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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 Orange Bowl: A Photographic Journey & Architectural SurveyThe Orange Bowl Stadium. Put to rest and carted away in 2008. It was an example of a bygone era in sports stadium architecture, when simple design provided a basic function. A place just for football born in the late 1930's. The book is...
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Things Better Than BoobsThings Better than BOOBS is creative, suspenseful, sarcastic, and laughter provoking all at once. It's hilarious and clever take-home message campaigns loudly for an agreeably timeless yet generally unspoken notion. It is a brilliant gift idea for any humorous occasion and a must have...
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Levick Emotional and Cognitive Art Therapy Assessment: A Normative StudyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 135-144, 2nd group) and index.Author: Myra F. LevickPublisher: AuthorhousePublished: 06/25/2009Pages: 204Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.43dISBN: 9781438943770This title is not returnable
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Art as Contemplative Practice: Expressive Pathways to the SelfDrawing upon his personal experience as a practitioner-researcher, visual artist, and cancer survivor, Michael A. Franklin offers a rich and thought-provoking guide to art as contemplative practice. His firsthand experience and original artwork complement this extensive discussion by consulting various practice traditions including yoga,...
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Nude Posing GuideThe beginning of a shoot can be an awkward time, especially for nude work. As a photographer you have likely spent a great deal of time learning to use your camera, lights, getting backgrounds or locations, finding a model. Finally the equipment is set...
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Dynamics of International Advertising; Theoretical and Practical PerspectivesNow in its third edition, Dynamics of International Advertising highlights the unique challenges marketers face in developing and implementing successful international advertising campaigns. With a balance of theoretical and practical perspectives, this edition takes the reader inside the dynamics of advertising as it functions...
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Andrea Palladio's Architecture, in Four Books Containing a Dissertation on the Five Orders & ye Most Necessary Observations Relating to all Kinds of BThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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John Ruskin: Selected WritingsThis volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Ruskin (1819-1900). The edition represents Ruskin's extraordinary literary output, ranging from lectures, essays, and treatises to reviews, correspondence, and critical notes. Ruskin has been...
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Arte Povera: Selections from the Sonnabend CollectionAuthor: Claire Gilman, Karla C. ShippeyPublisher: Wallach Art GalleryPublished: 10/02/2001Pages: 55Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 10.50h x 3.90w x 0.20dISBN: 9781884919114
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Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public MonumentsAn urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? Which ones should stay up...
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Affinities: On Art and FascinationA meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain's finest literary minds. In Affinities, Brian Dillon, who Joyce Carol Oates has said writes "fascinating prose . . . on virtually any subject,"...
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Squiggles by Sharon: Volume 2Squiggles by Sharon is a daily comic strip created by Sharon McEnearney. This light-hearted comic follows the adventure of a squirrel and her friends as they navigate the ups and downs of life, covering everything from homework to office life to trying to find...
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Glitch PoeticsGlitches are errors where the digital bursts into our everyday lives as fragmented image, garbled text and aberrant event. In this book, Nathan Jones shows how writers work with the glitch as a literary effect. 'Glitch poetics' describes a new language of error in...
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Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles, Processes, Contexts, AchievementsThis project addresses the contexts of Practice as Research and how to undertake it. This second iteration updates thinking and practices but sustains a direct and clear approach on how to become a practitioner-researcher. New features include an extension of range "beyond" the arts...
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New Folk Art: Design Inspired by Folklore and Traditional CraftIt is human nature to look to the past when seeking inspiration, particularly in art and related creative fields. Unlike other genres that can be attributed to a specific era or style, folk art is harder to define or categorize due to its special...
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The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon IslandsBuilding a beautiful ornamented 'white canoe' was a way for the Lau people of Malaita in Solomon Islands to honour the ghosts of their ancestors in the days before they became Christians. This book tells the story of the last of these canoes, built...
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Power of CreativityPower of Creativity is a unique project devised by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, whose aim is to seek out the most creative and most investable artists and introduce them to established collectors of contemporary art and art lovers.Author: Contemporary Art Curator MagazinePublisher: Contemporary Art...
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Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600): Monuments of Mourning, Memory and MeditationIn Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600), Jan L. de Jong reveals how funerary monuments, far from simply marking a grave, offered an image of the deceased that was carefully crafted to generate a laudable memory and prompt meditative reflections on life, death, and...
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Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern ItalyThis book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on Italy and on female stigmatics. Echoing, and to a certain extent recreating, the wounds and pain inflicted on Christ during...
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Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital GamesThis book looks closely at the endings of narrative digital games, examining their ways of concluding the processes of both storytelling and play in order to gain insight into what endings are and how we identify them in different media. While narrative digital games...
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