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Midcentury Christmas: Holiday Fads, Fancies, and Fun from 1945 to 1970
Sarah Archer - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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A celebration of Christmas in the 1950s and '60sMidcentury America was a wonderland of department stores, suburban cul-de-sacs, and Tupperware parties. Every kid on the block had to have the latest cool toy, be it an Easy Bake Oven for pretend baking, a rocket ship for pretend space travel,... |
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Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, The Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin
Paul Hockenos - The New Press
Format: Print book
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An exhilarating journey through the subcultures, occupied squats, and late-night scenes in the anarchic first few years of Berlin after the fall of the wallBerlin Calling is a gripping account of the 1989 "peaceful revolution" in East Germany that upended communism and the tumultuous... |
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Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway
Michael Riedel - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Broadway's most respected (and feared) commentator pulls back the curtain on its stars, its producers, and its mega-hits to reveal all the shocking drama, intrigue, and power plays that happened off stage.Razzle Dazzle is a provocative, no-holds-barred narrative account of the people... |
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North of Dixie: Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South
Mark Speltz - J. Paul Getty Museum
Format: Print book
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The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma - leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Speltz shines a light past the most iconic... |
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Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums
The The Economist - Economist
Format: Print book
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In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Neil Gaiman, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Muse Rodin in Paris, and Tate Modern in London.... |
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The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
Anthony M. Amore - St. Martin's Press
Format: eBook
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Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons... |
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Joe Jones: Radical Painter of the American Scene
Joe Jones - Saint Louis Art Museum
Format: Hardcover
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This groundbreaking volume is a long-overdue consideration of the life and work of Joe Jones (1909-1963) , an American scene painter and social realist from St. Louis. The book examines Jones's meteoric rise from humble housepainter to established artist of national importance and recognition.... |
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Inge Morath: On Style
Inge Morath - Abrams
Format: Print book
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Witty, playful, and effortlessly chic, Inge Morath: On Style reveals the vital forms of fashion and self-expression that blossomed into existence in England, France, and the United States in the postwar decades. The book follows the photojournalist Inge Morath (1923-2002) through intimate... |
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Hieronymus Bosch : visions of genius
Matthijs Ilsink - Mercatorfonds
Format: Print book
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Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) lived and worked in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, where he created enigmatic paintings and drawings full of bizarre creatures, phantasmagoric monsters, and terrifying nightmares. He also depicted detailed landscapes and found inspiration in fundamental... |
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Matisse: In His Time
Cécile Debray - 24 ORE Cultura 2016.
Format: Print book
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* Presents the work of Henri Matisse through his influences, friendships, contemporaries and connections, juxtaposing Matisse's pieces with those of other artists, such as Picasso and Braque, placing each work in its context * Accompanies an exhibition at the Oklahoma Museum from... |
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Piano and Keyboard All-in-One For Dummies (For Dummies Series)
Holly Day - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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The go-to reference for aspiring pianists and keyboard playersPiano & Keyboard All-in-One For Dummies makes it easier and more fun than ever to make music! If you dont know how to read music, this book explains in friendly, uncomplicated language all the basics of music theory, and applies... |
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Dangerous Rhythm: Why Movie Musicals Matter
Richard Barrios - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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Singin' in the Rain, The Sound of Music, Camelot--love them or love to hate them, movie musicals have been a major part of all our lives. They're so glitzy and catchy that it seems impossible that they could have ever gone any other way. But the ease in which they unfold on the screen... |
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The Rough Guide to Canada
Rough Guides. - Rough Guides
Format: Print book
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The Rough Guide to Canada is the ultimate guide to this vast and varied land.With plenty of recommendations for things to see and do, from Toronto and Montreal to Vancouver, and from the east coast to the far north, you'll discover all the best this country has to offer.This guide... |
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Men and Style: Essays, Interviews and Considerations
David Coggins - Harry N Abrams
Format: Print book
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Men and Style reaches beyond standard "what to wear" advice: It is equal parts style guide and intriguing conversation about the masculine identity within the world of fashion. David Coggins explores the history of men's style and learns from some of the most notable tastemakers... |
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Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays
Witold Rybczynski - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Format: Print book
