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African Art in the Barnes Foundation: The Triumph of L'Art Negre and the Harlem Renaissance

Christa Clarke · Skira Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

The first publication of the Barnes Foundations important and extensive African art collection The Barnes Foundation is renowned for its astonishing collection of Postimpressionist and early Modern art assembled by Albert C Barnes a Philadelphia pharmaceutical entrepreneur Less known is the pioneering...
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1000 Tattoos

Burkhard Riemschneider · TASCHEN
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

Wearable art: An exploration of tattoos past and present Whether you're thinking of getting a tattoo or just want to see to what lengths others have gone in decorating their bodies, this is the book to check out. This edition of 1000 Tattoos explores the history of the art worldwide...
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Gospel Treasures

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Format: Musical score

(Organ). 35 gospel favorites for organ: Amazing Grace * Blessed Assurance * Higher Ground * I Love to Tell the Story * In the Garden * Just a Closer Walk with Thee * Nearer, My God, to Thee * The Old Rugged Cross * Precious Memories * Rock of Ages * Shall We Gather at the River? * Sweet...
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Make Your Mark: The New Urban Artists

Tristan Manco · Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Legendary talent-finder Tristan Manco uncovers the next generation of urban creators In an age when Banksy's installations are protected by Plexiglas and graffiti artists exhibit in galleries as well as on the street, Make Your Mark explores the work of thirty-five urban artists who use mark-making...
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Broadway Rhythm: Imaging the City in Song

Dominic Symonds · University of Michigan Press
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

Broadway Rhythm is a guide to Manhattan like nothing you've ever read. Author Dominic Symonds calls it a performance cartography, and argues that the city of New York maps its iconicity in the music of the Broadway songbook. A series of walking tours takes the reader through the landscape...
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Prohibition Pittsburgh

Richard Gazarik · The History Press
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Pittsburgh is a hardworking city. And hard workers sometimes enjoy the occasional spirit. So, when Prohibition hit the Steel City, it created a level of violence and corruption residents had never witnessed. Illegal producers ran stills in kitchens, basements, bathroom tubs, warehouses...
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Cello, Bow and You: Putting it All Together

Evangeline Benedetti · Oxford University Press
Pages: 234
Format: Print book

Written for the cellist looking for an approach that demystifies cello playing, Cello, Bow and You is an innovative text in the field of string pedagogy written by a 40 year veteran of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. Author Evangeline...
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Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World

Elliott Erwitt · Aperture ;
Pages: 311
Format: Print book

Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World offers a timely and critical reconsideration of Erwitt's unparalleled life as a photographer. Produced alongside a major retrospective exhibition, the book features examples of Erwitt's early experiments in California, his intimate family portraits...
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Figure Drawing Studio: Drawing and Painting the Nude Figure from Pose Photos

Butch Krieger · Sterling; Pap/Cdr edition
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to your very own Figure Drawing Studio, where artist Butch Krieger guides you through the fundamentals of learning to draw and paint the human form using photographs taken of live art models posing as they would for an art class. Innovative step-by-step exercises based on these...
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Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

Justin McGuirk · Verso
Format: Hardcover

What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?  In RADICAL CITIES, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from...
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Layout for Graphic Designers: An Introduction

Gavin Ambrose · Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Layout for graphic design concerns the arrangement of text and images on a page. How these elements are positioned, both in relation to one another, and within the overall design scheme, will affect how content is viewed and received. Whether in print or online, it is key to powerful visual...
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Character Songs from Musical Theatre - Women's Edition: 31 Songs from Featured Character Roles

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Pages: 214
Format: Paperback

(Vocal Collection) . Character roles are a staple of theatre, film, television, and musical theatre. Rather than romantic leads, they are featured comic roles, villains, or off-beat secondary parts. These are their songs from stage and screen musicals. THE ADDAMS FAMILY: Waiting * ANNIE:...
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No Half Steppin': An Oral and Pictorial History of New York City Club the Latin Quarter and the Birth of Hip-Hop's Golden Era

Claude "Paradise " Gray · Wax Poetics Books
Pages: 210
Format: Print book

Author Claude "Paradise" Gray was raised in the South Bronx. He was cofounder of the X Clan, whose 1990 album To the East, Blackwards is an Afrocentric and socio-politically conscious Golden Era hip-hop classic. Prior to that, he was host and entertainment manager for the Manhattan...
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Beaches

Gray Malin
Format: Print book

Gray Malin is the artist of the moment for the Hollywood and fashion elite. His awe-inspiring aerial photographs of beaches around the world are shot from doorless helicopters, creating playful and stunning celebrations of light, shape, and perspective, as well as summer bliss. Combining...
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Van Gogh: A Power Seething

Julian Bell · New Harvest
Format: Hardcover

"I believe in the absolute necessity of a new art of colour, of drawing and - of the artistic life," Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in 1888. "And if we work in that faith, it seems to me that there's a chance that our hopes won't be in vain." His prediction...
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