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  • Maniera Greca in Europe's Catholic East
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    Maniera Greca in Europe's Catholic East

    Giedre Mickunaite

    How and why does vernacular art become foreign? What does ‘Greek manner’ mean in regions far beyond the Mediterranean? What stories do images need? How do narratives shape pictures? The study...
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  • Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque
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    Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque

    Gary Waller

    Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque focuses mainly on Shakespeare’s late (or later) works, those written from around 1607. It sets both poetry and plays within the emerging culture of the...
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  • Handel’s Grand Concertos Opus 6
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    Handel’s Grand Concertos Opus 6

    Vadym Rakochi

    This book offers a deep analysis of Handel’s Twelve Grand Concertos, Op. 6, a part of Handel’s repertoire which has remained relatively understudied. Bringing together an analytical approach to the...
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  • Louvre and Versailles
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    Louvre and Versailles

    Christopher Tadgell

    In tracing the evolution of the Louvre from fortress to palace and of Versailles from hunting domain to dynastic capital, Dr Tadgell’s detailed architectural analysis of many projects – external and...
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  • Bach The Borrower
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    Bach The Borrower

    Norman Carrell

    Originally published in 1967, in this book the author delves deeply into the fascinating field of Bach’s music and the reasons for his ‘borrowing’, and adaptation within his oeuvre. This book,...
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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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  • Byzantine World
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    Byzantine World

    J. M. Hussey

    Originally published in 1957 and as a fourth edition in 1970 this is an accessible history of Byzantium from Constantine the Great to its final conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Despite internal...
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  • Bach The Borrower
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    Bach The Borrower

    Norman Carrell

    Originally published in 1967, in this book the author delves deeply into the fascinating field of Bach’s music and the reasons for his ‘borrowing’, and adaptation within his oeuvre. This book,...
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  • Johann Sebastian Bach
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    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Karl Geiringer

    When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.S. Bach was the first important work on the composer in nearly a generation. The many discoveries about Bach’s life and music that occurred...
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  • Decoding Luigi Moretti's Architettura Parametrica
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    Decoding Luigi Moretti's Architettura Parametrica

    Giuseppe Canestrino

    Decoding Luigi Moretti’s Architettura Parametrica presents an unprecedented critical discussion of one of the earliest theoretical and practical explorations into the integration of scientific...
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  • Johann Sebastian Bach
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    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Karl Geiringer

    When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.S. Bach was the first important work on the composer in nearly a generation. The many discoveries about Bach’s life and music that occurred...
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  • Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper
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    Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper

    Stephen Lee Naish

    Across his directorial films, American filmmaker Dennis Hopper used music and sound to propel the narrative, signpost the era in which the films were made, and delineate the characters’ place within...
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  • Cosmopolitan Baroque
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    Cosmopolitan Baroque

    Bianca M. Lindorfer

    This book examines the cultural relations between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg monarchies in the seventeenth century and explores the central role of transnational aristocratic networks in...
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  • Cinematic Starchitecture
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    Cinematic Starchitecture

    Merrill Schleier

    Cinematic Starchitecture explores how examples of famous architecture have circulated throughout cinema history across diverse genres.Building on the term "starchitecture" – coined in 1997 for...
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  • Mosaics, Empresses and Other Things in Byzantium
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    Mosaics, Empresses and Other Things in Byzantium

    Liz James

    This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests.The first section deals with light and colour...
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  • Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel
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    Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel

    Eran Neuman

    Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of Arieh Sharon and analyzes and discusses his designs and plans in...
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  • Goa’s Bom Jesus as Visual Culture
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    Goa’s Bom Jesus as Visual Culture

    Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar

    This book chronicles the visual history of the Basilica of Bom Jesus, one of the longest-surviving churches from Goa’s Portuguese colonial era. In the sixteenth century, this baroque church in Old...
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  • Feel Like Going Home
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    Feel Like Going Home

    Peter Guralnick

    Feel Like Going Home vividly brings to life such early blues masters as Muddy Waters , Skip James, and Howlin' Wolf, along with illuminating excursions into the blues-based rock 'n' roll of Jerry Lee...
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  • Building Ruskin's Italy
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    Building Ruskin's Italy

    Stephen Kite

    Based on extensive fieldwork, and research into John Ruskin's still little-interpreted archival material, notebooks and drawings (in the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, UK and elsewhere),...
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  • Late Byzantium Reconsidered
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    Late Byzantium Reconsidered

    Andrea Mattiello

    Late Byzantium Reconsidered offers a unique collection of essays analysing the artistic achievements of Mediterranean centres linked to the Byzantine Empire between 1261, when the Palaiologan dynasty...
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  • Cavalier Giovanni Battista Buonamente
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    Cavalier Giovanni Battista Buonamente

    Peter Allsop

    Giovanni Battista Buonamente was among the most original and inventive Italian composers of the seventeenth century. Peter Allsop reveals his importance as part of a tradition that stands in direct...
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  • Power and Representation in Byzantium
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    Power and Representation in Byzantium

    Neil Churchill

    Throughout the history of Byzantium 65 emperors were dethroned and only 39 reigns ended peacefully. How might a usurper get away with murdering his predecessor? And how could a bloody act of regicide...
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  • Josh White
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    Josh White

    Elijah Wald

    Born in South Carolina, White spent his childhood as a lead boy for traveling blind bluesmen. In the early '30s he moved to New York and became a popular blues star, then introduced folk-blues to a...
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  • David Teniers The Younger
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    David Teniers The Younger

    Jane P. Davidson

    This book presents a complete biography of David Teniers along with a detailed analysis of his style in various periods of his career. It discusses the artists who influenced Teniers and those he...
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  • Being Elvis
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    Being Elvis

    Ray Connolly

    What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner? As the world's first rock star there was no one to tell him what to expect, no one with whom he...
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  • Dancing with Muddy
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    Dancing with Muddy

    Jerry Portnoy

    Jerry Portnoy grew up in Chicago hearing the blues being played outside his father’s rug store on famed Maxwell Street during the late 1940s and early '50s.  After dropping out of college, he became...
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  • Willie Nelson on Willie Nelson
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    Willie Nelson on Willie Nelson

    Paul Maher Jr.

    Curating the most illuminating interviews with an American icon isn’t easy. Willie Nelson’s words can be found everywhere: TV, radio, movies, and on the many musical recordings he is responsible for...
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  • Icons of Space
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    Icons of Space

    Jelena Bogdanović

    Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renowned art historian Alexei Lidov.As well as his...
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  • El Greco To Murillo
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    El Greco To Murillo

    Nina A. Mallory

    A study of the art and artists of seventeenth-century Spain examines historical, religious, cultural, and political influences. Including entries on the School of Madrid, Baroque painting of Seville...
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  • Down On The Corner
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    Down On The Corner

    Cary Baker

    Down On The Corner is the story of music performed on the streets, in subways, in parks, in schoolyards, on the back of flatbed trucks, and beyond, from the 1920s to the present day.Drawing on years...
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  • The Deformation
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    The Deformation

    Susanna Berger

    A fascinating account of the use and meaning of visual and spatial distortions in seventeenth-century art and architecture During the Catholic Reformation, patrons, artists, architects, and viewers,...
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