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Exchanging Hats
Paintings

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
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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Watching the World Change
The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11

Picador
The attack on the World Trade Center was the most watched event in human history. And the footage recorded that day came from myriad perspectives—from TV...
  
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The Chairs Are Where the People Go
How to Live, Work, and Play in the City

Faber and Faber, Inc.
Should neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing, you’re against something else? Is...
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The Simpsons
An Uncensored, Unauthorized History

Faber and Faber, Inc.
The Simpsons is one of the most successful shows to ever run on television. From its first moment on air, the series's rich characters, subversive themes, and...
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The Animator's Survival Kit--Revised Edition
A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

Faber and Faber, Inc.
The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Animation is one of the hottest areas of...
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The Great Funk
Styles of the Shaggy, Sexy, Shameless 1970s

Sarah Crichton Books
Avocado kitchens! Shag rugs! Dacron leisure suits! Earth shoes! At long last, the author of the beloved celebration of 1950s and ’60s design Populuxe turns...
  
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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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The Painted Word

Picador
"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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De Kooning's Bicycle
Artists and Writers in the Hamptons

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Some of the twentieth century's most important artists and writers--from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Frank O'Hara to Jean Stafford--lived and worked on...
  
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Unnatural Wonders
Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
An Incisive Account of the Bizarre, Often Bewildering Art World of Today Arthur Danto's new collection finds him, and the art world, at a point when the art...

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On Photography

Picador
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 Animator's Survival Kit
A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

Faber and Faber, Inc.
The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Animation is one of the hottest areas of...
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A Giacometti Portrait

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
When we look at a painting hanging on an art gallery wall, we see only what the artist has chosen to disclose--the finished work of art. What remains...
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The Monster Show
A Cultural History of Horror

Faber and Faber, Inc.
Illuminating the dark side of the American century, The Monster Show uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of...
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Letters on Cézanne

North Point Press
Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes. Virtually every day...
  
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Under the Sign of Saturn
Essays

Picador
This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of...
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Reading American Photographs
Images As History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans

Hill and Wang
Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting them not as...
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The Ransom of Russian Art

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet economics forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground...
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Plausible Portraits of James Lord
With Commentary by the Model

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Incisive reflections on more than twenty portraits of the author by some of the greatest artists of the last century Over the course of his life as a friend...