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Author: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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Author: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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Author: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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Author: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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Author: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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Author: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...- $41.99
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Author: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 Édouard Manet's favorite...- $41.95
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Author: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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Author: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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Author: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...- $24.99
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Author: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 Édouard Manet's favorite...- $31.95
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Author: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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Author: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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Author:Maggie Nelson
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Author: Maggie NelsonISBN-10: 1665274905ISBN-13: 9781665274906Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2017Format: MP3 CD- $41.99
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Author: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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Author: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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Author: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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Author: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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Author: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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Author: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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Author:Richard Rhodes
John James Audubon: The Making of an American
From the Pulitzer Prize--winning historian Richard Rhodes, 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 New...- $56.95
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Author: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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Author:Mathew Klickstein
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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Author: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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Author: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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Author: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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Author: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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Author: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...- $31.95
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Author: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...- $31.95
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Author: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...- $46.95
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Author:Hayden Herrera
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human. -- San Francisco ChronicleHailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida...- $57.99
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Author:Richard Rhodes
John James Audubon: The Making of an American
From the Pulitzer Prize--winning historian Richard Rhodes, 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 New...- $46.95
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Author:Richard Lacayo
Last Light: How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph
One of the nation's top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by producing the greatest work of their long careers--and, in some cases, changing the course of art history.Ordinarily, we think of young artists as the...- $49.99
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Author:David Bayles
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Author: David Bayles, Ted OrlandISBN-10: 8200079821ISBN-13: 9798200079827Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2012Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbs- $41.99
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Author:Hayden Herrera
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human. -- San Francisco ChronicleHailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida...- $57.99
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Author:Adam Brookes
Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City
The extraordinary true story of how a group of bold and determined museum curators saved the priceless treasures of China's Forbidden City in the years leading up to World War II and beyond.1924: Two days before Christmas, a small and clandestine group of professors,...- $39.99
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Author:Patrick Bringley
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But...- $29.99
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Author:Tony Tetro
Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
The world's most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters--exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio. The art world...- $45.00
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Author:Aljean Harmetz
The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II
Critically acclaimed when published in 1992 as Round Up the Usual Suspects, The Making of Casablanca offers the ultimate insider's look at the politics and personalities behind the most celebrated movie of all time--Casablanca. Updated and timed for the 60th anniversary (Thanksgiving Day, 1942)...- $37.99
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Author:Jack Lowery
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
The powerful story of art collective Gran Fury--who fought back during the AIDS crisis through organizing, direct action, and community-made propaganda--offers lessons in love and grief to today's marginalized communities.By the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was deeply impacting gay and lesbian communities in...- $45.00
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Author:Noah Charney
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece
Author: Noah CharneyISBN-10: 8200099415ISBN-13: 9798200099412Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2010Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.30lbs- $41.99
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Author:Nino Strachey
Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England
A moving and soul-stirring exploration of the second generation of the iconic Bloomsbury Group that inspired and rejuvenated their elders to new heights of creativity and passion while also pushing the boundaries of sexual freedom and gender norms in 1920s Britain.In the years before...- $34.99
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Author:Lee Durkee
Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint
A darkly humorous and spellbinding real-life detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man's relentless search for an authentic, accurate portrait of William Shakespeare.Following his divorce, down-and-out writer and Mississippi exile Lee Durkee holed himself up in a Vermont fishing shack and fell prey to...- $39.99
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Author:Brian Raftery
Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen
From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of 1999--arguably the most groundbreaking year in American cinematic history.In 1999, Hollywood as we know it exploded: Fight Club. The Matrix. Office Space. Election. The Blair Witch Project....- $39.99
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Author:Harold Green
Black Oak: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Men
As he did for Black women in Black Roses, Harold Green III, poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living, now honors the Black men he most admires--groundbreakers including Tyler Perry, Barry Jenkins, Billy Porter, Chance the Rapper, LeBron James, Colin...- $24.99
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Author:Joe Greer
The Lay of the Land: A Self-Taught Photographer's Journey to Find Faith, Love, and Happiness
A spiritually uplifting memoir by the hugely popular photographer on Instagram, Joe Greer, Lay of the Land is a collection of thoughtful essays--half fan favorites, and half never-before-seen.Each photograph really does come down to a split second when you decide to freeze that moment...- $41.99
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Author:David Mamet
Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air.The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross, who wrote the classic films The Verdict and Wag the Dog sounds his alarm...- $41.99
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Author:David Mamet
Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air.The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross, who wrote the classic films The Verdict and Wag the Dog sounds his alarm...- $36.99
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Author:David Mamet
Recessional Lib/E: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air.The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG sounds his alarm...- $66.99
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Author:Paul Robert Walker
The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World
Joining the bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world's most magnificent structures and ignited the RenaissanceThe dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore, the great cathedral of Florence,...- $39.99
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