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The Everything Art Handbook: A comprehensive guide to more than 100 art techniques and tools of the trade

Walter Foster Creative Team · Walter Foster Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

The Everything Art Handbook is an all-inclusive, go-to resource for artists of any skill level.A refreshing, accessible compendium of materials and techniques, The Everything Art Handbook is the perfect all-inclusive resource for beginning artists wanting to experiment and play with a variety...
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Charles James: Beyond Fashion

Jan Reeder · Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format: Print book

Charles James, often considered to be America’s first couturier, was renowned in the 1940s and 1950s as a master at sculpting fabric for the female form and creating fashions that defined mid-century glamour. Although James had no formal training as a dressmaker, he created strikingly...
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Big Eyes: The Film, The Art

Leah Gallo · Titan Books
Format: Hardcover

Big Eyes is the new movie from iconic filmmaker Tim Burton. Re-teaming with the writers of Ed Wood, Burton returns to the biopic genre by telling the story of Margaret and Walter Keane, and their beautiful and melancholy ‘big eyes’ paintings.This companion book features behind...
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Sing to Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who's Next

L a Reid · Harpercollins
Pages: 390
Format: Book

In this long-awaited memoir, illustrated with over 100 never-before-seen photos from his personal collection, the groundbreaking record producer chronicles his struggles, his success, and the celebrated artists that made him a legend.Over the last twenty-five years, legendary music producer...
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Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs

Hal Buell · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

The bestselling, complete collection of more than 600 Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs, from the first awards in 1942 through the 2015 honors.
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Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story

Rick Bragg · Harper; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerThe greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis - and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time.A monumental figure on the American...
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100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time

The Editors of TIME Magazine · Time Home Entertainment
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Since its inception, TIME magazine has been synonymous not just with outstanding journalism, but also with outstanding photography. Now, to mark the 175th anniversary of photography and the birth of photojournalism, the Editors of TIME magazine are publishing this companion book to the groundbreaking...
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Don McCullin

Don McCullin · Aperture
Pages: 359
Format: Print book

First published in 2001, this retrospective survey offers both an examination of Don McCullin's photographic career as well as a record of half a century of international conflict. Coinciding with the photographer's eightieth birthday, this expanded edition of Don McCullin serves...
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Impressionism in America: The Ten American Painters

Ulrich W. Hiesinger · Prestel Pub
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover

Book by Hiesinger, Ulrich W.
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Peterson Reference Guides: Birding by Impression: A Different Approach to Knowing and Identifying Birds

Kevin Karlson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover

A highly visual guide to identifying birds in the field based on the important, unchanging features of size, shape, structure, and behavior Birding is an extremely rewarding and fun hobby, but some situations can be frustrating or unsuccessful because of a variety of challenging viewing...
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Desert Bighorn Sheep: Wilderness Icon

Jorgensen Mark C Young Jeff
Format: Paperback

Desert Bighorn Sheep: Wilderness Icon is the most comprehensive photographic work on this elusive symbol of the deserts of the southwest United States and northern Mexico. Photographer Jeff Young worked for years to assemble tens of thousands of high quality photographs and assemble them...
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John Lennon: The Collected Artwork

Scott Gutterman · Insight Editions
Format: Hardcover

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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Ballerina body : dancing and eating your way to a leaner, stronger, and more graceful you

Misty Copeland · Grand Central Life & Style
Pages: 226

Misty Copeland believes "There has been a shift in recent years in which women no longer desire the bare bones of a runway model. Standards have changed: what women do want is a long, toned, powerful body with excellent posture." In other words, the body of a ballerina. In her first...
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The Movie Book

DK · DK
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The Movie Book, the latest in DK's award-winning Big Ideas Simply Explained series, profiles 100 of the best movies ever made throughout the world.From classic 1930s film noir and Hollywood romance to international art-house and 21st-century sci-fi, The Movie Book brings the world's most...
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Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration

Thomas David Brothers · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating story of how creative cooperation inspired two of the world's most celebrated musical acts.The Beatles and Duke Ellington's Orchestra stand as the two greatest examples of collaboration in music history. Duke University musicologist Thomas Brothers delivers a portrait...
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