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2014 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market
Mary Burzlaff Bostic · North Light Books; Pap/Psc edition
Format: Book
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Build a Successful Art Career!2014 Artists Graphic Designers Market is the must-have reference guide for any artist who wants to establish or expand a career in fine art, illustration or graphic design. Thousands of successful artists have relied on us to help develop their careers and navigate... |
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George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends
Ellen T. Harris · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate portrait of Handel’s life and inner circle, modeled after one of the composer’s favorite forms: the fugue. During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself―known... |
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100 Photographs That Changed the World
Robert Sullivan · Life
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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A celebration of the power of photography offers a stunning portfolio of one hundred of the most important and vivid still images of all time, including Robert Capa's images from the beaches of Normandy, Joe Rosenthal's famed study of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, and works by Harry... |
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Gunfighter Nation: Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, The
Richard Slotkin · University of Oklahoma Press
Pages: 850
Format: Book
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Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of the American frontier. Slotkin examines an impressive array of sources - fiction, Hollywood westerns, and the writings of Hollywood figures... |
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Boys Scouts of America: Today
Robert Birkby · DK ADULT
Format: Hardcover
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A photographic celebration of 100 years of Scouting! Boys have been drawn to the fun, fellowship, and adventure of Scouting for a hundred years. Now, as it embarks on its second century. Including the winning photographs from the BSA's 2010 National Photo Contest, the full-color images... |
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The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture & Style
Nelson George · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative history of the groundbreaking syndicated television show that has become an icon of American pop culture, from acclaimed author and filmmaker Nelson George, "the most accomplished black music critic of his generation" (Washington Post Book World).When it debuted... |
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Dream Cars: Innovative Design, Visionary Ideas
Sarah Schleuning · Skira Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover
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A sensuously designed showcase of covetable concept or limited-edition cars by the best American and European manufacturers. Dream Cars presents some of the world's most breathtaking concept cars built between 1934 and 2001, a series of visionary designs that influenced the automotive... |
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The World of Poldark
Emma Marriott · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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The World of Poldark explores the characters, the compelling stories and the era that Winston Graham's Poldark novels- and the television series - set out to recreate, the England that Ross Poldark returned to from the American War of Independence. England, and especially Cornwall, was then... |
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How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
Joan DeJean · St Martins Pr
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be transformed into the modern and mythic city we know... |
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Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News
A Brad Schwartz · Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 337
Format: Print book
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On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds... |
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Rock Art!: Painting and Crafting with the Humble Pebble
Denise Scicluna · Barron's Educational Series
Format: Print book
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Great uses for rocks: throwing, skipping, kicking ... how about painting? Rock painting is one of the oldest forms of artistic expression known to man. The varied surfaces, shapes, and sizes of rocks also make them perfect for crafts. From brooches to bookends, paperweights to place cards,... |
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Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumors
Zoî Howe · The Overlook Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The New biography of "the Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll" (Rolling Stone) Lyrical visionary, enduring style icon, and one indispensable fifth of post-Peter Green megaband Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks is one of the most recognizable figures in rock 'n' roll history -- very... |
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What Would Mary Ann Do?: A Guide to Life
Dawn Wells · Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Book
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So, what would Mary Ann do?As the sweet, polite, and thoughtful Mary Ann Summers from Kansas in the hit series Gilligan’s Island, Dawn Wells created an unforgettable and beloved character that still connects with people fifty years from the show’s debut in 1964. As the “good... |
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Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul
Mark Ribowsky · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A soul icon and the southern music he helped popularize come to life in this moving requiem.When he died in one of rock's string of tragic plane crashes, Otis Redding was only twenty-six, yet already the avatar of a new kind of soul music. The beating heart of Memphis-based Stax Records,... |
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