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Winner of the 2022 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black is a lyric evocation of the life and work of the great African American artist Beauford Delaney. These poems pay homage to Delaney's resilience and ingenuity in the face of profound adversity. Although his work never garnered the acclaim it deserves-and is finally receiving-Delaney was well known and highly respected in African American cultural circles,...
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From the award-winning author of Minor Characters comes a haunting novel about the persistence of love and the sustaining and destabilizing power of memories. In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art world of the 1960s, where men and women collide in "lucky and unlucky convergences," a series of love affairs has left Joanna Gold, a young photographer, feeling numbed. Then, at yet another party, a painter named Tom Murphy walks up to her. "Why do you...
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"Winner of the PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers" "A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Art, Architecture, & Photography Book of Fall 2020" "One of The Sunday Times' Best Art Books of 2020"
Janis A. Tomlinson has written and lectured extensively on the art of Goya. Her books include Goya: Order and Disorder, Goya: Images of Women, Goya in the Twilight of Enlightenment, and Francisco Goya: The Tapestry Cartoons and...
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Sonja Blue novels volume 3
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After decades spent roaming the globe in search of the undead monster who created her, vampire/vampire-hunter Sonja Blue has finally found in the psychic detective Palmer and the unearthly child called Lethe a family she can call her own. But the new world she has created for herself is forever changed by a brief affair in New Orleans that ends in madness and death, and leaves the Other-the murderous, demonic aspect of her fractured personality-stronger...
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Dust Bin Bob is back after saving the day for the Beatles in Manila, except this time he's hanging in Morocco with Brian Jones, the doomed original guitarist of the Rolling Stones. Brian buys an antique mirror used for the esoteric art of mirror gazing. What Brian sees in the mirror frightens him and sets the scene for his untimely death. Was he murdered? Find out in the sequel to Rubber Soul, Painted Black.
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Mired in a pit of depression so deep that he doubts he'll ever pull himself out, Matt Hoveling finds himself pushed up against the farthest edge of the North American continent possible, where a group of marginalised Vancouverites take him in as one of their own as they work to improve their own lives and the city around them. (345 pages) ------------- "What is wrong with you people?" Naz demanded to know. "How the hell did you win the Cold War? Cops...
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When chaos reigns and an invisible enemy is out to get her, what can a witch rely on?Only her Doc Martens boots, a switchblade, and ancient magic.Just when Gosha Armitage is getting the hang of being a witch, everything changes. When spells fail and portents of doom foretell a terrible disaster coming in a matter of days, Gosha suspects the return of a vanished enemy, but no one in the hidden corridors of power will believe her. As the stopwatch ticks...
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Nick Sharman - at last - is living a life of married bliss with his new partner (and ex-stripper) Dawn. The bad boy has settled down, and the booze and the drugs and the guns are but a happy memory - unlike his ex-wife Laura, now married to respectability.
Laura's quite capable of shattering the idyll, but this time it's serious - their fifteen-year-old daughter Judith, the real love of Sharman's life, has gone missing. The police are looking, but...
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Checkerboard Film Foundation
Pub. Date
2023.
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The film features artist Frank Stella as he walks us through his 2012 exhibition “Black Aluminum Copper Paintings” at L&M Arts. The film also features commentary on Frank’s life and career from Adam Weinberg (Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY) and Ann Temkin (Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NY).
14) The gray day
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Acorn/Scholastic Inc
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[2023]
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IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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On a rainy day, a young artist struggles to find inspiration--until she remembers all the things she loves that are black and white.
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TidalWave Productions
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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This new series featuring the king master of horror in classic black and white. As the Confederate Government retreats from Richmond during the final days of the Civil War, an unearthly battle is taking place between Vincent Price and a time traveler called the Silversmith over a long lost painting of Thomas Jefferson.
16) Black Terror #8
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Dynamite
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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A momentous issue this month as the saga of the SuperPowers continues! As The Scarab fights for his life, Green Lama reveals his startling discoveries to both his teammates - and their foes! Plus, this issue: the painted origin spread of Masquerade by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger and Doug Klauba!
17) DANSE MACABRE
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Duran Duran returns with their new album, Danse Macabre. The 13-song collection features three brand new songs, haunting covers of songs by artists such as Billie Eilish, Talking Heads, the Rolling Stones, and the Specials, and new versions of classics from their own catalog.
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Dynamite
Pub. Date
2016
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The history of painters in comics goes back to the dawn of pulp magazine covers. From "The Shadow" and "The Spider" to "The Black Bat" and so many other characters, painter's works have graced the covers of comics and pulps, which have influenced many artists over the decades. This deluxe coffeetable art book, edited and overseen by Alex Ross -- one of the comic industry's most recognized painters, whose expertise has helped guide and define its contents...
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2024.
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"Film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades-a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up...
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New York Times bestselling author and former Special Forces officer Brad Taylor's thrilling new short story sets Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill on Italy's beautiful Amalfi Coast for their long-delayed honeymoon with their daughter, Amena—where they encounter art thieves with ties to the underworld...
Between the delectable meals, the gorgeous Mediterranean seaside, and historical sites, Pike and Jennifer are enjoying their time with Amena in the...