The Arts Books
Monacelli Press RxArt
Book SynopsisA celebration of 25 years of RxART, a pioneering nonprofit organization that works at the intersection of visual art and health careRxART is the nonprofit organization that has been a force behind installing uplifting art by well-known contemporary artists to the walls of major pediatric hospitals in the United States, bringing joy to young patients facing medical conditions. Founded in 2000 by former gallerist Diane Brown, RxART creates museum-quality art installations that humanize health care spaces and improve the patient experience.RxART: The Artists and Projects Transforming Healthcare Spaces commemorates 25 years of the organization's tireless dedication to making hospitals a place of healing, creativity, and hope. The book showcases 50 site-specific projects by some of the biggest names in contemporary art, including Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Kenny Scharf, Nicolas Party, Nina Chanel Abney, Ryan McGinley, Ed Ruscha, Julia Chiang, and William Wegman, among many others.Alongside the 100 images, readers will discover an exclusive conversation with renowned contributing artists Derrick Adams, Ann Craven, Rashid Johnson, and Rob Pruitt, moderated by Matthew Higgs.Featuring a bold cover and beautifully printed imagery, RxART: The Artists and Projects Transforming Healthcare Spaces is a testament to the transformative power of art in improving lives.
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Bellissima Publishing Lovin' Aruba! A Kid's Guide To Oranjestad, Aruba
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Bellissima Publishing Steam Heat! A Kid's Guide, Port Reykjavik, Iceland
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Bellissima Publishing Wouldn't You Care If You Happened To Be A Polar Bear?
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Bellissima Publishing LLC Games
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Bloomsbury USA Cocktails with George and Martha
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Beyond Publishing The Maui Magical Mystical Tour
£22.49
Open Humanities Press hyposubjects: on becoming human: 2021
£19.57
Omnibus Press Look Wot I Dun: Don Powell: My Life in Slade
Book SynopsisLook Wot I Dun is the story of Slade told through the eyes of drummer Don Powell whose life was shattered when, in 1973 at the height of the group's fame, he was involved in a horrific car crash. Unflinching in his honesty, Powell deals frankly with the aftermath of the accident that took the life of his girlfriend and left him with injuries that affect him to this day. Leader of the glam rock movement, Slade was the UK's biggest singles band from 1971 to 1974. Their many hits have become rock standards, not least of which was Merry Christmas Everybody, arguably Britain's all-time favorite Christmas song. This previously published book is now brought up to date in paperback format with an additional chapter from Don, detailing his touring activity over the last seven years, since the original release of his book in hardback.
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Jimmy Griffin Publications The Art of Lamination
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Decky Does A Bronco
Book SynopsisDouglas Maxwell was born in 1974 in Girvan, on the Ayrshire coast of Scotland. His many plays include Decky Does a Bronco, Helmet, Mancub, The Mother Ship and Promises Promises, all of which are published by Oberon Books. The Mother Ship won the Brian Way Award for Best Play forYoung People 2009. Decky Does A Bronco was first performed in 2000 by Gridiron Theatre Co winning a Fringe First, The Stage Award and nominated for The Barclay Card Stage Award 2001 for Best Touring Production. Our Bad Magnet was Douglas Maxwell's debut play and was staged at the Tron Theatre Glasgow in 2000 and then revived in 2001 as a co-production with Borderline. The revival played The Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh during the festival and then embarked on a large scale tour of Scotland.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Helmet Oberon Modern Plays
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Cracks in my Skin
Book SynopsisA funny play about a new kind of love story and a new kind of family.
