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Assaracus Issue 26: A Journal of Gay and Queer Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Bryan Borland (Editor)After years away, Assaracus roars back to life: fluid, defiant, unapologetic, and gloriously multiple. Assaracus Issue 26 revives the journal that never played it safe. This time it's louder, queerer, and more unruly, cracking open the doors to a wilder range of voices. In the spirit of the gritty, imperfect, bold poetry magazines and presses of the '70s and '80s, this issue hums with risk, bite, and desire. This isn't for tenure. This is ...

Black Artists in America: From the Bicentennial to September 11

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Report copyright infringementby Ellen Daugherty (Author), Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins (Author), Julie L. McGee (Author)This third and final volume in the Black Artists in America series features work from the transitional moment of the late 1970s to the dawn of the twenty-first century In the 1980s and 1990s, Black artists in the United States who came of age during the civil rights activity of the preceding decades began experimenting with new media and innovative approaches to artmaking, of...

An Alphabet for Dreamers: How to See the World with Eyes Closed

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Sliwinski (Author), Melinda Josie (Illustrator)A captivating and trailblazing look at how dreams serve as one of our most powerful ways to understand--and radically change--our world. A small, intimate gift book with 26 charming watercolor illustrations--the perfect bedside companion for your favorite dreamer. Borrowing from the traditional alphabet book genre for children, An Alphabet for Dreamers provides adult readers with a new grammar for dreams, or...

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Report copyright infringementby Diana Craig Patch (Editor), Brendan Hainline (Editor)A rare and captivating look at ancient Egyptian deities that demystifies their complex iconography to illuminate three millennia of life and religious practice Ancient Egyptian religious practice flourished across millennia and encompassed a staggering array of gods, goddesses, and other divine beings. This publication outlines the rich iconography used to represent Egyptian deities--from the stately falcon-...

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Report copyright infringementby Larry Gagosian (Introduction by), Paloma Picasso (Contribution by), Peter Doig (Contribution by)This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Picasso: Tête-à-Tête at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, presented in collaboration with the artist's daughter Paloma Picasso. Drawn largely from Picasso's estate, the book features over sixty rarely seen paintings, sculptures, and drawings from the full span of his career, from 1896 to 1972. Inspired b...

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Report copyright infringementby Jesse Mockrin (Artist), Adam Harris Levine (Editor), Jesse Mockrin (Contribution by)Baroque masterpieces from the Art Gallery of Ontario resonate throughout Mockrin's new oil paintings full of unsettling, uncanny dramaPublished with Art Gallery of Ontario. Philadelphia-based artist Jesse Mockrin (born 1981) studies the past to make art for the present. Drawing upon Old Master works, specifically from the 17th century, Mockrin's dynamic and active large-scale oi...

Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and His Contemporaries

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Report copyright infringementby Ian Warrell (Author)Rarely seen watercolors by the greatest English artists of the 19th century, beautifully reproduced. Curated and introduced by Ian Warrell, the leading expert on Turner, this selection from the fabled Hickman Bacon collection is one of the finest groups of British watercolors in existence, and hardly ever seen or reproduced. Centered around 32 watercolors by Turner, including some of his breathtaking views of the Alps, early views, and late ...

Calligraphy for Swifties:: Hand-Lettering Practice with Taylor Swift's Favorite Words

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Report copyright infringementby Sophia Ivy (Author)Check your Reputation and make gorgeous DIY projects with Taylor Swift-inspired calligraphy Channel the eras and unleash your inner artist with Calligraphy for Swifties. Taylor Swift fans and DIY artists alike will be enchanted by five calligraphy styles with these easy-to-follow practice pages. Complete with helpful lettering tips and techniques, you can blend the calming artistry of calligraphy with your devotion to Miss Americana herself. ...

Big School of Drawing People: Well-Explained, Practice-Oriented Drawing Instruction for the Beginning Artist

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Foster Creative Team (Author)INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SERIES, now in English! More than 2.3 million copies sold in 23 languages! Big School of Drawing People is the ultimate guide to the art of drawing realistic and diverse human figures. Whether you are a complete beginner or an artist with some experience looking to refine your skills, this 192-page book covers the essential techniques you need to capture people from various angles, ages, ethnicities,...

Big School of Drawing Animals: Well-Explained, Practice-Oriented Drawing Instruction for the Beginning Artist

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Foster Creative Team (Author)INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SERIES, now in English! More than 2.3 million copies sold in 23 languages!Big School of Drawing Animals is your complete guide to the art of drawing animals with accuracy, creativity, and fun. Whether you are a complete beginner or an artist with some experience looking to refine your skills, this 192-page book covers all the essentials you need to create both realistic and imaginative animal art, fr...

