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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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The History of Graphic Design. Vol. 1. 1890-1959History is a complex business. Fortunes boom and bust, empires wax and wane, and change--whether social, political, or technological--has its winners, its losers, its advocates, and its enemies. Through all the turbulent passage of time, graphic design--with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and...
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The Book of the Cat: Cats in ArtCats have been revered by artists since ancient times for their beauty, grace, independence, and air of mystery. Domesticated, but with a touch of the wild about them, they share our homes and endlessly fascinate us. The Book of the Cat is a cool...
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Quick and Easy Crochet: 100 Little Crochet Projects to Make100 little fun and simple crocheted gifts to make from best-selling Search Press authors. Crocheting has had a huge surge in popularity in recent years and continues to be a very popular craft, and this book has a very wide appeal both to beginners...
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How to Draw Almost Every Day: An Illustrated SourcebookThe perfect book for budding artists, How to Draw Almost Every Day challenges and inspires you to draw one simple illustration each day of the year. Don't let your artistic aspirations come to an end before they start Everyone wants to draw stylish, evocative...
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Kid Artists: True Tales of Childhood from Creative LegendsHilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations reveal how Leonardo da Vinci, Beatrix Potter, Keith Haring, and other great artists in history coped with regular-kid problems. Every great artist started out as a kid. Forget the awards, the sold-out museum exhibitions, and the timeless masterpieces....
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: A Character Guide and World CompendiumThis is the most comprehensive guide ever published, covering all things Masters of the Universe and Princess of Power from 1982 through today The universe of He-Man and She-Ra is full of mystery. And thanks to over four thousand individual entries covering characters, beasts,...
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Christine and Margaret Wertheim: Value and Transformation of Corals"The Crochet Coral Reef risks making real and fabulated things together to open up still-possible times for flourishing.... Palpable, polymorphous, terrifying and inspiring stitchery." -Donna HarawayAustralian-born, California-based sister artists Margaret and Christine Wertheim draw on a unique fusion of mathematics, marine biology, traditional handicraft...
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Rita Blitt: Around and RoundThe works showcased span 60 years and represent the many forms this internationally acclaimed American artist works in--paintings, drawings, sculpture, video, and more. Essays by critics, scholars, and colleagues accompany the art. The book celebrates the establishment of the Rita Blitt Legacy Collection at...
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Think, Sketch, and Smile with Flora50 Art prompts to explore yourself, express your own creativity, and practice positivity.Flora is a life enthusiast, a nature lover, an art fanatic, an ambassador of kindness.In this activity book, she'll be guiding you through your own self-discovery journey, stimulating your imagination, curiosity, and...
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Big Semi TrucksBook shows semi trucks that are used to haul freight and earth machines such as wheel loaders bulldozors 'escavators etc. from one destanation to another with extreme weight up to 80,000 pounds and in some cases more.Author: Brian MatthewsPublisher: BookbabyPublished: 12/20/2022Pages: 38Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia, Volume 1The first installment of the tattoo collection that became a publishing phenomenonOccasionally a book is published that reveals a subculture you never dreamt existed. More rarely, that book goes on to become a phenomenon of its own. The 2004 publication of the Russian Criminal...
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Fun with a Pencil: How Everybody Can Easily Learn to DrawAndrew Loomis (1892-1959) is revered amongst artists - including comics superstar Alex Ross - for his mastery of drawing. His first book, Fun With a Pencil, published in 1939 is a wonderfully crafted and engaging introduction to drawing, cartooning, and capturing the essence of...
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The Gibson Girl and Her America: The Best Drawings of Charles Dana GibsonAt the turn of the twentieth century, Charles Dana Gibson's pen-and-ink drawings of the American Girl -- now remembered as the Gibson Girl -- became the national ideal of femininity. This collection of his images of youthful, dynamic women offers an informative and amusing...
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The Space Between: The Modern in Korean ArtFeaturing over 130 artworks--some previously unpublished--this richly illustrated volume is essential for understanding modern art in Korea and how it evolved to meet the contemporary global contextIn The Space Between, a generative period in Korean art between the traditional and the contemporary is illuminated...
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Antonio ObáReimagining the iconography and the eroticization of Blackness in BrazilBrazilian artist Antonio Obá (born 1983) works across painting, sculpture, installation and performance to explore the construction of Black bodies in historical and political narratives. He is particularly interested in how this construction figures within...
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Frédéric Chaubin. Cccp. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. 40th Ed.Elected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, Frédéric Chaubin's Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed explores 90 buildings in 14 former Soviet Republics. Each of these structures expresses what Chaubin considers the fourth age of Soviet...
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Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White AmericaThe Society of Illustrators Original Art Exhibit 20152015 NAACP Image Award--Outstanding Literary Work, ChildrenNew York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and SharingNotable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2016--CBC/NCSSSTARRED REVIEW! "Weatherford writes in the present tense with intensity, carefully choosing words that...
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Herve Tullet's Art of Play: Images and Inspirations from a Life of Radical CreativityThe definitive book for adults from an iconoclast of the children's book world. Colorful and curious. Experimental and improvisational. Each of Hervé Tullet's creations, whether the bestselling children's book Press Here or the internationally traveling Ideal Exhibition, breaks the boundaries of art. Tullet is...
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¿Quién Fue Frida Kahlo?Descubra más sobre Frida Kahlo, la mujer que pasó a la historia como una de las artistas más emblemáticas del siglo XX. Find out more about Frida Kahlo, the woman who painted herself into history as one of the most iconic female artists of...
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Making MasksIn this highly practical guide, award-winning theatre artist Melody Anderson shares her various mask-making techniques, with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and examples drawn from her remarkable career. "Making Masks" is an invaluable resource for theatre professionals, artists, teachers, and students of all ages and skill...
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