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Pen Drawing: An Illustrated Treatise
Charles D. Maginnis · Dover Publications
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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Style, materials, techniques, and values are the focus of this richly illustrated guide to pen drawing. In addition to proposing solutions for practical problems, the book offers advice on architectural and decorative drawing. More than 70 drawings by assorted artists range from tranquil... |
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Empire: Original Soundtrack from Season 1
Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Format: Musical score
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PianoVocalGuitar Songbook. Timbaland produced all 11 songs on this critically acclaimed soundtrack to the inaugural season of the hit FOX TV show Empire . Our folio features pianovocalguitar arrangements of all the songs, including Good Enough Jussie Smollett Power of the Empire Yazz Remember... |
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Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution
Jerry Burgan · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Book
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"The birth of folk rock comes to life in Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk Rock Revolution, Jerry Burgan's unforgettable memoir of the pre-psychedelic 1960s"--back cover. |
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Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus & Howard Nemerov
Alexander Nemerov · Fraenkel Gallery
Format: Print book
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Silent Dialogues, by art historian Alexander Nemerov, is a probing, intimate reflection about photographer Diane Arbus, the author's aunt, and her brother, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Howard Nemerov, the author's father. "I have no memories of Diane Arbus," begins Alexander... |
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From the Headlines to Hollywood: The Birth and Boom of Warner Bros.
Chris Yogerst · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
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More than any other studio, Warner Bros. used edgy, stylistic, and brutally honest films to construct a view of America that was different from the usual buoyant Hollywood fare. The studio took seriously Harry Warner's mandate that their films had a duty to educate and demonstrate key values... |
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Suffering and Sunset: World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin
Celeste-Marie Bernier · Temple University Press, 2015.
Pages: 552
Format: Print book
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For self-made artist and soldier Horace Pippin - who served in the 369th all-black infantry in World War I until he was wounded - war provided a formative experience that defined much of his life and work. His ability to transform combat service into canvases of emotive power, psychological... |
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Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater
Eddie Shapiro · Oxford University Press, 2014.
Pages: 364
Format: Print book
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In Nothing Like a Dame, theater journalist Eddie Shapiro opens a jewelry box full of glittering surprises, through in-depth conversations with twenty leading women of Broadway. He carefully selected Tony Award-winning stars who have spent the majority of their careers in theater, leaving... |
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Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture
Donna Gustafson · Prestel
Format: Hardcover
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This survey of historical and modern portraiture presents a fundamentally new and exciting exploration of how people view themselves, their personal relationships, and their tribes. Portraits--single, double, and group--are the focus of this fascinating volume. Encompassing work from the 18th... |
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Happy Clouds, Happy Trees: The Bob Ross Phenomenon
Kristin G. Congdon · University Press of Mississippi
Format: Hardcover
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Readers will know Bob Ross 1942-1995 as the gentle, afrod painter of happy trees on PBS. And while the Florida-born artist is reviled or ignored by the elite art world and scholarly art educators, he continues to be embraced around the globe as a healer and painter, even decades after his death.... |
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Rembrandt: The Late Works
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn · Natl Gallery (London)
Pages: 303
Format: Book
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The first book to focus exclusively on the extraordinary paintings, drawings, and prints that Rembrandt produced in the most innovative part of his career From the mid-1650s until his death at age sixty-three, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) generated a remarkable body of work as he searched... |
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Taking the Lead: Lessons from a Life in Motion
Derek Hough · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Derek Hough, the dashing Emmy Award-winning fan favorite, and only five-time champion of the hit ABC reality show Dancing With the Stars, tells the inspiring story of his life and career, and shares insider tips of how he transforms his celebrity dance partners into confident, charismatic... |
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Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists
Bob Leszczak · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 287
Format: Print book
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"Everybody has to start somewhere. Businessmen start on the ground floor and try to work their way up the corporate ladder. Baseball players bide their time in the minor leagues wishing for an opportunity to move up and play in the majors. Musical compositions aren't very different... |
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