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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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A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art HistoryA landmark collection of essays on the intersections of visual art, cultural studies, and environmental history in America. Issues of ecology--both as they appear in the works of nature writers and in the works of literary writers for whom place and the land are...
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Nikita Gale: In a Dream You Climb the Stairs- Nikita Gale: IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS is the first artist book by the acclaimed artist- Includes an interview with Barbara Kruger and original contributions by P. Staff, Hilton Als and Dr. Bénédicte Boisseron- Features four original visual essays by Gale:...
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The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture Under Communism" Isaiah Berlin's response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Born a Russian subject in Riga in 1909, he spoke Russian as a child and witnessed both revolutions in St. Petersburg in 1917, emigrating to the West...
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A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function: Poems and PaintingsEchoing the muscular rhythms of the heart beat, the poems in this stunning collection alternate between contraction and expansion. Eric Gansworth explores the act of enduring, physically, historically, and culturally. A member of the Haudenosaunee tribe, Gansworth expresses the tensions experienced by members of...
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Designer's Guide to ColorThe books that make up the Designer's Guide to Color series were created as professional tools for the graphic designer, but with more than 1,000 innovative color combinations presented in each volume, they are an invaluable reference to anyone making a decision about color....
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Henry Dunay: A Precious Life'Henry Dunay - A Precious Life' is both a lavish album of Dunay's finest designs and a biography that tells the amazing story of his rise from an immigrant family to the heights of the jewellery world.Author: Penny Proddow, Marion FaselPublisher: ABRAMSPublished: 12/01/2007Pages: 223Binding...
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Charles M. Russell: The Women in His Life and ArtCharles M. Russell has long been recognized for his action-packed paintings, drawings, and sculpture of cowboys, fur trappers, Native American buffalo hunters and warriors, and other heroes of the Old West. Russell's best-known works capture the excitement and deadly risk of men battling nature...
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Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures: Art from the Paul Dyck CollectionOver the course of his career, artist Paul Dyck (1917-2006) assembled more than 2,000 nineteenth-century artworks created by the buffalo-hunting peoples of the Great Plains. Only with its acquisition by the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West has this...
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Karl Bodmer's America Revisited, 9: Landscape Views Across TimeLess than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied--a German naturalist--and his entourage set off on their own daring expedition across North America. Accompanying the prince on this 1832-34 voyage was Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings...
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The West of the ImaginationFor many people, "western art" immediately conjures images by Frederic Remington or Georgia O'Keeffe--but there's so much more. From early explorers' first sketches of the Rockies to the modern earth sculptures of Michael Heizer, images of the American West are as multifaceted as its...
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Origami Paper 100 Sheets Bird Patterns 6 (15 CM): Tuttle Origami Paper: Double-Sided Origami Sheets Printed with 8 Different Designs (Instructions forThis origami paper pack contains 100 high-quality origami sheets printed with 8 different beautiful bird designs and patterns. These traditional Japanese patterns were chosen to enhance the creative work of origami artists and paper crafters. There's enough paper here to assemble amazing modular origami...
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Origami Paper- Cherry Blossom Prints- Small 6 3/4 48 Sheets: Tuttle Origami Paper: Origami Sheets Printed with 8 Different Patterns: Instructions forThis pack contains 48 high-quality origami sheets printed with 8 different Japanese-style cherry blossom patterns. These striking patterns that were specially chosen to beautify the creative work of origami artists and paper crafters. This origami paper pack includes: 48 sheets of high-quality origami paper...
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Japanese Ink Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Technique (Designed for the Beginner)Japanese Ink Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Technique teaches beginners the fundamental techniques of suiboku, a form of Japanese ink painting. Suiboku is considered to be a type of Japanese painting known as sumi-e. It adds water to emphasize the shading of black into gray...
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Oil Painting Essentials: Mastering Portraits, Figures, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and InteriorsAn essential guide to the oil painting techniques that will allow artists to master a variety of subjects, including figures, portraits, still life, landscapes, and interiors.Many painters limit themselves to one type of subject matter, but in Oil Painting Essentials, artist and art instructor...
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A Curious Herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell's Pioneering Masterpiece of Botanical ArtIn the 1730s, Elizabeth Blackwell (1699-c. 1758) found herself penniless, with her ne'er-do-well husband confined to a London debtor's prison. A talented artist, she came up with a unique and ambitious moneymaking scheme: the publication of a new illustrated guide to medicinal plants, including...
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Proust on Art and LiteratureEssays foreshadowing the great themes of Remembrance of Things Past Beginning with the remarkable essay Contre Saint-Beuve, this surprising and stimulating critical collection presents Proust's views on the contemporary writing of his era, on painting and painters, and on such literary masters of the...
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Stop-Motion Puppet Sculpting: A Manual of Foam Injection, Build-Up, and Finishing TechniquesStop-motion puppet animation is one of the most unusual and demanding art forms in the world. It uses a variety of skills, including design, sculpting, metal work, mold making and casting, taxidermy, filmmaking, storytelling and acting, and can be seen in the simplest commercial...
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Foundations in Comic Book Art: Scad Creative Essentials (Fundamental Tools and Techniques for Sequential Artists)A comprehensive guide to creating and developing comic book and graphic novel art, from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction. Artists seeking a way to break into the exciting world of sequential art...
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Molly Hashimoto: Birds & Other Wildlife Coloring BookSoft cover book with staple binding. 48 pages with 22 images to color. Size: 8 x 11 in. Coloring pages are blank on the back so they can be cut out and displayed.Author: Hashimoto MollyPublisher: Pomegranate CommunicationsPublished: 05/15/2018Pages: 48Binding Type: NoveltyWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 10.80h x...
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Pinball Wizards & Blacklight Destroyers: The Art of Dirty Donny GilliesPop-art connoisseurs are treated to a mind-bending journey through the blistering paintings of San Francisco artist Dirty Donny Gillies. Take a visual tour of his vibrant, hand-drawn and screen-printed poster art series Blacklight Rebellion and hand-painted solo art show Fantastic Voyage. This ultimate collection...
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