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This essential companion to the acclaimed series offers an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at its unforgettable characters, opulent settings, and more. When Downton Abbey first opened its doors, fans were immediately swept away by Julian Fellowes’s evocative world of romance, intrigue, drama, and tradition. As the show entered its sixth and final season, Jessica Fellowes delivered the ultimate series companion. In Downton Abby: A Celebration , she leads us through the house and estate, reliving the iconic moments of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants as they navigate the emerging modern age. Travelling from Great Hall to servants’ hall, bedroom to boot room, we glimpse as we go Matthew and Isobel Crawley arriving for the first time, the death of Kemal Pamuk, Cora’s tragic miscarriage, Edith’s affair with Michael Gregson, Mary’s new haircut, Thomas and O’Brien’s scheming, Anna and Bates’s troubles with the law, and Carson’s marriage to Mrs. Hughes. Alongside are in-depth interviews with the cast, as well as a complete episode guide for the first five seasons and a teaser for the sixth. Packed full of stunning location shots and stills from all six seasons of the show including exclusive behind-the-scenes photography, this celebratory book is essential reading for Downton Abbey fans the world over. |
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“Comprehensive and substantial . . . This practical text is accessible to artists of all skill levels.” — Booklist   The hands-on, user-friendly painting and drawing guidance that made The Artist’s Manual and The New Artist’s Manual beloved classics now returns in a refreshed design and compact new package. With the same breadth of content as the originals, this updated version is packed with easy to follow instructions, including comprehensive information about all varieties of materials and tools, along with hundreds of critical techniques for mastering composition, color, line, tone, and more. Copiously illustrated with 1,300 color photos and examples from working artists, this new edition is the definitive guide for artists of every skill level looking to begin, develop, and perfect their skills. The Complete Artist’s Manual is today’s essential studio companion. |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Learn chess from International Master and YouTube’s top chess teacher Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) in this refreshing and fun guide for beginner and intermediate players. Clever and informative, How to Win at Chess teaches you everything you need to know about the game, including all the important moves and strategies to start off strong and keep you thinking several steps ahead. Full of Levy Rozman's signature charm and humor that have made him beloved by millions of fans, the first half of this unique guide introduces rising players (0-800 Elo rating) to the four key areas to consider when playing chess—openings, endings, tactics, and strategy—and the second half builds upon these core skills for more experienced players (800-1300 Elo rating). Brimming with practical and easy-to-follow tips for improving your game, How to Win at Chess includes over 500 instructional gameplay illustrations to help you better visualize the board, as well as chapter-specific QR codes for exclusive bonus content on Chessly, Rozman’s teaching platform. Whether you want to become a recreational chess player or are training to be a Grandmaster, How to Win at Chess is the perfect interactive introduction to the world of chess! |
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Dans la Vérone de la Renaissance, Roméo s’éprend de Juliette. Mais les jeunes gens appartiennent à deux familles ennemies depuis toujours, les Montaigu et les Capulet. Pour avoir préféré l’amour à la haine, tous deux connaîtront un destin tragique. Avec Roméo et Juliette, Shakespeare crée un couple mythique. Explorant les mystères de l’amour, sa pièce traverse les siècles. |
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Reloved Guitars ‘5 Steps To Guitar Heaven’ is a step-by-step guide to transforming how your guitars play - whether they’re budget or ‘big brand’ guitars. The 5 step electric and 4 step acoustic guitar set ups have been developed during nearly 300 set ups over the last 2 years. In simple, myth-busting common sense language and clear close-up pictures (with exclusive real-time reference video) I show you how to create low, fast and accurate playing actions every time. These set ups use an amazingly elegant method of levelling the frets with the guitar in the fully-strung playing position for maximum accuracy and minimum fret metal loss.  I show you how to make and use your own tool for this superb fret levelling method for less than £10 saving you £140 against the commercially-available alternative. I also show how to cut your nut slots with a £1 jeweller’s file instead of the normal £60 set of nut files. This eBook will save you a fortune on tools and luthier fees. Most of all this eBook will give you the understanding and the confidence to do great set ups yourself from now onwards. |
