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Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne: Art. Work. Life. by Paul (pht) Kasmin Publisher Comments Revered and collected by design connoisseurs and enthusiasts alike, the work of husband-and-wife team Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne defies categorization. Crossing between sculpture and the functional object, the designs by the Lalannes—... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover 
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Uncle Shelby's Abz Book by Shel Silverstein Publisher Comments The notorious early Silverstein classic you WON'T want your children to read. I is for Ink Ink is black and wet. Ink is fun. What can you do with ink? What rhymes with ink? "D - R - __ - __ - __ ."... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paul Laffoley: Secret Universe 2 by Paul Laffoley Publisher Comments The colorfully diagrammatic paintings of Paul Laffoley (born 1940) have won the artist and architect a devout cult following since the mid-1960s. From his one-room apartment in Boston (dubbed by him the Boston Visionary Cell), Laffoley has devised... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Or, After the Outing by Edward Gorey Publisher Comments 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) List Price $10.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Jean Arp: Poupees by Jean Arp Publisher Comments The book assembles for the first time on this scale a certain part of Arp's production of the 1950s and 60s, his papiers découpés, cut-out papers, which were not fixed to a support, but stored by the artist in boxes and folders. Today they form the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.98 Used - Hardcover
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Zao Wou-KI: Works, Writings, Interviews by Zao Wou Ki Publisher Comments Zao Wou-Ki, born in 1921, conjoins western abstraction and Asian calligraphic traditions to produce paintings at once gestural and light-filled. Born in China, he moved to Paris in the 1940s, where the early support of Miro and Picasso, among others... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Gryphon: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Is Rediscovered by Nick Bantock From Powells.com Nick Bantock spent over 100 weeks on the bestseller list with the original Griffin and Sabine trilogy, a captivating and heartfelt correspondence between two unusual souls. The enormous popularity of this epistolary series is easy to fathom. Dazzling and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Art Forms in Nature (74 Edition) by Ernst Haeckel Publisher Comments Multitude of strangely beautiful natural forms: Radiolaria, Foraminifera, Ciliata, diatoms, calcareous sponges, Siphonophora, star corals, starfishes, Protozoa, flagellates, brown seaweed, jellyfishes, sea-lilies, moss animals, sea-urchins, glass sponges,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil's Advocate: The Art of Coop by Chris Cooper Publisher Comments This very fancy hardcover book reproduces tons of Coop's posters and stickers. A very recognisable style on a host of record covers and posters. Coop is now as famous as the psychedelic poster artists of three decades earlier.... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera Publisher Comments Art historian Hayden Herrera is one of the world's preeminent experts on Frida Kahlo. In this beautiful book, he pulls together more than 80 full-color images of Kahlo's paintings and more than 200 black-and-white photos and line illustrations covering... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living by Karen Karbo Publisher Comments 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) List Price $21.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Volume 2. Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts [In Two Volumes] by Leonardo Da Vinci and Jean Paul Richter Publisher Comments Volume 2 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts reveal full range of Leonardos versatile genius: his writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates, plus faithful... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934 by Renato Gonzalez Mello Publisher Comments Among the Mexican muralists working in this country during the 1920s and 1930s, including the giants Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, the paintings of José Clemente Orozco are arguably the strongest and most politically charged. This important... (read more) Your price: $75.00 New - Hardcover
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Doubtful Guest (98 Edition) by Edward Gorey Publisher Comments A vaguely sinister comedy of manners by beloved artist Edward Gorey Told in a set of fourteen rhyming couplets, The Doubtful Guest is the story of a solemn, mysterious, outdoor creature, dressed rather ordinarily in sneakers and a scarf, who... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Volume 1. Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts [In Two Volumes] by Leonardo Da Vinci and Jean Paul Richter Publisher Comments Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts reveal full range of Leonardo's versatile genius: his writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates and faithful... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bob Recine: Alchemy of Beauty by Bob (pht) Recine Publisher Comments The man behind some of the most avant-garde hairdos and head dresses worn by Lady Gaga, Recine has taken hair styling to incredibly creative heights-often literally, as he propels the braids and locks of his subjects into gravity-defying contours... (read more) Your price: $65.00 New - Hardcover
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Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz Publisher Comments In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays — a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the "Fear of Diversity in America." From the author's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann by Tina Dickey Publisher Comments Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), renowned painter and master teacher, clarified perennial issues in painting, through his observation of the masters of all cultures. Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann reveals an astonishing era during which Hofmann... (read more) Your price: $49.95 New - Hardcover
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Elad Lassry by Elad (pht) Lassry Publisher Comments The photographs, films and sculptures of Los Angeles-based artist Elad Lassry (born 1977) take multiple points of departure: the ultra-saturated imagery of commercial advertising, the seductive rhetoric of retail and the clean production of the film... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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