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Stoned Beyond Belief
Action Bronson · Abrams Image
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Rapper, chef, and television star Action Bronson is a marijuana superhero, both its champion and devoted consumer, and Stoned Beyond Belief is the ultimate love letter to the world's most magical plant: weed. This is an exploration of every corner of the pot galaxy, from highly scientific... |
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Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now
Fiona Rogers · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 223
Format: Hardcover
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A survey of the greatest female photographers working today, created as a platform to showcase important work that might otherwise be marginalized in the still male-dominated photography communityThere are many outstanding female photographers working today, yet the photographic industry... |
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Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now
ASMA NAEEM · Princeton University Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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The first book highlighting the historical roots and contemporary implications of the silhouette as an American art formBefore the advent of photography in 1839, Americans were consumed by the fashion for silhouette portraits. Economical in every sense, the small, stark profiles cost far less... |
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Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery
Robin Wallace · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an act of superhuman heroism. But the truth... |
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A Mouth Is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance
Natalie Hopkinson · The New Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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As people consider how to respond to a resurgence of racist, xenophobic populism, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled tells an extraordinary story of the ways art brings hope in perilous times. Weaving disparate topics from sugar and British colonialism to attacks on free speech and Facebook activism... |
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Ungrateful Mammals
Dave Eggers · Abrams
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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Eggers is one of the most notable writers of his generation, recognized for such bestsellÂing and critically acclaimed books as A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Circle. Before he embarked on his writing career, Eggers was classically trained as a draftsman... |
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66 on 66: A Photographer's Journey
Terrence Moore · Schaffner Press, Inc.
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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As the highway that opened up the West to millions of travelers since its construction in the 1930s, Rte. 66 is an iconic road that has been celebrated in story, song, films, and more. Justly known as "The Mother Road," this highway became the vital path for travelers, tourists,... |
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Flowers for Lisa: A Delirium of Photographic Invention
Abelardo Morell · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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Best known for his surreal camera obscura pictures and luminous black-and-white photographs of books, photographer Abelardo Morell now turns his transformative lens to one of the most common of artistic subjects, the flower. The concept for Flowers for Lisa emerged when Morell gave his wife,... |
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The New Standards: 64 Popular Modern Songs
Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . 64 pop hits which have become modern-day standards are included in this collection for piano, voice and guitar. Includes: Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) * Don't Stop Believin' (Journey) * Dream On (Aerosmith) * Every Breath You Take (The... |
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Duane Michals: Portraits
Duane Michals · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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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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Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance
WENDY LESSER · Yale University Press
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and inspired biography celebrating the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage director Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company.... |
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Nightingales in Berlin: Searching for the Perfect Sound
David Rothenberg · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions, - from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art.
But have you ever listened closely to a nightingale's... |
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Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
Veronica Chambers · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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From the editor of the bestselling anthology The Meaning of Michelle, a celebration of one of the greatest stars of our time
The Ultimate Beyonce Collectible Beyoncé. Her name conjures more than music, it has come to be synonymous with beauty, glamour, power,... |
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Bystander: A History of Street Photography
COLIN WESTERBECK · Laurence King
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In this book, the authors explore and discuss the development of one of the most interesting and dynamic of photographic genres. Hailed as a landmark work when it was first published in 1994, Bystander is widely regarded by street photographers as the "bible" of street photography.... |
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