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by James R Petersen Publisher Comments From "Playboy"'s classic archives comes a trilogy of stocking-stuffer-sized volumes, each devoted to a certain hair color destined to quicken a man's pulse. Blonde? Brunette? Redhead? In the fifties, sixties, and seventies, it seemed like all the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Dave Hickey Publisher Comments Air Guitar is renegade art critic and Art Issues editor Dave Hickey's assessment of the beauties and potentialities of American culture, "high" and "low, " presented in a series of reflections on his experiences as the child of a jazz musician, abortive... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Phaidon Synopsis This is a pocket-sized A-Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of typical work, accompanied by information on each image and its creator. Artists, styles and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ellen Lupton Publisher Comments The organization of letters on a blank sheet -- or screen -- is the most basic challenge facing anyone who practices design. What type of font to use? How big? How should those letters, words, and paragraphs be aligned, spaced, ordered, shaped, and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Becky Koenig Publisher Comments This workbook presents a diverse conceptual overview of color theory coupled with numerous studies and activities to solidify students' understanding of design and color concepts through hands-on experience. This workbook combines both a formal and... (read more) List Price $62.00 Your price $43.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Duane R Light Publisher Comments Master the basics of drawing, composition, and value, as well as the specific techniques unique to painting in watercolor. Even if youÆve never touched a paintbrush, this book is the perfect way to get started out in the vibrant, colorful world of... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alfred Werner Publisher Comments The finest drawings of the celebrated Austrian artist--mostly nudes and seminudes taken in part from rare portfolios of 1919 and 1964--reveal the dynamics of the line in representing the human figure spontaneously and freely. Introduction.<BR>... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Nick Bantock Publisher Comments "Griffin Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at a whim. If you will not join me, then I will come to you." Sabine Sabine was supposed to be imaginary, a friend and lover... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Hughes Powells.com Staff Pick I know nothing about the visual arts so you can be assured anything I say I've stolen from Hughes's The Shock of the New. A distillation of his eight-part BBC/Time-Life television series, the book details the genesis of modern painting, sculpture, and... (read more) List Price $44.00 Your price $32.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Michael Kimmelman Publisher Comments The chief art critic of the "New York Times" delivers an uplifting art-is-good-for-you message that goes far beyond what's found in galleries and museums.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Andre Breton Publisher Comments Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism<BR>... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jennifer New Publisher Comments Only 22 when he lost his life on assignment in Somalia, photojournalist Dan Eldon left behind much more than the journals that became the basis for Chronicle's best-seller The Journey Is the Destination. He left a lifetime of adventures that continue to... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mikio Kawanishi Synopsis Cool-looking characters alone don't make a manga. The use and assembly of the panels and page affect all elements of the direction. In this volume, image, character, vocals and the direction of the panel are thoroughly explained.... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Berger Synopsis Examines the social implications and psychological impact of the images and conventions of modern and classical artists.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alexander Roob Publisher Comments A fantastic journey through the history of esoteric lore: the great work of the alchemists (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition) The Hermetic Museum takes its readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the mediaeval cosmogram and... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price $10.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Henri Publisher Comments In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert Henri. While it embodies the entire system of his teaching, with much technical advice and critical comment for the student, it also contains inspiration... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gary Faigin Publisher Comments This invaluable resource deals specifically with the muscles of expression and the depiction of the subtleties of human emotion.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Pierre Bonnard Synopsis Among those painters who incontestably left their mark on twentieth-century art, Bonnard rises to the top again and again. Museums, scholars and viewers regularly return to his oeuvre for reinterpretation, passionate and contradictory, of what it means... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Matthew Craske Publisher Comments This fresh and engaging perspective of William Hogarth (1697-1764) reveals him as a figure who reinvented the very idea of what it is to be an artist. Hogarth was the first artist to make his living as a humorist, brilliantly inventing a means of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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