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The Phoenix or the Flame: Essays on J.K. Rowling's original plans for The Order of the Phoenix - Paperback

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by A. Ibid (Author)Before writing the fifth Harry Potter book, J.K. Rowling created a seven-page handwritten outline of her original vision for the plot, offering an unprecedented glimpse into her writing process. In these early notes, there are noticeable differences in the characters, terminology, and plot, culminating with a different ending, in which Sirius's fate is not brought about by Bellatrix.Three of the essays in this collection focus on the ramifications of specific changes, such ...

Disney: Cinderella Pop-Up Book - Hardcover

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by Matthew Reinhart (Author), Boyk Purdue (Illustrator)More than midnight is striking in this pop-up retelling of Cinderella, the beloved Disney classic film. Explore the intricately crafted celebrated scenes created by world renowned paper engineer Matthew Reinhart. Experience the iconic tale of Cinderella in a whole new way with this stunningly crafted delight of a pop-up book. Featuring intricate paper engineering with lush illustrations, the pages come to life like never before. This delu...

Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Clip Studio Paint: Featuring Tutorials by Expert Professional Artists - Paperback

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by Devin Elle Kurtz (Artist), Publishing (Editor)This exciting, comprehensive Beginner's Guide, written by professional and famous digital artists working with Clip Studio Paint, is the first of its kind and will offer new and existing CSP users an incredibly in-depth look at creating impressive art with the software.Clip Studio Paint is a cross-platform drawing and animation software used by millions of artists worldwide. Its popularity has recently boomed - in 2022, the userbase had grown t...

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature - Hardcover

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by Alison Hokanson (Author), Joanna Seidenstein (Author), Joseph Leo Koerner (Contribution by)A richly illustrated volume surveying the career of Caspar David Friedrich, the German landscape painter whose emotionally profound visions of nature are among the most iconic works of Romantic art The paintings and drawings of the nineteenth-century German landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) brilliantly illuminate our experience of the natural world. This generously illustrated vol...

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Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Maori Art - Hardcover

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by Deidre Brown (Author), Ngarino Ellis (Author), Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (Author)A landmark account in words and pictures of Māori art, by Māori art historians--from Polynesian voyaging waka to contemporary Māori artists. He toi whakairo, he mana tangata. Through artistic excellence, there is human dignity. In six hundred pages and with over five hundred illustrations, this volume takes us on an extraordinary voyage through Māori art--from ancestral weavers to contemporary artists at the Veni...

Natural Yarn Dyes: 25 Vibrant and Sustainable Recipes - Paperback

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by Anna Bauer (Author), Eva Zethraeus (Author)Create a rainbow of vibrant natural yarn dyes using 25 sustainable, tried-and-tested recipes. Achieve rich, lightfast colors from plants, lichen and fungi without compromising safety or the environment. If you've ever dreamed of creating vibrant, natural and completely unique yarn shades for your knitting, crochet or weaving projects, then look no further. Natural dyeing is a wonderful blend of color, chemistry, craft and nature. Here, expert auth...

¡Tocamos!: Mexican Folk Art Music Makers in English and Spanish - Hardcover

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by Cynthia Weill (Author), Avelino Pérez (Illustrator)Young readers will delight in learning about a wide variety of musical instruments in English and Spanish through beautifully handcrafted sculptures from Oaxaca, Mexico. Los lectores jóvenes se deleitarán aprendiendo sobre una amplia variedad de instrumentos musicales en inglés y español a través de bellas esculturas hechas a mano en Oaxaca, México.Musical feathered friends gather to form an ensemble! A rooster brings a double bass, a crow...

I'm Not Your Muse: Uncovering the Overshadowed Brilliance of Women Artists & Visionaries - Hardcover

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by Lori Zimmer (Author), Maria Krasinski (Illustrator)An illuminating exploration of 31 incredible women--across art, architecture, dance, literature, and more--whose culture-defining contributions have, until now, been overshadowed by their role as "muses" to history's better-known men. What does it mean to be someone's "muse"? Historically, to be called a "muse" among artistic circles has been marketed as a flattering title. It is a commendation that most often refers to a woman whose viv...

The Artist's Guide to Sketching: The Classic Book about Making Art on Location - Paperback

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by James Gurney (Author), Thomas Kinkade (Author)A bold new edition of the groundbreaking book by two of America's most prominent visual artists, James Gurney (Dinotopia, Color and Light), and Thomas Kinkade, freshly updated with a new introduction, archival photographs, and illuminating text to guide a new generation of illustrators. "If I could only have one drawing book on my shelf, it would be this one." -Shari Blaukopf, author of the Urban Sketching Handbook: Working With Color Since it...

