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Vendor: Jim Weiss
A Treasury of Wisdom: True Stories of Hope & Inspiration
These true stories of great individuals include Raphael, Michelangelo, Diogenes, Alexander the Great, King Solomon, Jesus' The Good Samaritan, Beatrix Potter, Satchel Paige, and more. Track listing: Preface An Empty Cup: A Story from Japan (1890) The Eye of the Beholder: Raphael and Michelangelo...- $16.95
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Vendor: Jennifer Trafton
Henry and the Chalk Dragon
In the town of Squashbuckle, just about anything can happen, and when Henry Penwhistle draws a mighty Chalk Dragon on his door, the dragon does what Henry least expects--it runs away. Now Henry's art is out in the world for everyone to see, and...- $14.99
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Vendor: Jennifer Trafton
Henry and the Chalk Dragon
In the town of Squashbuckle, just about anything can happen, and when Henry Penwhistle draws a mighty Chalk Dragon on his door, the dragon does what Henry least expects--it runs away. Now Henry's art is out in the world for everyone to see, and...- $9.99
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Vendor: Jose Esteban Munoz
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture--not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these...- $45.95
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Vendor: Gail Crowther
Marilyn and Her Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe
Timed to the 100th birthday of Marilyn Monroe comes an investigation into the literary life of the Hollywood icon and actress, from the author of Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz and Dorothy Parker in Hollywood.Far from the spotlights of the Hollywood film sets and...- $29.99
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Vendor: Serena Kutchinsky
Kutchinsky's Egg: A Family's Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss
A riveting, heart-stopping family memoir that blends art, obsession, and love as the author searches for the spectacular jeweled egg that consumed her father's dreams--and spelled her family's downfall.When she was eleven years old, Serena Kutchinsky's life changed completely. Her father Paul, who owned...- $39.99
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Vendor: Sue Prideaux
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin's legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention, to celebrate the beauty of an indigenous people and their culture. In this work, Sue...- $55.99
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Vendor: Lisa Congdon
Art, Inc. Lib/E: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist
You don't have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love. In this practical guide, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art--through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching,...- $46.99
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Vendor: Paul Boehmer
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity 10th Anniversary Edition
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy...- $45.95
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Vendor: Caitlin Vincent
Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future
Immerse yourself in the captivating and surprisingly contentious world of opera with this compelling unveiling of the art form's bold characters and the fierce struggles that are redefining its future."Opera breeds fanatics. There are opera groupies. Opera diehards. Opera obsessives. I'm not one of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Sue Roe
Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso's Life
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Private Lives of the Impressionists comes the first account of the women who loved Picasso―and who shaped his work far more than previously acknowledged.Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot, and Jacqueline...- $49.99
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Vendor: Elly McCausland
Swifterature: A Love Story: English Literature and Taylor Swift
A daring literary fusion of pop culture and feminism, Swifterature captures the special connection between English literature and the worldwide phenomenon of Taylor Swift.Swifterature captures a unique fusion of different elements: fandom, feminism, and a defense of both literature and popular culture.The narrative is...- $45.99
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Vendor: Mary Sarah
Life with Picasso
Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied...- $24.99
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Vendor: Tamara Smithers
The Cults of Raphael and Michelangelo: Artistic Sainthood and Memorials as a Second Life
This study explores the phenomenon of the cults of Raphael and Michelangelo in relation to their death, burial, and posthumous fame--or second life--from their own times through the nineteenth century. These two artists inspired fervent followings like no other artists before them. The affective...- $49.99
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Vendor: Anika Burgess
Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
Today it's routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, or watch a movie or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and sometimes dangerous. In Flashes...- $39.99
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Vendor: Antonio Dias
Antonio Dias:: Record: The Space Between
A rare classic of sound art from Brazilian avant-gardist and provocateur Antonio Dias, available in a limited editionIn 1971 Brazilian artist Antonio Dias (1944-2018) self-published Record: The Space Between, a vinyl LP audio project. Side A, titled "The Theory of Counting," features a ticking...- $25.00
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Vendor: Craig Childs
Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
"An engaging glimpse into a world both fascinating and fundamentally unknowable to those who aren't born into it." --R. E. BURRILLO, author of Behind the Bears Ears Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau--bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals...- $45.95
