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Chair Anatomy: Design and Construction
A comprehensive design resource that reveals how the iconic chairs of the 20th and 21st centuries have been designed for mass production.Chair Anatomy reveals in photos and illustrations the form and the construction details – the anatomy – of a selection of nearly sixty chairs chosen from the last 160 years of modern chair design. It also introduces the designers behind these chairs, their backgrounds and their routes to creating the chairs. In reducing chairs to their constituent parts, the book gets to the heart of each design: how pieces are designed and produced to fit together; why a certain material imparts a certain quality; functional advance or comfort level; and how the chair’s structure can withstand stress while being elegant and economical to produce. In short, a chair is architecture in miniature.
This revised and expanded edition features five new chairs, including the Hemp Chair by Werner Aisslinger (2011), Bruto by Konrad Lohöfener (2018) and Chubby by Dirk van der Kooij (2012). Each represents new technological, constructional and aesthetic solutions.
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Chairs by Architects
What is it that distinguishes a chair designed by an architect? Why is it so tempting for an architect to have a chair in his or her portfolio? Is it possible to use creative solutions interchangeably in both domains? Chairs by Architects answers these and many other questions to show how qualities in the buildings by architects are also evident in their chair design: pieces of furniture, like manifestos, become signatures of architectural style. The 55 architects include early modern architectural pioneers such as Otto Wagner, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Antoni Gaudí and Walter Gropius, together with more recent modern masters such as Oscar Niemeyer, Santiago Calatrava, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Daniel Libeskind. The book contains interviews on Designing (in conversation with David Adjaye), Manufacturing (with David E. Bright, Knoll Inc.), Selling (with Zeev Aram), Collecting (with Richard Wright) and Preserving (with Susanne Graner, Vitra Design Museum).
This is essential reading for everyone concerned with design, architecture and the relationship between creators and their creations.Read more
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Chance Encounters: Temporary Street Art by David Zinn
David Zinn’s amazing street drawings are created using chalk, charcoal and found objects, and each extraordinary drawing is only ever temporary. This book preserves Zinn’s art in all its colorful, hypnotic glory by collecting together never-before published images of his eye-popping creations. Created over the last two years on streets across the globe, these adorably zany and deceptively three-dimensional characters come to life on manhole covers and streetlamps, village squares and subway platforms. Zinn’s most frequent characters are a bright green googly-eyed monster and a phlegmatic flying pig―but the diversity of his menagerie is limited only by the size of the sidewalk and the spirit of the day. In a brief introduction Zinn describes his creative process, explaining how he seeks out everyday imperfections to situate his art–such as sidewalk cracks and chips, tufts of weeds and sewer grates–and brief captions describe the provenance of each work. While these amazing drawings can no longer stop pedestrians in their tracks on the streets, they live on in book form to mesmerize and inspire readers of all ages.Read more
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Chanel Catwalk: The Complete Collections
‘This is your new fashion bible’ IdThe best-selling Chanel Catwalk was the first book to gather every Chanel collection ever created by Karl Lagerfeld in a single volume. Now fully updated to include Lagerfeld’s final collections for the house and those of his right-hand and successor, Virginie Viard, this revised edition includes twenty-eight new collections.
This definitive publication features a concise history of Karl Lagerfeld and Virginie Viard’s time at Chanel as well as brief biographical profiles of each designer. The collections (from Haute Couture and Ready-to-Wear to Cruise and Métier d’arts) are organized chronologically. Each one is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images, showcasing hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs – and of course the top fashion models who wore them on the runway. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book.
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Chanel: Collections and Creations
Chanel’s combination of tradition, originality and style has always made it the most seductive of brands. Here the House of Chanel opens its private archives, revealing a galaxy of brilliant designs created by Coco Chanel from the 1920s onwards, and now reinterpreted to become the motifs for brand new garments, accessories and beauty products.Inspired by the House’s signature fragrance, the legendary ‘Chanel No 5’, the book explores five central themes – the suit, the camellia, jewelry, fragrances and make-up, and the little black dress – and follows the threads from past to present to show how these key items have been rediscovered and reinvented by fashion designers working in the footsteps of their illustrious predecessors. This visual journey is enhanced by previously unpublished archive photographs and original drawings by Karl Lagerfeld, as well as glorious images from some of the greatest names in fashion photography.
Dazzling clothes, intricate accessories, beautiful models and timeless design leave no doubt as to the lasting fame of the brand and embody everything that has come to symbolize the magic of Chanel.
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Chapter and Verse – New Order, Joy Division and Me
Founding member and guitarist of Joy Division and the lead singer of New Order, Bernard Sumner has been famous over the years for his reticence. Until now… An integral part of the Manchester music scene since the late 1970s, his is the definitive version of the events that created two of the most influential bands of all time.
Chapter and Verse includes a vivid and illuminating account of Bernard’s Salford childhood, the early days of Joy Division, the band’s enormous critical and popular success, and the subsequent tragic death of Ian Curtis. Bernard describes the formation of New Order, takes us behind the scenes at the birth of classics such as ‘Blue Monday’ and gives his first-hand account of the ecstasy and the agony of the Haçienda days.
