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The lives of the artists
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Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari's "The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects" was first published in Florence in 1550. Vasari, a painter and architect, had traveled throughout Italy sketching the buildings and art works he encountered when he contemplated compiling a record of great Italian artists and their work. The "Lives" was revised ...
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The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
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Maria Augusta Trapp
This is the true story that inspired the American musical "The Sound of Music", told by the former nun Maria herself.
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Chanel: A Woman of Her Own
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Axel Madsen
Chanel. The name means fashion and perfume, emancipation and casual feminine allure. Gabrielle Chanel began as a kept woman making hats for her lover's other mistresses and went on to become fashion's greatest career woman. She never married or had children, but men like Igor Stravinsky and the Duke of Westminster abandoned their families for her. ...
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The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and Me
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Ralph Steadman
A rollicking, no-holds-barred memoir, "The Jokes Over" is the definitive inside story of Hunter S. Thompson and the Gonzo years.
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My Autobiography
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Charles Chaplin
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
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Andy Warhol
In this uplifting book, artist Andy Warhol shares his off-the-wall viewpoints of numerous topics, including love, beauty, fame, creating art, and employment.
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren
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Jonathan Lopez
It's a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: A lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge Vermeers, one of which he sold to Hermann Goering, making a mockery of the Nazis. And it's a story that's been believed ever since. Too bad it isn't true. Jonathan Lopez has drawn on ...
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The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon
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Dan Eldon, Kathleen M Eldon, Kathy Eldon (Editor)
Photographs and text excerpted from the late Reuters photographer's seventeen journals document his travels through war-ravaged countries.
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A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
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John Richardson, Marilyn McCully
The long-awaited third volume of Richardsons definitive biography of Pablo Picasso combines the critical astuteness, exhaustive research, and stunning narrative that made the first two volumes an art-historical breakthrough as well as a pleasure to read.
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Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry
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Akiane Kramarik, Foreli Kramarik
A collection of the best of Akiane's full-colour paintings and poetry created from ages 4 to 10, along with details of her family and the amazing stories that surround each unique artwork.
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
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Ross King
The acclaimed author of "Michaelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling" chronicles the decade between two famous exhibitions: the scandalous Salon des Refuss in 1863, and the first Impressionist showing in 1874, set against the dramatic rise and fall of Napoleon III and the Second Empire.
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The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship
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Roger Friedland, Harold Zellman
Frank Lloyd Wright has been canonized as America's greatest architect - the man who gave us the Guggenheim Museum, and dozens of other 19th and 20th century American architectural landmarks. The scandals of his early life - including his multiple marriages and the bizarre axe murder of his third wife and family by an outraged servant in 1914 - ...
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Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
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David Michaelis
Charles Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the most misunderstood figures in popular culture. Now, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us the first full-length biography of Schulz: at once a creation story, a portrait of a hidden genius, and a chronicle contrasting the private man with the ...
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The Private Lives of the Impressionists
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Sue Roe, Dpa
This intimate, colorful, superbly researched account of the world's most popular artists, the Impressionists, takes readers into the artists' homes, as well as their studios and describes their unconventional, volatile, and precarious lives, as well as their canvasses and theories. 8-page color insert. 8-page B&W insert.
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Everett Ruess
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W L Rusho, Vicky Burgess, PhD, Edward Abbey (Afterword by)
Edward Abbey writes the introduction to this appreciation of the Western poet Everett Ruess.
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The Andy Warhol Diaries
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Hackett
Now in trade paperback, the sensational national bestseller that turns the spotlight on one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. These pages are filled with previously undisclosed facts about the lives and loves of the irch and famous--from royalty to movie and music stars to renowned artists.
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Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair: The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit After He Split
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Laurie Perry
Featuring personal knitting recipes and patterns, this book is the irreverent first-person narrative of a contemporary, displaced Southern woman facing life after her husband leaves her to get his creativity back.
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The Art and Flair of Mary Blair: An Appreciation
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John Canemaker
The stylishness and vibrant color of Disney films in the early 1940s through mid-1950s came primarily from artist Mary Blair. In her prime, she was an amazingly prolific American artist who enlivened and influenced the not-so-small worlds of film, print, theme parks, architectural decor, and advertising. Full color. Young Adult.
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Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa
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Alex Kershaw
This title looks at the life of one of the most extraordinary photographers of our time, Robert Capa. A Hungarian, he was driven from his country by political oppression and became the greatest war photographer of his generation with his work during the Spanish Civil War. His work during Wolrd War II made him a legend as he covered many of the ...
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It Seemed Important at the Time: A Romance Memoir
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Gloria Vanderbilt
Looking back at the age of 80, the legendary heiress and always-colorful personality Gloria Vanderbilt writes about her sex life, beginning with schoolgirl crushes at her private school and going on to tell all--or nearly all--about her many lovers, who included Marlon Brando, Howard Hughes, and Frank Sinatra.
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Everything about Me Is Fake...and I'm Perfect
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Janice Dickinson
The supermodel shares advice about how to look perfect, while also sharing personal stories about embarrassing professional moments and dating mistakes.
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Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals
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Everett Ruess, W L Rusho (Editor), John Nichols (Introduction by)
Everett Ruess--a bold teenage adventurer, artist, and writer--tramped around the Sierra Nevada, the California coast, and the desert wilderness of the Southwest between 1930 and 1934. At the age of 20, he mysteriously vanished into the barren Utah desert. Ruess has become an icon for modern-day adventurers and seekers. His search for ultimate ...
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Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
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Edward Gorey, Karen Wilkin (Editor)
Edited by one of the authors of THE WORLD OF EDWARD GOREY, this volume is comprised of excerpts from interviews with and autobiographical writings by illustrator Gorey, and is accented with a number of previously unpublished drawings and sketches, along with little-seen photographs.
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D. V.
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Diana Vreeland
The autobiography of Diana Vreeland, legendary editor of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, tells all, with wit and charm, about the glitzy high-fashion world that was her element, and that she did so much to shape.
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Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959
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Jane King Hession, Debra Pickrel, Mike Wallace (Foreword by)
"Frank Lloyd wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959", examines the momentous five-year period when one of the world's greatest architects and one of the world's greatest cities coexisted. Authors Jane Hession and Debra Prickel bring each of these unequalled characters to life, exploring the fascinating contradiction between Wright's often ...
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