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Goodnight, L.A.: Untold Tales from Inside Classic Rocks Legendary Recording Studios

Kent Hartman - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

A behind-the-scenes journey through the rise and demise of the '70s and '80s classic rock eraBefore disco, punk, hair metal, rap, and eventually grunge took it all away, the music scene in Los Angeles was dominated by rock 'n' roll. If a group wanted to hit it big, L.A. was the place to be. But in addition...
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Stoned Beyond Belief

Action Bronson - Abrams Image
Format: Hardcover

Rapper, chef, and television star Action Bronson is a marijuana superhero, both its champion and devoted consumer, and Stoned Beyond Belief is the ultimate love letter to the world's most magical plant: weed. This is an exploration of every corner of the pot galaxy, from highly scientific...
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Treasures of Asian Art: The Asia Society Museum Collection

Denise Patry Leidy - Prestel
Format: Hardcover

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Asia Society in New York, this elegant book explores the breadth and depth of the venerable museum's collection of traditional and contemporary Asian art. Reflected in the holdings of Asia Society, this book shows how contemporary artists from Asia...
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France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child

Katherine Pratt - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover

From the coauthor of My Life in France, a revealing collection of photographs taken by Paul Child that document his and Julia Child's years in France Through intimate and compelling photographs taken by her husband Paul Child, a gifted photographer, France is a Feast documents how Julia...
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CP69271 - Progressive Complete Learn to Play Piano Manual

Peter Gelling - LTP Publications
Format: Hardcover

Progressive COMPLETE LEARN TO PLAY PIANO Manual is the ultimate Piano manual. It assumes you have no prior knowledge of music or playing the Piano and will take you from beginner to professional level. In the course of the book you will learn all the essential techniques of piano playing,...
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Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

Austin Kleon - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

The world is crazy. Creative work is hard. And nothing is getting any easier! In his previous books - Steal Like an Artistand Show Your Work!, New York Times bestsellers with over a million copies in print combined - Austin Kleon gave readers the key to unlock...
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

Eric Klinenberg - Crown
Format: Hardcover

An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our fractured society. We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country...
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell - Melville House
Format: Hardcover

A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our worldNothing is harder to do these...
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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles

Fran Leadon - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening history of Manhattan told through its most celebrated street.In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the street grew longer, houses and taverns began to spring up alongside...
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Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse

Stanley Meisler - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors, including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine and Jules Pascin dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name "the School of Paris" to set them...
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Alfred Sisley: Impressionist Master

Mary Anne Stevens - Editions Hazan, Paris
Format: Hardcover

Born in Paris to British parents, Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) abandoned his business studies early on in order to pursue training as a landscape artist and has become admired for his characteristic subtlety and highly restrained approach to painting. This beautiful publication offers an overdue...
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Mystical Landscapes: From Vincent van Gogh to Emily Carr

Katharine Jordan Lochnan - DelMonico Books Prestel
Format: Print book

This richly illustrated volume explores mystical themes in European, Scandinavian, and North American landscape paintings from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. This book features works by Emily Carr, Marc Chagall, Arthur Dove, Paul Gauguin, Lawren Harris, Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt,...
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Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America

Jesse Jarnow - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic untold story of the Weavers, the hit-making folk-pop quartet destroyed with the aid of the United States government--and who changed the world, anyway Following a series of top 10 hits that became instant American standards, the Weavers dissolved at the height of their fame....
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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Simms Taback - Scholastic
Format: Paperback

From cover to moral never swallow a horse, this cleverly illustrated version of an old folk favorite will delight children. Each page is full of details and humorous asides, from the names of different types of birds, to a recipe for spider soup, to the rhyming asides from the spectating...
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50 Photographers You Should Know

Peter Stepan
Format: Paperback

This dynamic introduction to the world's greatest photographers from the inception of photography to today bears proof of the magic of the camera. From Felix Nadar to Nan Goldin, each of the photographers featured here represents an important aspect of photography's evolution. The artists...
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The Heart of a Boy: Celebrating the Strength and Spirit of Boyhood

Kate T. Parker - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

In her international bestseller Strong Is the New Pretty (with 329,000 copies in print) , the photographer Kate T. Parker changed the way we see girls by showing us their truest selves - fearless, messy, wild, stubborn, proud. Now it's time to talk about our boys. Prompted by #metoo,...
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Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry

Stephen Brown - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A new look at the art of one of the most charming and idiosyncratic personalities of early 20th-century New York Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was a New York original: a society lady who hosted an avant-garde salon in her Manhattan home, a bohemian and a flapper, a poet, a theater designer,...
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition

