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How to Listen to Jazz
Ted Gioia - Basic Books
Format: Paperback
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A "radiantly accomplished" music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz (Wall Street Journal) . In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of Americas premier art forms. He tells us what... |
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The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built
Jack Viertel - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Print book
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For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in a darkened theater, grows into something more serious for high school actors, and reaches its passionate zenith when... |
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Gardens of Eden: Long Island's Early Twentieth-Century Planned Communities
Robert B. MacKay - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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Historical profiles of the major planned communities of early twentieth-century Long Island. Edited by SPLIA's former director, Dr. Robert B. MacKay, Gardens of Eden is an exploration of a distinct type of suburban development that proliferated across the region before zoning regulations... |
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Birds and Flowers in Colored Pencil: Step-by-Step Tutorials and Techniques
Niao Fei Le - Shanghai Press
Format: Paperback
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Drawing with colored pencils is an artistic technique that combines sketching and color, offering a lighter, more translucent texture. In the long history of Chinese art, birds and flowers have been a common theme in paintings. This book will teach you how to use vibrant colored pencils... |
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Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
Candy Leonard - Arcade Publishing
Format: Paperback
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"A must-have for Beatles fans looking for new insight . . . Leonard uncovers fresh ideas [that] . . . six decades of Beatles literature passed over. - The Spectrum Part generational memoir and part cultural history of the sixties, Beatleness is the first book to tell... |
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Painting Without Paint: Landscapes with your tablet
Matthew Palmer - Search Press
Format: Hardcover
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The feel of painting on the tablet screen is surprisingly similar to traditional painting. Tablet art is addictive. You can produce a painting using no water, no paint and creating no mess - its great!. . Matthew Palmer demystifies tablet painting so that you can create beautiful landscapes... |
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Never a Dull Moment: 1971--The Year That Rock Exploded
David Hepworth - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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A rollicking look at 1971 - the busiest, most innovative and resonant year of the 70s, defined by the musical arrival of such stars as David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Joni MitchellOn New Year's Eve, 1970, Paul McCartney told his lawyers to issue the writ at the High Court... |
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The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA
Anthony Casillo - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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This magnificent volume offers a rich visual tour of the planets in our solar system. More than 200 breathtaking photographs from the archives of NASA are paired with extended captions detailing the science behind some of our cosmic neighborhood's most extraordinary phenomena. Images of newly... |
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Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media
Noam Milgrom Elcott - University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, "artificial darkness" has been overlooked - until now. In fact, controlled darkness was essential to the rise of photography and cinema, science and spectacle, and a century... |
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