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Easy Holiday & Seasonal Art Projects with Paper by Jo Lynn Alcorn
Featuring more than 20 classroom-tested, fun, step-by-step projects that turn paper into dazzling decorations, treasures, and gifts, this guide comes complete with reproducible templates and easy instructions. Kids love tuning paper into works of art, such as Frisky Squirrel, Perky Turkey, Valentine Keeper, Flutter By Butterfly, and many more. Grades 1-3.

AUTHOR: Jo Lynn Alcorn
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Reza Abdoh by Daniel Mufson
In ancient cultures, they didn*t practice theory in their dances; they wanted to arrive at a state of trance, and I think that's an appropriate approach for the arts: to create a work that is entrancing. -Reza AbdohIncorporating interviews, critical essays, reviews, and the complete text of the play The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice, Reza Abdoh is a comprehensive introduction to this influential and controversial theater artist. By the time he died of AIDS in the spring of 1995 at age 32, Reza Abdoh had written, assembled, and directed well over a dozen works for the stage. In this first complete account of his career, Abdoh emerges as an internationally acclaimed artist who was influenced by a wide range of cultures and sources. Yet he is also distinctly American: a visionary who drew heavily on popular culture to expose sexual, racial, and media obsessions in American society. Despite this influence, Abdoh's works are not typical of American theater, according to theater critic Daniel Mufson, because they vehemently reject sentimentality and happy endings.Abdoh was born in Iran, raised in England, and lived and worked in New York and Los Angeles. He was the recipient of a CalArts/Alpert Theater award in 1995 and a posthumous Bessie, the Choreographer and Creator Award for Sustained Achievement. Several of his plays toured extensively in Europe. Aside from directing his own plays, Abdoh worked in other genres and media, ranging from a staging of Verdi's Simon Boccanegre to the making of a feature-length film, The Blind Owl. The aesthetic shock of encountering Abdoh's turbulent work sent me reeling back to relive the shock of discovering the radical new art of the 60's, which changed my life. -Richard Foreman Abdoh filled his works with tension: tension born of moral and formal contradictions; tension born of tone oscillating wildly from frenzy to calm; tension born of the negotiation between poetic and profane, traditional and modern, normal and abnormal . . .

AUTHOR: Daniel Mufson
PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

The Director's Voice by Arthur Bartow
Description not available.Presents interviews with contemporary American theatrical directors

AUTHOR: Arthur Bartow
PUBLISHER: Theatre Communications Group, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Writing the Romantic Comedy by Billy Mernit, Kathryn Walker
Description not available.The first guide to screenwriting ever to focus on the romantic comedy uses examples from Bringing Up Baby, Notting Hill, and other films to teach the art of creating great characters and plots. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

AUTHOR: Billy Mernit, Kathryn Walker
PUBLISHER: HarperInformation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture by Rachel Carley
Presented in classic visual dictionary style with over 600 precisely detailed original illustrations, this book will appeal to architects, restoration specialists, and old house buffs. Examples of each house type are shown, so examples of every element found on a Beaux Arts townhouse, a Navajo hogan, or a Craftsman bungalow is illustrated. Interior elements, outbuildings, floor plans, and structural drawings show how each building was typically constructed and used.

AUTHOR: Rachel Carley
PUBLISHER: Holt, Henry & Company, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Victorian Crafts Revived by Caroline Green, Di Lewis
Fifty projects based on both authentic designs taken from original pieces of stitching and adaptions from Victorian magazines and picture books.

AUTHOR: Caroline Green, Di Lewis
PUBLISHER: F & W Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture