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The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing

Adam Moss · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From former editor of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations examining the very personal, rigorous, complex, and elusive work of making art. What is the work of art? In this guided tour inside the artist's head, Adam Mosstraces the evolution of transcendent...
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Made In Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Go's

Gina Schock · Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover

The Go-Go's debut album, Beauty and the Beat, rose to the top of the charts in 1981 and their hit songs "We Got the Beat", "Our Lips Are Sealed", "Vacation", and "Head Over Heels" (to name a few) served as a soundtrack to our lives in the '80s.Now,...
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Cocaine and Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette

Tyler Mahan Coe · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music's legendary royal couple - George Jones and Tammy Wynette.. By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones...
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Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell

Ann Powers · Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. ."What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell. Instead, it's a tale...
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Adventures of a Theme Park Designer: My Personal Story of Creating Memorable Theme Park Rides and Attractions

RIck Bastrup · Rivershore Creative
Format: Paperback

This is the story of discovery and adventure about two guys who wanted to design theme parks, but didn't work at any of the major design companies. So, they just went ahead and did it, teaching themselves from the ground up!. Rick Bastrup and Richard Ferrin - R&R Creative Amusement...
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A Sense of Shifting: Queer Artists Reshaping Dance

Coco Romack · Chronicle Books LLC
Format: Hardcover

Enter the groundbreaking world of queer dance in this gorgeous collection of stories and photographs.. Two women hold each other tight as they dance the two-step. A fierce-eyed man in a long red dress performs flamenco. A dancer improvises in a blooming garden, blending diverse influences...
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ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History

Jennifer Dasal · Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you also know that Monet and his cohort were trailblazing rebels whose works were originally...
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The Americans

Robert Frank · Steidl
Format: Hardcover

First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians...
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From Fauvism to Surrealism

Helene Leroy · La Fábrica
Format: Hardcover

A primer on four key movements from the heyday of modernismThis volume gathers a wide selection of masterpieces from Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism and the School of Paris. Fauvism followed in the footsteps of Impressionism and Pointillism, blurring forms in bright colors, and its representatives...
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Lynd Ward: Gods' Man, Madman's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage

Lynd Ward · Library of America
Format: Hardcover

In this, the first of two volumes collecting all his woodcut novels, The Library of America brings together Lynd Ward’s earliest books, published when the artist was still in his twenties. Gods’ Man (1929), the audaciously ambitious work that made Ward’s...
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