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Art Since 1989
Kelly Grovier · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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An extensive, accessible guide to the most groundbreaking and influential art from 1989 to the present The years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have seen the rise of a new freedom to define art -- Who makes it? Where can it be found? What is its commercial value?... |
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An Illustrated History of Thailand
John Hoskin · John Beaufoy Publishing
Pages: 239
Format: Print book
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This fully illustrated history is divided geographically according to the sequence of succeeding Thai kingdoms. Each section follows a historical chronology, covering accounts of major events during each reign, with an assessment of the character of individual kings and their particular... |
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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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Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s
Alexandra Schwartz · University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s is the first major museum survey to historicize art made in the United States during this pivotal decade. Showcasing approximately sixty-five works by forty-five artists, the book includes installations, paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, video, sound,... |
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Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston
Mark Pasnik · Monacelli Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Often problematically labeled as "Brutalist" architecture, the concrete buildings that transformed Boston during 1960s and 1970s were conceived with progressive-minded intentions by some of the world's most influential designers, including Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, I. M. Pei,... |
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Modern Love Songs
Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Format: Book
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PianoVocalGuitar Songbook. 27 recent hits, including Just a Kiss Lady Antebellum Just the Way You Are Bruno Mars Love Somebody Maroon 5 Marry Me Train No One Alicia Keys Ours Taylor Swift Stay Rihanna A Thousand Years Christina Perri Unconditionally Katy Perry Wanted Hunter Hayes... |
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The History of Music in Fifty Instruments
Philip Wilkinson · Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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The 400-year story of music told by the instruments that make an orchestra. The History of Music in 50 Instruments outlines musical history in well-written nuggets of information. Profiling one instrument at a time, it describes the history of music since the 1700s, when orchestras... |
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The First Signs: My Quest to Unlock the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
Genevieve Von Petzinger · Atria Books
Pages: 307
Format: Print book
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"One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey's paradigm-shattering Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world-- the first indications of symbolic meaning,... |
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Antarctica: South Of 60°S Latitude Parallel
Arnold Zageris · Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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Breathtaking in its superlatives, Antarctica mesmerizes visitors with its compelling beauty, awe-inspiring landscapes and imposing grandeur. No continent is its equal. Antarctica has the heights, the winds, the climate and the aridity. Moreover, its ever-changing and elusive light can paint... |
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If Venice Dies
Salvatore Settis · New Vessel Pr
Pages: 180
Format: Print book
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"A chilling account of the slow agony of Venice as illustrative of a global consumerist epidemic. Richly documented and imbued with deep angst about this supreme urban creation." - Philippe de Montebello, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtWhat is Venice worth? To whom... |
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Popular Songs from Movie Soundtracks
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 383
Format: Musical score
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . This collection offers over 70 hits from the silver screen, including: All I Want Is You * As Time Goes By * Baby, It's Cold Outside * Blaze of Glory * Born to Be Wild * Danger Zone * Don't You (Forget About Me) * (Everything I Do) I Do It for You * Holiday... |
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New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway
Edna Nashon · Columbia University Press 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds... |
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