Fruit Crate Art

Fruit Crate Art

Author: Joe Davidson

Publisher: Booksales

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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Offers a collection of fruit label art with a brief history of the industry and the lithographers who created the labels, and discusses the age, rarity, and quality of popular examples that are still available.


How to Read Nancy

How to Read Nancy

Author: Paul Karasik

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1606993615

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Everything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden’s groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks of the language of comics through the deconstruction of a single strip. No other book on comics has taken such a simple yet methodical approach to laying bare how the comics medium really works. No other book of any kind has taken a single work by any artist and minutely (and entertainingly) pulled it apart like this. How to Read Nancy is a completely new approach towards deep-reading art. In addition, How to Read Nancy is a thoroughly researched history of how comics are made, from their creation at the drawing board to their ultimate destination at the bookstore. Textbook, art book, monogram, dissection, How to Read Nancy is a game changer in understanding how the “simplest” drawings grab us and never leave. Perfect for students, academics, scholars, and casual fans.


Mr. Orange

Mr. Orange

Author: Truus Matti

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781592701230

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A NYC boy (1940's) talks with Mondrian, whom he knows only as Mister Orange, when he delivers oranges each week.


Art Of Atari

Art Of Atari

Author: Tim Lapetino

Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment

Published: 2016-10-26

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1524101060

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Atari is one of the most recognized names in the world. Since its formation in 1972, the company pioneered hundreds of iconic titles including Asteroids, Centipede, and Missile Command. In addition to hundreds of games created for arcades, home video systems, and computers, original artwork was specially commissioned to enhance the Atari experience, further enticing children and adults to embrace and enjoy the new era of electronic entertainment. The Art of Atari is the first official collection of such artwork. Sourced from private collections worldwide, this book spans over 40 years of the company's unique illustrations used in packaging, advertisements, catalogs, and more. Co-written by Robert V. Conte and Tim Lapetino, The Art of Atari includes behind-the-scenes details on how dozens of games featured within were conceived of, illustrated, approved (or rejected), and brought to life! Includes a special Foreword by New York Times bestseller Ernest Cline author of Armada and Ready Player One, soon to be a motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. Whether you're a fan, collector, enthusiast, or new to the world of Atari, this book offers the most complete collection of Atari artwork ever produced!


The Queer Art of Failure

The Queer Art of Failure

Author: Jack Halberstam

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2011-09-19

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0822350459

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DIVProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films./div


Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley

Author: William Lindsay Gresham

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2011-04-06

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1590174283

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Soon to be a major motion picture from Academy Award–winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette. Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he’s going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute assistant (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich and gullible in their well-upholstered homes. It looks like the world is Stan’s for the taking. At least for now.


Art Kills

Art Kills

Author: Eric Van Lustbader

Publisher: Stark Raving Group

Published: 2014-03-17

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 098921298X

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From the marbled precincts of New York's uptown museum scene to the galleries and lofts of Soho to a Mafia mansion on the coast of Long Island, Lustbader's hotly paced novella sweeps Tess Chase - a no-nonsense woman with a connoisseur's taste for martial and fine arts - into the perilous pursuit of a long-lost painting by Renaissance master Raphael.


A Perfect Mess

A Perfect Mess

Author: Eric Abrahamson

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2007-01-03

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0759516499

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Ever since Einstein's study of Brownian Motion, scientists have understood that a little disorder can actually make systems more effective. But most people still shun disorder-or suffer guilt over the mess they can't avoid. No longer! With a spectacular array of true stories and case studies of the hidden benefits of mess, A Perfect Mess overturns the accepted wisdom that tight schedules, organization, neatness, and consistency are the keys to success. Drawing on examples from business, parenting, cooking, the war on terrorism, retail, and even the meteoric career of Arnold Schwarzenegger, coauthors Abrahmson and Freedman demonstrate that moderately messy systems use resources more efficiently, yield better solutions, and are harder to break than neat ones.Applying this idea on scales both large (government, society) and small (desktops, garages), A Perfect Mess uncovers all the ways messiness can trump neatness, and will help you assess the right amount of disorder for any system. Whether it's your company's management plan or your hallway closet that bedevils you, this book will show you why to say yes to mess.