Sometimes moving, often hilarious and occasionally completely out of control, this is a tale populated by some of the most colourful and creative characters in music history, such as Ian Curtis, Tony Wilson, Rob Gretton and Martin Hannett. Others have told parts of the story, in film and book form. Now, for the first time, Bernard Sumner gives you chapter and verse.
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Character Animation Crash Course!
Character Animation Crash Course! is a veritable Genie s lamp stuffed with everything the aspiring animator could wish for! Renowned animator Eric Goldberg s detailed text and drawings illuminate how to conceive characters “from the inside out to create strong personalities. Classic animation techniques are analyzed and brought to life through this unique book and its accompanying website companion that offers readers animated movie examples that show, in real time or frame-by-frame, the author s principles at work. Add to this Goldberg s discussions of classic cartoons and his witty, informative observations based on the wealth of knowledge he s gained during his 30-plus years in professional animation, and you have a tour-de-force guide to character animation with the classic touch.Read more
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Charles Bargue and Jean-Léon Gérôme: Drawing Course
- Two hundred lithographs that comprised a famous late nineteenth-century drawing course
- Introduces the work of a hitherto neglected master: Charles Bargue
- Of interest to artists, art students, art historians, and lovers and collectors of art
The Bargue-Gérôme Drawing Course is a complete reprint of a famous, late nineteenth-century drawing course. It contains a set of almost two hundred masterful lithographs of subjects for copying by drawing students before they attempt drawing from life or nature. Consequently it is a book that will interest artists, art students, art historians, and lovers and collectors of drawings. It also introduces us to the work and life of a hitherto neglected master: Charles Bargue.
The Drawing Course consists of three sections. The first consists of plates drawn after casts, usually of antique examples. Different parts of the body are studied in order of difficulty, until full figures are presented. The second section pays homage to the western school of painting, with lithographs after exemplary drawings by Renaissance and modern masters. The third part contains almost 60 académies, or drawings after nude male models, all original inventions by Bargue, the lithographer. With great care, the student is introduced to continually more difficult problems in the close observing and recording of nature.
Charles Bargue started his career as a lithographer of drawings by hack artists for a popular market in comic, sentimental and soft-porn subjects. By working with Gérôme, and in preparing the plates for the course, Bargue was transformed into a spectacular painter of single figures and intimate scenes; a master of precious details that always remain observation and never became self-conscious virtuosity, and colour schemes that unified his composition in exquisite tonal harmonies. The last part of the book is a biography of Bargue, along with a preliminary catalogue of his paintings, accompanied by reproductions of all that have been found and of many of those lost.
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Charles Evans’ Pocket Book for Watercolour Artists: Over 100 essential tips to improve your painting (Watercolour Artists’ Pocket Books)
A new pocket-book edition of the bestselling watercolour tip book by renowned artist Charles Evans.
Discover 100 top tips for painting in watercolour that will take the mystery out of painting, covering topics from creating depth, introducing harmony, how to deal with light and shade and how to create mood and atmosphere, this book was previously published as Charlie’s Top Tips for Watercolour Artists.
Contained inside one slim, notebook-size book that will fit perfectly in your kit bag for easy transportation while painting on the go, it includes quick, clever tips that are easy to follow and effective.
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Charles III: A King and His Queen
From the excitement of royal tours to capturing official portraits and quiet behind-the-scenes moments of all senior members of the British royal family, Chris Jackson s singular insight into the most famous family on the planet has never been more exciting than now, on the cusp of the coronation of a new British monarch, the first in an astounding seventy years. Jackson s extensive archive of photographs of the former Prince of Wales and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, now King Charles III and the Queen Consort, chronicles the extraordinary life of His Royal Highness — the longest-serving heir apparent and the oldest person to accede to the British throne, at the age of 73, following the death of his mother, Elizabeth II. Accompanied by Jackson s warm and always engaging text, this book commemorates the beginning of a new reign and documents more than twenty years of tours, engagements, celebrations, historic moments, and royal family gatherings in a singular volume that demonstrates just how relevant the British royal family remains today.Read more
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Charles III: The Making of a King
Charles III: The Making of a King highlights the most important portraits of King Charles III from the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection.Charles III: The Making of a King celebrates King Charles III in the year of his coronation. Follow Charles’ life from a baby, his investiture as Prince of Wales to becoming king through the National Portrait Gallery’s collection of portraits and photographs of Britain’s newest monarch. From the same publisher that brought to you Elizabeth II: Princess, Queen, Icon.
The beautiful gift book includes a timeline of key events from King Charles’ life, and explores the future of the monarchy through photographs and paintings of the wider royal family, including Diana, Princess of Wales, Camilla, Queen Consort, William and Catherine, Prince and Princess of Wales, Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and Prince George of Wales.
