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Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore
TERRY NEWMAN · Harper Design
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover
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"The most counterintuitive book of the summer thus far ... . [Newman's] surprisingly convincing thesis is that the sartorial choices authors make are deeply connected to the narrative choices they make - or, as Beckett put it, 'the fabric of language' they use." -Vanessa Friedman,... |
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Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
Connie H. Choi · Prestel
Format: Hardcover
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Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley's bold, colorful, and monumental work, this book encompasses the artist's various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work--which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition. Celebrated for his classically styled paintings... |
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Picturing America's National Parks
Jamie M Allen · Aperture
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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To celebrate the centennial of America's National Park Service, Picturing America's National Parks brings together some of the finest landscape photography in the history of the medium, from America's most magnificent and sacred environments. Photography has played an integral... |
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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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Street Photography: Creative Vision Behind the Lens
Vale?rie Jardin · Focal Press
Pages: 452
Format: Paperback
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With both training and preparation, a street photographer needs to make rapid decisions; there may only be a fraction of a second to immortalize a moment in time that has never happened before and will never happen again. This is where Street Photography: Creative Vision Behind the Lens... |
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The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention
Alexander Monro · Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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A sweeping, richly detailed history that tells the fascinating story of how paper - the simple Chinese invention of two thousand years ago - wrapped itself around our world, humankind's most momentous ideas imprinted on its surface. The emergence of paper in the imperial court... |
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When Broadway Went to Hollywood
Ethan Mordden · Oxford University Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart, among many others - were enticed westward by Hollywood studios'... |
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The Best Country Rock Songs Ever
Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 299
Format: Paperback
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . Over 50 songs that walk the line between the country and rock worlds, including: A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action * Amie * Chattahoochee * City of New Orleans * Fooled Around and Fell in Love * Free Bird * Guitars, Cadillacs * Heartache Tonight... |
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Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop
Marc Myers · Grove Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Every great song has a story that needs to be told. In Anatomy of a Song, based on the ongoing Wall Street Journal column, writer and music historian Marc Myers brings to life five decades of music through forty-five transformative songs and oral-history interviews with the artists who created... |
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Treasured Lands: A Photographic Odyssey Through America's 59 National Parks
Q.T. Luong · Cameron & Co
Pages: 456
Format: Print book
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It is said that a photograph helped launch the national parks. After Congress viewed photos of Yosemite, President Lincoln was moved to sign a bill that paved the way for the U.S. National Park Service, which was founded in 1916 and is now celebrating its centennial. In Treasured Lands:... |
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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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Foo Fighters: Learning to Fly
Mick Wall · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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There's a reason why Dave Grohl is known, however naively, as "the nicest man in rock." A reason why millions have bought his Foo Fighters albums and DVDs, his concert and festival tickets. A reason why generations have bought into his story, his dream, his self-fulfilling prophecies.... |
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