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Aernout Mik: Refraction
Andrea Inselmann , Lisa Phillips , and Aernout Mik Manufacturer: New Museum of Contemporary Art ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0915557894 Release Date: 2005-08-15 |
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Aernout Mik's work forcefully combines video and architecture to transform exhibition spaces into vivid, unsettling tableaux of irrational human behavior. In Refraction, the viewer comes upon an accident the moment after it has occurred: An overturned bus fills a screen, rescue workers are scrambling, and traffic appears backed up for miles. No victims of the accident are depicted, although their absence does not seem to strike anyone as peculiar. As the camera shifts its perspective from the inside of the bus to the backup of cars to the ditch in front of the bus, an unspoken antagonistic energy slowly builds between various players in the scene. Refraction is presented as a rear-screen projection on a slightly bent wall, the shape of which visually echoes the jackknifed carriage of the bus.
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The Paper Jewelry Collection
Wendy Ramshaw , and David Watkins Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0500510199 |
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Paper jewelry--bold, simple, innovative--is self-decoration given new life and turned into an instant style statement. Through the pages of this book, jewelry becomes the most adaptable of pleasures, with pieces that are by turns simple and sophisticated, provocative or just beguilingly beautiful.Here is the ultimate in creative gift books, perfectly attuned to today's lifestyle:
* The high-fashion pieces are versatile and easy to wear--round the neck, looped on the arm, swung from the ear, or decorating parts of the body.
* All the jewelry is ready to fold and form: die cuts, metal findings, clear instructions, and color photographs of the finished pieces are included.
* This affordable collection gives everyone the freedom to buy, wear, enjoy--and replace.
* The authors pioneered paper jewelry. This completely new compendium reflects more than thirty years of evolution and innovation in their own design thinking and in book production techniques.
* High fashion necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and pins with easy-to-follow patterns and instructions
* Custom papers, micro-perforated for easy removal, illustrated in color throughout
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how to start a collection.......2001-02-02
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Jewelry, watches, and silverware;: Bracelets, studs, toothpicks, paper cutters, earrings, thimbles, charms, chains, pins, plush boxes, silver plated ware, ... (American historical catalog collection)
Roddin (E. V.) & Company Manufacturer: Pyne Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0878610154 |
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THE PLATINUM-PALLADIUM CONTROVERSY IN ITS RELATION TO THE JEWELRY INDUSTRY: A COLLECTION OF LETTERS, ADDRESSES, EDITORIALS, PROPOSED LAWS, RESOLUTIONS OF VARIOUS ASSOCIATIONS, SCIENTIFIC PAPERS, ETC. [VOLUME I (1)]
Charles, ed. Engelhard Manufacturer: The Essen Press Newark, NJ ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000IWPJS8 |
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Hirschfeld's New York
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0810929740 |
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"A Hirschfeld vibrates and "pops," capturing a fleeting moment, and never looks back."Remarkable for their movement and expression, conveyed with only a few well- placed strokes of a pen, the drawings of Al Hirschfeld (b. 1903) have beguiled the American public for nearly 80 years. His deft technical mastery and droll wit have earned him wide recognition as one of the top caricaturists of all time.
Coinciding with an exhibition of the artist's work at the Museum of the City of New York, this delightful, affordable paperback showcases, for the first time, the artist's irrepressible view of New York life. From 1920s Harlem to the Algonquin Round Table, these cunning scenes-elucidated by curator Clare Bell's text and an introduction by New York Times columnist Frank Rich-form a portrait of the city's vanished cultural landscape that is as irresistible as it is unique.
109 illustrations, 10 in full color, 96 pages, 9 x 10"
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Look at this as an investment.......2002-02-22
Genius in a bottle of ink.......2002-01-25
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Detective: The Inspirational Story of the Trailblazing Woman Cop Who Wouldn't Quit
Kathy Burke , and Neal Hirschfeld Manufacturer: Scribner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0743283929 |
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In 1968, 1 percent of the New York City Police Department was female. When Kathy Burke joined the NYPD's ranks in June of that year she was one of only ten women in a class of 950 recruits. But the determined Burke had no doubt that she was born to be a cop, and in her twenty-three-year career she rose to be the most highly decorated female detective in the NYPD's history. Detective is her story.
By turns caustic, funny, and matter-of-fact, Burke describes what it was like for a young woman to be surrounded by often hostile male officers and the uphill battle she fought to prove herself and earn their respect. But earn it she did. From her beginnings as an undercover cop making drug buys on New York's most dangerous streets to posing as Mrs. Patz to capture extortionists in the Etan Patz case to investigating the Mafia, Burke worked in some of the NYPD's most elite units on its most high-profile cases, eventually rising to the rank of detective first grade, the very highest in the detective bureau.
Burke vividly portrays every aspect of a cop's experience, taking readers from the discos where she flirted with drug dealers to the halls of Congress, where she testified about drugs and corruption with a paper bag over her head (to protect her undercover persona), to a deserted street in Queens where a tragic shooting would forever change her career and her life. Burke is brutally honest in her criticism of NYPD leadership and corruption within the department, in her accounts of the physical and emotional toll taken by the job that she loved, and in her descriptions of the sacrifices -- sometimes even the greatest sacrifice of all -- that cops must make.
