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Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone
Simon Abrams - Insight Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Explore the creation of Guillermo del Toro's early masterpiece through this visually stunning and insightful look at the spine-chilling classic. Released in 2001, Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone announced the director as a singular talent with a unique ability to mix the macabre... |
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Gordon Matta-Clark: The Beginning of Trees and the End: Drawings and Notebooks
Gordon Matta-Clark - David Zwirner Books
Format: Print book
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Well known for his radical "anarchitectural" interventions throughout the 1970s, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) was always deeply, though less publicly, committed to drawing. His works on paper -- which span three-dimensional reliefs, calligraphy and notebook entries -- capture... |
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The Brass Instrument Owner's Handbook
Michael J Pagliaro - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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The Brass Instrument Owner's Handbook is the second in a series of musical instrument owner's handbooks. Following the structure of The String Instrument Owner's Handbook (2015) , this book provides professionals, musicians, teachers, students, and individuals interested in brass... |
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As Seen: Exhibitions that Made Architecture and Design History
Zoë Ryan - Art Institute of Chicago
Format: Paperback
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Exhibitions have long played a crucial role in defining disciplinary histories. This fascinating volume examines the impact of eleven groundbreaking architecture and design exhibitions held between 1956 and 2006, revealing how they have shaped contemporary understanding and practice of these... |
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Photography and Sculpture: The Art Object in Reproduction
Sarah Hamill - Getty Research Institute
Format: Paperback
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Ever since the mid-nineteenth century, when the new medium of photography was pressed into service to illustrate sculpture, photographs of sculptural objects have directed viewers as to what, in the course of ambling around a sculpture, was the single perfect moment to stop and look. What... |
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The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture
Robert McCarter - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Alvar Aalto once argued that what mattered in architecture wasn't what a building looks like on the day it opens but what it is like to live inside it thirty years later. In this book, architect and critic Robert McCarter persuasively argues that interior spatial experience is the necessary... |
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California Crazy: American Pop Architecture
JIM HEIMANN - Taschen America
Format: Hardcover
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West Coast Wild California s architectural anomalies At the dawn of the automobile age, Americans predilection for wanderlust prompted a new wave of inventive entrepreneurs to cater to this new mode of transportation. Starting in the 1920s, attention-grabbing buildings began to appear... |
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Listening Lab: Alban Berg: Violin Concerto
Constanze Wimmer - Universal Edition
Format: Book
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Universal Edition launches a new series, Listening Lab, to aid music educators and workshoppers in bringing new ears to modern music. |
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Barber Osgerby, Projects
Jana Scholze - Phaidon Press
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive monograph of internationally acclaimed designers ? creators of the Tip Ton and the 2012 Olympic Torch.Collaborators for over 20 years, Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have applied their talents to everything from industrial design and furniture to lighting and installations.... |
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The Book of Alien: Augmented Reality Survival Manual
OWEN WILLIAMS - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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An imaginative, full-color, fully authorized in-world guide to the creatures and scenes from all of the Alien movies, including breathtaking 3-D Augmented Reality animations.A book like no other. An experience you'll never forget. The Alien movie franchise has been shocking audiences for more... |
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The World of A Wrinkle in Time: The Making of the Movie
Kate Egan - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Travel through time and space on an epic adventure with Disney's major motion picture A Wrinkle in Time!This keepsake book takes readers behind the scenes of Disney's film adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's timeless novel. Complete with interviews and photographs of the cast... |
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Tudor Fashion: Dress at Court
Eleri Lynn - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The captivating story of Tudor dress, its construction and symbolism, and the people who made and wore it The Tudor monarchs and their courtiers are some of the best-known figures in history. They continue, even today, to spark our curiosity and imagination. Their enduring popularity is no doubt... |
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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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101 Danish Design Icons
Lars Dybdahl - Hatje Cantz
Format: Hardcover
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A definitive history of 20th-century Danish design through 101 classic objectsDenmark has long loomed large in international design history. Today, Danish furniture, textiles, home appliances and utensils from the 1960s and '70s are more popular than ever, for sale at design galleries... |
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Wild Together: My Adventures with Loki the Wolfdog
KELLY LUND - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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For all lovers of dogs and adventure, come experience Kelly and Loki the Wolfdog's world together, as they explore the country and inspire those around them, revealing the endless possibilities between a man and his four-legged companion. During a blizzard in 2012, Kelly brought Loki... |
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Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation
MINDY JOHNSON - Disney Editions
Format: Hardcover
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From the earliest origins of animated imagery, the colorful link between paper and screen was created by legions of female artists working on the slick surface of celluloid sheets. With calligraphic precision and Rembrandtesque mastery, these women painstakingly brought pencil drawings... |
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Pearl Harbor: 75 Years Later: A Day of Infamy and Its Legacy
The Editors of LIFE - Life
Format: Print book
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The editors at LIFE vigorously carry on the traditions of excellence in photography, in journalism, and in telling the story of our country and our world which began with LIFE magazine in 1936 by founding editor and publisher, Henry R. Luce. They have published books on a broad range of subjects,... |
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Experiencing Peter Gabriel: A Listener's Companion
Durrell Bowman - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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In Experiencing Peter Gabriel, author Durrell Bowman delves into the sounds and stories of the innovative, versatile, English pop icon. As not only a singer-songwriter and musician, but also a music technologist, world-music champion, and humanitarian, Gabriel has consistently maintained... |
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Edward Weston: The Early Years
Edward Weston - MFA Publications
Format: Hardcover
