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Art
Reviews of books focusing on art, artists, how-to, as well as books containing photographs. Coffee table books do well here.
Author
Michael K. Corbin
Publisher
AuthorHouse
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The Art Of Everyday Joe: A Collector's Journal ((Website: www.artbookguy.com))
Finally, it's here! If you love art, but think you can't afford it, your search is over. Now, an art book that doesn't talk down to you. "The Art of Everyday Joe: A Collector's Journal," is a spectacular trip through the world of contemporary art. Picking up where "Art In King Size Beds: A Collector's Journal," leaves off, join collector Michael K.......
Author
Kevin Cochrane
Publisher
CreateSpace
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The Potter's Keeper
Have you ever wondered why your cell phone doesn't have an antenna anymore? What did the Spanish conquistadors do with all that silver and gold they brought back from the New World? And what's up with the Neanderthals? How come we didn't descend from them and ended up Homo sapiens instead? Inspired by globe-circling travels through China, Asia, South America and Europe, Co.......
Author
Charles L Fields
Publisher
Outskirts Press
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Many Lands Many Hearts: More Than a Memoir
"When the stone speaks, I listen."
This is the guiding motto of sculptor, Charles L. Fields. When writing his memoir, Many Lands Many Hearts he employs the same inspiration and goes within himself to drawn upon a lifetime of varied careers and travel experiences.......
Author
Lewis Melville
Publisher
Victorian Heritage Press
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The Windsor Beauties: Ladies of the Court of Charles II
"The Duchess of York wished to have the portraits of the most beautiful women at Court," Anthony Hamilton wrote in the Memoirs of Count Grammont. "Lely painted them, and employed all his art in the execution. He could not have had more alluring sitters. Every portrait is a masterpiece.......
Author
Chester Brigham
Publisher
Whale's Jaw Publishing
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On Opposite Tacks
John Sloan, major American artist, and Capt. Solomon Jacobs, schooner fisherman and ocean adventurer, were both in Gloucester, Massachusetts from 1914 until 1918. Sloan, during five consecutive extended summers in Gloucester, was reinventing himself as an artist following the 1913 Armory Show, and was painting many of his finest works. Capt.......
