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(P/B) THE LADYKILLERS
Tom Hanks stars as Goldthwait Higginson Dorr, Ph.D., a charlatan professor who has assembled a motley crew of crooks to try and pull off the heist of the century. Their base of operations is the root cellar of an unsuspecting church-going lady by the name of Mrs Munson (Irma P. Hall). The story they offer Mrs Munson is that they are a band of musicians in need of a place to practise their church music. But it fast becomes apparent that Dorr's gang - 'hippety-hop' enthusiast Gawain MacSam, demolition 'expert' Garth Pancake, Vietnamese ex-tu...
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(H/B) THE FRENCHMAN
«MAKING FACES - A highly original visual Q&A with France's most beloved comic actor»: In New York in 1948, photographer Philippe Halsman had a chance meeting with Fernandel, a French movie star from the vaudeville tradition, and asked the actor to participate in a completely original photographic experiment. Halsman would ask Fernandel questions about America to which he would respond using only facial expressions. With his long, lovable horse-face, Fernandel mimicked the answers to such questions as "Does the average Frenchman still pinch...
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(P/B) ATTRACTION OF THE OPPOSITES
After more than a decade of hosting a number of artist studios and running a diverse international program of exhibitions and performances the Artist Initiative CUCOSA faced the ultimate blow of having its doors shut down for good. In favor of those who think art to be unnecessary and insignificant we might soon have to witness another shopping complex ascending from the ashes of CUCOSA. Hopefully the initiative will continue its activities elsewhere but then again only time will tell. On the occasion of the two consequent exhibitions that...
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(H/B) TROPICAL ARCHITECTURE
The architecture in the Tropics, which cover nearly forty percent of the world's surface, is both diverse and complex, to meet the demands of an exploding concerns. With more than 300 photographs, illustrations and plans the author examines the continuum of tropical architecture from traditional, precolonial structures to the works of architects such as Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer and Renzo Piano, who advocate an architecture that is sustainable and perfectly adapted to climatic conditions. (From the publisher)...
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ART MONTHLY, ISSUE 372, DECEMBER-JANUARY 2013-2014
COVER Shannon Ebner Black Box Collision A 2013 detail INTERVIEW We The People Danh Vo interviewed by Jennifer Thatcher FEATURES All Clear Paul O'Kane sees through the rhetoric of transparency Scream and Scream Again Francis Frascina on MoMA's recent reappraisal of Munch's famous painting COMMENT EDITORIAL NEWS ARTNOTES REVIEWS EXHIBITIONS Salon of Fear Saim Demircan Lyon Biennale: Meanwhile... Suddenly and Then Laura McLean-Ferris artSOUTH: Collaborations Paul Carey-Kent Asco: No Movies Geoffrey Farmer: Let's Make the Water Turn ...
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WIRE, ISSUE 345, NOVEMBER 2012
The Masthead Letters Bitstream Trip or Squeek Bites Charts Out there Subscriptions Below the radar + The wire tapper Reviews index Soundcheck The inner sleeve Print run On screen On site On location Global ear Basque country Cross platform Beatrice Gibson Invisible jukebox Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille Niney the observer Stuart Wynn Jones Peter Britzmann Interview The primer Epiphanies...
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(P/B) SIGNS
The Ancient Romans used road signs to show the distance to Rome from the different parts of their empire. And until the twentieth century signs didn't really change: They just pointed the way and showed you how far to go. Then cars arrived, speeds went up and suddenly signs were essential for everyone's safety. Drivers had to know where to go, what dangers lay ahead, what other road users were going to do-and they had to know quickly and simply. So circles, triangles, rectangles and octagons decorated with symbols began to sprout up. When ...
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(P/B) A YEAR OF SPORTS TRAVEL
Ever dreamed of travelling the globe in search of the ultimate sport fix? A Year of Sport Travel gives you 12 months chock-full of the world's biggest and most exciting sporting events. Check off internationally renowned competitions like the PGA Masters, FA Cup and Wimbledon, and discover intriguing local passions like camel wrestling in Turkey and yukigassen, Japan's snowball-fighting championships. You'll find all the inspiration and information you need to become a true world-class sports fan. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) JAZZ GREATS
I was fortunate that as a young employee of the BBC, I was allowed to follow some elaborate hunches and a deep-seated interest, and go off to make a series of jazz documentaries for Radio Three. This involved foolhardy treks across New Orleans in search of Buddy Bolden's home, and hair-raising trips up into Harlem or the South Bronx to seek out some long-forgotten witness to the early jazz era. My colleague in the making of these programmes was Russell Davies, and I am grateful to him both for his unfailing good company and for the excelle...
