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Drawing and painting animals : the essential guide
Jeffrey Blocksidge - North Light Books
Format: Paperback
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In this "best of the best" guide, ten best-selling artists share their favorite tips for rendering wildlife, beloved pets and farmyard animals. More than 30 step-by-step demonstrations provide key lessons that make painting these subjects less intimidating and more fun. Inside,... |
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Mastering Calligraphy: The Complete Guide to Hand Lettering
Gaye Godfrey-Nicholls - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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The centuries-old art of calligraphy has rarely witnessed a more diverse and prolific explosion of new work than in todays hand-lettering revival. Mastering the Art of Calligraphy is the most comprehensive and up-to-date volume on this traditional craft and its contemporary practice. Brimming... |
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The West: An Illustrated History
Geoffrey C Ward - Little, Brown
Format: Hardcover
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This is the companion volume to the stunning PBS TV series from Stephen Ives and Ken Burns. The book features over 400 illustrations, many of them never before published, in magnificent color. In a vivid narrative that begins with the arrival of the first Europeans and ends well into the 20th... |
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Image Transfer on Clay: Screen, Relief, Decal & Monoprint Techniques
Paul Andrew Wandless - Lark Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first comprehensive how-to book on the topic! Contemporary ceramists have adapted traditional printmaking procedures to transfer images onto clay surfaces. And, with this thorough resource, anyone can take advantage of these techniques in their own home studio - even those with no printmaking... |
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Seven Days in the Art World
Sarah Thornton - W.W. Norton
Format: Hardcover
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A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art.The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury... |
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A Fine Romance: Falling in Love With the English Countryside
Susan Branch - Vineyard Stories
Format: Print book
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A Fine Romance, Falling in Love with the English Countryside, part love story, part travel guide, is a hand-written and watercolored personal travel journal of Susan's six-day transatlantic crossing on board the Queen Mary 2 and two-month ramble through the backroads of rural England. |
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A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder
Stacy Keach - Voyageur Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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"To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower. To hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour." William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence" 1805 Here is the world viewed within a grain of sand, thanks to the stunning three-dimensional... |
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The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
Harvey Sachs - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover
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The premier of Beethovens Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year - and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey... |
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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
Daniel J. Levitin - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals musics role in the evolution of human culture in this thought-provoking book that "will leave you awestruck" (The New York Times) .. Daniel J. Levitins astounding debut bestseller, This Is Your Brain... |
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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Simon Garfield - Gotham
Format: Hardcover
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A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks What does your favorite font say about you Fonts surround us every day on street signs and buildings on movie posters and books and on just about every product we buy But where do fonts come from and why do we need... |
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Beautiful Geometry
Eli Maor - Princeton University Press
Format: Book
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If you've ever thought that mathematics and art don't mix, this stunning visual history of geometry will change your mind. As much a work of art as a book about mathematics, Beautiful Geometry presents more than sixty exquisite color plates illustrating a wide range of geometric... |
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Wild Africa
Alex Bernasconi - Firefly Books
Format: Book
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A sumptuous visual record of one of Earth's last natural paradises. From a totally fresh perspective, world-renowned photographer Alex Bernasconi provides a spectacular tour across a magnificent continent. This is the off-road, seldom-seen Africa. Moments of true beauty and natural... |
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Graffiti and Street Art
Anna Waclawek - Thames & Hudson
Format: Paperback
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A refreshingly jargon-free survey of what many consider the art movement of the twenty-first century. Whether adored or abhorred, graffiti and street art provoke passionate debate. This is the first comprehensive popular survey of the art movement around the world. Organized thematically,... |
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Reinventing Bach
Paul Elie - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The story of a revolution in music and technology, told through a century of recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian BachIn Reinventing Bach, his remarkable second book, Paul Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach’s music new in our time, at once... |
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Cosmigraphics
Michael Benson - Harry N. Abrams; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Benson tells the thrilling story of the discovery and description of the universe in a new way. Selecting artful and profound illustrations and maps, many hidden away in the worlds great science libraries and virtually unknown today, he chronicles more than 1,000 years of humanitys... |
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Leonardo and the Last Supper
Ross King - Walker & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art-The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at forty-three,... |
