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This gorgeously illustrated book is the only major work to document the hip and inventive design of the mid twentieth century, a period that today reigns unchallenged among style setters as well as a new generation of home owners and collectors. AUTHOR: Deborah K. Dietsch
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Gruau by Rene Gruau
With his fluid lines, graceful poses, and bold use of color, Rene Gruau was a master at conveying fashion's sensual promise to women. A close friend and associate of Givenchy, Dior, and other stars of the Paris fashion scene, this unprepossessing, entertaining artist worshiped women almost as much as he did the glamourous life in which he portrayed them. Women were the stars of his drawings, and their dominance in his art helped emancipate the female form from the dowdiness of the post-war era. A Gruau sketch is a masterpiece of simple elegance: wasp-like waists, enormous bows, black-gloved arms and long, long legs were all his signature trademarks, as distinctively his as the playful G and star with which he signed his drawings. A spirited blend of the comic, Pop Art, and classical drawing, Gruau's art shaped the New Look of the 50s and helped revive Paris haute couture. With more than 100 colorful drawings from Gruau's numerous fashion spreads in Harpers Bazaar and Vogue and from his advertising campaigns for Dior and other designers, this beautiful, oversized monograph features the highlights of a stellar career that spanned four decades. It is a stunning celebration of fashion, form, and beauty. AUTHOR: Rene Gruau
PUBLISHER: te Neues Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | A Separate Peace by John Knowles, Nancy Gilsenan, Spike McClure
At a New England boarding school during World War II, a group of boys discover the depths of human nature among themselves, and the evil that even the most innocent is capable of. AUTHOR: John Knowles, Nancy Gilsenan, Spike McClure
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Cob Builders Handbook by Alex McMillan, Becky Bee, Mitch Spiralstone
One-third of the world's population lives in homes made of unbaked earth. Fifty thousand cob buildings are still in use in England today, most of them built in the 18th and 19th centuries. This is not a fad or craze, but rather a building technique that has stood the test of time. It is also, unfortunately, one of the many environmentally friendly techniques that was nearly lost in this century when we have been awash in a culture where every challenge is solved by the use of gallons of fossil fuel. AUTHOR: Alex McMillan, Becky Bee, Mitch Spiralstone
PUBLISHER: Groundworks
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Earthworks by Suzaan Boettger
Description not available.A comprehensive history of the Earthworks movement provides an in-depth analysis of the forms that initiated Land Art, profiling top contributors and achievements within a context of the social and political climate of the 1960s, and noting the form's relationship to ecological movements. (Fine Arts) AUTHOR: Suzaan Boettger
PUBLISHER: University of California Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Paradise Hotel by Richard Foreman
A longstanding pillar of New York avant-garde theater, Richard Foreman here offers two essays on his work-- On My Plays and Rules --to accompany the six plays collected here. Two of the plays in this volume, Benita Casanova and Pearls for Pigs, won Obie awards for Best Play. AUTHOR: Richard Foreman
PUBLISHER: Overlook Press, The
FORMAT: Other
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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