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Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White PaintingsDuring the early 1950s, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) created one of the most anomalous bodies of work of his career: graphite drawings on undercoats of blue or ocher painted over a titanium white ground. For an artist known for his love of color and impasto,...
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Curious Affair: The Fascination Between East and WestThrough dozens of beautiful art pieces and lively commentary, this charming art book explores the legacies of five centuries of interaction between Asia and Europe. The mutual fascination began with the sea contact made during the early Renaissance. Although relations between East and West...
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Edward Borein: Cowboy ArtistJohn Edward Borein (1872-1945) was the oldest of five children, born into a politically inclined family in San Leandro, then a Western cow town on the main northern California cattle trail not far from Oakland. The constant stream of cattle and 'vaqueros' moving through...
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Leonardo by Leonardo: Leonardo Da VinciA landmark publication on Leonardo da Vinci, the immortal Renaissance artist universally considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Leonardo by Leonardo, by Martin J. Kemp, one of the world's leading authorities on Leonardo da Vinci, presents an astonishing gallery of the...
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How to Carve Wood: A Book of Projects and TechniquesWoodcarver Richard Butz teaches chapter by chapter whittling, chip carving, wildlife carving, relief carving, lettering, and architectural carving. In How to Carve Wood, the reader learns by doing, working through carefully illustrated and progressively more challenging exercises and projects. Butz provides scaled patterns for...
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Anish Kapoor: MemorySince the early 1980s, Anish Kapoor's investigations into objecthood, materiality and gravity have explored the concept of the void, or objects becoming space. His sculptures, installations and public art test the phenomenology of space and have historically been characterized by intensely tactile or reflective...
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Four Pictures by Emily CarrEmily Carr was one of the few famous women painters of her generation, and today her work is being exhibited with and compared to that of Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. In this original picture book, Nicolas Debon traces Carr's life through four of...
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Making Believe: Questions about Mennonites and ArtMaking Believe responds to a remarkable flowering of art by Mennonites in Canada. After the publication of his first novel in 1962, Rudy Wiebe was the only identifiable Mennonite literary writer in the country. Beginning in the 1970s, the numbers grew rapidly and now...
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The Magic of Juju: An Appreciation of the Black Arts MovementA contextual historical examination of the civil rights movement and the artists who inspired it, this recollection depicts this storied era and how these artists signified the affecting change they helped create. The exploration details the development of the Black Arts Movement--from precursor activities...
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Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga"His total conviction in multiple existences within our physical world is as much an inspiration to some of the most brilliant fiction in Yoruba writing as it is a deeply felt urge to 'justify the ways of God to man.'"Wole Soyinka, translator and Nobel...
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Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000From toys, furniture, books and clothing to playgrounds, schools, children's hospitals and nurseries, Century of the Child looks at innovative visions for the material world of childrenIn 1900, Swedish design reformer and social theorist Ellen Key published The Century of the Child, presaging the...
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Mitch O'Connell: TattoosCollects 250 tattoo designs by Mitch O'Connell--The best of his three sets of tattoo flash: Stewed, Screwed and Tattooed, Done While Drunk, and From the Bottom of the Barrel. Mitch O'Connell's art is reminiscent of the Old School Tattoo Art, from masters such as...
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The Dizzy Dictionary##A fake children's book in the guise of an illustrated dictionary, with large colorful illustrations, oversize typefaces and simple definitions, featuring a wandering gremlin as comic relief. An A-B-C of kustom kulture, lowbrow, and hot-rod cultural terms, presented in a friendly child-like book. The...
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Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for JusticeThe legendary names include Rothschild, Mendelssohn, Bloch-Bauer--distinguished bankers, industrialists, diplomats, and art collectors. Their diverse taste ranged from manuscripts and musical instruments to paintings by Old Masters and the avant-garde. But their stigma as Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe doomed them to...
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The Art Glass of Louis Comfort TiffanyLouis Comfort Tiffany considered his Favrile glass, produced between the 1890s and 1920s, his signature artistic achievement. Now highly collectible, the glass underscores one-of-a-kind quality--every piece was blown and decorated by hand. This definitive account explores the full range of Tiffany Studios' remarkably diverse...
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Mucha: Reverie (Foiled Journal)Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed then foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps,...
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Maine and American Art: The Farnsworth Art MuseumIn this expansive volume devoted to one of the premier art collections in the U.S., the rich and full picture of Maine's central role in American art from the early nineteenth century to the present is chronicled. Published on the occasion of Maine's bicentennial,...
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David WisemanAn intimate look at this highly acclaimed and popular L.A.-based contemporary designer and artist, who marries old-world techniques with a modern twist, and is best known for his exquisite craftsmanship and detailed creations in bronze, porcelain, and crystal. David Wiseman is one of the...
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Laurie Anderson: All the Things I Lost in the FloodAn icon of performance art and the indie-music world, this is the first book on the artist's full career to date, as curated by the artist herself. Laurie Anderson is one of the most revered artists working today, and she is as prolific as...
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Richard Diebenkorn: Revised and ExpandedRichard Diebenkorn: Revised and Expanded by Gerald Nordland is a detailed look at the artwork and life of the acclaimed American artist Richard Diebenkorn. This book captures the modernist works of Diebenkorn, who passed away in 1993. It includes sections on the artist's prints,...
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