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Word Bothy Memorization for Actors
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Centre for Reflection and Creativity Ltd Our Humanity@Work Working with the 7cs
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Hedgehog Productions anarcho punk music: the band's story behind anarchist punk music
£9.79
Justjoshin Publishing, Inc. Somebody Killed His Editor: Holmes & Moriarity 1
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Terrapin Books The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics
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Beyond Publishing Stand Up and Be Noticed: Be You, Be Confident and Speak Up in Family, Career, Dating and Life
£20.69
Beyond Publishing The Art of Perception: How to 10X Your Business to Make Money Faster and Easier While Fully Protecting Your Assets
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Time Being Media, LLC Generations
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Catafalque Press Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity
Book SynopsisCatafalque offers a revolutionary new reading of the great psychologist Carl Jung as mystic, gnostic and prophet for our time. This book is the first major re-imagining of both Jung and his work since the publication of the Red Book in 2009 -- and is the only serious assessment of them written by a classical scholar who understands the ancient Gnostic, Hermetic and alchemical foundations of his thought as well as Jung himself did. At the same time it skillfully tells the forgotten story of Jung''s relationship with the great Sufi scholar, Henry Corbin, and with Persian Sufi tradition. The strange reality of the Red Book, or New Book as Carl Jung called it, lies close to the heart of Catafalque. In meticulous detail Peter Kingsley uncovers its great secret, hidden in plain sight and still -- as if by magic -- unrecognized by all those who have been unable to understand this mysterious, incantatory text. But the hard truth of who Jung was and what he did is only a small part of what this book uncovers. It also exposes the full extent of that great river of esoteric tradition that stretches all the way back to the beginnings of our civilization. It unveils the surprising realities behind western philosophy, literature, poetry, prophecy -- both ancient and modern. In short, Peter Kingsley shows us not only who Carl Jung was but who we in the West are as well. Much more than a brilliant spiritual biography, Catafalque holds the key to understanding why our western culture is dying. And, an incantatory text in its own right, it shows the way to discovering what we in these times of great crisis must do. Book details 844-page paperback.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Transforming the Curriculum Through the Arts
Book SynopsisThis textbook highlights the unique role that quality Arts processes and experiences can and should play across the curriculum to ensure that all learners’ creativities and imaginations flourish. It provides much-needed strategies, units of work and practical resources in six arts disciplines – visual arts, literature, drama, music, dance and media arts. It is a must-read for those keen to develop research-informed, integrated, arts-rich learning and teaching strategies while also exploring each discipline. Alongside the ‘four Cs’ (critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity) the authors propose four additional ‘Cs’: curiosity, compassion, connection and courage as much-needed 21st century capabilities. The book speaks to the current debates on STEAM vs. STEM education, and provides an important framework for preservice and experienced classroom teachers, including arts specialists.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Imperative of an arts-led curriculum.- Chapter 2. Exploring life ‘Cs’ through the arts.- Chapter 3. Integrating the creative arts with integrity.- Chapter 4. Leading with creative dance.- Chapter 5. Leading with drama.- Chapter 6. Leading with quality literature.- Chapter 7. Leading with media arts.- Chapter 8. Leading with music.- Chapter 9. Leading with visual arts.- Chapter 10. Embedding the arts in the humanities and social studies.- Chapter 11. STEM into STEAM.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Science and Drama: Contemporary and Creative
Book SynopsisThis edited volume presents interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to drama and science in education. Drawing on a solid basis of research, it offers theoretical backgrounds, showcases rich examples, and provides evidence of improved student learning and engagement. The chapters explore various connections between drama and science, including: students’ ability to engage with science through drama; dramatising STEM; mutuality and inter-relativity in drama and science; dramatic play-based outdoor activities; and creating embodied, aesthetic and affective learning experiences. The book illustrates how drama education draws upon contemporary issues and their complexity, intertwining with science education in promoting scientific literacy, creativity, and empathetic understandings needed to interpret and respond to the many challenges of our times. Findings throughout the book demonstrate how lessons learned from drama and science education can remain discrete yet when brought together, contribute to deeper, more engaged and transformative student learning.Table of Contents1. Setting the stage.- 2. Responding to climate change: developing primary students’ capability to engage with science through drama.