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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Before Colors: Where Pigments and Dyes Come fromFrom award-winning author Annette Bay Pimentel and illustrator Madison Safer, Before Colors is an oversize nonfiction picture book exploring pigments and dyes made from natural sources--across time and around the world. Colors don't come out of nothing. They always start somewhere . . ....
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BasquiatJean-Michel Basquiat was only twenty-seven when he died in 1988, his meteoric and often controversial career having lasted for just eight years. Despite his early death, Basquiat's powerful oeuvre has ensured his continuing reputation as one of modern art's most distinctive voices. Borrowing from...
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Art: The Definitive Visual GuideDiscover more than 2,500 of the world's most influential paintings and sculptures in this beautifully- illustrated guide to the history of art. Introducing Art: The Definitive Visual Guide - an invaluable reference book that spans 30,000 years of global art history, from cave paintings...
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Architectural Styles: A Visual GuideA hand-drawn guide to architectural styles throughout history Architectural Styles is an incomparable guide to architectural styles across the centuries and around the world. Modeled after an architect's plein air sketchbook, the volume features hundreds of detailed drawings by esteemed architectural illustrator Robbie Polley...
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Animal SketchingAlexander Calder, the renowned sculptor and inventor of mobiles, here brings his characteristic simplicity of line and spirit of movement to the art of animal sketching. The purpose of the book is to help the student to draw animals as he or she sees...
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Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the EarthThe most private of artists was beguiled by a hardscrabble farm and its residents down the road from his studio, revealing some of his most personal friendships, and yielding some of his most iconic paintings. Andrew Wyeth first discovered the haunting beauty of the...
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A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English CountrysideA thrilling ocean voyage on the Queen Mary 2 from New York City to Southampton culminating in a two-month ramble through the charming backroads and small villages of the pastoral English countryside in the spring of last year is the subject of this delicious...
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Acrylic Painting Step by Step: Discover All the Basics and a Range of Special Techniques for Creating Your Own Masterpieces in AcrylicLearn to paint in the beautiful and versatile medium of acrylic as you learn foundational painting techniques. In Acrylic Painting Step by Step, you will find all the instruction and inspiration you need to master the medium or improve your painting skills. Accomplished artist...
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A Charm of Goldfinches and Other Wild Gatherings: Quirky Collective Nouns of the Animal KingdomMost groups of wildlife can be described as a flock, herd, or shoal--but where is the fun in ending there? --from the Introduction Whether you're an animal lover or a grammar geek, illustrator Matt Sewell has the perfect menagerie of beasts (and beast-related terms)...
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50 Ways to Draw Your Beautiful, Ordinary Life: Practical Lessons in Pencil and PaperThe mindful pleasure of learning to draw, with paper goodies and creative secrets from expert illustrators. Draw the Flow way. In this innovative approach to drawing instruction, the illustrators from Flow magazine open up their tool kits, sharing secrets and techniques to teach the...
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120 Patterns Coloring Book For Adults: mandala coloring book for kids, adults, teens, beginners, girls: 120 amazing patterns and mandalas coloring boo120 COMPLEX AND UNIQUE MANDALASThis creative coloring book for adult relaxation makes an affordable stress relieving mandala coloring book for all.✓ It can be an original present for Mandalas art and patterns colouring lovers. It's a 120 pages of amazing and beautifull complex mandalas...
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100 Animals Adults Coloring Book: Coloring Books For Men Women With Mandala Animals Designs For Stress Relief and RelaxationAn Coloring Books For Adults With Stress Relieving Animal Designs ( Lion, Elephants, Owls, Horses, Cats, Dog, Eagles, Butterfly and Much More! )- 100 Animal Pattens To Color and provides hours of stress relief through creative expression.- Beautiful Animals Illustrations, we've included 100 Stress...
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YokaiImmerse yourself in the yokai images and their mesmerizing detail showcased over more than 500 pages in this epic collection!Lurking beneath the global obsession with manga and anime, there is a world of Japan's yokai monsters, mutants, and vengeful mononoke spirits, which have long...
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William Blake. Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. the Complete DrawingsCelebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, representing,...
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Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau2023 Southwest Books of the Year winner, 2023 Reading the West Nonfiction Award winner, Foreword INDIES Silver Award winner, and Colorado Book Award finalist"Childs guides readers through a long lived in landscape and helps us see more clearly what's been drawn upon the ancient...
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This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer ResistancePortrayals of James Baldwin and others in his circle highlight the iconic writer's activismPublished with National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924-87) considered himself a "witness" as he challenged perspectives on America and its history through his work....
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The World According to David Hockney"I've always been a looker . . . that's what artists do."This anthology of quotations by the artist David Hockney follows in the successful format of The World According to series. Ranging across topics including drawing, photography, nature, creativity, the Internet, and much more,...
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The Valley of Your LifeFrom the moment we are born, we learn an inexorable truth: one day we are going to die, and as we grow older, we get to experience the contraries that often afflict our existence. We have a tendency to fight what we consider negative,...
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The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into BeautyThis book challenges the conventional ideas of art and beauty. What is the value of things made by an anonymous craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why should even the roughly lacquered rice bowl of...
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The Secret Lives of Single Medieval Women: True Stories of Nuns, Maidens, and Not-So-Merry Widows Who Made Their Own Way in the Medieval World (WomenUnveiling the Untold Stories of Women in the Middle Ages#1 New Release in England HistoryFor centuries, medieval history books have told the stories of noble queens, dutiful housewives, and cloistered nuns-but what about the single women who lived, worked, and thrived in medieval Europe?...
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