of Marilyn Monroe Case Closed, renowned MM expert Jay Margolis and New York Times best-selling author Richard Buskin finally lay to rest more than 50 years of wild speculation and misguided...
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Sketching People: An Urban Sketcher's Manual to Drawing Figures and Faces

Lynne Chapman · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Drawing people in the outside world can be a real thrill; each sketch captures a particular person and place in time. But it can also be a challenge. How do you spot a likely subject? How do you choose the person most likely to stay still? How do you draw movement for the person that refuses...
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Clarinet For Dummies

David Etheridge · Wiley Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Master the most popular woodwind Want to play the clarinet? No problem! This hands-on guide teaches you all the fundamental techniques you need to play this popular woodwind alone or in a group setting. Clarinet For Dummies gives you the ideal introduction to play clarinet. You?ll begin...
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The Great Jazz Guitarists: The Ultimate Guide

Scott Yanow · Backbeat Books
Format: Print book

The prolific Scott Yanow has outdone even himself with this book, the most comprehensive guide to jazz guitarists ever published. With hundreds of dossiers and discographies on every major (and not so major) jazz guitar player of note arranged in encyclopedia fashion, this is the final...
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Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996

Andrew Earles · Voyageur Press
Format: Paperback

The ultimate guide to one of the most revered periods and movements in American rock history. The 1980s are one of the most ridiculed and parodied epochs in popular musicâ??what with all the skinny lapels, synthesizers, spandex, and Aqua Net. However, music fans in the know recognize...
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