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Dyeing with the Earth: Textiles, Tradition, and Sustainability in Contemporary Japan

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Report copyright infringementby Charlotte Linton (Author)In Dyeing with the Earth, Charlotte Linton explores the intersection of small-scale traditional craft production with contemporary sustainability practices. Focusing on natural textile dyeing on the southern Japanese island of Amami Ōshima, Linton details the complex relationship between preservation practices, resource extraction, and land access in the production of Oshima tsumugi kimono cloth, which uses the indigenous technique of d...

Miami's Art Boom: From Local Vision to International Presence

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Report copyright infringementby Elisa Turner (Author)Discover how Miami's local art community transformed the city into a hub of global artistic exchangeStep into the vibrant heartbeat of Miami's art scene during a transformative period in Miami's Art Boom. Award-winning art critic Elisa Turner presents over 100 of her best profiles, reviews, and stories to capture the evolution of Miami's visual arts community before and after the inaugural Art Basel Miami Beach in 2002. This book reveals ho...

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Report copyright infringementby Insight Editions (Author)Go behind the scenes of the extraordinary Harry Potter film series, with this collection of stunning storyboard art from all eight films. In this remarkable art collection including scenes and settings from all eight Harry Potter films, Harry Potter storyboard artists share the work that laid the foundation for the visually enchanting magical landscapes of the beloved film series. From Hogwarts to the Burrow to Diagon Alley, learn how t...

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Report copyright infringementby Andy Goldsworthy (Author), Patrick Elliott (Contribution by), Tor Scott (Contribution by)Andy Goldsworthy reflects on an astonishing 50 years. Illustrated with works spanning Goldworthy's career, the book includes a wide-ranging interview with the artist. Andy Goldsworthy tells the story of his career in his own words - from school art classrooms to the ambitious retrospective exhibition this book accompanies. In a wide-ranging and personal conversation, Goldsw...

Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women's Art

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Report copyright infringementby Bimbola Akinbola (Author)In Transatlantic Disbelonging, Bimbola Akinbola redirects the focus in diaspora studies from questions of loss and longing to acts of unapologetic self-definition through the study of Nigerian diasporic women artists navigating disparate geographies, allegiances, and identities. Drawing on the work of contemporary visual and performance artists, experimental filmmakers, and writers--including Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Njideka Akunyili Crosby...

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Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914

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Report copyright infringementby Rick A. López (Author)Since the first moment of conquest, colonizers and the colonized alike in Mexico confronted questions about what it meant to be from this place, what natural resources it offered, and who had the right to control those resources and on what basis. Focusing on the ways people, environment, and policies have been affected by political boundaries, historian Rick A. López explores the historical connections between political identities and th...

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Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah E. K. Smith (Author)Explores how the art world navigated North American free trade. The 1989 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement reinvented the concept of North America as a cohesive whole, united by free trade. But within the bold concept of continental unity lay a paradox. While art was mobilized to frame the new narrative, culture itself was explicitly excluded from the agreements that implemented this vision. T...

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Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village: Pueblo Perspectives on the American Southwest

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Report copyright infringementby Siera Hyte (Editor), Jill Ahlberg Yohe (Editor), Juan Lucero (Editor)An illuminating corrective to the limiting perspective of the Pueblo people put forth by the Taos Society of Artists Published with Colby College Museum of Art. Drawn to the region in pursuit of what they described as uniquely American subjects, the founding members of the Taos Society of Artists (TSA)--a group of Anglo-American painters active in the early 20th century--traveled to Pueblo hom...

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Head--The Mind

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Report copyright infringementby Jean-Michel Basquiat (Artist), Larry Warsh (Editor), Sophia Heriveaux (Text by (Art/Photo Books))An oversize, faux-leather-bound volume presenting a focused selection of Basquiat's energized depictions of heads and facesAmong the most recognizable motifs of Jean-Michel Basquiat's oeuvre is the human head. Whether colorful, bald, crowned or simply disquieting, his expressive approach evokes the skeletal aspects of these faces, reminding us of the skull beneath t...

Art Celebrity Launch Collection October 2025 - Global Icon of Mystical Art, Dr. Harpal Sodhi: American Contemporary Artist's Journey into the Constell

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Report copyright infringementby Art Celebrity Magazine (Author)Art Celebrity Magazine by Contemporary Art CollectorsLaunch Collection - Autumn 2025Issue: Dr. Harpal SodhiWhere contemporary art meets culture, style, and influence.Art Celebrity Magazine breaks away from the traditional art world. It is fresh, bold, and made for today's audience, celebrating artists not just as creators but as the new influencers and cultural celebrities.Created by Contemporary Art Collectors, this magazine high...

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Report copyright infringementby Susie Nash (Author)This book offers a wide-ranging introduction to the way that art was made, valued, and viewed in northern Europe in the age of the Renaissance, from the late fourteenth to the early years of the sixteenth century. Drawing on a rich range of sources, from inventories and guild regulations to poetry and chronicles, it examines everything from panel paintings to carved altarpieces. While many little-known works are foregrounded, Susie Nash also...

