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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards Publisher Comments When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland Publisher Comments "This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially—statistically speaking—there aren't any people like that... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Women, Art, and Society (World of Art) by Whitney Chadwick Publisher Comments This acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who transcended their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture since the Middle Ages... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Watercolor (92 Edition) by Marian E. Appellof Publisher Comments Imagine an art school where more than 15 popular watercolorists teach, and you've imagined Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Watercolor, a full-to-the-brim 400-page anthology of Watson-Guptill's finest watercolor instruction from recent best... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rapid Viz : New Method for the Rapid Visualitzation of Ideas (3RD 06 Edition) by Kurt Hanks Publisher Comments Rapid Viz, Third Edition: A New Method for the Rapid Visualization of Ideas provides hands-on instruction on quick sketching skills and techniques that allow you to picture your ideas mentally, and then quickly convert those thoughts into visual reality... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Japanese Ink Painting: The Art of Sumi-E by Naomi Okamoto Publisher Comments “This study of Japanese ink painting is as much about philosophy and poetry as it is about putting brush to paper. Artisan Okamoto clearly describes the unique materials and techniques involved, and she beautifully illustrates each lesson. The... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nothing If Not Critical (90 Edition) by Robert Hughes Publisher Comments The most controversial art critic in America--author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore and The Shock of the New--looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art and artists from the past to the present. Hughes evokes and defines the essences... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shape of Content by Ben Shahn Review In this brilliant book, which brings the many talents of Ben Shahn into one crisp, clear, unified, astounding career, the primary focus is the exploration and explanation of the relationship between Shahn's paintings and photographs The first... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Introduction to Art Techniques (DK Art School) by Ray Smith Publisher Comments Illustrating a complete range of art techniques through full-color, step-by-step photographs, this elaborately instructional art book covers figure drawing, watercolor, and oil painting, with a focus on the effect each has on the artwork as a whole.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Critique Handbook: Art Stud. Sourcebook (2ND 10 Edition) by Kendall Buster Publisher Comments This unique textbook is an invaluable tool for students in any art course requiring critiques. The Critique Handbook is an excellent resource both for beginners and more experienced students. This text was written to address an existing gap... (read more) List Price $29.60 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner (03 Edition) by Claire Garcia Publisher Comments Based upon the author's own successful workshops, Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner helps new artists create competent, often eloquent drawings. A series of progressive lessons demonstrates such essential skills as recording edges, creating... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Use Your Eyes by James Elkins Publisher Comments I hope this book will inspire every reader to stop and consider things that are...so clearly meaningless that they never seemed worth a second thought.... Grass, the night sky, a postage stamp, a crack in the sidewalk, a shoulder. Ordinary objects of... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (88 Edition) by Paul Zanker Synopsis Examines the imperial mythology that was reflected by Roman art and architecture during the rule of Augustus Caesar... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $21.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Perspective Drawing (2ND 97 Edition) by Kenneth W. Auvil Publisher Comments This inexpensive supplement offers a concise introduction to the basics of linear perspective and provides a clear and proven method for learning perspective drawing.... (read more) List Price $42.85 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Child Art in Context : a Cultural and Comparative Perspective (02 Edition) by Claire Golomb Publisher Comments "Child Art in Context examines the process of creative expression in child art from an innovative sociocultural and historical perspective. More than 100 drawings and sculptures illustrate the genesis and development of representational skill and its... (read more) List Price $29.97 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, #2: The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth Clark Publisher Comments From the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Moore, this work surveys the ever-changing fashions in what has constituted the ideal nude as a basis of humanist form.... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Perspective for Interior Designers : Simplified Techniques for Geometric and Freehand Drawing (85 Edition) by John Pile Publisher Comments Contents of Perspective for Interior Designers: • Basic Method • Special Situations • Freehand Perspective • Perspective with the Camera • Case Studies • Analyses of Finished Perspectives • Computer-Aided... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Power of Art (2ND 09 - Old Edition) by Richard L. Lewis Publisher Comments Designed for art appreciation courses, THE POWER OF ART is the first book to truly integrate the study of art within a global historical context. It presents the story of art as part of the accumulated experience of humankind by examining connections... (read more) Your price: $136.00 New - Trade Paper
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Composition in Art by Henry Rankin Poore Publisher Comments Learn principles of composition, classical and modern, through analysis of works from Middle Ages to present Goya, Cézanne, Hopper, many others. Excellent discussion on the importance of balance, entrance and exit, circular... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Wall and Piece (07 Edition) by Banksy Publisher Comments Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Not only did he smuggle his pieces into four of New York City's major art museums, he's also "hung" his... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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