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Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade
Rachel Cohen - Yale University Press; 1ST edition
Format: Book
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When Gilded Age millionaires wanted to buy Italian Renaissance paintings, the expert whose opinion they sought was Bernard Berenson, with his vast erudition, incredible eye, and uncanny skill at attributing paintings. They visited Berenson at his beautiful Villa I Tatti, in the hills outside... |
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Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
Gavin Edwards - It Books; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of acclaimed actor River Phoenix—a teen idol on the fast track to Hollywood royalty who died of a drug overdose in front of West Hollywood’s storied club,... |
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Idiot's Guides: Playing Guitar
David Hodge - ALPHA; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Learning to play the guitar has never been easier! Idiots Guides Playing Guitar begins with an introduction to different types of guitars and their parts, followed by helpful information on how to choose a guitar. Youll learn how to tune the guitar supplemented with online audio, how to correctly... |
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I See a City: Todd Webb's New York
Todd Webb - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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An evocative portrait of New York City in the 1940s and 1950s by master documentary photographer Todd WebbI See a City: Todd Webb's New York focuses on the work of photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons... |
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Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles, 1940-1954
Virgil Thomson - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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Revisit the Golden Age of classical music in America through the witty and adventurous reviews of our greatest critic-composer: For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished... |
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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and Finalist for the National Book Award. The definitive biography of Americas greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker.John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams... |
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Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues
James Fearnley - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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The Pogues injected the fury of punk into Irish folk music and gave the world the troubled, iconic, darkly romantic songwriter Shane MacGowan. Here Comes Everybody is a memoir written by founding member and accordion player James Fearnley, drawn from his personal experiences and the series... |
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The Big Book of Less: Finding Joy in Living Lighter
Irene Smit - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrate the joys of living with less. Less stuff. Less stress. Less overthinking. Less judgment. Less excess. Combining the hands-on activity and beautiful production value that made A Book That Takes Its Time a bestseller, with 204,000 copies in print, The Big Book of Less... |
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