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A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homesIn Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski, the author of How Architecture Works, casts a seasoned critical eye on the modern scene. His subject is nothing less than the broad setting of our metropolitan... |
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Talking Guitar: Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music
Jas Obrecht - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this lively collection of interviews, storied music writer Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the worlds most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players. Readers will read--and hear--accounts of the first guitarists on record,... |
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Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop
Marc Myers - Grove Press
Format: Print book
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Every great song has a story that needs to be told. In Anatomy of a Song, based on the ongoing Wall Street Journal column, writer and music historian Marc Myers brings to life five decades of music through forty-five transformative songs and oral-history interviews with the artists who created... |
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Monet's Private Picture Gallery at Giverny: Paintings by Monet and His Friends
Sylvie Patin - Gourcuff Gradenigo
Format: Print book
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An intimate look into Monet's private gallery in his home at Giverny, featuring works by Boudin, Jongkind, Manet, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Caillebotte, Pissarro, Sisley, Degas, Cezanne and Signac "Monet at home, in this house that is so modest and yet so sumptuous in its interior... |
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Tokyo Fashion City: A Detailed Guide to Tokyo's Trendiest Fashion Districts
Philomena Keet - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Print book
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The fashionable, eccentric pedestrians of Tokyo are captured with hundreds of portrait photographs in this fun guide to Tokyo street fashion.Tokyo is considered one of the world's style capitals for its vibrant youth fashion culture. Part guide book, part fashion photography album,... |
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Victoria Beckham: Style Power
David Foy - Art Of Pub
Format: Print book
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First book dedicated to Victoria Beckham's work as a fashion designerThe perfect gift book for fashion lovers everywhereFrom Posh Spice to fashion mogul!Victoria Beckham: Style Power explores the dynamic rise of Victoria Beckham as a fashion designer. This beautifully packaged book... |
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The Drybar Guide to Good Hair for All: How to Get the Perfect Blowout at Home
Alli Webb - Harry N Abrams
Format: Print book
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Picture this. Your hair is a mess and you feel like a nut. You open your Drybar book and you feel better already! The Drybar Guide to Good Hair for All is the ultimate handbook for at-home hairstyling. Author Alli Webb, a long-time stylist and life-long curly hair girl, founded Drybar... |
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The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2016
Lawrence Harbison - Smith & Kraus
Format: Print book
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Here you will find a rich and varied selection of monologues for men from plays which were produced and/or published in the 2015-2016 theatrical season. Most are for younger performers (teens through 30s) but there are also some excellent pieces for older actors as well. Some are comic,... |
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From the Headlines to Hollywood: The Birth and Boom of Warner Bros.
Chris Yogerst - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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More than any other studio, Warner Bros. used edgy, stylistic, and brutally honest films to construct a view of America that was different from the usual buoyant Hollywood fare. The studio took seriously Harry Warner's mandate that their films had a duty to educate and demonstrate key values... |
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2014 photographer's market
Mary Burzlaff Bostic - North Light Books
Format: Book : English : 37th annual ed
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The Successful Photographer's Secret!Thousands of successful photographers have trusted Photographer's Market as a resource for growing their businesses. This edition contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date market contacts for working photographers today: magazines, book publishers,... |
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Keith Moon: There is No Substitute
Ian Snowball - Omnibus Press
Format: Hardcover
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With an introduction by Pete Townshend, There Is No Substitute is a tribute to The Who's late drummer Keith Moon, compiled by Ian Snowball with the authorisation the Keith Moon Estate and Keith's daughter Amanda de Wolf.The book includes a collection of seen and unseen photographs... |
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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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From Barnum & Bailey to Feld: The Creative Evolution of the Greatest Show on Earth
Ernest Albrecht - McFarland
Format: Paperback
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Since its inception in 1872, the Greatest Show on Earth has continually transformed itself to meet changing tastes and cultural shifts. Over the course of its long existence, it has been at various times a biblical spectacle and historical pageant, a ceremonial introduction to the peoples... |
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2017 Photographer's Market
Noel Rivera - North Light
Format: Print book
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Readers get access to the AMO website and print version with 1500 markets. Readers are shown how to contact photo buyers with dozens of sample photographs that will help photographers see what types of photos photo buyers want. This book is intimately connected to the website, which not only... |
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Drawing and Painting Animals with Expression
Marjolein Kruijt - Search Press Limited
Format: Print book
