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Discover the best-selling art books and insightful artist biographies at our online bookstore, featuring a curated selection of must-read books about art and artwork. Explore our collection to find the best books to read, from captivating artist biographies to beautifully illustrated artwork books.
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How to Carve Wood: A Book of Projects and TechniquesWoodcarver Richard Butz teaches chapter by chapter whittling, chip carving, wildlife carving, relief carving, lettering, and architectural carving. In How to Carve Wood, the reader learns by doing, working through carefully illustrated and progressively more challenging exercises and projects. Butz provides scaled patterns for...
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Anish Kapoor: MemorySince the early 1980s, Anish Kapoor's investigations into objecthood, materiality and gravity have explored the concept of the void, or objects becoming space. His sculptures, installations and public art test the phenomenology of space and have historically been characterized by intensely tactile or reflective...
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Four Pictures by Emily CarrEmily Carr was one of the few famous women painters of her generation, and today her work is being exhibited with and compared to that of Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. In this original picture book, Nicolas Debon traces Carr's life through four of...
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Making Believe: Questions about Mennonites and ArtMaking Believe responds to a remarkable flowering of art by Mennonites in Canada. After the publication of his first novel in 1962, Rudy Wiebe was the only identifiable Mennonite literary writer in the country. Beginning in the 1970s, the numbers grew rapidly and now...
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The Magic of Juju: An Appreciation of the Black Arts MovementA contextual historical examination of the civil rights movement and the artists who inspired it, this recollection depicts this storied era and how these artists signified the affecting change they helped create. The exploration details the development of the Black Arts Movement--from precursor activities...
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Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga"His total conviction in multiple existences within our physical world is as much an inspiration to some of the most brilliant fiction in Yoruba writing as it is a deeply felt urge to 'justify the ways of God to man.'"Wole Soyinka, translator and Nobel...
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Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000From toys, furniture, books and clothing to playgrounds, schools, children's hospitals and nurseries, Century of the Child looks at innovative visions for the material world of childrenIn 1900, Swedish design reformer and social theorist Ellen Key published The Century of the Child, presaging the...
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Mitch O'Connell: TattoosCollects 250 tattoo designs by Mitch O'Connell--The best of his three sets of tattoo flash: Stewed, Screwed and Tattooed, Done While Drunk, and From the Bottom of the Barrel. Mitch O'Connell's art is reminiscent of the Old School Tattoo Art, from masters such as...
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The Dizzy Dictionary##A fake children's book in the guise of an illustrated dictionary, with large colorful illustrations, oversize typefaces and simple definitions, featuring a wandering gremlin as comic relief. An A-B-C of kustom kulture, lowbrow, and hot-rod cultural terms, presented in a friendly child-like book. The...
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Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for JusticeThe legendary names include Rothschild, Mendelssohn, Bloch-Bauer--distinguished bankers, industrialists, diplomats, and art collectors. Their diverse taste ranged from manuscripts and musical instruments to paintings by Old Masters and the avant-garde. But their stigma as Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe doomed them to...
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The Art Glass of Louis Comfort TiffanyLouis Comfort Tiffany considered his Favrile glass, produced between the 1890s and 1920s, his signature artistic achievement. Now highly collectible, the glass underscores one-of-a-kind quality--every piece was blown and decorated by hand. This definitive account explores the full range of Tiffany Studios' remarkably diverse...
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Mucha: Reverie (Foiled Journal)Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed then foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps,...
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Maine and American Art: The Farnsworth Art MuseumIn this expansive volume devoted to one of the premier art collections in the U.S., the rich and full picture of Maine's central role in American art from the early nineteenth century to the present is chronicled. Published on the occasion of Maine's bicentennial,...
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David WisemanAn intimate look at this highly acclaimed and popular L.A.-based contemporary designer and artist, who marries old-world techniques with a modern twist, and is best known for his exquisite craftsmanship and detailed creations in bronze, porcelain, and crystal. David Wiseman is one of the...
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Laurie Anderson: All the Things I Lost in the FloodAn icon of performance art and the indie-music world, this is the first book on the artist's full career to date, as curated by the artist herself. Laurie Anderson is one of the most revered artists working today, and she is as prolific as...
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Richard Diebenkorn: Revised and ExpandedRichard Diebenkorn: Revised and Expanded by Gerald Nordland is a detailed look at the artwork and life of the acclaimed American artist Richard Diebenkorn. This book captures the modernist works of Diebenkorn, who passed away in 1993. It includes sections on the artist's prints,...
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Moche Art and Visual Culture in Ancient PeruScattered throughout their coastal homelands, the remains of impressive artworks produced by the Moche of northern Peru survive. These works include ceremonial centers extensively decorated with murals, as well as elaborate and sophisticated ceramic vessels, textiles, and metalwork, that serve to visually represent an...
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Vera Vance: Comics StarThird grader Vera Vance has signed up for the comics camp after-school program, but her mother would much rather she focus on academics, athletics, music. . . anything but comics Now in paperback. Vera loves all things comic books, so she can't wait for...
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Printmaking Revolution: New Advancements in Technology, Safety, and SustainabilityA tome of the newest advances in printmaking for today's environmentally conscious art students, master printers, teachers, and artists Etching, lithography, and screenprinting shouldn't be harmful to the artist or the planet. With cutting edge, never-before-published advances in printmaking media, Printmaking Revolution provides artists,...
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Drawing Dynamic HandsThe most comprehensive book ever published on drawing hands uses a revolutionary system for visualizing the hand in an almost infinite number of positions.Author: Burne HogarthPublisher: Watson-GuptillPublished: 04/01/1988Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 11.01h x 8.29w x 0.41dISBN: 9780823013685About the AuthorBURNE HOGARTH (1911-1996), hailed as...
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