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The internationally acclaimed pop artist offers his dementedly clever perspective on everything from dolphins, boredom, and beer to supernatural forces.
With deadpan humor and unsettling imagery, Scottish pop artist David Shrigley's scrawls from the subconscious have earned him major gallery showings and legions of fans. In this mock autobiographical collection, his mischievous drawings capture life's anxieties and ambitions from the mundane to the...
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Tragic events can often be the catalyst and inspiration for the creation of meaningful works of art. In this case, it was the September 11th catastrophe of 2001 which provided the stimulus that would ultimately lead me down a totally unforeseen path, revealing an attitude never previously observed. Other than a proclivity for drawing geometric shapes, no artistic tendencies had even been evident.The one constant theme in my work is the recurring use...
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This new collection of vintage-with-a-twist work by Anne Taintor offers up a fresh serving of Anne's signature hilarious commentary on the joys, challenges, and cocktail hours of motherhood. From the fundamentals (WOW! I get to give birth AND change diapers!) to putting food on the table (you see them as pies . . . I see them as cries for help) to dealing with childhood questions (because I'm the mother . . . that's why) and strategies for taking...
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The husband-and-wife artists celebrate the ageing process through painting, sculpture, and personal reflections in this award-winning book.
In this beautiful book, painter Alice Matzkin and her sculptor husband Richard Matzkin explore the experience of aging through their art, finding inspiration rather than despair. Both in their sixties, their ongoing collaboration has produced more than 60 works. They also share personal narratives examining various...
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An Outrageous Theory For Murder! On December 9, 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her Durham, NC home. Her scalp was laced with deep incisions, and her blood was strewn from outside to inside the house. The sinister truth of that night turned her murder into North Carolina's most enigmatic criminal case, capturing media attention across the globe. Police zeroed in on Kathleen's husband, Michael Peterson, and charged...
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This is the story of women caught up in the tumultuous art scene of the early twentieth century, some famous and others lost to time.
By 1910 the patina of the belle poque was wearing thin in London. Artists were on the hunt for modern women who could hold them in thrall. A chance encounter on the street could turn an artless child into an artists model, and a model into a muse.
Most were accidental beauties, plucked from obscurity to pose in the...
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Mark Rothko's iconic paintings are some of the most profound works of twentieth-century Abstract Expressionism. This collection presents fifty large-scale artworks from the American master's color field period (1949—1970) alongside essays by Rothko's son, Christopher Rothko, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator of painting and sculpture, Janet Bishop.
Featuring illuminating details about Rothko's life, influences, and legacy, and brimming...
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A biography of the artist examining his complex relationship with the American West and how he expressed his imagination.
Frederic Remington and the West sheds new light on the remarkably complicated and much misunderstood career of Frederic Remington. This study of the complex relationship between Remington and the American West focuses on the artist's imagination and how it expressed itself. Ben Merchant Vorpahl considers all the dimensions of Remington's...
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Lors de la contemplation du célèbre retable d'Issenheim, une des grandes énigmes de l'histoire de l'art attend le visiteur. Buter sur la présence d'un ange musicien insolite doté d'une crête de paon et couvert de plumes dans le Concert des anges de Grünewald engendre un sentiment de malaise. Quelle audace de la part des concepteurs d'avoir placé un tel être et ses acolytes dans ce Concert qui fête la Vierge à l'enfant !
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The 1st installment in a 3-part oral history, Welcome to the Silver Factory introduces the members of Andy Warhol's inner circle and their dazzling world of art, parties, drugs, and drama In the 1st volume of this fascinating oral history based on her documentary Andy Warhol's Factory People, Catherine O'Sullivan Shorr illuminates the early years of Andy Warhol's Factory scene through interviews with the artist's collaborators, close friends, and...
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The 2nd volume of an intimate oral history, Speeding into the Future vividly recounts how Andy Warhol and his superstars revolutionized both the art world and the nature of celebrity in the mid-1960s Spanning from 1965 through 1966, 2 years that could be considered the pinnacle of Andy Warhol's creative output, Speeding into the Future features firsthand accounts of life inside the Silver Factory. Powered by a steady supply of amphetamines, Quaaludes,...
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The Conversations with Creative Women: Pocket Edition series contain exclusive interviews with some of Australia's most talented female creatives from industries as varied as ceramics, interior design, styling, photography, illustration, filmmaking, furniture, and book design.
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This beautiful volume celebrates one of the twentieth century's most important photographers, Dorothea Lange. Led off by an authoritative biographical essay by Elizabeth Partridge (Lange's goddaughter), the book goes on to showcase Lange's work in over a hundred glorious plates. Dorothea Lange is the only career-spanning monograph of this major photographer's oeuvre in print, and features images ranging from her iconic Depression-era photograph Migrant...
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Angela Gregory is considered by many the doyenne of Louisiana sculpture and is a notable twentieth century American sculptor. In A Dream and a Chisel, Angela Gregory and Nancy Penrose explore Gregory's desire, even as a teenager, to learn the art of cutting stone and to become a sculptor. Through sheer grit and persistence, Gregory achieved her dream of studying with French artist Antoine Bourdelle, one of Auguste Rodin's most trusted assistants and...
15) Missing Women
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TEN BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE. A riveting collection of unsolved disappearances including the cases of Tara Grinstead, Misty Copsey, Bethany Decker, Joyce Chiang, Jodi Huisentruit, Patricia Meehan, Kelsie Schelling, Natalee Holloway, Jennifer Kesse, and Tara Calico.
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To sustain her family, Mrs. Fury buries herself in debt At the top of the hill on the north side of town, Mrs. Ragner rules over her kingdom. A bitter old loan shark, she has a grip on all the families in this port city, and she squeezes each one for every last cent. For seven years, Mrs. Fury has borrowed money from Mrs. Ragner to send her son Peter to seminary. He never joined the priesthood, but the debt still stands. When she is unable to pay...
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Gladys Deacon- later called Gladys Duchess of Marlborough- was an eccentric socialite from the Gilded Age, who in later life is notable for her complete seclusion from society. A renowned beauty, Gladys captivated high society and set her sights on marrying into royalty- which, eventually, she did. But she was unstable, unhappy and erratic; after her husband died, she became a complete recluse, refusing to talk to anybody, to the point of lowering...
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In this episode, Harold Brandon, dubbed "Don Williams", the new Don of the Acapulco Cartel, forms an alliance with Don Ahmet, the Don of Istanbul....
Rather than take the Don out; at the request of the CIA and INTERPOL, Harold has decided to let him live since he is an "asset" to both international agencies....
Harold Brandon formulates a plan to take over some of the smaller cartels in Mexico, fortifying his position in the "Don Hierarchy", now...
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The remarkable true story of the document heist that shocked the world. Like many aspiring writers, David Breithaupt had money problems. But what he also had was unsupervised access to one of the finest special collections libraries in the country. In October 1990, Kenyon College hired Breithaupt as its library's part-time evening supervisor. In April 2000, he was fired after a Georgia librarian discovered him selling a letter by Flannery O'Connor...
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Too drastic, too crazy, too "out there," too early, too late, too damaged, too much. Valerie Solanas has been dismissed but never forgotten. She has become, unwittingly, a figurehead for women's unexpressed rage, and stands at the center of many worlds. She inhabited Andy Warhol's Factory scene, circulated among feminists and the countercultural underground, charged men money for conversation, despised "daddy's girls," and outlined a vision for radical...
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