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The Reader's Digest Merry Christmas Songbook
Elizabeth Mead - The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.; 1st edition
Format: Spiral-bound
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Hardcover book, spiral bound to last a family lifetime. More than 250 pages, large easy-to-see print for piano/vocal/organ/guitar. Annotations on the history of some songs, illustrations, and an all-encompassing collection of seasonal songs. Lyric booklet included. |
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The art of Beatrix Potter
Emily Zach - Chronicle Books LLC
Format: Print book
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Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, this magnificent collection celebrates the artist behind The Tale of Peter Rabbit and numerous other beloved children's books. Brimming with famous images and rarely seen gems - ranging from character sketches and notebook... |
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The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats
Claudia J. Nahson - Jewish Museum
Format: Print book
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In 1962, Ezra Jack Keats's picture book The Snowy Day introduced readers to young Peter, the first African American protagonist in a full-color children's book, who traipsed alone through the snowy, wondrous sidewalks of New York City. The book was a runaway success, capturing the Caldecott... |
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The Gateway Arch: A Biography
Tracy Campbell - Yale University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Rising to a triumphant height of 630 feet, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis is a revered monument to Americas western expansion. Envisioned in 1947 but not completed until the mid-1960s, the arch today attracts millions of tourists annually and is one of the worlds most widely recognized structures.... |
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Absolutely on Music: Conversations
Seiji Ozawa - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered... |
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Basic Drawing Techniques
Richard Box - Search Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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All artists should possess good drawing skills - and anyone can learn. Richard Box clearly illustrates how to master the basics using a range of simple techniques. |
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American Artist Guide to Painting Techniques
Elizabeth Tate - American Artist
Format: Paperback
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Grab your paintbrush and discover all the fundamentals of successful painting.A comprehensive overview, The American Artist Guide to Painting Techniques shows you all the techniques you need to know to paint in watercolor, oil, acrylic and pastel. From clear instruction to new painting... |
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The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook
Gordon Mackenzie - North Light Books
Format: Hardcover
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This attractive, inspirational guide is full of sound techniques, advice and hands-on instruction for anyone looking to explore the magic of watercolor. |
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Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics
Stephen Sondheim - Knopf; F First Edition edition
Format: Book
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After his acclaimed and best-selling Finishing the Hat named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010, Stephen Sondheim returns with the second volume of his collected lyrics, Look, I Made a Hat, giving us another remarkable glimpse into the brilliant mind of this living legend,... |
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The Public Library: A Photographic Essay
Robert Dawson - Chronicle Books Llc
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150 photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and many more.Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent,... |
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Is This Thing On?: A Late Bloomer's Computer Handbook
Abby Stokes - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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"Stokes gives the feeling that a friend is explaining it all to you." — The New York Daily NewsIs This Thing On? is a reassuring, jargon-free, and totally straightforward nuts-and-bolts guide that introduces late bloomers, grandparents, technophobes, and the digitally challenged... |
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America's Musical Life: A History
Richard Crawford - W. W. Norton
Format: Paperback
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"A superb, all-encompassing survey of music in America." -- Kirkus Reviews When it comes to American music, America's Musical Life is "the best one-volume history yet on the subject for musicians and enthusiasts, professional or amateur" (Kirkus Reviews) . "Well-researched... |
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Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever
Will Hermes - Faber & Faber
Format: Print book
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Punk rock and hip-hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists. In the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented—all at once, from one block to the next, by musicians who knew,... |
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Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral
Philip Ball - Harper
Format: Print book
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A well written study of Gothic architecture, and Chartres Cathedral in particular, looking at the theological and philosophical ideas on which it was founded, and the practicalities of its construction to ultimately aim to show what it may have "meant" to a medieval viewer. |
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Cotton Tenants: Three Families
James Agee - Melville House
Format: Paperback
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A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographerIn 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great... |
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Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre
Ethan Mordden - Oxford University Press; 8.6.2013 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Ethan Mordden has been hailed as "a sharp-eared listener and a discerning critic," by Opera News, which compares his books to "dinner with a knowledgeable, garrulous companion." The "preeminent historian of the American musical" (New York Times), he "brings... |
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Art: A Visual History
