Classic Guitars
Editorial Reviews Book Description Not one of them is classical, but the sixty-five superb acoustic and electric guitars from 1834 to 1998 featured in this beautiful little book are definitely classics. The team who produces Pomegranate's long-running and highly popular Classic Guitars wall calendar brings us a pocket jewel of a book. Robert Shaw's introduction concisely describes the guitar's evolution and the twentieth-century explosion of creativity that has resulted in thousands of top-notch luthiers and millions of instruments worldwide. Michael Tamborrino courtesy of Vintage Guitar, Inc. supplies luminous full-color studio photographs of history's most significant-or just plain coolest-guitars, with illuminating technical and cultural notes by Shaw. Sumptuously produced, inexpensive, and full of absorbing information, Classic Guitars is an obvious choice for those with a guitarist on their gift list. And by now, everybody in the world probably knows a guitarist.
About the Author Curator, musician, and art historian Robert Shaw has written extensively about American music and folk art. His books include America's Traditional Crafts, Quilts: A Living Tradition, American Baskets, and Great Guitars. With Michael Tamborrino, he has produced a calendar, Classic Guitars, for Pomegranate since 1999.
About the Photographer Michael Tamborrino is a photographer, a writer, an artist, and a musician whose work has appeared in Acoustic Guitar, Guitar Player, and many other publications. Currently a member of the New York Press Photographers Association, he has also been an executive board member of the American Society of Media Photographers.
Classic Guitars,Robert Shaw,Michael Tamborrino,Pomegranate Communications,0764928880,Guitar,Music,Musical Instruments - Guitar,Pictorial works,Art Forms, Treatments & Subjects,Photographs: collections,String instruments
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