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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel
Annie Cohen-Solal - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American... |
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Film Noir
Paul Duncan - TASCHEN
Format: Hardcover
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Into the Night All you need to know about Film Noir Whether it's Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to Film Noir. From private eyes and perfect crimes to corrupt cops and doomed affairs,... |
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One-Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway
Philip Ashforth Coppola - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover
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For decades, Philip Ashforth Coppola has meticulously documented the New York City subway in a series of extraordinary drawings, detailing the terracotta mosaics, faience, and tile patterns that millions of riders pass by every day. Coppola's drawings are what Hyperallergic calls "the... |
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ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present
Robert Atkins - Abbeville Press; Third Edition edition
Format: Book
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The leading lexicon of contemporary art returns in an expanded, full-color third edition.An indispensable guide for art-world neophytes and seasoned professionals alike, the best-selling ArtSpeak returns in a revised and expanded third edition, illustrated in full color. Nearly 150 alphabetical... |
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Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime
STANLEY PLUMLY - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping look at the lives and work of two important English Romantic painters, from a Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author.Renowned poet Stanley Plumly, who has been praised for his "obsessive, intricate, intimate and brilliant" (Washington Post) nonfiction, explores... |
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One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
Alan Paul - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Best seller!One Way Out is the powerful biography of The Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band's participation and filled with original, never-before-published interviews as well as personal letters and correspondence. This is the most in-depth... |
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Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life
Graham Nash - Crown Archetype; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From Graham Nashmdashthe legendary musician and founding member of the iconic bands Crosby Stills amp Nash and The Holliesmdashcomes a candid and riveting autobiography that belongs on the reading list of every classic rock fanGraham Nashs songs defined a generation and helped shape the history... |
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Obama: An Intimate Portrait
Pete Souza - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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This is the definitive visual biography of Barack Obama's historic presidency, captured in unprecedented detail by his White House photographer--and presented in an oversize, 12"x10" exquisitely produced format, and featuring a foreword from the President himself. |
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The Belly Art Project: Moms Supporting Moms
Sara Blakely - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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The Belly Art Project is a celebration of one of humanity's greatest gifts: motherhood! Created by Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx and the Sara Blakely Foundation, this beautiful, happy book features photographs of over 100 women who came together and used unlikely canvases - their... |
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Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars
Neil Young - Blue Rider Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Neil Young's first memoir, Waging Heavy Peace, was an international bestseller and critical sensation. The Wall Street Journal wrote that it was "terrific: modest, honest, funny and frequently moving," while The New York Times found it "as charismatically off the wall... |
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Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land
Sandy Tolan - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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It is an unlikely story. Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a child from a Palestinian refugee camp, confronts an occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then, through his charisma and persistence, inspires scores of others to work... |
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Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How "The Graduate" Became the Touchstone of a Generation
Beverly Gray - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" When The Graduate premiered in December 1967, its filmmakers had only modest expectations attached to what seemed to be a small, sexy, art house comedy adapted from an obscure first novel by an eccentric twenty-four-year-old.... |
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Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) : A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
JEFF TWEEDY - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The singer, guitarist, and songwriter, best known for this work with Wilco, opens up about his past, his songs, the music, and the people that have inspired him.Few bands have inspired as much devotion as the Chicago rock band Wilco, and it's thanks, in large part, to the band's singer,... |
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Mom in the Movies: The Iconic Screen Mothers You Love
Turner Classic Movies Inc. - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Turner Classic Movies and film historian Richard Corliss present Mom in the Movies: The Iconic Screen Mothers You Love (and a Few You Love to Hate) , the definitive, fully illustrated book that shares the many ways Hollywood has celebrated, vilified and otherwise memorialized dear old Mom.With... |
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Bryan Hitch's Ultimate Comics Studio
Bryan Hitch - IMPACT
Format: Paperback
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Bryan Hitch has illustrated some of the most famous characters and worlds in the comic industry, including The Avengers, Fantastic Four, The Ultimates and Captain America.Discover the drawing stages he follows to create his iconic comic art, from roughing out through to finished pencils,... |
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The Parthenon Enigma
Joan Breton Connelly - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West's ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model... |
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Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer
Matthew Gavin Frank - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A Shelf Awareness Best Book of Memory mythology and obsession collide in this strikingly original and enigmatic account of the first man to photograph a giant squid Moses Harvey was the eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist who first photographed the near-mythic giant... |
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The World Beneath: The Life and Times of Unknown Sea Creatures and Coral Reefs
