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Grant Wood's Studio: Birthplace Of American Gothic
Manufacturer: Prestel Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 3791333259 |
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Published to coincide with the grand opening of Grant Wood's studio at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in Iowa, this in-depth exploration of the artist's most fruitful period brings together some of his best-known paintings and rarely seen decorative art works. The modest nineteenth-century red brick carriage house in a small Midwestern city offers no indication that it once housed one of America's most revered artists. But step inside the doors of 5 Turner Alley and discover a space which exudes the essence of American utility, simplicity and inventiveness that distinguishes Wood's work.By carefully tracing the development of Wood's work, from his decorative interiors and objects designed for his studio to his most famous paintings, such as American Gothic, this exquisitely produced volume provides new clues to Wood's success as a painter, craftsman and designer. Thoughtful essays examine how Wood's drawings and paintings, alongside his work in metal, wood, and interior design, together best represent the culmination of his personal experience as well as his taste and sense of humor.
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The Essential Grant Wood.......2006-03-12
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Bertrand Lavier
Giorgio Verzotti , and Bertrand Lavier Manufacturer: Charta ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8881581035 Release Date: 1997-02-02 |
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Artwork by Bertrand Lavier. Contributions by Daniele Del Giudice, Daniel Soutie. Text by Giorgio Verzotti.
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Bertrand Lavier
Catherine Francblin Manufacturer: Flammarion ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 2080121499 |
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Bertrand Lavier
Daniel Soutif Manufacturer: Exhibitions International ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 2879005973 |
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Bertrand Lavier
Jean-Hubert, Douroux, Xavier, Franck Gautherot et al Martin Manufacturer: Nouveau Musee and Kunsthalle, Lyo ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000PT14H4 |
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Bertrand Lavier: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 30. Oktober 1992-3. Janner 1993
Bertrand Lavier Manufacturer: Das Museum ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 3900776407 |
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Territoire photographique, géographie Photographiée
Arnaud; Descamps, Bernard; Lavier, Bertrand; Martinez, Felipe Claas Manufacturer: Editions sous le Vent ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 2858890390 |
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Version: Colouring Book
Didier Heintz , Molly Nesbitt , Sumiko Oe Gotini , Liam Gillick , Jonathan Monk , and Bertrand Lavier Manufacturer: Onestar/Version Magazine/IDEA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 2915359121 Release Date: 2006-03-01 |
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Version began as an artist's group under the name Super Us, and has become an adventurous magazine. In this special issue, the 70 artists invited to create black-and-white coloring book pages comply with verve. Their goal is to "unteach," to offer a new view of the world, at once clean-lined and non-linear. In the process they strip their own work to its elements and, perhaps most importantly, provide a way for both children and adults to step into the artistic process, to discover, complete, and collaborate with each artist, creating and inventing on their own along the way. Includes coloring pages by Liam Gillick, Claude Closky and Lawrence Weiner. For children of all ages.
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Bertrand Lavier talks to Daniel Birnbaum. ('80s Then).(Interview): An article from: Artforum International
Manufacturer: Artforum International Magazine, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008DGGQ6 Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Artforum International, published by Artforum International Magazine, Inc. on April 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1985 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Bertrand Lavier: Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne/Lyon, 29 septembre-27 novembre 1983, Kunsthalle, Bern, 27 april [sic]-3 juin 1984
Bertrand Lavier Manufacturer: Le Musee ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006EGGTO |
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Bertrand Lavier: Walt Disney Productions
Manufacturer: Imschoot ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9072191242 |
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Photojournalism: Photography With a Purpose
Robert L. Kerns Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0136656951 |
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Photojournalism: Photography With a Purpose
Robert Kerns Robert L. Kerns Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OJ195M |
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The Drow War III: The Darkest Hour (Drow War)
A. Bott Manufacturer: Mongoose Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1904854907 |
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The Saga Of The Drow Trilogy series from Mongoose Publishing is a compelling new campaign starring, as adversaries, one of the most evil and yet enduring fantasy races - the nefarious dark elves. Not for over a generation has the terror and fascination of gaming's most iconic antagonists been so accessible to the GMs epic campaign arsenal. Saga Of The Drow is a complete campaign - no GM work is required - taking characters from 1st to 30th level across this powerful trilogy. The third of the Saga of the Drow trilogy, A Shattering Of Realms is a 256 page book packed full of information on these most evil of creatures and a includes an exciting campaign designed to take player characters from 21st to 30th level. It can be used either as a standalone book or as part of the wider trilogy and is a complete campaign - no GM work is required.
