Art
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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Drawing For Beginners: The Ultimate Drawing Art, Sketching, Pencil Drawing Techniques, Exercises and Lessons GuideThere are thousands of drawing related careers in the market. The fact that printers and digital photo editing tools are taking over the market does not mean that a fine artist with a set of pencils is good for nothing. Actually, if you can...
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Roy Decarava: Light BreakLight Break presents the first survey since 1996 of photographer Roy DeCarava, an essential figure of American art and culture, whose "poetry of vision" re-forms urban life, labor, love, and jazz into the discovery of "an intimate, emotional arc of transformation." Though DeCarava often...
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Teen Boys Coloring Book: Animal Designs: Complex Animal Drawings for Older Boys & Teenagers; Zendoodle Lions, Wolves, Bears, Snakes, Spiders, STeen Boys Coloring Book: Animal DesignsTeen Boys Coloring Book: Animal Designs contains over 35 animal coloring pages to color and enjoy. This teen coloring book incorporates a variety of detailed designs and creates hours of coloring fun for the older color enthusiast! Featuring a...
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A Kid's Guide to Drawing Cartoon AnimalsExciting, simple, and full of fun! This is an engaging book for kids to learn how to draw 28 cartoon animals, from crocodiles and cats to sea horses and sharks! With step-by-step, trace-and-draw instructions and plenty of room to practice, they'll be able to...
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The Siamese Christmas StoryThis is a story about a little girl--Tricia--who is getting ready to go home from the hospital at Christmastime. Her doctor, Dr. Jeffrey, comes to Tricia's room and tells her "The Siamese Christmas Story." The story is of a Siamese cat's journey with the...
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Masterpieces of Ancient JewelryFrom the president of the National Jewelry Institute comes the largest collection of ancient jeweled objects ever assembled. Worn for much more than just personal adornment, jewelry has played an important role in culture and civilization since the earliest times. Travel back through more...
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Moma HighlightsThis new edition of MoMA Highlights presents 375 works from the Museum of Modern Art's unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art. Featuring 170 new selections--a greater representation of women, artists of color and artists from around the world--this updated volume reflects the inclusionary...
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Member: Pope.L, 1978-2001An absurdist provocateur and brilliant interventionist, Pope.L is a seditious force in contemporary American artPope.L is a consummate thinker and provocateur whose practice across multiple mediums--including painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, theater and video--utilizes abjection, humor, endurance, language and absurdity to confront and undermine rigid...
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Drawing: How to Draw 1: Learn to Draw Step by StepLearn to draw a variety of subjects in graphite pencil from basic shapes. In Drawing: How to Draw 1--which also features contributions by acclaimed artist William F. Powell--Walter Foster invites you into his artistic world and shows you how to draw a variety of...
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Learn to Draw Dinosaurs: Step-By-Step Instructions for More Than 25 Prehistoric Creatures-64 Pages of Drawing Fun! Contains Fun Facts, Quizzes,With Learn to Draw Dinosaurs, you can discover how to draw all of your favorite dinos step by easy step! Perfect for young artists-in-training, Learn to Draw Dinosaurs offers a comprehensive drawing experience that includes step-by-step lessons, as well as full-color illustrations, fun facts,...
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Learn to Draw Military Machines: Step-By-Step Instructions for More Than 25 High-Powered VehiclesLearn to draw all of your favorite military vehicles--step by step Perfect for young artists-in-training, Learn to Draw Military Machines offers a comprehensive drawing experience that includes step-by-step lessons, as well as full-color photographs, fun facts, trivia, quizzes, and much more. Children will enjoy...
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Learning to SewLearn how to make your own clothes and other items by sewing. Crafters practice reading comprehension as they follow the steps for each project. The easiest crafts are at the beginning, to allow the reader to practice scaffolding their knowledge as they learn the...
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Drawing the Female FigureWith over 270 unique examples, renowned artist Joseph Sheppard demonstrates how to draw the nude female realistically and with authority, to make each image come alive In addition to basic drawing techniques, Sheppard provides insight into the procedure of drawing from life, from how...
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Flower Painting in OilCharles Reid says you don't have to be a botanist to paint flowers beautifully. Rather than produce anatomical paintings, it's far more important to capture the quality, the feeling, and the spirit of the flowers. In this book, Reid turns his skillful eye and...
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The Book of a Hundred Hands (Dover Anatomy for Artists)The Book of a Hundred Hands is exactly what it sounds like. With this delightful little book George Bridgman has handed the world's artists a remarkable resource. As he points out, the human hand has a tremendous capacity for expression, and the attentive artist...
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Oil Pastel: Materials and Techniques for Today's ArtistFinally back in print for a new generation of artists, Ken Leslie's Oil Pastel is the definitive instructional resource on this wonderfully rich and versatile medium. Vibrant and portable, oil pastels are ideal for making quick sketches, producing stunning finished works, and make a...
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Painting People in WatercolorA fresh approach to portrait and figure painting in watercolor In Painting People in Watercolor, Alex Powers provides a comprehensive guide on working with watercolor, mastering the principals of design, and understanding the fundamentals of portrait painting. Powers takes the inquiring artist beyond photorealistic...
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Gouache for IllustrationAlso known as opaque watercolor, gouache is the most brilliant of all painting mediums, possessing the greatest degree of opacity and capable of the finest detail work. Often erroneously thought to be impermanent--and therefore used only for commercial work that is not meant to...
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Corita Kent: Art and Soul: The BiographyCORITA KENT. ART AND SOUL. THE BIOGRAPHY. is the painstakingly researched account of the nun who made a world of difference and, to her surprise, simultaneously made a name for herself. On the cover of Newsweek in 1964, Sister Mary Corita became known as...
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Brush Lettering Made Simple: A Step-By-Step Workbook to Create Gorgeous Freeform Lettered ArtAdd Beautiful Effects to Your Brush Lettered Artwork and Enhance Your Hand LetteringFantastic brush lettering artwork is right at your fingertips--and far easier to achieve than you think--with renowned lettering artist Chrystal Elizabeth's simple step-by-step guide. In Brush Lettering Made Simple, she reveals her...
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