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Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page
Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page
by Matt Kish
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In 2009, Matt Kish had an idea, a dream, a plan. Every day he would read a page from Moby-Dick, choose one passage, and then create an image based on the text — for all 552 pages! A year and a half later his epic quest came to an end, and Portland's... (read more)

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The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds
by Peter Sis
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Celebrated children's book author and illustrator Peter Sís creates his first book for adults, a beautiful and uplifting adaptation of the classic twelfth-century Sufi epic poem, The Conference of the Birds. In The Conference of the Birds... (read more)

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How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living
How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living
by Karen Karbo
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Most people associate Georgia OKeeffe with New Mexico, painted cow skulls, and her flower paintings. She was revered for so long—born in 1887, died at age ninety-eight in 1986—that we forget how young, restless, passionate, searching,... (read more)

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Mama, Is It Summer Yet?
Mama, Is It Summer Yet?
by Nikki McClure
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Young children see the passage of time through the seasonal changes to the world around them in this charming book, illustrated with Nikki McClures extraordinary cut-paper art. A little boy who cant wait for summer keeps asking his mama, “Is it... (read more)

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Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures, 1971-2005
Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures, 1971-2005
by Gilbert & George
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Gilbert & George are among the foremost artists of their generation. A collaborative team, they were early to explore performance as an art form, and early to explore the idea that every aspect of daily life could be classed as such. They were early to... (read more)

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M.C. Escher: Life and Work
M.C. Escher: Life and Work
by Escher
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Since Escher's death in 1972, at the age of seventy-three, much previously unpublished material has become available to his biographers, who have put it to good use. The story of the artist's life is told here with the help of virtually his entire... (read more)

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And the Pursuit of Happiness
And the Pursuit of Happiness
by Maira Kalman
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And the Pursuit of Happiness is beloved artist and author Maira Kalman's yearlong investigation of democracy and how it works. Energized and inspired by the 2008 elections, on inauguration day Kalman traveled to Washington, D.C., launching a national... (read more)

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The Artist's Way:  A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self
by Julia Cameron
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The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—... (read more)

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The Art of Looking Sideways
The Art of Looking Sideways
by Alan Fletcher
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The Art of Looking Sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination. It is an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, curious facts and useless information... (read more)

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How to Cook the Perfect Day
How to Cook the Perfect Day
by Nikki McClure
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Equal parts art book and recipe collection, this darling volume is everything you'd expect from the lovely Nikki McClure. Featuring her iconic paper-cut illustrations along with simple recipes, the artist's rendition of her "perfect food day" will... (read more)

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Vanessa Beecroft: Photographs, Films, Drawings
Vanessa Beecroft: Photographs, Films, Drawings
by Vanessa Beecroft
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Vanessa Beecroft's performances have been described as art, fashion, brilliant, terrible, evocative, provocative, disturbing, sexist and empowering. The primary material in her work is the live female figure, which remains ephemeral and separate. These... (read more)

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Van Gogh: The Life
Van Gogh: The Life
by Steven Naifeh
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith galvanized readers with their astonishing Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, a book acclaimed for its miraculous research and overwhelming... (read more)

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The Principles of Uncertainty
The Principles of Uncertainty
by Maira Kalman
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Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in an inimitable combination of image and text. The result is a book that is part personal narrative, part documentary, and part travelogue. Her whimsical paintings, ideas, and images address the larger... (read more)

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Albertus Seba: Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (25)
Albertus Seba: Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (25)
by Dr Irmgard Msch
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A most unusual collection of natural specimens Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though scientists of his era... (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 Goreys “dark masterpieces of surreal morality” (Vanity Fair) - a witty, disquieting journey through the alphabet.... (read more)

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Anselm Kiefer: Salt of the Earth
Anselm Kiefer: Salt of the Earth
by Germano Celant
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Over the past four decades, Anselm Kiefer has produced a diverse body of work in painting, sculpture, and installation that has made him among the most important artists of his generation.  His subject matter includes sources as diverse as Teutonic... (read more)

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Big Bad City
Big Bad City
by Slinkachu
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My 'Little People Project' started in 2006. It involves the remodelling and painting of miniature model train set characters, which I then place and leave on the street. It is both a street art installation project and a photography project. The street... (read more)

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Little People in the City: The Street Art of Slinkachu
Little People in the City: The Street Art of Slinkachu
by Slinkachu
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"They're Not Pets, Susan," says a stern father who has just shot a bumblebee, its wings sparkling in the evening sunlight. A lone office worker, less than an inch high, looks out over the river in his lunch break, "Dreaming of Packing it All In." A... (read more)

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Norman Rockwell's Spirit of America
Norman Rockwell's Spirit of America
by Susan Homer
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Norman Rockwells Spirit of America is an original collection of Rockwell paintings accompanied by classic American poems, stories, and songs that showcase the true spirit of America. In the tradition of the bestselling Norman Rockwells Christmas Book... (read more)

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The Curse of Lono
The Curse of Lono
by Hunter S Thompson
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 Four-Color Fantasy   Super heroes from the Atom to Zatara: 75 years of DC Comics    In 1935, DC Comics founder Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson published New Fun No. 1, the first comic book with all-new, original material—at a... (read more)

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