Robert Cumming - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Art: A Visual History is the complete visual guide to Western art, now updated and repackaged in a themed slipcase.How to tell Impressionism from Expressionism, a Degas from a Monet, early Medieval art from early Christian? Art: A Visual History explains it all - painting,... |
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How Music Works
David Byrne - Crown
Format: Paperback
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*Updated with a new chapter on digital curation*How Music Works is David Byrnes incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social or technological. Utilizing his incomparable career and inspired... |
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Jumbo: This Being the True Story of the Greatest Elephant in the World
Paul Chambers - Steerforth
Format: Hardcover
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Jumbo was a superstar of the Victorian era. Every day tens of thousands of people would visit this adored animal known as “the Children’s Pet” or, more simply, “the Giant Elephant,” at the London Zoo. When P.T. Barnum purchased him for his Greatest Show on Earth,... |
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Love for Sale: Pop Music in America
David Hajdu - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A personal, idiosyncratic history of popular music that also may well be definitive, from the revered music criticDavid Hajdu begins Love for Sale, his personal history of recorded pop music, in an unexpected place--not with nostalgic reminiscences of the 45s of his youth but with the sheet-music... |
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The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism
Kate Winslet - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Thank you for taking this journey with us. We hope this book brings a new awareness of the opportunity we have to help those with autism learn to communicate and realize their ambitions. People with autism have the potential to achieve great things, but only when given the appropriate support... |
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Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
Jennifer Homans - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of The New York Times Book Reviews 10 Best Books of the YearFor more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers... |
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Evolution: A Visual Record
Robert Clark - Phaidon
Format: Print book
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Stunning images to reawaken us to the scientific process that drives the amazing diversity of life on earthEvidence of evolution is everywhere. Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting... |
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Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West
Lucy R. Lippard - New Press, The
Format: Paperback
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Award-winning author, curator, and activist Lucy R. Lippard is one of America’s most influential writers on contemporary art, a pioneer in the fields of cultural geography, conceptualism, and feminist art. Hailed for "the breadth of her reading and the comprehensiveness with... |
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Painter's Quick Reference: Cats & Dogs
North Light Books (Firm) - North Light Books
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The Perfect Reference for Painters!Paint your favorite furry companions! Inside you'll find more than 40 step-by-step demonstrations that clearly show how to accurately capture a variety of popular pet breeds, including tabby cats, terriers, bulldogs and many more.This detailed guide... |
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Portraits
John Berger - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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A major new book from one of the world's leading writers and art criticsJohn Berger, one of the world's most celebrated art writers, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In Portraits, Berger grounds... |
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Art: The Twentieth Century
Flaminio Gualdoni - Skira; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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This book on the art of the twentieth century is published almost ten years after the end of the so-called "short century"—which, in terms of art, was anything but short—and is a valuable tool for reflection. The author has placed a series of works in sequence, accompanied... |
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Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs
Carleton E Watkins - J. Paul Getty Museum
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary body of work produced by photographer Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) between 1858 and 1891 constitutes one of the longest and most productive careers in nineteenth-century American photography. Nearly thirteen hundred "mammoth" (18 x 22 inch) glass-plate negatives... |
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The Eco Chick Guide to Life: How to Be Fabulously Green
Starre Vartan - St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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SAVE THE WORLD IN STYLE!Lower your carbon footprint--in your favorite pair of stilettos--with THE ECO CHICK GUIDE TO LIFE. Here youll find hundreds of ideas on how to be ecologically smart and still be stylish and trend-setting. You dont have to sacrifice to go green--you can eat well,... |
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LIFE: Our Century In Pictures
Tony Chiu - Bulfinch
Format: Hardcover
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This is an unparalleled look back at one hundred extraordinary years. Selected from the photographic archives of Life and other major collections, these spellbinding images bring alive the people and events that shaped the twentieth century. Included are classic images as well as virtually... |
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Exploring Materials: Creative Design for Everyday Objects
Inna Alesina - Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Materials are like words. The richer your design vocabulary, the more distinctive the design solutions you can express. Sketching ideas with a pencil or rendering them with computer software are useful experiences, but there is no substitute for confronting physical forms and materials... |
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Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me
Patricia Volk - Knopf; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Stuffed an intimate richly illustrated memoir written with charm and panache that juxtaposes two fascinating livesmdashthe iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the authorrsquos own mothermdashto explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman Audrey... |
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Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris
Leah Dickerman - National Gallery of Art, Washington/D.A.P.
