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I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100

Wil Haygood · Rizzoli Electa
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

One hundred years after the Harlem Renaissance emerged as a creative force at the close of World War I, I Too Sing America offers a major survey on the visual art and material culture of the groundbreaking movement.It illuminates multiple facets of the era--the lives of its people, the art,...
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Cabaret FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Broadway and Cinema Classic

June Skinner Sawyers · Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback

(FAQ) . The book features chapters on Jean Ross and Christopher Isherwood the real people behind the singular characters of Sally Bowles and Clifford Bradshaw/Brian Roberts and includes background information on the original source material, Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin stories and the first...
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Southern Splendor: Saving Architectural Treasures of the Old South

Marc R Matrana · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover

Few things evoke thoughts and memories of the past more than a house from a bygone era, and few places are identified and symbolized more by historic dwellings than the American South. Plantation houses built with columned porticos and wide porches, stout chimneys, large rooms, and sweeping...
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Counting Down the Beatles: Their 100 Finest Songs

Jim Beviglia · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover

The Beatles loom large over the musical landscape even now that nearly a half-century has passed since the four men from Liverpool played their last notes together. While the story of their stunning rise and brief but brilliant time together on top of the pop music world is undoubtedly...
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Geninne's Art: Birds in Watercolor, Collage, and Ink: A field guide to art techniques and observing in the wild

GENINNE D ZLATKIS · Quarry Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Santa Fe nature artist Geninne D Zlatkis is well-known on Instagram and Pinterest for her charming paintings and collages of birds. In Geninne's Art: Birds in Watercolor, Collage, and Ink, for the first time, she offers her fans a field guide to her art process. A skilled nature photographer...
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Cats in Art

DESMOND MORRIS · Reaktion Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The cat - that most graceful, stubborn, and agile of animals - has been a favorite subject of artists the world over from prehistory to the modern day. A spectacular 7,000-year-old engraving in Libya depicts a catfight. Figures modeled by the Babylonians remind us of their belief that the souls...
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Farewell to the Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism

Whitney Chadwick · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating examination of the ambitions and friendships of a talented group of midcentury women artistsFarewell to the Muse documents what it meant to be young, ambitious, and female in the context of an avant-garde movement defined by celebrated men whose backgrounds were often quite...
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On Power

GENE SIMMONS · Dey Street Books
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Gene Simmons, KISS front-man, multi-hyphenate entrepreneur, and master of self-invention, shares his philosophy on power - how to attain it, how to keep it, and how to harness it as a driving force in business and in life.YOU CAN HAVE POWER.YOU DESERVE TO HAVE POWER.GENE SIMMONS IS HERE...
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Art of Renaissance Rome: Artists and Patrons in the Eternal City

John Marciari · Laurence King Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

John Marciari tells the story of the monuments, artists, and patrons of Renaissance Rome in this compelling book. In no other city is the ancient world so palpably present, and nowhere else is the mission of the church so evident. At the same time as the humanists sought to preserve and recreate...
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Dressing Barbie

Carol Spencer · Harper Design
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

A legendary fashion designer for Barbie shares the story of her adventures working behind-the-scenes at Mattel, and spotlights the creations that transformed the world's most famous doll into a style icon in this beautifully designed book - published in commemoration of Barbie's sixtieth...
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The Story of The Face: The Magazine that Changed Culture

Paul Gorman · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A landmark publication offering a definitive overview of one of the most influential transatlantic magazines produced in the 1980s and 1990sLaunched by NME editor and Smash Hits creator Nick Logan in 1980, The Face became an icon of "style culture," the benchmark for the latest...
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Tomb Raider: The Art and Making of the Film

Sharon Gosling · Titan Books
Pages: 171
Format: Hardcover

From Warner Bros. Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Tomb Raider follows the treacherous journey of a young Lara Croft as she takes her first steps toward becoming a global hero. Academy Award(TM) winner Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl) stars in the lead role,...
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The Art of Drawing: Create Stunning Artworks Step by Step

Vivienne Coleman Coleman · Arcturus Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Suitable for beginners and more experienced artists, The Art of Drawing covers a complete range of subject matter, from basic exercises in line and tone, to still life, landscapes, animals and human portraits. At every stage, the reader will be shown the stages of drawing and be inspired...
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Ungrateful Mammals

Dave Eggers · Abrams
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Eggers is one of the most notable writers of his generation, recognized for such bestsell­ing and critically acclaimed books as A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Circle. Before he embarked on his writing career, Eggers was classically trained as a draftsman and painter....
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Movie Songs for Ukulele

HAL LEONARD. · Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback

(Ukulele) . 25 silver screen favorites are featured in this ukulele collection: City of Stars * Evermore * Ghostbusters * Hallelujah * I Will Always Love You * Mrs. Robinson * Theme from "New York, New York" * Over the Rainbow * Somewhere Out There * Twist and Shout * The Wind...
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