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A beautiful and inspirational guide to making your animal portraits and artworks leap to life. Learn to accurately and sympathetically depict the animals which inspire you, capturing that elusive glint of life in their eyes and the textures in their fur and musculature. With instructions... |
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Business and Legal Forms for Illustrators
Tad Crawford - Allworth Press
Format: Print book
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The fourth edition of this popular guide contains twenty-nine of the most essential business and legal forms to meet the everyday needs of today's illustrators. Updated throughout, new forms include a promissory note, releases, and an agreement to arbitrate. Each form is accompanied... |
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Eye to Eye: Intimate Encounters with the Animal World
Frans Lanting - Taschen
Format: Book
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With his camera and telephoto lens, Frans Lanting seeks to act as a go-between to document insights into the animal kingdom for the reader. The book includes over 130 colour photographs as well as three fold-out pages. |
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
Bob Stanley - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An addictively readable, encyclopedic history of pop music in chapters as short and adrenaline-fueled as the best pop songs themselves. As much fun to argue with as to quote, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! is a monumental work of musical history, tracing the story of pop music through individual songs,... |
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2013 Photographer's Market
Mary Burzlaff Bostic - North Light Books; Thirty-sixth Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Everything You Need to Find Buyers for Your Photos Thousands of successful photographers have trusted Photographer's Market as a resource for growing their businesses. This edition contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date market contacts for working photographers today: magazines,... |
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The Lyrics: 1961-2020
Bob Dylan - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A beautiful, comprehensive volume of Dylans lyrics, from the beginning of his career through the present day - with the songwriters edits to dozens of songs, appearing here for the first time.
Bob Dylan is one of the most important songwriters of our time,... |
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Veranda Retreats
Mario López-Cordero - Hearst Books
Format: Print book
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With all the style, quality, and elegance you've come to expect from VERANDA, this entry in the magazine's bestselling series of home decorating books invites you into the world's most stunning houses. Lushly romantic or quietly minimalist, boasting verdant farmland or a beckoning... |
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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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Painting What
Charles Reid - Echo Point Books & Media
Format: Print book
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If you have ever wanted to control your art so you can paint anything-and paint it well-this book is for you! The mediums are oil, watercolor, and contour drawing, but this is a book about making good paintings, not about a particular medium. The subject matter is broad, ranging from still... |
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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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Steve McCurry: On Reading
Steve Mccurry - Phaidon
Format: Print book
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A celebration of the timeless act of reading - as seen through the lens of one of the world's most beloved photographersYoung or old, rich or poor, engaged in the sacred or the secular, people everywhere read. This homage to the beauty and seductiveness of reading brings together a collection... |
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A Strange Business: Art, Culture, and Commerce in Nineteenth Century London
James Hamilton - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid excursion into London's nineteenth century art world, evoking the famed personalities, social changes, and technological advances that sparked a revolution in art commerce. Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence... |
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Acappella Living in the Shadows 1963-1973: A Social History
Abraham J Santiago - Harbinger Press
Format: Print book
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Author and film documentarian Abraham Santiago, unveils the definitive history of contemporary acappella within the confines of rhythm and blues vocal group singing. Santiago captures the spirit of the 1960s and beyond revealing the birth of acappella as a new pop genre. With rare photos... |
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The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities
Ms. Stephanie Meeks - Island Press
Format: Paperback
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At its most basic, historic preservation is about keeping old places alive, in active use, and relevant to the needs of communities today. As cities across America experience a remarkable renaissance, and more and more young, diverse families choose to live, work, and play in historic neighborhoods,... |
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2015 Photographer's Market
Mary Burzlaff Bostic - North Light Books; Thirty-eighth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The Successful Photographer's Secret!Thousands of successful photographers have trusted Photographer's Market as a resource for growing their businesses. This edition contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date market contacts for working photographers today: magazines, book... |
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How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art
David Salle - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Book
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A master class in contemporary art by one of the preeminent painters of our time.How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists... |
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The Beatles: Six Days that Changed the World. February 1964
Bill Eppridge - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover
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Astonishing, richly spontaneous, and almost entirely unpublished images of the Beatles' historic first trip to the United States, as chronicled by an award-winning photographer given unique access to their tour. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles'... |
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Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design
Esther da Costa Meyer - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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A revealing look at the visionary French furniture designer and architect, highlighting his virtuoso designs and versatile creativity The designer and architect Pierre Chareau (1883-1950) was a pivotal figure in modernism. His extraordinary Art Deco furniture is avidly collected and his visionary... |
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Vogue Colors A to Z: A Fashion Coloring Book
Valerie Steiker - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book
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In this first-ever coloring book from American Vogue, you are invited into a world of fashion fantasy. Twenty-six archival magazine covers from 1912 to 1932, by ten celebrated illustrators living here and abroad, take you back to a more playful and whimsical moment of boas, bows, hats and headpieces,... |
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When Broadway Went to Hollywood
Ethan Mordden - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart, among many others - were enticed westward by Hollywood studios'... |
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Showstoppers!: The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs
Gerald Nachman - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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When Robert Preston shouted Ya got trouble in River City, when Carol Channing glided down a gilded staircase while waiters serenaded her with Hello, Dolly , when Barbra Streisand defied us to rain on her parade inFunny Girl, audiences were instantly enchanted. After such indelible moments,... |
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Brand-New and Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s
Diana Tuite - Colby College Museum of Art, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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Celebrating an experimental decade in the career of Alex Katz, this book introduces audiences to a relatively unknown body of his work. Coming of age as an artist in the 1950s, Alex Katz set out to reinvent representational painting in the wake of Abstract Expressionism. At first, Katz... |
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Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Nineteenth-Century Home
Lucinda Hawksley - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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The shocking story of a deadly trend in Victorian wallpaper design, illustrated by beautiful and previously unseen arsenic-riddled designs from the British National ArchivesIn Germany, in 1814, Wilhelm Sattler created an extremely toxic arsenic and verdigris compound pigment, Schweinfurt... |
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Prairie Metropolis: Chicago and the Birth of a New American Home
Patrick F Cannon - Pomegranate Communications
Format: Book
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Louis H. Sullivan, one of America's most influential architects, strove to develop a purely American architectural vision, and his ideas led his student Frank Lloyd Wright, and Wright's contemporaries, to develop the Prairie School. Wright's strongly horizontal designs, with... |
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Gotta Go Gotta Flow: Life, Love, and Lust on Chicago's South Side From the Seventies
Patricia Smith - Cityfiles Pr, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Mesmerized by the '70s nightclub culture on Chicago's South Side, Michael Abramson became a part of the scene and spent three years taking photographs in five clubs. More than 40 years later, Patricia Smith, nationally-known poet and slam poetry champion, comes across Abramson's work and is inspired... |
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Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution Through Painters' Eyes
Paul J Staiti - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual shape to Revolutionary events and symbolized an entirely new concept of leadership and government. Since then they have endured as indispensable icons,... |
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Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
JEAN R FREEDMAN - UNIV OF ILLINOIS Press
Format: Print book
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Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life story of one of music's most charismatic performers and tireless advocates. Here is the story... |
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Musicals in Film: A Guide to the Genre
Thomas S Hischak - Greenwood
Format: Hardcover
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This comprehensive guide covers movie musicals from their introduction with the 1927 film The Jazz Singer through 2015 releases. In all, it describes 125 movies, opening up the world of this popular form of entertainment to preteens, teens, and adults alike.An introduction explains the advent... |
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Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles
William McKeen - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Los Angeles in the 1960s gave the world some of the greatest music in rock 'n' roll history: "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and the Papas, "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds, and "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys, a song that magnificently summarized the joy and beauty... |
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Widow Basquiat: A Love Story
Jennifer Clement - Broadway Books
Format: Book
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The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and their life together New York City in the 1980s was a mesmerizing, wild place. A hotbed for hip hop, underground culture, and unmatched creative energy, it spawned some of the most significant... |
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The Rolling Stones All the Songs The Story Behind Every Track
Philippe Margotin - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Print book
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Comprehensive visual history of the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" as told through the recording of their monumental catalog, including 29 studio and 24 compilation albums, and more than a hundred singles. Since 1963, The Rolling Stones have been recording and touring,... |