Richard Smith - Apollo Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Meet the sea's most fascinating creatures - see the lives and curiosities of charmers and tricksters - many newly identified and some on the verge of extinction. From one of the world's premier marine biologists, an award-winning underwater photographer, and a leading expert on seahorses,... |
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Grandpa and the Library: How Charles White Learned to Paint
C. Ian White - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Format: Hardcover
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Every day, young Charles White's mother takes him the Chicago Public Library, where the librarians look after him until she picks him up again after work, at six o'clock. At the library Charles looks carefully at the picture books the librarians give him and also at the people around... |
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Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel
Sherill Tippins - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The next best thing to having a room key to the Chelsea Hotel during each of its famousand infamousdecades The Chelsea Hotel, since its founding by a visionary French architect in 1884, has been an icon of American invention a cultural dynamo and haven for the counterculture, all in one astonishing... |
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Desiree Van Hoek - Skid Row
Désirée van Hoek - Desiree van Hoek
Format: Print book
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Skid Row Los Angeles is home to some 15,000 (former) homeless people. Dutch photographer Dsire vanHoek documented the neighbourhood between 2007 and 2015. Being a former fashion photographer, her focus is on peoples dwellings, possessions, and clothes. The result is a unique portrait of a neighbourhood... |
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Starting Your Career as a Musician
Neil Tortorella - Allworth Press
Format: Paperback
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Whether you dream about becoming a rock star or a sought-after talent playing local gigs, Starting Your Career as a Musician will guide you along the path to success. Author Neil Tortorella explores the myriad opportunities in music today and details proven strategies for seeking them out.... |
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The First Signs: My Quest to Unlock the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
Genevieve Von Petzinger - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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"One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey's paradigm-shattering Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world-- the first indications of symbolic meaning,... |
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Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace
Nikil Saval - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the worlds workour workgets done. From Bartleby the Scrivener to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating,... |
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Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
Austin Kleon - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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The world is crazy. Creative work is hard. And nothing is getting any easier! In his previous books - Steal Like an Artistand Show Your Work!, New York Times bestsellers with over a million copies in print combined - Austin Kleon gave readers the key to unlock... |
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Last Chain On Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top
Carol Bradley - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Against the backdrop of a glittering but brutal circus world, Carol Bradleys Last Chain on Billie charts the history of elephants in America, the inspiring story of the Elephant Sanctuary and the spellbinding tale of a resilient elephant who defied the system even as she struggled to conquer... |
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Black Broadway: African Americans on the Great White Way
Stewart F Lane - Square One Publishers
Format: Print book
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The African-American actors and actresses whose names have shone brightly on Broadway marquees earned their place in history not only through hard work, perseverance, and talent, but also because of the legacy left by those who came before them. Like the doors of many professions, those... |
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Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
Stanley Crouch - Harper; F First Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.Throughout... |
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
William J. Mann - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerEdgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern... |
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Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada
Yael Lipschutz - Prestel
Format: Hardcover
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The wide-ranging and socially conscious works of renowned California artist Noah Purifoy are explored in this illustrated monograph. Noah Purifoy made art in order to enact social change. Created mostly from found objects, his neo-Dadaist sculpture both embodies and reflects the environment... |
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Tintin: The Art of Hergé
Michel Daubert - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Book
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Since 1929, Tintin has captivated generations of children and adults alike with his thrilling adventures, published in 24 bestselling books. Millions followed Tintin from the wilds of the Congo to the streets of Prague, Moscow, New York, and more. Lavishly illustrated with photographs,... |
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Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation
Robert Wilson - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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In the s and s Brady of Broadway was one of the most successful and acclaimed Manhattan portrait galleries Henry Clay Daniel Webster Dolley Madison Henry James as a boy with his father Horace Greeley Edgar Allan Poe the Prince of Wales and Jenny Lind were among the dignitaries photographed... |
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Dark City: The Real Los Angeles Noir
Jim Heimann - Taschen America
Format: Hardcover
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What s Wrong in Tinseltown The dark side of Los Angeles, 1920 1960 In the years following World War I, Los Angeles was a city awakening to its darker side, transforming itself from a backwater town to a gleaming metropolis and city of the future. But along the way a tarnished patina began... |
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Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years
Mark Lewisohn - Crown Archetype; First U. S. Edition First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Tune In is the first volume of All These Years—a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn uses his unprecedented archival access and hundreds of new interviews to construct the full story of the lives and work... |
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Witness
Katy Perry - Capitol
Format: Audio CD
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Katy Perry achieved maturation with Prism, the 2013 album anchored on the self-empowerment anthem "Roar" and the club smash "Dark Horse. " Considering how "Roar" scored the closing stages of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, it would've seemed like a logical... |
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Painting with Bob Ross: Learn to paint in oil step by step!
