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Soul Sing: Singing Torah for Health and Holiness - Paperback

$18.70

by Debra Cohen (Author)Soul Sing: Singing Torah for Health and Holiness explores the transformative power of singing as a tool for healing, connection, and spiritual renewal. Blending Jewish tradition with modern science, this book reveals how sacred song-through Torah chanting, niggunim (wordless melodies), and communal singing-can enhance well-being, reduce stress, and foster deeper relationships.Grounded in rabbinic teachings, neuroscience, and the World Health Organization's recognition o...

Artist Entrepreneurship for Life: Making Art Work for You - Paperback

$79.36

by Diane R. Scott (Author)Holistically addressing the documented needs of practicing artists, this book applies contemporary business management principles to the unique circumstances of people who make their living through creative expression.Artists looking to forge a career have had to turn to either entrepreneurship resources or professional practice tools specific to a discipline such as studio arts or theatre--but the business-school entrepreneurial approach conflicts with the way artis...

Before the Applause: Why Artists Need to Be Good Project Managers - Hardcover

$61.92

by Joe Desensi (Author), Joe Hanna (Author), Iam Bennett (Illustrator)Heralded as "witty, wise, accessible, practical, vibrant" - "a roadmap for leaders, artists, and project managers," "a true breath of fresh air," and "an outstanding performance."There are many steps between CREATION and STANDING OVATION. And most artists don't know how to navigate them. Readers of Before the Applause will have a leg up on "breaking a leg" thanks to the practical tools and tips - and the inspiring and enter...

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The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting: Volume 3 - Paperback

$48.60

by Anneka French (Editor), Matt Price (Introduction by)Showcases eighty-five British artists through solo exhibitions, providing a comprehensive look at recent developments in contemporary painting.Following the success of The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting in 2018 and The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 2 in 2021, a third volume has been created to showcase solo exhibitions that have defined contemporary painting since the second volume. This new, even larger a...

Color with Stickers 4-Book Boxed Set: Dinosaurs; Space; Jungle; Ocean - Paperback

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by Jonny Marx (Author), Tiger Tales (Compiled by)Children can color with stickers with this exciting boxed set! Includes Dinosaurs, Space, Jungle, and Ocean, and each book includes more than 120 stickers. Children can color with stickers with this exciting boxed set, which included Dinosaurs, Space, Jungle, and Ocean. Match the stickers to the numbered grids on each page to create a variety of scenes. The books include fun facts on the back of every page and pull-out pages for display upon co...

Rayguns and Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book Cover Art - Hardcover

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by Rian Hughes (Author)Rayguns and rockets! Spacesuited heroes caught in the tentacles of evil insectoid aliens! Who could resist such wonders? Science-fiction paperbacks exploded over the 1940s and '50s literary landscape with the force of an alien gamma bomb. Titles such as Rodent Mutation, The Human Bat vs The Robot Gangster, Dawn of the Mutants and Mushroom Men from Mars appeared from fly-by-night publishers making the most of the end of post-war paper rationing. They were brash and seduc...

Japanese Tattoo Atlas: 45 Irezumi Style Artists from Around the World - Hardcover

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by Santiago Lombardi (Author)A visually rich book about Japanese style tattooing, far-reaching in terms of scope and depth, that offers readers a comprehensive picture of the influence of traditional Japanese tattoos on some of the best tattoo artists working in the genre today.Irezumi, or simply tattooing, has a long history in Japanese culture. Arranged by continents, this book features a varied and diverse selection of 45 top tattoo artists from around the world, from ones whose creations ...

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Mothmeister: Sinister and Spiritual Post-Mortem Fairy Tales - Hardcover

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by Mothmeister (Author)Author BiographyThe dystopian dream world of the Belgian duo Mothmeister intrigues a large and loyal fan base worldwide. Their dark, constantly mutating fairy tale figures pay homage to taxidermy. Mothmeister's muses? Their impressive private collection of stuffed animals, masks, costumes, numerous international artists they collaborate with, and their unbridled wanderlust. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 1.09 x 11.16 x 9.71 IN Publication Date: February 18, 2025

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Islamic Biomorphic Patterns: Creating Motifs Inspired by the Natural World - Paperback

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by Esra Alhamal (Author)A practical guide to drawing and painting beautiful Islamic botanical patterns. The ancient art of Islamic pattern is steeped in tradition, with dazzling motifs inspired by geometry and nature. Islamic biomorphic patterns are the floral, organic and flowing designs that usually sit within a geometric frame and are often referred to as Nabati, Arabesque, Islimi or Rumi. These patterns can be found on anything from grand architectural monuments to illuminated manuscript...

The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante's Commedia - Paperback

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by Matthew Collins (Author)The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante's "Commedia" provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated editions of Dante's poem, stretching from 1481 through 1596, and features over 230 illustrations.Developing a series of interdisciplinary methods for studying early printed book illustrations, Matthew Collins explores the visual sources for the first illustrated editions of the Commedia, their narrative qualities, and their influence on Renaissanc...

Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History - Hardcover

$183.60

by Laura Rademaker (Author), Sally K. May (Author), Gabriel Maralngurra (Author) Number of Pages: 204 Dimensions: 0.62 x 9.23 x 6.38 IN Publication Date: December 05, 2024

Design History: An Anthology - Paperback

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by Dennis P. Doordan (Editor)his anthology compiled from volumes 3-10 of Design Issues, includes material from areas seldom discussed in existing surveys and will facilitate the general discourse within the design community on a wide range of conceptual and methodological issues of contemporary design history.Design history has emerged in recent years as a significant field of scholarly research and critical reflection. With their interest in the conceptualization, production, and consumption...

But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It? - Paperback

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by Boff Whalley (Author)Life's stories are always prone to disruption and digression, thwarting the neat storybook narrative we love so much. Almost all of our stories follow the same basic pattern: beginning, middle, end: exposition, action and climax. It's a neat and tidy way of telling a story. But life's not like that, is it? Life is not neat and tidy, it doesn't obey the rules. Life's stories--like the stories told here in But, personal and impersonal, historical and contemporary--are pu...

Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery - Hardcover

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by Gertrude Abercrombie (Artist), Eric Crosby (Editor), Sarah Humphreville (Editor) Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.94 x 12.13 x 9.53 IN Publication Date: February 18, 2025

The Marvel Comics Covers of Jack Kirby Volume 1 - Hardcover

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by Marvel (Author), Jack Kirby (Illustrator), Vincent Iadevaia (Editor)Author BiographyBorn Jacob Kurtzberg in 1917 to Jewish-Austrian parents on New York's Lower East Side, Jack Kirby came of age at the birth of the American comic book industry. Beginning his career during the rising tide of Nazism, Kirby and fellow artist Joe Simon created the patriotic hero Captain America. Cap's exploits on the comic book page entertained millions of American readers at home and inspired U.S. troops fight...

Banksy's Lost Works: On the Trail of His Vanishing Street Art - Hardcover

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by Will Ellsworth-Jones (Author)A landmark exploration of the sold, stolen, and destroyed works of Banksy, perhaps one of the most famous and controversial living artists of our time. A victim of his own success, Banksy is famous the world over and yet more famously disdainful of the spotlight, preferring to remain anonymous. Considered by many to be one of the greatest living artists in the world and to others a rogue vandal with a political agenda, Banksy has scandalized and enlightened the...

Andres Valencia: Painting Without Rules - Hardcover

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by Andres Valencia (Author), Alexander M. Rigby (Author)Step inside the studio of Andres Valencia, the child prodigy who has astonished the art world with his boldly inventive paintings. In 2021, Andres became the youngest artist in history to showcase his work at Art Miami, where his large-scale portrait paintings informed by Cubism quickly sold out. He has since taken the creative world by storm, selling dozens of paintings for six-figure sums and sharing videos of his paintings-in-process ...

The Art of the Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim - Hardcover

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by Daniel Falconer (Author)A comprehensive, large-format hardcover offering unparalleled insight into the making of The War of the Rohirrim, and the complete creative journey from concept to finished film told by the artists and filmmakers themselves.Written and compiled by Daniel Falconer, conceptual artist at the Academy Award-winning design studio, Weta Workshop, this indispensable book chronicles the stunning conception and design of the world of Middle-earth in Kenji Kaimyama's The Lord ...

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Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning - Paperback

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by Kimberly Juanita Brown (Author)A poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature--everywhere, if you know how to see it. In Black Elegies, Kimberly Juanita Brown examines the form of the elegy and its unique capacity to convey the elongated grief borne of sustained racial violence. Structured around the sensorial, the book moves through sight, sound, and touch to reveal what Okwui Enwezor calls the "national emergency of black grief." Wi...

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Ten Steps for Recording Pictographs and Petroglyphs: Methods and Technologies - Paperback

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by Lawrence L. Loendorf (Author), Nancy Medaris Stone (Author)Pictograph and petroglyph sites, commonly identified as sacred by Indigenous communities, offer the potential of great insight into past belief systems and ritual activities if carefully recorded. The aesthetic appeal of the art itself has long been appreciated, and chemical and artistic analyses have been applied to these depictions to uncover deeper information such as chronology and pigment composition. In Ten Steps for Recordin...

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Easter: The Rest of the Story - Hardcover

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by Rick Renner (Author)What Really Happened During Jesus' Last Hours Before the Cross? Many have heard the story before -- that Christ died, was buried, and rose again -- but what about the days and hours leading up to His crucifixion? What happened in those critical moments, and why did it happen? Presenting Scripture as well as the writings of Early Church fathers, Rick documents the journey of Christ from the Garden to the Cross and beyond, revealing: Why hundreds of soldiers -- not ju...

