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  Beth Lapides' Un-Carbaret: The...

  Un-Cabaret

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  This definitive Un-Cabaret album features unusually honest stories from seriously funny performers from the ground-breaking Un-Cabaret live show.

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  Buyer & Cellar - The Original...

  Jonathan Tolins

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  The original script of the award-winning off-Broadway play—“irresistibly entertaining [and] surprisingly moving” (Paul Rudnick).   Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor in LA, he takes a job working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar. One day, the Lady Herself comes downstairs to play. It feels like real bonding in the basement—but will their relationship ever make it upstairs?   A winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show, Buyer & Cellar is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs.   “Jonathan Tolins has concocted an irresistible one-man play from the most peculiar of fictitious premises . . . This seriously funny slice of absurdist whimsy creates the illusion of a stage filled with multiple people, all of them with their own droll point of view.” —The New York Times   “A gorgeous play: funny and beautifully observed and richly insightful.” —Moisés Kaufman   “Tolins’s writing is smart, sharp, and hilarious—and he paints a vivid picture that even a perfectionist like Barbra would have to applaud.” —James Lapine

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  Art History - A Very Short...

  Dana Arnold

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  Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture, and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introduction, Dana Arnold presents an introduction to the issues, debates, and artifacts that make up art history. Beginning with a consideration of what art history is, she explains what makes the subject distinctive from other fields of study, and also explores the emergence of social histories of art (such as Feminist Art History and Queer Art History). Using a wide range of images, she goes on to explore key aspects of the discipline including how we write, present, read, and look at art, and the impact this has on our understanding of art history.This second edition includes a new chapter on global art histories, considering how the traditional emphasis on periods and styles in art originated in western art and can obscure other critical approaches and artwork from non-western cultures. Arnold also discusses the relationship between art and history, and the ways in which art can tell a different history from the one narrated by texts.

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  Songs Only You Know - A Memoir

  Sean Madigan Hoen

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  A Rolling Stone Best Book: This memoir of a troubled young man’s escape into the Detroit punk scene is “a Kerouac-like saga fueled with energy and ecstasy” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).   Described by Darin Strauss as “Nick Flynn meets Karl Ove Knausgard” and “a book of relentless compassion,” Songs Only You Know is an intense, sprawling memoir, equal parts family tragedy and punk rock road trip.   It begins in late 1990s Detroit and spans a decade during which a family fights to hold itself together in the face of insurmountable odds. Sean’s father endangers his career at Ford Motor as he cycles from rehab to binge. His heartsick sister spirals into depression, and his mother relies on her Catholic faith and good works to spare what can be spared. Meanwhile, Sean seeks salvation in a community of eccentrics and outsiders. But the closer Sean comes to realizing his musical dream, the further he drifts from his family and himself.  

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  The Book of Shrigley

  David Shrigley

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  The first major anthology from the internationally renowned pop artist known for “bonkers, mordant, often joyously meaningless doodles” (Metro). Pop artist David Shrigley’s work is immediate, sometimes rude, and very funny, “like a psychotic version of Matt Groening’s Life in Hell cartoons” (The Guardian). His darkly brilliant, addictively hilarious scrawls from the subconscious have won him legions of fans and exhibitions at some of the world’s finest art museums. The Book of Shrigley showcases the artist’s edgy yet accessible off-kilter vision. Here are bad-tempered pets, strange attractions, work, S-E-X, knitting, wrestling, and a host of other everyday activities, dangers, and amusements laid bare in Shrigley’s urgently illustrated panels and wickedly mischievous punchlines. Bursting with color and unsettlingly funny truths, The Book of Shrigley is the ideal introduction to this “UFO of the art world” (Artsper Magazine).

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  Life in a Mediaeval City...

  Edwin Benson

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  A short and gentle overview of mediaeval life in a large city. It lightly covers the class structure of society, local government, guilds, pageantry and punishment. The author has an easy, rhythmic style which leaves the reader wanting to find out more. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)

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