Presenting family photographs alongside important formal portraits, this book features works by key artists who have depicted the King from 1948 to the present day, such as Nadav Kander, Cecil Beaton, Marcus Adams, Lisa Sheridan, Lord Snowdon, Joan Williams, Patrick Lichfield, Norman Parkinson, Bern Schwartz, Carole Cutner, Bryan Organ, Terence Donovan, Nicola Philipps and Mario Testino.
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Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
The creator of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Henry VIII and Captain Bligh, Charles Laughton’s career spans 50 films and 40 stage roles. This entralling biography follows him from his parents’ hotel in Scarborough to his climactic assumption of the role of King Lear in Statford at the end of his life. Along the way we meet a galaxy of Hollywood greats – from Korda, Hitchcock and Billy WIlder to Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. We also discover a hugely talented and complex man – a legend in his own lifetime who nonetheless counted himself a failure.Read more
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Charlotte Perriand: Inventing A New World
- A sweeping overview of Charlotte Perriand’s career, exploring the interrelation of art, architecture, and design in the work of this legendary 20th century modernist
- Includes essays by her daughter, Pernette Perriand, and by Jacques Barsac, author of the Charlotte Perriand Catalogue Raisonné
- Accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation from 2 October, 2019 to 24 February, 2020 on the 20th anniversary of Perriand’s death
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was a pioneer of modern design in France during the twentieth century. Her avant-garde vision was expressed in colour, organic forms, and streamlined functionality, elements which are still at the heart of contemporary design today. Her furnishings were created from aluminium, rubber, chrome, leather, bamboo, and above all, wood; their appeal is timeless.
This lavishly illustrated book, accompanying a major retrospective at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, explores how much in the vanguard she was in her use of materials, in her social and political awareness, and in her collaborations with artists, architects, and other designers. The show presents a global vision of her creativity, talent, and inventiveness, exploring her commitment to women and to a humanist design ethos that took into account the middle and working classes with an emphasis on rationalising costs and space. This book, with essays by an international roster of art, architecture, and design historians, offers a plurality of perspectives and explores Perriand’s creative legacy through the 20th century and beyond.
Contents:
A New Art of Living: Context and Training;
House Equipment;
A New Art of Living: Space and Body
Nature as Inspiration: From Machine to Nature;
Living with Nature;
Architecture of Leisure
Commitments: Political Militantism;
Giant Photo-Montage;
Reconstructing
Meeting Japan: Discovering Cultures;
Japan as Horizon
Synthesis of Arts: Art Dialogues;
Synthesis of Arts;
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Cheer Up!: British Musical Films, 1929-1945
The first book to deal exclusively with the British musical film from the very beginning of talking pictures in the late 1920s through the Depression of the 1930s up to the end of World War II. Cheer Up! is the first book to deal exclusively with the British musical film from the very beginning of talking pictures in the late 1920s through the Depression of the 1930s up to the end of World War II. The upsurge in production at British studios from 1929 onwards marked the real birth of a genre whose principal purpose was to entertain the British public. This endeavour was deeply affected by the very many emigres escaping Nazi Germany, who flooded into the British film industry during this decade, as the genre tried to establish itself. The British musical film in the 1930s reflects a richness of interest. Studios initially flirted with filming what were essentially stage productions plucked from the West End theatre but soon learned that importing a foreign star was a box-office boost. Major musical stars including Jessie Matthews, Richard Tauber and George Formby established themselves during this period. From its beginning, the British musical film captured some of the most notable music-hall performers on screen, and its obsession with music-hall persisted throughout the war years. Other films married popular and classical music with social issues of poverty and unemployment, a message of social integration that long preceded the efforts of the Ealing studios to encourage a sense of social cohesion in post-war Britain. The treatmentof the films discussed is linear, each film dealt with in order of its release date, and allowing for an engaging narrative packed with encyclopaedic information.Read more
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Chinese Brush Painting through the Seasons
Chinese brush painting is a traditional style of painting that has evolved over many centuries. Artists use ink and colour pigments to paint onto rice paper or silk.
An important characteristic of this kind of painting is holding and directing the brush in the right way to produce strokes that are delicate and refined. The four co-authors of this book – Sun Chenggang, Ning Xiangying, Ning Jialu and Miao Hongbo – are particularly gifted proponents of this style, which has connections with traditional calligraphy.
Chinese brush painting typically includes themes such as birds, plants and flowers, landscapes, fruit and vegetables and fish. This book explores these themes through the four seasons, with the peony depicted in spring, the lotus flower in summer, the vegetable harvest in autumn and the bamboo bud in winter. Many of the subjects are symbolic and have connotations of good fortune, auspiciousness, good health, a long life, a good harvest, a flourishing family, wealth – even immortality!
Explained in the introduction to each project, the symbolism is followed by clear, step-by-step instructions and illustrations. There is a short section at the beginning of the book describing tools, materials and techniques to help readers achieve the almost ethereal beauty and delicacy of this style of painting.
