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Picasso once said that every child is an artist, but the challenge is how to remain an artist once you grow up. One surefire way to keep your inner artist inspired is to delve into the rich and vivid worlds that art books have to offer. We carry a distinct variety of eye-candy filled art ebooks, including explorations of music, design, performing arts, painting, dance, art history and much more. Whether it’s Watercolor: Paintings of Contemporary Artists and Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic, there’s nothing quite like the instantaneous joy of art ebooks that open up brand new realms and ideas for you. Start building your digital library of amazing art ebooks today.
Picasso once said that every child is an artist, but the challenge is how to remain an artist once you grow up. One surefire way to keep your inner artist inspired is to delve into the rich and vivid worlds that art books have to offer. We carry a distinct variety of eye-candy filled art ebooks, including explorations of music, design, performing arts, painting, dance, art history and much more. Whether it’s Watercolor: Paintings of Contemporary Artists and Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic, there’s nothing quite like the instantaneous joy of art ebooks that open up brand new realms and ideas for you. Start building your digital library of amazing art ebooks today.
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All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamorous fledgling career at The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley never thought he’d be one of them. Then his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit The New Yorker and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew. To his surprise and the reader’s delight, this temporary refuge becomes Bringley’s home away from home for a decade. We follow him as he guards delicate treasures from Egypt to Rome, strolls the labyrinths beneath the galleries, wears out nine pairs of company shoes, and marvels at the beautiful works in his care. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the lively subculture of museum guards—a gorgeous mosaic of artists, musicians, blue-collar stalwarts, immigrants, cutups, and dreamers. As his bonds with his colleagues and the art grow, he comes to understand how fortunate he is to be walled off in this little world, and how much it resembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually, gratefully returns. In the tradition of classic workplace memoirs like Lab Girl and Working Stiff, All The Beauty in the World is a surprising, inspiring portrait of a great museum, its hidden treasures, and the people who make it tick, by one of its most intimate observers.
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