Author : Irwin Chusid
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781560976004
by Irwin Chusid 11 x 10, SC, 180 pages, FC, $34.95 The first collection of the marvelous, mischievous album cover art of Jim Flora (1914-1998), collecting most of his known covers. The book also includes rarely seen illustrations and covers from Columbia's "Coda" trade journal and elsewhere.
Author : Jim Flora
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 2007-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 1560978058
Flora was prolific in his commercial work; he created art privately in equal measure and often with more fiendish pleasure. His style is cartoonish, evoking childhood nostalgia and dereliction of adult responsibility. There are clowns and kitty cats, grinning faces and beaming suns. But Flora did not restrain his darker impulses. His montages are crammed with bullets and knives and fang-baring snakes. Muggers run amok, demons frolic with rouged harlots, and Flora's characters suffer that is, are afflicted by the artist with severe disfigurement. The banal and the violent often coexist within inches of each other on the canvas.
Author : Jim Flora
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 2013-09-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 160699655X
The High Fidelity Art of Jim Flora is the definitive anthology of the maestro’s visual compositions, reflecting jazz, classical, and Latin music. Regarding his jam-packed canvases Flora once said he “couldn’t stand a static space.” There’s nothing static about the images in The High Fidelity Art: they wail, dance, bounce, and swing from the chandeliers. Flora had a knack for grooving with a paintbrush, making art to which you can tap your toes and snap your fingers.
Author : James Flora
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781592700974
A cow sneezes and sets off a series of ridiculous events.
Author : Eilon Paz
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 1607748703
A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.
Author : Jim Flora
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606991590
A third collection of amusing nightmares from the demonic wand of Jim Flora: art and artifacts spanning Flora's career, including more from his Columbia Records days, children's book roughs and outtakes, rarely seen cartoon-science illustrations and more.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 18,87 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781627310529
The highly anticipated reprint of a classic children's book by renowned illustrator and graphic designer James Flora.
Author : James B. Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1439126208
A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties’ biggest names on Wall Street—Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine—created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America’s most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice. Based on secret grand jury transcripts, interviews, and actual trading records, and containing explosive new revelations about Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, Den of Thieves weaves all the facts into an unforgettable narrative—a portrait of human nature, big business, and crime of unparalleled proportions.
Author : Irwin Chusid
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 156976493X
Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy—and presents their strange life stories along with photographs, interviews, cartoons, and discographies. About the only things these self-taught artists have in common are an utter lack of conventional tunefulness and an overabundance of earnestness and passion. But, believe it or not, they're worth listening to, often outmatching all contenders for inventiveness and originality. A CD featuring songs by artists profiled in the book is also available.
Author : Neil Shubin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307377164
The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells a “compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human” (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.
