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ZZ Top, American rock group famous for its rugged blues-driven guitar works, irreverent music videos, and embrace of its Texas roots, as well as for the musicians’ distinctive facial hair.   ZZ Top was formed in the Houston area in 1969 when singer-guitarist Billy Gibbons, formerly...

Recollections of more than one hundred of O’Keeffe’s friends, relatives, colleagues, and neighbors as well as published and previously unpublished historical records and letters are used to provide the first full-length biography and in-depth study of the celebrated painter’s life. Georgia...

Stop Making Art and Die: Survival Activities for Artists is the first adult activity book that makes it impossible not to succeed and flourish as an artist. Suitable for visual artists and creative artists of all types, Stop Making Art and Die is beyond a mere colouring book. It also encourages a...

Angela Gonyea was born in upstate New York, in the small city of Plattsburgh, which is very near the Canadian boarder right on Lake Champlain. With the beauty of the Adirondack Park, with its amazing mountains, always as her backdrop. She often says how can you grow up in this beauty and not be an...

Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century American...

More than thirty years have passed since Al Capp's death, and he may no longer be a household name. But at the height of his career, his groundbreaking comic strip, Li'l Abner, reached ninety million readers. The strip ran for forty-three years, spawned two movies and a Broadway musical, and originated...

Emile Galle was a highly influential designer of ceramics, glass and furniture during the Art Nouveau period. But what do his designs symbolise. This book explores some of his designs and explains the reasons behind the patterns. It looks at Galle's career, the Paris exhibition, his symbolism and...

  Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida was a Valencian Spanish artist, outshined in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most characteristic paintings are described by a skilful depicting of the people in bold landscape under the sunlight...

Tiziano Vecellio was the greatest artist of the Venetian School, recognized as immense genius in his own time and his reputation as one of the giants of art has never been sincerely questioned. Lomazzo described him as the 'sun amidst small stars not only among the Italians but all the painters of...

**A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection “[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn’t spell out.”—Boston Globe** In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries,...

This special scholar's courseware edition of The Bonfire of the Vanderbilts includes the full text of the novel, along with the author's research whitepaper "Deconstructing the Scandalous Narrative of The Baptism," which appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of The Journal of Art Crime. Also included...

With an average rating of 4.8/5 STARS on Amazon, Light in Shadows in now availiable on KOBO! "He has viewed the face of Hell and survived, that alone is world class"  - MICHAEL LEVINE, Chairman, Westwood Creative Arts Ltd 50% of the proceeds are donated to Kids Help Phone  At...

Radiohead is one of the most celebrated alternative rock groups of the last two decades, wowing critics while maintaining a sizable following across the globe despite their insistence on producing challenging, forward-thinking music. When the British band began in the '90s, they resembled a traditional...

The singer Paul McCartney celebrated the age of 70, without thinking too much about his legendary past, just a few months after a new marriage and a new album release. Retirement from music is not a part of the famous British singer’s plans. After his impeccable performance in the giant pop-rock...