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The Hunchback of Notre Dame: The Stage Musical: Vocal Selections

Alan Menken · Hal Leonard
Pages: 103
Format: Paperback

(Vocal Selections) . 17 songs from the stage musical adapted from Victor Hugo's 1831 novel of the same name and the music from the 1996 Disney animated feature film. This collection includes vocal line arrangements with piano accompaniment for the songs: The Bells of Notre Dame * Esmeralda...
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Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring

Annegret Fauser · Oxford University Press
Pages: 134
Format: Paperback

Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland and choreography by Martha Graham, counts among the best known American contributions to the global concert hall and stage. In the years since its premiere-as a dance work at the Library of Congress in 1944-it has become one of Copland's...
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Brand by Hand: Blisters, Calluses, and Clients: A Life in Design

Jon Contino · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Brand by Hand documents the work, career, and artistic inspiration of graphic designer extraordinaire Jon Contino.

Jon is a born-and-bred New Yorker. He talks like one, he acts like one, and most importantly, he designs like one. He is the founder and creative director of Jon Contino...
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Guide

Christina Nielsen · Yale University Press
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and its magnificent collection are enlivened through fresh insights and new photography in this updated guide This updated guide to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum charts new pathways through the beloved institution's superb collection. Gardner,...
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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 Nordic Home

John Arne Bjerknes · Images Publishing Group
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Explores the unique features of Scandinavian design by examining some award-winning Nordic houses and their interiorsGiven its unique focus on organically integrating people with nature using sustainable techniques, Scandinavian design currently occupies an important position in the architectural...
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Ringgold: Die

Anne Monahan · The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pages: 48
Format: Paperback

Ten adults -- men and women, black and white -- fight, flee or die over the twelve-foot span of American People Series #20: Die, as an interracial pair of children cowers unnoticed in their midst. While Faith Ringgold (born 1930) was devising this bloody spectacle in a Manhattan studio...
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Beginning Pastel: Tips & techniques for learning to draw & paint in pastel

PAUL PIGRAM · WALTER FOSTER PUB
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Beginning Pastel is the perfect resource for artists just getting started in this colorful medium.Beginning Pastel guides beginning artists through an exploration of pastel techniques and step-by-step projects for a comprehensive and approachable overview of this colorful medium. From choosing...
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Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick's "Nightmare Comedy"

Mick Broderick · Wallflower Press
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

During his career Stanley Kubrick became renowned for undertaking lengthy and exhaustive research prior to the production of all his films. In the lead-up to what would eventually become Dr. Strangelove (1964) , Kubrick read voraciously and amassed a substantial library of works on the nuclear...
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Women Walking: Freedom, Adventure, Independence

Thomas Bleitner · Abbeville Press
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover


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Acrylics: Techniques and Tutorials for the Complete Beginner

Adrian Burrows · GMC Publications
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Painting is one of the most rewarding ways of expressing yourself. It sparks creativity, engages the imagination and relaxes you, reducing stress levels and leaving you feeling mentally clear and calm. Most people assume that the ability to paint is a skill you either have or you don't,...
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Typography

Gavin Ambrose · Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

Typography is the most effective tool that graphic designers use to express ideas and convey a message. The ability to choose the right typeface for the right job, to design readable and legible pages, and to marry type and image to create visually compelling results are skills that every...
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Tree Houses: Fairy Tale Castles in the Air

TASCHEN GmbH · TASCHEN
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Out on a Limb
The sky's the limit with 50 ingenious tree houses around the world

The idea of climbing a tree for shelter, or just to see the earth from another perspective, is as old as humanity. In this neat TASCHEN edition, take a tour of some of our finest arboreal adventures...
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: The Search for the Lost Disney Cartoons

DAVID A BOSSERT · Disney Editions
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was created in 1927 by Walt Disney and his team through twenty-six cartoon shorts. Not without fits and starts, the series and its impish title character were an instant hit with audiences. At the end of that initial run, Walt lost the contract to Oswald, which prompted...
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Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone – 125 Years of Pop Music

Peter Doggett · Random House UK
Pages: 736
Format: Paperback

Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital age, from the first pop superstars of the twentieth century to the omnipresence of music in our lives, in hit singles, ringtones and on Spotify. Over that...
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