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    Sheldon Pearce

    A New Yorker writer’s intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur’s life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death. In the summer of 2020,...
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  • Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You
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    Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You

    Lucinda Williams

    ‘Williams’s memoir is as flinty, earthy  and plain-spoken as her songs’  New York Times ‘The often hilarious, occasionally harrowing Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You is a bracingly candid...
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  • As Serious As Your Life
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    As Serious As Your Life

    Wilmer, Valerie

    In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established...
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  • Handel’s Messiah
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    Handel’s Messiah

    Amanda Babington

    The soundtrack of the Christmas season for many music lovers, Messiah is performed annually by choral societies across the world. And so, perhaps unsurprisingly, many aspects of it have been explored...
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  • Rembrandt
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    Rembrandt

    Marieke de Winkel

    He was the most sought-after painter in the prosperous trading city of Amsterdam yet died completely impoverished. Though he never left his homeland, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn's (1606-1669) work...
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  • Davide Quayola
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    Davide Quayola

    This Italian artist, one of the greatest of his generation, has developed a significant and multi-faceted body of work over the years featuring lines of conjunction that are unique on the...
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  • Gropius
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    Gropius

    Gilbert Lupfer & Paul Sigel

    Walter Gropius (1883-1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a...
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  • Expressionism
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    Expressionism

    Norbert Wolf

    Sharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth century movement that prioritized emotion over objective reality. Though...
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  • Rembrandt
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    Rembrandt

    Michael Bockemühl

    Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and etching, he changed the course of Western art. His prolific oeuvre...
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  • Little Devil in America
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    Little Devil in America

    Abdurraqib, Hanif

    A celebration of Black culture beyond the white gaze, from the \"MacArthur genius\" who has been dubbed 'the most important cultural critic in America right now' Chicago Tribune At the March on...
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  • Baroque
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    Baroque

    John Rupert Martin

    This is a nonchronological introduction to Baroque, one of the great periods of European art. John Martin's descriptions of the essential characteristics of the Baroque help one to gain an...
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  • Tristessa
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    Tristessa

    Kerouac, Jack

    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: 'a narrative meditation...
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  • Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing
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    Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing

    Catherine H. Lusheck

    Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing re-examines the early graphic practice of the preeminent northern Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) in light of early modern traditions of...
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  • Black Music, Black Poetry
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    Black Music, Black Poetry

    Gordon E. Thompson

    Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse body of poetry to musical genres that...
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  • Georg Simmel: Rembrandt
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    Georg Simmel: Rembrandt

    Alan Scott

    First published in 1916 in German, this important work has never been translated into English--until now. Simmel attacks such questions as "What do we see in a work of Art?" and "What do Rembrandt's...
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  • François Blondel
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    François Blondel

    Anthony Gerbino

    First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one...
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  • Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy
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    Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy

    Clemena Antonova

    This book considers a movement within Russian religious philosophy known as "full unity" (vseedinstvo), with a focus on one of its main representatives, Pavel Florensky (1882–1937). Often referred to...
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  • Caravaggio
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    Caravaggio

    Howard Hibbard

    Caravaggio was one of the most important Italian painters of the 17th century. He was, in fact, the wellspring of Baroque painting. In Hibbard's words, Caravaggio's paintings "speak to us more...
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    Caravaggio

    Howard Hibbard

    Caravaggio was one of the most important Italian painters of the 17th century. He was, in fact, the wellspring of Baroque painting. In Hibbard's words, Caravaggio's paintings "speak to us more...
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  • Bauhaus
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    Bauhaus

    Magdalena Droste

    In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school...
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  • Rembrandt
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    Rembrandt

    Marieke de Winkel

    The Dutch Golden Age of painting spawned some of history's greatest artists and artisans, but few can boast the genius and legacy of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669). Despite never leaving...
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  • Renoir
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    Renoir

    Alexander Eiling

    Like hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of Impressionism. His painting La fin du déjeuner, which has been in the Städel...
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  • Bauhaus
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    Bauhaus

    Magdalena Droste

    In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering...
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  • Vermeer
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    Vermeer