WALTER FOSTER CREATIVE TEAM. - Walter Foster Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Painting with Bob Ross - with artwork created by Bob Ross himself - introduces artists and Bob Ross fans to the basics of painting landscapes with his specially formulated oil paints, brushes, basecoats, and other tools. Everyone will enjoy Painting with Bob Ross, as his "happy accidents"... |
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Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood
Grayson Perry - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Grayson Perry's book will overturn everything you thought you knew about "art"Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called this book Playing to the Gallery... |
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Hitmaker: The Man and His Music
Tommy Mottola - Grand Central Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Much has been written about Tommy Mottola, one of the most powerful, visionary, and successful executives in the history of the music industry. He discovered, developed and launched the careers of many superstars, including Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez and Gloria Estefan,... |
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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
Mary Gabriel - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The rich, revealing, and thrilling story of five women whose lives and painting propelled a revolution in modern artSet amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle... |
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Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
Mark Harris - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's most legendary directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed forever by itIn Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris turned the story of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967 into a landmark... |
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Scenarios II: Signs of Life; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Fata Morgana; Heart of Glass
Werner Herzog - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Paperback
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The second in a series: the master filmmaker's prose scenarios for four of his notable filmsOn the first day of editing Fata Morgana, Werner Herzog recalls, his editor said: "With this kind of material we have to pretend to invent cinema." And this, Herzog says, is what he tries... |
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Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future
Tracey Bashkoff - Guggenheim Museum Publications
Format: Hardcover
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Hilma af Klint's daring abstractions exert a mystical magnetismWhen Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died in 1944 at the age of 81, she left behind more than 1,000 paintings and works on paper that she had kept largely private during her lifetime. Believing the world was not yet ready... |
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The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music
Tom Piazza - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A Best Photo Book of 2012 by American Photo. A new look at the legendary folklorist and his work. More than fifty years ago, on a trip dubbed “the Southern Journey,” Alan Lomax visited Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee, uncovering the little-known... |
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10 Buildings That Changed America
Dan Protess - Agate Midway
Format: Print book
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10 Buildings That Changed America tells the stories of ten influential works of architecture, the people who imagined them, and the way these landmarks ushered in innovative cultural shifts throughout our society.From American architectural stalwarts like Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd... |
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The Grammar Of Rock: Art and Artlessness in 20th Century Pop Lyrics
Alexander Theroux - Fantagraphics; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Novelist and critic Alexander Theroux analyzes the pop song. National Book Award nominee, critic and one of America’s least compromising satirists, Alexander Theroux takes a comprehensive look at the colorful language of pop lyrics and the realm of rock music in general in The Grammar... |
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Tape It & Make More: 101 More Duct Tape Activities
Richela Fabian Morgan - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Book
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In 2012, Barron's #1 best-selling Tape it & Make It took the crafting world by storm, turning the humble roll of duct tape into the trendiest craft item since glitter glue. Everyone from creative school kids to famous fashionistas began exploring the infinite uses for the toolbox staple,... |
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Keeping Time: The Photographs of Don Hunstein
Jon Pareles - Insight Editions
Format: Book
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Don Hunstein’s images of music’s most influential artists are unforgettable. As Columbia Records’ staff photographer for more than four decades, Hunstein earned the trust and confidence of the most celebrated singers, songwriters, composers, and musicians of our time,... |
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ReSignifications: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings
Awam Amkpa - Postcart
Format: Print book
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ReSignifications interprets the "Blackamoor" trope in Western culture. This tradition of decorative art emerged at the intersection of cross-cultural encounters shaped by centuries of migration, exchange, conquest, servitude, and exile. ReSignifications links classical and popular... |
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
Bob Stanley - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An addictively readable, encyclopedic history of pop music in chapters as short and adrenaline-fueled as the best pop songs themselves. As much fun to argue with as to quote, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! is a monumental work of musical history, tracing the story of pop music through individual songs,... |
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I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100
Wil Haygood - Rizzoli Electa
Format: Hardcover
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One hundred years after the Harlem Renaissance emerged as a creative force at the close of World War I, I Too Sing America offers a major survey on the visual art and material culture of the groundbreaking movement.It illuminates multiple facets of the era--the lives of its people, the art,... |