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Discover the works of Joe Brainard, whose quirky style earned him a reputation as a “recognizable American phenomenon” and “oddball classicist”—with a foreword by 4321 author Paul Auster (John Ashbery) An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard (1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind autobiographical work I Remember has had a wide and growing influence. It is joined in this major new retrospective with many other pieces that for the first time present the full range of Brainard's writing in all its deadpan wit, madcap inventiveness, self-revealing frankness, and generosity of spirit. The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard gathers intimate journals, jottings, stories, one-liners, comic strips, mini-essays, and short plays, many of them available until now only as expensive rarities, if at all. “Brainard disarms us with the seemingly tossed-off, spontaneous nature of his writing and his stubborn refusal to accede to the pieties of self-importance,” writes Paul Auster in the introduction to this collection. “These little works . . . are not really about anything so much as what it means to be young, that hopeful, anarchic time when all horizons are open to us and the future appears to be without limits.”   Assembled by the author’s longtime friend and biographer Ron Padgett and including fourteen previously unpublished works, here is a fresh and affordable way to rediscover a unique American artist. |
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“A vivid page-turner” (NPR) detailing the rise, fall, and redemption of Broadway—its stars, its biggest shows, its producers, and all the drama, intrigue, and power plays that happened behind the scenes. “A rich, lovely, debut history of New York theater in the 1970s and eighties” ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review), Razzle Dazzle is a narrative account of the people and the money and the power that turned New York’s gritty back alleys and sex-shops into the glitzy, dazzling Great White Way. In the mid-1970s Times Square was the seedy symbol of New York’s economic decline. Its once shining star, the renowned Shubert Organization, was losing theaters to make way for parking lots and losing money. Bernard Jacobs and Jerry Schoenfeld, two ambitious board members, saw the crumbling company was ripe for takeover and staged a coup and staved off corporate intrigue, personal betrayals and criminal investigations. Once Jacobs and Schoenfeld solidified their power, they turned a collapsed theater-owning holding company into one of the most successful entertainment empires in the world, spearheading the revitalization of Broadway and the renewal of Times Square. “For those interested in the business behind the greasepaint, at a riveting time in Broadway’s and New York’s history, this is the ticket” ( USA TODAY ). Michael Riedel tells the stories of the Shubert Organization and the shows that re-built a city in grand style—including Cats , A Chorus Line , and Mamma Mia! —revealing the backstage drama that often rivaled what transpired onstage, exposing bitter rivalries, unlikely alliances, and inside gossip. “The trouble with Razzle Dazzle is…you can’t put the damn thing down” ( Huffington Post ). |
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“This book is meant not only for artists, but also to businesspeople, teachers, public speakers – in short, to everyone who must give a performance, no matter what kind. Having been forced to learn, at the beginning of my career, how to manage terrible stress on my own, I would have really benefited from a guide like this one!”Claude speaks to all those who feel stress and anxiety when faced with giving a performance. With the help of examples and suitable exercises, he guides such a person in his/her bat- tle with their fears and brings them to “know their inner alm.” Claude offers a means to enter into oneself and take advantage – physically, mentally, and emotionally – of all the conscious and unconscoious resources of one's brain in order to replace nervous- ness and anxiety with pleaure.”Maestro Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Metropolitan Opera Company |
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Now back in print, the definitive biography of a seminal figure in film history, whom Orson Welles called “the greatest of all directors.” Jean Renoir’s career almost spans the history years of cinema–from the early silent movies, to the naturalism of the talkies, committed cinema, film noir, Hollywood studio productions, the Technicolor-period comedies and fast television techniques. His film The Grand Illusion remains one of the greatest movies about the effects of war. Decades after its release, Renoir’s The Rules of the Game (1939) is the only film to have been included on every top ten list in the Sight & Sound 's respected decennial poll since 1952, cementing Renoir’s influence. André Bazin and François Truffaut praised Renoir as the patron saint of the French New Wave. Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise gives detailed accounts of Renoir’s working methods and captivating appraisals of his films, and his long and fascinating life from his blissful childhood as the son of the great Impressionist painter August Renoir. This is a must-read for students of film and all fans of entertaining, timeless movies. |
