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The Ottoman Touch: Traditional Decorative Arts and Crafts
Mehmet Zeki KuşogÌ?lu - Blue Dome Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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The Ottoman Touch is an introduction to the classical arts and crafts of the Ottoman period. Being both an academic and artist, Kusoglu discovers the subtle secrets of various traditional arts and crafts, depicting them with lucid texts and vivid images. This book deserves to be a handbook... |
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The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Obscene Obsession
KELSY BURKE - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister, an authoritative, big think look at pornography in all its facets - historical, religious, and cultural. In the 1960s, sex researchers Masters and Johnson declared the end of the fake orgasm. Nearly two decades later, in 1982, evangelical... |
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Oppenheim: Object
Carolyn Lanchner - The Museum of Modern Art
Format: Paperback
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In 1936, invited by Andr Breton to contribute to an exhibition of Surrealist objects, Meret Oppenheim (1913-85) decided to act upon a caf conversation she had recently had with Pablo Picasso and his then companion Dora Maar. Commenting on a fur-covered bracelet that Oppenheim had made... |
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Punk
Rich Weidman - Backbeat
Format: Paperback
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Infused with a raw and energetic sound that stripped rock 'n' roll to the bone, punk rock transformed rock's landscape in the 1970s, deconstructing bloated arena rock and leaving a lasting influence on the music and cultural scene in the United States and overseas. Punk was all about... |
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Made in L.A. 2018
Anne Ellegood - Prestel
Format: Paperback
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This book presents work featured in the 2018 edition of Made in L.A., the Hammer Museum's biennial exhibition.Since its inception in 2012, Made in L.A. has been bringing together regional artists from every discipline and has been curated by some of the most exciting figures in the art world.... |
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The Sketchbook Project World Tour
Steven Peterman - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Paperback
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Destined to go down as one of the era's most astonishing global art projects, the Brooklyn Art Library's Sketchbook Project has, in less than a decade, amassed more than thirty thousand sketchbooks submitted by people of all ages and artistic abilities from more than 130 countries.... |
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We Dont Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy
Caseen Gaines - Plume
Format: Paperback
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A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic Back to the Future trilogy - the perfect movie gift for fans of the franchise, actors, writers, and filmmakers who contributed to this beloved pop culture phenomenon. . Long before Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled through time in a flying... |
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William Morris's Flowers
Rowan Bain - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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A beautiful and informative gift book devoted to designs by William Morris that incorporate flowers -- a central motif in his oeuvre and one that played a part in the majority of his designs.The leading figure of the Arts and Crafts Movement, William Morris (1834-1896) is one of the best-known... |
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Routine Pleasures
Kimberli Meyer - Verlag fr moderne Kunst
Format: Paperback
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This book takes its title from Routine Pleasures (1986) , a film by director Jean-Pierre Gorin, who had once collaborated on a series of politically charged cinetracts with Jean Luc-Godard (as the Dziga Vertov Group) before relocating to teach in San Diego, California. The film delineates... |
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Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps: Mapping the Modern World
Martin Vargic - Harper Design, an imprint of HaprCollinsPublishers, 2015.
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestsellerA stunning full-color collection of inventive, poignant, humorous, and controversial maps of the world from the internationally recognized digital artist behind the stunning "Map of Stereotypes."Slovakian artist Martin Vargic rose to international fame... |
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