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Indian Textiles: The Karun Thakar Collection
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This dazzling array of Indian textiles from one of the world’s most important and eclectic private collections contains many images never before published. A treasure trove of Indian textiles, this book ranges from 14th century trade cloths found as far away as Central Asia, Japan, Bhutan, and Afghanistan to Indian folk textiles and costumes. A passionate collector since his childhood days, Karun Thakar discusses the roots of his passion in an essay, telling how he became interested in textiles and explaining what he looks for when buying an object. Additional essays by world renowned experts offer historical and cultural perspectives on various types of textiles, their production and use. Gorgeous illustrations of Kashmiri shawls, embroidered temple hangings, silk brocade and wedding costumes reflect the intricate beauty of each piece and the expert handicraft that has been practiced for centuries. Anyone interested in textiles, Indian and Asian art, interior design, or cultural history will find inspiration in this beautiful volume.
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L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
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Mae West: The Essential Collection
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Classic, bawdy, seductive and witty, Mae West is one of the most iconic actresses in motion picture history. Notorious for pushing the envelope with her suggestive innuendos and racy persona, she is often cited as a major contributor to the enforcement of the strict Production Code in 1934 that would change the way movies were made for decades to follow. Mae West: The Essential Collection features 9 of her best films including her debut with George Raft in Night After Night, She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel both co-starring Cary Grant, Belle of the Nineties and her only collaboration with W.C. Fields, My Little Chickadee. Filled with comedy, romance, drama, music and some of the wittiest dialogue ever captured on film, this unforgettable collection highlights the true essence of one of the most influential actresses of the last century.
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Board Book)
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BARDS OF FANTASIA (Book 1): A Poem for Britain: --V.2 standard text, light pics
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"4 of 5 stars overall, 5 for originality....make the world and the opportunities for animating beautiful sequences a real selling point....keep it up!" --Jonny Perl for Rob Minkoff, director "The Lion King". Corporate-backed, black ops, they fed the world to the worms. Armed to their greedy teeth with genetic weaponry and temporal spy-tech... Diplomats like Oxridge College's Skall, Dor, and Dimmack... These geniuses alone can oppose them. Skall has his time machine calibrated to nudge history's path a bit. But he didn't foresee a trio of time-tripping deities with their own agendas. --Of how they want to use humanity, and lesser magic beings, too. So, seeming invulnerable enemies are squeezing both sides of time, and the human race itself. The thinnest thread of hope is intuitive mastery of mythic time. Which music-scholars -- aka bards -- alone possess. PRAY, that one of the fatcats miscalculates, somehow, somewhere, sometime.A 5-minute, animated, trailer can be seen at amazon.com/author/swwilcox. That's an excerpt from the 100min. Previs film I made, where all scenes, dialogue, and music were tested for fluidity. It is not, however, a version for commercial release. Rather, it's aimed at a future director's use, as a reference.
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Costume Jewelry (DK Collector's Guides)
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A catalog of more than 1,500 collectible pieces features tips on purchasing costume jewelry, a guide to desireable prices, and a detailed history of costume jewelry from ancient times to the present day.
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Punk: Chaos to Couture
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The provocative punk aesthetic and its incendiary influence on high fashion Since its origins in the 1970s, punk has had an explosive influence on fashion. With its eclectic mixing of stylistic references, punk effectively introduced the postmodern concept of bricolage to the elevated precincts of haute couture and directional ready-to-wear. As a style, punk is about chaos, anarchy, and rebellion. Drawing on provocative sexual and political imagery, punks made fashion overtly hostile and threatening. This aesthetic of violence – even of cruelty – was intrinsic to the clothes themselves, which were often customized with rips, tears, and slashes, as well as studs, spikes, zippers, D-Rings, safety pins, and razor blades, among other things.This extraordinary publication examines the impact of punk’s aesthetic of brutality on high fashion, focusing on its do-it-yourself, rip-it-to-shreds ethos, the antithesis of couture’s made-to-measure exactitude. Indeed, punk’s democracy stands in opposition to fashion’s autocracy. Yet, as this book reveals, even haute couture has readily appropriated the visual and symbolic language of punk, replacing beads with studs, paillettes with safety pins, and feathers with razor blades in an attempt to capture the style’s rebellious energy. Focusing on high fashion’s embrace of punk’s aesthetic vocabulary, this book reveals how designers have looked to the quintessential anti-establishment style to originate new ideals of beauty and fashionability.
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My Fair Lady [Blu-ray]
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Restored in 4K from 8K scans of the original 65mm elements with 96K resolution English 7.1 Dolby TrueHD audio, this 50th Anniversary Edition celebrates the breathtaking musical extravaganza that won 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. This beloved adaptation of the Broadway stage hit stars Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle, a sassy, working-class London street vendor, and Rex Harrison as the elitist Professor Higgins, who attempts to turn Eliza into a sophisticated lady through proper tutoring. But, when the humble flower girl blossoms into the toast of London society, her teacher may have a lesson or two to learn himself!
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Stetson Hats & the John B. Stetson Company: 1865-1970 (Schiffer Book with Values)
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This fascinating, detailed book provides a sweeping survey of the hats produced by the company whose name is synonymous with cowboys and the Wild West. Surprisingly, though, the John B. Stetson Company was based in Philadelphia and produced all manner of headwear. Over 500 illustrations display never-before-worn Stetson hats (men's and women's alike), hat boxes, miniature boxes, and a surprisingly large number of collectible items associated with this most famous hat company. Original research charts the development of of the company, and individuals closely related with the firm provide their memories. Hat styles from the mid-nineteenth century to the late twentieth get a review, and for those lucky enough to own one of these valuable collectibles, there are tips on how to wear and care for vintage and modern Stetsons. Values for the hats illustrated, an extensive bibliography, and an index are included.
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Visualizing The Beatles: A Complete Graphic History of the World's Favorite Band
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Foreword by Rob SheffieldFilled with stunning full-color infographics, a unique, album-by-album visual history of the evolution of the Beatles that examines how their style, their sound, their instruments, their songs, their tours, and the world they inhabited transformed over the course of a decade.Combining data, colorful artwork, interactive charts, graphs, and timelines, Visualizing the Beatles is a fresh and imaginative look at the world’s most popular band. Meticulously examining the songs on every Beatles’ album from Please Please Me to Let It Be, UK-based graphic artists John Pring and Rob Thomas deconstruct:lyrical contentsongwriting creditsinspiration for the songsinstruments usedcover designschart positionand more . . . .They also break down the success of Beatles’ singles across the world, their tour dates, venues, and cities, their hairstyles, fashion choices and favorite guitars, and a wealth of other Beatles’ minutiae. Visualizing the Beatles also includes illustrations involving the conspiracy theories of the "Paul is dead" hoax as well as A-to-Z lists of every artist or performer who has ever covered a Beatles’ song.Comprehensive, entertaining, and packed with fun facts, Visualizing the Beatles is a wonderful introduction for new fans and a must-have for devotees, offering a new way to think about this extraordinary band whose influence continues to shape music.
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