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Report copyright infringementby Sara Caldwell (Author)Splatter Flicks: How to Make Low-Budget Horror Films (2nd Edition) is your crash course in turning a micro-budget idea into a killer movie-from the first scream on the page to the final cut on a streamer. This updated edition folds in today's tools and techniques and adds fresh, on-the-ground insights from working pros across writing, acting, stunts, costume and production design, music, editing, special effects, and distribution.You'll le...

Guillermo del Toro: Cabinet of Curiosities [Reissue]: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions

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Report copyright infringementby Guillermo del Toro (Author), Marc Scott Zicree (With)The crucible of Guillermo del Toro's unifying vision can be found in his fabled notebooks--illustrated diaries where he records his inspirations and which often lead directly to the distinctive entities, moments, and settings found in his creations. Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities takes these personal records of his creative process as the basis for a stunning art book and insightful examination o...

The Mindful Guide for Beginners in Epoxy Resin Art

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Fain (Author)The Minful Guide for Beginners in Epoxy Resin Art; Discover the joy of epoxy resin art in just one afternoon-no art degree, studio, or zen master required.Are you curious about epoxy resin art but unsure where to begin? Do you crave mindful moments and creative expression-yet feel overwhelmed by all the choices, steps, and safety rules? Have you tried tutorials, only to end up frustrated by sticky messes, bubbles, or projects that just didn'...

The California Camera Club: Collective Visions in the Making of the American West Volume 40

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Report copyright infringementby Carolin Görgen (Author)With some 400 members, the California Camera Club was the largest photography network in the United States in the early twentieth century. In The California Camera Club, Carolin Görgen recaptures the lost history of this community--and reveals its critical but little-known role in defining the popular image of California, and the American West generally, for posterity. At a time when hand-held cameras were multiplying and San Francisco w...

Digital Games and the Category of Auteur: An Intersectional Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Filip Jankowski (Author)Digital games are collaborative endeavors, yet poststructural theory's deconstruction of the auteur concept overlooks its potential. This study proposes reformulating the auteur category to empower non-Western and non-heteronormative female developers. The auteur concept, currently seen as serving Western, white, heterosexual male interests, can be pivotal in subjectifying diverse developers and teams.Through examining works of Muriel Tr...

Rose Unfolding: Poems Honoring the Journey from Maiden to Mother

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Report copyright infringementby Stacey Maney (Author)Rose Unfolding invites readers into an intimate journey of voice and transformation. Gathered from sketchbooks spanning college days through the initiation of motherhood, these poems trace the passage from Maiden to Mother, honoring each stage with honesty and wonder.Alongside the words, Stacey's black-and-white illustrations pulse like abstract energy maps-fluid yet grounded; weaving realistic forms into the unseen currents of our consciou...

Ivan Aivazovsky: Master of the seascape painting

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Charles (Author)The seascapes of Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) made his name in Russia, his native country where he was a painter of the court of Nicholas I, yet his fame barely extended beyond these borders. Master of the Sublime, he made the ocean the principal subject of his work. Sometimes wild and raging, sometimes calm and peaceful, the life of the ocean is composed of as many allegories as the human condition. Like Turner, whom he knew and whose a...

Silhouette: A Pair of Stories by a Student

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Report copyright infringementby Enze Zhang (Author), Yifan Chen (Illustrator)These two short stories were selected from others already written and yet more never put to paper. "Stanlee" allows us to follow the narrator, a sixteen-year-old boy, as he attempts to escape from his hard-rock grandma and engage in a Catcher-in-the-Rye adventure to seek "color" and recall memories. "Dagger" welcomes into us into a cloistered student world were Josh, Lucas and Ares are new students at boarding school...

Art Inside and Out: The Philosophy and Psychology of Art

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Eisenhardt (Author)What is art and how does it work? These questions are the subject of Art Inside and Out. Art has an important and universal status in human cultures. Yet particularly in light of new movements and styles that developed in the late 19th and 20th centuries, it is difficult to say exactly what art is. The book starts with an exploration of the definition of art, looking at what we generally consider to be art, its characteristics, and its f...

Aerosol Art Kings: Photographs of Street Art in New York City, 2018-2024

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Report copyright infringementby Kurt Boone (Author), T. K. Mills (Foreword by)Readers can immerse themselves in New York City's vibrant street art culture with Aerosol Art Kings: Photographs of Street Art in New York City, 2018-2024. This visually stunning book features over 200 photographs capturing the dynamic, ever-changing world of contemporary aerosol art. Key Features - Ephemeral art documented: Showcases transient works, some now painted over and others still visible - Artist recog...

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Report copyright infringementby Shelah D. Sandefur (Author)Full Description yOur Backyard Magazine, a quarterly online and print publication, encourages writers, actors, artists, musicians, photographers, gardeners, crafters, and youth [of all ages]. We also offer contests with the potential to be included in forthcoming issues of yOur Backyard Magazine and yOur Backyard books. For each issue, we welcome and consider: ●Personal inspirational stories●Poems ●Artwork●Songs●Photographs●Biblical ...