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Complete Maya Programming: An Extensive Guide to MEL and C++ API (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)
David Gould Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1558608354 |
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Learning Maya, the world's leading 3D animation and effects package, is a challenge, especially for those who want to master Maya's versatile programming features in addition to its built-in tools.Customer Reviews:
Amazing book and essential for all Maya programming.......2007-10-02
awesome.......2007-02-02
Complete Maya Programming.......2006-12-03
Great buy to get you started scripting.......2005-09-06
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Bbc Music Magazine Top 1000 Cds Guide: A Critical Guide to the Best Classical Music Cds
Manufacturer: Amadeus Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1574670182 |
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Sport and the Sociological Imagination: Refereed Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
Nancy Theberge , and Peter Donnelly Manufacturer: Texas Christian University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0912646837 |
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Teaching TV Sitcom (Bfi Teaching Film and Media Studies)
James Baker Manufacturer: British Film Institute ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound Similar Items: ASIN: 0851709753 |
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This comprehensive, erudite and accessible guide provides a stimulating introduction to teaching this popular topic, with practical and helpful advice on classroom approaches and accessible reference to key critical and theoretical writing. Using examples from TV sitcoms in Britain and the US, this guide explores sitcom conventions, types of sitcom and issues such as representation of gender.
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The Two Of Us Mothers And Daughters
Ellen Small , and Sara Schapiro Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0740722433 |
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From the authors of The Two Of Us: A Book About Friendship, and The Two Of Us: A Book About Dogs and Their Owners, this warm, humorous gift book marries touching illustrations and candid observations to illustrate the unique bond between mothers and daughters. The Two Of Us says all the things you have wanted to say to the woman who has been such an important part of your life. The two of us...share so much in common: genes (and maybe jeans), a certain expression, a way of doing things, family memories. The two of us...may not always see eye to eye, but we can always speak heart to heart. Mothers and daughters will smile in recognition at the funny, honest sentiments, secrets, confessions, and tender moments captured in this heartwarming gift book.Customer Reviews:
A Must For Every Mother and Daughter.......2002-12-30
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When Dreams Came True: The GI Bill and the Making of Modern America
Michael J. Bennett Manufacturer: Potomac Books Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 157488218X |
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When Dreams Came True describes the making of modern America by the passage of the GI Bill in 1944 and the initiative of hundreds of thousands of ambitious veterans. Insightful and heartwarming, this book illustrates American ambition and ingenuity at its best.Customer Reviews:
GI Bill Indepth.......2001-12-07
An insightful, informed, inspiring story of the GI Bill........1999-03-07
As the war was nearing its end, America's leaders began to contemplate the domestic challenges that peace would bring. GI Joe would be leaving the battlefields of Europe and the beaches of the Pacific. He fully intended to cast off the chains of the depression and regain his rightful place on the assembly line, at the check out, in the classroom, and behind the plow.
Many in the Administration and Congress recognized that this transition might not be an easy one. Years of global conflict had already altered America. GI Joe had marched off to war in the aftermath of the Great Depression. Pre-war America was predominantly agrarian, isolationist, and rural. Post-war America was victorious, increasingly industrial, worldly, and urban. The post war changes in the U.S. would be dramatic. When Dreams Came True details the pivotal role that the GI Bill played in that metamorphosis.
Bennett relates the tortuous path of the act from inception to enactment. The American Legion, editor Walter Howey, publisher William Randolph Hurst, Representatives Edith Rogers and John Rankin, and Senator Bennett Clark, were unlikely companions on the road to passage of the GI Bill. Thanks to Representative John Gibson's tie breaking vote, the language that became the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 emerged from a near-deadlocked House-Senate committee almost in step with the relentless troop movement inland from the Normandy beaches.
Two aspects of the GI Bill sculpted the most dramatic changes to the face of America. Bennett claims that the bill's educational benefits and home ownership provisions were largely responsible for the birth of the American middle-class way of life. He makes a compelling case.
