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Visions 2022__Illustrators Book (Visions_Illustrators Book, 2)

pixiv Inc - Yen Press
Format: Paperback

The ultimate collection of pixiv artists is back! The 2022 compilation features 170 of some of the greatest creators on the platform who have all made an impact on the artistic field. With an abundance of styles from retro-inspired to modern and beyond, there's something for everyone...
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Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself

Chloe Angyal - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover

Every day, in dance studios all across America, millions of little girls line up at the barre and take ballet class. Their time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, the value of their bodies and minds, and their place in the world both in and outside...
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The Beatles: Fab but True: Remarkable Stories Revealed

Doug Wolfberg - Schiffer
Format: Hardcover

The Beatles: Fab but True examines 16 discrete stories about the Beatles that range from the merely unreal to the cosmically coincidental. Unlike the countless other Beatles books that have been written over the decades, The Beatles: Fab but True does a deep dive on some of the lesser-known...
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Immortal Axes: Guitars That Rock

Lisa S. Johnson - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover

Foreword by Peter FramptonAfterword by Suzi QuatroFrom the photographer of the critically acclaimed 108 Rock Star Guitars comes a new collection of beautifully shot guitar photos, documenting the legendary instruments of B.B. King, Kurt Cobain, St. Vincent, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and more...
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On Jazz: A Personal Journey

Alyn Shipton - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover

Few musical genres inspire the passionate devotion of jazz. Its mystique goes far beyond the melodies and rhythms, with its key players and singers discussed by aficionados with a respect that borders on reverence. Some books on jazz offer little more than theory or dry facts, thereby relinquishing...
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Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power

Aaron Cohen - University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback

Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago's place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans, soul music in its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s was more than just a series of hits: it was a marker and a source of black empowerment. In Move On Up, Aaron...
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Catholica: The Visual Culture of Catholicism

Suzanna Ivanic - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover

This richly illustrated book provides the visual keys for any art lover to decode and understand the iconography, tenets, sites, and rituals of the Catholic faith through accessible analysis of its visual and material culture.Focusing on a carefully curated selection of Catholic art and artifacts,...
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Woodstock: A Photographic Look at the Movie that Shook Up the World and Defined a Generation

Dale Bell - Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book
Format: Hardcover

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock, this brand new photo book goes behind the scenes of the hit documentary film WoodstockWhere were you in the summer of '69? During these tumultuous times, the war was raging; Ali had been stripped of his crown; and in an obscure patch...
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Lewis Hine: The National Research Project 19361937

Lewis Hine - Steidl/Howard Greenberg Library, New York
Format: Hardcover

Hine revealed America's working conditions in both old and new industries throughout the NortheastIn 1936, science teacher turned photographer Lewis Hine was commissioned by the National Research Project, a division of the Works Project Administration, to produce a visual document of the industries...
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Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Olivia Laing - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

"One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction" (Harper's Bazaar) explores the role of art in the tumultuous twenty-first century.In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the twenty- first century...
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