The Annotated Mona Lisa

The Annotated Mona Lisa

Author: Carol Strickland

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2007-10

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780740768729

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Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.


Songs in the Key of Z

Songs in the Key of Z

Author: Irwin Chusid

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2000-04-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 156976493X

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Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy—and presents their strange life stories along with photographs, interviews, cartoons, and discographies. About the only things these self-taught artists have in common are an utter lack of conventional tunefulness and an overabundance of earnestness and passion. But, believe it or not, they're worth listening to, often outmatching all contenders for inventiveness and originality. A CD featuring songs by artists profiled in the book is also available.


Trouble Boys

Trouble Boys

Author: Bob Mehr

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0306818795

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Trouble Boys is the first definitive, no-holds-barred biography of one of the last great bands of the twentieth century: The Replacements. With full participation from reclusive singer and chief songwriter Paul Westerberg, bassist Tommy Stinson, guitarist Slim Dunlap, and the family of late band co-founder Bob Stinson, author Bob Mehr is able to tell the real story of this highly influential group, capturing their chaotic, tragic journey from the basements of Minneapolis to rock legend. Drawing on years of research and access to the band's archives at Twin/Tone Records and Warner Bros. Mehr also discovers previously unrevealed details from those in the group's inner circle, including family, managers, musical friends and collaborators.


Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses

Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses

Author: Michael Jordan

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1438109857

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Presents brief entries describing the gods and goddesses from the mythology and religion of a wide variety of cultures throughout history.


The Films of Carol Reed

The Films of Carol Reed

Author: Robert F. Moss

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780231059848

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Once enthroned as a major international filmmaker, Carol Reed has long since been banished to a musty corner of movie history. To dust off his work, however, is to discover a dazzling body of films, a canon as remarkable for its diversity as its quality. Building his case, film by film, Robert Moss argues persuasively for a reassessment of this gifted artist, claiming a place for him in the ranks of the world's greatest directors.


Native Americans on Film

Native Americans on Film

Author: M. Elise Marubbio

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0813136652

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Looks at the movies of Native American filmmakers and explores how they have used their works to leave behind the stereotypical Native American characters of old.


The Art of Watching Films

The Art of Watching Films

Author: Joseph M. Boggs

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 9780073535074

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Accompanying CD-ROM provides short film clips that reinforce the key concepts and topics in each chapter.


The Crystal Spirit

The Crystal Spirit

Author: George Woodcock

Publisher: Black Rose Books Limited

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 9781551642680

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There is so much more to Orwell than just his books, impressive though they are.


The Secret in the Bible

The Secret in the Bible

Author: Tony Bushby

Publisher:

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780958189149

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Provides insight into the lost history of the Giza Plateau and how Temple priests of the Great Pyramid preserved the evidence of life beyond death.