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Interior Landmarks: Treasures of New York
Judith Gura - The Monacelli Press
Format: Print book
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Some are widely celebrated - Radio City Music Hall, the Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grand Central Station - and others virtually unknown, all warrant preservation. This book is the first to present great landmarked interiors of New York in all their intricate detail, in a visual... |
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A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings
Dan Cruickshank - Firefly Books, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"Architecture is an all-embracing adventure without end," declares Dan Cruickshank in the introduction to A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings. Cruickshank's selection represents key moments in architectural history and it is truly global in scope. It includes... |
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Bethpage
John Logerfo - Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Format: Print book
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Located on New Yorks Long Island in Nassau County, the quaint, tight-knit town of Bethpage was established as a settlement for the Thomas Powell family in 1687. In the early years, it consisted of a few small villages of farmers. In 1884, the Long Island Rail Road extended through Bethpage,... |
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Gauguin: Portraits
Cornelia Homburg - National Gallery of Canada
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth investigation of Gauguin's portraits, revealing how the artist expanded the possibilities of the genre in new and exciting ways Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted conventions and challenged audiences to expand their understanding of visual expression.... |
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Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
Wade Graham - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed landscape designer, historian and author of American Eden, a lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities - from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and "sustainable" developments - that allows us to view them... |
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Eisenhower Park Through Time (America Through Time)
Richard Panchyk - America Through Time
Format: Paperback
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Eisenhower Park is one of Long Island's most beloved and well-known attractions. Larger than New York City's Central Park, the park is located on what was once the flat, wide open grassland known as the Hempstead Plains, which was the largest stretch of prairie east of the Mississippi... |
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The Contemporaries: Travels in the 21st-Century Art World
Roger White - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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It's been nearly a century since Marcel Duchamp exhibited a urinal and called it art. Since then, painting has been declared dead several times over, and contemporary art has now expanded to include just about any object, action, or event: dance routines, slideshows, functional hair... |
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