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Vendor: Phoebe Hoban
Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art
New York Times Notable Book"A smart, crackling chronicle of fast game, the '80s art market, [and] the attraction of destruction."-- Village Voice A bold and vivid biography that chronicles the dazzling rise and tragic death of Neo-expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.In less than a decade,...- $45.95
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Vendor: Maira Kalman
Women Holding Things
From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a wondrous collection of words and paintings that is a moving meditation on the beauty and complexity of women's lives and roles, revealed in...- $25.99
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Vendor: Wayne Kalayjian
Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution
1742: the famous dome atop Saint Peter's Basilica, designed by Michelangelo, is fractured and threatened with collapse. The dome is the pride of Italy and the largest of its kind anywhere in the world. And no one knows how to fix it. This engaging...- $45.99
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Vendor: Michael Mears Bruner
A Subversive Gospel: Flannery O'Connor and the Reimagining of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth
Conference on Christianity and Literature (CCL) 2020 Book of the Year - Literary Criticism. The good news of Jesus Christ is a subversive gospel, and following Jesus is a subversive act. These notions were embodied in the literary work of American author Flannery O'Connor,...- $14.99
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Vendor: Jasmine Warga
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Rover's Story and Other Words for Home comes an extraordinary story about two friends, a ghost, a missing painting, and a turtle named Agatha. The perfect next read for fans of The Swifts, Kate...- $45.95
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Vendor: Rhonda Roumani
Tagging Freedom
Kareem Haddad of Damascus, Syria, never dreamed of becoming a graffiti artist. But when a group of boys from another town tag subversive slogans outside their school, and another boy is killed while in custody, Kareem and his friends are inspired and start secretly...- $44.99
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Vendor: Katy Hessel
The Story of Art Without Men
The story of art as it's never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day. How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?...- $24.99
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Vendor: Michelle Young
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
A riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II, THE ART SPY uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the cultural legacy of the West.On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself...- $45.95
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Vendor: Russ Ramsey
Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art Through the Eyes of Faith
Did you know Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting during his lifetime and that during the last three months of his life he completed an average of one painting every day?Did you know that Michelangelo's David is covered in a dusting of human...- $39.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Campbell
Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe
Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation. After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift repositories. Well publicized restitution cases, such as that of Gustav Klimt's luminous painting featured...- $49.99
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Vendor: Michelle Young
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
A riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II, THE ART SPY uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the cultural legacy of the West.On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself...- $49.99
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Vendor: Jon Savage
The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture from the Margins to the Mainstream
A monumental history of the gay influence on popular culture, from the rise of Little Richard to the collapse of disco in 1979. Award-winning author Jon Savage takes us on a fast and captivating journey through the history of pop music as seen through...- $79.99
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Vendor: Mark Rowlands
The Word of Dog: What Our Canine Companions Can Teach Us about Living a Good Life
A heartwarming philosophical meditation on how to live a fulfilling life--inspired by the inherent happiness of dogsIf you have spent any part of your life with a dog, you may have found certain questions popping, unbidden, into your mind: Is my dog living a...- $45.95
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Vendor: Carolyn Keene
The Vanishing Statue: Volume 20
Nancy, Bess, and George must find a stolen statue in this twentieth book of the Nancy Drew Diaries, a fresh approach to the classic mystery series. Nancy is beyond excited when she receives an invitation to an elite celebration of the arts hosted by...- $12.99
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Vendor: David Bayles
Art & Fear Lib/E: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Author: David Bayles, Ted OrlandISBN-13: 9798200079803Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2012Format: CD- $11.99
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Vendor: Sebastian Smee
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the "Terrible Year" by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans--then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the...- $45.95
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Vendor: Lili Anolik
Didion and Babitz
Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the mutual attractions--and mutual antipathies--of Didion and Didion's fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz."Could you write what you write if you weren't so tiny, Joan?" --Eve Babitz, in a...- $49.99