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Often overlooked -- until now -- Weston's early photography is painterly and lusciousThis is a book about Edward Weston before he was Edward Weston -- before he was the renowned modernist photographer we know so well. His early years in the field coincided exactly with the height of the Pictorialist... |
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The Advanced Photography Guide
David Taylor - DK
Format: Paperback
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Practical advice, equipment, and settings checklists, plus inspirational and instructive images for photographers with a basic technical grounding and level of experience who would like to take their digital photography skills and technique a step further.Featuring a comprehensive range... |
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Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work
Massimiliano Gioni - Phaidon Press
Format: Hardcover
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The most comprehensive monograph in print on this provocative artist, who has helped to redefine contemporary artThis thorough, multifaceted assessment of Raymond Pettibon's entire career to date includes nearly 700 images, contributions from important figures in the art-historical... |
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Bach Perspectives 11: J. S. Bach and His Sons
Mary Oleskiewicz - University of Illinois Press
Format: Hardcover
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Among his numerous children, Johann Sebastian Bach sired five musically gifted sons. The eleventh volume of Bach Perspectives presents essays that explore these men's lives and careers via distinctive and, in several cases, alternative and interdisciplinary methodologies. Robert L. Marshall... |
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Kengo Kuma: Complete Works: Expanded Edition
Kengo Kuma - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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The comprehensive monograph -- now expanded -- on one of Japan's most important living architectsSince establishing his practice in 1990, Kengo Kuma has brought contemporary vigor to Japan's already rich modern architectural heritage and developed projects far beyond his native... |
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Mark Bradford: Tomorrow is Another Day
KATY SIEGEL - Hatje Cantz
Format: Paperback
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America's representative at the 2017 Venice Biennale, Bradford has radically renewed abstract artMark Bradford's exhibition for the US Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, titled Tomorrow Is Another Day, is born out of the artist's longtime commitment to the inherently social... |
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50 Years of Rolling Stone: The Music, Politics and People that Changed Our Culture
Rolling Stone. - Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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For the past fifty years, Rolling Stone has been a leading voice in journalism, cultural criticism, and - above all - music. This landmark book documents the magazine's rise to prominence as the voice of rock and roll and a leading showcase for era-defining photography. From the 1960s... |
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Boss : Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band : the illustrated history
Gillian G Gaar - Voyageur Press
Format: Print book
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Find out how legendary musician Bruce Springsteen earned his monicker. There's only one Boss; his story is revealed here. Bruce Springsteen is a platinum-shifting, stadium-filling rock star, but he is also more nuanced than that. He is a man of the people, making conventional-and-proud-of-it... |
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The Christmas Collection: 63 Songs for Classical Singers - High Voice
Richard Walters - Hal Leonard
Format: Paperback
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(Vocal Collection) . This beautiful new volume in The Vocal Library is a large resource for classical singers of 63 songs for holiday services and events, designed for a lifetime of use. Contents: The Birthday of a King * Bright Star * Caroling, Caroling * A Christmas Carol * The Christmas... |
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Interior Portraits: At Home With Cultural Pioneers and Creative Mavericks
LESLIE WILLIAMSON - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed photographer, author, and Bay Area native Leslie Williamson returns to her roots with a tribute to the most fertile soil for creativity: California.Following her ultra-successful Handcrafted Modern and Modern Originals, Leslie Williamson is back with an original and compelling... |
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Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 20052016
Annie Leibovitz - Phaidon Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this new collection from Annie Leibovitz, one of the most influential photographers of our time, iconic portraits sit side by side never-before-published photographs. Afterword by Annie Leibovitz.Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016 is the photographer's follow-up to her two landmark... |
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Tim Maia's Tim Maia Racional Vols. 1 & 2
Allen Thayer - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback
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At the height of Tim Maia's soaring fame, he joined a radical, extraterrestrial-obsessed cult and created two plus albums of some of Brazil's-and the globe's-best funk and soul music. This book explores the career of the man often hailed as the James Brown or Barry White of Brazil,... |
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Aaron G. Green: Organic Architecture Beyond Frank Lloyd Wright
Randolph C Henning - ORO Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Aaron G. Green, FAIA, was an internationally known organic architect of "striking originality and grace." His diversified architectural works include residential, commercial, industrial, municipal, judicial, religious, interment, mass housing, and educational projects. Aaron had a uniquely... |
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Art & Vinyl
Jeffrey Fraenkel - Fraenkel Gallery / Editions Antoine de Beaupr
Format: Hardcover
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Art for music: the album cover as mediumArt & Vinyl is an exhilarating new look into the history of the vinyl record as a medium for modern and contemporary visual art. This beautifully designed and printed publication is the first book to focus in-depth on works of art created specifically... |
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Gio_Graphy: Fun in the Wild World of Fashion
GIOVANNA BATTAGLIA - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover
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A witty guide to living the glam the life from an international style star, featuring hilarious anecdotes, fashion advice, and much more. Dubbed a "cyber icon" and "fashion heroine" by the New York Times, Italian fashion editor and stylist Giovanna Battaglia is known... |
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Exit Art: Unfinished Memories: 30 Years of Exit Art
Papo Colo - Steidl
Format: Hardcover
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Exit Art is an intimate portrait of an institution that from 1982 to 2012 challenged social, political, aesthetic and curatorial norms. Committed to experimenting at the intersection of disciplines, publications and design, the gallery Exit Art remained steadfast in its mission to provide... |
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Gothic to Goth: Romantic Era Fashion and Its Legacy
Lynne Z Bassett - Wadsworth Atheneum
Format: Print book
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The Romantic movement rejected Enlightenment reason, and embraced instead the imagination and the unknown. Costume of the early nineteenth century integrates the elements of history, imagination, religion, and even landscape central to the Romantic sensibility. This exhibition catalogue... |
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New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB
Steven Blush - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Hardcover
