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Understanding Paintings: Themes in Art Explored & Explained
by Alexander Sturgis
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The first and only book to discuss the entire history of painting by genre, rather than by chronology, this fresh approach gives readers a new and enlightened way to view and understand the language of art through the ages. What was the artist trying to... ( read more)
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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
by Daniel J Boorstin
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By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with... ( read more)
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The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion To the History of Western Art
by Guerrilla Girls
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Taking readers back through the ages, the Guerrilla Girls demonstrate how males have dominated the art scene, and discouraged, belittled, or obscured the women's movement. This colorful reinterpretation of classic and modern art, as outrageous as it is... ( read more)
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Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation
by Whitney Chadwick
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During the 1930s and 1940s, women artists associated with the Surrealist movement produced a significant body of self-images that have no equivalent among the works of their male colleagues. While male artists exalted Woman's otherness in fetishized... ( read more)
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Otafuku: Joy of Japan
by Amy Sylvester Katoh
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Anywhere you go in Japan you are likely to encounter the plump, smiling image of Otafuku. Author Amy Sylvester Katoh traces the roots and folk beginnings of this mythic figure, showing Otafuku's many delightful identities, and providing a magical glimpse... ( read more)
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Manga Mania Fantasy Worlds: How to Draw the Amazing Worlds of Japanese Comics
by Christopher Hart
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Manga fantasy is the swords-and-sorcery Japanese animation style featured in the most popular video role-playing games on the market. Best-selling author Christopher Hart's latest tutorial reveals the secrets and techniques that go into building these... ( read more)
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Mehndi: The Art of Henna Body Painting
by Carine Fabius
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The magical art of mehndi, or henna painting, has been practiced for centuries in India, Africa, and the Middle East, and now it has finally arrived in the West. Packed with inspirational photographs of traditional andcontemporary mehndi, this complete... ( read more)
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How To Draw Manga Volume 2 Power Up Manga Te
by Society For The Stud
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The second in a surprise hit series. A host of techniques are introduced, including the motion lines and structure lines that always appear in manga, along with shading techniques and how to express texture. You won't find another instructional guide as... ( read more)
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Lives of the Artists (91 Edition)
by Georgio Vasari
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These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of... ( read more)
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Basquiat
by Emmerling. Leonhard
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From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at 27. The subject of a feature... ( read more)
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The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
by Ulrich Boser
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One museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld—the story behind the lost Gardner masterpieces and the art detective who swore to get them back Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in... ( read more)
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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... ( read more)
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Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa
by R A Scotti
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In Paris at the start of a radically new century, the most famous face in the history of art stepped out of her frame and into a sensational mystery. On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened--Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre... ( read more)
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Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters: 45th Anniversary Edition
by Robert Beverly Hale
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This famous work enables artists to learn drawing as those of the past did: by study and emulation of the masters.... ( read more)
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Gnomes
by Wil Huygen
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In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of its publication, we're thrilled to reissue this phenomenal delight, which enjoyed 62 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. Fantasy and fun combine in this "real life" history.... ( read more)
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Prints and Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz
by Carl Zigrosser
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83 moving works: The Weavers, Peasant War, War, Death, and others. "To see the beautiful examples of her work reproduced in this well-printed, reasonably priced volume is to sit at the feet of a great modern master." School Arts.... ( read more)
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Martha's Vineyard: An Affectionate Memoir
by Ray G Ellis
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Martha's Vineyard is a celebrated vacation haven captivating visitors from long-term summer residents to recent daytrippers. Among the Island's ardent admirers are Ray Ellis, whose memorable paintings created over a 25-year period depict his love of the... ( read more)
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Shag: The Art of Josh Agle
by Colin Berry
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This is the first major monograph of one of today's most popular and widely regarded artists, Josh Agle--more commonly known is Shag. His trademark style is spotted on everything from cocktail napkins and cigarette lighters to his brand identity work for... ( read more)
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Let's Draw Manga: Transforming Robots
by Yasuhiro Nitta
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Let's Draw Manga?Transforming Robots is a fun and informative book that takes you through the necessary steps in creating robots that transform from everyday vehicles and sports cars all the way up to military tanks and space crafts! the chapters offer... ( read more)
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Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
by David Lynch
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In this rare work of public disclosure, filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.
Over the last four decades, David... ( read more)
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