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Illustrators Annual 2017

BOLOGNA CHILDREN'S BOOK FAIR. · Chronicle Books
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback

A highlight of the time-honored gathering of children's publishers in Bologna, Italy, the Illustrators Annual - juried every year from the finest art at the show - celebrates debut and storied talent from around the world, the talent that engages a whole new generation of booklovers....
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The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific

David Bianculli · Doubleday
Pages: 592
Format: Print book

Television shows have now eclipsed films as the premier form of visual narrative art of our time. This new book by one of our finest critics explains - historically, in depth, and with interviews with the celebrated creators themselves - how the art of must-see/binge-watch television evolved....
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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel

Annie Cohen-Solal · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Ellsworth Kelly

Tricia Y Paik · Phaidon Press Limited
Pages: 375
Format: Print book

The definitive monograph, created in close collaboration with the artist (1923-2015) , a pioneer of abstract art, who influenced subsequent generations of artists such as Tauba Auerbach, Matt Connors and Alex Israel.This definitive monograph, and the last book to be created in close collaboration...
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Top Hits of 2016

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Pages: 114
Format: Paperback

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . 16 of the most sizzling hits of the year in arrangements for piano, voice and guitar. Includes: Burn (from Hamilton ) * Can't Stop the Feeling (Justin Timberlake) * H.O.L.Y. (Florida Georgia Line) * I Took a Pill in Ibiza (Mike Posner) * Just like...
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Hamilton: Vocal Selections

Lin-Manuel Miranda · Hal Leonard
Pages: 200
Format: Musical score

(Vocal Selections) . 17 selections from the critically acclaimed musical based on Alexander Hamilton's biography which debuted on Broadway in August 2015 to unprecedented advanced box office sales. Our collection features 17 selections in piano/vocal format from the music penned by Lin-Manuel...
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Show and Tell: The New Book of Broadway Anecdotes

Ken Bloom · Oxford University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Did you know that Frank Sinatra was nearly considered for the original production of Fiddler on the Roof? Or that Jerome Robbins never choreographed the famous "Dance at the Gym" in West Side Story? Or that Lin-Manuel Miranda called out an audience member on Twitter for texting...
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Robin Williams: A Singular Portrait, 1986-2002

Arthur Grace · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

I had always thought that when I was around 84 and Robin was 80 we could collaborate on a book about the golden years of his career where he could look at my photographs and reminisce about the events and his feelings at the time. Unfortunately, that book was never to be . . . .Photographer...
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Talk That Music Talk

Bruce Sunpie Barnes · University of New Orleans Press; Pap/Cdr edition
Format: Hardcover

Learning to play by ear is a unique part of becoming a musician in New Orleans. This life history and photography project explores the traditional methods of teaching brass band music in the city that gave birth to jazz. Through in-depth interviews, the bands, social and pleasure clubs,...
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The David Brent Songbook: Piano, Vocal, Guitar

David Brent · Blue Streak
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

"I'm a friend first, boss second. Probably an entertainer third." The Office's David Brent is back in a new film documentary following his incredible musical tour ... Relive all of David's greatest hits with his official songbook, brought to you by the man, the myth,...
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The New French Couture: Icons of Paris Fashion

Elyssa Dimant · HarperCollins US 2015.
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

With more than 175 color high-fashion photographs, this stunning, comprehensive, and authoritative handbook on modern French couture, covering the finest Parisian houses of couture - including Chanel, Dior, Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin, and more - and the creative directors who are redefining...
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The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Secondary Schools: Grades 7-12

Helen D Hume · Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback

An invaluable compendium of 75 creative art projects for art educators and classroom teachers This authoritative, practical, and comprehensive guide offers everything teachers need to know to conduct an effective arts instruction and appreciation program. It meets secondary art teacher's...
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