Digital Painting Made Simple: Create Captivating Portraits in Clip Studio Paint, Procreate, Photoshop & More - Paperback

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by Sara Tepes (Author)Demystify Digital Painting with Easy Tutorials and Prompts Join the digital art movement with Sara Tepes' beautiful and beginner-friendly guide to portrait painting! Packed full of Sara's best tips, step-by-step tutorials and practical art prompts, this handbook is perfect for every curious digital artist. With a focus on semi-realistic portraiture, Sara teaches how to achieve her glowing, ethereal style with cutting- edge techniques. Discover the answers to all of your...

Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony: La Grande Vallée Suite - Hardcover

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by Lisa Rogers (Author), Stacy Innerst (Illustrator)Celebrate the creative process of pioneering American abstract painter Joan Mitchell in this beautifully illustrated STEAM picture book, perfect for all kinds of young creators. It's 1983, and American artist Joan Mitchell is in her studio outside Paris, transforming her emotions and memories into a symphony of colors and shapes. Inspired by her friend's description of an idyllic hidden valley in France, Mitchell creates 21 massive paintings...

A Line Can Go Anywhere: The Brilliant, Resilient Life of Artist Ruth Asawa - Hardcover

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by Caroline McAlister (Author), Jamie Green (Illustrator)A sweeping picture book biography about influential Japanese-American sculptor Aiko Ruth Asawa and her childhood spent in an incarceration camp, by award-winning author Caroline McAlister and rising star artist Jamie Green. Growing up on a dusty farm in Southern California, Ruth Aiko Asawa lived between two worlds. She was Aiko to some and Ruth to others, an invisible line she balanced on every day. But when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, s...

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by Frank Bowling (Artist), Mel Gooding (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Over a half-century of bright, liberating, Pop-inflected expressionism, from British painter Frank BowlingOver the past decade, Frank Bowling (born 1934) has enjoyed belated attention and celebration, including a major Tate Britain retrospective in 2019. This comprehensive monograph, published in 2011, is now available in an updated and expanded edition. Born in British Guiana, Bowling arrived in England in his late teens, goin...

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Carpaccio in Venice: A Guide - Paperback

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by Vittore Carpaccio (Artist), Gabriele Matino (Editor), Patricia Fortini Brown (Editor)Tour the city of Venice through the panoramic paintings of one of its most celebrated chroniclersThe lagoon city of Venice was home to some of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance. Among them was Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1465-1525), whose body of work largely remains to this day in the city in which he lived and died. Influenced by Early Netherlandish art and resistant to Humanist trends, Carpacci...

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by Suzanne Page (Author), Christopher Rothko (Author)- A catalog of the major exhibition of remarkable paintings by Mark Rothko at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, from October 18, 2023 to April 2, 2024- This publication has been produced in close collaboration with the artist's family- Two page fold-outs plunge the reader deep into Rothko's oeuvre- Contains previously unpublished works and archive material- Represents a major cultural event for Paris and the worldThis illustrated catalo...

The Red Blazer Girls: The Mistaken Masterpiece - Paperback

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by Michael D. Beil (Author)The perfect series for kids who loved THE LEMONADE WAR series and are ready for more mysteries! "With wit, cunning, snappy dialogue and superior math skills, The Red Blazer Girls represent the best of girl-detectives while still feeling relatable and real. Nancy Drew would be right at home with this group." -- Huffington Post's 15 Greatest Kid Detectives List Sophie, Margaret, Becca, and Leigh Ann are back in an all-new Red Blazer Girls caper. In the third installme...

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by Cristina Mazzoni (Author)Since antiquity, the she-wolf has served as the potent symbol of Rome. For more than two thousand years, the legendary animal that rescued Romulus and Remus has been the subject of historical and political accounts, literary treatments in poetry and prose, and visual representations in every medium. In She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon, Cristina Mazzoni examines the evolution of the she-wolf as a symbol in western history, art, and literature, from antiquity to c...

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by Ian Dallas (Author)This is an essay on Wagner's musical and literary works. Dallas unfolds Wagner's enlightening and exceptionally intelligent contribution to our understanding of the human condition and the psyche of modern man in his quest for freedom, historical renewal and civic harmony outside the zone of the political forces that exist in the world today. Interweaving philosophy, musical theory, history, bio-politics and literature Dallas recognizes and identifies Wagner's central un...

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Art of Painting Flowers in Oil & Acrylic: Discover Simple Step-By-Step Techniques for Painting an Array of Flowers and Plants - Paperback

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by David Lloyd Glover (Author), James Sulkowski (Author), Varvara Harmon (Author)Learn everything you need to know to create beautiful floral works of art in oil and acrylic This comprehensive book opens with a guide to essential information on the necessary tools and materials for both sketching and painting, including pencils, paints and brushes, palettes, supports, and mediums. In addition to learning about basic drawing and painting techniques and color theory, readers will learn how to c...