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Steven Blushs New York Rock presents the definitive history of a key period in rock n roll, from new wave to no wave, punk to punk revival, from the bestselling author of American Hardcore. As a city that represents endless possibilities, New York has been the setting for the dawning of new movements,... |
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The Atlas of Beauty: Women of the World in 500 Portraits
MIHAELA NOROC - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover
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Based on the author's online photography project, this stunning collection features portraits of 500 women from more than 50 countries, accompanied by revelatory captions that capture their personal stories. Since 2013 photographer Mihaela Noroc has traveled the world with her backpack... |
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The Newsstand: Independently Published Zines, Magazines & Artist Books
Lele Saveri - Skira Rizzoli
Format: Paperback
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The most comprehensive anthology of contemporary zine culture of New York and beyond, including more than a thousand contemporary artist publications and independently produced zines, books, and artworks. The Newsstand was a pop-up conceptual retail store that transformed an ordinary subway... |
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The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler
Brett Ingram - Blast Books
Format: Hardcover
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A sumptuous monograph presenting for the first time the extraordinarily imaginative and delightful work of visionary artist Renaldo Kuhler (American, 1931-2013) . The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler catapults a thrilling new discovery into the pantheon of the most accomplished visionary... |
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Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812: Vocal Selections
Dave Malloy - Hal Leonard
Format: Paperback
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(Music Sales America) . Nominated for 12 Tony Awards, Dave Malloy's musical based on a section of Tolstoy's War and Peace is presented in these 15 selections for voice and piano accompaniment. Songs: The Abduction * Balaga * The Ball * Charming * Dust and Ashes * The Great Comet... |
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Bridges: A History of the World's Most Spectacular Spans
Judith Dupre - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Skyscrapers comes the much-anticipated revised edition of her magnificent chronological tour of the world's most significant and eye-popping spans, now in color and bigger than ever. This visual history of the world''s landmark bridges is thoroughly... |
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A Century of Prints in Britain
Julia Beaumont-Jones - Hayward Publishing
Format: Paperback
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A beautifully accessible and diverse collection of key works in British printmaking from Walter Sickert to Tracey Emin.A Century of Prints in Britain is a highly illustrated volume providing a long-overdue, affordable and engaging selection of over 200 print works from masters of the medium... |
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Ed Ruscha and the Great American West
Karin Breuer - University of California Press
Format: Print book
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The renowned artist Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska, grew up in Oklahoma, and has lived and worked in Southern California since the late 1950s. Beginning in 1956, road trips across the American Southwest furnished a conceptual trove of themes and motifs that he mined throughout his career.... |
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Stephen Shore
Quentin Bajac - The Museum of Modern Art
Format: Hardcover
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Organized into 60 thematic sections, this magisterial volume provides a complete overview of Shore's career -- from the early portraits of Warhol's Factory to his latest Instagram imagesOne of the most influential photographers of our time, Stephen Shore has often been categorized... |
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Transmedium: Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object Art
Garrett Stewart - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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If you attend a contemporary art exhibition today, you're unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumptions about particular media - such as painting, or woodcuts - and instead focus on collisions... |
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The Alexander Scriabin Companion: History, Performance, and Lore
Lincoln Ballard - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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This unique collaboration between a musicologist and two pianists - all experts in Russian music - takes a fresh look at the supercharged music and polarizing reception of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. From his Chopin-inspired miniatures to his genre-bending symphonies and avant-garde... |
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Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story
Bruce Iglauer - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into Florence's Lounge, in the heart of Chicago's South Side, and was overwhelmed by the joyous, raw Chicago blues of Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers.... |
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May Morris: Arts & Crafts Designer
Anna Mason - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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The first fully illustrated introduction to May Morris, a leading contributor to the Arts and Crafts Movement and daughter of famed designer William MorrisMay Morris, youngest daughter of influential designer William Morris, was one of the leading female contributors to the Arts and Crafts... |
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Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer
Carmen Bambach - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive and breathtakingly illustrated presentation of the genius of Michelangelo by the world's leading expert on the artist The Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was especially celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing... |
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Handbook of Tyranny
Theo Deutinger - Lars Mller Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Factual storytelling: graphic illustrations expose the new tyranny of the 21st century Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the 21st century through a series of detailed nonfictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence -- they... |
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Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sarah Greenough - Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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For more than 40 years, Sally Mann (b. 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature's magisterial indifference to human endeavor. What unites this broad... |
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Experiencing Big Band Jazz: A Listener's Companion
Jeff Sultanof - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The era of popular music from about 1917 onward saw an explosion of creative songwriting that converged with a new sound from reed, brass, and rhythm instruments. Jazz was born, and the musical sophistication that accompanied this original sound set the stage for the prominence of arrangers,... |
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Bach & God
Michael Marissen - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he also shows how Bach's... |
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Steven Universe: Art & Origins
Chris McDonnell - Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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Steven Universe: Art & Origins is the first book to take fans behind the scenes of the groundbreaking and boundlessly creative Emmy Award-winning Cartoon Network animated series Steven Universe. The eponymous Steven is a boy who - alongside his mentors, the Crystal Gems (Garnet, Amethyst,... |
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Powering Places: Land Art Generator Initiative, Santa Monica