Format: Paperback
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Now available in paperback, this lavishly illustrated and astonishingly comprehensive volume stands as the definitive study of the influential but deliberately elusive international Dada movement of the early twentieth century. Organized according to the primary city centers where this... |
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ReFashioned: Cutting-Edge Clothing from Upcycled Materials
Sass Brown - Laurence King Publishing
Format: Book
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The area of recycling and upcycling is a rich and growing source of innovative design in the fashion and accessories industries.In a fast-fashion world of throw-away clothing, it is the ultimate expression of the slow-fashion movement, with each piece individually conceived and crafted... |
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The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886–1904
Jane Block - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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Neo-Impressionism, the style pioneered by Georges Seurat (1859–1891), has long been associated with exquisite landscapes and intriguing scenes of urban leisure. Yet the movement’s use of dotted brushwork and color theory also produced arresting portraits of unusual beauty and perception.... |
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Man Ray Portraits
Terence Pepper - Yale University Press
Format: Book
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The artist May Ray (1890–1976) initially taught himself photography in order to reproduce his own works of art, but it became one of his preferred mediums. As a contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements in Paris during the 1920s, Man Ray was perfectly placed to make defining... |
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Texas John Slaughter The Edge of Hell
William W. Johnstone - William W. Johnstone J. A. Johnstone; 1ST edition
Format: Print book
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Tombstone, Arizona was the most violent town in the west until this town got a new kind of sheriff. A rancher, a Ranger, and a veteran of the Civil War, John Horton Slaughter is the true-life hero of bestselling authors William and J.A. Johnstones new Western series, a novel of passions... |
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Frank Lloyd Wright: American Master
Alan Weintraub - Rizzoli
Format: Print book
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Frank Lloyd Wright presents a stunning overview of the work of this towering American genius, encompassing the entirety of Wright's long and extraordinarily prolific career. From his earliest work, such as the Home and Studio in Oak Park, IL, of 1889, to the wonderfully evocative textile... |
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Irish Art: A Concise History
Bruce Arnold - Thames & Hudson; Revised edition
Format: Print book
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An historical review of Irish art brings into view the many gifted artists who have been linked to foreign traditions. Irish art of the early Christian era is justly celebrated. So, too, are the individual contributions of artists such as Jack B. Yeats. What is perhaps less widely accepted... |
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Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries
Mark Leslie - Dundurn
Format: Print book
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A supernatural tour of bookstores and libraries around the world, focusing on the ghost stories from haunted locations. Throughout history, books have inspired, informed, entertained, and enriched us. They have also kept us up through the night, thrilled us, and lured into their endless... |
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The Beat Stops Here: Lessons on and off the Podium for Today's Conductor
Mark Gibson - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In The Beat Stops Here: Lessons on and off the Podium for Today's Conductor, master conductor Mark Gibson addresses the technique of conducting as an extension of intimate knowledge of the score to the hands and arms. He employs a variety of everyday activities and motions (brushing... |
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Painting Houses, Cottages and Towns on Rocks
Lin Wellford - North Light Books
Format: Paperback
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Transform ordinary rocks into amazing little houses and cottages. You don't have to be an artist to experience the fun of this simple yet exciting craft. Lin Wellford revitalized the art of painting on rocks, and her imaginative and innovative use of rocks and stones as art material continues... |
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Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory
Mickey Rapkin - Gotham; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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High notes, high drama, and high jinks collide as elite collegiate a cappella groups compete to be the best in the nation Journalist Mickey Rapkin follows a season in collegiate a cappella, covering the breathtaking displays of vocal talent, the groupies yes, a cappella singers have groupies,... |