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Television: A Biography
David Thomson - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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"The invention, or the quaint piece of furniture, wandered into our lives in the 1940s, as a primitive plaything, a clever if awkward addition to the household. It was expensive, unreliable and a bit of an invalid." - Television, A BiographyIn just a few years, what used to be an immobile... |
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Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age
Alona Pardo - Prestel
Format: Hardcover
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The relationship between architecture and photography is the focus of this book that features the work of eighteen influential artists, from the 1930s to the present day. Architecture has long been a subject matter for photographers, who utilize the medium not just to document the built... |
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Lincolns White House: The Peoples House in Wartime
JAMES B CONROY - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Co-winner of the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeLincolns White House is the first book devoted to capturing the look, feel, and smell of the executive mansion from Lincolns inauguration in 1861 to his assassination in 1865. James Conroy brings to life the people who knew it, from servants... |
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The Space Within: Inside Great Chicago Buildings
Patrick F Cannon - Pomegranate
Format: Print book
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For the first time, the interiors of some of the Chicago area s greatest buildings, designed by celebrated architects, are brought together and featured in truly stunning original photographs. These Chicago-area homes, religious spaces, and commercial and public structures give visual meaning... |
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Daily show - the book : an oral history
Chris Smith - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host. For almost seventeen years, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political... |
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The Professional Actor's Handbook: From Casting Call to Curtain Call
Julio Agustin - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Pursuing an acting career is not easy. It takes hard work, dedication, and the ability to shrug off rejection. It also requires an ability to navigate the pitfalls of an often precarious profession. While there are many books that attempt to teach people how to act, there are few books... |
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Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
Bobby Seale - Harry N Abrams
Format: Print book
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In words and photographs, Power to the People is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded 50 years ago in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The words are Seale's, with contributions by other former party members; the photographs, including many icons of the 1960s,... |
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Two
Melissa Ann Pinney - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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Two is an exquisite collection of captivating and thought-provoking photographs by award-winning photographer Melissa Ann Pinney that contemplate the essence of duality in our relationships and in the world that surrounds us. Edited and introduced by Pinneys friend, New York Times bestselling... |
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Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art
Miranda Isabel Lash - Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Format: Print book
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Featuring the work of sixty artists and including 300 illustrations, the catalog Southern Accent accompanies a major contemporary art exhibition that questions and explores the complex and contested space of the American South. This unprecedented exhibition investigates the many realities,... |
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The Coveteur: Private Spaces, Personal Style
Stephanie Mark - Harry N Abrams
Format: Print book
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Based on the wildly popular fashion website, The Coveteur is a photography coffee table book offering exclusive access to celebrity closets and homes. TheCoveteur.com has over four million visitors a month who come for the insider portraiture, profiles, and beautiful photographic excavations... |
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Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago: In Their Own Words
John Mayer - Methuen
Format: Print book
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In 1974, a group of determined, young high school actors started doing plays under the name of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, eventually taking residence in the basement of a church in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago. Thus began their unlikely journey to become one of the most prominent... |
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The Art of Movement
Deborah Ory - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Print book
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A stunning celebration of movement and dance in hundreds of breathtaking photographs of more than 70 dancers from American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Martha Graham Dance Company, Boston Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, the Royal Ballet, and many... |
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Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music
Jan Swafford - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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For many of us, classical music is something serious-something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible... |
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Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg - Museum Of Modern Art
Format: Print book
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The early 1950s, when Robert Rauschenberg launched his career, was the heyday of the heroic gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. Rauschenberg challenged this tradition, inventing new intermedia forms of art making that shaped the decades to come. Published in conjunction with the inaugural... |
