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The Armenian Gospels of Gladzor: The Life of Christ IlluminatedThis masterpiece of Armenian illumination was created in the fourteenth century by monks at the theological school of Gladzor, who copied its text and painted its elaborate cycle of miniatures. Owned at various times by merchants and princes, the Gladzor Gospels is now in...
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Modernist Textile: Europe America, 189hb: Europe and America, 1890-1940Decorative and applied arts played a major role in shaping the Modernist aesthetic. Western artists and collectors saw textiles, particularly the abstract and handcrafted textiles from non-Western societies, as attractive alternatives to the European academic art tradition. Virginia Gardner Troy examines the importance of...
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Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: A Study of the Years 1340-1365A close study of clothes worn by aristocratic families and their households at the time of the Black Prince - and of Chaucer - showing Europe-wide influences. 1340 to 1363 were years remarkable for dramatic developments in fashion and for extravagant spending on costume,...
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The New Elegance: Stylish, Comfortable Rooms for TodayAD100 and Elle Decor A-List designer Timothy Corrigan shares his secrets for creating rooms that are elegant and comfortable, luxurious yet livable. Throughout his career, Corrigan has established a look that is layered and detailed, while always suitable for the way people live today....
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No Place Like Home: Interiors by Madeline StuartThe first book from renowned Hollywood-based interior designer Madeline Stuart, whose elegant decorating is predicated on timeless design, be it modernist or traditional in inspiration. Stuart is hailed as an icon in Los Angeles for her exceptional work. Architectural Digest wrote, In a city...
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Brooks Brothers: 200 Years of American StyleA visual celebration of Brooks Brothers' remarkable heritage and how its iconic clothing has been worn and revered by cultural figures, fashionable rule breakers, and pop-culture icons. Since 1818, Brooks Brothers, America's oldest clothing brand, has grown into a global sartorial institution that has...
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Fashion: A Timeline in Photographs: 1850 to TodayFASHION: A Timeline in Photographs is a definitive and beautifully illustrated visual history of fashion from one of America's premiere fashion historians, Caroline Rennolds Milbank. This unrivaled and exceptional fashion resource is an immersive 150-year visual odyssey which tracks year-by-year, decade-by-decade, the ever-changing fashion...
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A Denim Story: Inspirations from Boyfriends to Bell Bottoms...This style bible is a chic and sexy look at the myriad possibilities of blue jeans, the classic and ever-evolving fashion essential. Blue jeans are an iconic part of American culture. And, like the American dream, denim is constantly reinventing itself. A Denim Story...
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Yamamoto & YohjiSince the early '80s, Yohji Yamamoto's groundbreaking silhouettes and innovative design aesthetic have propelled him to the highest rank of the international avant-garde. Distinguished by his anti-fashion approach, Yamamoto changed the face of contemporary fashion, radically transforming it with asymmetrical and highly conceptual designs...
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Lucian FreudThis volume, with more than 400 reproductions, will be the most comprehensive publication to date on Lucian Freud, covering a span of seventy years and including many works not previously reproduced. The result is a corpus of great works that reveal him to be...
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Women and Ledger Art: Four Contemporary Native American ArtistsLedger art has traditionally been created by men to recount the lives of male warriors on the Plains. During the past forty years, this form has been adopted by Native female artists, who are turning previously untold stories of women's lifestyles and achievements into...
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Saul Bass: Anatomy of Film DesignIconic graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Saul Bass (1920-1996) defined an innovative era in cinema. His title sequences for films such as Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and North...
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The Anti-Coloring BookA newly repackaged edition of the first book in a series that has sold more than 600,000 copies A favorite of parents, educators, and therapists since it was first published in 1978, more than 200,000 copies of this first volume from the draw-from-your-imagination books...
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Tokyo Fashion City: A Detailed Guide to Tokyo's Trendiest Fashion DistrictsThe fashionable, eccentric pedestrians of Tokyo are captured with hundreds of portrait photographs in this fun guide to Tokyo street fashion. Tokyo is considered one of the world's style capitals for its vibrant youth fashion culture. Part guidebook, part fashion photography album, Tokyo Fashion...
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Japanese Paper Crafting: Create 17 Paper Craft Projects & Make Your Own Beautiful Washi PaperMake homemade Japanese paper and fold it into beautiful and decorative forms with this Japanese papercraft book. In Japanese Paper Crafting, world-renowned paper artist Michael G. LaFosse of the Origamido Studio teaches you all the essential techniques needed to make your own beautiful handmade...
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What Is Texture?Young artists will "feel" inspired as they explore texture in famous works of art. Readers will learn that objects can have many kinds of textures. They will also learn how objects of different textures can be used in art and how artists can create...
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Denim Branded: Jeanswear's Evolving Design DetailsMost take for granted that a pair of jeans is not considered complete without patches, rivets, buttons, and other trims. The existence of such design elements is not questioned because they are seen as the standard. Nick Williams's book is exclusively dedicated to denim...
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How the West Was Worn: Bustles And Buckskins On The Wild Frontier, First EditionFashion that was in vogue in the East was highly desirable to pioneers during the frontier period of the American West. It was also extraordinarily difficult to obtain, often impractical, and sometimes the clothing was just not durable enough for the men and women...
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The Great War 100: The First World War in InfographicsA unique, modern overview of World War I, from the weapons to the men on the groundIt is 100 years since the start of WWI, and now, we have new ways of relating information, including infographics. This cutting edge work tells the story of...
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Fashion in LaThe first book to document Los Angeles's remarkable explosion onto the global fashion sceneNew York, London, Milan, Paris ... and now, Los Angeles. Thanks to its unique blend of cultural influences and artistic industry, the City of Angels has earned its place alongside these...
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