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When the distinguished art critic Meyer Schapiro said that Elizabeth Bishop “writes poems with a painter’s eye,” Bishop was “very flattered: I’d love to be a...
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Popular Italian Cinema
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In this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in color and black and white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers...
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Manchester University Press
In early modern Europe, the visual image began to move, not only as it traveled across great distances but also due to the introduction of innovative visual...
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No Other Way to Tell It
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Manchester University Press
This second edition of No other Way To Tell It defines the form, analyzes its codes and conventions, and reviews contrasting histories in America and British...
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St. Martin's Griffin
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Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977...
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The Painted Word

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"America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post) Wolfe's style has never been...
  
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“Brilliantly illuminating . . . This latter-day Vasari puts his dry wit and keen eye to work in fashioning enduring portraits of ten contemporary-art stars,...
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Picador
Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazing at...
  
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St. Martin's Griffin
Mandalas are one of the most popular aids to meditation, with people worldwide finding enlightenment through the simple task of bringing a sparse outline to...
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Path of Beauty
Photographic Adventures in the Grand Canyon

St. Martin's Press
From sweeping vistas to intimate details of life along the Colorado River, master printer and photographer Christopher Brown takes readers on a beautiful,...
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Coltrane
The Story of a Sound

Picador
John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were...
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A Very New York Christmas

St. Martin's Press
The experience of New York City at Christmas time has enthralled residents and visitors alike since Clement C. Moore wrote The Night Before Christmas in his...
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