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The Creative Fight: Create Your Best Work and Live the Life You Imagine

Chris Orwig · Peachpit Press, a division of Pearson Education
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

Creativity is not a gift for a select few, but an ongoing process of growth and self-realization available to anyone who puts in the effort to pursue the spark. In this book, Chris Orwig offers a unique perspective on the creative process, showing you how to find meaning in your work, be inspired,...
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The Making of Gone With The Wind

Steve Wilson · University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover

Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives of David O. Selznick, the films producer, and his business partner John Hay Jock Whitney,...
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Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography

Philip Gefter · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 458
Format: Hardcover

Biography on a grand cultural level, here is the long-awaited story of Sam Wagstaff and his indelible influence on the world of late-twentieth-century art. Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography....
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My Digital Photography for Seniors

Jason R. Rich · Que Publishing; 1 edition

The perfect book to help anyone 50 learn digital photography - in full color! My Digital Photography for Seniors is an exceptionally easy and complete full-color tutorial on digital photography, visual storytelling, and image sharing. No ordinary "beginner's book," it approaches...
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Creating the Illusion

Jay Jorgensen · Running Press ;
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Marilyn Monroe made history by standing over a subway grating in a white pleated halter dress designed by William Travilla. Hubert de Givenchy immortalized the Little Black Dress with a single opening scene in Breakfast at Tiffany's. A red nylon jacket signaled to audiences that James Dean...
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As Above, So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society, 1850-1930

Lynne Adele · University of Texas Press, 2015.
Pages: 266
Format: Print book

"There's an inspiring and wacky solemnity in these organizations - high values reinforced through pageantry and performance in an ecumenical social setting - which deep down must also have been a whole lot of fun. Now it's as if that foundational Other America, that underpinning...
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