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Chinese Ceramics: Highlights of the Sir Percival David Collection
Sir Percival David made one of the finest collections of Chinese ceramics outside Asia. It includes many items of imperial quality, with beautiful examples of extremely rare Ru and guan wares as well as the famous David vases. Their inscriptions date to 1351, making them an internationally acknowledged yardstick for the dating of Chinese blue and white porcelain. Here are 50 selected highlights, all illustrated with colour photographs taken especially for this publication. The accompanying text provides details and draws out the important features of each piece. The range and scope of the collection provide the material for a stunning overview and accessible introduction to Chinese ceramic art.Read more
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Chinese Designs and Motifs (Dover Pictorial Archive)
With its dragons and fish, flowers and foo dogs, this magnificent new archive of Chinese designs newly rendered represents an exotic archive of royalty-free art. Hundreds of crisp black-and-white images based on authentic artifacts appear here, in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. 361 black-and-white illustrations.Read more
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Chinese Lacquer Black & Gold Screen (Foiled Journal) (Flame Tree Notebooks)
A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year.
BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table.
PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list; robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy.
THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
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Chloé Catwalk: The Complete Collections
The first comprehensive overview of Chloé’s collections presented through catwalk photography, published in collaboration with Chloé to celebrate the house’s 70th anniversary in 2022.Founded by Egyptian-born Gaby Aghion in 1952, Chloé pioneered luxury ready-to-wear that was all about ease and femininity, offering an elegant haute bohemian style for the modern, liberated Parisienne. Resolutely contemporary, the house spotted and hired a young Karl Lagerfeld as early as the 1960s: he stayed for over two decades, achieving fame and recognition worldwide through his Chloé work, before Stella McCartney (and her then assistant Phoebe Philo) succeeded him straight out of fashion school.
This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house of Chloé before exploring the collections themselves, which are organized chronologically. Each new era in Chloé’s history opens with a brief overview and biography of the new designer, while individual collections are introduced by a short text unveiling their influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book.
After Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, Vivienne Westwood and Versace, Chloé is the eighth in a series of high-end, cloth-bound books that offer an unrivalled overview of the collections of the world’s top fashion houses through original catwalk photography.
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Chocobo and the Airship: A Final Fantasy Picture Book
Follow the adorable Final Fantasy character Chocobo in a brand-new picture book adventure! When their town is beset by monsters, tireless inventor Cid and brave little Chocobo work together to build an airship to help save their home. But there’s just one problem: how do you make a ship fly? The answer is, with a magic Flying Stone! So the plucky duo set off on a perilous journey to find this rare prize. Along the way they’re joined by a group of heroic adventurers, friends of a feather to help them on their kwehst! Written by the director of Chocobo’s Dungeon 2 and illustrated by the character designer for Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo’s Dungeon, this heartwarming story is a treat for Final Fantasy fans of all ages.Read more
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Chord Progressions — Theory and Practice: Everything You Need to Create and Use Chords in Every Key: Theory & Practice
No matter what instrument you play, chords are an important part of your music. Chord Progressions: Theory and Practice breaks down how theyre important and gives you all the information you need to create chords and use them in your own music. Start off by learning how to build simple major chords and eventually move on to more complex chords such as ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, and altered chords. Also learn to compose your own progressions using techniques such as passing chords, neighbor chords, pedal tones, and voice leading. Finally, learn how chord progressions are used in various styles of music—from early jazz to the music of today.After completing this book, you will have gained a clear understanding of chords and progressions in a variety of musical styles.
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Chord Progressions For Songwriters
Each chapter of Chord Progressions For Songwriters provides a comprehensive self-contained lesson on one of twenty-one popular chord progressions that every songwriter should know inside and out.Lessons cover ascending, basic (I-IV), blues, circle (VI-II-V-I), classic rock (I-bVII-IV), combination, descending, doo-wop (I-VIm-IV-V), ending, flamenco (Im-bVII-bVI-V), folk (I-V), introduction, jazz (IIm-V-I), minor blues, one-chord, pedal point, rock and roll (I-IV-V), standard (I-VIm-IIm-V), and turnaround progressions as well as rhythm and Coltrane changes.You will learn how key, duration, substitution, variation (adding or subtracting chords), and displacement (rearranged chord orders) are used to vary the sound of each progression. You will also take a look at the authors songwriters notebook and work through exercises to reinforce key chapter concepts and get you started building your own progressions.Read more
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Chords Scales and Arpeggios Book for Accordion Training: 160 Essential Exercises, Practical Finger Workout, Sheet Music for Beginners
Professional EXERCISES for Accordionists. 160 PRACTICAL EXERCISES!
This is the perfect book for anyone who wants to improve their playing technique and practice chords, arpeggios, and scales on both hands, along with a variety of practical exercises for accordion. The exercises are written in all sharp and flat keys.
About this book:- 110 full pages,
- 160 practical exercises,
- Printed on High-Quality white paper,
- Practice Music Theory,
- Fingerings signed for LEFT and RIGHT hands,
- Exercises are written in All Keys (#) and (b),
Your playing technique will go to the next level with this book!
