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  Feathers - Displays of Brilliant...

  Robert Clark

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  The award-winning National Geographic photographer captures the stunning variety and mystery of bird feathers in this acclaimed monograph. 
   
  Robert Clark’s fascinating and brilliantly colorful images reveal the beauty and myriad functions of a seemingly simple thing: the bird feather. Each exquisitely detailed close-up is paired with informative text about the utility and evolution of the feather it depicts, making this handsome marriage of art and science the ideal gift for bird lovers, natural history buffs, and photography enthusiasts. 
   
  “Art meets science in a poetic celebration of Earth’s astonishing diversity. Feathers is an intensely beautiful visual taxonomy and a photographic love letter to this poetic feat of evolution.” —Brain Pickings

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  Journey's End

  R. C. Sherriff

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  It’s March 1918, and World War I is raging in Europe. In the trenches in northern France, a group of British officers, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope, ready themselves for a major German attack while facing their worst fears. 
   
  R.C. Sherriff drew on his own experiences in World War I to create the play, which premiered in 1928 and is now considered one of the preeminent works about the horrors of war. 
   
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in February 2024. 
   
  Adapted and Directed by Martin Jarvis 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast recording, starring: 
   
  James Callis as Lieutenant Hibbert 
  Josh Cole as 2nd Lieutenant Raleigh 
  Jack Cutmore-Scott as Captain Stanhope 
  Tobias Echeverria as Young German Soldier, English Soldier 
  Adam Godley as Lieutenant Osborne 
  Ian Ogilvy as The Colonel 
  Darren Richardson as Mason 
  Simon Templeman as 2nd Lieutenant Trotter 
  Matthew Wolf as Captain Hardy, Company Sergeant-Major 
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Prepared for audio by Mark Holden 
  Recorded and edited by Neil Wogenson 
  Designed by Neil Wogenson, Charles Carroll and Mark Holden, and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. 
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin 
  Foley Artist: Stacey Martinez

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  The Art of Looking Up

  Catherine McCormack

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  A guide to spectacular ceilings around the globe that have been graced by the brushes of great artists including Michelangelo, Marc Chagall and Cy Twombly. 
   
  From the lotus flowers of the Senso-ji Temple in Japan, to the religious iconography that adorns places of worship from Vienna to Istanbul, all the way to Chihuly’s glass flora suspended from the lobby of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas—this book takes you on a tour of the extraordinary artworks that demand an alternative viewpoint. 
   
  Art historian Catherine McCormack guides you through the stories behind the artworks—their conception, execution, and the artists that visualized them. In many cases, these works make bold but controlled political, religious or cultural statements, revealing much about the society and times in which they were created. Divided by these social themes into four sections—Religion, Culture, Power and Politics—and pictured from various viewpoints in glorious color photography, tour the astounding ceilings of these and more remarkable locations:Vatican Palace, Rome, ItalyBlenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, UKLouvre Museum, Paris, FranceDali Theatre-Museum, Figueres, CataloniaMuseum of the Revolution, Havana, CubaCapitol Building, Washington, DC, USA 
   
  Four eight-page foldout sections showcase some of the world’s most spectacular ceilings in exquisite detail. 
   
  First and foremost, this is a visual feast, but also a desirable art book that challenges you to seek out fine art in more unusual places and question the statements they may be making. 
   
  “Deepens our perspective of 40 of the most artistic, fascinating and iconic ceilings around the world.” —Forbes

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  Georgia O’Keeffe and artworks

  Janet Souter

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  In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907 she enrolled at the Art Students’ League in New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chase. During her time in New York she became familiar with the 291 Gallery owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. In 1912, she and her sisters studied at university with Alon Bement, who employed a somewhat revolutionary method in art instruction originally conceived by Arthur Wesley Dow. In Bement’s class, the students did not mechanically copy nature, but instead were taught the principles of design using geometric shapes. They worked at exercises that included dividing a square, working within a circle and placing a rectangle around a drawing, then organising the composition by rearranging, adding or eliminating elements. It sounded dull and to most students it was. But Georgia found that these studies gave art its structure and helped her understand the basics of abstraction. During the 1920s O’Keeffe also produced a huge number of landscapes and botanical studies during annual trips to Lake George. With Stieglitz’s connections in the arts community of New York – from 1923 he organised an O’Keeffe exhibition annually – O’Keeffe’s work received a great deal of attention and commanded high prices. She, however, resented the sexual connotations people attached to her paintings, especially during the 1920s when Freudian theories became a form of what today might be termed “pop psychology”. The legacy she left behind is a unique vision that translates the complexity of nature into simple shapes for us to explore and make our own discoveries. She taught us there is poetry in nature and beauty in geometry. Georgia O’Keeffe’s long lifetime of work shows us new ways to see the world, from her eyes to ours.

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  George Balanchine - The Ballet...

  Robert Gottlieb

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  The foremost contemporary choreographer in the history of ballet, George Balanchine extended the art form into radical new paths that came to seem inevitable under his direction. He transformed movement and dance in classical and modern ballet, on the Broadway stage, and in the cinema.George Balanchine chronicles the life and achievements of this visionary artist from his early, almost accidental career in Russia, where his lifelong collaboration with Igor Stravinsky was forged, to his extraordinary accomplishments in America. The editor and writer Robert Gottlieb, one of the most knowledgeable dance critics in America, offers a superb and loving portrait of a genius who, though married many times to many ballerinas, remained truest to his greatest love, Terpischore, the Greek Muse of dance.

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  Pocket Guide - Stock Photos -...

  Steve McNewman

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  Wіth thе іnvеntіоn of thе dіgіtаl саmеrа, mоѕt оf us have lаrgе соllесtіоnѕ оf рhоtоѕ іn оur реrѕоnаl libraries. Sоmе hаvе рhоtоѕ in ѕеvеrаl lіbrаrіеѕ like iPhoto, Picasa, аnd Flісkr. Amоngѕt the hundrеdѕ of photos wе hаvе, thеrе are mаnу that wоuld ԛuаlіfу as ѕtосk рhоtоѕ. Thе photos thаt wе identified as stock, саn bе uploaded tо a numbеr of dіffеrеnt рhоtоѕ ѕtосk sites. Onсе thеrе, thеу are made аvаіlаblе for purchase and download tо іntеrеѕtеd buyers.

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