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Taking the Lead: Lessons from a Life in Motion
Derek Hough - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Derek Hough, the dashing Emmy Award-winning fan favorite, and only five-time champion of the hit ABC reality show Dancing With the Stars, tells the inspiring story of his life and career, and shares insider tips of how he transforms his celebrity dance partners into confident, charismatic... |
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Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century
Jed Rasula - Basic Books (AZ)
Format: Hardcover
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In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small cabaret in Zurich, Switzerland. After decorating the walls with art by Picasso and other avant-garde artists, they embarked on a series of extravagant performances. Three readers simultaneously recited a poem... |
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The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck
Michael Rose - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The Birth of an Opera offers illuminating insight into how operas are written and the personalities incidents and musical circumstances that have shaped their composition Through a deft compilation of primary sourcesxletters memoirs and personal accounts from composers librettists and performersxMichael... |
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The Atlas of Beauty: Women of the World in 500 Portraits
MIHAELA NOROC - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention
Alexander Monro - Knopf, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A sweeping, richly detailed history that tells the fascinating story of how paper - the simple Chinese invention of two thousand years ago - wrapped itself around our world, humankind's most momentous ideas imprinted on its surface. The emergence of paper in the imperial court... |
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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
Fran Leadon - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening history of Manhattan told through its most celebrated street.In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the street grew longer, houses and taverns began to spring up alongside... |
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The Birth of Rock and Roll
Joe Bonomo - Dust-to-Digital
Format: Hardcover
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In The Birth of Rock and Roll, Americana collector Jim Linderman has arranged a storyboard of sorts that dramatizes the spirit of rock and roll in its early days-when "a juke-joint with fifty patrons was a big show," as Linderman writes in his introduction. "A church... |
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The Coat Route: Craft, Luxury, & Obsession on the Trail of a $50,000 Coat
Meg Lukens Noonan - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Book
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In today’s world of fast fashion, is there a place for a handcrafted $50,000 coat? When journalist Meg Lukens Noonan learned of an unthinkably expensive, entirely handcrafted overcoat that a fourth-generation tailor had made for one of his longtime clients, she set off on an adventure... |
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Principles of Creature Design: creating imaginary animals
Terryl Whitlatch - Design Studio Press
Format: Paperback
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Designing a captivating creature simply for it to exist against a white background and going no further is a purely academic exercise. Designing a creature that can survive in a world, interact with its own and other species, and go on to make an impact, is designing with intent -- the end goal... |
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On Story - Screenwriters and Their Craft
Austin Film Festival - University of Texas Press
Format: Paperback
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Austin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization of its kind to focus on the writer’s creative contribution to film. Its annual Film Festival and Conference offers screenings, panels, workshops, and roundtable discussions that help new writers and filmmakers connect with mentors... |
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Original Gangstas: Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
Ben Westhoff - Hachette Books
Format: Paperback
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"Raw, authoritative, and unflinching ... An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap era."---Kirkus, starred reviewA monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop:... |
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Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet
Laura Jacobs - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of balletAs much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad-in Russia, Italy,... |
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A View from A Broad
Bette Midler - Simon & Schuster; Updated edition
Format: Hardcover
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With her brassy voice and bold performances making the world finally pay attention, she needs no introduction. Grammy award–winning singer, Academy Award–nominee, Broadway star of her critically acclaimed one-woman show and beloved actress in The Rose, Beaches and Down and Out in Beverly... |
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Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
John Eliot Gardiner - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing... |
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Galapagos: A Traveler's Introduction
WAYNE LYNCH - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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In 1979, the Galapagos Islands was one of the earliest World Heritage Sites to be selected by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) , a designation intended to protect and preserve sites of cultural and natural heritage around the world. Today, there... |
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Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images
Terence Dickinson - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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Praise for the first edition: "Superbly well produced. Any engagement with this 'cosmic portfolio,' from picture gazing to deep reading, is grandly rewarded." --BOOKLIST [starred review] "The book's precise descriptions and captions brilliantly complement the 300 full-color... |
