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by Jo Lawson-Tancred (Author)AI and the Art Market is the first book to offer an approachable introduction to AI for art-market professionals, considering AI's impact on and possible applications within the art world, whether as a business tool or as an artistic medium. The two primary topics of how AI is affecting the art market, and the growing market for AI art, are united under the broad theme of how art-market professionals can be better equipped to work with AI in an art-world context, ...

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Make Your Own Movies: A Beginner's Guide to Filmmaking with Whatever Equipment You Have - Paperback

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by Migue Parga (Author)A guide to making movies at home with whatever equipment you have, learning the basics of cinematographic and storytelling techniques.Filmmaking, we are told in the introduction, is the "reverse engineering of dreams... a spell that brings dreams and visions to life." This book is a comprehensive primer on the craft of filmmaking, and is ideal for amateur filmmakers, film students, film lovers, hobbyists, and anyone else interested in making movies and bringing their ci...

Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues: Selected Writings on Popular Culture - Paperback

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by Franklin Rosemont (Author), Abigail Susik (Editor), Paul Buhle (Editor)Rediscover the most insightful and incendiary cultural commentaries from a leading figure in the revival of Surrealism.Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues is a collection of Franklin Rosemont's writings on popular culture over a period of more than forty years. Rosemont, a self-taught scholar, poet, and artist, playfully uncovers the sometimes hidden-in-plain-sight writers and artists who managed to be both popular, v...

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Dreams of Manga: A Magical Coloring Book - Paperback

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by Narano (Author)Step into a dreamy, magical realm with this enchanting coloring book. Intricate, whimsical illustrations invite you to immerse yourself in a stunning fantasy world. This exquisite coloring book by the talented Japanese artist Narano is filled with fantastical images from her heartwarming and magical world, from an undersea restaurant to a theme park in the clouds to bunnies in space. This book offers 35 designs, each accompanied by a stunning full-color version, to inspire a...

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by Louis Fratino (Artist), Stefano Collicelli Cagol (Editor), Michele Bertolino (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Fratino's tender portraiture and intimate interiors evoke his own associations with the Italian landscape and cultural traditionThis volume presents a selection of work from American painter Louis Fratino, centered on his relationship with Italy, one of the artist's main cultural contexts of reference and a perspective through which to view both his artistic and his personal experience. ...

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Flaco: The Owl Who Escaped Captivity and Won the Hearts of the World - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Hollingsworth (Editor), Carl Safina (Foreword by)Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl had spent the first twelve years of his life in a small enclosure in the Central Park Zoo, unable to fly, until the night of February 2nd, 2023, when an unknown liberator cut a hole in the steel mesh of his cage and set him free. Flaco eluded the nets and traps of zoo authorities and park rangers who feared that Flaco couldn't survive on his own, and instead, proved them all wrong, learning to hunt, fly,...

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by Jolne Yeo (Author)Author BiographyJolene Yeo and Shirley Tan are a Japanese mangakas. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.3 x 7.9 x 6.6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: February 11, 2025

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David Hockney: A Graphic Novel - Hardcover

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by Giovanni Gastaldi (Illustrator), Monica Foggia (Contribution by), Balthazar Pagani (Editor)Dynamic and accessible, this graphic novel explores the complex and multifaceted career of one of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries' most influential and iconoclastic artists. David Hockney's career is highlighted by his continuous pursuit of new mediums, even as he remained steadfastly true to his identity.Told from the perspective of a contemporary and former art college friend of the artist...

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Cute Fantasy Art Class: Mystical Anime Besties - Learn to Draw Over 50 Charming Characters - Paperback

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by Naomi Lord (Author)Wield your pencils or stylists and learn how to draw 51 of your favorite fantasy characters! The amazing and prolific artist, Naomi Lord, is here to teach you her signature style of anime drawing with these charming, mystical characters. Get ready to expand your portfolios and sketchpads with adorable characters who wield swords, axes, and wands. Through easy-to-follow tutorials, grab your pens, markers, or digital programs, and start drawing with Cute Fantasy Art Class!...

