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At My Grandmother's KneeRecipes and Memories Handed Down By Women of the South
Granny, Nana, Mamaw, or Gigi. It doesn’t matter what you call her. If her roots are in the South, your grandmother’s recipe box probably includes a dish or two you’ve longed to recreate. How about her legendary chicken and dumplings or the loaves of zucchini bread she always baked from her garden’s summertime bounty? Does your mouth water when you think back on…
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PortraitsJohn Berger on Artists
John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artists. Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both canonized and obscure, from Rembrandt to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connec…
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- 9781784781781
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The Elements of Drawing
Can drawing sound, honest representation of the world as the eye sees it, not tricks with the pencil or a few "effects" be learned from a book? One of the most gifted draftsmen, who is also one of the greatest art critics and theorists of all time, answers that question with a decided "Yes." He is John Ruskin, the author of this book, a classic in art education as well as a highly effect…
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AkianeHer Life, Her Art, Her Poetry
Experience the wonder of child prodigy Akiane Kramarik’s divinely inspired artwork firsthand. Akiane’s nonreligious parents were bewildered when their four-year-old daughter started sharing her dreams of angels, heaven, and Jesus. Her spiritual insight quickly expressed itself through impressive sketches, drawings with oil crayons, paintings, and eventually poetry, and her artwork …
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Planet/CubaArt, Culture, and the Future of the Island
Transformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel era Cuba has been in a state of massive transformation over the past decade, with its historic resumption of diplomatic relations with the United States only the latest development. While the political leadership has changed direction, other forces have taken hold. The environment is under threat, and the culture feels the …
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Steinlen Cats
Thophile-Alexandre Steinlen (18591923), one of the greatest illustrators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, but moved permanently to Paris at the age of 23 and became a French citizen. In addition to posters, song sheets, etchings, murals, and book illustrations, Steinlen did drawings for over 30 magazines, some of which he founded. A politi…
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Back to the FamilyFood Tastes Better Shared with the Ones You Love
Back to the Family is a companion to Art Smith's New York Times bestseller and James Beard award-winning cookbook, Back to the Table. Smith is the personal chef to Oprah Winfrey and a contributing editor to O Magazine. This book encourages readers to better understand the importance of valuing the ones you love through cooking and communing with food. Most importantly Back to the Family stres…
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The Total Art of StalinismAvant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond
From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists' goal of producing world-transformative art. In this new edition, Groys revisits the debate tha…
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Willy Pogány Rediscovered
Famed in the early twentieth century for his Art Nouveaustyle depictions of episodes from mythology, Willy Pogny illustrated books for readers of all ages. This collection featuring the best examples of design, illustration, and calligraphy from the artist's early career returns a long-neglected master illustrator to the public eye. The Hungarian-born artist studied in Paris and worked in Lon…
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Durgin-Park CookbookClassic Yankee Cooking in the Shadow of Faneuil Hall
No restaurant defines Yankee cooking as well as Boston's Durgin-Park. In an atmosphere of clattering dishes, conversation, and sharp-tongued waitresses, it serves its time-hallowed specialties: roast beef that may be the best anywhere, incredible quantities of Boston baked beans, New England boiled dinners, chowder, apple pie, apple pan dowdy, and hot cornbread. Few restaurants can claim a tra…
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