Detective is a revelatory and inspirational story of life lived without apology, of stubborn courage, and of a woman who triumphed over doubts, recrimination, and personal tragedy to truly become "one of New York's Finest."
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Great Read.......2007-02-21
Great read.......2006-09-21
No sympathy for a woman cop.......2006-09-17
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Hirschfeld's Harlem: Manhattan's Legendary Artist Illustrates This Legendary City Within a City
Al Hirschfeld Manufacturer: Glenn Young Books/Applause ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1557835179 |
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Decades before the PBS documentaries, before Bill Clinton, Al Hirschfeld went to Harlem. No artist ever captured Harlem's dangerous highs and bluesy lows like this Master of the Performing Curve. Hirschfeld began his artistic Harlem odyssey six decades ago, charting that legendary New York neighborhood's special rhythms and moods in splashy feverish hues. Hirschfeld's Harlem opens onto a special portfolio of these full-color works, a pictorial essay of the Swing Era. Wynton Marsalis, Quincy Jones, Lena Horne and Harry Belafonte, among a dozen other Harlem artists and critics, supply accompanying commentary, reminiscences and analysis - each voice focusing on one portrait. Then it's back to Hirschfeld in his signature black and white takes on forty Harlem artists and public figures: Gregory Hines, Duke Ellington, James Earl Jones, Ethel Waters and dozens more - all have been caught in the creative act by one of our greatest artists. Each drawing is accompanied by a thumbnail narrative by Hirschfeld about the most famous inhabitants and transients of these fabled streets. Hirschfeld's Harlem opens a picture window into nearly a century of Black American artistry and life.Customer Reviews:
HIRSCHFELD IS STILL DRAWING RAVES.......2006-02-01
75 Years of Brilliance.......2004-03-05
Before embarking on his well-known celebrity caricatures, Hirschfeld captured the spirit of Harlem culture and nightlife in narrative paintings of regular people, which are collected impressively in this book's opening gallery. Here Hirschfeld's misleadingly simple style captures a full range of motion and emotion - capturing dancing, music making, and street culture with incredible power. The same goes for the uncharacteristically haunting "Ebony Sister" which speaks volumes on black experience. Next is a fantastic collection of caricatures of African American celebrities, covering a good 75 years of showbiz greatness, in which Hirschfeld uses simplicity and humor to bring out each performer's most eye-catching strengths.
As usual, it is great fun to search for the Nina's that Hirschfeld always slipped into his portraits - the best is one of Whoopi Goldberg, whose dreadlocks are made up almost entirely of Nina's. This book is well-supported by an outstanding essay on the Harlem Renaissance by Gail Lumet Buckley, as well as commentary by many black entertainers who have been moved by Hirschfeld's documentation of their culture, and who sure don't treat him like any sort of outsider. This is truly a winning collection not just of great artwork, but of its place in culture and history. [~doomsdayer520~]
Hirschfeld's Harlem.......2004-01-10
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The Speakeasies of 1932: Over 400 Drawings, Paintings and Photos
Gordon Kahn , and Al Hirschfeld Manufacturer: Glenn Young Books/Applause ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1557835187 |
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Introduction by Pete Hamill. When Manhattan joints were hung out to dry, the Booze-oizie sniveled, then pirouetted on their stools to find reasonably palatable Speakeasy facsimiles. These Prohibition hangouts each had their own flavor, decorum, decor and formula for ducking the law. Each found its own alcoholic substratum: its own inimitable characters behind, at and under the bar. Fear not - all has not been lost to the repeal of the 18th Amendment, Starbucks corporate latte, and the wrecking ball. One intoxicating artifact remains, a book of lustrous vintage - Al Hirschfeld's The Speakeasies of 1932, wherein Hirschfeld nails these dipsomaniacal outposts with his pen and brush in the manner of a dour Irish bartender sizing up a troublesome souse. Provided as well is the recipe for each of the speakeasy's cocktail claim to fame. The resulting concoction is the perfect antidote to the Cappuccino Grande Malaise, a book that will make everyone yearn for a Manhattan, old fashioned, and straight up. "His comments are as swooping and witty as his lines." - The New YorkerCustomer Reviews:
AL HRSCHFELD STILL DRAWS RAVES!.......2006-02-01
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WNEW: Where the Melody Lingers on, 1934-1984
Nightingale Gordon Manufacturer: Gordon Nightingale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000BVBQCY |
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A history of the WNEW radio station, illustrated with black and white photographs and Al Hirschfeld caricatures.
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Broadway Scrapbook
Brooks Atkinson Manufacturer: Theatre Arts ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B0007DVI38 |
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Curtain Times - The New York Theater - 1965-1987, Part I - Late Sixties, Part Ii - Early Seventies, Part Iii, Late Seventies
Otis L., Jr.; Photographs by Swope, Martha; Drawings by Hirschfeld Guernsey Manufacturer: Applause Theatre Book Publ. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000IY9CL6 |
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Hirschfeld's New York
Clare BELL Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MYP93M |
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Homicide Cop
Neal Hirschfeld Manufacturer: Berkley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0425055973 |
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The Lively Years, 1920-1973 (Da Capo Paperback)
Brooks Atkinson , and Al Hirschfeld Manufacturer: Da Capo Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0306802341 |
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Trendy Wendy: 2006 Wall Calendar
Todd Goldman Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Calendar ASIN: 0740752030 |
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