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Hellcat Amazons: Tough Girls and Warped Women from the Pulp Classics (Pulp Postcards)
by Pulp Classics Postca Publisher Comments As America slowly relaxed its moral codes in the postwar era, the pulp novels of the paperback racks offered an initiation into the previously hidden demimondes of sex and hedonistic excess. While the cover blurbs feigned shock and disgust, the cover art...
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Too Late to Resist: Steamy Clinches from the Pulp Classics
by Prion Pulp Postcards Publisher Comments The 1950s and early 1960s were the heyday of the Pulp novel. The cover artists were masters of the art of titillation and this book features a series of illustrations of the clinch, the erotic embrace, or the promise of its imminent occurence. She was...
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52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity
by Jeffrey Yamaguchi Publisher Comments 52 Projects is an exploration of your creativity from the culinary to the literary to the artistic. A way of turning the ordinary into the extraordinary, and finding a flash of inspiration in our everyday lives. The only materials required...
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Silent Bob Speaks: The Collected Writings of Kevin Smith
by Kevin Smith Publisher Comments In 1994, Kevin Smith debuted his low-budget film Clerks at the Sundance Film Festival. It became an instant cult classic and made Smith the top dog of the indie film world. Next he was an executive producer of the smash hit Good Will Hunting and quickly...
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She Tried to Be Good: Sirens and Vamps from the Pulp Classics
by Prion Publisher Comments As America slowly relaxed its moral codes in the postwar era, pulp novels offered an initiation to the previously hidden demimondes of sex and hedonistic excess. While the cover blurbs feigned shock and disgust, the cover art reveled in illicit danger...
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Donald Has a Difficulty
by Edward Gorey Publisher Comments Available for the first time since 1970, this quirky tale is vintage Gorey. Poor Donald has a splinter in his foot. His mother distracts him, urging him to think of markets, strings, and battles. But when she treats the wound with alcohol, Donald's...
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I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard
by Tom Reynolds Synopsis With a heavy heart and a tear in his beer, Reynolds painstakingly attempts to analyze 52 of the most depressing songs of all time. Artists noted in this compendium include Bruce Springsteen, Evanescence, Loretta Lynn, The Beatles, Celene Dion, Bobby...
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Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence
by Nick Bantock Publisher Comments It all started with a mysterious and seemingly innocent postcard, but from that point on nothing was to remain the same in the life of Griffin Moss, a quiet, solitary artist living in London. His logical, methodical world was suddenly turned upside down...
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Atlas of Anatomy for Artists 3RD Edition
by Fritz Schider Publisher Comments Full text, plus anatomical illustrations; plates by great artists showing anatomy. 593 illustrations....
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Design and Crime: And Other Diatribes
by Hal Foster Synopsis In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, Hal Foster explores the history of a design led culture and in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present asks if the new "political economy of...
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The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
by Michael Kimmelman Publisher Comments In his widely acclaimed national bestseller The Accidental Masterpiece, Michael Kimmelman climbs mountains, treks into the desert, and even nearly drowns as he pursues arts truths. He explains that great artists like Bonnard and Chardinbut also obscure...
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Who I Am and What I Want
by David Shrigley Publisher Comments Funny, urgent, bizarre, and honest -- pop artist David Shrigley's darkly hilarious scrawls from the subconscious have earned him a growing legion of fans around the world. In this mock autobiographical collection his mischievous drawings capture life's...
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Walker Evans (55)
by Luc Sante Publisher Comments Walker Evans (1903?75) is now considered perhaps the finest documentary photographer ever and his images have had considerable influence on other artists, not just in the field of photography. He is well known for his 1930s work for the Farm Security...
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
by Ross King Publisher Comments In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. With little experience as a painter (though famed for his sculpture David), Michelangelo was...
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Search for Ancient China (Discoveries)
by C Debaine Francfort Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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Discoveries: Dada: The Revolt of Art (Discoveries)
by Marc Dachy Publisher Comments Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries(r) volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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Escher on Escher
by M C Escher Synopsis Presents a selection of Escher's art and shares his comments on his work, symmetry, infinity, and paradox....
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Writing (Discoveries)
by Georges Jean Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Concludes
by Nick Bantock Publisher Comments Sabine I was sure I understood. Yet you were not here when I returned and there was no sign that you ever had been here.... Today comes your card saying you were in this house for three days after my return. I am bewildered. I need you...
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Quick Draw Fairies and Princesses (Quick Draw)
by Peter Bull Publisher Comments Draw mermaids, pixies, knights, and other fairy-tale characters with this series that will teach children everything they need to know in order to sketch with confidence. Starting from a simple shape, each step adds a little bit extra until the picture...
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