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Choreography – craft and vision: Developing and Structuring Dance for Solo, Duet and Groups
SOFTCOVER SPECIAL Edition KDP
This book offers a comprehensive toolbox of approaches
to analysing and creating contemporary
choreography.Are you ready to deepen your understanding
of the world of dance and the creative
process of choreography?In this book about choreography you will learn
how to develop dance and performance.
In order for you to truly enjoy the process of
choreography, I will offer you tools to help you
enter into a creative flow.
Because ultimately, that’s what it’s all about:
getting into a free flowing joyful process with the
dancers and having plenty of fun along the way,
as you develop a solo, a duet or a group piece for
the stage or a film.You will learn how to expand your repertoire and
how to trigger in your dancers, identification and
connection with your theme.I will present various ways in which you can
develop and structure your work. Tools with
which you can introduce tension, multiple facets,
variety and powerful dynamics into your dances,
allowing a dramaturgy to emerge.You will receive over 120 exercises to inspire you
for your rehearsals or classes.
You can now preview the entire book online for
free or download a reading sample.
Take a look.
It will inspire you and your dancing and it will
improve your choreography.When it comes to choreography, many
dancers are initially lost.
Nevertheless, there are people who can’t
dance and still develop great pieces.
Maybe you’re a gifted mover, but that
doesn’t mean that your material works in one
piece.Even if your movements are great and
others admire you for how you dance, it can
happen very quickly that the sensation of your
skills wears off very quickly and your movements
seem arbitrary. Especially if you have transferred
them to a group. And you ask yourself in such a
moment: What am I doing wrong? My dancers
are great, my movement material is innovative,
but on stage it all seems interchangeable and it’s
just movement. And you think: This is all
pointless.No, that’s not it! It’s about how you deal
with everything. How you connect the dancers
with your ideas and with your material. How you
manage that the dancers make your visions and
your movements theirs. How to get them there
to identify with what moves you. But even that is
not enough.You need to know more about how
dramaturgy works in dance. How you build up an
arc of suspense and what that has to do with
space and rhythm. How to create interesting
contrasts and how to deal with music and
movement.This book covers all of that. You can open
it anywhere and get inspiration for the rehearsal
or class and expand your thought space. But you
can also focus on certain topics such as music
and movement. You can delve deeper into the
work of thematic development and structuring
of access development.In total there are 120 studies and
exercises that you do not have to do one to one.
You can use the exercises as a suggestion and
develop them further in order to get on with
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Choreography Book: Wait, what was my next move? A book for creating dance routines for choreographers and students.
The choreography notebook has 103 pages. Room for 25 dance routines. Each routine has 4 pages dedicated to breaking down the music into counts, verses, and the chorus, logging class information, stage cues, lighting, costumes, notes and more.
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103 pages-room for 25 routines
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choreographers
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dance teachers
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dance captains
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dance coaches
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Zumba instructors
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dance fitness instructors
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student choreographers
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student teachers
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musical theater teachers
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Christian Dior
Capturing the highlights of the major Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, this stunning souvenir celebrates the House of Dior from its foundation in 1947 to the present day.
Haute-couture gowns by Christian Dior and the illustrious creative directors who followed him – Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferre, John Galliano, Bill Gaytten, Raf Simons and Maria Grazia Chiuri – are showcased here, each described by Oriole Cullen and atmospherically photographed by Laziz Hamani.
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Christmas Carols for Piano. Beginner Christmas Sheet Music Book for Kids and Adults (+Free Audio)
???? Edition 2 of this book is now available!
We have enhanced this book’s contents by expanding the songs. All songs now encompass all verses, complete with additional lyrics. ????In this book, you will get:
???? 45 EASY CHRISTMAS SONGS FOR BEGINNERS — All songs have been arranged especially for beginning students. This means that all complex chords and rhythms have been simplified. Also, all the carols are kept relatively short, only one or two pages long. This will allow you to enter the magic world of piano without frustration.
???? INTERNATIONAL CHRISTMAS SONGS – In this book you will find many well-known Christmas carols and holiday songs, as well as some international songs famous in non-English speaking countries. This varied selection of easy sheet music will fuel your enjoyment when practicing the piano.
❄️ FROM EASIEST TO HARDEST – Are you tired of searching for piano pieces with the appropriate difficulty? At the beginning of this book, you will find very simple songs, and then they gradually get more challenging as the book progresses. This will keep you motivated and enable you to progress through the levels.
???? WITH LETTERS AND NUMBERS – All songs in this book are presented with letters above the music notes to help you know what keys to press. All songs also include finger placements (numbers) in problem areas.
???????? LARGE PRINT – Most music notes for beginners are pretty small, so learners struggle to read them without squinting. To avoid this, all songs in this book have a clear layout and large print for students to follow the pieces easily.
☃️ NOTES FOR BOTH HANDS – Most easy piano pieces for beginners have notes for practicing one hand only. The proper technique, however, is playing with all fingers and both hands. That’s why all pieces in this book are in both treble and bass clef (i.e., both right and left hand).
???? BONUS: FREE AUDIO FILES TO DOWNLOAD – Do you want to get an idea of what a piece should sound like? If you are unsure how to play a piece, our audio files will help you get a feel for the melody.Buy this book NOW and enter the splendid world of piano and music!
