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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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Large Print Adult Coloring Book: Owls and Other BirdsInside are 48 letter-size pages - each one with a big, simple and fanciful bird image to color There are owls, parrots, toucans, sparrows and dozens of other amazing feathered friends. We have tried to offer you different ways to enjoy the benefits of...
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René Magritte: The Fifth SeasonMagritte's extraordinary late paintingsWhen Ren Magritte reached his 40s, something unexpected happened. The painter, who had honed an iconic Surrealist style between 1926 and 1938, suddenly started making paintings that looked almost nothing like his earlier work. First he adopted an Impressionist aesthetic, borrowing...
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The Dynamic Library: Organizing Knowledge at the Sitterwerk--Precedents and PossibilitiesThe Dynamic Library presents essays in translation from an interdisciplinary symposium on the classification and organization of knowledge held at Sitterwerk, St. Gallen in Switzerland. Home to over 25,000 volumes on art, architecture, design, and photography, the Sitterwerk's Kunstbibliothek (art library) began with the...
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Draw! Draw! Draw! #1 CRAZY CARTOONS with Mark KistlerLearn to draw CRAZY CARTOONS with America's best-loved art instructor Emmy award-winning Mark Kistler's super-fun instructional book explodes with personality and encouragement. Now newly expanded, CRAZY CARTOONS is filled with clear, simple, step-by-step instructions on how to draw cool cartoon people and their bizarre...
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The PrinceThe Prince is a classic book that explores the attainment, maintenance, and utilization of political power in the western world. Machiavelli wrote The Prince to demonstrate his skill in the art of the state, presenting advice on how a prince might acquire and hold...
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Quantumscapes: The Art of Stephan MartiniereFollowing his previous book, Quantum Dreams, Quantumscapes is a stunning new visionary collection of sci-fi book cover paintings, commercial and film art, video game designs, and never before-seen artwork from the fantastic imagination of acclaimed artist Stephan Martiniere. Author: Stephan MartinierePublisher: Design Studio PressPublished:...
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Start Your Engines: Surface Vehicle Sketches & Renderings from the Drawthrough Collection'Start Your Engines' compiles works from Scott Robertson's vast archives of ground vehicle drawings and renderings.Author: Scott RobertsonPublisher: Design Studio PressPublished: 09/01/2006Pages: 139Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.12h x 10.94w x 0.45dISBN: 9781933492131
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Sit!Claudia Schmid's drawings meet Matt Harvey's words in this affectionate look at dogs and their humans. Sit is an entertaining, occasionally surreal, but mostly down-to-earth celebration of the strange, satisfying relationship between dogs and their human companions. Featuring beautiful black-and-white line illustrations to accompany...
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Lucian Freud: The Self-PortraitsThe artist stripped bare by himself: Lucian Freud's self-portraits redefine the genreIn 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them "revealing, telling, believable ... really shameless." It was advice that...
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Okinawa, Japan: The People, History, World War II, Culture and Tradition. Travel and TourismOkinawa, Japan. The People, History, World War II, Culture and Tradition. Travel and Tourism. Before Okinawa, there was Ryukyu, an independent kingdom ruled by its kings, its people seafarers prospering through trade with China and other neighboring countries. In 1609, Ryukyu was invaded by...
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Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880-1940Active in London, Paris, and New York, Duveen Brothers was the most prominent art and antique dealer from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The firm's success came from buying furniture, tapestries, porcelain, and other objets d'art and selling it at high prices...
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Billy LynchThis is the first comprehensive monograph on the late American artist, Bill Lynch (1960-2013) . Painting primarily onto salvaged plywood sheets, leaving areas raw and exposed, Lynch depicted landscapes and wildlife, cultural artefacts and mythical symbols with instinctive and direct brushstrokes and a psychological...
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Poster Power: Great Posters and How to Make ThemA poster can be many things: a tool for advertisers, a means of propaganda, or a call to arms. But in order to persuade or provoke, a poster must first inform and engage. This award-winning book introduces the key conceptual and graphic elements that...
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Norman Ackroyd: A Shetland NotebookVivid watercolor landscapes from one of Britain's foremost printmakersOne of Britain's foremost printmakers, Norman Ackroyd has spent a lifetime recording the coastal landscapes of the British Isles. Gorgeously printed, A Shetland Notebook contains 39 of his vivid landscape sketches in watercolor. Made in the...
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John Ruskin: Artist and ObserverThe drawings of John Ruskin are exhilarating to look at, any they express his own sense of exhilaration as he observed landscape and nature, buildings and artifacts. They deserve to be appreciated afresh by a wider audience. Accompanying a landmark exhibition at the National...
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Seeing Zen: Zenga from the Kaeru-An Collection-Features 124 masterpieces from the world's finest collection of Zenga Seeing Zen is the catalog of 124 masterpieces in the Kaeru-an Zenga Collection. There are 91 paintings and 33 calligraphies presented in full-color, high quality illustrations and extended captions. Each entry has a detailed...
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Alaska Native Art: Tradition, Innovation, ContinuityRanging from the islands of the Bering Sea to Alaska's interior forests, Alaska Native Art celebrates the rich art of Alaska's Native peoples, both setting their work in the context of historical traditions and demonstrating the vibrant role it continues to play in contemporary...
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You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to SurviveNew York, 1989: as a decade of activism around the urban housing crisis and beyond comes to a close, legendary graphic artist Seth Tobocman is there to document it all in his bold comic style.You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive collects...
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The Waste Land and Other PoemsT.S. Eliot's most famous work, The Waste Land, has been called one of the twentieth century's most important poems. Among his most famous lines are "April is the cruellest month" and "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." The poem falls...
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Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints Into Ceramic and BronzeThis book is the first full-length study into the multifarious influence of Renaissance prints on maiolica and bronze. Focusing on designs by major artists such as Andrea Mantegna, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Parmigianino, and Albrecht D rer, the book tells the story of...
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