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Description not available.Focuses on lesser-known aspects of the Swiss-French architect's career to examine his domestic interiors and furnishings, combining archival photography and sketches to analyze such creations as the Espirit Nouveau pavilion and the Le Corbusier studio-created chaise longue. AUTHOR: George H. Marcus
PUBLISHER: Monacelli Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Other
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Drawing Realistic Textures in Pencil by J. D. Hillberry
This book will help pencil artists explore the exciting textural possibilities of the medium with techniques so easy that anyone -- from doodler to advanced artist -- can master them in minutes. Step-by-step demonstrations show how to create the look of metal, wood, hair and other remarkably realistic textures. Two detailed start-to-finish demonstrations show how to create drawings that look so real they seem to leap right off the page. AUTHOR: J. D. Hillberry
PUBLISHER: F & W Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Reel Bad Arabs by Jack Shaheen
REEL BAD ARABS: HOW HOLLYWOOD VILIFIES A PEOPLE is a groundbreaking book that dissects a slanderous history dating from cinema's earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature machine-gun wielding and bomb-blowing evil Arabs. Award-winning film authority Jack G. Shaheen, noting that only Native Americans have been more relentlessly smeared on the silver screen, painstakingly makes his case that Arab has remained Hollywood's shameless shorthand for bad guy, long after the movie industry has shifted its portrayal of other minority groups. In this comprehensive study of nearly one thousand films, arranged alphabetically in such chapters as Villains, Sheikhs, Cameos, and Cliffhangers, Shaheen documents the tendency to portray Muslim Arabs as Public Enemy #1--brutal, heartless, uncivilized Others bent on terrorizing civilized Westerners. Shaheen examines how and why such a stereotype has grown and spread in the film industry and what may be done to change Hollywood's defamation of Arabs. AUTHOR: Jack Shaheen
PUBLISHER: Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Adirondack Style by Ann S. O'Leary, Gary Hall
Description not available.A decorating handbook designed to help readers re-create the rustic style inspired by New York's Adirondack region offers helpful tips on furniture, exteriors, accessories, and other details, accompanied by historical sidebars and source listings. 15,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Ann S. O'Leary, Gary Hall
PUBLISHER: Random House Value Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Dictionary of Fashion by G. Callan
Containing over 1200 entries, this reference offers concise entries that cover all aspects of the fashion industry, starting in 1840 and ending in the late 1990s. AUTHOR: G. Callan
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Frank Lloyd Wright Master Builder by Bruce B. Pfeiffer
This book presents twenty-five of the most renowned and significant buildings of America`s premier architect, from his early Prairie work in Oak Park, Illinois, in the 1890s to his daring creations of the 1940s and 1950s. Published in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, this superbly illustrated volume features previously unpublished photographs for which renowned architectural photographers Michael Freeman and Paul Rocheleau gained unprecedented access to some of Wright`s masterworks. The book examines in unsurpassed detail a selection of Wright`s architecture that covers the phenomenal range of his work, including such internationally famous buildings as the Home and Studio in Oak Park, Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as several lesser-known residences such as the Auldbrass Plantation in South Carolina and the Kenneth Laurent house in Rockford, Illinois. The works featured here are succinctly documented by one of Wright`s former apprentices, with text that details the development and execution of each commission. Also included throughout is a selection of Wright`s extensive writings, unpublished talks, and private letters. AUTHOR: Bruce B. Pfeiffer
PUBLISHER: Universe Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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