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Christmas Coloring Book for Toddlers and Kids: Festive Fun for Little Hands & Simple Christmas Designs for Toddlers and Kids simple design
Embark on a festive journey with our “Christmas Coloring Book for Toddlers and Kids,” a magical compilation of 50 heartwarming designs tailored for the youngest artists. This enchanting coloring book is crafted to infuse the holiday season with creativity and joy for toddlers and kids.
Within these pages, your little ones will encounter a world of whimsical Christmas scenes, featuring beloved characters, delightful decorations, and adorable winter creatures. From jolly Santas and his reindeer to charming snowmen and festive ornaments, each illustration is a delightful canvas ready to be adorned with a burst of color.
Designed with simplicity in mind, the large, easy-to-follow lines ensure a stress-free coloring experience for tiny hands. The charming designs offer an opportunity for young artists to explore their creativity, all while enhancing fine motor skills in an enjoyable and engaging manner.
More than just a coloring book, this festive edition is a celebration of the holiday spirit. Whether your child is an aspiring artist or simply loves to revel in the magic of Christmas, this book promises hours of entertainment and the creation of cherished memories.
Make this holiday season extra special for your little ones with the “Christmas Coloring Book for Toddlers and Kids.” It’s not just a coloring activity; it’s a magical journey through the joyous wonder of Christmas. Let the festive coloring adventure begin!
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Christmas Country Town Coloring Book: Coloring Pages Christmas Country Town, Christmas Birthday Gifts For Adults Men Women, Stress Relief and Relaxation
Unleash your creativity with the Christmas Country Town Coloring Book Immerse yourself in a world of captivating designs that will both inspire and relax you.
Features:
- Variety of Abstract Designs: Explore a diverse array of abstract designs that invite you to let your imagination run wild as you fill them with color.
- Therapeutic Art: Take a break from the daily hustle and discover solace in the therapeutic art of coloring. It’s a wonderful way to unwind and destress.
- Versatile Coloring Tools: Use your favorite coloring tools, whether it’s pens, pencils, markers, or watercolors, to breathe life into these enchanting designs.
- Single-Sided Printing: Each page is printed on one side, preventing ink bleed-through and allowing you to easily frame your finished masterpieces.
- Generous Size: With dimensions of 8.5×11 inches, this coloring book provides ample space for intricate coloring and creative expression.
Indulge in a coloring experience that not only soothes the soul but also ignites your artistic flair. Let’s Coloring be your companion on a journey of relaxation and self-expression.
Discover the perfect gift for a friend, co-worker, or children, and create lasting memories together!!
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Christmas Crackers (Get Set! Piano)
The popular beginner instruction books for kids with fun exercises, theory and easy songs to play.
This book contains over 30 carols for the beginner pianist, featuring a range of techniques and quizzes to support musical development from the very first lessons to Grade 2.
Full of festive favourites such as Jingle bells, Silent night and Deck the halls, with a few lesser known carols included for good measure, many of the pieces have simple but effective teacher duet parts to encourage ensemble playing from the start. The book is illustrated throughout in the charming Get Set! style, and students are encouraged to decorate and colour in the drawings to reflect their progress.
Packed with fantastic, tried-and-tested arrangements and a variety of fun activities to reinforce learning, this is the ultimate beginner piano Christmas book!
Expertly put together by award-winning authors, pieces include:
• Good King Wenceslas
• Jolly old Saint Nicholas
• O come, all ye faithful
• Up on the housetop
• Jingle, bells
• Away in a manger
• Infant holy, Infant lowly
• Under Bethl’hem’s star so bright
• The holly and the ivy
• The first Nowell
• O little town of Bethlehem
• We wish you a Merry Christmas
• Once in royal David’s city
• Hark! the herald angels sing
• Silent night
• Deck the hall
• The Virgin Mary had a baby boy
• Ding dong! merrily on high
• God rest you merry, gentlemen
• Huron carol
• Patapan
• Gabriel’s message
• Cantemos a María
• While shepherds watched their flocks
• Mary rocked her baby!
• I saw three ships
• Y Gelynnen (The holly)
• We three kings of Orient are
• Go, tell it on the mountainRead more
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Christmas Cuties: Pocket Size 5″x8″ Coloring Book featuring 31 Simple and Cute Illustrations to Celebrate Christmas!
31 Bite-Sized Christmas Illustrations!
A collection of holiday images by bestselling coloring book illustrator, Joshua Dunbar.- A wide variety of hand-drawn images–charming human & animal characters, sweet treats & festive miniature scenes.
- Simple enough for beginners but open enough for advanced colorists to add their own touches and embellishments. A perfect way to relax & relieve stress.
- Light shading and texture (grayscale) give finished pages an impressive look that will have people asking, “How’d you do that?”
- Small format allows for pages to be colored using minimal supplies in a small amount of time.
- Suitable for all ages. Pages are single-sided.
- Makes a great stocking stuffer! A book for anyone that loves to color.
