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Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
Justin McGuirk - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In RADICAL CITIES, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from... |
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Street Craft: Yarnbombing, Guerilla Gardening, Light Tagging, Lace Graffiti and More
Riikka Kuittinen - Thames & Hudson
Format: Print book
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An exciting introduction to a new generation of street artists whose spontaneous craft installations are leaving their mark on cities around the world In the past decade, street art has transformed from a practice carried out by anonymous creators, seen by some as vandalism, into a commercial... |
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Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities
Witold Rybczynski - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift... |
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Contemporary Disney: 50 Favorite Songs
HAL LEONARD PUBLISHING CORPORATION. - HAL LEONARD
Format: Print book
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . 50 songs are featured in this third edition of an outstanding collection of Disney favorites. Includes: Beauty and the Beast * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Colors of the Wind * Evil like Me * For the First Time in Forever * Go the Distance * Hakuna Matata... |
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Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens
Vaughn Sills - Trinity University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Places for the Spirit is a stunning collection of over 80 documentary photographs of African American folk gardens — and their creators — in the Deep South (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina). These landscapes have a unique historical... |
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American Titan: Searching for John Wayne
Marc Eliot - Dey Street Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the veteran New York Times bestselling biographer comes a major, in-depth look at one of the most enduring American icons of all time, "the Duke," John Wayne.As he did in his bestselling biographies of Jimmy Stewart and Clint Eastwood, acclaimed Hollywood biographer Marc... |
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The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide
Terryl Whitlatch - Chronicle Books
Format: Paperback
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Now in paperback, this deluxe field guide offers a unique look at the creatures that populate the Star Wars galaxy. Packed with hundreds of detailed and colorful illustrations of exotic entities in a wide array of habitats - from the ice fields of Hoth and the pastures of Naboo to the concrete... |
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A-Z of Bird Portraits: In Acrylics
Andrew Forkner - Search Press
Format: Hardcover
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Andrew Forkners book provides you with all you need to paint a range of birds in acrylics taking in birds of prey, songbirds and waterbirds from all over the world including Europe, the USA, Asia, the UK and Australia. It contains information on the materials and preparation you will need... |
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The Complete Photo Manual
The Editors of Popular Photography - Weldon Owen
Format: Paperback
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Today's cameras are more powerful and easy to use than ever - and thanks to The Complete Photo Manual Revised Edition, picture-perfect photos are just a shutter's click away! This revised edition includes a fresh basics section to help true novices master their machine, with fantastic... |
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A Sentimental Christmas Book
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation - Hal Leonard
Format: Paperback
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . An outstanding collection of nearly 30 beloved Christmas favorites, including: All I Want for Christmas Is You * Blue Christmas * Christmas Lights * The Christmas Shoes * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Christmas Time Is Here... |
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Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage
Gwendolen Webster - The Menil Collection; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Best known for his extraordinary abstract collages, German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) is one of the most influential figures of the international avant-garde. Emphasizing the significance of color and light in the artist’s work and delving into the relationship... |
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This Is Not a Photo Opportunity: The Street Art of Banksy
Martin Bull - PM Press
Format: Print book
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This Is Not a Photo Opportunity is a street-level, full-color showcase of some of Banksy's most innovative pieces ever. Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Once... |
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Artist's Sketchbook: Exercises and Techniques for Sketching on the Spot
Cathy Johnson - North Light Books
Format: Paperback
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Grab your pen and seize the day! Make art a part of your everyday life, and everyday life a part of your art. Vast opportunities and great joy await you as you learn sketching "on the spot"--be it in your own backyard, amid the bustle of a busy market, on a hike or wherever you happen... |
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Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun
Carla Sonheim - Quarry Books
Format: Paperback
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Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume.... |
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Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles, 1940-1954
Virgil Thomson - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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Revisit the Golden Age of classical music in America through the witty and adventurous reviews of our greatest critic-composer: For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished... |
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Iggy & the Stooges: Raw Power
Mick Rock - Palazzo Editions
Format: Print book
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Rock history is made right in front of the lens—a new, smaller format edition includes an interview with, and foreword by, Iggy himself "Mick Rock is one crazy photographer. This is the shit." —Iggy Pop When the Godfather of Punk met the Godfather of Rock... |
