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Seven Days in the Art World
Seven Days in the Art World
by Sarah Thornton
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The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series... (read more)

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The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
by Jackie Battenfield
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Using a "tough love approach" to pursuing a career in the visual arts, Jackie Battenfield expands on her highly successful classes and workshops to provide a comprehensive guide for both emerging and mid-career artists. Providing real-life examples... (read more)

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Art/Work: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) as You Pursue Your Art Career
Art/Work: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) as You Pursue Your Art Career
by Heather Darcy Bhandari
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Find Out What They Didn't Teach You in Art School The most comprehensive guide of its kind, Art/Work gives artists of every level the tools they need to make it in an art world so competitive one dealer likens it to "The Sopranos, except nobody gets... (read more)

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Studio Culture
Studio Culture
by Tony (edt) Brook
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It's a rare graphic designer who hasn't contemplated setting up his or her own studio. It's part of a designer's DNA to want to own and run a studio. Many do, while others spend a lifetime wondering if they should. But where does the ambitious designer... (read more)

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How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist, 5th Ed.: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul
How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist, 5th Ed.: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul
by Caroll Michels
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The classic handbook for launching and sustaining a career that "explodes the romantic notion of the starving artist", with new and expanded resources for succeeding in the burgeoning Internet art market (The New York Times) Now in its fifth edition... (read more)

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Authentic Victorian Fashion Patterns: A Complete Lady S Wardrobe
Authentic Victorian Fashion Patterns: A Complete Lady S Wardrobe
by Kristina Harris
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Rich selection of scaled dressmaker’s patterns from the popular late 19th-century magazine The Voice of Fashion details 50 garments for women, from handsome daytime and evening dresses to casual tennis outfits, a riding habit, and undergarments... (read more)

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Twentieth-century Fashion (99 Edition)
Twentieth-century Fashion (99 Edition)
by Valerie Mendes
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From the turn-of-the-century S-bend silhouette to the bumster and bustier of today, this comprehensive survey explores all the significant developments in fashion in a century that has witnessed a growing preoccupation with personal appearance and... (read more)

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Victorian and Edwardian Fashions from "La Mode Illustree"
Victorian and Edwardian Fashions from "La Mode Illustree"
by Joanne Olian
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Over 1,000 illustrations, meticulously reproduced from rare issues of renowned fashion magazine, present a striking array of womens fashions from 1860 to 1914: elegant evening and dinner gowns, stylish daywear, wedding ensembles, bathing costumes... (read more)

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All American Ads of the 80's
All American Ads of the 80's
by Steven Heller
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With the cold war ebbing, crime and inflation at record levels, and movie star-turned-President Ronald Reagan launching a Star Wars of his own, the 1980s did not seem likely to become one of the most outrageous, flamboyant, and prosperous decades of the... (read more)

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Colors for Modern Fashion: Drawing Fashion with Colored Markers
Colors for Modern Fashion: Drawing Fashion with Colored Markers
by Nancy Riegelman
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KET BENEFIT: CFMF teaches the skills and techniques that enable new ideas for fashion to be communicated with precision and flair, showing the way forward for a new generation of fashion designers. CFMF teaches how to draw fashion using colored markers... (read more)

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Art Forms in Nature (Dover Pictorial Archives)
Art Forms in Nature (Dover Pictorial Archives)
by Ernst Heinrich Philip Haeckel
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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)

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Licensing Art & Design: A Professional's Guide to Licensing and Royalty Agreements
Licensing Art & Design: A Professional's Guide to Licensing and Royalty Agreements
by Caryn R Leland
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Following this book's expert advice, designers, illustrators, photographers, and fine artists learn how to increase their income by licensing their creative images.... (read more)

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AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design
AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design
by Tad Crawford
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"Provides definitive guidelines on all aspects of the graphic design business."--FYI * Newly revised and expanded version of an industry classic--5,000 sold! * Up-to-the-minute! Includes web, interactive, and green design, new legislation * Each chapter... (read more)

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The Stephen Sprouse Book
The Stephen Sprouse Book
by Roger Padilha
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Inventive, enigmatic, and supremely creative, Stephen Sprouse made art and clothing that captured the mood of the eighties. One of the first American designers to mix graffiti and a punk aesthetic with fashion, Sprouse manipulated conventional notions of... (read more)

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Surfers Soulies Skinheads and Skaters: Subcultural Style from the Forties to the Nineties
Surfers Soulies Skinheads and Skaters: Subcultural Style from the Forties to the Nineties
by Amy De La Haye
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Collected here is an audacious panorama of street style--clothes worn by real people--from beatnik to hippie to cyberpunk, and its influence on high fashion. All the hottest trends start on the street and are then cleaned up for the mass market. Surfers,... (read more)

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Sneaker Freaker
Sneaker Freaker
by Simon Wood
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At once the supreme manifesto, the lavish catalog, and the journalistic revelation of the sneaker-collecting universe, Sneaker Freaker is the perfect, must-have document of a thriving subculture just now surfacing in the mainstream. The most prized... (read more)

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Sponsorship the Fine Art of Corporate Sponsorship: The Corporate Sponsorship of Fine Art
Sponsorship the Fine Art of Corporate Sponsorship: The Corporate Sponsorship of Fine Art
by Ryan Mcginness
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Sponsorship is a Ryan McGinness book documenting and expanding upon the ideas and images to arise from an exhibition staged at Shepard Fairey's BLK/MKRT Gallery is Los Angeles in 2003. Sponsorship forwards an intense dialog amongst many of the artists... (read more)

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Art Marketing 101 3RD Edition
Art Marketing 101 3RD Edition
by Constance Smith
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Artists need help with the business side of their career, and this 302-page, twenty-one-chapter volume answers all the questions they could have. Ultimately, it guides artists to create both a long- and short-term marketing plan so they can become... (read more)

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Stylemakers: Inside Fashion
Stylemakers: Inside Fashion
by Marcia Sherill
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Where do designers' ideas come from? How are those wisps of inspiration transformed into a clothing collection? Who informs the public of fashion trends? The multibillion-dollar fashion industry is chronicled endlessly in magazines and newspapers from... (read more)

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How to Grow as an Artist
How to Grow as an Artist
by Daniel Grant
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In this definitive guide to resources, aspiring artists and serious amateurs devoted to their art will find scores of time-tested strategies to help them set up and work safely from a home studio; learn where and how to acquire appropriate art materials;... (read more)

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