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Christmas Hidden Pictures: Seek And Find Christmas Hidden Pictures. Challenge Activities For Adults, Seniors Relaxation, Great Gift Idea For Christmas
Prepare for hours of endless entertainment with our Christmas Hidden Pictures! This delightful tome not only offers a relaxing pastime but also guarantees an engaging experience. While you immerse yourself in the thrill of uncovering hidden objects, you’ll simultaneously enhance your concentration and attention to detail.
Features:
Intricate Puzzles: Dive into a collection of complex and intricate hidden picture puzzles, designed to challenge your attention to detail and observation abilities.
Interactive Fun: Enjoy the thrill of discovery as you search for cleverly concealed objects, symbols, and surprises within each captivating illustration.
A Gift of Mindfulness: Share the joy of spotting differences with others. This book makes for a unique and thoughtful gift that encourages mindfulness and the joy of discovering hidden details.
Generously size: at 8.5×11 inches for an immersive experience.
Activities include a captivating blend of seeking and finding hidden objects, as well as an opportunity to unleash your creativity through coloring.
Discover the perfect gift for a friend, co-worker, or children, and create lasting memories together!!
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Christmas in the Cottage: Come Home to Comfort & Joy (Cottage Journal)
Step into a cottage-style wonderland of Christmas with this keepsake collection of holiday homes bedecked in festive décor to celebrate the most magical season of the year.
In charming cottages and farmhouse-style gatherings, gifts are tied with colorful ribbons, trees are all aglow, and welcoming wreaths greet one and all. We share special inspiration and decorating styles that complement tables laden with holiday finery or simple garden touches that add new or old traditions into your holiday home. Thoughtfully compiled, this book shines with 400 beautiful photographs across 220 pages, each filled with ideas for hosting the loveliest season at home. You can make the season merry with some of our best-loved settings as you page through this forever keepsake of delightful compilation that is sure to find a home on your coffee table for years to come!Read more
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Christmas Scrapbook Paper: Cozy Elegant Winter Scrapbook Paper 20 patterned double sided sheets. 8.5″ x 11″
This Christmas patterned paper pack is designed to inspire your creativity to make winter crafts and paper ornaments for your Holiday home.
The scrapbooking paper comes in the book. It contains 20 double sided sheets with 20 unique designs. Sheets are double sided.
- Elegant double-sided paper pack – Great for scrapbooking project, card making, paper ornaments, Holiday home decorating, Christmas kids crafts, Christmas tree origami, paper Christmas ornaments or any other paper Christmas decorations to make at home and paper crafting projects.
- Set includes 20 assorted double sided patterned paper with 20 unique Christmas floral theme designs.
- The product measures 8.5 x 11 inches.
- High quality sheets are printed on 60#(100 GSM) interior stock.
- Beautiful summer beach theme included variety of designs such as Christmas flora, Christmas trees, snowflakes, Christmas bows, Christmas ornaments, winter gnomes, snow houses, gifts, candles,
- Variety of beautiful Elegant Christmas colors included golden, white, pink on dark navy blue, ruby red and emerald green background.
- Designed in USA
★ Please note, sheets are not perforated. You would need to use crafting knife or scissors to remove patterned sheet from the pack.
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Barrels and The Mastaba 1958–2018
In 2018, London’s Hyde Park was home to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s latest installation: The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake). The temporary sculpture took cues from mastabas of the first urban civilizations of Mesopotamia, which were mud benches with two vertical sides, two slanted sides, and a flat top. Towering at 20 meters high, its 600 metric tons anchored to the Serpentine Lake, this waterborne project gathered 7,506 painted oil barrels to create a floating mosaic of red, white, blue, and mauve.
The most ambitious of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s barrel works to date, The London Mastaba is a precursor to the duo’s work in progress The Mastaba (Project for Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates). First conceived in 1977, The Mastaba for Abu Dhabi, if realized, would be Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s greatest achievement and only permanent large-scale work. Situated in the desert and made of 410,000 multicolored barrels, the 150-meter-high sculpture would be the largest in the world, rising higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Designed by Lorenza Giovanelli and Christo, this book gathers drawings, collages, technical data, scale models―many published for the first time―and photographs by Wolfgang Volz to trace Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 60-year history of barrel artworks.
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Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work (Iconic Filmmakers Series)
This comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of one of modern films most celebrated, successful and intriguing auteurs, Christopher Nolan.‘What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient…highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it’s almost impossible to eradicate.’ – Cobb, Inception
How has Nolan become this leading director? Is he the new Kubrick? What do audiences get out of his games?
Visually, he offers a steely science-fiction noir with the highlights of big stars and a magician’s flourishes, whether he is tackling Victorian London or the far reaches of outer space. In narrative terms, his films twist and turn, provoking as many questions as they answer.
This book will look to crack open the magic box of Nolan’s twisting universe. As a character, he eludes easy answers. Veteran film author Ian Nathan’s research will lean into deciphering his cryptic pronouncements and motivations alongside the history and making of his films.