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In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
Sue Roe - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic... |
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Novel Interiors: Living in Enchanted Rooms Inspired by Literature
Lisa Borgnes Giramonti - Potter Style
Format: Hardcover
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For those who have ever lost themselves in the stylish worlds of novels like Sense and Sensibility, The Age of Innocence, Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray and countless others,this design book embraces the fantasy of time and place, showing you how to bring some of those elements... |
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Marc Davis: Walt Disney's Renaissance Man
Disney Book Group - Disney Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Walt Disney once said of Marc Davis, "Marc can do story, he can do character, he can animate, he can design shows for me. All I have to do is tell him what I want and it's there! He's my Renaissance man." As such, Davis touched nearly every aspect of The Walt Disney Company... |
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The Heart of a Boy: Celebrating the Strength and Spirit of Boyhood
Kate T. Parker - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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In her international bestseller Strong Is the New Pretty (with 329,000 copies in print) , the photographer Kate T. Parker changed the way we see girls by showing us their truest selves - fearless, messy, wild, stubborn, proud. Now it's time to talk about our boys. Prompted by #metoo,... |
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Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored
John Lydon - Dey Street Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the legendary frontman of the Sex Pistols, comes the complete, unvarnished story of his life in his own words.John Lydon is an icon - one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the last forty years. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols-the... |
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The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
Edward Ball - Doubleday; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads. One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented... |
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At Home with Town & Country
Sarah Medford - Hearst
Format: Hardcover
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At Home with Town & Country, the first-ever home book from the magazine that is the last word in defining the affluent lifestyle, opens the doors to 30 distinctive dwellings, providing rare glimpses of lives being lived in sleek urban showplaces and luxurious rural retreats alike-and... |
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How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution
Leslie Woodhead - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book
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Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the law-recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband LPs, spotty broadcasts taped from western AM radio late in the night. This was no fantasy world populated by Blue Meanies but the USSR, where a vast... |
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Neal Preston: Exhilarated and Exhausted
Neal Preston - Reel Art Press
Format: Hardcover
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"I want the reader at the end of this book to feel like they've just spent a year on the road with Zeppelin with one day off, then six months with Guns 'n' Roses, with one day off and then five years with Bruce Springsteen. Exhilarated and exhausted." -Neal PrestonNeal... |
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Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story
Rick Bragg - Harper; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerThe greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis - and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time.A monumental figure on the American... |
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Vincent's Portraits: Paintings and Drawings by van Gogh
Ralph Skea - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate collection of Vincent van Gogh's portraits and self- portraits -- perhaps the work for which he is best knownDespite his posthumous fame as a painter of flowers, still lifes, gardens, landscapes, and city scenes, Vincent van Gogh himself believed that his portraits constituted... |
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1,500 Stretches: The Complete Guide to Flexibility and Movement
Hollis Liebman - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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1,500 Stretches--the follow-up book to the New York Times bestseller 2,100 Asanas-- compiles all stretching poses in one place, organized by body part, with stunning photographs, easy-to-follow steps, and the health benefits of each pose. Does your lower back ache from sitting all day?... |
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Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
Ian Bostridge - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration of the worlds most famous and challenging song cycle, Schuberts Winter Journey Winterreise, by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themesliterary, historical, psychologicalthat weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece.Completed... |
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The Jewelry Recipe Book: Transforming Ordinary Materials into Stylish and Distinctive Earrings, Bracelets, Necklaces, and Pins
Nancy Soriano - Artisan Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The Jewelry Recipe Book takes materials available at large craft stores (as well as specialty shops and artisan shops on Etsy) - beads, shrink plastic, leather, lace, pearls, sequins, polymer clay, yarn, and pinecones, to name a few - and transforms them into one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry.... |
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Peggy Dean's Guide to Nature Drawing and Watercolor: Learn to Sketch, Ink, and Paint Flowers, Plants, Trees, and Animals
Peggy Dean - Watson-Guptill
Format: Paperback
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This fun and easy-to-use nature drawing and watercolor guide is perfect for anyone inspired by nature to draw, doodle, ink, and paint colorful flora and fauna. Artist, author, and popular art instructor Peggy Dean presents this nature drawing guide that teaches you how to master drawing... |
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Where's Warhol?