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Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography
Chris Salewicz - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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An in-depth biography of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page by the acclaimed biographer of Bob Marley and Joe Strummer, based upon the author's extensive research and interviewsThe original enigmatic rock star, Jimmy Page is a mass of contradictions. A towering presence in the guitar world... |
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Painting Successful Watercolours from Photographs
Geoff Kersey - Search Press
Format: Print book
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Artists who work from photographic source material need to learn how to adapt and improve in order to create a successful painting. Geoff Kersey is a master of this way of working, and here he shows how it is done. Reference photographs, colour charts and preparatory sketches are shown... |
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Beyonc in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism
Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley - University of Texas Press
Format: eBook
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Making headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omise'eke Tinsley's undergraduate course "Beyonc Feminism, Rihanna Womanism" has inspired students from all walks of life. In Beyonc in Formation, Tinsley now takes her rich observations beyond the classroom, using the blockbuster... |
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All About Techniques in Calligraphy: An Indispensable Manual for Artists and Hobbyists
Parramónâ??s Editorial Team - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Hardcover
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The newest title in Barron's popular All About Techniques Series presents a self-teaching calligraphy course for art students and ambitious hobbyists. A command of lettering is a part of every professional graphic designer's repertory of skills, and this book takes students step-by-step... |
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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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Plain Simple Useful: The Essence of Conran Style
Terence Conran - Conran Octopus
Format: Hardcover
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Terence Conran has always believed that objects - and surroundings - that are plain, simple and useful are the key to easy living. By being practical and performing well over time, they are as much the antidote to superficial styling as they are to the shoddy and second-rate. Applied to the home... |
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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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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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Robin Williams: A Singular Portrait, 1986-2002
Arthur Grace - Counterpoint LLC
Format: Print book
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I had always thought that when I was around 84 and Robin was 80 we could collaborate on a book about the golden years of his career where he could look at my photographs and reminisce about the events and his feelings at the time. Unfortunately, that book was never to be . . . .Photographer... |
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This is Warhol
Catherine Ingram - Laurence King
Format: Hardcover
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Andy Warhol, the iconic Pop artist, presented himself as the vacuous, dumb kid, famously saying, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings . and there I am. There's nothing behind it." This book penetrates the surface and explores... |
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The Art of Hand Lettering for Beginners: Beautiful Projects and Essential Techniques
Joanna Muñoz - Rockridge Press
Format: Paperback
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Transform your words into an art form with the largest collection of tutorials, alphabets, and DIY projects from The Art of Hand Lettering for Beginners.Hand lettering adds a fun, creative touch to crafts and projects -- and the best way to learn is to start putting pen to paper. The Art of Hand... |
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J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free
David Blayney Brown - J. Paul Getty Museum; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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When the prolific British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner 17751851 died at the age of 76, his contemporaries held a generally negative view of his recent work, describing it as indulgent, eccentric, and even repulsive. But over the past century, a number of curators and critics have... |
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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.: A Memoir
Viv Albertine - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Ms. Albertines book is wiry and cogent and fearless. Her book has an honest, lo-fi grace. If it were better written, it would be worse.--Dwight Garner, The New York TimesForget Katniss And Tris - Viv Albertine Is Your New Hero.--MTV.comThe Rough Trade 1 Book of the Year!Viv Albertine is a pioneer.... |
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Architecture at the End of the Earth: Photographing the Russian North
William Craft Brumfield - Duke University Press Books
Format: Hardcover
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Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely populated and immensely isolated. It is also the home to architectural marvels, as many of the original... |
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How to Read Modern Buildings: A Crash Course in Architecture of the Modern Era
Will Jones - Universe
Format: Paperback
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Small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this is the ultimate field guide to understanding modern architecture. This eighth entry in Rizzoli's popular How to Read ... series is a one-stop guide to understanding the world's iconic modern buildings:... |
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Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga
Hirohiko Araki - VIZ Media LLC
Format: Hardcover
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Learn how to create manga from Hirohiko Araki - creator of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and a master of the medium!Hirohiko Araki is the author of one of the longest-running and most beloved manga of all time, the epic fan favorite JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. According to him, manga... |