Examining both the making of and the inspiration behind his many, many hit films, from The Prestige (2006) to the hugely successful Batman films, through to his mind-bending science fiction works such as Inception (2014) and Tenet (2020). And just released in 2023, Oppenheimer,starring Cillian Murphy as the film’s titular American scientist and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Filled with fascinating insights and illustrated throughout with cinematography from his visually stunning ouvre, this book offers a unique, important and unmissable insight into the mind of this most brilliant of directors.
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Christopher Walken A to Z: The Man – The Movies – The Legend
Is Christopher Walken from Mars? He must be. How else can you explain his incredible range of talents and experiences? He has worked as a lion tamer, he has danced in music videos for Madonna, Duran Duran, and Fatboy Slim, and he has appeared in 100+ films for some of Hollywood’s hottest directors, including Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, David Cronenberg, and Tim Burton. He is the most popular guest host in the history of “Saturday Night Live”. He is the only actor to play a Bond villain and a Batman villain. He was handed his high school diploma by Gypsy Rose Lee. He was on a houseboat with Natalie Wood on the night she mysteriously drowned. He has appeared in some of the worst films of all time – everything from “Kangaroo Jack” to “Mousehunt to Gigli” – and yet his popularity never wanes.No wonder Christopher Walken has attracted an enormous cult following. Now his fans can learn about the wide world of Walken in Christopher Walken A to Z, the first-ever biography of the most fascinating man in show business, arranged in a fun, breezy A-to-Z format. With entries on everything from Actors Studio (the famous theatre workshop where Walken worked as a janitor) to zombie movies (one of his favourite movie genres), “Christopher Walken A to Z” is a trippy salute to the world’s most endearing and enduring celebrity.Read more
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Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome (Chronicles)
This is a highly readable history and a unique work of reference. Focusing on the succession of the rulers of imperial Rome, it uses timelines with at-a-glance visual guides to each reign and its main events. Biographical portraits of the 56 principal emperors from Augustus to Constantine, together with a concluding section on the later emperors, build into a highly readable single-volume history of imperial Rome. Biographical information is illustrated with busts of each emperor, coin portraits, battle plans and cutaway diagrams of imperial monuments. Supporting datafiles for every emperor list key information such as name at birth, wives and children, full imperial titles and place and manner of death. Genealogical trees and over 90 sidebars and special features on subjects ranging from Nero’s Golden House to Diocletian’s Palace allow the reader to delve even deeper. Colourful contemporary judgments by such writers as Suetonius and Tacitus are balanced by judicious character assessments made in the light of modern research. The famous and the infamous – Caligula and Claudius, Trajan and Caracalla – receive their due, while lesser names emerge clearly from the shadows for the first time. Chronicle of the Roman Emperors is at once a book to be enjoyed as popular history, an essential work of reference, and a source of visual inspiration, bringing to life one of the most powerful and influential empires the world has ever known. ‘A valuable volume providing a nice blend of information and entertainment’ – Teaching History ‘Marvellous’ – New ScientistRead more
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Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film
A deep dive into the emergence and success of independent filmmaking in America
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
The most important development in American culture of the last two decades is the emergence of independent cinema as a viable alternative to Hollywood. Indeed, while Hollywood’s studios devote much of their time and energy to churning out big-budget, star-studded event movies, a renegade independent cinema that challenges mainstream fare continues to flourish with strong critical support and loyal audiences.
Cinema of Outsiders is the first and only comprehensive chronicle of contemporary independent movies from the late 1970s up to the present. From the hip, audacious early works of maverick David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, and Spike Lee, to the contemporary Oscar-winning success of indie dynamos, such as the Coen brothers (Fargo), Quentin Tarentino (Pulp Fiction), and Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade), Levy describes in a lucid and accessible manner the innovation and diversity of American indies in theme, sensibility, and style.
Documenting the socio-economic, political and artistic forces that led to the rise of American independent film, Cinema of Outsiders depicts the pivotal role of indie guru Robert Redford and his Sundance Film Festival in creating a showcase for indies, the function of film schools in supplying talent, and the continuous tension between indies and Hollywood as two distinct industries with their own structure, finance, talent and audience.
Levy describes the major cycles in the indie film movement: regional cinema, the New York school of film, African-American, Asian American, gay and lesbian, and movies made by women. Based on exhaustive research of over 1,000 movies made between 1977 and 1999, Levy evaluates some 200 quintessential indies, including Choose Me, Stranger Than Paradise, Blood Simple, Blue Velvet, Desperately Seeking Susan, Slacker, Poison, Reservoir Dogs, Gas Food Lodging, Menace II Society, Clerks, In the Company of Men, Chasing Amy, The Apostle, The Opposite of Sex, and Happiness.
Cinema of Outsiders reveals the artistic and political impact of bold and provocative independent movies in displaying the cinema of “outsiders”-the cinema of the “other America.”Read more
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Cinema Speculation
A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino.
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino.
In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films.
Now, with CINEMA SPECULATION, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans – and all movie lovers – could have hoped for.
Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining.
At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT’s and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever.
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