Robots in Space! How to Draw Awesome Robots Activity Book - Paperback

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by Activibooks For Kids (Author)This is the activity book that will teach your little ones how to draw some awesome robots. Drawing is a skill that comes naturally in children. What you're doing by getting a copy of this drawing book is that you're helping to refine those skills. How well and fast can your child complete each drawing? Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.08 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: August 06, 2016

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by Michael Glover (Author)This comprehensive monograph offers a detailed examination of the paintings of the acclaimed German painter Neo Rauch (b. 1960). Rauch's paintings deftly blend the iconography of Socialist Realism from his upbringing and art-school training in GDR-era Leipzig with the stylistic mannerisms of the Baroque and Romantic past, conjuring heavily populated sites of great commotion and complexity, remarkably without recourse to preliminary drawing. His compositions and their...

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Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings 1961-2012 - Hardcover

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by Bridget Riley (Artist)Filled with Bridget Riley's mesmerising stripe paintings, this catalogue conveys the artist's unique development in using stripes to animate the entire visual field. Published in conjunction with the Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings 1961-2012 exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, key paintings and studies of Riley's stripe works are collected for the first time. This well-illustrated title demonstrates how Riley reguarly returned to this seemingly simple picto...

Oppen: A Narrative: Revised and Updated Edition - Hardcover

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by Eric R. Hoffman (Author), Michael Heller (Introduction by)George Oppen (1908-1984) was a member of the 'Objectivist' group of poets, with Carl Rakosi, Charles Reznikoff and Louis Zukofsky, and was publisher of the associated press, To Publishers, in the early 1930s. He abandoned poetry later that decade and, faced with the rise of Fascism, became a political activist and member of the Communist Party of the USA. Later, he and his family moved to Mexico to escape the attention of Senator Mc...

How Greek Vase Painting and Lost Wall Paintings Influenced Mosaics - Paperback

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by Gardiner Alexandra (Author)This work analyzes how ancient red-figure vase paintings and lost Greek wall paintings influenced the creation of early mosaics. The use of the silhouette and repeated themes in iconography are particularly significant. The majority of mosaics discussed are from the Greek city Olynthus. Most of the mosaics are located in rooms called andrones and cover subjects primarily related to male symposia, such as Dionysus and satyrs. Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.18 x...

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Thomas Bang: Apparatus for Unstable Conditions - Hardcover

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by Thomas Bang (Artist), Mikkel Bogh (Text by (Art/Photo Books))This monograph presents a thorough overview of the work of the artist Thomas Bang (b. 1938) with emphasis on his three-dimensional work. Essays by four Danish art historians trace his years as a painter in the early 1960s, his subsequent development as a sculptor in the late 1960s, and his activity on the New York art scene through the 1980s. Number of Pages: 348 Dimensions: 1.5 x 12.2 x 9.8 IN Publication Date: September 26, 2023

Men and Bulls: a Basic Explanation of the Art of Bullfighting - Hardcover

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by True 1928- Bowen (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, repr...

Selective Guide to the Collection - Paperback

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by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to...

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by Daniel Mendelsohn (Author), Aimee Ng (Author)New volume in the Frick Diptych series focuses on an enigmatic Renaissance portrait, pairing an essay by Frick curator Aimee Ng with a contribution by bestselling author Daniel Mendelsohn.Painted about 1550-50 by Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572), this remarkable portrait depicts the young Florentine aristocrat Lodovico Capponi (b. 1534), an associate of the Medici court. Capponi wears black and white, his family's armorial colors. His right ...

Ekphrasis: Paintings and Poems - Paperback

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by David McCauley (Author)E K P H R A S I S is a rhetorical device, in which one medium of art relates to another medium by describing its essence and form, and in doing so, connects more directly to the audience. A descriptive work of prose or poetry may thus highlight what is shown in any of the visual arts, enhancing the original art and taking on a life of its own through its description. Virtually any type of artistic media may be the actor of, or subject of ekphrasis. In this way, a poe...

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Impressions of Newfoundland: The Art of Ting Ting Chen - Paperback

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by Ting Ting Chen (Photographer)Impressions of Newfoundland showcases the island's landscape and people through fine art and reveals the stories behind the images. Impressions of Newfoundland showcases the selected works of photographer Ting Ting Chen's landscape photos and fine art portraits. As a newcomer to Newfoundland, she uses her unique perspective in photography to show her impressions of this province, to reveal the bonds between people and places, and to tell the story of how she fo...

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by Mary Richards (Author)Marina Abramovic is the creator of pioneering performance art which transcends the form's provocative origins. Her visceral and extreme performances have tested the limits of both body and mind, communicating with audiences worldwide on a personal and political level. Updated and revised throughout, the book combines: a biography, setting out the contexts of Abramovic's work an examination of the artist through her writings, interviews and influences a detailed...

Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance - Paperback

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by John K. G. Shearman (Author)A leading art historian's plea for a more engaged reading of Italian Renaissance art Only Connect constructs a history of Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves by the spectator, that draw the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning, and that reposition the spectator imaginatively or in time and space. John Shearman's concern is mostly with anterior relationships with the viewer--that is, relatio...