- 3. Using dramatic inquiry to mediate pre-service teachers’ conceptualization of sustainable development.- 4. Dramatising the S and the M in STEM.- 5. Veg-in? A Copernican shift in our dreams? Making ornaments from human parts? A small island counselling session?.- 6. Mutuality and inter-relativity in drama and science.- 7. Ice Age is approaching: Triggering students’ interest in gamified outdoor rough play activities.- 8. The role of embodied metaphor in art (drama)/science education.- 9. “This is the funniest lesson”: The production of positive emotions during role play in the middle years science classroom.- 10. Dramatic and Undramatic Emotional Energy: Creating aesthetic and emotive learning experiences in science classrooms.- 11. Exploring Contemporary and Controversial issues in Science: The question of stem cell therapies and tourism.- 12. School is everywhere: the pedagogical possibilities of imaginative scientific inquiry.- 13. Does being positioned in an expert scientist role enhance 11-13 year-old students’ perceptions of themselves as scientists?.- 14. Meaning in the Middle: Middle School Science and Drama.- 15. Stories from History.- 16. Australian Women in Science.- 17. Science, Drama and the Aesthetic.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Access and Widening Participation in Arts Higher Education: Practice and Research
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a range of practitioners, managers, and researchers who work within the field of arts higher education to reflect on strategies to increase access and widening participation (WP). The issues presented in this book are situated within a wider global context where countries are seeking greater harmonisation of higher education as students and workers become more mobile, crossing international borders. The chapter authors address various issues within higher education institutions from a WP context, including areas such as creative writing, music, art and design. In exploring these issues the editor and her chapter authors seek to answer how those teaching in arts higher education can promote the value and quality of their work while ensuring fair access and wide participation for all. Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Global Context for Access and Widening ParticipationChapter 2. Disaggregating the Black Student ExperienceChapter 3. Accessing Art and Design Higher Education Chapter 4. Preparing Access Students for Arts Higher EducationChapter 5. Music Theory in Higher Education: The Language of ExclusionChapter 6. Deconstructing Writing in Arts Education and BeyondChapter 7. Considering the Intersections between Dyslexia, Dyslexic Difference and the Ongoing Attainment Gap Chapter 8. Strategies for Retention with Non-traditional Students in Higher Education ContextsChapter 9. On Collaboration: An Approach to Widening Participation and Outreach in Arts Higher EducationChapter 10. Reflections on the Critical Thinking Club: Developing Collaborative Visual Arts Language through a 'Connecting Practices' WorkshopChapter 11. Conclusion
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Developing the Entrepreneurial Mindset in Engineering Students through a PerspectiveTaking Approach
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Hatje Cantz Christina Glanz: “I would always go back to the
Book SynopsisPortrait of a World in Utter Transformation Coal workers at the very moment they receive their notice; the last shift before they have to dismantle their own plant; self-confident glances into the camera from the so-called “coal women” to the No-Future generation of the 2000s. From 1982 to 2006, photographer Christina Glanz closely documented the often dramatic transformation processes in the East German lignite region of Niederlausitz. As the Lauchhammer coal and briquette factories have almost completely disappeared today, Christina Glanz’s series of photographs, some of which have never been published before, provide an insight into the historical transformation of a region and its identity. Complemented by an introduction from Katalin Krasznahorkai, an essay by Sonia Voss and transcripts from Christina Glanz’s conversations with coal women after the German reunification, this publication revisits a story of empowerment, confidence and resistance against all the odds from a time of transition to a new world.
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Skira Canova e Venezia (Bilingual edition): Photographs
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Brill Performative Body Spaces: Corporeal Topographies in Literature, Theatre, Dance, and the Visual Arts
Book SynopsisThe human body as cultural object always has and is a performing subject, which binds the political with the theatrical, shows the construction of ethnicity and technology, unveils private and public spaces, transgresses race and gender, and finally becomes a medium that overcomes the borders of art and life. Since there cannot be a universal definition of the human body due to its culturally performative role as a producer of interactive social spaces, this volume discusses body images from diverse cultural, historical, and disciplinary perspectives, such as art history, human kinetics and performance studies. The fourteen case studies reach from Asian to European studies, from 19th century French culture to 20th century German literature, from Polish Holocaust memoirs to contemporary dance performances, from Japanese avant-garde theatre to Makeover Reality TV shows. This volume is of interest for performance studies artists as well. By focusing on the intersection of body and space, all