Robert Ferry - Prestel
Format: Hardcover
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This book explores the possibilities of reimagining the Santa Monica Pier as an interactive public artwork that generates clean electricity and drinking water. Visit the historic Santa Monica Pier at low tide and across the water you'll see the eroded remnants of a decades-old breakwater... |
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Fink on Warhol: New York Photographs of the 1960s by Larry Fink
Kevin Moore - Damiani
Format: Hardcover
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A long-lost photoshoot of the Warhol tribe at the peak of its fameFink on Warhol collects photographs of Andy Warhol and his tribe taken within a time span of just four or five days in the spring of 1966 by Fink, working on assignment for the literary magazine East Side Review, alongside... |
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Architecture
Jonathan Glancey - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Telling the story of the worlds most incredible buildings, from the ancient world to the present day, this book offers a comprehensive and worldwide look at historical and contemporary building
Take a closer look at the beautiful details, principal elements, and decorative features of every... |
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British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence
Simon Philo - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Before The Beatles landed on American shores in February 1964 only two British acts had topped the Billboard singles chart. In the first quarter of 1964, however, the Beatles alone accounted for sixty percent of all recorded music sold in the United States; in 1964 and 1965 British acts... |
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Design, Form, and Chaos
Paul Rand - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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"To have the preeminent graphic designer in America - the leading proponent of the Modern - intelligently and forcefully speak out makes this a document for today and the ages. Rand's book is a classic." - Stephen Heller (1993) Paul Rand (1914-1996) was a pioneer in the field... |
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So You Want to Sing Country: A Guide for Performers
Kelly K. Garner - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Kelly Garner thoroughly examines the techniques and methods of singing country music while briefly reviewing the rich heritage of the style. Additional topics of discussion include country song types and structure, instrumentation, performing on stage and in the studio, and career options... |
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Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves
Kate T Parker - Workman
Format: Print book
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Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls... |
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Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America
Janet Borgerson - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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The sleek hi-fi console in a well-appointed midcentury American living room might have had a stack of albums by musicians like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, or Patti Page. It was just as likely to have had a selection of LPs from slightly different genres, with such titles as Cocktail... |
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Arlen and Harburg's Over the Rainbow
Walter Frisch - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Over the Rainbow" exploded into worldwide fame upon its performance by Judy Garland in the MGM film musical The Wizard of Oz (1939) . Voted the greatest song of the twentieth century in a 2000 survey, it is a masterful, delicate balance of sophistication and child-like simplicity... |
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A Poet's Dublin
Eavan Boland - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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Juxtaposing verse and image, A Poet's Dublin is a study of origin and influence from "a major Irish poet" (Edward Hirsch) . Written over years, the transcendent and moving poems in A Poet's Dublin seek out shadows and impressions of a powerful, historic city, studying... |
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Gustav Klimt: Complete Paintings
TOBIAS G NATTER - TASCHEN
Format: Hardcover
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Defining Decadence The legacy of Gustav Klimt A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. This monograph gathers all of Klimt's major works alongside authoritative... |
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Revelations: Art from the African American South
Timothy Anglin Burgard - Prestel
Format: Hardcover
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This gorgeous volume explores 62 extraordinary works by 22 contemporary African American artists, revealing a crucial chapter n the story of American art.While the self-taught artists featured in this groundbreaking catalog were born in the Jim Crow period of institutionalized racism, their... |
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The Politics of Punk: Protest and Revolt from the Streets
David Ensminger - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Punk rock has long been equated with the ever-shifting concepts of dissent, disruption, and counter-cultural activities. As a result, since its 1970s and 1980s incarnations, when bands in Britain - from The Clash and Sex Pistols to Angelic Upstarts, U.K. Subs, and Crass - offered alternative... |
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The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
MARK LAMSTER - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable--and influential--figures on the American cultural landscape. The first recipient of the Pritzker Prize and MoMA's founding architectural curator, Johnson made his mark as one of America's leading... |
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Van Gogh and the Seasons
SJRAAR VAN HEUGTEN - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A new look at the ways van Gogh represented the seasons and the natural world throughout his careerThe changing seasons captivated Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) , who saw in their unending cycle the majesty of nature and the existence of a higher force. Van Gogh and the Seasons is the first... |
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Mexico Modern: Art, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange
Donald Albrecht - Hirmer Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The 1920s and '30s were a time of incredible creativity and influence for modern Mexican art, as a dynamic cultural exchange between Mexico and the United States - which included artists such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Rufino Tamayo; photographers such as Edward Weston, Tina... |
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Pablo Picasso: Between Cubism and Neoclassicism: 19151925
Olivier Berggruen - Skira
Format: Hardcover
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One hundred years on, this book portrays Picasso's legendary 1917 journey to Rome and Naples with Jean Cocteau, Igor Stravinsky and the company of Sergei Diagilhev's Ballet Russes. lt was during this trip that he met and fell in love with the company's leading dancer, Olga Khokhlova,... |
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Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War
HITO STEYERL - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization?How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of such institutions have grown fuzzy. They extend from a region where the audience... |
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Like Art: Glenn O'Brien on Advertising
Glenn O'Brien - Karma, New York
Format: Paperback
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"Everybody wants a little luxury in life, whether it's state-of-the-art high-tops or something large and 24 carat. It's only human ... Luxury is a sign of hope and belief in one's self," wrote Glenn O'Brien -- the prolific writer, editor, creative director and New York... |
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The Curatorial Conundrum: What to Study? What to Research? What to Practice?
