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The Mission of Art by Alex Grey Publisher Comments This is an inspirational book about art's power to bring about personal catharsis and spiritual awakening. Alex Grey's reflections combine his extensive knowledge of art history and his own first-hand experiences in creating art on the boundaries of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light (P.S.) by Leonard Shlain Publisher Comments Art interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words––with physicists using the language of mathematics and... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Picasso Papers by Rosalind E Krauss Publisher Comments Was Picasso a modern Midas who not only turned the trash of everyday life into the gold of Cubist collage but also gave new value to the work of Old Masters? Or was he a monster counterfeiter who mercilessly raided the styles of others... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Alexandria: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Unfolds by Nick Bantock From Powells.com Nick Bantock spent over 100 weeks on the bestseller list with the original Griffin and Sabine trilogy, a captivating and heartfelt correspondence between two unusual souls. The enormous popularity of this epistolary series is easy to fathom. Dazzling and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Apocalypse & the Shape of Things to Come by Frances Carey Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-343) and index.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics by Herschel B. Chipp Synopsis Gathers interviews, articles, letters, and manifestos dealing with Postimpressionism, symbolism, fauvism, Expressionism, and cubism.... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pattern Sourcebook: Patterns from Nature 1: 250 Patterns for Projects and Designs by Shigeki Nakamura Publisher Comments This book presents a collection of carefully selected nature-inspired patterns for use by designers and artists in their projects and personal work. A companion CD ROM provides 250 patterns in high-definitional JPEG format along with PSD format from... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sketch! Esow by Chron Rarekwai Synopsis A new series of high-quality blank sketchbooks for graffiti fans and artists. Each sketchbook has a screen printed board cover depicting an exclusive artwork by internationally acclaimed artists: Dalek (USA), Darbotz (Indonesia), Jimi Crayon (UK) and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Beloved by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Conference of the Birds by Peter Sis Publisher Comments Celebrated children's book author and illustrator Peter Sís creates his first book for adults, a beautiful and uplifting adaptation of the classic twelfth-century Sufi epic poem, The Conference of the Birds. In The Conference of the Birds... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Carlson's Guide To Landscape Painting by John F. Carlson Publisher Comments The whys and hows of the various aspects of landscape painting: angles and consequent values, aerial and linear perspective, painting of trees, emotional properties of line and mass in composition, light, unity of tone, plus information on canvas... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dynamic Light and Shade by Burne Hogarth Publisher Comments Mastery of light and shade - rendered with accuracy and expressive power - is the key to three-dimensional form in drawing and painting. Here is the first book on this essential subject, the product of years of study by one of the world's great teachers... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Look at a Painting by Francois Barbe Gall Synopsis Which of us, when finding ourselves in the presence of a painting, has not sensed that we lack the keys to decipher it? We feel an emotional response, but the work still seems to evade our understanding. Francoise Barbe-Gall combines a nuanced... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Marks of Excellence by Per Mollerup Publisher Comments This beautiful yet pithy book critically explores the subject of trademarks, providing an extensive source of international marks, together with a thorough explanation of their meaning and history. 590 illustrations, 260 in color.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lives of the Artists (91 Edition) by Georgio Vasari Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Conceptual Art (98 Edition) by Tony Godfrey Publisher Comments What is art? Must it be a unique, saleable luxury item? Can it be a concept that never takes material form? Or an idea for a work that can be repeated endlessly? Conceptual art favours an engagement with such questions. It can take many forms... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics by Milton Glaser Publisher Comments Chosen by the Editors at Amazon.com as one of the top 50 Best Books of 2005 - Now in paperback! With the world's economy in a slump, the Middle East's never ending conflict, and the on-going war on terrorism, there is a heightened awareness in the world... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Annotated Mona Lisa by Carol Strickland Publisher Comments Be smart about art. The Annotated Mona Lisa takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks to a world of dynamic design, succinct page-length essays, and instructive sidebars.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New Drawing on Right Side of Brain - Workbook (02 Edition) by Betty Edwards Publisher Comments Millions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards. Now, in an essential companion to her bestselling classic, Edwards offers readers the key to mastering this art form: guided practice in their newfound creative abilities... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Spiral
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Islamic Art by Annette Hagedorn Publisher Comments The delicate splendour and fairytale beauty of Islamic art The art which arose from the 7th century in the Islamic empires reached from Spain and Morocco to the borders of China. It bore the stamp above all of Arabs, Persians and Turks, but outstanding... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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