Catharine Ingram - Laurence King Publishing
Format: Print book
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If Andy Warhol could have traveled through time, where would he have gone? Where's Warhol? gives him his very own time machine, and finds out...Join Andy on a tour through time as he visits the art of the past. From Michelangelo at work on the Sistine Chapel, to Jean-Michel Basquait painting... |
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A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen
Liel Leibovitz - W W Norton & Co Inc
Format: Hardcover
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Brings to life a passionate poet-turned-musician and what compels him and his work. Why is it that Leonard Cohen receives the sort of reverence we reserve for a precious few living artists? Why are his songs, three or four decades after their original release, suddenly gracing the charts,... |
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Brian Eno: Visual Music
Christopher Scoates - Chronicle Books
Format: Paperback
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Visual Music is a one-of-a-kind guided tour through the visual art of creative polymath Brian Eno. Featuring more than 300 images of Eno's installation, light, and video artwork, this exquisite volume is the definitive monograph of a contemporary master. In addition to page after page... |
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Paint Lab: 52 Exercises inspired by Artists, Materials, Time, Place, and Method
Deborah Forman - Quarry Books
Format: Print book
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Paint Lab is packed with unique and experimental techniques and ideas in painting. This hands-on book is organized into 52 units, which may, but don't need to be explored on a weekly basis. The labs can be worked on in any order, so that you can flip around to learn a new mixed-media... |
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Ryan McGinness: #metadata
Ryan McGinness - Damiani
Format: Hardcover
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"A Warholian mix of pop iconography and silk-screening." -- The New York TimesRyan McGinness: #metadata features new paintings by Ryan McGinness. McGinness' work, taking inspiration from skate and surf culture and graphic design, has been characterized as "equal parts... |
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Into the Dark
Mark A Vieira - Running Press
Format: Print book
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You know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting; the cynical detective; the femme fatale; and the twist of fate. Into the Dark captures this alluring genre with a cavalcade of compelling photographs and a guide to 82 of its best films.Into the Dark is the first book to tell the story... |
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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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PLUS : Style Inspiration for Everyone
Bethany Rutter - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Be inspired by 100 of the very best plus-size street style images from fashion influencers and tastemakers from around the world. Plus-size fashion is daring, experimental, and deeply personal. There's no longer any shame in not fitting the traditional ideals of beauty, as proven by Gabi... |
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Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City
Jonathan Conlin - Counterpoint
Format: Book
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Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750-1914, when they vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet Jonathan Conlin here explores the complex relationship between them for the first time. The reach... |
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My Life
Isadora Duncan - Liveright; Revised and Updated edition
Format: Paperback
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A remarkable account of a wildly artistic life, finally restored to its unexpurgated form, with a revealing new introduction by Joan Acocella. The visionary choreographer and dancer Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) not only revolutionized dance in the twentieth century but blazed a path... |
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Visualizing The Beatles: A Complete Graphic History of the World's Favorite Band
JOHN PRING - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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Foreword by Rob SheffieldFilled with stunning full-color infographics, a unique, album-by-album visual history of the evolution of the Beatles that examines how their style, their sound, their instruments, their songs, their tours, and the world they inhabited transformed over the course... |
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Fire in My Lens, A: An Insider's Look at New Orleans
Armand Richardson - Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Through the vibrant images captured in his compositions, photographer Armand J. "Sheik" Richardson lures the viewer into the city that lives within his imagination. Richardson passionately relates the experimentation that first brought to life the magical world he saw through... |
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Meryl Streep: Anatomy of an Actor
Karina Longworth - Phaidon Press Ltd
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most talented actresses of her generation, Meryl Streep provides a high benchmark by which others are measured. In films such as The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Mamma Mia (2008), and The Iron Lady (2010), Streep has astounded audiences with her ability to fully... |
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Rembrandt
Typex - SelfMadeHero
Format: Paperback
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Follow the entire painting career of Rembrandt, one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. This is the story about one man's artistic vocation and the work it demands, about life and death, love and bereavement, fame... |
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Music
DK Publishing - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Produced in association with the Smithsonian and including images from The National Music Museum in South Dakota, Music: The Definitive Visual History guides readers through the progression of music since its prehistoric beginnings, discussing not just Western classical music, but music... |
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California Captured: Mid-Century Modern Architecture, Marvin Rand
Marvin Rand - Phaidon Press
Format: Hardcover
