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Art of the American West: The Haub Family Collection at Tacoma Art Museum
Laura F Fry · Yale University Press
Pages: 311
Format: Print book
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This handsome book displays an extraordinary breadth of masterworks dating from the 1790s to the present, including over 140 artists in some 320 beautiful color reproductions. In a variety of media and styles, iconic American artists including Frederic Remington, Thomas Moran, Charles M. Russell,... |
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Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs
Karl Buchberg · The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Format: Hardcover
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Published in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to Henri Matisses paper cut-outs, made from the early 1940s until the artists death in 1954, this publication presents approximately 150 works in a groundbreaking reassessment of Matisses colorful and innovative... |
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Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
Will Durant · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Praised as a revelatory book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prizewinning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death. The culmination of Will Durants sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions,... |
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San Diego Trolleys
Douglas W Mengers · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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Starting with the first horse-drawn trolleys introduced by the San Diego Streetcar Company in 1886, San Diego's history included the growth and decline of several trolley systems. After electricity arrived, San Diego was the site of early experimentation for electric trolleys on the West... |
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Letters to His Family and Friends
T V Rimskai?a?-Korsakova · Amadeus
Pages: 440
Format: Book
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(Amadeus) . Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov is one of Russia's great musical figures. Although largely self-taught, he became a professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and one of the famed "Mighty Handful" of Russian nationalist composers. Works like Scheherazade and Capriccio... |
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John Lennon: The Collected Artwork
Scott Gutterman · Insight Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Over the course of John Lennon’s career, his work as an artist expressed the societal themes that touched his life. Until now, little of this work has been seen in one place. For the first time, John Lennon: The Collected Artwork offers a captivating history of Lennon’s visionary... |
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The Art of the Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Dermot Power · Harper Design
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Step inside the world of the talented art departments who, led by Academy Award®-winning production designer Stuart Craig, were responsible for the creation of the unforgettable characters, locations and beasts from the eagerly anticipated new adventure in J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World.The... |
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Diana Krall -- Wallflower: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
Diana Krall · Alfred
Pages: 99
Format: Musical score
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On Wallflower, jazz singer Diana Krall lends her trademark contralto to songs first made famous by artists such as The Mamas & the Papas, the Carpenters, the Eagles, Jim Croce, Elton John, Randy Newman, and a freshly penned tune by Paul McCartney. This book provides piano/vocal/guitar... |
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Jeter Unfiltered
Derek Jeter · Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The only authorized full-color book commemorating Derek Jeter’s iconic baseball career with the New York Yankees, featuring archival images and original photos of his final 2014 season from renowned photographer Christopher Anderson.Derek Jeter’s twentieth and final season in Major... |
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Eye Contact: Social Networking, Face to Face, With a Camera
Max James Fallon · Cameron Company
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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It will not be easy, but it will be worth the effort: turn off that iPhone, close your laptop, shut down your tablet, turn off the TV ... Then grab your camera if you want to really connect with someone who isn't a digitized ephemeral image, floating on your screen, a real human being,... |
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The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power
Thomas J. Christensen · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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This compelling assessment of U.S.-China relations is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the globalized world.Many see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine the country's rise to be a threat to U.S. leadership in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen... |
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