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American Jukebox: A Photographic Journey

Christopher Felver - Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover

American Jukebox profiles the spirit and heartbeat of our American musical heritage. Christopher Felver has collected over 240 photographs from tours and encounters with musicians over the past 25 years. From Doc Watson to John Cage and Mavis Staples to Sonny Rollins, this collection celebrates...
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Hollywood Makeup Lab: Industry Secrets and Techniques

Diane Namm - Race Point Publishing
Format: Print book

Have you ever been to a movie and wondered how in the world makeup artists make the characters look so vivid and magnificent? For special effects makeup guru Bruna Nogueira, it's all in a day's work. The Hollywood Makeup Lab offers a peek into some of the coolest special effects...
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Marsden Hartley's Maine

Donna Cassidy - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format: Hardcover

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a well-traveled American modernist painter, poet, and essayist, but it is his life-long artistic engagement with his home state of Maine that defines his career. Maine served as a creative springboard, a locus of memory and longing, a refuge, and a means...
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Glamour: 30 Years of Women Who Have Reshaped the World

Glamour Magazine - Abrams
Format: Hardcover

For over 80 years, Glamour has been the preeminent female empowerment title in America. From Glamour's origin as the magazine "for the girl with a job" to today, strong, ambitious women have always taken center stage, and no place more so than at Glamour's annual Women...
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Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone – 125 Years of Pop Music

Peter Doggett - Vintage UK
Format: Paperback

Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital age, from the first pop superstars of the twentieth century to the omnipresence of music in our lives, in hit singles, ringtones and on Spotify. Over that...
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Music Law: How to Run Your Band's Business

Richard Stim - NOLO
Format: Paperback

If you belong to a band and love the art of your job, but sing the blues when it comes to the business side, you need Music Law. Composed by musician and lawyer Richard Stim, the book explains how to: find the right manager buy, insure and maintain equipment get gigs and get paid tour...
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McCloskey: Art and Illustrations of Robert McCloskey

McCloskey, Jane - DOWN EAST BOOKS


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Pharrell: A Fish Doesn't Know It's Wet

Pharrell Williams - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

Following Rizzoli's best-selling Pharrell: Places and Spaces I've Been, this volume documents the continuing adventures in art and design of one of the most influential figures in contemporary music and popular culture. Lavishly illustrated with 250 photographs and illustrations,...
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Manet Paints Monet: A Summer in Argenteuil

Willibald Sauerländer - Getty Research Institute; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Manet Paints Monet focuses on an auspicious moment in the history of art. In the summer of 1874, douard Manet 18321883 and Claude Monet 18401926, two outstanding painters of the nascent Impressionist movement, spent their holidays together in Argenteuil on the Seine River. Their growing...
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John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes 1908–1913: The Complete Paintings, Volume VIII

Richard Ormond - Paul Mellon Centre BA
Format: Hardcover

After John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) determined to curtail his internationally successful portrait practice, he had more freedom to paint where and what he wanted.  Volume VIII of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonné transports us to the artist’s most beloved...
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