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THE WORLD OF ORNAMENT
Imagine having an opulent compilation of history's most elegant and beautiful patterns and designs at your fingertips - to use, peruse, admire, and be inspired by. "World of Ornament" brings together the two greatest encyclopedic collections of ornament from the 19th century chromo-lithographic tradition: Auguste Racinet's "L'Ornement polychrome Volumes I and II" (1875/1888) and M. Dupont-Auberville's "L'Ornement des tissus" (1877). Adapted from historical items dating back to antiquity, such as jewelry, tiles, stained glass, illuminated m...
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XTREME FASHION
In Xtreme Fashion authors Courtenay Smith and Sean Topham turn their attention to the fashion world, where haute couture is taking a backseat to serious concerns about the environment, personal safety, and privacy. Featuring more than 300 color photos and fascinating text, the authors show how real fashion starts on the streets, born of urban conditions from gang culture to teenybopper worship. They showcase the works of designers, artists, and other creative individuals such as Moreno Ferrari, Freddie Robins, Vexed Generation, Alicia Fram...
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF STAGE LIGHTING
Those who do not know who a snuff-boy was or how his job related to stage lighting, or need to understand the difference between motivated light and motivating light, may look among the more than 1500 detailed entries of this encyclopedia, which is ideal for students, teachers, lighting technicians and designers and other theatre professionals." "Some of the numerous topics covered are equipment, methods, concepts, design process, electricity, characteristics of light, and lightboard operations. Where applicable, entries present both the h...
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(P/B) IMAGINE THIS
Until now, the true story of John Lennon's childhood has never been told. John's sister Julia has herself been on a personal journey that has made it possible only now to reveal the full extent of the pain and difficulties - as well as the happier times - living inside John Lennon's family brought. Julia reveals the various strong, self-willed and selfish women who surrounded John as he grew up. John was removed from his mother at the age of 5 to live with his Aunt Mimi, and here Julia shows for the first time the cruelty of this decision ...
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(P/B) ARCHITOURISM
This cutting-edge book looks at why the world's most interesting buildings are becoming the hottest destinations for today's travellers. In the last few decades architecture has become a major focus for tourists, rather than merely part of a larger travel itinerary. Illustrated with one hundred colour and mono photographs and with eye-catching, innovative, refreshing layout and graphics by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center design team, this series of provocative essays and contributions by leading scholars, critics, architects and artists expl...
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(H/B) INSIDE CUBA
Jose Martin Calvo de la Puerta, owner of Casa Je la Obra Pia - "obrapia" meaning an act of charity - annually gave part of his fortune to five young orphans to help them create their own new family. Several features make this house not only one of the biggest but also one of the most distinguished examples of what is called Cuban baroque. In 1793, two adjacent properties that had been purchased around 1665 were merged, and renovation began. The impressive size of the house called for a massive sculptural stone doorway, exceptional and uniq...
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(P/B) SCHINKEL, 1781-1841
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) is perhaps the best-known German architect, having left an indelible mark on the artistic era of the first half of the 19th century, subsequently also known as the "Schinkel era." However, he was not only an architect - he also painted and worked as a general designer, stage designer, art writer and royal building authority official. The most varied creative talents were united in this one individual; and he succeeded in putting them to good use thanks to his inherent self-discipline, organizational tale...
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(P/B) COMMUNICATIONS POLICY
Culture, politics, economics and technology all impact upon policy decisions. To investigate the factors that influence communications policy, however, one has to go beyond conventional views of media and communication studies and combine these with policy studies. Communications Policy: Theories and Issues utilizes new research to highlight key debates and developments, and addresses a broad spectrum of contemporary concerns regarding the structure and the organization of communications systems in the past, present and future. Combining ...
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(P/B) DESIGNING THE 21st CENTURY
How do today' s brightest and best designers see the future of design? What are the defining elements of form, function and aesthetics at the turn of the millennium? In response to these burning questions, Taschen has put together the definitive book on cutting-edge product design, furniture, ceramics, glassware and textiles presenting a cross section of the world' s most influential designers, from superstars to newcomers, and stunning images of their most progressive work. In this unique design compendium every designer featured gives hi...
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(P/B) GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin's music was going to occupy a special place in my life from the moment two kinds of home entertainment became linked in my boyhood: home movies, and the 78rpm record. Two days before Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953, my father unveiled a 9.5mm movie projector he had bought, with a selection of silent films in metal cans. Having teased the projector lens into focus, the clattering of film through sprocket-wheels became integral to the entertainment. I thought there had to be something else we could listen to while Charlie Chapl...
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CREATIVE REVIEW, VOLUME 35, ISSUE 10, OCTOBER 2015
MONTH IN REVIEW The stories that got us talking this month / An animated epic marks O2's sponsorship of the Rugby World Cup; Patrick Burgoyne analyses how reportage photography may have changed the debate around the refugee crisis in Europe; the New Zealand government announces a shortlist of designs for a new national flag. Logo Log / Michael Evamy evaluates the new Google logo. This Designer's Life / Daniel Benneworth-Gray breaks down the nine stages involved in searching for a book in an untidy library. HOME SPECIAL REPORT Interior des...
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