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Art: Over 2,500 Works from Cave to Contemporary
Ross King - DK
Format: Print book
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ART, the ultimate visual guide to 2,000 of the world's most revered paintings and sculptures, begins with a short section on how to look at paintings and sculpture, explaining the simple steps of formal analysis that swiftly become automatic and greatly increase and inform your enjoyment... |
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Textiles: The Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significance
Beverly Gordon - Thames & Hudson
Format: Book
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A worldwide history for anyone with a passion for textiles and textile arts, whether creative, professional, or educational. There are few aspects of our lives—physical, emotional, spiritual—in which thread and fabrics do not play a notable part. Beverly Gordon reminds us memorably... |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Piano
Brad Hill - Alpha
Format: Paperback
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Whether you are an aspiring concert pianist or just want to play keyboards in your own band, The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Playing Piano and Electronic Keyboards, Second Edition will give you just what you need to know. From reading music and learning chords, to understanding... |
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Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars
Camille Paglia - Pantheon; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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WIth full-color illustrations throughoutFrom the best-selling author of Sexual Personae and Break, Blow, Burn and one of our most acclaimed cultural critics, here is an enthralling journey through Western art’s defining moments, from the ancient Egyptian tomb of Queen Nefertari to George... |
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Hand Drawn Lettering: Draw Paint Print
Mark Bergin - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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Unleash your creativity with this book that encourages readers to explore new ideas, nurture originality, and create unique forms of lettering. You'll find:32 pages of instructions, and another 96 pages of alphabet samples for practicePointers on techniques and the use of colorTips on materials... |
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somethingtofoodabout: Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs
Questlove - Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Format: Print book
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Questlove is a drummer, producer, musical director, culinary entrepreneur, and New York Times best-selling author. What unites all of his work is a profound interest in creativity. In somethingtofoodabout, Questlove applies his boundless curiosity to the world of food. In conversations... |
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Annie Leibovitz at Work
Annie Leibovitz - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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This is a hardcover book published with a dust jacket by Random House with a stated First Edition of 2008. Text is based on conversations with Sharon Delano and it includes numerous color and black and white photographs of Leibovitzs work including the Yoko Ono-John Lennon picture. |
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The Colored Pencil
Bet Borgeson - Watson-Guptill; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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No one who works in colored pencil—or wants to—can afford to be without this book, which is the most complete resource on the medium. The revised edition provides the latest information on colored pencils while retaining the best feature of the original: Bogeson's beautiful... |
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Ansel Adams in Color
Ansel Adams - Little, Brown and Company; Revised edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned as America's pre-eminent black-and-white landscape photographer, Ansel Adams began to photograph in color soon after Kodachrome film was invented in the mid 1930s. He made nearly 3,500 color photographs, a small fraction of which were published for the first time in the 1993... |
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Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
Barry Miles - Henry Holt & Co; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A definitive, authorized portrait of Paul McCartney draws on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews and access to personal archives to chronicle the private life and successful career of one of the world's most famous musicians, the world of the Beatles, his partnership with... |
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Yellow River Odyssey
Bill Porter - Chin Music Press Inc.