Paul O'Neill - The MIT Press
Format: Paperback
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Today curators are sometimes more famous than the artists whose work they curate, and curatorship involves more than choosing objects for an exhibition. The expansion of the curatorial field in recent decades has raised questions about exhibition-making itself and the politics of production,... |
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Alejandro Jodorowsky & Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky: PascALEjandro
Donatien Grau - Actes Sud/Azzedine Alaa
Format: Hardcover
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PascALEjandro is the first monograph devoted to the work of the eponymous artist's collective composed of the director, poet, writer, comic-book writer and playwright Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 1929) and painter, costume and set-designer and photographer Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky... |
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Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good
Johanna Burton - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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How should we understand the purpose of publicly engaged art in the twenty-first century, when the very term "public art" is largely insufficient to describe such practices? Concepts such as "new genre public art," "social practice," or "socially engaged... |
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Sargent: The Masterworks
STEPHANIE L HERDRICH - Rizzoli Electa
Format: Hardcover
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A lush new volume devoted to the best works by beloved American Impressionist and portraitist John Singer Sargent, whose dazzling use of light and color depicts modern subjects with arresting intimacy.An ideal introduction to the painter's work, Sargent: The Masterworks features 100 of his most... |
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The Musician's Business and Legal Guide
Mark E Halloran - Routledge
Format: Paperback
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The Musician's Business and Legal Guide provides vital information to help demystify the music business and the complex body of law that shapes it. This book answers such questions as how to protect name and copyright; what is and is not legal about sampling; what are the legal issues... |
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Everyday Chic: My Secrets for Entertaining, Organizing, and Decorating at Home
Molly Sims - Dey Street Books
Format: Paperback
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New York Times bestselling author Molly Sims shares her secrets for effortless entertaining, feeding friends and family, and making your house a home - with just the right amount of her signature supermodel style. Once upon a time, Molly Sims was a single girl who stored cashmere sweaters... |
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String Instruments: Purchasing, Maintenance, Troubleshooting and More
Sandy Goldie - Meredith Music
Format: Paperback
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(Meredith Music Resource) . Why do pegs continuously slip or stick making it difficult to tune? Or endpins become stuck or keep sliding down? What about fine tuners that malfunction; strings that break, become false or fray; bows that warp or need rehairing; chin rests that won't stay... |
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Introduction to Graphic Design: A Guide to Thinking, Process & Style
Aaris Sherin - Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Format: Paperback
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For a great foundation as a graphic design student, look no further than Aaris Sherin's Introduction to Graphic Design. Sherin will introduce you to the formal structure of graphic design, so you can understand and utilise the main techniques of your chosen profession, and learn how they... |
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Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music
Daniel Harrison - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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This book is about how music "in a key" is composed. Further, it is about how such music was composed when it was no longer compulsory to do so, starting a few years before the First World War. In an eclectic journey through the history of compositional technique, Daniel Harrison... |
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Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Thodore Rousseau
Scott Allan - J. Paul Getty Museum
Format: Print book
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Thodore Rousseau (1812-1867) , arguably the most important French landscape artist of the mid-nineteenth century and a leader of the so-called Barbizon School, occupies a crucial moment of transition from the idealizing effects of academic painting to the radically modern vision of the Impressionists.... |
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Yves Klein: In/Out Studio
Yves Klein - D.A.P./Verlag Kettler
Format: Hardcover
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With rare and unpublished color photographs, this is the new essential Yves Klein overviewThis major new Yves Klein overview shows how Klein transformed his life into a myth that blurred the boundary between art and biography. It includes around 300 unearthed archival photographs--many... |
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Wright Sites: A Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright Public Places
FRANK LLOYD BUILDING CONSERVANCY. - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Paperback
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Frank Lloyd Wright's groundbreaking designs, innovative construction techniques, and inviting interiors continue to astound and inspire generations of architects and nonarchitects alike. The only comprehensive collection of Wright-designed buildings open to the public in the United... |
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Live from the Mississippi Delta
Panny Flautt Mayfield - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Hardcover
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Live from the Mississippi Delta showcases a rare collection of photographs and stories about musicians from Robert Plant, B. B. King, and ZZ Top to local guitarists playing gigs on the weekend. Panny Flautt Mayfield, a lifelong Delta resident from Tutwiler and an award-winning journalist,... |
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Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night
Richard Thomson - The Museum of Modern Art
Format: Hardcover
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Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" is one of the touchstones of the modern period. This essay by art historian Richard Thomson looks in depth at the artist's career -- from his turn to art at a relatively late age to the difficult days at the end of his life -- and the making... |
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Who Knew?: Answers to Questions about Classical Music you Never Thought to Ask
Robert A Cutietta - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Did you ever leave an opera performance wondering why the singers use so much vibrato? Or a symphony, wondering who decided where on stage the orchestra members should sit, or why they tune their instruments to an oboe rather than an electronic tuner? Why is Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture... |
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Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music
Christopher C King - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Geoff Dyer, a Grammy-winning producer discovers a powerful and ancient folk music tradition. In a dark record shop in Istanbul, renowned collector Christopher King uncovered some of the strangest -- and most hypnotic -- sounds he had ever heard.... |
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Blondie's Parallel Lines
Kembrew McLeod - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Print book
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Blondie's ParallelLines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influencesfrom 1960s pop and girl group hits. This 1978 album kept one foot plantedfirmly in the past while remaining quite forward-looking, an impulse that canbe heard in its electronic dance music... |
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Watercolors
Georgia O'Keeffe - Radius Books
Format: Print book
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Georgia O'Keeffe's turn toward abstraction: luscious watercolors of the Texan landscape and her own bodyGeorgia O'Keeffe: Watercolors catalogues the first major exhibition of the nearly 50 watercolors created by O'Keeffe between 1916 and 1918, while she lived in Canyon,... |
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The Art of Tiki
Sven A Kirsten - Last Gasp
Format: Hardcover
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The Art of Tiki is a passionate study of the Tiki idol as an art form. For the first time, contemporary Tiki art is united and presented equally with what inspired it, original mid-century Polynesian pop. Author Sven Kirsten combines his first-hand experiences in exploring the birth of Tiki... |
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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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2017 California-Pacific Triennial: Building as Ever
