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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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Atalanta Fugiens: A Treatise on Alchemy - A facsimile of the complete manuscriptA complete alchemy manuscript in 96 full-page color plates Atalanta Fugiens (lit. Atalanta in flight) is a compendium of illustrated alchemical literature by Michael Maier (1568-1622) a German physician, alchemist, writer, and composer. It was first published in Latin in Oppenheim in 1617. The...
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Learn to Draw Cartoons: Pencil Drawings Step By Step: Pencil Drawing Ideas for Absolute BeginnersLearn to Draw Cartoons: Pencil Drawings Step by Step Easy steps and you can draw Start with basic animal sketches and you will be drawing wonderful pictures in no time The step by step drawings give you room to practice your drawing talent. Many...
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Giovanni Boldini: Masterpieces in ColourGiovanni Boldini enjoyed a long and successful artistic career. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting. His paintings showed his subject in soft-focus, elongated, in movement, alive, and...
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The Art of Tsukamaki: Pocket EditionTsukamaki, combining aesthetics, form and function, is the deceptively simple Japanese art of sword handle wrapping. Dr. Buck's work presents a general historical overview of the evolution of Japanese samurai swords and sword mounts, as well as step-by-step instructions and diagrams for 25 specific...
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Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive ArtFrom the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. This imperial and cultural power-play is the jumping-off point for a story that travels from sub-Saharan Africa to Parisian art galleries;...
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Learn How to Draw Cartoons For the Beginner: Step by Step Guide to Drawing CartoonsLearn How to Draw Cartoons For the Beginner Step by Step Guide to Drawing Cartoons TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Materials: Drawing a Cartoon Face: Man's Face Woman's Face More about a Cartoons Face Different angles of the Face Different faces have Different shapes Adding...
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Learn How to Draw Portraits of African Animals in Charcoal For the BeginnerLearn How to Draw Portraits of African Animals in Charcoal For the Beginner TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Materials Shaving the Charcoal Rendering Using Charcoal Application Drawing an Outline Grid System Tracing Table or Light Table / Flexi-glass with Bendable Lamp Tips to Remember Exercises...
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Tangleeasy Mandalas: Design Templates for Zentangle(r), Coloring, and MoreCreate something amazing with these ready-to-use mandala templates Inside this book are 32 mesmerizing graphic configurations to color, tangle, and inspire. Use these elemental designs for simple coloring enjoyment, or fill them with tangles to make your own new Zentangle-inspired masterpiece. From sacred spaces...
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In Search of Greatness: Reflections of Yousuf KarshIn this book Yousuf Karsh, whose great photographic portraits have revealed so vividly the outstanding personalities of our time, writes about his own life and work. It is the story of an Armenian immigrant boy who rose to be the world's finest portrait photographer.Author:...
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The Romare Bearden ReaderThe Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights. The contributors, who include Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, August Wilson, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Kobena Mercer, contextualize Bearden's life and career within the...
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Sacred Consumption: Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and CultureMaking a foundational contribution to Mesoamerican studies, this book explores Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptures, as well as indigenous and colonial Spanish texts, to offer the first integrated study of food and ritual in Aztec art.Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptural works, as well as...
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Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern DressSince the dawn of western fashion in the Middle Ages, women's dress has never stopped evolving, yet menswear has seen far fewer style revolutions. At the centre of the male wardrobe is the suit: relatively unchanged since the 17th century, its cut and cloth...
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Map My NeighborhoodCome along as a girl maps her neighborhood to show her visiting grandmother where everything is. Simple text takes early readers step by step through the types of features a neighborhood map needs to have.Author: Jennifer BoothroydPublisher: Lerner ClassroomPublished: 08/01/2013Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize:...
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Chicago Artist ColoniesFor more than a century, Chicago's leading painters, sculptors, writers, actors, dancers and architects congregated together in close-knit artistic enclaves. After the Columbian Exposition, they set up shop in places like Lambert Tree Studios and the 57th Street Artist Colony. Nationally renowned figures like...
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Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station: Statuary and SculpturesOpened in 1913, Grand Central Terminal is a world-famous landmark building with a magnificent 48-foot-high, 1,500-ton statuary group on top of the main facade. Designed by sculptor Jules-Felix Coutan, a 13-foot-wide Tiffany clock serves as the centerpiece. The figure above the clock is Mercury,...
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Photography After CapitalismA lively and polemical analysis of photography and today's vernacular photographic culture. In Photography After Capitalism, Benedict Burbridge makes the case for a radically expanded conception of photography, encompassing the types of labor too often obscured by black-boxed technologies, slick platform interfaces, and the...
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Snakes and Other ReptilesThis pictorial archive features a comprehensive collection of 327 images of snakes and other animals in the class Reptilia. Discover striking images of deadly hyper-venomous viper and cobra snakes, prey squeezing constrictors including boas and pythons, anacondas, adders, rattlesnakes, sea snakes, snake skeletons, and...
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High Shelf XLI: April 2022High Shelf is a monthly collection of poetry, art, photography, and satire from around the world, collected and curated in Portland, Oregon. High Shelf XLI (April 2022) contains 80+ pages of world-class poetry, art, photography, and satire. High Shelf XLI showcases 20 Artists/Authors from...
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Think Small: The Tiniest Art in the WorldFrom the astounding to the downright unbelievable, this little volume of mind-blowingly tiny artworks showcases the talents of 24 artists from around the globe. Makers, crafters, art enthusiasts, and fans of tiny works will delight in this homage to all things infinitesimally small. Replete...
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Ladies Drawing Night: Make Art, Get Inspired, Join the PartySpeaking directly to today's explosion of creativity, Ladies Drawing Night is for women looking to deepen their creative connections and expressions. Join rock star illustrators Julia Rothman, Leah Goren, and Rachael Cole for ten evenings of fun and art-making. Each night is led by...
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