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The New Colored Pencil: Create Luminous Works with Innovative Materials and Techniques
Kristy Ann Kutch - Watson-Guptill Publications
Format: Paperback
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Start coloring, relieve stress, and learn to create radiant, original works of art using colored pencils, wax pastels, and watercolor pencils.Add vibrancy to your coloring creations with instruction from best-selling author and teacher Kristy Kutch as she guides you through recommendations... |
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Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir
Dave Mustaine - It Books; Later Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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From his early, crazy days as a founding member of Metallica, Dave Mustaine has seen and experienced everything in the world of rock n' roll. From his young triumphs and ignominious ouster from the band for his hard-partying ways to his later rule over Megadeth, one of the most successful... |
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The Flatlanders: Now It's Now Again
John T. Davis - University of Texas Press
Format: Paperback
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A group of three friends who made music in a house in Lubbock, Texas, recorded an album that wasn't released and went their separate ways into solo careers. That group became a legend and then—twenty years later—a band. The Flatlanders—Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore,... |
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The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
Stefan Al - The MIT Press
Format: Print book
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The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates,... |
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American Ballads: The Photographs of Marty Stuart
Marty Stuart - Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Format: Print book
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Although known primarily as a country music star, Marty Stuart has been taking photographs of the people and places surrounding him since he first went on tour with bluegrass performer Lester Flatt at age twelve. His inspirations to do this include his own mother, Hilda Stuart, whom he watched... |
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Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel
William Wellman Jr. - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary lifethe firstof the legendary, undercelebrated Hollywood director known in his day as Wild Bill and he was! Wellman, whose eighty-two movies six of them uncredited, many of them iconic many of them sharp, cold, brutal others poetic, moving all of them a lesson in close-up... |
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Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life
Joseph Leo Koerner - Princeton University Press ; Washington
Format: Print book
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In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its polar opposite: the depiction of an enemy... |
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Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual
Barbara Brundage - OReilly Media
Format: 1st Edition
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Photoshop Elements 13 looks sharper, performs better, and has more sophisticated photo-editing and slideshow features than previous versions -- but knowing which tools to use when can be confusing. The new edition of this bestselling book removes the guesswork. With candid, jargon-free... |
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The Easy Christmas Songs Fake Book: 100 Songs in the Key of C
Hal Leonard Corp. - Hal Leonard
Format: Paperback
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(Easy Fake Book) . 100 contemporary holiday hits in the popular Easy Fake Book format are presented in this book featuring large, easy-to-read notation, simplified harmonies and melodies, lyrics, and easy stay-open binding, all in the key of C. Songs include: All I Want for Christmas... |
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It's Saturday Morning!: Celebrating the Golden Era of Cartoons 1960s - 1990s
Joe Garner - becker&mayer! Books
Format: Hardcover
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With concept art, archival images, and all-new interviews, It's Saturday Morning! celebrates the shows, characters, songs, and commercials that made Saturday mornings a pop culture event. Broadcasting into family living rooms from the 1960s to the 1990s, this wildly creative art form... |
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Treasures of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein - Southern Illinois University Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois, houses a trove of invaluable historical resources concerning all aspects of the Prairie States past. Treasures of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library commemorates the institutions 125-year history, as well as its contributions... |
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Goncharova
Anthony Parton - Antique Collectors Club Dist
Format: Hardcover
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Explores the life and work of the Russian artist and stage designer Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) . |
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Green: The History of a Color
Michel Pastoureau - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science,... |
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The Monster Book of Manga Steampunk
Jorge Balaguer - Harper Design
Format: Book
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" Enter an alternative world ruled by steam-powered machinery, Victorian elegance, and futuristic technology by creating your own elaborate manga characters in Steampunk, the latest volume in the bestselling Monster Book of Manga series. This easy-to-follow guidebook brings to life... |
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Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed
Gary Garrels - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format: Hardcover
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A penetrating reassessment of Munch's memorable painting and profound artistic legacy This engaging book offers a fresh look at the exceptional works of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) by examining them in the light of his precarious mental state. Following a nervous breakdown in 1908, Munch... |
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Flats: Technical Drawing for Fashion, second edition: A Complete Guide
Basia Szkutnicka - Laurence King Publishing