contributions aim to bridge the gap between art practices and theories of performativity. The innovative impulse of this approach lies in the belief that there is no distinction between performing, discussing, and theorizing the human body, and thus fosters a unique transdisciplinary and international collaboration around the theme performative body spaces. (I. Biopolitical Choreographies, II. Transcultural Topographies, III. Corporal Mediations, IV. Controlled Interfaces.)Table of ContentsMarkus Hallensleben: Introduction: Performative Body Spaces Biopolitical Choreographies: Performing the Body as Racial and Political Space Bożena Karwowska: Metaphors of Dancing and the Human Body in Nazi Concentration Camps Patricia Vertinsky: From Dance under the Swastika to Movement Education: A Study of Embodied Culture Gabriele Brandstetter: Political Body Spaces in the Performances of William Forsythe Jeremy Redlich: Reading Skin Signs: Decoding Skin as the Fluid Boundary between Self and Other in Yoko Tawada Transcultural Topographies: Transgressing the Body as Gendered and Cultural Space Colleen Lanki: The Body in Space: Layers of Gender in Japanese Classical Dance Yasuko Ikeuchi: Counter-Narrativity and Corporeality in Kishida Rio’s Ito Jigoku Eiichiro Hirata: The Absence of Voices in the Theatre Space: Ku Nauka’s Production of Medea Sabine Wilke: Staging Culture - Staging Nature: Polynesian Performance as Nature and Nature as Performance in Hawaii Corporeal Mediations: Visualizing the Body as Private and Public Space Sima Godfrey: Moving through Fashion in Nineteenth-Century France Kathryn Brown: Reading Bodies: Female Secrecy and Sexuality in the Works of Renoir and Degas Rainer Rumold: Corporeal Topographies of the Image Zone: From Oskar Kokoschka’s Murder of Metaphor to Georges Bataille’s acéphale Beth Pentney: Somatechnics and Makeover Reality TV: The Symbiotic Viewer/Participant Relationship Controlled Interfaces: Imaging the Body as Research Object and Artistic Space Robert Pritchard: The Body as Object: From Body Image to Meta-Body Henry Daniel: Touched: Organization, Control and Emergence in Choreographed Performance Systems List of Contributors Index
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Brill Word and Music Studies: Essays on Performativity and on Surveying the Field
Book SynopsisThe main section of this volume of essays addresses the topic of ‘Performativity in Literature and Music’, a subject of high contemporary relevance since a substantial part of recent reflections in the humanities are concerned with the performance aspect of cultural activities, particularly in the arts. This decisive reorientation of scholarly interests in the arts, trendily called the ‘performative turn’, has yielded significant contributions to an increasingly refined understanding of artistic processes from an up-to-date perspective, and specifically what has been called the ‘crisis of the work concept’ has sharpened our awareness of the need of finding the ‘proper’ object of such scholarly investigations, which, as in most traditional studies, cannot be exclusively the written documents of our cultural heritage, but additionally, and essentially so, their actualizations in performance situations. This volume for the first time offers a set of careful case studies from a wide range of artistic genres (narrative fiction, poetry, opera, instrumental music, songs, jazz) and historical phases (from Elizabethan verse to 21st-century HD opera performances) which give detailed insight into consequences of addressing issues of performativity in the field of word and music studies. Closely examined examples range, in music, from the romantic reception of Bach and the opera singer Maria Malibran through Mahler and Schoenberg to Brigitte Fassbaender, Philip Glass and Charles Mingus, and, in literature, from Sidney through Yeats and Celan to Katherine Mansfield, Alejo Carpentier and Toni Morrison. In addition, the volume contains a smaller section on ‘Surveying the Field’ of word and music studies which includes an essay of general reflection on interart relationships and an attempt at identifying new features of the ‘musicalization of fiction’. This collection of essays will be relevant to students and scholars from a wide variety of fields: performance studies, intermediality studies, art theory, musicology, voice studies, literary criticism, and philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroduction Performativity in Literature and Music Tobias Janz: Performativity and the Musical Work of Art David Francis Urrows: Text vs. Act: The Bearbeitungsfrage and the ‘Romantic Baroque’ Robert Samuels: The Act of Performance as Mahlerian Topic Katia Chornik: Politics, Music and Irony in Alejo Carpentier’s Novel La consagración de la primavera (The Rite of Spring) Delia da Sousa Correa: Musical Performativity in the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield Walter Bernhart: Rhythmical Ambivalence of Poetry Performance: The Case of Elizabethan Verse Adrian Paterson: “Music will keep out temporary ideas”: W. B. Yeats’s Radio Performances Axel Englund: ‘The Invisible’ / ‘The Inaudible’: Aspects of Performativity in Celan and Leibowitz Simon Williams: Romantic Opera and the Virtuoso Lawrence Kramer: Sexing Song: Brigitte Fassbaender’s Winterreise Michael Halliwell: Vocal Embodiment and Performing Language in Waiting for the Barbarians: Philip Glass’s Adaptation of J. M. Coetzee’s Novel Bernhard Kuhn: Operatic Hyperreality in the Twenty-First Century: Performance Documentation in High-Definition Quality Emily Petermann: Jazz Novels and the Textualization of Musical Performance Mario Dunkel: Charles Mingus and Performative Composing Katrin Eggers: Wittgenstein and Schoenberg on Performativity of Music as Method for Philosophy Surveying the Field Peter Dayan: Seeing Words and Music as a Painter Might: The Interart Aesthetic David Mosley: Milan Kundera’s Polyphonic Novels and the Poetics of Divestment Notes on Contributors
