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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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Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols"A ready reference aid and an inspiration to designers . All in all the best book now available on symbols." ―Library Journal This unparalleled reference represents a major achievement in the field of graphic design. Famed industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss recognized the importance of...
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Sticker Photo Mosaic: Dogs & PuppiesA sticker by number book for creating 12 mini mosaics featuring hundreds of dog stickers! Is that a nose, a paw, a Labradoodle? Play doggie detective as you put together assorted dog stickers to reveal one photo mosaic. Each mosaic is perforated, making them...
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Step-By-Step Drawing PeopleComplete beginners can discover how to draw lots of different people, from super heroes to ballerinas to horse riders, in this delightful write-in book. Each double colorful page has step-by-step drawing instructions, space to practice and doodle in, and ideas for coloring in or...
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Spencerian Handwriting: The Complete Collection of Theory and Practical Workbooks for Perfect Cursive and Hand LetteringThe first all-in-one edition of P.R. Spencer's Spencerian Penmanship workbook, including step-by-step calligraphy lessons and practice pages. Easy to follow yet challenging for calligraphy enthusiasts, the Spencerian script was once the gold standard for personal and business correspondence in the 1800s. While today's students...
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Sonic the Hedgehog Encyclo-Speed-IaCelebrate Sonic the Hedgehog's 30th anniversary with a full-color hardcover historical retrospective that explores nearly every one of the blue speedster's video game appearances! Dive deep into the extensive lore and exhaustive detail of each game in Sonic's ever-expanding universe--from the beloved SEGA Genesis...
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Songs of Innocence and Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul, 1789-1794Here is a beautifully illustrated edition of Blake's classic poems. The text of each poem is given in letterpress on the page facing the color plate, and a brief commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes on each poem follows. It is printed on paper especially...
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Songbirds in Collage: Impressionistic collage paintings, step-by-stepTechniques for creating songbirds in collage. This book features 88 pages of bird inspiration in full color to include, techniques for sketching, underpainting and applying collage. Learn how to paint your own collage paper, simplify shapes, tear with and without white edges, set up...
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Snippets: A Story about Paper ShapesYou can change the world one snippet of kindness at a time. Snippets is a story that reveals the power of kindness and the beauty of being unique. And it does so through the journey of two different groups of shapes (the polygons and...
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Seeing Making: Room for ThoughtRenowned philosopher Susan Buck-Morss collaborates with Boot Boyz Biz's Kevin McCaughey and Inventory Press' Adam Michaels on this experimental image-text update of McLuhan and BenjaminRenowned philosopher Susan Buck-Morss collaborates with Kevin McCaughey of Boot Boyz Biz and Adam Michaels of Inventory Press on this...
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Screenprints: A HistoryScreenprints: A History, the first title in the V&A's new series on the history and practice of printmaking, is a celebration of the fine-art applications of this versatile medium, from the commercial origins of the screenprinting process in 1920s America, its pivotal role in...
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Scp Foundation Art Book Yellow JournalSCP Foundation Artbook Series by ParaBooks is based on an ambitious international web project scpwiki.com. This volume wrapped in yellow leather imitation and a dust jacket contains such famous objects as The Old Man, UnLondon, Red Sea Object, The Clockworks and many other monstrous...
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Rothko: The Color Field PaintingsA sumptuous collection of fifty large-scale artworks from the American master Mark Rothko's color field period, with illuminating essays by Rothko's son and a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator of painting and sculpture. "Sumptuously illustrated with reproductions of 50 paintings, this book...
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Remedios Varo: The Mexican YearsBetween mysticism and modernity: the magical surrealism of Remedios VaroRemedios Varo: The Mexican Years offers a definitive survey of the life and work of a singularly appealing and mysterious Surrealist painter. Born and raised in Spain, Remedios Varo received her earliest training in Madrid...
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Poor Artists: A Quest Into the Art WorldThis debut book by the popular collaborative team--heralded as one of the first truly new critical voices of the 21st century-- blends real-world experience and poignant storytelling into a provocative and heartfelt portrait of the life of an artist today. At a moment in...
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Playgirl: The Official History of a Cult MagazineA lively, unbelievably fun art book that celebrates Playgirl magazine's 50-year anniversary, including historic articles, spreads, commentary, photography, and extensive artwork from the '70s through today Playgirl is a movement. This groundbreaking magazine was never just a pale imitation of Playboy; it was a...
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Picture This: How Pictures Workrevised and Expanded 25th Anniversary EditionMolly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise, revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary, that helps provide clarity to the timeless question "what is art?" "A revised and expanded 25th-anniversary edition of Bang's go-to text about visual perception, or 'how pictures work, ' delivers...
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Permanent Red: Essays in SeeingWhy should an artist's way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist's intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political In Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a...
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Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color: (Coffee Table Books, Design Books, Best Books about Color)Pantone, the worldwide color authority, invites you on a rich visual tour of 100 transformative years. "In this visual feast for color nerds, hue gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify the shades that shaped our collective color palette."--Fast Company From the Pale Gold...
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Paddington's Prize PicturePaddington Bear has charmed readers of all ages for almost 60 years! Now part of the I Can Read line, Michael Bond's classic character will delight beginning readers with his curious nature and nose for adventure. Paddington discovers a love of painting when Mr....
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One & Other Numbers: With Alexander CalderPractice counting using some of the most famous sculptures in the world!One & Other Numbers features sculptures by master sculptor Alexander Calder. Calder's playful and often vibrant abstract shapes are highly appealing to young readers and the accompanying text cleverly teaches quantity, a vital...
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