Format: Print book
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Flats: Technical Drawing for Fashion explains how to create a flat using a simple and straightforward step-by-step method. This second edition includes more information on rendering drawings by hand and using a computer, and a brand new section on knitwear.The main part of the book presents... |
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Portrait of Camelot: A Thousand Days in the Kennedy White House (with DVD)
Richard Reeves - Abrams; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s election as president of the United States, this book is a revealing and intimate portrait of a leader, husband, and father as seen through the lens of Cecil Stoughton, the first official White House photographer.... |
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Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents
Pete Souza - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait, comes a potent commentary on the Presidency--and our country. As Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza spent more time alongside President Barack Obama than almost anyone... |
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5-Minute Sketching -- People: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings
Pete Scully - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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Sketching has become an extremely popular pastime. For example, on YouTube, "Tips to Draw Better in 6 Minutes" has 1.7 million views, and "How to Draw Better in 2 Minutes", has 2 million views. Every day, the website @SketchDailies tweets an "inspiration" to 45,000... |
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What We See When We Read
Peter Mendelsund - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A San Francisco Chronicleand Kirkus Best Book of the YearA gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of readinghow we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when... |
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Artists' Homes
Tom Harford-Thompson - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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This lavishly illustrated book is an intimate look at the interiors, lifestyles, and houses belonging to a wide range of artists and creatives. In this beautifully illustrated book, writer and photographer Tom Harford-Thompson presents individual, eccentric homes and workspaces, from a music... |
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New York Mid-Century
Annie Cohen-Solal - Vendome Press
Format: Hardcover
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New York Mid-Century is the story of how the postwar Big Apple emerged as the cultural capital of the world. Annie Cohen-Solal brings alive the influential critics and patrons, the legendary galleries, and the artists themselves. Paul Goldberger presents the modernist architectural masterpieces... |
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Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest
K.K. Downing - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Memoir by the cofounder and former lead guitarist of heavy metal giants Judas PriestJudas Priest formed in the industrial city of Birmingham, England, in 1969. With its distinctive twin-guitar sound, studs-and-leather image, and international sales of over 50 million records, Judas Priest... |
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That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde
Daryl Sanders - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound is the definitive treatment of Bob Dylan's magnum opus, Blonde on Blonde, not only providing the most extensive account of the sessions that produced the trailblazing album, but also setting the record straight on much of the misinformation that... |
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Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton
PHILIP NORMAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as remarkable as his music, which transformed the sound of a generation.For half a century Eric Clapton has been acknowledged to be one of music's greatest virtuosos,... |
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Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open
Phoebe Hoban - New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format: Print book
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Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced. Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the first biography to assess Freud's work... |
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The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure
Carl Hoffman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary "Wild Men of Borneo." One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization - or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times... |
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Chernaya liniya
Jean-Christophe GrangeÌ - Azbuka
Format: Paperback
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Published in conjunction with the first large-scale retrospective of Picasso's sculpture in the US since The Museum of Modern Art's historic show of 1967, Picasso Sculpture is a sweeping survey of the artist's profoundly innovative and influential work in three dimensions.Over... |
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Suicide Squad: Behind the Scenes with the Worst Heroes Ever
Warner Brothers Studio. - Harperdesign
Format: Print book
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The officially authorized companion to Suicide Squad, the eagerly anticipated film from Warner Bros. Pictures based on the DC Comics antihero team. Along with photos of the cast and crew, this lavish full-color official tie-in book will contain behind-the-scenes stories and images, removable... |
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Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s
Lori Majewski - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Paperback
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Mad World is a highly entertaining oral history that celebrates the New Wave music phenomenon of the 1980s via new interviews with 35 of the most notable artists of the period. Each chapter begins with a discussion of their most popular song but leads to stories of their history and place... |
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Decoded
Jay-Z - Spiegel & Grau; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time."Hip-hop's renaissance man drops a classic. . . . Heartfelt,... |
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Jascha Heifetz: Early Years in Russia
G V Kopytova - Indiana University Press
Format: Print book