Format: Book
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Bill Porter follows the Yellow River, the world's sixth longest river, from its mouth to its source high in the Tibetan Plateau, a journey of more than three thousand miles through nine Chinese provinces. The trip takes the master translator into what was once the cradle of Chinese... |
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200 Projects to Get You Into Fashion Design
Adrian Grandon - Barron's
Format: Paperback
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Newest in Barron's stimulating Aspire Series, this heavily illustrated volume presents a comprehensive course in clothing design, which includes detailed instruction for creating a fashion portfolio that will get students started on rewarding careers. The book's 200 projects train... |
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Rod: The Autobiography
Rod Stewart - Crown Archetype; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary life and career of music legend Rod Stewart, in his own words for the first time.With his soulful and singular voice, narrative songwriting, and passionate live performances Rod Stewart has paved one of the most iconic and successful music careers of all time. He was the charismatic... |
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The Brilliant History of Color in Art
Victoria Finlay - J Paul Getty Museum
Format: Hardcover
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The history of art is inseparable from the history of color. And what a fascinating story they tell together: one that brims with an all-star cast of characters, eye-opening details, and unexpected detours through the annals of human civilization and scientific discovery. Enter critically... |
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Hyper Nature
Philippe Martin - Firefly Books, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Philippe Martin revolutionized digital nature photography by "stacking" images. To take one photograph, he will shoot a subject hundreds of times, stack the images into a composite, and then clean up the composite image pixel by pixel. The result is a "quasi-3D" photograph... |
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Blind Spot
Teju Cole - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In this innovative synthesis of words and images, the award-winning author of Open City and photography critic for The New York Times Magazine combines two of his great passions. "To look is to see only a fraction of what one is looking at. Even in the most vigilant... |
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Vatican: All the Paintings: The Complete Collection of Old Masters, Plus More than 300 Sculptures, Maps, Tapestries, and other Artifacts
Anja Grebe - Black Dog & Leventhal; Slp Har/Dv edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the same style, manner, and format as The Louvre All the Paintings Black Dog Leventhal, 2011, every Old Master painting on display in the Vatican, as well as hundreds of additional masterpieces and treasures in the papal collection, is included in this deluxe slipcased volume with companion... |
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Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page
Brad Tolinski - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This “oral autobiography” of Jimmy Page, the intensely private mastermind behind Led Zeppelin—one of the most enduring bands in rock history—is the most complete and revelatory portrait of the legendary guitarist ever published. More than 30 years... |
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Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
Robert Gordon - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960's segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business... |
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Unlikely Loves: 43 Heartwarming True Stories from the Animal Kingdom
Jennifer S. Holland - Workman Publishing Company; None edition
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Unlikely Friendships is the phenomenal New York Times bestseller thatxs spent weeks on the list and has copies in print Itxs struck a chord with media from CBS This Morning to USA Today and Temple Grandin has praised it as xCamazing It shows the power of friendshipxD Now its author Jennifer... |
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Paint Landscapes in Acrylic with Lee Hammond
Hammond, Lee - North Light Books
Format: Paperback
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A summer sunset, a bubbling brook, a sea of golden wildflowers like nature itself, landscape painting doesn't have to be complicated to be beautiful. In this beginner-friendly guide, Lee Hammond shows you how to use a handful of colors, a simple three-step approach, and the friendly... |
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On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
Ada Louise Huxtable - Walker
Format: Print book
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The architectural revolution of the twentieth century as witnessed by America's preeminent architecture critic.Known for her well-reasoned and passionately held beliefs about architecture, Ada Louise Huxtable has captivated readers across the country for decades, in the process becoming... |
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Reader's Digest Popular Songs That Will Live Forever
William L. Simon - Reader's Digest
Format: Audio CD
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Reader's Digest Popular Songs That Will Live Forever by William L. Simon (Editor) , Dan Fox (Editor) Spiral-bound - July 1, 1982 "Pleasantville, New York: Reader's Digest, 1982. Hardcovers over metal comb, about 12.5 inches tall by 10 wide, 252 pages. Small decorative illustrations... |
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