Author : Robert Sullivan
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781402747670
The legendary singer reflects on his career, the recurring themes in his life, and the inspiration that shapes his music and his art, in a musical memoir enhanced by reproductions of his own artwork and a CD containing some of the author's favorite songs.
Author : Tony Bennett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Entertainers
ISBN : 0671024698
The legendary singer and recording artist shares his life story including his many triumphs and tragedies.
Author : Tony Bennett
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062476793
“For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business, the best exponent of a song. He excites me when I watch him. . . . He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.” — Frank Sinatra “As breezy and meaningful as one of his trademark songs as readers learn about the man by the company he kept and the heroes he worships. Bennett’s ethereal still lifes and landscape paintings adorn this simple yet profound and gracious homage.”— Booklist Tony Bennett was one of our most vibrant musicians ever to grace the stage. In his previous book, Life Is a Gift, Tony reflected on the lessons he learned over the years. In Just Getting Started, he pays homage to the remarkable people who inspired those lessons. In his warm and inviting voice, Tony talks about who and what have enriched his own life, including Charlie Chaplin, Judy Garland, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Cole Porter, Amy Winehouse, Fred Astaire, Lady Gaga, members of his family, significant places, and more. Just Getting Started chronicles the relationship Tony enjoyed with each one of these legends, entertainers, humanitarians, and loved ones, and reveals how the lessons and values they imparted have invaluably shaped his life. As enchanting and unforgettable as his music, Just Getting Started is a beautiful compilation of reflections every Bennett fan will treasure, and a perfect introduction for those just getting to know this remarkable star and humanitarian.
Author : Tony Bennett
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Musicians as artists
ISBN : 9780847819720
His 45 years as an entertainer. But this six-time Grammy winner is also a dedicated artist whose paintings have been exhibited in galleries around the world. He sets aside time each day to paint, whether on the road or at home in his studio. From Bennett's extensive travels comes a series of paintings featuring Central Park in New York City, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Sydney Opera House in Australia, and more of his favorite sights throughout the world.
Author : Tony Bennett
Publisher : Sterling
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
ISBN : 9781402753121
Sterling is pleased to announce the printing of two limited editions of Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music. We are printing 350 copies of each deluxe edition, The New York Edition and The Florentine Edition. The Florentine Edition is bound in siena brown bonded leather, and slipcased in fine woven cloth. The book includes a copy of the CD Pop ART Songs—a limited edition CD featuring Tony Bennett performing personally selected impressionistic art songs. The Florentine Edition also features an exquisite limited-edition giclée published here for the first time, printed on high-quality archival watercolor paper: A Garden in Florence, painted at a Tuscan villa, measures approximately 11 x 14 inches, is numbered, and hand-signed by Tony Bennett. The book also includes a tipped-in, numbered vellum frontispiece signed by Bennett, as well as a ribbon marker.
Author : Gay Talese
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1620409119
For the fiftieth anniversary of the completion of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, a beautifully produced, heavily illustrated edition of Gay Talese's classic history of the iconic structure, now with a new introduction by the author. The Verrazano Narrows Bridge, linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island, is an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet, it is the longest suspension bridge in the United States and the sixth longest in the world. But the sheer size of the bridge is only one part of its complicated, fascinating history. Renowned journalist Gay Talese chronicled the human drama the bridge's completion: from the construction workers high on the beams to the backroom dealing that displaced whole neighborhoods to make way for the bridge, through to the opening of this marvel of human ingenuity and engineering. Now in a new, beautifully packaged edition featuring dozens of breathtaking photos and architectural drawings, The Bridge remains both a riveting narrative of politics and courage and a demonstration of Talese's consummate reporting and storytelling that will captivate new generations of readers.
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Publisher : Vendome Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780865653146
Central Park is "one of the greatest works of art in America" and it has inspired many of America's greatest painters. Among the major figures who have depicted the park's landscapes and activities are Bellows, Chase, Glackens, Hassam, Henri, Hopper, Prendergast, and Sloan, as well as living artists like Christo and Estes. Their work shows early views of the park in construction, its major landmarks, the evolving vistas of the cityscape, and the park's human element--scenes of crowds at play and people in solitary contemplation. Painting Central Park provides a rich and varied visual history of this urban oasis, reflecting much of the American social experience in the quintessential American park.
Author : Toby Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2004-05-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780631206453
This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject. Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies. Represents material under a variety of headings, including class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography, authorship, and spectatorship. Offers an international approach to the subject, including coverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, culture industries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations and technology. Includes concise chapter-by-chapter accounts of the background and current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognostication on the future. Considers cinema studies in relation to other forms of knowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, and literature.
Author : Richard Zoglin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439140278
Chronicles the life and career of comedian, actor, and entertainer Bob Hope.
Author : Michael R. Virgintino
Publisher : Theme Park Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781683901778
The Story of America's Park After being fired by Walt Disney, the flamboyant C.V. Wood brought his hard-won experience as the self-titled "master builder of Disneyland" east, to a marsh in the Bronx, where in 1960 he unveiled his greatest project, a doomed theme park to tell the history of America: Freedomland. Wood's efforts to build his "Disneyland of the East," a themed collection of lands that presented epic moments in American history as thrill rides, shows, and live action, were plagued from the start by politics, cost overruns, and financial chicanery. Despite these obstacles, the park prospered--until its big-money backers (as they had planned from the start) pulled the plug and cleared the land for lucrative urban development. Through a well-researched narrative, personal and newspaper accounts, interviews, and exclusive photos, journalist and author Michael R. Virgintino presents the definitive history of Freedomland, from the people behind its creation, and the executives, entertainers, and sponsors who kept it running, to in-depth looks at each of its historically themed lands, and an analysis of the park's inevitable bankruptcy in 1964. Unlike Disneyland, the story of Freedomland does not have a happily ever after, but theme park fans will not want to miss this captivating but cautionary tale of America's park.
