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Flower Power: The Meaning of Flowers in Asian Art
Dany Chan - Asian Art Museum
Format: Print book
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In 1967, the phrase "flower power" transformed the commonplace flower into a Buddhist-inspired symbol of peace. In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of San Francisco's Summer of Love, this book showcases the expressive powers of flowers in Asian arts and cultures. Beginning... |
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Art of Renaissance Rome: Artists and Patrons in the Eternal City
John Marciari - Laurence King Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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John Marciari tells the story of the monuments, artists, and patrons of Renaissance Rome in this compelling book. In no other city is the ancient world so palpably present, and nowhere else is the mission of the church so evident. At the same time as the humanists sought to preserve and recreate... |
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Pearl Jam Anthology - The Complete Scores: Deluxe Box Set
Pearl Jam (Musical group) - Hal Leonard; Box Deluxe edition
Format: Hardcover
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(Transcribed Score) . This deluxe hard-cover book provides 130 complete lyrics and transcriptions of every song on the Pearl Jam albums Ten through Lightning Bolt. Over 800 pages of music contain lyrics and streamlined transcriptions of every instrument that was recorded for an amazing... |
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Helen Pashgian: Spheres & Lenses
Helen Pashgian - Radius Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Vermeer of California's Light and Space movement: the first comprehensive monograph on Helen Pashgian's infinitely subtle and mutable sculptureOver the course of her career, Pasadena-based artist Helen Pashgian (born 1934) has produced a significant oeuvre of sculptures comprised... |
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Meadow: The Intimate Bond between People, Place and Plants
Iain Parkinson - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration of Britain's vanishing hay meadows: vestiges of a rural past and sanctuaries for future biodiversity. The surviving hay meadows of the British Isles are an intrinsic part of the region's cultural heritage, standing as a pastoral equivalent to the great churches,... |
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BAM: Next Wave Festival
SUSAN YUNG - Print Matters Productions, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, founded in 1983 by impresario Harvey Lichtenstein, gathered performances in which genres mixed and traditions were upended. Events held in downtown lofts were given larger venues at BAM. Choreographers, directors, artists and musicians... |
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The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music
BALINT ANDRAS VARGA - University of Rochester Press
Format: Hardcover
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Balint Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music, Varga has confronted thirty-three composers with quotations carefully chosen to elicit their thoughts about an issue that... |
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Ferrari: Under the Skin
Andrew Nahum - Phaidon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A substantial work, providing exceptional insights into Ferrari the man, Ferrari's design, and Ferrari the legend.Ferrari is an extraordinary company that emerged as World War II receded in Italy, combining collegiality, an almost religious dedication, and dictatorship in equal parts.... |
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