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How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art
David Salle · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A master class in contemporary art by one of the preeminent painters of our time.How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the twentieth... |
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Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution Through Painters' Eyes
Paul J Staiti · Bloomsbury
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual shape to Revolutionary events and symbolized an entirely new concept of leadership and government. Since then they have endured as indispensable icons,... |
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The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock
David Weigel · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The wildly entertaining story of progressive rock, the music that ruled the 1970s charts -- and has divided listeners ever since.The Show That Never Ends is the definitive story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock. Epitomized by such classic, chart-topping... |
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The Very Best Of Prince -Easyguitar With Tab
Prince. · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 68
Format: Musical score
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Easy arrangements of 17 of Prince's finest: Diamonds and Pearls Û I Would Die 4 U Û Kiss Û Let's Go Crazy Û Little Red Corvette Û 1999 Û Purple Rain Û Raspberry Beret Û When Doves Cry Û U Got the Look Û and more] |
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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Siri Hustvedt · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.Siri Husvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works.... |
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Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
Bridget Quinn · Chronicle Books
Pages: 189
Format: Hardcover
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Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 brilliant female... |
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Art: A Visual History
Robert Cumming · DK
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Art: A Visual History is the complete visual guide to Western art, now updated and repackaged in a themed slipcase.How to tell Impressionism from Expressionism, a Degas from a Monet, early Medieval art from early Christian? Art: A Visual History explains it all - painting, sculpture,... |
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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel
Annie Cohen-Solal · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American... |
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