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		<title>Featured: Allen Kaprow&#8217;s Assemblage, Environments &amp; Happenings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 12:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Description: Hard bound, missing original plastic dust jacket . Burlap-covered book with text and design by Kaprow. Pages 145-208 are entirely text, printed on brown paper, while the rest of the 341 pages consist entirely of photographs printed on white. This scarce and important book, out of print for about 30 years, seriously examine and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured: Le Corbusier</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 18:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Le Corbusier was a modernist visionary. He believed that architecture had lost its way. Art Nouveau, all curves and sinuous decorations, had burned itself out in a brilliant burst of exuberance; the seductive Art Deco style promised to do the same. The Arts and Crafts movement had adherents all over Europe, but as the name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured: P. G. Wodehouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 &#8211; 14 February 1975) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read.  Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured: Paul Rand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 18:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Rand is acknowledged as one of the greatest graphic designers of all time. He began his career in an era when working by hand was a given. He developed a fresh and individual design language drawn from European art movements including Russian constructivism, de Stijl, and the Bauhaus. He is probably best known for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: ROCKWELL KENT&#8217;S MOBY DICK</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moby Dick is considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature. Written by Herman Melvile The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by the mad Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 07:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>FEATURED: ALVIN LUSTIG</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 23:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alvin Lustig is known for his expertise in virtually all the design disciplines, but his most lasting contribution could well be his work in book jacket design. He designed record albums, magazines, advertisements, commercial catalogs, office spaces and textiles. By the time he died at the age of forty in 1955, he had already introduced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: CHUCK CLOSE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 20:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuck Close is one of the most important contemporary artists in America. His drawings, paintings, photographs and prints have been the focus of more than one hundred and forty solo exhibitions in over twenty countries. Chuck Close first made a name for himself for his skillful brushwork, and his very large portraits based on photographs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: LEE FRIEDLANDER</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friedlander&#8217;s work focuses on the detached images of urban life, store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, and posters and signs all combining to capture the look of modern life. Friedlander’s images of shop windows evoke a certain ambiguity, an oscillation between reflected and actual reality, that invite inspection of the space and the meaning of the image. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: JOAN MIRO LITHOGRAPHIES</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joan Miró was among the first artists to develop automatic drawing as a way to undo previous established techniques, and with Andre Masson represented the beginning of Surrealism as an art movement. However, Miró chose not to become an official member of the Surrealists in order to be free to experiment with other artistic styles.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: LEWIS CARROLL &amp; PETER NEWELL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Newell built a reputation in the 1880s and 1890s for his humorous drawings and poems. He often illustrated the works of other authors, most famously Lewis Carroll. Charles Ludwige Dodgson, better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician and photographer. He is best known for his famous writings, Alice&#8217;s Adventures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured: ANAIS NIN</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anias Nin, feminist icon, diarist, model and dancer is probably one of the finest writers of female erotica of the last century. Known for her elegant and sensual style, she has the ability to convey the most intimate of thoughts in a way that we can almost feel. Winter of Artifice, a trio of novellas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANECDOTES CHINOISES / CHINESE STORIES</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baron Von Ketteler was the German Ambassador to China in the late 1800&#8242;s, his murder set off the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. On on the 20th of June the conservative faction of the Imperial Court induced the Empress Dowager to declare war on the foreign powers in Beijing. Diplomats, foreign civilians, soldiers and some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: KENRO IZU</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenro Izu has been photographing the world’s holy places for over four decades. He shoots with a large-format camera custom fitted to make 14 x 20 inch negatives, which he prints on watercolor paper hand-coated with platinum/palladium emulsion, a painstaking, three-day process. For this book he carried over 200 pounds of gear on foot deep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: NELSON ALGREN</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nelson Algren was the first recipient of the National Book Award for fiction in 1950. He will be best remembered for his portrayal of societies discards, the addicts, the hookers, the poor hustling the poor, the washed up &#38; down for the count. His novels capture the mood of the city&#8217;s underside, uplifted only by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: EGON SCHIELE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter who&#8217;s life was marked with controversy. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele’s work is noted for its intensity, twisted body shapes and expressive line. His paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism. His work is often erotic or pornographic, sometimes with a disturbing focus [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pablo Picasso was the most influential artist of the 20th century. