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Goodnight, L.A.: Untold Tales from Inside Classic Rocks Legendary Recording Studios
Kent Hartman - Da Capo Press Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell - Melville House Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Simms Taback - Scholastic Format: Paperback
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Norton Guide to Teaching Music History
Matthew Balensuela - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Paperback(First Edition)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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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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Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French
Harold Holzer - Princeton Architectural Press Format: Hardcover
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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
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| 1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm |
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The Animal Gazer
EDGARDO FRANZOSINI - New Vessel Press Format: Paperback
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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
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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
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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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Cats in Art
DESMOND MORRIS - Reaktion Books Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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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Frederic Church: A Painter's Pilgrimage
Stephen Robert Frankel - Detroit Institute of Arts Format: Paperback
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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
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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
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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
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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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Rich Man, Poor Man: A Memoir
Nick Nolte - William Morrow Format: Hardcover
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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