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  But Beautiful - A Book About Jazz

  Geoff Dyer

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  In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However, music is the driving force of But Beautiful, as is wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.

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  Let's Wrestle

  David Shrigley

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  A collection of peculiar drawings and strange ruminations by the “dementedly funny” pop artist and author of Get Your Sh*t Together (Publishers Weekly, starred review).  Scottish pop artist David Shrigley has been exhibited at some of the world’s finest art museums, including MoMA and the Tate. It has also been described as “a psychotic version of Matt Groening’s Life in Hell cartoons” (The Guardian). Let’s Wrestle shares some of Shrigley’s most acerbically satirical and surreal drawings.

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  Red Book

  D. Shrigley

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  A collection of drawings from the British visual artist acclaimed for his “immutable charm and wit” (Creative Review).   International pop artist David Shrigley’s intuitive scrawls and deadpan humor mine unsettling truths and deliver anxious amusements. This all-new collection of his addictively entertaining work welcomes the uninitiated and rewards the faithful with a fresh dive into Shrigley’s dark, strange world.  Praise for the work of David Shrigley:   “Dementedly funny . . . Taken cumulatively, Shrigley’s comic illustrations and words have the effect of a miraculous mental booster drug.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

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  Back in No Time - The Brion...

  Brion Gyson

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  The first anthology of writings by the brilliant avant-gardist: “A valuable book that makes accessible an artist too long considered a cult-eccentric.” —Publishers Weekly Born in 1916, Brion Gysin was a visual artist, historian, novelist, and experimental poet credited with the discovery of the “cut-up” technique—a collage of texts, not pictures—which his longtime collaborator William S. Burroughs put to more extensive use. He is also considered one of the early innovators of sound poetry, which he defined as “getting poetry back off the page and into performance.”  Back in No Time gathers materials from the entire Gysin oeuvre: scholarly historical study, baroque fiction, permutated and cut-up poetry, unsettling memoir, selections from The Process and The Last Museum, and his unproduced screenplay of Burroughs’ novel Naked Lunch. In addition, this reader contains complete texts of several Gysin pieces that are difficult to find, including “Poem of Poems,” “The Pipes of Pan,” and “A Quick Trip to Alamut.”

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  Out Of This Universe

  Martin K Ettington

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  Follow the life of Steven and his friends as he proceeds through innumerable ages of existence fighting forces which not even the Gods totally understand. 
  It’s a story of physical immortality, love, and evolution which transcends our Universe. 
  A journey through the ages of mankind and the Universe which leads to some startling decisions which affect all of creation and beyond. 
  Many spiritual powers are developed and used in confrontations as part of the evolution of the characters in this story. 
  A thoroughly enjoyable romp which will expand your mind and leaving you asking. How much more is there to existence? And what is beyond existence?

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  Leonardo Da Vinci - Artist...

  Eugène Müntz

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  “Studying nature with passion, and all the independence proper to his character, he could not fail to combine precision with liberty, and truth with beauty. It is in this final emancipation, this perfect mastery of modelling, of illumination, and of expression, this breadth and freedom, that the master’s raison d’être and glory consist. Others may have struck out new paths also; but none travelled further or mounted higher than he.” (Eugène Müntz)

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