Cassandra Coblentz - Prestel
Format: Paperback
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This book extends the conversation at OMCA's 2017 Cal-Pac Triennial by featuring the artwork of 25 innovative artists working in California and the Pacific Rim. Featuring the work of 25 artists from diverse backgrounds, this triennial addresses the topic of architecture and permanence... |
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Automatic Architecture: Motivating Form after Modernism
Sean Keller - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1960s and '70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. Though various new approaches gained favor, they had one thing in common: they... |
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The Drybar Guide to Good Hair for All: How to Get the Perfect Blowout at Home
Alli Webb - Harry N Abrams
Format: Print book
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Picture this. Your hair is a mess and you feel like a nut. You open your Drybar book and you feel better already! The Drybar Guide to Good Hair for All is the ultimate handbook for at-home hairstyling. Author Alli Webb, a long-time stylist and life-long curly hair girl, founded Drybar... |
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Fifty Years of Great Art Writing: From the Hayward Gallery
David Sylvester - Hayward Gallery Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Featuring a formidable list of writers, and encapsulating the eclectic range of art that has delighted and inspired audiences throughout Hayward Gallery's history, Fifty Years of Great Art Writing ranges from painting and photography to sculpture, choreography and architecture, and takes... |
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Idiot's Guides: Mixing Music
Michael Miller - Alpha Books
Format: Print book
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Idiot's Guides: Mixing Music breaks down all the complex jargon for beginners and discussing a blend of skillful principles and techniques that anyone can utilize when mixing. It covers all the fundamentals from the various mixing styles, the element of a mix and how to build one, the rules... |
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I Am the Wolf: Lyrics and Writings
Mark Lanegan - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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A collection of lyrics and autobiographical commentary by singer Mark Lanegan, with a preface by John Cale and a foreword by MobyWith a voice that Pitchfork has called "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather," former Screaming Trees and Queens... |
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Los Logos 7
Robert Klanten - Gestalten Verlag
Format: Book
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Los Logos 7, the latest edition in our Los Logos series, showcases current developments in logo design. With Los Logos 7, Gestalten continues its bestselling series on contemporary logo design that began with the publication of Los Logos in 2002. Like its six predecessors, this latest edition... |
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Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book
BRIAN WOOD - Adobe Press
Format: Paperback
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Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Illustrator CC (2018 release) choose Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book (2018 release) from the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks from Adobe Press. The 15 project-based... |
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Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating
Maura Reilly - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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A handbook of new curatorial strategies based on pioneering examples of curators working to offset racial and gender disparities in the art worldCurrent art world statistics demonstrate that the fight for gender and race equality in the art world is far from over: only sixteen percent of this... |
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Arvo Prt's Tabula Rasa
Kevin Karnes - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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One of today's most widely acclaimed composers, Arvo Prt broke into the soundscape of the Cold War West with Tabula Rasa in 1977, a work that introduced his signature tintinnabuli style to listeners throughout the world. In the first book dedicated to this pathbreaking composition,... |
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Mike Kelley: Memory Ware: A Survey
MIKE KELLEY - Hauser & Wirth Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Over the course of his four-decade career, Mike Kelley (1954-2012) critically questioned aesthetic conventions and examined all forms of culture. The approximately 100 Memory Ware and associated works were made during the first decade of the 21st century; all are reproduced in this catalog.... |
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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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The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles
Bob Gluck - University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis's live recordings from this time, when he was working with an ensemble... |
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Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor
Richard Holmes - DK
Format: Hardcover
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A spectacular visual guide to the epic 4,000-year history of weaponry, created in association with the Smithsonian Institution.Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor tells this epic story of the entire spectrum of weaponry through stunning photography and authoritative coverage,... |
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History of Graphic Design, Vol. 1: 1890-1959
Taschen GmbH - TASCHEN
Format: Hardcover
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A Visual History of Graphic Design A comprehensive look at hundreds of landmark projects, industry leader profiles, and illustrated timelines for each decade History is a complex business. Fortunes boom and bust, empires wax and wane, and change -- whether social, political, or technological... |
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Botticelli Reimagined
Mark Evans - V&A Publishing
Format: Print book
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Renowned for his iconic The Birth of Venus, Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is arguably one of the greatest artists of all time. His work has inspired countless others, and his legacy is easy to see in everything from Degas's drawings and Warhol's first... |
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The Art of Archer
Sterling Archer - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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With a foreword by Christian SlaterA fully illustrated and highly visual guide to everything Archer - from storyboards to character sketches to script excerpts - making it a collector's item for Archer fans everywhere, and featuring a foreword by Christian Slater. The Art of Archer is a comprehensive... |
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Doo-Wop Acappella: A Story of Street Corners, Echoes, and Three-Part Harmonies
Lawrence Pitilli - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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In Doo-Wop Acappella: A Story of Street Corners, Echoes, and Three-Part Harmonies, scholar and musician Lawrence Pitilli details this too-little-explored area of 1950's - early 60's American culture. As Kenny Vance and the Planotones suggested in their classic song "Looking... |
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The Travellers
Chris Killip - Verlag Kettler
Format: Hardcover
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An objective exploration of an often-maligned community that exists on the fringes of societyIn Ireland, around 25,000 people still live in temporary settlements in the style of itinerant workers, far removed from the amenities of Western civilization. Moving from place to place in mobile... |
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Experiencing Berlioz: A Listener's Companion
Melinda O'Neal - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Experiencing Berlioz: A Listener's Companion is an in-depth entre into the sound world of Hector Berlioz, recognized today as one of the most profoundly original and engaging composers in 19th-century Europe.Melinda O'Neal offers the non-specialist a pathway into the underlying... |
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KAWS: Where the End Starts
Andrea Karnes - Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Format: Hardcover
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A major survey of KAWS and his eye-popping work, from collectible art toys to UNIQLO T-shirts, from grafitti to museum exhibitionsAppropriating characters, images and effects from pop culture, the work of KAWS blurs the lines between high and low art, and between art and fashion. Deploying... |
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The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963
Ed Ward - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative -- from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues,... |