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The style and mythology of Mid-Century Modern California architecture as seen through the expert lens of Marvin RandLos Angeles photographer Marvin Rand created iconic images of some of the most celebrated architectural creations of his time, photographing buildings by the likes of Modernist... |
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Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman
Jeffreen M Hayes - GILES
Format: Hardcover
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This is a timely, visual, exploration of the fascinating life and lasting legacy of sculptor Augusta Savage (1892-1962) , who overcame poverty, racism, and sexual discrimination to become one of America's most influential twentieth-century artists. Her story is one of community-building,... |
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Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker
Chuck Haddix - University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bird" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a heroin addict at 16, changed the course of music, and then died when only 34 years old. His friend Robert Reisner observed, "Parker, in the brief span of his life, crowded more... |
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The Art of Reading: An Illustrated History of Books in Paint
Jamie Camplin - Getty Publications
Format: Hardcover
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"Why do artists love books?" This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. First looking at the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist,... |
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Jim Olson: Building, Nature, Art
JIM OLSON - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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A lavish monograph celebrating one of the most respected and admired American architects, known for his sensitivity to the nature and traditions of the Pacific NorthwestSeattle-based architect Jim Olson blends straight, clean architectural lines and curving natural scenery with such ease... |
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Young Frankenstein: A Mel Brooks Book: The Story of the Making of the Film
Mel Brooks - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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Mel Brooks' own words telling all about the players, the filming, and studio antics during the production of this great comedy classic. The book is alive and teeming with hundreds of photos, original interviews, and hilarious commentary. Young Frankenstein was made with deep... |
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Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal
Jon Wiederhorn - It Books; 1 edition
Format: Book
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The definitive oral history of heavy metal, Louder Than Hell by renowned music journalists Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman includes hundreds of interviews with the giants of the movement, conducted over the past 25 years.Unlike many forms of popular music, metalheads... |
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Inside the Room: Writing Television with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers' Program
Linda Venis - Gotham Books
Format: Paperback
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What does it take to go from being a fan to professional television writer? For the first time outside of the UCLA Extension Writers' Programme classrooms, TV writers whose many produced credits include The Simpsons, House M.D., and Pretty Little Liars take aspiring writers through the process... |
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The Asylum: A collage of couture reminiscences...and hysteria
Simon Doonan - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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After nearly a lifetime spent in the Industry, author and fashion insider Simon Doonan is ready to let you in on a little secret: his peers in this multibillion-dollar industry are just as nutty as the denizens of your local loony bin. In The Asylum, an unabashedly hilarious collection... |
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The Beatles: The BBC Archives: 1962-1970
Kevin Howlett - Harper Design; Box Pck edition
Format: Book
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A carefully curated collection of the surviving transcripts of the Beatles’ appearances on BBC Radio and Television from 1962 to 1970, featuring commentary from author and Beatles expert Kevin Howlett and rare photographs and memorabilia from the BBC.The year 2013 marks the fiftieth... |
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The Chronicle of Jazz
Mervyn Cooke - Oxford University Press; Exp Rev edition
Format: Book
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A year-by-year history of people and events, this lively multi-layered account tells the whole story of jazz music and its personalities. The Chronicle of Jazz charts the evolution of jazz from its roots in Africa and the southern United States to the myriad urban styles heard around the world... |
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Shakespeare's Ear: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Theater
Tim Rayborn - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Shakespeare's Ear presents dark and sometimes funny pieces of fact and folklore that bedevil the mostly unknown history of theater. All manner of skullduggery, from revenge to murder, from affairs to persecution, proves that the drama off-stage was just as intense as any portrayed on it. The stories... |
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Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry
Roger Watson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate look at the journeys of two men—a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist—as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photographyDuring the 1830s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific enquiry fostered by the industrial... |
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Capturing Music: The Story of Notation
Thomas Forrest Kelly - W. W. Norton & Company; Har/Com edition
Format: Hardcover
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An entertaining history of how musicians learned to record music for all time, filled with art that sings. In today's digital landscape, we have the luxury of experiencing music anytime, anywhere. But before this instant accessibility and dizzying array of formats -- before CDs, the eight-track... |
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