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The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
Laura Cumming · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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From one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story - part art history and part mystery - of a Velazquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.When John Snare, a nineteenth-century provincial... |
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The World Atlas of Street Photography
· Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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The energetic, fluctuating pace of the metropolis has long lured photographers to capture—often candidly—the chaos, character, and incident of modern urban life ever since the genesis of photography in the 19th century. The World Atlas of Street Photography focuses on the abundance... |
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How To Use The GoPro Hero 4 Silver
Jordan Hetrick · Kaisanti Press
Pages: 112 |
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FROM THE #1 AMAZON BEST SELLING AUTHOR ON GoPro CAMERAS. Specifically for the GoPro HERO 4 Silver Edition, this is the perfect guide book for anyone who wants to learn how to use a GoPro HERO 4 Silver camera to capture great videos and photos. Designed for an active lifestyle, travelers,... |
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In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
Sue Roe · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover |
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A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic... |
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Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land
Sandy Tolan · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover |
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It is an unlikely story. Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a child from a Palestinian refugee camp, confronts an occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then, through his charisma and persistence, inspires scores of others to work... |
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Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000
Doug Menuez · Atria Books
Pages: 171
Format: Hardcover |
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An eye-opening chronicle of the Silicon Valley technology boom, capturing key moments in the careers of Steve Jobs and more than seventy other leading innovators as they created today's digital world In the spring of 1985, a technological revolution was under way in Silicon Valley,... |
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Art Without Waste: 500 Upcycled & Earth-Friendly Designs
Patty K Wongpakdee · Rockport Publishers |
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Art Without Waste features 500 upcycled and Earth-friendly designs from cutting-edge designers, illustrators and artists around the world. With a broad scope of alternative uses for discarded items, such as bottle caps, gas cans, and skateboards, the designs featured in this book also explore... |
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Plot Perfect: How to Build Unforgettable Stories Scene by Scene
Paula Munier · Writer'S Digest
Pages: 281
Format: Paperback |
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Build an Exceptional Plot, One Scene at a Time! Think of your favorite story--the one that kept you turning pages late into the night, the one with a plot so compelling, so multilayered, so perfect that you couldn't put it down. How can you make your own plots--in your novels, short... |
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Common Wealth: Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lowery Stokes Sims · MFA Publications, 2015.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely paralleled their social, political and economic aspirations over the last 400 years. From enslaved craftspersons to contemporary painters, printmakers and sculptors, African American artists have created a wealth of artistic... |
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The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness
Weeknd · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 102
Format: Musical score |
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook) . Matching folio to the chart-topping break-out album featuring 14 tracks: Acquainted * As You Are * Angel * Can't Feel My Face * Dark Times * Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey) * The Hills * Losers * Prisoner * Real Life * Shameless * Tell Your Friends. |
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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 |
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"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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Original Fake
Kirstin Cronn-Mills · Putnam Pub Group
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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In this Banksy-inspired illustrated novel, an escalating sibling rivalry train wrecks and vengeance is a street-art act of warIntrovert Frankie Neumann hates his life, and understandably so. He's got a weird, tutu-wearing sister, Lou, and even weirder parents, Bridget and Brett - Frank... |
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The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
Anthony M. Amore · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 284
Format: Print book |
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Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons... |
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