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures of the 20th century art world. Picasso was exceptionally prolific throughout his long lifetime. The total number [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe was the quintessential sex symbol of the 1950s. An American actress, singer, and model she became a major film star after starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures of the 1950s. She is arguably the most celebrated of all actresses, and although she made only 30 films in her lifetime, her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: ANTONI TAPIES</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antoni Tàpies gained worldwide fame in the 1950s for his &#8220;matter&#8221; paintings: relief-like works composed of dry pigments, sand and marble dust, and paint, which he scrapes, incises, and pierces. Tàpies helped co-found the first Post-War Movement in Spain known as Dau-al-Set which was connected to the Surrealist and Dadaist Movements. Tàpies early works were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: BRUCE DAVIDSON</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York based photographer Bruce Davidson began his career as a freelance contributor for Life Magazine in the 1950&#8242;s. In Paris met Henri Cartier-Bresson, and later would join him as a member of Magnum Photos. Throughout the 1960&#8242;s he helped document the civil rights movement, and in 1963 he was awarded the first grant from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REM KOOLHAAS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Third revised edition (This volume combines two previous issues of El Croquis, #53 &#38; #79) Profusely illustrated throughout with color plates, drawings, renderings, plans, sketches, and models. A very nice overview of the work of the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Text in Spanish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an American author and aviator. Gift from the Sea was written by Lindbergh, while on vacation on Florida&#8217;s Captiva Island in the early 1950s. Written in an essay-style, with shells on the beach for inspiration, Lindbergh reflects on the lives of  American women of the mid-twentieth century. With great wisdom and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: Dorothea Tanning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dorothea Tanning was the last important living surrealist painter of her generation. She died on Tuesday at her home in Manhattan, at the age of 101. Tanning moved to New York in the early 1930s where she discovered Dada and Surrealism. By the early 1940s Tanning was working on her own surreal paintings while supporting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: DON QUIXOTE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Quixote is often cited as the best literary work ever written! The History Of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote Of La Mancha is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes, published in two volumes a decade apart, in 1605 and again in 1615. Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: ROBERT FROST</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Frost was a four-time Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, who wrote many popular and often quoted poems including The Road Not Taken, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, and Wild Grapes. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work employed settings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: Erich Maria Remarque</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erich Maria Remarque was a German author best known for his novel All Quiet on the Western Front. His was born on July 22, 1898, in Osnabrück, Germany, the only son of a bookbinder. The family was poor and moved at least eleven times during Remarque&#8217;s childhood. During World War I he was drafted into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: SLIM AARONS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slim Aaron&#8217;s photographs, where wealthy people lounge poolside, looking effortlessly beautiful, are the definitive insiders look into the private lives of the Leisure Class of the 1950&#8242;s and 60&#8242;s. Aarons as part of the Jet-set photographed from Beverly Hills, to the French Riviera, capturing the Kennedys, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, and other elite jet-setters. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured: Barnett Newman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barnett Newman was one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. Newman was a member of the Uptown Group, along with Motherwell, Pollock, Ad Reinhardt &#38; others. His rejection of the expressive brushwork employed by other abstract expressionists, and his use of hard-edged areas of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: Patrick Leigh Fermor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Leigh Fermor widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest travel writers. Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE (1915–2011) was a British author, scholar and soldier. A BBC journalist once described him as &#8220;a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene.&#8221; He played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured: Karl Bodmer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karl Bodmer was a Swiss painter of the American West. He accompanied German explorer Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied from 1832 through 1834 on his Missouri River expedition. He was hired as an artist by Maximilian with the specific intent of traveling through the American West and recording images of the different tribes they saw along the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: ED RUSCHA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Ruscha has become know for his deadpan irreverence, and his Pop inspired art work. He holds the mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confronts us daily. Born in Omaha in 1937, He moved to Los Angeles in the early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE VICIOUS CIRCLE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Algonquin Round Table was a group of journalists, writers, actors, &#38; press agents that met for lunch each day at the Algonquin Hotel in the heart of Midtown. After World War I, Vanity Fair writers and Algonquin regulars Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and Robert E. Sherwood began lunching at The Algonquin. Together they helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: The Works of Michel De Montaigne, The Emerson Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592) the father of Modern Skepticism, was the most influential writer of the French Renaissance. He is primarily known for the creation of the essay as a literary genre, and his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes. His massive volume Essais contains to this day some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A descendant of one of Hawaii&#8217;s largest landowners, Matthew King finds his luck has changed. His two daughters &#8211; Scottie, a feisty ten-year-old, and Alex, a teenage recovering drug addict &#8211; are out of control; his thrill-seeking, high-maintenance wife, Joanie, lies in a coma after a boat-racing accident and will soon be taken off life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A General History of Quadrupeds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexander Anderson has long been considered the father of wood engraving in America, being the first in this country to adopt the technique developed in England by Thomas Bewick. Wood engraving produces a finer image than the standard woodcut by working on the denser end-grain section of the wood. Anderson acknowledged his debt to Bewick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lothar Baumgarten is a combination anthropologist, photographer, poet, storyteller, and installation maker. He has traveled in many a remote and outwardly inhospitable part of the world, aiming to live among its inhabitants as a concerned but invisible presence. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles commissioned Baumgarten to create a work that incorporated photo documentation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: CHRISTO &amp; JEAN-CLAUDE</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christo and Jeanne-Claude are a married couple who create environmental installation art. Their works include the wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin and the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris, the 24-mile-long curtain called Running Fence in Marin and Sonoma counties in California, and most recently The Gates in New York City&#8217;s Central Park. Although their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED : PETER BEARD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internationally recognized photographer Peter Beard first visited Africa in 1955. After graduating from Yale, he returned to Africa and worked at Kenya’s Tsavo Park, during which time he photographed and documented the demise of over 35,000 elephants and 5000 Black Rhinos. The work done there led to the publication of The End of the Game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: ALDO SESSA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aldo Sessa is undoubtedly the most recognized photographer in Argentina. Born in Buenos Aires in 1939, he started his long career of creative work drawing and painting at the &#8220;De Ridder&#8221; Atelier at the age of 10. He later specialized in graphic arts, design, and photography. His works are included in private collections and in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: GERHARD RICHTER</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerhard Richter has never committed himself to one artistic style. He began working with artists such as Sigmar Polke and Georg Baselitz. Their work, and Richter&#8217;s in particular, began to have an impact in Germany, and eventually international art circles. Richter&#8217;s beliefs are credited with refreshing art and rejuvenating painting as a medium during a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DESIGNING THE HAMPTONS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Description: Hollywood East&#8230; New York&#8217;s &#8220;good life&#8221;&#8230; Shingle style, blue &#38; white, Seagrass with coral and twig. Share the fantasy of the dream homes beyond the privet, presented through the eyes of 24 top designers. Hard bound in white cloth with white stamped letters to the spine and cover. Illustrated endpapers. Intro by Mayer Rus.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: BILL BRANDT</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Brandt was Britain&#8217;s most admired photographer of the 20th century. He was known for his high-contrast images of British society and his distorted nudes and landscapes. Bill Brandt is widely considered to be one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, and in 2004 he received a major retrospective exhibition at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: THE MAIDSTONE CLUB</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Maidstone Club is one of the most exclusive golf clubs in the United States. Set against the Atlantic Ocean in the posh town of East Hampton, it boasts a private beach, pool, tennis house, and club house. The Club derives its name from the original name for East Hampton. Maidstone was founded as a nine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KELLY KLEIN: POOLS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by a desire to design a new pool for her own Hamptons home, Kelly Klein sought out and put together the most arresting and iconic photographs of swimming pools. The result was this unique and stunning book. Included are pools in all shapes, sizes, colors, and settings, from Tangiers and Miami, to the ancient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: AUGUST SANDER</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[August Sander was one of the most important German portrait photographers of the early twentieth century. In 1904 he opened his own studio in Linz, Austria, where he met with success. He began to photograph the rural farmers nearby, and soon abandoned his urban studio in favor of photographing in the field, finding subjects along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured: Chris van Allsburg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris van Allsburg is a Caldecott Medal award-winning author and illustrator, renowned for works such as The Polar Express, Jumanji. The Garden of Abdul Gasazi was his first illustrated book. In this extraordinary, unusual, and unique picture book, Van Allsburg explores both the real and surreal worlds with incredible deftness. In doing so, he has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: LUDWIG BEMELMANS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ludwig Bemelmans was an Austrian-American author, an internationally known gourmet, writer and illustrator. He is remembered today for his Madeline books, six of which were published from 1939-1961. Throughout the 1920s Bemelmans struggled to become a recognized artist, while employed by the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. During this time he wrote and drew more than any other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: VOGUE&#8217;S BOOK OF HOUSES, GARDENS, PEOPLE</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Description: This title has reached a sort of iconic status among interior decorators and designers. Hard bound first printing with dust jacket. Introduction by Diana Vreeland (probably the most important editor Vogue has ever had). Houses, furniture, collections, gardens and the daily lives of the social elite in America and Europe, all captured in over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancestral Art of Gabon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Collected from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, arguably the greatest collection of primitive art in the world. This book &#8211; six years in the making &#8211; was published on the occasion of the touring exhibition of the Barbier-Mueller collection, in association with the Dallas Museum of Fine Art and the L.A. County Museum of Art exhibitions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: HAROLD LEWIS &#8220;DOC&#8221; HUMES</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humes was a co-founder of The Paris Review in 1953, along with Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton. He studied writing with Archibald MacLeish at Harvard, graduating in 1954. A Scientist, novelist, activist, inventor, filmmaker, architect, prophet, healer, madman, Harold &#8220;Doc&#8221; Humes was, by all accounts, an exhilarating, infuriating and terrifyingly brilliant man. He participated in [...]]]></description>
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