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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: Ken Perenyi
Caveat Emptor Lib/E: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger
The true story of America's greatest art forger Ten years ago, an FBI investigation was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality...- $69.95
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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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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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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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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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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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Vendor: Ali Smith
The Ballad of Speedball Baby: A Memoir
The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, darkly hilarious, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith's coming-of-age in '90s New York as she commits to the messy, exhilarating life of a musician and must survive the slings and arrows society reserves for women...- $31.95
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Vendor: Charlotte Mullins
A Little History of Art
Charlotte Mullins brings art to life through the stories of those who created it and, importantly, reframes who is included in the narrative to create a more diverse and exciting landscape of art. She shows how art can help us see the world differently...- $41.99
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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...- $31.95
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Vendor: Danielle Krysa
Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk: And Other Truths about Being Creative
This book is duct tape for the mouth of every artist's inner critic. Silencing that stifling voice once and for all, this salve for creatives introduces 10 truths they must face in order to defeat self-doubt. Each encouraging chapter deconstructs a pivotal moment on...- $9.99
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Vendor: Prudence Peiffer
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there. For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip...- $46.99
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Vendor: Maggie Nelson
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Author: Maggie NelsonISBN-10: 1665274905ISBN-13: 9781665274906Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2017Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbs- $41.99
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Vendor: Claire Tomalin
The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World
From acclaimed literary biographer Claire Tomalin, a complex and fascinating exploration of the early life of the influential writer and public figure H. G. Wells How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells's life shape the father of science fiction? From his...- $41.99
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Vendor: Laura Cumming
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
New York Times bestselling author and art critic Laura Cumming reveals the fascinating, little-known story of the Thunderclap--the massive explosion at a gunpowder store in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer, painter of Girl with...- $34.99
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Vendor: Jacqueline Davies
The Bridge Battle
In this gripping, funny addition to the bestselling Lemonade War series, both Jessie and her brother Evan find themselves unexpectedly cast as outsiders. How they find their way forward makes for a timeless story about the power of courage and kindness.Evan and Jessie Treski...- $27.99
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Vendor: Ann Beattie
More to Say: Essays & Appreciations
As deeply rewarding as her fiction, More to Say presents a selection of Ann Beattie's essays, chosen and introduced by the author. From appreciations of writers, photographers, and other artists, to notes on the craft of writing itself, this is a wide-ranging, and always...- $36.95
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Vendor: S. T. Haggerty
Norman Rockwell's Models: In and Out of the Studio
In 1940, America's favorite illustrator Norman Rockwell, his wife Mary, and their three sons moved to the picturesque rural village of West Arlington, Vermont. The artist discovered a treasure trove of models. Norman Rockwell's Models: In and out of the Studio is the first...- $41.95
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Vendor: Roxana Robinson
Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
One of the greatest and most admired artists of the twentieth century, Georgia O'Keeffe led a life rich in intense relationships--with family, friends, and especially with fellow artist Alfred Stieglitz.Her extraordinary accomplishments, such as the often eroticized flowers, bones, stones, skulls, and pelvises that...- $76.95
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Vendor: Richard Rhodes
John James Audubon: The Making of an American
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes comes the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world.Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in...- $61.95
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Vendor: Joseph Luzzi
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
A true historical detective story full of insight about how we look at art―and the artists and eras that produced itSome five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence's unofficial rulers,...- $36.95
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See You at San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Culture
A comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless intimate, hilarious, and often thought-provoking stories by nearly fifty of the most integral members of today's convention and fandom community.See You At San Diego is the comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con...- $56.95
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Vendor: Harold Schechter
Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes
Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films.The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy; Chicago's Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the...- $34.99
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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,...- $35.99
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Vendor: Ross King
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
We have all seen, whether live, in photographs or on postcards, some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings. They are in museums all over the world and are among the most beloved works of art of the past century. Yet, ironically, these soothing...- $9.99
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Vendor: Anne Truitt
Prospect: The Journal of an Artist
In her widely acclaimed earlier memoirs, Daybook and Turn, Anne Truitt charted her life as an artist, mother and teacher. In Prospect, Truitt looks at the far end of her life's arc and feels the urgent need to reevaluate what she has done. A...- $9.99
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