Famous Mexican Artwork
Events TODAY Psychotronic Film Night: "GORA" (2004 Turkey) 20:00 November 3rd, beans, intelligent, 13 E. Park Ave This parody of American sci-fi action epic is a slick young turkish, who is kidnapped by aliens, but it shows his great spirit of humanitarian law "to circumvent the evil commander in chief Cost of the planet called GORA: .. $ 5 in turkish with English subtitles read more …
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Definitive Hits $6.70 In an era when elaborate wordplay and adventurous production were the order of the day, Herb Alpert made an impact barely uttering a word or breaking a mold, other than expanding the commercial parameters for pop instrumentalists. Dashing trumpeter Alpert and his Tijuana Brass scored five top-20 hits between 1962 (when “The Lonely Bull” climbed to No. 11 in the U.S.) and 1968 (when the vocal-drive… |
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Bernstein Century – Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, etc / Bernstein, New York PO $7.12 Happy is the composer who has an advocate as passionate and talented as Leonard Bernstein. These Copland performances have been the preferred versions since they were first issued–better even than the composer’s own, later recordings. Originally they were spread over two discs, but thanks to the extended playing time of the compact disc, you can now get all three great Copland ballets togeth… |
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Best of Tom Jones $4.03 Despite the killing hokiness of some of his material–”The Young New Mexican Puppeteer,” anyone? Anyone?–Tom Jones has always had an ear for songs and the hefty voice to apply to them; Prince’s “Kiss,” with its line about watching Dynasty, was made for Jones. This umpteenth collection of his hits, otherwise concentrating on his ’60s and ’70s work for the British Decca label, definitively pulls to… |
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Frida Kahlo: The Paintings $16.33 In small, stunningly rendered self–portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted heart. Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject matter that one art critic suggested the walls of an exhibition be covered with asbestos. In this beautiful book, art histo… |
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Making Magic Windows: Creating Cut-Paper Art With Carmen Lomas Garza $9.95 Author Carmen Lomas Garza is a pioneer in popularizing the traditional Mexican craft of papel picado in the United States and developing it into a sophisticated art form. This workbook shows children and their families how to create these beautiful papel picado designs and banners by simply folding and cutting tissue paper. Children will learn how to craft eight different traditional designs, incl… |
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Georgia O’Keefe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940 $40.00 During the second half of the 19th century, the exotic South African calla lily was introduced in the United States, and it began to appear as a subject in American art. The flower became even more popular with artists after Freud provided a sexual interpretation of its form that added new levels of meaning to depictions of it. The calla lily soon became a recurring motif in works by important pai… |