Oliver Sacks - Vintage
Format: Paperback

Revised and ExpandedWith the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls "musical...
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All Hail the Queen: Twenty Women Who Ruled

Jennifer Orkin Lewis - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

Discover twenty true stories of royal intrigue, power, and passion, brought to life through the gorgeous illustrations of Jennifer Orkin Lewis and the witty words of Shweta Jha. From Cleopatra to Empress Wu Zetian, Marie Antoinette to Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, these extraordinary female...
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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - University of Texas Press
Format: Paperback

How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with...
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NYC Walks: Guide to New Architecture

John Hill - Prestel
Format: Paperback

The first-ever walking tour guide of New York City's stunning contemporary architecture showcases the most intriguing new buildings in the city.It can be hard to keep up with New York City's surge of cutting-edge architecture since the turn of the millennium. This portable, easy-to-use...
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Creating a Self-Portrait

Tom Coates - Watson-Guptill Pubns; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Briefly discusses the history of self-portraits, shows how to work with inks, pencil, pastels, and watercolors, and shares examples of self-portraits by a variety of artists
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Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener's Companion

Tina Frühauf - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener's Companion offers an easy-to-read and new perspective on the remarkably diverse landscape that comprises Jewish music in the United States. This much-needed survey on the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic and diverse musical...
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Everyday Watercolor Flowers: A Modern Guide to Painting Blooms, Leaves, and Stems Step by Step

Jenna Rainey - Watson-Guptill
Format: Paperback

Author of Everyday Watercolor and Instagram darling Jenna Rainey presents a beautiful step-by-step guide to painting botanicals from lilies to daffodils in a wide variety of styles.Artist Jenna Rainey shares easy-to-follow ways to paint a wide range of botanicals, all in her fresh,...
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Norton Guide to Teaching Music History

Matthew Balensuela - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback(First Edition)

The ultimate resource for teaching any music history course This collection of 21 essays from leading teachers and scholars covers everything from teaching historical periods to enlivening the classroom. It is both a resource for current music history teachers and an ideal text for history...
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Annie - 2012 Revival Vocal Selections

Charles Strouse - Hal Leonard Corporation
Format: Paperback

In celebration of its 35th anniversary, a revival of this beloved musical opened on Broadway in 2012. Our songbook features fresh digital engravings of 13 tunes including new songs added just for this edition! Contains piano/vocal arrangements of: Annie * Easy Street * I Don't Need...
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Woody: The Biography

David Evanier - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

In this first biography of Woody Allen in over a decade, David Evanier discusses key movies, plays and prose as well as Allen's personal life. Evanier tackles the themes that Allen has spent a lifetime sorting through in art: morality, sexuality, Judaism, the eternal struggle of head and heart....
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Delacroix

Sébastien Allard - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive monograph on the preeminent French Romantic artist whose work changed the course of European painting Eugne Delacroix (1798-1863) created extraordinary paintings that were known for their dynamic color, brushwork, and movement as well as their original subject matter....
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Compliments of Chicagohoodz: Chicago Street Gang Art & Culture

James "Jinx" O'Connor - Feral House
Format: Paperback

Based on original research, Compliments of Chicagohoodz analyzes the unique visual language and graphics of Chicago's gangs, drawing upon decades of inter- views, documentation, and collecting of memorabilia, and featuring commentary from gang members and Chicago artists.The practice...
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Being Bold with Watercolour

Annette Kane - Batsford
Format: Hardcover

“Bold” isn’t a word generally associated with watercolor, but that’s because most artists don’t know the secrets of using them to create bright, vibrant works. Internationally renowned painter and instructor Annette Kane reveals her three secrets for intensifying...
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Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty

Ben Ratliff - Farrar
Format: Print book

What does it mean to listen in the digital era? Today, new technologies make it possible to roam instantly and experimentally across musical languages and generations, from Detroit techno to jam bands to baroque opera -- or to dive deeper into the set of tastes that we already have. Either...
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Bill Cunningham: On the Street: Five Decades of Iconic Photography

New York Times - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover

This official book of photographs houses the 50-year collection of the most iconic and beloved photographs taken by prolific fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, the king of street style.The iconic Bill Cunningham was known for wearing a blue work jacket and for riding a bicycle around...
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Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe

Ella Frances Sanders - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully illustrated exploration of the principles, laws, and wonders that rule our universe, our world, and our daily lives, from the New York Times bestselling creator of Lost in TranslationHave you ever found yourself wondering what we might have in common with stars,...
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Sing-A-Long: Best of Christmas