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Notoriously reticent about his early years, violinist Jascha Heifetz famously reduced the story of his childhood to "Born in Russia. First lessons at 3. Debut in Russia at 7. Debut in Carnegie Hall at 17. That's all there is to say." Tracing his little-known upbringing, Jascha... |
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U2: The Definitive Biography
John Jobling - Thomas Dunne Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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John Jobling takes readers beyond the myth in this unauthorized biography to present the first comprehensive account of the illustrious Irish rockers in 25 years. Drawing on extensive interviews with insiders including record label scouts, studio presidents, politicians, music critics,... |
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Calligraphy 101: Master Basic Skills and Techniques Easily through Step-by-Step Instruction
Jeaneen Gauthier - Creative Publishing int'l; Spi edition
Format: Paperback
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Calligraphy is both an art and a skill. Unlike with many other crafts, a person cannot develop good calligraphy skills simply by picking up the pen and practicing. There are many details about how to load the pen, how to hold it at an exact angle to the paper, even how to form each letter... |
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Songs of the 1980s: The New Decade Series with Online Play-Along Backing Tracks
Hal Leonard Corp. - Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardcover
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . This songbook doubles as a time capsule, preserving over 80 of the '80s best arranged for P/V/G with great orchestrated backing tracks so you can play and sound like a pro. You access the tracks online for streaming or download. Songs include: Addicted... |
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Cecil B. DeMille: The Art of the Hollywood Epic
Cecilia de Mille Presley - Running Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Colossal. Stupendous. Epic. These adjectives, used by movie companies to hawk their wares, became clichs long ago. When used to describe the films of one director, they are accurate. More than any filmmaker in the history of the medium, Cecil B. DeMille mastered the art of the spectacle.... |
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Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor
Martin Greenfield - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Hes been called Americas greatest living tailor and the most interesting man in the world. Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz... |
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Wanna Cook?: The Complete, Unofficial Companion to Breaking Bad
Ensley F Guffey - ECW Press,
Format: Paperback
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"I am not in danger . . . I am the danger." With those words, Breaking Bad's Walter White solidified himself as TV's greatest antihero. Wanna Cook? explores the most critically lauded series on television with analyses of the individual episodes and ongoing storylines.... |
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Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color
Patricia Phillips Marshall - The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Day (1801-61), a free man of color from Milton, North Carolina, became the most successful cabinetmaker in North Carolina--white or black--during a time when most blacks were enslaved and free blacks were restricted in their movements and activities. His surviving furniture and architectural... |
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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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Artist's painting techniques
Dk Publishing. - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Artist's Painting Techniques is your practical guide to learning how to bring out your inner artist with a wide range of painting styles, whether you want to learn how to use acrylics, watercolors, or oil paints.With progression in mind, this master class will teach you the basic... |
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Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction
Gabrielle Selz - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Awarded the 2015 Best Memoir from The American Society of Journalists and Authors Luminous and revealing, a daughter's memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father. In 1958, soon after Gabrielle Selz was born, she, her parents and her sister moved to New York, where her father,... |
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The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock
David Weigel - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The wildly entertaining story of progressive rock, the music that ruled the 1970s charts -- and has divided listeners ever since.The Show That Never Ends is the definitive story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock. Epitomized by such classic, chart-topping... |
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Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World
John Szwed - Viking Adult; 1St Edition edition
Format: Book
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The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced... |
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Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing
SELWYN LEAMY - Laurence King Publishing
Format: Paperback
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This book demystifies the art and practice of drawing. Through fifty drawings by great masters past and present, the techniques and ideas behind their master sketches will put you on the path to making your own great drawings.The entries also feature exercises with step-by-step instructions... |
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Art, Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist
Lisa Congdon - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book
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You don't have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love. In this practical guide, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art - through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching, and beyond. Including... |
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Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk
John Lingan - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate account of country music, social change, and a vanishing way of life as a Shenandoah town collides with the twenty-first century Winchester, Virginia is an emblematic American town. When John Lingan first traveled there, it was to seek out Jim McCoy: local honky-tonk owner and the DJ who first... |
