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The Secrets of Art: Uncovering the mysteries and messages of great works of art

The Secrets of Art: Uncovering the mysteries and messages of great works of art

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Author: Debra N. Mancoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Discover the secrets, mysteries, hidden meanings and stories behind famous works of art. A book full of surprises, discoveries, forgotten...
A Cellarful of Noise: With a new introduction by Craig Brown

A Cellarful of Noise: With a new introduction by Craig Brown

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Author: Brian Epstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CRAIG BROWN, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE TWO THREE FOUR Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George...
A Grand Success!: The Aardman Journey, One Frame at a Time

A Grand Success!: The Aardman Journey, One Frame at a Time

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Author: Peter Lord Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 351 Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. Joined by animator Nick Park in 1985, Aardman pioneered...
Megan Hess: The Little Black Dress

Megan Hess: The Little Black Dress

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Author: Megan Hess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Megan Hess: The Little Black Dress is an illustrated love story about fashion's most enduring and chic uniform, celebrating the designers,...
Reversing Into The Future: New Wave Graphics 1977-1990

Reversing Into The Future: New Wave Graphics 1977-1990

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Author: Andrew Krivine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Reversing into the Future: New Wave Graphics 1977-1990 is a unique and fascinating book of graphic design history curated from Andrew...
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop

Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop

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Author: Bob Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 656 Let's Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. The story begins in...
Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

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Author: Jackie Kay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'The most vivid evocation of Bessie Smith I have ever read' - Ian Carr, BBC Music '[Bessie Smith] showed...
Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court

Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court

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Author: Simon Thurley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array...
Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

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Author: Steven Hyden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 National Bestseller * Named one of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2018 * One of Newsweek's 50 Best Books of...
Magritte: A Life

Magritte: A Life

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Author: Alex Danchev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Rene Magritte's surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have all become inescapably part of our times. But these groundbreaking subversions...
The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built

The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built

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Author: Jack Viertel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A New York Times Bestseller For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an...
Crying at the Movies: A Film Memoir

Crying at the Movies: A Film Memoir

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Author: Madelon Sprengnether Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 'In these insightful essays, even the writing itself is cinematic as Sprengnether's memories and quick film summaries meld into one another,...
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time

Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time

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Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four year old Sybil Andrews. They...
Twenty Minutes in Manhattan

Twenty Minutes in Manhattan

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Author: Michael Sorkin (City College of New York) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through...
Cinematic Art of StarCraft

Cinematic Art of StarCraft

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Author: Blizzard Entertainment Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 For more than two decades, players have lead the zerg, protoss, and terrans into battle for galactic dominance in StarCraft, StarCraft...
Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work

Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work

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Author: Ian Nathan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 The definitive reference for all Wes Anderson fans. Loaded with rich imagery and detailed analysis of his incredible films - including...
The Art of Hearthstone

The Art of Hearthstone

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Author: Robert Brooks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The Art of Hearthstone offers an in-depth glimpse into the creativity that made the wildly popular collectible card game into a...
What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

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Author: Brian Seibert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 The first authoritative history of tap dancing, one of the great art forms--along with jazz and musical comedy--created in America What...
The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History

The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History

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Author: John Ortved Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The Simpsons is one of the most successful shows to ever run on television. From its first moment on air, the...
Industrial Britain: An Architectural History

Industrial Britain: An Architectural History

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Author: Hubert J. Pragnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Industrial Britain details the history of industrial architecture in Britain by architectural historian and artist, Hubert Pragnell. A fascinating insight...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

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Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
The Ten-Cent Plague: Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, The

The Ten-Cent Plague: Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, The

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Author: David Hajdu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 456 In the years between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s, American popular culture was first created in the...
Love for Sale: Pop Music in America

Love for Sale: Pop Music in America

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Author: David Hajdu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 David Hajdu begins Love for Sale, his personal history of pop music, in an unexpected place - not with nostalgic reminiscences...
Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century

Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century

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Author: Stephen Galloway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. A New York Times...
Constable: A Portrait

Constable: A Portrait

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Author: James Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
Tie Dye: Fashion From Hippie to Chic

Tie Dye: Fashion From Hippie to Chic

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Author: Kate McNamara Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 From hippy to hipster, this spirited style bible is an intoxicating survey of tie-dye, featuring high-fashion photographs as well as archival...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 - The Official Comic Collection: Black Ops 4 - The Official Comic Collection

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 - The Official Comic Collection: Black Ops 4 - The Official Comic Collection

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Author: Activision Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 The "Official Comic of Call of Duty (R): Black Ops 4" collects all 10 issues of the series and introduces the iconic...
Wreck: Gericault's Raft and the Art of Being Lost at Sea

Wreck: Gericault's Raft and the Art of Being Lost at Sea

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Author: Tom de Freston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Artist Tom de Freston has long had an obsession with Gericault's painting The Raft of the Medusa, and the troubling...
Rone: Street Art and Beyond

Rone: Street Art and Beyond

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Author: Tyrone Wright (Rone) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Known for his multi-storey murals gracing buildings all over the world, Melbourne-based artist Rone uses his work to explore the...
Reinventing Bach

Reinventing Bach

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Author: Paul Elie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The story of a revolution in classical music and technology, told through a century of recordings of the music of Johann...
Drama

Drama

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Author: David Rockwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 A celebration of the work of contemporary architect David Rockwell, at the intersection of architecture and performance David Rockwell's fascination with...
Dark City: Urban America at Night

Dark City: Urban America at Night

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Author: Lynn Saville Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Dark City is a natural sequel to Lynn Saville's colour photographs in Night/Shift (Monacelli, 2009). Her work in that book made...