Hal Leonard Corp. - Hal Leonard
Format: Paperback

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). It wouldn't be the holidays without a sing-along! This unique Christmas collection features 20 songs with eight pull-out sets of lyrics so that everyone can sing along. Includes: All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth * Blue Christmas * Christmas...
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LIFE: Our Century In Pictures

Tony Chiu - Bulfinch
Format: Hardcover

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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Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French

Harold Holzer - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover

The artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) is America's best-known sculptor of public monuments Monument Man is the first comprehensive biography of this fascinating...
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Bananaphone

Raffi. - Shoreline Records ; Cambridge
Format:  Music : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats

1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm
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The Animal Gazer

EDGARDO FRANZOSINI - New Vessel Press
Format: Paperback

A hypnotic novel inspired by the strange and fascinating life of sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti, brother of the fabled automaker. With World War I closing in and the Belle poque teetering to a close, Bugatti leaves his native Milan for Paris, where he encounters Rodin and casts his bronzes...
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William Wegman : being human

William Wegman - Chronicle Books
Format: Paperback

William Wegman's whimsical photographs of his Weimaraner dogs have been celebrated in the art world and enjoyed by pet lovers for nearly four decades. In this entirely new volume, renowned photography curator William A. Ewing presents more than 300 images from the artist's personal archive,...
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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

DONALD HALL - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

New essays from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny,"* from the former poet laureate of the United States * New York TimesDonald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, one capped most recently by the New York...
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Playing for their lives : the global El sistema movement for social change through music

Tricia Tunstall - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

An eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistema -- intensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty.In some of the bleakest corners of the world, an unprecedented movement is taking root. From the favelas of Brazil to the Maori villages in New Zealand,...
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Cats in Art

DESMOND MORRIS - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover

The cat - that most graceful, stubborn, and agile of animals - has been a favorite subject of artists the world over from prehistory to the modern day. A spectacular 7,000-year-old engraving in Libya depicts a catfight. Figures modeled by the Babylonians remind us of their belief that the souls...
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Mississippi Witness: The Photographs of Florence Mars

James T. Campbell - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Hardcover

In June 1964, Neshoba County, Mississippi, provided the setting for one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era: the Klan-orchestrated murder of three young voting-rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman. Captured on the road between the towns of Philadelphia...
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How New York Breaks Your Heart

Bill Hayes - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

Bill Hayes's critically acclaimed memoir Insomniac City provided a first look at his unique street photography. Now he presents an exquisite collection that captures the full range of his work and the magic of chance encounters in New York City. Hayes's "frank, beautiful, bewitching"...
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New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop

Fatima Bhutto - Columbia Global Reports
Format: Paperback

"Witty and packed with detail, this is an intercultural shot that should be heard around the world." - Kirkus, starred reviewA vast cultural movement is emerging from outside the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet to Hollywood,...
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Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain

Danny Goldberg - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death comes a new perspective on one of the most compelling icons of our time - and the only book written by someone who knew himIn early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from...
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Miracle Dogs: Rescue Stories

Liz Stavrinides - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

78 million dogs live as pets in the USA. These are the lucky ones. Five to seven million companion animals enter shelters every year, and more than half are euthanized due to the lack of space. Miracle Dogs celebrates and honors the rescuers and the dogs whose lives they've saved. It features...
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Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection

Emily Braun - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format: Hardcover

This groundbreaking new history of Cubism, based on works from the most significant private collection in the world today, is written by many of the field's premier art historians and scholars. The collection, recently donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, includes 80 works by Picasso,...
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Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever

Geoff Edgers - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

Washington Post staff writer Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind "Walk This Way," Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music. The early 1980s were an exciting time for music. Hair metal bands were selling out stadiums,...
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Frederic Church: A Painter's Pilgrimage

Stephen Robert Frankel - Detroit Institute of Arts
Format: Paperback

A beautiful overview of fascinating paintings of the classical world and the Holy Land by a beloved American artist Frederic Church (1826-1900) , one of the leading painters of 19th-century America and the Hudson River School, also journeyed around the globe to find fresh inspiration...
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive

John Desmond - The Museum of Modern Art
Format: Hardcover

Unpacking Wright's archive of more than two million objects, on the 150th anniversary of the master architect's birthPublished for a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalog reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, a designer so prolific and familiar...
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Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings

Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format: Hardcover

A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travels Thomas Cole (1801-1848) , arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue...
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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

Mary Gabriel - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The rich, revealing, and thrilling story of five women whose lives and painting propelled a revolution in modern artSet amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle...
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How To Make It in the New Music Business: Practical Tips on Building a Loyal Following and Making a Living as a Musician

Ari Herstand - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Hailed as an "indispensable" guide (Forbes) , How to Make It in the New Music Business returns in this extensively revised and expanded edition.When How to Make It in the New Music Business hit shelves in 2016, it instantly became the go-to resource for musicians eager to make...
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Rich Man, Poor Man: A Memoir

Nick Nolte - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"I had become an actor because real life was hard for me. Sometimes it was really rough. Acting was different from real life, yet it gave me the chance to search for complex stories that helped me understand and cope with what I encountered away from the stage lights."Legendary...
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Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine

Judith A. Barter - Art Institute of Chicago
Format: Book

Food has always been an important source of knowledge about culture and society.  Art and Appetite takes a fascinating new look at depictions of food in American art, demonstrating that artistic representations of edibles offer thoughtful reflection on the cultural, political, economic,...
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Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows

Michael Williams - CityFiles Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Presenting her breathtaking photographs alongside revealing interviews with those who knew her best, this volume is the first attempt to put Vivian Maier's work in context and create a moving portrait of her as an artist. Though she created more than 120,000 negatives during her lifetime,...
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Paul Simon: The Life

Robert Hilburn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A publishing event from music legend Paul Simon: an intimate, candid, and definitive biography written with Simon's participation - but without editorial control - by acclaimed biographer and music writer Robert Hilburn.Through such hits as "The Sound of Silence," "Bridge...
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A Mad Love: An Introduction to Opera

Vivien Schweitzer - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A lively introduction to opera, from the Renaissance to the twenty-first centuryThere are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera-and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic past and present, beginning...
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Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party

Eliza E Rathbone - GILES
Format: Hardcover

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880-81) is the jewel of The Phillips Collection. This volume reveals the fascinating characters in the painting and explores Renoir's technique.Eliza Rathbone is chief curator emerita at The Phillips Collection in Washington,...
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Nothing Is Lost: Selected Essays

Ingrid Sischy - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the late editor, writer, and critic, one of the great chroniclers of the art, fashion, and celebrity scenes: an expansive collection of thirty-five essays that offer an intimate look into the worlds of some of the most important and well-known artists, designers, and actors of our time.For...
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Masters in Forbidden City

Han Xiao - Guangxi Normal University Press
Format: Paperback

The author Lv Yao had in-depth interviews with 12 cultural relic repairmen, showing the readers their work in details. This book is classified into six parts according to the categories of the cultural relics: clocks and watches, copper ware, pictures, framed paintings, wood ware and lacquer...
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Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How "The Graduate" Became the Touchstone of a Generation

Beverly Gray - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" When The Graduate premiered in December 1967, its filmmakers had only modest expectations attached to what seemed to be a small, sexy, art house comedy adapted from an obscure first novel by an eccentric twenty-four-year-old....
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Andy WarholFrom A to B and Back Again

Donna De Salvo - Whitney Museum of American Art
Format: Hardcover

A unique 360degree view of an incomparable 20th-century American artist One of the most emulated and significant figures in modern art, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) rose to fame in the 1960s with his iconic Pop pieces. Warhol expanded the boundaries by which art is defined and created groundbreaking...
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Public Library Core Collection, 2019: Nonfiction, Seventeenth Edition

H.W. Wilson - H.W. Wilson
Format: Hardcover

Wilson's Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction (17th Edition, 2019) recommends reference and nonfiction books for the general adult audience. It is a guide to over 12,000, plus review sources and other professional aids for librarians and media specialists.
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Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments

J. L. Pickering - University Press of Florida
Format: Hardcover

Picturing Apollo 11 is an unprecedented photographic history of the space mission that defined an era. Through a wealth of unpublicized and recently discovered images, this book presents new and rarely-seen views of the people, places, and events involved in the pioneering first...
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Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music

John Corbett - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest - from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered as a bizarre blur of bohemianism and disco....
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Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury

Carolyn Burke - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities, passionate feelings, and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art.New York, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz,...
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Rick Steves Rome 2018

Rick Steves - Rick Steves
Format: Paperback

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in the Eternal City of Rome.With the self-guided tours in this book, you'll walk the same streets as the Caesars and discover the secrets of the Colosseum and the Roman Forum. Learn how to avoid the lines...
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