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319 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs ; 24 cm
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English
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An icon of performance art and the indie-music world, this is the first book on the artist's full career to date, as curated by the artist herself. Laurie Anderson is one of the most revered artists working today, and she is as prolific as she is inventive. She is a musician, performance artist, composer, fiction writer, and filmmaker (her most recent foray, Heart of a Dog, was lauded as an "experimental marvel" by the Los Angeles Times). Anderson...
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361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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The 1960s to early 1970s was a pivotal time for American culture, and New York City was ground zero for seismic shifts in music, theater, art, and filmmaking. 'The Downtown Pop Underground' takes a kaleidoscopic tour of Manhattan during this era and shows how deeply interconnected all the alternative worlds and personalities were that flourished in the basement theaters, dive bars, concert halls, and dingy tenements within one square mile of each...
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1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color & bw. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Take a remarkable journey into the myths and legends of dragons. Ancient art and writings reveal the many sightings and stories that have propelled the legend of these awesome beasts through the ages.
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145 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 26 cm.
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English
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The work of Robert Rauschenberg has had a profound impact on avant-garde art from the 1950s onwards. A pioneer of multimedia are, this book explores his experimentations from his Combines (works melding painting and sculpture), prints, silkscreen paintings to his use of technology and his collaborations with choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown. This book explores his work.
Presents a survey of the life and work of Robert Rauschenberg....
5) Camelot
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1 videodisc (46 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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From the sword of Excalibur to the Lady Guinevere, Camelot has been the subject of myths and legends, movies, and best-sellers. Investigates the secrets of Camelot, the literature of the legend, and the historical sites associated with King Arthur.
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Criterion collection volume 846
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1 videodisc (76 min.) : DVD video, sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (1 folded sheet : illustrations ; 19 cm) + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 16 cm).
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English
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In this film essay, multimedia artist Laurie Anderson presents a monologue touching upon her relationship with her rat terrier Lolabelle, the death of her mother, the heightening of surveillance following 9/11, and other topics.
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approximately 120 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Based on the Broadway show, the former Talking Heads frontman/multimedia visionary and a renowned artist combine their creative talents in this antidote to cynicism that bursting with pathos, humanism and hope.
"A joyful collaboration between old friends David Byrne and Maira Kalman, American Utopia offers readers an antidote to cynicism, bursting with pathos, humanism, and hope--featuring his words and lyrics brought to life with more than 150 of...
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2 videodiscs (169 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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In From the other side, Chantal Akerman shifts her focus between the border towns of Agua Prieta, Sonora, where people from all over Mexico wait, in limbo, before crossing over into the United States, and the cross-border town of Douglas, Arizona.
Inspired by her love of William Faulkner and James Baldwin, renowned director Chantal Akerman had planned to produce a meditation on the American South. However, just days before she was to begin filming,...
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English
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An illustrated critical survey of Academy Award-winning writer and director Sofia Coppola's career, covering everything from her groundbreaking music videos through her latest filmsIn the two decades since her first feature film was released, Sofia Coppola has created a tonally diverse, meticulously crafted, and unapologetically hyperfeminine aesthetic across a wide range of multimedia work. Her films explore untenable relationships and the euphoria...
10) Blind spot
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xvi, 332 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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When it comes to Teju Cole, the unexpected is not unfamiliar: Hes an acclaimed novelist, an influential essayist, and an internationally exhibited photographer. In Blind Spot, readers follow Coles inimitable artistic vision into the visual realm as he continues to refine the voice, eye, and intellectual obsessions that earned him such acclaim for Open City. Here, journey through more than 150 of Coles full-color, original photos, each accompanied...
11) Herzog by Ebert
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xiv, 187 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Roger Ebert was an influential film critic in the United States, and the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about films for the Chicago Sun-Times. Ebert had particular admiration for the work of director Werner Herzog, whom he first encountered at the New York Film Festival in 1968, the start of a long and productive relationship between the filmmaker and the film critic. Herzog by Ebert is...
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1 videodisc (NTSC, 110 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Horror maestro Dario Argento puts his unique stylistic spin on the classic supernatural tale. It's been 400 years since Count Dracula's beloved Dolingen passed away, but when he discovers that Mina bears a striking resemblance to Dolingen, his furious yearning is reawakened as he believes Mina to be a reincarnation of his beloved. Dracula embarks on a bloody quest to reunite with his long lost love and live forever with her in hellish immortality....
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