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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring never-before-published lyrics to some of his greatest songs, personal diary entries, doodles, quips and jokes, and piercing insights on politics and justice, this is Woody Guthrie's essential self-portrait, carefully curated by Woody's daughter Nora Guthrie and award-winning music writer and historian Robert Santelli"--
85) Leonardo's lost princess: one man's quest to authenticate an unknown portrait by Leonardo da Vinci
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A first-person account of how the author's initial suspicions of this portrait's provenance were confirmed repeatedly by scientists and art experts. He describes the path to authentication, fraught with opposition and controversy. The twists and turns of this fascinating, decade-long quest lead from art history to cutting-edge science, and from a New York art gallery to Paris, Milan, Zurich, and ultimately to a Warsaw library where the final, convincing...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A book bursting with passion, hope, and gravity-defying energy. A book to make you dream. A book about youth in all its glory, captured through the lens of dance. Jordan Matter is known to millions for his 10 Minute Photo Challenge YouTube videos. Now, in one dazzling photo after another, he portrays children in ordinary and extraordinary pursuits - from sleepovers to selfies, from leaping for joy to feeling left out. The subjects include TV and Intenet...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From a distinguished art historian, a dramatic reappraisal of Renaissance master Hans Holbein, whose art shaped politics and immortalized the Tudors. Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realized portraiture, which includes representations of Henry VIII, his advisors Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell, his wives Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves, and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies encountered during the...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Fine artist Leah Tinari, turns her formidable and singular talents to the presidents of the United States. Each engaging portrait and the accompanying facts paint a powerful and playful picture of the presidents, introduce readers to the personable side of these leaders and make them more relatable, approachable, human, and even fun! Before these forty-four men (over forty-five presidencies; Grover Cleveland served as the twenty-second and twenty-fourth...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"What's it like to grow up queer in America today? LGBTQ+ representation in the media is at an all-time high-and yet so is anti-LGBTQ+ legislation aimed at queer and trans youth. In this powerful volume, seventy-three LGBTQ+ kids and teens from fifteen different states throughout the USA tell their stories in their own words. They share the challenges they've faced coming out or coming to terms with their own identities; they write about their families,...
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Photographer Chris Jackson has been by the Royal family's side on domestic visits and overseas tours for the past fifteen years, resulting in an unparalleled photographic archive of the evolving British Royal family. From the modern-day fairy tale of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding to the births of Prince George and Princess Charlotte and their soon-to-be new sibling to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's historic marriage to countless Royal...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In July 1993, Nirvana was the biggest band in the world, and Kurt Cobain was subject to an intense level of celebrity and public scrutiny. Only nine months later, Cobain killed himself. It was the last formal photo shoot Nirvana ever did, and one of the last major interviews Cobain ever gave.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
London, 1958. When Juliet Montague's husband disappears, so does she. As far as her Jewish community is concerned, she is invisible. Until, on her thirtieth birthday, she does something unexpected. Instead of buying a fridge, she impulsively spends her savings on a portrait of herself. The painting leads Juliet out of suburbia and into the heady art scene of London, where she proves an astute spotter of talent. Yet she remains an outsider in both...
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