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Disney/Pixar's Coco: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Kristen Anderson-lopez · Hal Leonard
Pages: 40
Format: Paperback

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . Here are 7 songs from the 2017 3D animated film from Disney/Pixar following the story of a boy named Miguel relating to a 100 year old mystery, including the signature song "Remember Me" by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez; original songs...
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The Atlas of Beauty: Women of the World in 500 Portraits

MIHAELA NOROC · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Based on the author's online photography project, this stunning collection features portraits of 500 women from more than 50 countries, accompanied by revelatory captions that capture their personal stories. Since 2013 photographer Mihaela Noroc has traveled the world with her backpack...
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Delacroix

Sébastien Allard · Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive monograph on the preeminent French Romantic artist whose work changed the course of European painting Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) created extraordinary paintings that were known for their dynamic color, brushwork, and movement as well as their original subject matter....
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The Enterprising Musician's Guide to Performer Contracts

David R Williams · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 177
Format: Hardcover

The Enterprising Musician's Guide to Performer Contracts is an empowering resource that provides detailed, plain-language explanations of the clauses commonly found in legal agreements such as engagement (gig) contracts, artist-management contracts, and producer agreements. Musicians...
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The Essentials of Theater: A Guide to Acting, Stagecraft, Technical Theater, and More

Lisa Mulcahy · Allworth Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

An Introduction to the World of Theater A friendly and practical guide to the stage, The Essentials of Theater will prepare actors and crew for their next show. Perfect for college students in theater programs, as well as community theater troupes, this book covers all the bases -- from...
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Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique: A Practitioner's Guide

Sinéad Rushe · Methuen Drama
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback

Intended for actors, directors, teachers and researchers, this book offers an exceptionally clear and thorough introduction to the renowned acting technique developed by Michael Chekhov. Sinéad Rushe's book provides a complete overview of the whole method, and includes illuminating...
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Don't Sleep: The Urgent Messages of Oliver Munday

OLIVER MUNDAY · Rizzoli
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Whip-smart, and with a ripped-from-the-headlines attitude, this book is a call to arms, demonstrating the unique ability of graphic design to speak truth to power. Part personal history, part design philosophy, and part advocacy, this volume showcases the arresting work of Oliver...
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The New York Times Explorer: Cities & Towns

Barbara Ireland · TASCHEN
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover

Urban AdventuresJourneys of discovery into the heart of the city Whether you choose an itinerary-free ramble through Lisbon's cobblestoned streets or an eye-opening bike tour of Tokyo's diverse neighborhoods, pack your bags and share in the discoveries of The New York Times Explorer:...
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War beyond Words: Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present

J M Winter · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover

What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are not fixed; they change over time, and Jay Winter's panoramic history of war and memory offers an unprecedented study of transformations...
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Maria Lassnig: The Future Is Invented with Fragments from the Past

Hans Ulrich Obrist · Walther König, Köln
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback

This book documents the last exhibition project that Austrian painter Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) was able to plan personally with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.It gathers around 50 works -- paintings and works on paper, especially watercolors -- that deploy motifs from Greek mythology,...
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Brush Pen Illustration: More Than 200 Ideas for Drawing with Brush Pens

Sho Ito · Quarry Books
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback

Curious about the world of brush pens but aren't sure where to start? Brush Pen Illustration?? shows how to draw pretty much anything in 2 - 4 steps. Brush pens have taken the illustrating world by storm! This unique medium comes in hundreds of colors and produces a beautiful, soft,...
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Duane Michals: Portraits

Duane Michals · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling collection of Duane Michals' portrait photography, featuring never-before-published images of some of the greatest actors, musicians, artists, and writers of the past fifty yearsDuane Michals: Portraits presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of more than a half-century...
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Pioneers of the Blues Revival

Steve Cushing · University of Illinois Press
Pages: 447
Format: Paperback

This item is Non-Returnable.
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Bears Ears: Views from a Sacred Land

STEPHEN E STROM · George F. Thompson Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

On December 28, 2016, President Barack Obama acted to protect nearly 1.4 million acres in southeastern Utah as the Bears Ears National Monument. The monument preserves a landscape of unsurpassed beauty, filled with more than 100,000 Native American archaeological sites, some dating back...
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Perspective Drawing: Easy and clear drawing guide

Marco T. Brand · CreateSpace Publishing
Pages: 172
Format: Paperback

FREE BOOK Buy this book and get BOOK for FREE Have you ever been looking around and saw a setting that you absolutely wanted to be able to draw? Maybe it was just the layout of your own living room, or beautiful architecture you happen across while out in the world. Either way, this...
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