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Treasury of the World Spanish Edition
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Variations in Christian Art
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£133.00
Hilaire Wellness and Beauty Clinics Sydneys Bleu Journey of a Girl Who Never Gave Up
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Phaidon Press Ltd Stephen Shore a Road Trip Journal
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Phaidon Press Ltd Danny Lyon Memories of Myself Three Young Men
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Phaidon Press Ltd Going Once
Book SynopsisA celebration of evolving taste, told through the stories behind 250 objects sold by the world’s largest auction houseTrade ReviewAs featured in Departures and Elliman Magazine"Lots to be proud of... The most extraordinary artworks and outstanding objects ever sold at Christie's." —Christie's Magazine"Bold enterprise: a new book on the 250 year history of Christie's published by Phaidon." —Antique Trade Gazette online"Recounts discoveries such as a 3,000-year-old Assyrian frieze that sold for £7 million, having been found in the tuck shop of a Dorset school; record-breaking prices [...] and oddities that have crossed Christie's block, including a wooly-mammoth skeleton and James Bond author Ian Fleming's gold typewriter." —Vanity Fair (On Art)"Wonderful... A great book to dip into time and time again as there is much to learn and enjoy from it." —Tim Forrest's E & A"Christie's has seen many a remarkable artefact pass through its halls... Going Once [...] will reveal record-breaking sales [...], celebrity possessions and rare treasures uncovered in the most unlikely of situations." —Kensington & Chelsea Magazine"'Christie's are a measure of what men and women have coveted in different periods. Not, be it said, the physical necessities of life - food, drink, raiment and so on - but metaphysical necessities.' So said Herbert Furst of the London auctioneers. Presented are 250 landmark sales of these 'metaphysical necessities'." —Crafts"A history of taste and collecting through the lens of 250 iconic sales drawn from the auction house's proud past." —Apollo"For every object, there is an accompanying story told with wit charm and verve. To read this book is to receive a private lesson from Christie's experts on some of the very best lots seen at auction." —House & Garden"What links Captain Cook's logbook, Nureyev's slippers and a 1960 Routemaster bus? They're three of the wallet-shrinking lots featured in Going Once... The 250 lots highlighted here are notable for three reasons: as record-breakers [...] as curiosities, and as accidental discoveries, such as the Assyrian bas-relief found behind a school's dartboard." —World of Interiors"A fascinating read." —The Lady"[D]elightfully entertaining... A fascinating excursion through changing tastes as demonstrated by an absorbing collection of 250 artifacts and their idionsyncracies, backstories, and, frequently, notoriety." —Elliman magazine"Equal parts immersive tome and beautiful objet d'art, mixing quality storytelling with high, tactile design... More than a receipt of what's been bought and sold (and resold), the book is a cultural history of our ever-evolving tastes." —Departures Online"A stimulating guide to changing taste." —Country Life"When were you last at Christie's? You can stay at home and look at 250 objects. If you had the money, what would you buy?... The choice could not be more eclectic and the back stories are interesting." —MatureTimes.co.uk
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Phaidon Press Ltd Jonas Wood
Book SynopsisThe first monograph on a rising star who is one of contemporary art's most celebrated painters
£31.50
Phaidon Press Ltd Exotic
Book SynopsisA fascinating survey of the enduring human love affair with the exotic and the strange, and its impact on Western cultureTrade Review"[Sund] argues with wit, intelligence and myriad examples, from the erudite to the pop, in this gorgeously illustrated book... Captivating."—1stdibs Introspective Magazine"A new book by Phiadon about our enduring love affair with the exotic and the strange in art and design."—Cover magazine"In our increasingly globalized world, the book serves as a fascinating reminder of how art has served as a tool of cultural assimilation."—Artnet
£38.25
Phaidon Press Ltd JeanMichel Othoniel
Book SynopsisThe groundbreaking sculptor's most comprehensive monograph to date
£29.75
Whitechapel Gallery Reclaim the Mural
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Limelight Editions The Complete Guide to Writing Producing and
Book SynopsisTHE COMPLETE GUIDE TO WRITING PRODUCING AND DIRECTING A LOW BUDGET SHORT FILM
£15.99
Limelight Editions The Little Blue Book for Filmmakers A Primer for
Book SynopsisTHE LITTLE BLUE BOOK FOR FILMMAKERS: A PRIMER FOR DIRECTORS WRITERS PRODUCERS AND ACTOR
£14.24
HarperCollins Publishers Still Life with a Bridle
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£15.80
Ziggurat Books International Music and the Spiritual Composers and Politics in
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Ziggurat Books International Tableaux Paintings 20022012
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