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Mexican Graphic Art
Milena Oehy - Scheidegger and Spiess
Format: Paperback
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Graphic art has long been one of the principal expressions of popular art in Mexico. Visually striking, with bold lines and intricate details, Mexican graphic art is intensely evocative of the time and place in which it was created. Poverty and wealth, love and cruelty, and the poetry and hardships... |
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Vietnam: A New History
Christopher E Goscha - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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In Vietnam, Christopher Goscha tells the full history of the events that created the modern state of Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day. Generations of emperors, rebels, priests, and colonizers left complicated legacies in this remarkable country. Periods of Chinese, French, and Japanese... |
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Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond
M. L. Liebler - Painted Turtle Book
Format: Print book
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Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond is the first of its kind to capture the full spectrum of Detroit popular music from the early 1900s to the twenty-first century. Readers will find in this unique and stimulating anthology new essays, and a few classics, by widely known... |
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Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg - Museum Of Modern Art
Format: Print book
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The early 1950s, when Robert Rauschenberg launched his career, was the heyday of the heroic gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. Rauschenberg challenged this tradition, inventing new intermedia forms of art making that shaped the decades to come. Published in conjunction with the inaugural... |
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Listening Lab 5
Bela Bartok - Universal Edition
Format: Sheet music
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It impresses through its formal construction as well as its expressive density. Inspiring aural spaces open up for audiences. (Universal Edition) Helping your audience understand what they are about to hear is a great introduction to modern music. To further augment UEs award-winning Listening... |
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Images of conviction : the construction of visual evidence
Diane Dufour - LE BAL / E'ditions Xavier Barral
Format: Print book
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"Images of Conviction" shows, through 11 cases, how the photographic image is constructed to become evidence. From the scientific methods developed by Alphonse Bertillon, a criminologist who worked for the Prefecture de Police de Paris in the late 19th century, to the first aerial... |
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Picasso-Giacometti
Julie Rouart - Flammarion-Pere Castor
Format: Hardcover
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This comprehensive volume examines the little-known relationship--both artistic and personal--between two of the greatest avant-garde artists of the twentieth century. Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti, each in their own way, deeply disrupted existing artistic codes and pushed the barriers... |
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Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study
Dariusz Terefenko - Routledge
Format: Hardcover
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Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study, Second Edition, is a comprehensive textbook for those with no previous study in jazz, as well as those in advanced theory courses. Written with the goal to bridge theory and practice, it provides a strong theoretical foundation from music fundamentals... |
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The Quick Guide to Parenting
Laura Quick - Pavilion
Format: Hardcover
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Since 2012, fashion illustrator Laura Quick has been sketching scenes from daily domestic life on her blog, The Daily Think. Insightful, tender and very, very funny, the images have become hugely popular, and the very best of them are collected together in this exquisite and hilarious gift... |
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Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Ian Nathan - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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Return to the wizarding world and discover how director David Yates and producer David Heyman brought J.K. Rowling's all new adventure, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to the big screen.Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them introduces filmmaking... |
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Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future
Tracey Bashkoff - Guggenheim Museum Publications
Format: Hardcover
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Hilma af Klint's daring abstractions exert a mystical magnetismWhen Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died in 1944 at the age of 81, she left behind more than 1,000 paintings and works on paper that she had kept largely private during her lifetime. Believing the world was not yet ready... |
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Pierre Boulez and the Piano
Peter O'Hagan - Routledge
Format: Paperback
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Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to international acclaim as the leader of the musical avant-garde during the 1950s. His most recent published work is a solo piano piece, Une page d'phmride,... |
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Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas
Donna Ghelerter - West Madison Press LLC
Format: Hardcover
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Marguerita Mergentime's textiles reshaped the sensibility of the 20th-century American homeMarguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas serves as a definitive source on this lauded American designer. Working in the heady milieu of 1930s New York, Mergentime (1894-1941) became... |
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The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art
Lance Esplund - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art A hand-signed porcelain urinal. An abstract drip painting. A silent 700 hour performance. Art has changed since the days of Giotto, Michelangelo, and even Picasso--and many of us are perplexed. Do modern and contemporary... |
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Futurist Painting Sculpture
Umberto Boccioni - Getty Research Institute
Format: Print book
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Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism) , a truly radical book by Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) , claimed a central position in artistic debates of the 1910s and 1920s, exerting a powerful influence on the Italian Futurist movement as well as on the entire European historical avant-garde,... |
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The golden decade : photography at the California School of Fine Arts, 1945-55
William Heick - Steidl
Format: Print book
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The California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco was among a handful of institutions in the nation to offer an extensive program in photography and film during the postwar period. Under the new directorship of Douglas McAgy, CSFA's photography program, established by Ansel Adams... |
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Messiah: The Composition and Afterlife of Handel's Masterpiece
Jonathan Keates - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From Handel's renowned biographer, the story of one of the most celebrated compositions of Western classical music, Handel's famous oratorio, Messiah In the late summer of 1741, George Friderick Handel, composed an oratorio set to words from the King James Bible, rich in tuneful... |
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Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction
Mari Lending - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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We are taught to believe in originals. In art and architecture in particular, original objects vouch for authenticity, value, and truth, and require our protection and preservation. The nineteenth century, however, saw this issue differently. In a culture of reproduction, plaster casts... |
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Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India
Stephanie Schrader - J. Paul Getty Museum
Format: Hardcover
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This sumptuously illustrated volume examines the impact of Indian art and culture on Rembrandt (1606-1669) in the late 1650s. By pairing Rembrandt's twenty-two extant drawings of Shah Jahan, Jahangir, Dara Shikoh, and other Mughal courtiers with Mughal paintings of similar compositions,... |
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Goya in the Norton Simon Museum
Juliet Wilson-Bareau - Yale University Press 2014.
