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The Bird King: An Artist's Notebook
The Bird King: An Artist's Notebook
by Shaun Tan
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A new book of sketches, artwork, and personal reflection from the brilliant mind of award-winning, bestselling author and illustrator Shaun Tan. "I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work — it sounds too much like a sun... (read more)

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Forever and Ever: New Works by Shawn Barber
Forever and Ever: New Works by Shawn Barber
by Shawn Barber
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This full-color fine art book showcases a 3-year study in portraiture focused on well-known contemporary painters and tattoo artists. The paintings range from traditional representational portraits to colorful, expressionistic abstractions. Through his... (read more)

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The Storytellers: Narratives in International Contemporary Art
The Storytellers: Narratives in International Contemporary Art
by Selena (edt) Wendt
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A catalogue inspired by the tradition of Latin American literature and authors such as Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Gabriel García Márquez. This book explores the unique storytelling tradition that characterizes... (read more)

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Awful Homesick: The Art of Alex Pardee
Awful Homesick: The Art of Alex Pardee
by Alex Pardee
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Northern California-based artist Alex Pardee has been creating fantastical garish and tortured creatures in both fine and commercial art capacities for over a decade. While gaining notoriety working with Warner Bros., Reprise Records, Upper Playground... (read more)

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Mark Ryden: The Gay 90's
Mark Ryden: The Gay 90's
by Mark Ryden
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Celebrated Pop Surrealist artist Mark Rydens newest body of work, presented in this book for the first time. Crowned "the high prince of Lowbrow," Mark Ryden has become a fixture of the contemporary alternative art movement. In his newest work, Mark... (read more)

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The Brick Testament
The Brick Testament
by Brendan Powell Smith
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Ten Classic Bible Stories As Thou Hath Never Seen Them Before!        •  The Garden of Eden      •  Cain and Abel      •  The Flood   &... (read more)

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Street Renegades: New Underground Art
Street Renegades: New Underground Art
by Francesca Gavin
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Graffiti and street art have been at the heart of visual subcultures for the past thirty years. However, as time progresses the new wave of artists are moving in fresh directions. Corporate giants have been quick to jump on the graffiti bandwagon... (read more)

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Glenn Barr's Faces
Glenn Barr's Faces
by Glenn Barr
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Detroit-based artist Glenn Barr presents a 96-page compilation featuring details from 80 paintings and drawings he created over the past five years. Inspired by the complex expressions and raw emotions revealed by faces, Barr invokes the human condition,... (read more)

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Blab World No. 2 (Blab World)
Blab World No. 2 (Blab World)
by Monte Beauchamp
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Blab World No. 2 is a deluxe, 10 x 10 inch, hardcover anthology of art, illustration, articles, profiles, found graphics, cartoons, and sequential art, COVER ARTIST: Gary TaxaliCOMIC BOOK STORIES: Adolf's Abberation by Nora KrugDispatches from Oblivion... (read more)

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Max Neuhaus: Times Square, Time Piece Beacon
Max Neuhaus: Times Square, Time Piece Beacon
by Max Neuhaus
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In 1977, Max Neuhaus turned a triangle of pedestrian space between 45th and 46th Streets in Times Square into an island of harmonic sound. The rich textures of that sound continue today, emanating from beneath the sidewalk grating, to anonymously reach... (read more)

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The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton
The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton
by Noel Fielding
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A beautiful and hilarious new book of artwork from the star of The Mighty Boosh Noel Fielding's book channels the creative influences of Henri Rousseau, Roy Lichtenstein, and Salvador Dalí, through the comedian's strange, singular, and... (read more)

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Young Sleek and Full of Hell
Young Sleek and Full of Hell
by Aaron Rose
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# Aaron Rose founded the highly influential Alleged Gallery in New York. Rose is an artist, writer, curator, director and musician. In the 1990s he worked as a producer/director for MTV Networks producing on-air promos in conjunction with contemporary... (read more)

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Jonathan Meese: Dash Snow Fanzine
Jonathan Meese: Dash Snow Fanzine
by Jonathan Meese
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New York artist Dash Snow's death in July 2009, two weeks before his 28th birthday, sent waves of grief through the art world and prompted numerous homage exhibits and events. In 2007, Snow had visited Berlin for his exhibition The End of Living, the... (read more)

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Illustration Now!
Illustration Now!
by Julius Wiedemann
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Von Zeitschriften und Tageszeitungen über Anzeigenwerbung, CD-Cover bis hin zum Handy-Wallpaper - Illustration ist heute maßgeblicher Bestandteil der visuellen Kommunikation. Wie der Fantasie selbst, stehen der Illustration unbegrenzte... (read more)

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Struwwelpeter: Fearful Stories and Vile Pictures to Instruct Good Little Folks
Struwwelpeter: Fearful Stories and Vile Pictures to Instruct Good Little Folks
by Heinrich Hoffmann
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Since 1845, millions of parents have purchased Struwwelpeter, a book that threatens their children with the consequences that befall the disordered and disorderly. Thumbs are sheared off, eyes fall out of sockets, faces are pecked to death and bodies... (read more)

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Yoshua Ok Xf3;n: Us
Yoshua Ok Xf3;n: Us
by Yoshua Okon
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Yoshua Ok xF3;n's video installations encourage viewers to interrogate their attitudes about marginality and class. His recent works are represented here, along with journal entries and sketches.... (read more)

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Blab World Number 1
Blab World Number 1
by Monte Beauchamp
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Blab World is the new incarnation of the celebrated art & comics annual Blab It's like the New Yorker for Mutants, proclaimed the Los Angeles Reader. Blab World defies description: neither book or magazine, it is obviously a work of art. Over the last... (read more)

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Situation (09 Edition)
Situation (09 Edition)
by Claire (ed.) Doherty
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Key texts on the notion of "situation" in art and theory that consider site, place, and context, temporary interventions, remedial actions, place-making, and public space.... (read more)

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The Snow Yak Show Microportfolio: Microportfolio 6
The Snow Yak Show Microportfolio: Microportfolio 6
by Mark Ryden
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Traverse Mark Rydens vast wintry landscapes into the frigid domain of the majestic Snow Yak, gracefully depicted within this set of 17 postcards from Rydens acclaimed Japanese Snow Yak Show. The works were originally shown at the prestigious Tomio Koyama... (read more)

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Art: 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century
Art: 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century
by Susan Sollings
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Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) is one of the most influential artists at work today. His painting September, a response to the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, was made some four years after the event. The eminent American critic and... (read more)

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