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The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
Simon Goodman - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover
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The passionate, gripping, true story of one man's single-minded quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family, their beloved art collection, and to restore their legacy.Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps.... |
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Leo and His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli
Annie Cohen-Solal - Knopf; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Leo Castelli reigned for decades as America’s most influential art dealer. Now Annie Cohen-Solal, author of the hugely acclaimed Sartre: A Life (“an intimate portrait of the man that possesses all the detail and resonance of fiction”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York... |
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Alfred's Easy Piano Songs -- Movie Hits: 50 Songs and Themes
ALFRED MUSIC. - Alfred Music
Format: Paperback
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For beginning musicians, Alfred's Easy series is the fast track to developing a repertoire of well-known and fun-to-play songs, while more experienced players will find an excellent resource of favorite songs. The Easy Hits Piano format provides fun and satisfying piano arrangements... |
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World War I: The Definitive Visual History
R.G. Grant - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Hardcover
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2014 marks the centennial of the start of World War I - DK will mark the occasion with the publication of World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide, a vividly illustrated, in-depth account of the Great War. Written by historian R. G. Grant, and created by DK's award-winning editorial... |
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Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumors
Zoî Howe - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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The New biography of "the Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll" (Rolling Stone) Lyrical visionary, enduring style icon, and one indispensable fifth of post-Peter Green megaband Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks is one of the most recognizable figures in rock 'n' roll history -- very... |
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I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
Betty Halbreich - Penguin Press; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original. A tough broad who could have stepped straight out of Stephen Sondheim's repertoire, she has spent nearly forty years as the legendary personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, where she works with socialites, stars, and ordinary women... |
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How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
Joan DeJean - St Martins Pr
Format: Hardcover
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At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be transformed into the modern and mythic city we know... |
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Vintage Fashion Complete
Nicky Albrechtsen - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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Fashion enthusiasts need look no further for style inspiration and knowledge than this definitive guide to all things chic. Through more than 1,000 stunning photos of the most fashionable womens garments from the past 100 years, whether from the 1950s printed housedresses or from the 1980s... |
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Listen Out Loud: A Life In Music--Managing Mccartney, Madonna, And Michael Jackson
Ron Weisner - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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Even hardcore music fans don't know the name Ron Weisner . . . but they should. A high-powered manager for over four decades, Ron worked alongside Madonna, Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, Gladys Knight, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, and, most notably, Michael Jackson. He saw the King... |
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Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story
John Yorke - The Overlook Press, 2014. 2013
Format: Print book
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The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to pick up on their cues and take the reader on a historical, philosophical, scientific, and psychological journey... |
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Learn Watercolour Quickly
Hazel Soan - Batsford
Format: Hardcover
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Start paintingin just one afternoon! Bestselling author and artist Hazel Soan has distilled all the key elements of creating beautiful watercolors into this concise, accessible, step-by-step guide. Geared to total beginners, Learn Watercolour Quickly covers all the basic techniques from... |
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For The Love Of Greyhounds: Adopted Greyhounds and their Happy Ever Afters
Alex Cearns - ABC Books
Format: Hardcover
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Gorgeous images and heartwarming true stories of adopted greyhounds that have found their forever homes. This beautiful gift book celebrates the greyhounds who have won by finding happy homes with Australian families. These gentle giants are shown revelling in their new lives: whether romping... |
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Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones
Paul Trynka - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, the complete story of the enigmatic founder of the Rolling Stones and the early years of the bandBrian Jones was the golden boy of the Rolling Stones - the visionary who gave the band its name and its sound. Yet he was a haunted man, and much of his brieftime with the band,... |
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Lots of Dots: Beautiful Art that Starts with a Dot
Ana Enshina - Rock Point Gift & Station
Format: Print book
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Create beautiful art that starts with a dot.Learn about an easy, approachable technique for creating beautiful, eye-catching art with Lots of Dots. Combining the ideas of coloring, doodling, and hand-lettering, this technique is easy and relaxing as well as allowing you to tap into your... |
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Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
Mark Godfrey - D.A.P./Tate
Format: Hardcover