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The legendary critic and author of Mystery Train “ingeniously retells the tale of rock and roll” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review).   Unlike previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs and dramatizes how each embodies rock ’n’ roll as a thing in itself, in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts out—a new language, something new under the sun. “Transmission” by Joy Division. “All I Could Do Was Cry” by Etta James and then Beyoncé. “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” first by the Teddy Bears and almost half a century later by Amy Winehouse. In Marcus’s hands these and other songs tell the story of the music, which is, at bottom, the story of the desire for freedom in all its unruly and liberating glory. Slipping the constraints of chronology, Marcus braids together past and present, holding up to the light the ways that these striking songs fall through time and circumstance, gaining momentum and meaning, astonishing us by upending our presumptions and prejudices. This book, by a founder of contemporary rock criticism—and its most gifted and incisive practitioner—is destined to become an enduring classic.   “One of the epic figures in rock writing.”— The New York Times Book Review   “Marcus is our greatest cultural critic, not only because of what he says but also, as with rock-and-roll itself, how he says it.”— The Washington Post   Winner of the Deems Taylor Virgil Thomson Award in Music Criticism, given by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers |
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*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* A behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of The West Wing as told by cast members Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack, with compelling insights from cast and crew exploring what made the show what it was and how its impassioned commitment to service has made the series and relationships behind it endure. Step back inside the world of President Jed Bartlet’s Oval Office with Fitzgerald and McCormack as they reunite the West Wing cast and crew in a lively and colorful “backstage pass” to the timeless series. This intimate, in-depth reflection reveals how The West Wing was conceived, and spotlights the army of people it took to produce it, the lifelong friendships it forged, and the service it inspired.    From cast member origin stories to the collective cathartic farewell on the show’s final night of filming, What’s Next will delight readers with on-set and off-camera anecdotes that even West Wing superfans have never heard. Meanwhile, a deeper analysis of the show’s legacy through American culture, service, government, and civic life underscores how the series envisaged an American politics of decency and honor, creating an aspirational White House beyond the bounds of fictional television.    What’s Next revisits beloved episodes with fresh, untold commentary; compiles poignant and hilarious stories from the show’s production; highlights initiatives supported by the cast, crew, and creators; and makes a powerful case for competent, empathetic leadership, hope, and optimism for whatever lies ahead. |
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This ebook is an authorised digitisation of its printed counterpart from the Royal Academy of Dance. It is one of a series of products related to the Pre-Primary in Dance Class Award offered by the Royal Academy of Dance. It is primarily intended for use by teachers and contains detailed descriptions in words and Benesh Movement Notation of the exercises and dances required for the Pre-Primary in Dance Class Award. Features include annotation, highlighting, image zoom, bookmarking and easy-to-use navigation. |
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A Boston Globe “20 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall” and a Next Big Idea Club “Must-Read Book for September 2024” The Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic’s gripping account of the “Terrible Year” in Paris and its monumental impact on the rise of Impressionism. From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the “Terrible Year” by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans—then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of central Paris. As renowned art critic Sebastian Smee shows, it was against the backdrop of these tumultuous times that the Impressionist movement was born—in response to violence, civil war, and political intrigue. In stirring and exceptionally vivid prose, Smee tells the story of those dramatic days through the eyes of great figures of Impressionism. Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas were trapped in Paris during the siege and deeply enmeshed in its politics. Others, including Pierre-August Renoir and Frédéric Bazille, joined regiments outside of the capital, while Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro fled the country just in time. In the aftermath, these artists developed a newfound sense of the fragility of life. That feeling for transience—reflected in Impressionism’s emphasis on fugitive light, shifting seasons, glimpsed street scenes, and the impermanence of all things—became the movement’s great contribution to the history of art. At the heart of it all is a love story; that of Manet, by all accounts the father of Impressionism, and Morisot, the only woman to play a central role in the movement from the start. Smee poignantly depicts their complex relationship, their tangled effect on each other, and their great legacy, while bringing overdue attention to the woman at the heart of Impressionism. Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the pressures of the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe. |
