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Fearless GeniusThe Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000
An award-winning documentary photographer delivers a stunning visual history of the Silicon Valley technology boom, in which he was witness to key moments in the careers of Steve Jobs and more than seventy other leading innovators as they created todays digital world. An eye-opening chronicle of the Silicon Valley technology boom, capturing key moments in the careers of Steve Jobs and more tha…
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Moving with the MagdalenLate Medieval Art and Devotion in the Alps
Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps. Its seven case study chapters focus on the artworks commissioned for key churches that belonged to both parish and pilgrimage networks in order to explore the role of artistic workshops, commissioning patrons and diverse devotees in the development and transfer of the sain…
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- 9781501334696
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Daybook, Turn, ProspectThe Journey of an Artist
"Anne Truitt's frankness and intellectual curiosity about the hows and whys of a working artist's life" (Megan O'Grady, The New Yorker ) are compiled in this one e-volume of all three of her journals, the illuminating, inspiring record of reconciling the call of creative work with the demands of daily life. Anne Truitt kept a journal throughout her adult life, from her early years as one of the…
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- 9781476745015
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The Ages of ManMedieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle
Elizabeth Sears here combines rich visual material and textual evidence to reveal the sophistication, warmth, and humor of medieval speculations about the ages of man. Medieval artists illustrated this theme, establishing the convention that each of life's phases in turn was to be represented by the figure of a man (or, rarely, a woman) who revealed his age through size, posture, gesture, and a…
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DaybookThe Journal of an Artist
A “touchstone for aspiring artists and writers” (Megan O’Grady, The New Yorker), Daybook is a classic work about reconciling the call of creative work with the demands of daily life. Renowned American artist Anne Truitt kept this illuminating and inspiring journal over a period of seven years, determined to come to terms with the forces that shaped her art and life. Her range…
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Poster BoyA Memoir of Art and Politics
I've stuck up thousands of posters across Australia to interrogate our national identity. With each, the response has grown. You might expect I have unshakable convictions about social justice, but I don't. I reject the label 'activist'. So why do what I do? Maybe it's time I made sense of my motivations. Artist Peter Drew wanted a better Australia. In 2013, frustrated at the political discussi…
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- 9781743820841
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MichelangeloA Life in Six Masterpieces
This is the life of one of the most revolutionary artists in history, told through the story of six of his greatest masterpieces: The one indispensable guide for encountering Michelangelo on his home turf (The Dallas Morning News). Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture, a man who reinvented the practice of art itself. Throughout his long career he clash…
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William Spratling, His Life and ArtSelected Essays in Economic and Social His…
In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900--1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of the most fascinating American expatriates of the early twentieth century. Best known for his revolutionary silver designs, Spratling influenced an entire generation of Mexican and American silversmiths and transformed the tiny village of Taxco into the…
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You Don't Look Fat, You Look CrazyAn Unapologetic Guide to Being Ambitchous
“Carpe diem, bitches.” —Ashley Longshore Pour a glass of champagne, slip off your designer heels, pull up your big girl panties and enjoy pop-artist extraordinaire Ashley Longshore’s unapologetic, raw, and literally laugh-out-loud funny guide to living an “ambitchous” life. For Ashley Longshore, the path from reluctant Southern Belle to badass artist and as…
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St. FrancisvilleLouisiana's Historic River Bluff Country
In the rolling hills of Louisiana's Felicianas, less than an hour north of Baton Rouge on the east bank of the Mississippi River, lies the historic community of St. Francisville. For generations, this picturesque town has inspired a variety of creative artists, from naturalist John James Audubon, whose experiences in the area helped make him the world's greatest bird artist, to acclaimed noveli…
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