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Drawing
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Life Drawing: How to Portray the Figure with Accuracy and Expression
Life Drawing: How to Portray the Figure with Accuracy and Expression
by Robert Barrett
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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)

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    Manhattan Unfurled

    Matteo Pericoli and Paul Goldberger

Watercolor
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Watercolorist's Essential Notebook: Landscapes
Watercolorist's Essential Notebook: Landscapes
by Gordon Mackenzie
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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)

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General
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Vogue Fashion: Over 100 Years of Style by Decade and Designer, in Association with Vogue
Vogue Fashion: Over 100 Years of Style by Decade and Designer, in Association with Vogue
by Linda Watson
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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)

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History and Criticism
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Pictorial Webster's: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities
Pictorial Webster's: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities
by John M. Carrera
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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)

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Reference
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The Art of Perspective: The Ultimate Guide for Artists in Every Medium
The Art of Perspective: The Ultimate Guide for Artists in Every Medium
by Phil Metzger
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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)

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Creativity
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The Vein of Gold
The Vein of Gold
by Julia Cameron
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In The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart, Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way, draws from her remarkable teaching experience to help readers reach out into ever-broadening creative horizons. As in The Artist's Way, she combines... (read more)

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Graphic Design
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Beautiful Evidence
Beautiful Evidence
by Edward R. Tufte
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Edward Tufte is the foremost author on the topic of the graphical display of information.... (read more)

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Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way
Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way
by Bruce Campbell
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Evil Dead star Bruce ("Hail to the king, baby!") Campbell follows his memoir, If Chins Could Kill, with a hilarious "autobiographical novel" about the B-movie king's unexpected starring role in an A-list production directed by Mike Nichols, co-starring... (read more)

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Design
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information 2nd Edition
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information 2nd Edition
by Edward R Tufte
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The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise... (read more)

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Museums and Collections
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Art Gallery Calendar
Art Gallery Calendar
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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)

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From Monet to Cezanne: Late 19th-Century French Artists
From Monet to Cezanne: Late 19th-Century French Artists
by Jane Turner
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Some 300 in-depth biographies explore the life and work of painters who brought about the artistic revolutions of realism, impressionism, and post-impressionism in late 19th-century France. Each entry includes a bibliography. Arrangement of entries is... (read more)

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The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Or, After the Outing
The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Or, After the Outing
by Edward Gorey
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A new, small-format edition of one of Gorey's "dark masterpieces of surreal morality" (Vanity Fair) - a witty, disquieting journey through the alphabet.<BR>... (read more)

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
  The Map as Art

Original Essays | October 14, 2009

Emily Pilloton: IMG Will Design for Change...



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 »
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Original Essays | September 29, 2009

William Davies King: IMG Recollecting Nothing



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 »
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    Collections of Nothing

    William Davies King
Original Essays | September 25, 2009

Robert Edsel: IMG The Monuments Men and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History



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 »
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