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Back To Black: Amy Winehouse's Only Masterpiece
Donald Brackett - Backbeat Books
Format: Print book
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(Book) . Be a fly on the wall: get the inside history and behind-the-scenes events in the making of a masterpiece. In this refreshing book which focuses solely on Amy Winehouse's musical artistry, stylistic influences, and creative collaborations with great producers and musicians, instead... |
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East Lake View
Matthew Nickerson - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback
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East Lake View is one of Chicago's most popular neighborhoods. But what exactly is East Lake View? It is Wrigleyville, Boystown, and Belmont Harbor. It is New Town, if you talk to a longtimer. Change has swept East Lake View many times, often leaving a new name behind. One thing has stayed... |
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Wild, Beautiful Places: Picture-Perfect Journeys Around the Globe
National Geographic. - National Geographic Soc
Format: Print book
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Experience the world's most wild, remote, beautiful places with shots by National Geographic photographers and vintage photos pulled from the National Geographic archives. Highlighting 50 of Earth's most pristine, scenic locales, this beautiful book is illustrated with stunning images,... |
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2011 Photographer's Market
Mary Burzlaff Bostic - North Light Books; Thirty-fourth Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO FIND BUYERS FOR YOUR PHOTOSFor more than three decades, photographers have trusted Photographer's Market. This must-have resource offers all the markets that are right for you: magazines, book publishers, greeting card companies, stock agencies, advertising... |
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The Decibel Diaries: A Journey through Rock in 50 Concerts
Carter Alan - ForeEdge
Format: Print book
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Sometimes a rock concert is more than just an event. Every so often a band's performance becomes a musical milestone, a cultural watershed, a political statement, and a personal apotheosis. On any given night a rock concert can tell the truth about who we are, where we are, and what's... |
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The Belly Art Project: Moms Supporting Moms
Sara Blakely - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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The Belly Art Project is a celebration of one of humanity's greatest gifts: motherhood! Created by Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx and the Sara Blakely Foundation, this beautiful, happy book features photographs of over 100 women who came together and used unlikely canvases - their... |
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Victoria
Helen Rappaport - Harper Design
Format: Print book
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The official companion to the Masterpiece presentation on PBS, Victoria delves into the private writings of the young Queen Victoria, painting a vivid picture of the personal life of one of England's greatest monarchs. From the producers of Poldark and Endeavour, ITV's Victoria follows... |
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Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York
Justin Davidson - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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From New York magazine's architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York City - a historical, cultural, architectural, and personal approach to seven neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, including six essays that help us understand the evolution... |
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The Complete Book of North American Railroading
Kevin EuDaly - Voyageur Press
Format: Print book
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The year 1827 marked the completion of the United States' first railroad--and the beginning of a transformation of American life. This book, spanning nearly two centuries, offers an exhilarating tour of the railways' inroads into the economy, society, and culture of North America.... |
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Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Historys Greatest Buildings
James Crawford - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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An inviting, fascinating compendium of twenty-one of historys most famous lost places, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin TowersBuildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents... |
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The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963
Ed Ward - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative -- from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues,... |
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The Today Show: Transforming Morning Television
Cathleen M. Londino - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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In the early 1950s, when television networks did not broadcast regular programming before 11 a.m., radio and newspapers were the most popular and reliable ways for Americans to get their morning news. Then, Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, vice president of programming at NBC, pitched a bold new concept... |
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Patterns: Inside the Design Library
Peter Koepke - Phaidon
Format: Print book
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An insider's guide to the world's largest archive of patterns and textiles, the source of inspiration for the globe's top designersEvery season, designers from fashion, home furnishings, textiles, graphic arts, and paper-product industries seek inspiration from patterns to bring... |
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J.J. Abrams vs. Joss Whedon: Duel for Media Master of the Universe
Wendy Sterba - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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J.J. Abrams and Joss Whedon are two of the most imaginative and accomplished men in Hollywood. As writers, directors, producers, and series creators, their credits have straddled the mediums of television and film and range across several genres, from science fiction and horror to action... |
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