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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in Art $26.00 New Hardcover add to wish list The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together Twyla Tharp $13.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Blood Song: A Silent Ballad Eric Drooker $24.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies Aaron Jaffe $19.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and His Times William Wallace $40.00 New Hardcover add to wish list Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera Ron Schick $28.00 Sale Hardcover add to wish list Tom and Jack: The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock Henry Adams Browse more New Arrivals in Art Drawing Browse more titles in Art-Drawing Life Drawing: How to Portray the Figure with Accuracy and Expression by Robert Barrett Synopsis Drawing people is more than just accurately capturing the anatomy and details of the subject. Artists that capture the soul of the model breathe life into the artwork by expressing a mood, idea or emotion that cannot be captured by accurate rendering... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Recently Arrived Used Browse recently arrived used titles in Art $9.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Paul Câezanne, 1839-1906 :Nature into art Hajo Duchting $19.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list New Art from London: Chris Townsend $9.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list Let Them Eat Cheesecake: The Art of Olivia I Olivia De Berardinis $2.95 Used Pamphlet add to wish list Step-by-step Watercolour Geri Medway $10.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest for Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara Eric Scigliano $29.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list JPG 2: Japan Graphics Tomoko Sakamoto Browse recently arrived used titles in Art Watercolor Browse more titles in Art-Watercolor Watercolorist's Essential Notebook: Landscapes by Gordon Mackenzie Publisher Comments An inspiring guide provides artists of all skill levels with the knowledge they need to paint watercolor landscapes. It features easy-to-follow exercises illustrated in an inviting format.... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover add to wish list History and Criticism Browse more titles in Art-History and Criticism Pictorial Webster's: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities by John M. Carrera Staff Pick This "visual dictionary of curiosities" is charming, quirky, and endlessly entertaining. (It's also very hard to put down.) Fascinating images reproduced from wood engravings illustrate words from albatross and abracadabra to zibeth and zodiac."... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.50 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list General Browse more titles in Art-General Vogue Fashion: Over 100 Years of Style by Decade and Designer, in Association with Vogue by Linda Watson Publisher Comments Comprehensive and lavishly illustrated -- a who's who of fashion. Published in association with Vogue magazine, Vogue Fashion is the definitive style bible for everyone interested in the past, present and future of fashion. It takes a fresh look at... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Reference Browse more titles in Art-Reference The Art of Perspective: The Ultimate Guide for Artists in Every Medium by Phil Metzger Publisher Comments 7Appeals to artists of all mediums with specific tips and instruction for acrylic, oil, watercolor and graphite and others7From the bestselling author of Perspective Without Pain 7Covers a challenging subject by beginning with simple scenes and moves on... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Trade Paper add to wish list Watercolors Browse more titles in Art-Watercolors Mastering Light & Shade in Watercolor: Infuse Your Paintings with Luminosity and Dramatic Contrast by Ong Kim Seng Publisher Comments Ong Kim Seng shows readers how to give their paintings a luminous glow.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Museums and Collections Browse more titles in Art-Museums and Collections Art Gallery Calendar by Not Available (na) Synopsis It's an art gallery for your desktop, selected from the more than 2 million masterpieces in the world-class collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cezanne's Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses. The Unicorn Tapestries. The... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Unknown add to wish list Graphic Design Browse more titles in Art-Graphic Design Beautiful Evidence by Edward R. Tufte Synopsis Edward Tufte is the foremost author on the topic of the graphical display of information.... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price: $36.00 Used - Hardcover add to wish list Painting General Browse more titles in Art-Painting General Painting Garden Animals (Decorative Painting) by Sherry C Nelson Publisher Comments 10 projects featuring those cuddly animals we know and love - a curious kitten, a fluffy yellow chick, a playful squirrel - all placed in colourful garden settings.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Artists Browse more titles in Art-Artists The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion by Edward Gorey Synopsis An infectiously funny guide to post-deflowerment decorum, with illustrations by a master of the absurd. For more than half a century Miss Hyacinthe Phypps has been offering guidance on proper behavior. Her simple rules of propriety and common sense have... (read more) Your price: $12.00 New - Hardcover add to wish list Sale Books Browse more titles in Art-Sale Books About Looking by John Berger Publisher Comments As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Used Books Browse more titles in Art-Used Books Ways of Seeing by John Berger Synopsis Examines the social implications and psychological impact of the images and conventions of modern and classical artists.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list

Bestsellers Friday, November 27, 2009 7000 Years of Jewelry by Hugh Tait Life Drawing: How to Portray the Figure with Accuracy and Expression by Robert Barrett Watercolorist's Essential Notebook: Landscapes by Gordon Mackenzie Pictorial Webster's: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities by John M. Carrera The Art of Perspective: The Ultimate Guide for Artists in Every Medium by Phil Metzger Author Events Art Wednesday, December 2, 2009   The Map as Art Original Essays | October 14, 2009 Will Design for Change... 0 comments By Emily Pilloton About six months ago, at a fundraising event for the nonprofit I founded, Project H, a six-year-old girl handed me a pickle jar full of pennies.... Continue » $24.46 Sale Trade Paper add to wish list Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People Emily Pilloton Original Essays | September 29, 2009 Recollecting Nothing 0 comments By William Davies King Time plays tricks with history, even when the history is personal and the time-scale short and recent. I wrote the first sentences of Collections of Nothing within a week of September 11, 2001, and I had an early version of the complete story finished by June 2002. The book finally came out in July 2008. What came between were years of rewriting and coping with rejections, followed by... Continue » $13.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list Collections of Nothing William Davies King Original Essays | September 25, 2009 The Monuments Men and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History 0 comments By Robert Edsel The Monuments Men were the greatest heroes of World War II you've never heard of. Before I tell you who they were, let me ask you a few seemingly obvious questions, but ones you — like me — have, probably never wondered. You know of the... Continue » $26.99 New Hardcover add to wish list The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History Robert M. Edsel

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