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Love in the Elephant Tent: How Running Away with the Circus Brought Me Home
Kathleen Cremonesi · ECW Press
Format: Hardcover
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If you live life without a net, what happens when you fall?Kathleen Cremonesi knew early on she wanted to be different. Determined to avoid following in her mother's footsteps to an ill-fated marriage, Kathleen left Oregon in her early 20s to travel across Europe. On a whim, this former... |
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The Four Continents: Kent Monkman
Kent Monkman · Black Dog Publishing
Pages: 71
Format: Paperback
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Bringing together the large-scale works that comprise Kent Monkman's suite of paintings entitled The Four Continents, a reworking of Tiepolo's Apollo and the Four Continents, this book explores the creation of these contemporary studies that address the original Eurocentric fantasies... |
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Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape
John R Stilgoe · University of Virginia Press
Pages: 517
Format: Print book
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Glamour subverts convention. Models, images, and even landscapes can skew ordinary ways of seeing when viewed through the lens of photography, suggesting new worlds imbued with fantasy, mystery, sexuality, and tension.In Old Fields, John Stilgoe -- one of the most original observers of his time... |
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Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past
Zoe? Lescaze · TASCHEN
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover
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Dinosaurs Are Forever A pictorial history of paleoart It was 1830 when an English scientist named Henry De la Beche painted the first piece of paleoart, a dazzling, deliciously macabre vision of prehistoric reptiles battling underwater. Since then, artists the world over have conjured up visions... |
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Mysteries of the Ear
Nadia Volf · Assouline
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Since ancient times, the human outer ear, or auricle, has been considered a tool for healing. Various points on the auricle serve a double function, providing information on the condition of the internal organs and other parts of the body, while at the same time serving as a control panel... |
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Haunted Pittsburgh
Tim Murray · History Press
Pages: 128
Format: Print book
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Founded amidst the bloodshed of the French and Indian War, Pittsburgh is haunted by the ghosts of its gritty and sometimes violent past. Many believe American industrialist Henry Clay Frick still inhabits Clayton, one of the last surviving homes on Millionaires' Row. The spirit of Kate... |
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The Crabb Family Collection
Gerald Crabb · Hal Leonard
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook) . A dozen southern gospel hits from the Crabb Family, including: The Cross * Don't You Wanna Go * Good Day * He Came Looking for Me * He'll Make a Way * Please Come down to Me * Please Forgive Me * The Reason That I'm Standing * The Shepherd's... |
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Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists: Creating music with ChucK
Ajay Kapur · Manning Publications; 1 edition
Format: Book
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SummaryProgramming for Musicians and Digital Artists: Creating Music with ChucK offers a complete introduction to programming in the open source music language ChucK. In it, you'll learn the basics of digital sound creation and manipulation while you discover the ChucK language. As you move... |
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Urban Projects
American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers. · DruckVerlag Kettler
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time a comprehensive account of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's urban projects is provided in this book. It presents preparatory drawings, collages and models for many little-known works from the artists' early career, some of which were never carried out, such as the planned... |
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Bicycle Design: An Illustrated History
Hans-Erhard Lessing · The MIT Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in the world, with more than a billion produced during almost two hundred years of cycling history. This book offers an authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's technical and historical evolution,... |
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The iPhone Photographer: How to Take Professional Photographs with Your iPhone
Michael Fagans · Amherst Media
Format: Print book
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The iPhone camera is a sophisticated device. It has compelled millions of people worldwide to take a new or renewed interest in photography. Let's face it: most of us now have a tiny yet highly competent camera in a pocket or purse at all times these days, and we use it to grab shots... |
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Reel Music: Exploring 100 Years of Film Music
Roger Hickman · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback
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The #1 film music text, now with more attention to international films.Reel Music, revised for a new generation of movie lovers, tells the story of film music through iconic scenes. The Second Edition features more in-depth exploration of international films -- from classics like Seven... |
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