Veterans in the millions-many who had never dreamed of higher education-flocked to the nation's colleges and universities. This flood was both unprecedented and unexpected. Pre-war, a college education was generally the province of the country's elite. There were just under 213,500 college degrees conferred in 1942. That number rose steadily in the decade after the war and stood at just under 455,000 by 1951. The GI Bill of Rights made it possible for many returnees to select higher education in lieu of immediately joining the labor market. Thousands of veterans chose formal education-and many elected to attend the better-quality schools.
The GI Bill's home loan guarantees for veterans also significantly altered the American scene. There was more involved than merely home ownership. During the war veterans had learned to live side-by-side with people from different backgrounds. Veteran's mortgage benefits nourished the rise of a diverse suburbia and contributed to the reduction of the pre-war ethnic, religious, and racial enclaves. Veterans did not simply choose to buy vice rent. They chose a "way of life" that broke free from the class conscious boundaries that had distinguished their parents. This burgeoning middle class also served as a catalyst for more pervasive social change.
When my father returned from WW II, he took advantage of many provisions of the GI Bill. After Vietnam, I used my GI Bill eligibility to purchase my first home and pursue my initial degree. But we never understood the birthing pains that produced the law that provided these benefits. Passage of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 was a marvelous accomplishment and one of which I had little appreciation.
Bennett relates history with an easily readable style. This is not a text. It is a "story" of America's transformation in the decades following WW II. Michael Bennett weaves a powerful and interesting tale. It is a fitting tribute to those who fought. I recommend it to all the GI Joes and those they sired. When Dreams Came True can help all every American appreciate the magnitude of change that our country has witnessed in the latter half of the 20th Century.
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Pants on Fire: How Al Franken Lies, Smears and Deceives
Alan Skorski Manufacturer: WND Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1581824807 |
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Al Franken was a "nobody" in the arena of political punditry before he wrote two best-selling books, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. Now one of the most prominent figures on the liberal Air America radio network, formed to counter the mostly conservative voice of mainstream talk radio, he consistently boasts "I tell the truth" and "I hold myself to an impossibly high standard when it comes to telling the truth."Until now, says Alan Skorski, Franken's continuous smears against his enemies while promoting himself as the "ultimate truth teller" have gone unchallenged by the mainstream media. Surprisingly, even conservative or right-leaning media have not challenged the falsity of much of what he says, although Franken does not define what he believes is a lie, except to say that conservatives "get away with it." In contrast, Skorski defines a lie as "intentionally telling an untruth with the purpose of trying to cover up or get away with something," which he then accuses Franken of doing with impunity.
Alan Skorski has researched the facts regarding the allegations in Franken's last two books, monitored his daily radio show, spoken with people cited and referenced in Franken's books, and exchanged approximately 30 e-mails with Franken in order to provide readers with an accurate insight into how Franken thinks and operates. What Skorski finds is something very different from what Franken claims, and he concludes that, unlike many of the petty "lies" Franken writes about in his bookswhether Bill O'Reilly's Inside Edition show won a Peabody or a Polk award or whether Ann Coulter said that she and Franken were "friendly"...Pants on Fire reveals that Franken himself regularly lies, smears, and distorts what others say and do, ultimately discrediting himself as a "truth teller."
Indeed, according to Skorski, while Franken has called many peoplefrom Rush Limbaugh and Brit Hume to President Busha "liar," "hypocrite," "cheater," "lazy," "shameless," and/or "dishonest," ...Pants on Fire amply illustrates not only that many of his claims are false but that Franken employs the very tactics he accuses the right of using.
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coservative ranting.......2007-09-19
SAVE YOUR MONEY.......2007-08-19
What is wrong with people?.......2006-07-09
IF THIS IS THE RIGHT'S BEST SHOT, THEY'RE IN TROUBLE.......2006-07-07
Instructive.......2006-04-03
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Pants on Fire: How Al Franken Lies, Smears and Deceives
Alan Skorski Manufacturer: WND Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000QYBAQ8 |
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Nature Through Tropical Windows
Alexander F. Skutch Manufacturer: Univ of California Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0520047451 |
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NATURE THROUGH TROPICAL WINDOWS.
Alexander F. Skutch Manufacturer: Berkely, California U. P., 1983. 375 pp, illus. Fine copy of first edition in dust jacket. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UE051K |
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