How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art - Hardcover

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by Morgan Falconer (Author)"Art has poisoned our life," proclaimed Dutch artist and De Stijl cofounder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of World War I, avant-garde artists and writers sought to destroy art by transforming it into the substance of everyday life. Following the evolution of these revolutionary groups, How to Be Avant-Garde charts its pioneers and radical ideas.From Paris to New York, from Zurich to Moscow and B...

Progressive Printmakers: Wisc Artists and the Print Renaissance - Paperback

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by Warrington Colescott (Author), Daniel Murtaugh (Editor)Denton Welch (1915-48) died at the age of thirty-three after a brief but brilliant career as a writer and painter. The revealing, poignant, impressionistic voice that buoys his novels was much praised by critics and literati in England and has since inspired creative artists from William S. Burroughs to John Waters. His achievements were all the more remarkable because he suffered from debilitating spinal and pelvic injuries incurred i...

Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet - Hardcover

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by Laura Jacobs (Author)A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of ballet As much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad -- in Russia, Italy, and France. In Celestial Bodies, dance critic Laura Jacobs makes the foreign familiar, providing a lively, poetic, and uniquely accessible introduction to the world of classical da...

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by David Scrase (Author), Andrew Morris (Photographer)This Handbook illustrates a selection of drawings of flowers from the collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum. The book is arranged chronologically and ranges from the fifteenth century to the present day. Beginning with illustrations from the borders and backgrounds of illuminated manuscripts, the selection traces the form through attempts at accurate delineation of form during the Renaissance to the more scientific approach of the later sev...

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by Daniel Leers (Author), Seydou Keïta (Photographer), El Hadj Hamidou Maïga (Photographer)The influence of Malian photographers Malick Sidib? and Seydou Ke?ta has been widespread since their emergence on the international scene in the 1990s. Their intimate black and white photos integrate pattern, decoration, portraiture, and iconography in entirely new ways, bespeaking a new post-colonial African identity. This catalogue features an essay and artist biographies that survey the major practit...

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Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden - Paperback

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by Kwame Dawes (Editor), Matthew Shenoda (Editor), Derek Walcott (Foreword by)Borrowing from Romare Bearden's aesthetic palette and inspired by his Odysseus series, Bearden's Odyssey gathers, for the first time, poems from thirty-five of the most revered African diaspora poets in the United States. Poetic echoes come forth in themes of inspiration with historical intersections of one of the greatest visual artists of the twentieth century. The award-winning editors, Kwame Dawes and Matthew S...

Art, Culture, & Education: Artful Teaching in a Fractured Landscape - Paperback

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by Joe L. Kincheloe (Other), Shirley R. Steinberg (Other), Karel Rose (Author)While the authors of this book were team teaching a course called High and Low Art: Good and Bad Taste, the Sensation controversy at the Brooklyn Museum broke out. This controversy not only shaped their course, but had larger implications for art, culture, and education in general for the twenty-first century. By asking serious aesthetic and cultural questions about art and teaching, this book explores the power of ...

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Shadows on a Wall: Juan O'Gorman and the Mural in Patzcuaro - Hardcover

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by Hilary Masters (Author)Novelist and essayist Hilary Masters recreates a moment in 1940s Pittsburgh when circumstances, ideology, and a passion for the arts collided to produce a masterpiece in another part of the world. E. J. Kaufmann, the so-called "merchant prince" who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, was a man whose hunger for beauty included women as well as architecture. He had transformed his family's department store into an art deco showcase with murals by Boardman R...

Smart Sketch Book 7: Oogie Art's step-by-step guide to drawing body structures in pastel. - Paperback

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by Wook Choi (Director), Clara Lu (Co-Producer)Oogie Art's Smart Sketchbook is filled with step-by-step exercises and expert tips proven to help you improve your drawing skills in less than a month. Learn to draw complex objects, build strong foundational skills, diversify your drawing techniques, and pick the right drawing supplies. Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.11 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: December 01, 2015

Hand-Lettered from A to Z: An Alphabet Coloring Book - Paperback

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by Lisa Lorek (Author)Free Period's newest coloring book presents 26 beautifully illustrated pages by lettering artist, Lisa Lorek. Each 8 x 10" page features one letter of the alphabet, ranging from simple outlines to more intricate designs, so that children and adults alike can enjoy filling the pages with color Unwind, clear your mind or spark your creative juices with Hand-Lettered from A to Z: An Alphabet Coloring Book. Best when used with crayons, colored pencils or washable markers. F...

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by Georges Lebar (Author)A collaboration of painting and poetry in which the bed is depicted as icon, as locus, the central scene where varying characters enact their dramas. Sappho's is the voice, an index of fragmentation. This work contains her archives, preserving the space behind closed doors, lost for centuries, recently retrieved and reinvented. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: October 29, 2007