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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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Drawing Hands: With Over 1000 IllustrationsSecond in importance only to the face, hands play a key role in expressing emotional states--from anger and fear to resignation, serenity, and surprise. This resource features more than 1,000 illustrations, offering figure artists at all skill levels insights into the structure, character, and...
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Creative Haven American Landscapes Color by Number Coloring BookA travelogue of great American vistas includes scenes from Yosemite National Park, Monument Valley, Boulder Mountain, Fossil Butte National Monument, Enders State Forest, and many other landscapes of rugged natural beauty. Use the simple color guide to complete the 46 breathtaking scenes -- there...
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Chinese Domestic Furniture in Photographs and Measured DrawingsWesterners have long admired Chinese furniture for its durability, inner strength, quiet restraint, and simple dignity. Especially attractive to the educated eye are its purity of line, devotion to detail, and flawless construction. This unabridged reprint of a rare classic provides lovers of Chinese...
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Drawings of MuchaThe artistic legacy of Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860-1939), one of the founders of the Art Nouveau style, is both brilliant and bewilderingly diverse. Mucha is most famous for his Sarah Bernhardt posters and his magnificent decorative panels such as The Seasons, works that continue...
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Drawing Ideas: A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better DesignAn intensive how-to primer for design professionals for creating compelling and original concept designs through drawing by hand.Award-winning designers and workshop leaders Mark Baskinger and William Bardel bring us this thorough course in drawing to create better graphic layouts, diagrams, human forms, products, systems,...
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Niv, Beautiful Word Bible, Updated Edition, Peel/Stick Bible Tabs, Leathersoft, Brown/Pink, Red Letter, Comfort Print: 600+ Full-Color Illustrated VerBe drawn into God's Word through a fresh, creative expression of Scripture.Now refreshed with 100 additional illustrated verses, newly added peel and stick Bible book tabs, and a highly readable typeface, the NIV Beautiful Word(TM) Bible, Updated Edition offers a one-of-a-kind visual treatment of...
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Shimmering Silver Gift Wrapping Papers - 12 Sheets: 18 X 24 Inch (45 X 61 CM) Wrapping PaperThese fine-quality tear-out sheets feature 12 Asian-inspired prints, suitable for craft projects as well as for gift wrapping. The shimmering silver color is highlighted throughout, used in contrast with dramatic black and classic white, with pops of pink for an element of fun. The...
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Alfredo Volpi: Between the Modern and the PopularA fresh view of the acclaimed Brazilian modernist painter through the lens of arte popularItalian-Brazilian artist Alfredo Volpi (1896-1988) was a central figure of Brazilian art in the 20th century. His painting is influenced by both modern and customary traditions, including handcraft, popular parties,...
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Alex Katz: FlowersKatz in full bloom: a concise overview of his floral motifsFlowers are a favored subject in the recent paintings of American artist Alex Katz (born 1927). After noticing the dynamism that blooming flowers brought to his group portraits, the artist homed in on the...
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Camille Norment: Plexus"Norment's ringing and vibrating sound system lets us experience a fragile interdependence of bodies and environments." -New York TimesThroughout her career, Oslo-based multimedia artist Camille Norment (born 1970) has probed and explored what she has termed "cultural psychoacoustics," in particular the socio-cultural valences of...
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Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival SourcebookAn essential reference that provides new understanding of the thought processes of one of the most radical artists of the late twentieth century. Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) has never been an easy artist to categorize or to explain. Although trained as an architect, he has...
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Harlow in Hollywood, Expanded Edition: The Blonde Bombshell in the Glamour Capital, 1928-1937The most celebrated biography of Hollywood's Blonde Bombshell, Harlow in Hollywood is now updated with rare images and additional details about her remarkable life and its tragic end.At last, the story of how Hollywood shaped a myth and determined a young woman's reality. A...
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The Houses and Collections of Marjorie Merriweather PostA celebration of philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post's passions for her residences and personal collections, reflecting centuries of some of the finest treasures in the world. Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973) was an extraordinary person, not only for being the head of a major corporation but...
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Faithful Friends: Norman Rockwell and His DogsFrom the very beginning of Norman Rockwell's career, dogs were integral to his art. Often they convey the emotion of a scene, as when a family pet bounds forward to greet a soldier returning from war, or sadly nuzzles a young man departing for...
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David Hockney: Insights: Reflecting the Tate CollectionDavid Hockney (born 1937 in Bradford) is one of the most influential and technically versatile artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. This new publication gathers some of his most defining work from the 1950s to the present, including major works in the Tate...
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Happy & Gay 2023Realer thanreal and hotter than hot: this is the photographic imagination of digitalartist Zach Lynch. This calendar brings together images of ideal male beauty iniconic settings, so nearly photo-perfect, you have to look three times to knowthey're computer-generated. Each image is a glimpse into...
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Doodleville #2: Art Attacks!Drew and her mischievous doodles are back--and planning a heist-in-reverse at the Art Institute of Chicago--in the sequel to Doodleville, which Lincoln Peirce calls "a masterpiece." Drew never meant for this to happen. She didn't mean for her doodle Mike to steal the centuries-old...
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Gedoku: The Art of SakiyamaAn addictive underground worldview full of very bad boys.This is the first commercial artbook featuring works by sakiyama, a popular illustrator with more than 110,000 followers on Twitter. Ruins, smirking wicked-faced young men, mysterious loners, a riot of wildly scattered flowers and more make...
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Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest CoastInseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship, from demonstrating kinship connections to manifesting spiritual power. Contributors to this volume foreground Indigenous understandings in recognition of this rich context and its historical erasure within the...
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Painting the Streets: Oakland Uprising in the Time of RebellionPAINTING THE STREETS: OAKLAND UPRISING IN THE TIME OF REBELLION features a selection of Oakland murals that emerged in tandem with the inter/national protests against the police brutality/murder of Black people and systemic-institutional racism in the US. The book also includes an introduction, interview,...
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