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From the former editor of Guitar One magazine, here is a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned] Musical styles include rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, and funk. Techniques taught include alternate picking, arpeggios, sweep picking, string skipping, legato, string bending, and rhythm guitar. These exercises will increase speed, and improve dexterity and pick- and fret-hand accuracy. The interactive audio includes all 365 workout licks, plus play-along grooves in every style at eight different metronome settings. A helpful interactive glossary is also included for related terms. |
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Someday is a powerful new play by award-winning playwright Drew Hayden Taylor.  The story in Someday, though told through fictional characters and full of Taylor's distinctive wit and humour, is based on the real-life tragedies suffered by many Native Canadian families. Anne Wabung's daughter was taken away by children's aid workers when the girl was only a toddler.  It is Christmastime 35 years later, and Anne's yearning to see her now-grown daughter is stronger than ever. When the family is finally reunited, however, the dreams of neither women are fulfilled. The setting for the play is a fictional Ojibway community, but could be any reserve in Canada, where thousands of Native children were removed from their families in what is known among Native people as the "scoop-up" of the 1950s and 1960s.  Somedayis an entertaining, humourous, and spirited play that packs an intense emotional wallop. |
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Many of us want to learn “how to draw.” But as artist Anthony Ryder explains, it’s much more important to learn what to draw. In other words, to observe and draw what we actually see, rather than what we think we see. When it comes to drawing the human figure, this means letting go of learned ideas and expectation of what the figure should look like. It means carefully observing the interplay of form and light, shape and line, that combine to create the actual appearance of human form. In The Artist’s Complete Guide to Figure Drawing , amateur and experienced artists alike are guided toward this new way of seeing and drawing the figure with a three-step drawing method. The book’s progressive course starts with the block-in, an exercise in seeing and establishing the figure’s shape. It then build to the contour, a refined line drawing that represents the figure’s silhouette. The last step is tonal work on the inside of the contour, when light and shadow are shaped to create the illusion of form. Separate chapters explore topics critical to the method: gesture, which expresses a sense of living energy to the figure; light, which largely determines how we see the model; and form, which conveys the figure’s volume and mass. Examples, step-by-steps, and special “tips” offer helpful hints and practical guidance throughout. Lavishly illustrated with the author’s stunning artwork, The Artist’s Complete Guide to Figure Drawing combines solid instruction with thoughtful meditations on the art of drawing, to both instruct and inspire artists of all levels. |
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Perfect for beginning to advanced players, this book with audio by world-renowned bassist and educator Jon Liebman provides a 52-week, one-exercise-per-week workout program for developing, improving and maintaining bass guitar technique. Liebman teaches: chromatics; scales and arpeggios; string-crossing and advanced patterns; slapping and popping; and more -- all in styles ranging from rock, funk and RandB to jazz, disco, reggae and more. Bassists using Bass Aerobics will benefit from increased speed, improved dexterity, better accuracy and heightened coordination - not to mention an awesome new groove vocabulary] The accompanying audio contains all 52 workout grooves for both demonstration and play-along. |
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Experience the joy of creating music with younger students. Learn to play your favorite children's songs, as you discover new notes, chords and styles. Develop correct techniques right from the start, using easy-to-understand diagrams and beautiful color illustrations. Anyone can learn from this book as no previous musical knowledge is required. Featuring easy-to-read traditional notation, this best-selling lesson plan contains over 35 exercises, including simple arrangements of popular piano songs for children. Starting with the rudiments of reading music, it details the correct posture, hand position and fingering technique for five notes in the right hand and five note in the left. Explore musical concepts that include note values, rests and time signatures, using great sounding examples. Discover plenty of tips, shortcuts and tricks for reading and playing any music notation, including free sheet music for piano or keyboard. This enhanced edition contains over 115 video lessons and audio examples, featuring full-page scores, live video footage and score animations of all exercises. The audio examples include solo piano, band-only and complete versions for all exercises in order to study each part by itself, experience playing in a band, or hear a full performance. An exciting and comprehensive introduction on how to play the piano, this carefully graded, lesson-by-lesson learning method is a favorite with students and teachers worldwide. |
