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Still Life: Still Life Painting in the Early Modern Period
by Norbert Schneider
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The still life, the most primordial of painting subjects, had its peak between the late Middle Ages and the 17th century. In this book, Norbert Schneider explores the still life insights into changes of mentality and philosophy as well as its role in the... ( read more)
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A School of Dolphins
by Charles Avery
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There has never been an art book devoted to these beautiful and intelligent animals, although they have figured in Western iconography for more than two thousand years as religious and political symbols and as paradigms of grace. Charles Avery rectifies... ( read more)
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Disruptive Pattern Material: An Encyclopedia of Camouflage
by Hardy Blechman
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Deep diving From animal survival to anti-war irony. Raising heavy objects Equipment failure Boat handling before, during and after a dive Camouflage occurs naturally in the wild as a mechanism of protection and illusion. Learning from nature, military... ( read more)
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Great Drawings of Women: From the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century (Dover Pictorial Archive)
by Carol Belan Grafton
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Stunning gallery of master drawings depicts women in a wide array of styles and settings. Superb art by da Vinci, Rubens, Dürer, Raphael, Watteau, Degas, Renoir, Corot, Manet, Sargent, Whistler, Hopper, Picasso, and other old and modern masters. 102... ( read more)
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Dog Painting: A History of the Dog in Art
by William Secord
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From the diminutive Chihuahua to the massive St. Bernard, this fascinating account of the most popular breeds provides an original and penetrating artistic record of mankind's faithful companions. It is also an invaluable reference work about the many... ( read more)
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Cats in Books: A Celebration of Cat Illustration Through the Ages (British Library - Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalog)
by Rodney Dale
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How many children cut their literary teeth on the clever vanishings of Macavity, the Mystery Cat (“Macavitys not there!”)all the while unknowingly repeating the rhymes of T. S. Eliotone of the twentieth centurys most distinguished poet... ( read more)
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Women Who Read Are Dangerous
by Stefan Bollmann
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A compelling selection of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs of women reading through the ages.... ( read more)
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Love at First Light: Smoker Romance in the Classic Age of Advertising
by Ad Nauseum
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In days gone by, no movie star or media magnet would be caught dead without a cigarette. Smoking was sophisticated, exotic, sensual, decadent, and, above all, it promised romance. Advertising told us that smoking would make us irresistible to the... ( read more)
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Children of the Gilded Era
by Barbara Dayer Gallati
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The perfect gift book, presenting a charming selection of portraits by John Singer Sargent and his contemporaries working in both the United States and Europe. Included are masterpieces and lesser-known works from the end of the nineteenth century, a... ( read more)
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500 Self-portraits (04 Edition)
by Julian Bell
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In chronologischer Anordnung präsentiert dieses Buch 500 Selbstporträts vom alten Ägypten bis zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ein Abbild von sich selbst zu schaffen war für Künstler stets eine unwiderstehliche Herausforderung; der... ( read more)
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Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts
by Diana Donald
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Charles Darwins revolutionary theories of evolution and natural selection have not only had a profound influence on the fields of biology and natural history, but also provided fertile territory for the creative imagination. This lavishly illustrated... ( read more)
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Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought & Art of Vincent Van Gogh & Paul Gauguin
by Naomi E Maurer
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This book explores van Gogh's and Gauguin's conviction that the purpose of visual art in human culture is to communicate a spiritual understanding of existence comparable to the wisdom contained in the metaphors and parables of myths, religions, and... ( read more)
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Black Ink: Ilustrations by Ata "Toast" Bozaci
by Ata Bozaci
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Known as Toast in graffiti circles and Atalier in graphic design circles, Ata Bozaci is recognized as an artist, draftsman, illustrator, and graffiti artist. This Swiss-based dynamo is also known as one of the pioneers of three dimensional graffiti art... ( read more)
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Self-portraits (08 Edition)
by Norbert Wolf
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This work in the Basic Genre series features more than 35 photographs, descriptions, and interpretations of the featured works, and a brief biography of the artists.... ( read more)
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For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis
by Peter Blake
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Hipgnosis was the biggest and best graphic design firm for the biggest and best bands of the 60s and 70s. Formed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell in London in 1968 (with the addition of Throbbing Gristle's Peter Christopherson in 1974), Hipgnosis... ( read more)
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Mother: Portraits by 40 Great Artists
by Juliet Heselwood
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Artists paint their mothers for many reasons as a loving tribute, of course, but also to capture a memorable face, to work through conflicting emotions, as a family legacy, or the simple availability of a model. Looking at each work and considering its... ( read more)
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Night of the Tiki: The Art of Shag, Schmaltz, and Selected Primitive Oceanic Carvings
by Doug Nason
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No lounge is complete without tiki torches and a soothing tiki cocktail. This coffee-table book surveys the tiki world in full color, from its origins in Oceanic art to contemporary expressions.</p>... ( read more)
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Discovery of the Art of the Insane
by John Macgregor
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MacGregor's narrative, and the strangely beautiful accompanying
illustrations, describes the historic evolution of attitudes toward
the art of the mentally ill, as well as the influence of the art on
the development of modern art as a whole. He also... ( read more)
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Drawings on Writing
by Serge Onnen
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As we spend our days increasingly glued to our computers and handheld devices, rapidly tapping keywords into Google, cutting and pasting Word docs and texting urgently truncated messages, it is becoming increasingly rare to pen anything by hand. No... ( read more)
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No Smoking
by Luc Sante
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No Smoking is both an homage as well as a social retrospective on the cigarette-it's momentous birth, its alluring peak, its disreputable downfall.... ( read more)
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