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New Titles - Arts & Photography
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The Drama of Celebrity
Marcus, Sharon · Princeton University Press
Pages: 328 Format: Hardcover
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A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive?In this fascinating and deeply researched book,... |
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Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
Michael Shnayerson · PublicAffairs
Pages: 464 Format: Hardcover
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The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world-for contemporary art-is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break careers and fortunes. The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar... |
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How to Build a Boat: A Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea
Gornall, Jonathan · Scribner
Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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Part ode to building something with one's hands in the modern age, part celebration of the beauty and function of boats, and part moving father-daughter story, How to Build a Boat is a bold adventure.Once an essential skill, the ability to build a clinker boat, first innovated by the Vikings,... |
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Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
Goldberger, Paul · Knopf
Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic.From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union... |
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