Format: Print book
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During his lifetime, the industrialist and collector Norton Simon (1907-1993) amassed a trove of European paintings, drawings, and prints by Rembrandt, Picasso, Degas, and others. Simon occasionally became fascinated with a particular artist's oeuvre, and that passion inspired him to assemble... |
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Queen: For Singers with Piano Accompaniment
Queen - Hal Leonard
Format: Paperback
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(Vocal Piano) . 13 hits arranged for singers exactly how Freddie Mercury sang them, with piano accompaniment. Includes: Bicycle Race * Bohemian Rhapsody * Crazy Little Thing Called Love * Don't Stop Me Now * Fat Bottomed Girls * Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy * Killer Queen * Now I'm... |
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Frank Stella: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonn
Frank Stella - Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
Format: Hardcover
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In addition to his achievements in abstract painting and sculpture, Frank Stella has also made major contributions to the history of the modern print. An exploration of the artist's innovative use of the medium, Frank Stella: Prints reveals the intimate relationships between Stella's... |
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Food in Vogue
VOGUE. - Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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Food in Vogue collects the most elegant, mouthwatering food photography and finest food writing from one of the most respected magazines in the world. Including original essays by leading food writer and longtime Vogue food critic Jeffrey Steingarten, the book features previously published... |
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Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters: Inside His Films, Notebooks, and Collections
Guillermo del Toro - Insight Editions Incredib
Format: Print book
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The perfect companion piece to an enthralling new exhibition on the visionary work and fervent imagination of director Guillermo del Toro.In 2016, a new exhibit on the work of visionary director Guillermo del Toro will begin at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) , before moving... |
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The Complete Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid - Thames & Hudson Ltd.
Format: Book
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Zaha Hadid is one of the most innovative and celebrated architects working today. Born in Iraq, raised in London, and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Hadid has transformed our experience of space and architecture. This comprehensive, updated monograph of more than two hundred... |
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Nordic Painting: The Rise of Modernity
Katharina Alsen - Prestel Publishing
Format: Print book
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This large-format, lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive survey of the fin-desicle and modernist painting of Scandinavia. This book features an enormous variety of artists and works that explore the impact of Nordic geography, history, social mores, and national identities on the region's... |
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How to Draw Animals in Simple Steps
Eva Dutton - Search Press
Format: Print book
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Learn how to draw cute household pets, impressive wild animals and amazing birds using this fun and easy step-by-step method. Starting with simple shapes, four popular artists show how easy it is to develop circles, rectangles, squares and ovals into an exciting selection of creatures including... |
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The Craft of the Lead Pencil
Mervyn Peake - Unicorn Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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British writer and artist Mervyn Peake is not only well-known for his Gormenghast trilogy of novels, but also for his work as an illustrator, most notably for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. In the Craft of the Lead Pencil, Peake draws on his own experience as an illustrator to offer... |
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Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory: Already the Past
Jennifer Green-Lewis - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardcover
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Invented during a period of anxiety about the ability of human memory to cope with the demands of expanding knowledge, photography not only changed the way the Victorians saw the world, but also provided them with a new sense of connection with the past and a developing language with which... |
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Louise Lawler: Receptions
Louise Lawler - The Museum of Modern Art
Format: Hardcover
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A major exhibition on the 40-year career of the Pictures Generation pioneer, whose work engages conceptualism and institutional critiquePublished in conjunction with the exhibition Louise Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW, at The Museum of Modern Art, this volume charts the creative practice of one of the most... |
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Ruth Asawa: Life's Work
Tamara Schenkenberg - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Doing is living. That is all that matters." - Ruth Asawa Throughout her long and prolific career American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) developed innovative sculptures in wire, a medium she explored through increasingly complex forms using craft-based techniques she learned... |
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Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains
Mark Blake - Victoria & Albert Museum
Format: Hardcover
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Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains celebrates 50 years of one of the greatest bands of all time. Lavishly illustrated throughout with material from the band's archive, including never-before-seen photographs, ephemera, and more, this book examines what makes Pink Floyd unique, from the mythology... |
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