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Blue: The History of a Color
MICHEL PASTOUREAU · Princeton University Press
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now cite it as their favorite color. In this... |
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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
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(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... |
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Horses in the American West: Portrayals by Twenty-Four Artists
Heidi Brady · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 215
Format: Hardcover
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Images of working cowhands and their horses loom large in the mind's eye of many who love the American West. Those same images form the heart and soul of this lavishly illustrated book, which captures the viewpoints, values, and observations of twenty-four respected contemporary artists.... |
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Cake
Maira Kalman · Penguin Press
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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With great style, wit, and joy, Maira Kalman and Barbara Scott-Goodman celebrate their favorite dessert.In Cake, renowned artist and author Maira Kalman and food writer Barbara Scott-Goodman bring us a beautifully illustrated book dedicated to their mutual love of cakes. Kalman's enchanting... |
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The Authentics: A Lush Dive into the Substance of Style
Melanie Acevedo · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From renowned photographer Melanie Acevedo and founding editor of domino magazine Dara Caponigro, comes a lush dive into the private worlds and gorgeous homes of creative trailblazers in art, design, and fashion around the world.The Authentics is a deep exploration into the substance of style... |
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The Art and Making of Pacific Rim Uprising
DANIEL WALLACE · Insight Editions
Pages: 156
Format: Hardcover
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Explore the epic art of Pacific Rim Uprising, the highly anticipated follow-up to the 2013 monster hit. The Art and Making of Pacific Rim Uprising takes readers behind the scenes and back into the heart of the epic battle between Kaiju and Jaegers. Showcasing the brilliant concept art behind... |
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Gainsborough: A Portrait
James Hamilton · Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review Thomas Gainsborough lived as if electricity... |
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Towards Impressionism: Landscape Painting from Corot to Monet
Suzanne Greub · Hirmer Publishers
Pages: 120
Format: Hardcover
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Impressionism is often considered the final nineteenth-century precursor to the radical experimentation of modernism. But every style has a precursor - so what movements paved the way for the atmospheric light, color, and composition characteristic of the impressionist works themselves?... |
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Dark Side of the Boom: The Excesses Of The Art Market In The 21st Century
GEORGINA ADAM · Lund Humphries
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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This book scrutinizes the excesses and extravagances that the 21st-century explosion of the contemporary art market brought in its wake. The buying of art as an investment, temptations to forgery and fraud, tax evasion, money laundering and pressure to produce more and more art all form... |
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Tomb Raider: The Art and Making of the Film
Sharon Gosling · Titan Books
Pages: 171
Format: Hardcover
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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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