    Norbert Schneider

    Though numbering just 35 known works, the œuvre of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is hailed as one of the most important and inspiring portfolios in art history. His paintings have prompted a New York...
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  • Velázquez
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    Velázquez

    José López-Rey

    Manet called him "the greatest painter of all." Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it. Francis Bacon painted a study of his portrait of Pope...
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  • Rembrandt
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    Rembrandt

    Marieke de Winkel

    Few devotees of the form can approach Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn's radical contributions to self-portraiture. Challenging the conventions enshrined by his predecessors, Rembrandt transformed the...
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  • Rubens
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    Rubens

    Gilles Néret

    There are over 1,000 catalogued works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality. This essential introduction takes in the most...
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  • Breuer
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    Breuer

    Arnt Cobbers

    In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining "form-givers of the 20th century." Today, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. As...
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  • On the Road
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    On the Road

    Kerouac, Jack

    The exhilerating novel that defined the Beat Generation 'What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.' Sal...
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  • Dharma Bums
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    Dharma Bums

    Kerouac, Jack

    Another addition to Penguin Modern Classics' key Kerouac holdings. THE DHARMA BUMS appeared just one year after the author's explosive ON THE ROAD had put the Beat Generation on the literary map and...
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  • Rembrandt's Holland
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    Rembrandt's Holland

    Larry Silver

    Rembrandt van Rijn and the Netherlands grew up together. The artist, born in Leiden in 1606, lived during the tumultuous period of the Dutch Revolt and the establishment of the independent Dutch...
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  • Mrs Dalloway
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    Mrs Dalloway

    Woolf, Virginia

    A very special hardback edition of Mrs Dalloway to celebrate its 100th anniversary, featuring the original artwork created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. Celebrate the 100th birthday of a...
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  • Image coming soon
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    Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joans

    Belletto, Steven

    Best Monograph, 2026 Beat Studies Association Awards Black Surrealist. Poet. Collage artist. Jazz trumpeter. Painter. Member of the Beat Generation. Life-long wanderer. Pan-Africanist. Black Power...
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  • New Dress
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    New Dress

    Woolf, Virginia

    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Waking, I cry \"Oh, is this your - buried treasure? The light in the heart.\"' In these exquisite stories from the genius of English...
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  • On the Road
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    On the Road

    Kerouac, Jack

    Jack Kerouac's Great American Novel, now in a delightful new Clothbound Classics edition On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs,...
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  • Spreadin' Rhythm Around
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    Spreadin' Rhythm Around

    David A Jasen

    Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters,1880-1930 is a classic work on a little-studied subject in American music history: the contribution of African-American songwriters to the world of...
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  • Blues: The Basics
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    Blues: The Basics

    Dick Weissman

    Blues: The Basics offers a concise introduction to a century of the blues. Organized chronologically, it focuses on the major eras in the growth and development of this popular musical style...
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    Blues: The Basics

    Dick Weissman

    Blues: The Basics offers a concise introduction to a century of the blues. Organized chronologically, it focuses on the major eras in the growth and development of this popular musical style...
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  • Vision and Society
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    Vision and Society

    John Clammer

    The sociology of art is now an established sub-discipline of sociology. But little work has been done to explore the implications not of society on art, but of art on the nature and principles of...
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  • Opera Remade, 1700�1750
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    Opera Remade, 1700�1750

    Charles Dill

    Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. Recent research on this period has been especially fruitful, showing renewed interest...
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  • Performing Baroque Music
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    Performing Baroque Music

    Mary Cyr

    Listeners, performers, students and teachers will find here the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. Scores for eleven works, many reproduced...
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  • Easels of Utopia
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    Easels of Utopia

    John Baldacchino

    Originally published in 1998, Easels of Utopia presents a discussion of art's duration and contingency within the avant garde's aesthetic parameters, which throughout this century have constructed,...
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  • Dutch Republican Baroque
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    Dutch Republican Baroque

    Frans-Willem Korsten

    In the Dutch Republic, in its Baroque forms of art, two aesthetic formal modes, theatre and drama, were dynamically related to two political concepts, event and moment. The Dutch version of the...
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