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Oasis had risen so swiftly, so dramatically, they now faced the question that no band has yet successfully answered. How do you maintain that rush of excitement which accompanies a rise to the top? And while you're at it, where exactly do you perform after you've played the biggest-ever UK gigs? This six-month tour would give them the answers. But not the ones they expected. In the late 1990's Oasis ruled the world. Their album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, had become one of the fastest selling records in history, ultimately one of the bestsellers of all time. And along with their instantly-legendary musical reputation went another - as the royal rabble-rousers of Britpop. The Gallagher brothers in particular were famous for drinking and fighting, the scourge of hotel managers the world over. In 1997 came a new multi-million selling album, Be Here Now, and the start of a marathon global tour. With the band went writer Paolo Hewitt, their unofficial scribe and confidant. The result is this intimate, warm and hilarious account of a charismatic, world-famous group on tour and under stress, on-stage and off. It's a unique document, featuring cameos from Maradona, Paul Gascoigne, Johnny Depp and Naomi Campbell, while three hotels and two airlines attempted to ban the group worldwide. International hotel chains will never see the like of Oasis again. And neither will we. |
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Un artiste et père de famille se lance dans une enquête pleine de de découvertes et de rebondissements sur l’industrie laitière afin de répondre aux questions suivantes : pourquoi le Québec a fait du lait sa plus importante production agricole, et pourquoi avons-nous perdu la moitié de nos fermes laitières au cours des vingt dernières années? L’auteur a parcouru le Québec de long en large afin d’interroger les rouages d’une industrie qui vacille, réalisant dans un même temps que l’identité des Québécois est intimement lié à leur production laitière. Alliant humour jubilatoire, fiction et enquête rigoureuse, Run de lait est une œuvre sur le Québec d’aujourd’hui et sur sa posture agroalimentaire future. |
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Un guide pratique et facile d'accès pour s'intier au tarot, apprendre à tirer les cartes et interpréter les tirages : -  Les 22 arcanes majeurs et leur signification :  le Bateleur, la Papesse, l’Impératrice, l’Amoureux, la Justice, la Force, le Soleil… - Les associations des cartes entre elles et les clés pour interpréter les alliances. - Des tirages simples expliqués pas à pas : l’humeur du jour, les tendances de son année mois par mois, la réponse à une question précise, le tirage en croix… |
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'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex. I just can't stop thinking about it.' The Fleabag bites back. A rip-roaring account of some sort of female living her sort of life. Phoebe Waller-Bridge's debut play is an outrageously funny monologue for a female performer. It premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performed by Phoebe herself, before transferring to Soho Theatre, London, for several successful runs, followed by a UK tour. It won a Fringe First Award in Edinburgh, the Most Promising New Playwright and Best Female Performance at the Off West End Theatre Awards, The Stage Award for Best Solo Performer and the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. It received a Special Commendation in the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. In 2016 it was turned into a wildly successful and 'utterly riveting' ( Guardian ) BBC television series. This edition also features an introduction by the author. 'Believe the hype, Waller-Bridge's raw writing… really is as good as everyone says' - The Stage 'Sucker-punch funny... I've never seen a play quite like it' - Scotsman 'frank and sometimes brutally funny... devastatingly good' - The Times 'blessed with a rare and compelling life force... deliciously dirty and scabrously funny' - Evening Standard |
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A guide to learning the piano and music theory, The Piano Learning Guide is the perfect reference guide to assist your musical studies.  This interactive ebook features demonstration videos for reading and playing notes, scales, arpeggios and more, as well as over 50 progressive pieces with pre-recorded play along accompaniments.  Covered in this book: - Sitting position - Fingers and keys of the piano - Reading the musical language - Note values and time signatures - Key signatures, scales, arpeggios and broken chords - Expression and articulation - Learning methods and exercises  - Jazz and pop theory The Piano Learning Guide is designed to be used in conjunction with lessons, home schooling or self-teaching. |
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The Wedding People, A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew. It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other. In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us. |
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Collection of works by artists who published psychedelic posters with Big O PostersFeatures hundreds of works by 19 artists, including Martin Sharp, Roger Dean, and H.R. GigerPosters and art for glam rock, hippie music, counterculture literature, film, and more |