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African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black PanthersIn the period of radical change that was 1963-83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics and racial identity. How to make art that would stand as innovative,... |
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The Drawings of Henry Moore
Andrew Causey - Lund Humphries Pub Ltd
Format: Hardcover
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Henry Moore's Shelter Drawings are universally recognised as a key element of his oeuvre. However, these drawings should not be seen in isolation: this volume provides a highly readable account of the development of Moore's work as a draughtsman so providing a well-rounded discussion... |
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The Garage: Automobility and Building Innovation in America's Early Auto Age
John A Jakle - University of Tennessee Press
Format: Paperback
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The garage - whether used for automobile storage, parking, repair, or sales - has been an American commonplace for so long that it is surprising how little attention it has drawn from scholars tracing the country's architectural and cultural heritage. In this compellingly written... |
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Illustration that Works: Professional Techniques for Artistic and Commercial Success
Greg Houston - Monacelli Studio
Format: Print book
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A straight-to-the-point "everything-you-need-to-know" guide to the world of professional illustration for aspiring artists and recent art-school graduates - not only the technical essentials (the difference between narrative versus conceptual illustration, diagramming a composition,... |
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A Month in Siena
Hisham Matar - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life. After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort... |
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A Prairie State of Mind
Larry Kanfer - University of Illinois Press
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrating the American heartland as only Larry Kanfer can, A Prairie State of Mind takes readers over fields fertile and fallow and through the eternal cycle of the seasons. Walk roads melodic with birdsong and the chatter of cicadas. Look onto hillsides plowed into geometric perfection... |
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Switched On Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters
Nate Sloan - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Entertainment... |
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Eye to Eye: Photographs by Vivian Maier
Michael Williams - CityFiles Press
Format: Hardcover
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Since her death in 2009, Vivian Maier has become a photographic phenomenon. Her story—thousands of photo negatives and prints found in a storage locker and sold for pennies at auction—has stirred millions around the world. Maier was a painfully private woman who now speaks powerfully... |
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Type Tells Tales
STEVEN HELLER - Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
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A fresh look at typographic design as an art and as a storytelling device that expresses narratives, emotions, and voice Stretching the boundaries of typographic expression, Type Tells Tales is a sensational showcase of type that is integral to the message it conveys, with the capacity... |
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Acoustic Guitar Songs: Supplement to Any Guitar Method
Hal Leonard Corp. - Hal Leonard
Format: Paperback
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(Guitar Method) . This book with online audio features 10 complete songs in standard notation and tab, including: About a Girl * Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You * Breaking the Girl * Free Fallin' * Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) * I'm Yours * Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)... |
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Pictures on the Prairie: The First Ten Years of Mid-Illinois Television
Doug Quick - Founders House Publishing LLC
Format: Paperback
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In 1953, across the prairie of mid-Illinois brand new television sets began to flicker with pictures from St. Louis, Peoria, Decatur, Springfield, Champaign, Bloomington and Danville. Local entrepreneurs invested their lives and fortunes in a new industry hoping to attract advertisers and capture... |
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 Classroom in a Book
JOHN EVANS - ADOBE Press
Format: Print book
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for you to master all the new features in Adobe's top-rated consumer-targeted photo-editing software. Each chapter in this step-by-step, lesson-based guide contains a project that builds on your... |
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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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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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Just Us Girls: 48 Creative Art Projects for Mothers and Daughters to Do Together
Cindy Ann Ganaden - Quarry
Format: Paperback
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Explore and nurture your mother-daughter bond and create a keepsake that you'll cherish forever with Just Us Girls. This highly-illustrated craft and activity book includes 48 heartfelt, earth-friendly projects to make together. These projects include making: dolls, press books, wreaths,... |
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Drawn from Life: Tips and Tricks for Contemporary Life Drawing
Helen Birch - Chronicle Books
Format: Paperback
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Drawn from Life offers bite-size lessons that will help anyone master the classic practice of life drawing. Over 100 pieces of art by contemporary artists illustrate fundamentals such as line, contour, and color, plus surprising and innovative techniques that will take your drawings to the next... |
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National Geographic Rarely Seen: Photographs of the Extraordinary
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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National Geographic's dazzling photography book of visual wonders, shot by some of the world's finest photographers, reveals a world very few will have the chance to see for themselves. This New York Times bestseller features striking images of places, events, natural phenomena,... |
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