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Sheherezade Janet Zweig et al. On Warren Lehrer’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Malevich Larissa A. Zhadova On Paula Scher’s Book List Add to My Reading List	L’Art des Cyclades Christian Zervos On George Lois’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Making of Classical Edinburgh 1750–1840 Alexander John Brown Youngson On Alan Balfour’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Unknown Craftsman Soetsu Yanagi On Harry Pearce’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby Tom Wolfe On Michael Bierut’s Book List On Denise Scott Brown’s Book List On Robert Venturi’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera Bertram Wolfe On Nancye Green’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Hand Frank Wilson On Milton Glaser’s Book List Add to My Reading List
Art and Politics in the Weimar Period John Willett On Abbott Miller’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Museum Legs Amy Whitaker On John Maeda’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees Lawrence Weschler On Maya Lin’s Book List On Glenn Pushelberg’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Ai Weiwei’s Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006–2009 Ai Weiwei On Amanda Dameron’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again) Andy Warhol On Carin Goldberg’s Book List On Karim Rashid’s Book List On Jonathan Adler’s Book List On Jonathan Barnbrook’s Book List On Victoria Meyers’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, 1679–1701 Gai Wang On Diana Balmori’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Fritz Kahn: Man Machine Uta and Thilo von Debschitz On Seymour Chwast’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Exactitudes Ari Versluis et al. On Nathalie de Vries’s Book List Add to My Reading List
The Lives of the Artists Giorgio Vasari On Alexa Hampton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	A Fine Disregard Kirk Varnedoe On Ken Carbone’s Book List On Wendell Castle’s Book List Add to My Reading List	High & Low Kirk Varnedoe et al. On Paula Scher’s Book List On George Tscherny’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Bart van der Leck Toos van Kooten On Michael Maharam’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci Paul Valéry On Cino Zucchi’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Cy Twombly: Zeichnungen 1953–1973 Cy Twombly et al. On Ivan Chermayeff’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Robert Smithson Eugenie Tsai On Paula Scher’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Daybook: The Journey of an Artist Ann Truitt On Jessica Helfand’s Book List Add to My Reading List
J.W. Waterhouse Peter Trippi On Anna Sui’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Living Well Is the Best Revenge Calvin Tomkins On George Lois’s Book List On Cynthia Rowley’s Book List On David Easton’s Current Reading list Add to My Reading List	Lives of the Artists Calvin Tomkins On Cynthia Rowley’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Duchamp: A Biography Calvin Tomkins On Harry Pearce’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Shadow of the Silk Road Colin Thubron On Alan Balfour’s Book List Add to My Reading List	At the Edge of History William Irwin Thompson On Nancye Green’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Invisible Art The Art Brothers On Seymour Chwast’s Book List Add to My Reading List	In Praise of Shadows Jun’ichiro Tanizaki On Antoine Predock’s Book List On Akiko Fukai’s Book List On Paul Marantz’s Book List On Tom Kundig’s Book List On David Adjaye’s Book List On Ada Tolla’s Book List On Giuseppe Lignano’s Book List On Craig Dykers’s Book List On Marco Romanelli’s Book List On Ian Ritchie’s Book List Add to My Reading List
Interpreting the Renaissance (Ricerca dell’Rinascimento) Manfredo Tafuri On Jorge Silvetti’s Book List Add to My Reading List	De Kooning: An American Master Mark Stevens et al. On Jessica Helfand’s Book List On Matteo Thun’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Passport Saul Steinberg On Tom Geismar’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper Leo Steinberg On Milton Glaser’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Notebooks of Paul Klee, vol. 2: The Nature of Nature Jürg Spiller, ed. On Richard Saul Wurman’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Notebooks of Paul Klee, vol. 1: The Thinking Eye Jürg Spiller, ed. On Richard Saul Wurman’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé Alexander von Solodkoff On Richard Sachs’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Cover to Cover Michael Snow On Warren Lehrer’s Book List Add to My Reading List

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Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986 by Andrew Blauvelt

Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986

by Andrew Blauvelt
Publisher: Cranbrook Art Museum
Published: June 1, 2018

Explores the printed matter—posters, flyers, zines, and album covers—produced by and for the punk and post-punk music scenes in the United States and UK. Printed as a special, oversized, 52-page color newspaper, the catalogue has been published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name, curated by Andrew Blauvelt, on view at the Cranbrook Art Museum through October 7, 2018.

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