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Asian Women Artists: A Biographical Dictionary, 2700 BCE to Today
Mary Ellen Snodgrass - McFarland
Format: Paperback
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This book is a guide to identifying female creators and artistic movements from all parts of Asia, offering a broad spectrum of media and presentation representing a wide variety of milieus, regions, peoples and genres. Arranged chronologically by artist birth date, entries date as far back... |
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Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful
Jonathan Frederick Walz - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Achieving fame in 1972 as the first Black woman to mount a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Alma W. Thomas (1891-1978) is known for her large abstract paintings filled with irregular patterns of bright colors. This insightful reassessment of Thomas's life and work... |
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Once More to the Sky: The Rebuilding of the World Trade Center
Scott Raab - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In late 2014, One World Trade Center - or the Freedom Tower - opened for business. It took nearly ten years, cost roughly four billion dollars, and required the sweat, strength, and stamina of hundreds of construction workers, digging deep below the earth's surface and dangling high... |
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The Wonders: The Extraordinary Performers Who Transformed the Victorian Age
John Woolf - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era.On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic,... |
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads (33 1/3, 151)
Santi Elijah Holley - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback
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In a bar called The Bucket of Blood, a man shoots the bartender four times in the head. In the small town of Millhaven, a teenage girl secretly and gleefully murders her neighbors. A serial killer travels from home to home, quoting John Milton in his victims' blood.. Murder Ballads,... |
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