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Black Velvet Masterpieces: Highlights from the Collection of the Velveteria Museum
by Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin  Publisher Comments Though beloved by millions around the world, black velvet paintings have too long been relegated to the shadowy backrooms of art history. Black Velvet Masterpieces celebrates the best and worst of this kitschy yet sought-after artform, showcasing the...
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Big Eye Art: Resurrected and Transformed
by Toni Boozer Synopsis In the late 1950s, throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, such artists as Margaret Keane. Gig and Maio created a new kind of mass-produced art known as 'big eye'. Now big-eye art has undergone a major revival, but with a twist the wide-eyed, endearing...
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Child's Play: The Berenstain Baby Boom, 1946-1964: Cartoon Art of Stan and Jan Berenstain
by Michael Berenstain Publisher Comments This profusely illustrated and humorous volume collects the Berenstains’ early work, created from 1946 until 1964, inspired by their own experiences as parents in the postwar baby boom era. More than two hundred Berenstain drawings featured in...
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Dumb Luck
by Gary Baseman 
Publisher Comments Mucking up the pages of the New Yorker, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Forbes, the Atlantic Monthly, Blab, and more, Gary Baseman has populated the finest publications with his inimitable brand of illustration. Now Dumb Luck presents the first...
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Uncovered
by Thomas Allen Publisher Comments In this darkly delightful first monograph — also a board book — Thomas Allen selects the pulpiest of pulp paperbacks and then lovingly slices out a figure from the cover, gently folds it into position and constructs a witty and oftentimes...
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This is Blythe
by Gina Garan
Publisher Comments Produced for only one year in the '70s, Blythe is a moony waif of a doll coveted by a growing group of devoted fans. Photographer Gina Garan fell to Blythe's charms and unusual looks years ago and has shot her in settings around the world, from Greece to...
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Street Sketchbook: Inside the Journals of International Street and Graffiti Artists
by Tristan Manco Synopsis With interest in graffiti and street art at a record high, the time is ripe for the first-ever volume to reveal the working methods and private fixations of more than 60 leading international street artists through their personal sketchbooks. Artists...
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Elvis Road
by Elvis Studio Synopsis Hieronymus Bosch meets Richard Scary. A stunning art book which unfolds into a 24 foot long cartoon landscape in which . A paradoxical mix of terrifying social commentary and cartooning fun! A single drawing: a world overflowing with hundreds of mini...
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Learning to Love You More
by Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July Publisher Comments The best of the groundbreaking website learningtoloveyoumore.com, which asks ordinary people to complete out-of-the-ordinary assignments — with extraordinary results. In a world obsessed with "reality" programming, the collaborative public art...
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The Museum of Bad Art: Masterworks
by Michael Frank Synopsis If the subjectivity of art appreciation were ever doubted, THE MUSEUM OF BAD ART: MASTERWORKS will fan the flames of controversy. Where one connoisseur recoils at the garish palette of My Gangrenous Left Foot, another is drawn to its pulsating vitality...
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Mrs. Ballard's Parrots
by Arne Svenson Publisher Comments When I'm really old and can't use myself...
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This Is Ireland
by M Sasek Synopsis Originally published in the 1960s, this title in Sasek's beloved travel series for children is reproduced in this facsimile edition, which offers a colorful, spirited, and unique tour of Ireland via the deft paintbrush strokes and witty voice of a master...
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Weirdo Deluxe: The Wild World of Pop Surrealism and Lowbrow Art
by Matt Dukes Jordan
Powells.com Staff Pick We'll let those wacky intellectuals wax on about the complex pluralism of the post modern art world or how it's become progressively tainted by commercialism — a sweet new compilation of pop surrealists, Weirdo Deluxe fully redeems the exquisitely...
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Abandon Ship
by Dave Schubert Publisher Comments A little collection of photos, color and b&w, all shot in one week in New York City. "These days too many people are taking pictures and too many pictures are being taken due to the cell phone cameras, digital cameras, and the surveillance that is being...
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Jackson 500 Volume 2
by Tim Biskup Synopsis With a fondness for mid-century graphic design, Japanese monsters, chaos and smoking dinosaurs, Tim Biskup has honed an infectious style. His surreal, dense, colorful paintings evoke Paul Klee, James Flora and Hieronymus Bosch, as well as animation...
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Me a Mound
by Dan Nadel Publisher Comments It's the Mounds versus the Vegans in their inaugural published battle, and the heat is on. This first monograph and storybook from a major young African-American artist describes an ancient conflict: the peaceful, organic Mounds may have been created by...
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Steve Powers: Studio Gangster
by Steve Powers Synopsis Philadelphia native, Steve (ESPO) Powers arrived in New York in the early 90s, immersing himself in the citys vibrant Graffiti scene and quickly developing a unique, conceptually driven style all his own. By the end of the decade he started his own...
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Alphabet in Color
by Vladimir Nabokov Synopsis Jean Holabird's unique interpretation of the alphabets of literary great, Vladimir Nabokov, is a visual masterpiece. Nabokov has synesthesia, a condition that causes the neurological mixing of the senses so that people who have this condition may hear...
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Elle Humour: Julie Doucet
by Julie Doucet Synopsis Renowned cartoonist Julie Doucet has created a unique, mass produced artist's book. Printed on a half dozen different papers in eight colors, this amalgamation of drawing, collage, painting, and narrative is a visionary meditation on love and its...
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Kirby: King of Comics
by Mark Evanier Publisher Comments Jack Kirby created or co-created some of comic books' most popular characters including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and The New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for...
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