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Vendor: Sebastian Smee
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the "Terrible Year" by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans--then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the...- $49.99
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Vendor: Jasmine Warga
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Rover's Story and Other Words for Home comes an extraordinary story about two friends, a ghost, a missing painting, and a turtle named Agatha. The perfect next read for fans of The Swifts, Kate...- $32.99
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Vendor: Paul Boehmer
Cruising Utopia Lib/E: The Then and There of Queer Futurity 10th Anniversary Edition
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy...- $19.99
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Vendor: Lauren Elkin
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
Coming across the term "art monster" in Jenny Offill's 2014 novel Dept. of Speculation, Lauren Elkin was intrigued. What kinds of connections might there be between art and monstrosity, and how was it different when the artist in question was a woman? Art Monsters...- $41.99
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Vendor: Carrie Courogen
Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden Genius
As part of the legendary comedy team known as Nichols and May, May revolutionized sketch comedy before striking out on her own to make history as the third woman to be admitted into the Directors Guild of America when she wrote, directed, and starred...- $55.99
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Vendor: Simon Wu
Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of 2024 A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Pick"Simon Wu manages to be both a shrewd critic and enthused aspirant of what passes for today's cultural capital. . . . with a disarming lack of cynicism that is both...- $36.99
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Vendor: Natalie Dykstra
Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner--creator of one of America's most stunning museums--an American original whose own life was remade by art. Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston's Fens at...- $51.99
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Vendor: A. Ashley Hoff
With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic
When she died in 1977, Joan Crawford was remembered as an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age--until publication the following year of her daughter's memoir, Mommie Dearest. Christina Crawford's book was an immediate bestseller, addressing the infrequently discussed topic of child abuse. When Paramount Pictures...- $45.95
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With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic
When she died in 1977, Joan Crawford was remembered as an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age--until publication the following year of her daughter's memoir, Mommie Dearest. Christina Crawford's book was an immediate bestseller, addressing the infrequently discussed topic of child abuse. When Paramount Pictures...- $49.99
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Vendor: Michael Maloney
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
A New York Times BestsellerAn Economist Book of the Year Costa Book Award Winner for Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award) Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots--which are then sold,...- $45.99
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Vendor: Beth Py-Lieberman
The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the the Smithsonian Collection
With charm and exuberance, The Object at Hand presents a behind-the-scenes vantage point of the Smithsonian collections. Veteran Smithsonian magazine editor Beth Py-Lieberman weaves together adaptations of the magazine's extensive and compelling coverage and interviews with scholars, curators, and historians to take listeners on...- $41.99
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Vendor: Beth Py-Lieberman
The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the the Smithsonian Collection
With charm and exuberance, The Object at Hand presents a behind-the-scenes vantage point of the Smithsonian collections. Veteran Smithsonian magazine editor Beth Py-Lieberman weaves together adaptations of the magazine's extensive and compelling coverage and interviews with scholars, curators, and historians to take listeners on...- $46.99
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Vendor: Zoe Pagnamenta
Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner--creator of one of America's most stunning museums--an American original whose own life was remade by art. Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston's Fens at...- $41.99
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Vendor: Brad Gooch
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
"It's all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers; the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs; the encounters with Madonna, Warhol, and one game-changer of a subway Johnny Walker Red...- $57.99
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Vendor: Summer Brennan
The Parisian Sphinx: A True Story of Art and Obsession
A gripping art history cold case: the previously untold story of Victorine Meurent, forgotten painter and famous muse to artists from Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec, and the modern search for her lost paintingsWhen former art student and journalist Summer Brennan learned that ﾉdouard Manet's favorite...- $41.95
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Vendor: Kleaver Cruz
The Black Joy Project
A breathtaking and necessary love letter to a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, The Black Joy Project is Humans of New York meets The Black Book"A patchwork quilt of ... moments of triumph, antidotes to trauma narratives and rich, ebullient...- $41.99
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