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Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns
Frank A. Farris · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks--a sort of potato-stamp method--Frank Farris offers a completely new waveform approach that enables you to create an endless... |
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The Words and Music of Alanis Morissette
Karen Fournier · Praeger
Pages: 182
Format: Print book
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As a whole, Alanis Morissette's work has never been critically analyzed. The Words and Music of Alanis Morissette addresses this oversight through its examination of Morissette's work in the context of biographical facts, its relationship to other cultural trends, and its reflection... |
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Mona Lisa to Marge: How the World's Greatest Artworks Entered Popular Culture
Francesca Bonazzoli · Prestel Verlag
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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This highly entertaining exploration of art, history, and commerce reveals how 30 masterpieces made the journey from image to icon. How did paintings such as the Mona Lisa and The Scream achieve worldwide recognition? Why do certain artworks populate T-shirts, mugs, calendars, and advertising?... |
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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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Art: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Artists and Their Work
Susie Hodge · Quercus
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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From the influential craftsmen of the high renaissance to the Dutch masters, and from the rococo and neoclassical movements of the 18th century to romanticism, modernism and contemporary art, the lives of the great artists are as varied and multifaceted as the works of creative genius they... |
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A View from A Broad
Bette Midler · Simon & Schuster; Updated edition
Format: Hardcover
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With her brassy voice and bold performances making the world finally pay attention, she needs no introduction. Grammy award–winning singer, Academy Award–nominee, Broadway star of her critically acclaimed one-woman show and beloved actress in The Rose, Beaches and Down and Out in Beverly... |
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The South in Color: A Visual Journal
William R Ferris · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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Since the moment William Ferris's parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world. He has never stopped. The sixties and seventies were a particularly significant period for Ferris as he became... |
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The World Atlas of Tattoo
Anna Felicity Friedman · Yale University Press ; London
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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Tattoo art and practice has seen radical changes in the 21st century, as its popularity has exploded. An expanding number of tattoo artists have been mining the past for lost traditions and innovating with new technology. An enormous diversity of styles, genres, and techniques has emerged,... |
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Fingerpicking Popular Hits Gtr Tab Bk
Various · Hal Leonard Corporation
Format: Musical score
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(Guitar Solo) . Melody and harmony are combined into superb solo fingerpicking arrangements in this collection of 14 hot pop hits. The songs are presented in standard notation and tab and are carefully written for intermediate-level guitarists. Includes: All of Me * Brave * Happy * Ho Hey * I Will... |
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Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
Mark Harris · Penguin Press
Pages: 511
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's most legendary directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed forever by itIn Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris turned the story of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967 into a landmark... |
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History of Dance 2nd Edition With Web Resource
Gayle Kassing · Human Kinetics
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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History of Dance, Second Edition, offers readers a panoramic view of dance from prehistory to the present. The text covers the dance forms, designs, artists, costumes, performing spaces, and accompaniments throughout the centuries and around the globe. Its investigative approach engages... |
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The 21st-Century Art Book
The Editors of Phaidon Press · Phaidon Press
Format: Hardcover
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The 21sthyphenCentury Art Book is an AhyphentohyphenZ guide of contemporary artists featuring established arthyphenworld figures Maurizio Cattelan, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall alongside rising stars of the next generations. Global in scope, the book features work from 50 countries across... |
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1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love
Harvey Kubernik · Sterling
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the "Summer of Love" and the revolutionary music of 1967. During late spring 1967, tens of thousands of young people began streaming into San Francisco, kicking off a counterculture revolution and cultural explosion that was the Summer of Love.... |
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Taverns of the American Revolution
Adrian Covert · Insight Editions
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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Taverns of the American Revolution constructs a new narrative on the role of the tavern in the American Revolution through vignettes about a selection of the era's surviving public houses. By combining beautiful design, reproduced artwork, and original photography with sharply written... |
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Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes
Thomas Allan Peattie · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 220
Format: Print book
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The relationship between Gustav Mahler's career as conductor and his symphonic writing has remained largely unexplored territory with respect to his provocative re-invention of the Austro-German symphony at the turn of the twentieth century. This study offers a new account of these... |
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