Drawing People: The Quick and Easy Way to Draw Faces, Figures, and More - Paperback

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by Catherine V. Holmes (Author) Best-selling author andveteran art teacher Catherine Holmes teaches readers to draw faces, figures, poses, and more with her easy 15-minute method! Drawing people might seemcomplex or daunting, but fear not--this comprehensive guide will walk youthrough the steps, providing techniques and tips to bring your sketches tolife. More than 60drawing tutorials with easy-to-followsteps using hundreds of hand-drawn images!Start with thefundamentals, including Cather...

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by Ed Emberley (Author), Ed Emberley (Illustrator)In 1975, more than a decade into a career that would establish him as one of the most innovative children's book authors of his time, artist and illustrator Ed Emberley followed the gothic woodcuts of his previous book, Suppose You Met a Witch, with a complete left turn: the story of a prince turned into a frog, and the bumbling wizard whose spells take the form of dizzying optical illusions. Combining the bold graphic experimentation of the 1...

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Hands on Research for Artists, Designers & Educators - Paperback

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by Harma Staal (Editor), Jojanneke Gijsen (Editor), Miriam Rasch (Editor)A user-friendly manual to research methods in art and design practices This volume presents the Circle of Doing Research: a model to get you started in art and design research. Conceived within the contextual setting of the art school, it is holistic, multidisciplinary and prioritizes practice. It consists of six actions. The basis of the circle is formed by the following: research by making, research of context and part...

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Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth - Hardcover

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by William L. Coleman (Author), Allison C. Slaby (Author), Karen Baumgartner (Contribution by)The 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 farm owned by German immigrants Karl and Anna Kuerner on his boyhood rambles in Pennsylvania's bucolic Brandywine River Valley, and it w...

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One & Other Numbers: With Alexander Calder - Board Book

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by Phaidon Editors (Author)Practice counting using some of the most famous sculptures in the world!One & Other Numbers features sculptures by master sculptor Alexander Calder. Calder's playful and often vibrant abstract shapes are highly appealing to young readers and the accompanying text cleverly teaches quantity, a vital early-learning concept. Children will not only grow more familiar with numbers and quantity, but also with the artist and his work.Alexander Calder is one of the world...

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Up, Down & Other Opposites: With Ellsworth Kelly - Board Book

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by Phaidon Editors (Author)Ellsworth Kelly's paintings and sculptures are the heroes of this visual exploration of oppositesUp, Down & Other Opposites pairs different combinations of Ellsworth Kelly's paintings and sculptures to teach the youngest readers all about the concept of opposites. The differences between pairs of artworks range from 'together / apart' to 'vertical / horizontal', from 'full / empty' to 'front / back' [of a canvas!], forming both an expected and an unexpected visu...

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The Marvel Art of Russell Dauterman - Hardcover

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by Russell Dauterman (Artist), Hank Kanalz (Editor), Kurtis Findlay The fourth release from Clover Press' new line of THE MARVEL ART OF stunning new coffee table books! Russell Dauterman is an illustrator and character designer, best known for his work on the Marvel comic book series THE MIGHTY THOR, X-MEN, and SCARLET WITCH. Since Russell first saw X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES as a kid, he's loved the X-Men. That show led him to a nearly lifelong love of comics and to a career as a comic book ...

Birds & Other Animals: With Pablo Picasso - Board Book

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by Phaidon Editors (Author), Meagan Bennett (Designed by)A groundbreaking study of animals through the rarely seen sketches by legendary artist Pablo PicassoThe masterful drawings of Pablo Picasso teach animal recognition to the youngest readers in this artful, read-aloud board book. Birds & Other Animals takes children through Picasso's series of single-line animal drawings, beginning and ending with various kinds of birds.Pablo Picasso was one of the twentieth century's most influential...

Squares & Other Shapes: With Josef Albers - Board Book

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by Phaidon Editors (Author), Meagan Bennett (Designed by)Learn the wonder of different shapes through the art of Josef AlbersSquares & Other Shapes uses the vivid artworks of Josef Albers to guide children through a wide range of geometrics, one artwork per page, beginning with squares and returning to them as a familiar refrain throughout. The variations between the vibrant shapes add to the book's visual richness, and the accompanying text provides a relatable and engaging commentary th...

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Blue & Other Colors: With Henri Matisse - Board Book

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by Phaidon Editors (Author), Meagan Bennett (Designed by)Henri Matisse's abstract cut-outs are used to teach colors in this innovative read-aloud board bookBlue & Other Colors takes children through Henri Matisse's color palette, one artwork per page, beginning with blue and returning to it as a familiar refrain throughout. The variance of shapes, depth, and scale of the shapes on each page will keep readers engaged, while the text enriches the reading experience with relatable commentary...

Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints - Hardcover

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by Josh Nadeau (Author)Room for Good Things to Run Wild is the antidote to widespread Christian malaise. If you feel like life is happening to you, that your faith has been reduced to trite platitudes, and that no matter how many new things you try, you still end up with a dissatisfying Christian life, this book offers relief from the mediocrity of Christian living through the sacred and satisfying journey of becoming an every day saint.After spending too many days staring at the hamster cage...

Pink: The History of a Color - Hardcover

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by Michel Pastoureau (Author), Jody Gladding (Translator)From the acclaimed author of Blue and other color histories, the beautifully illustrated story of pink, from the first ancient pigments to Barbie Pink has such powerful associations today that it's hard to imagine the color could ever have meant anything different. But it's only since the introduction of the Barbie doll in 1959 that pink has become decisively feminized. Indeed, in the eighteenth century, pink was frequently masculine, a...

Art with Markers: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Vivid Landscapes and Cityscapes with Acrylic Pens - Paperback

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by Angela Pan (Author)A beautiful and accessible guide to making art with markers, from beloved artist Angela Pan. Versatile and approachable, marker pens are the must-have material for aspiring artists. Like watercolor, acrylic paint markers are beginner-friendly--you need just a bit of targeted instruction to achieve the styles you admire online. But where to begin? In Art with Markers, Angela Pan gives straightforward and thorough guidance on beginning your journey to becoming the artist ...

What's Your Favorite Color? - Board Book

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by Eric Carle (Author), Eric Carle (Illustrator)In this board book, Eric Carle and fourteen other best-loved picture book artists answer the classic kid question: what's your favorite color? Everybody has a favorite color. Some like blue balloons or brown buildings or mint green ice cream cones. Eric Carle loves a yellow sun because children often include one in the corner of their pictures. Beautiful, funny, and heartfelt, these artists' charmingly personal answers to "what's your favorite c...

Can You Imagine?: The Art and Life of Yoko Ono - Hardcover

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by Lisa Tolin (Author), Yas Imamura (Illustrator)A stunning picture book biography in lyrical, poignant prose about Yoko Ono--a brilliant musician and one of the creative minds behind the iconic song "Imagine" by John Lennon. Yoko Ono has been called many things: Bold. Confrontational. Controversial. Artist. Musician. Witch. But she has always been, first and foremost, Yoko: a girl who used her imagination to escape the horrors of World War II, and then a woman who used that same gift to find...

Dragonflies of Glass: The Story of Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls - Hardcover

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by Susan Goldman Rubin (Author), Susanna Chapman (Illustrator)From award-winning kids' nonfiction author Susan Goldman Rubin, and radiantly illustrated by Susanna Chapman, the picture book Dragonflies of Glass celebrates the innovation, determination, and ambition of the brilliant woman artist behind the world-famous Tiffany glass In the mid-nineteenth century, most women who weren't raising families became teachers or nurses. But Clara Driscoll longed to be an artist, drawing inspiration fr...

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by Arturo Galansino (Artist), Stéphane Malfettes (Interviewer)JR's latest collaborative public installations highlight the worldwide child refugee crisisJR (born 1983) is considered one of the most important street artists of the last 20 years, famous throughout the world for his projects combining photography, public art and social politics. The plight of migrants and refugees has long been part of JR's concerns. For the Déplacé-e-s project, launched in 2022, he traveled to crisis zones rang...

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Across Time and Space: Re-Visiting Twentieth-Century Chinese Oil Paintings - Paperback

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by Shuo Hua (Editor)Explore the rise of oil painting in twentieth-century China. In the early twentieth century, oil painting as a non-Indigenous medium began to be taught in Chinese art academies. Since then, it has become an important and increasingly popular portal, inviting artists to explore cross-cultural dynamics and experiment with creative expression. This selection of twentieth-century Chinese oil paintings from the UMAG collection sheds light on the historical and cultural signi...

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Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime Du Corps - Paperback

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by Jennifer Borland (Author)In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Régime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influential, with nearly seventy surviving copies made over the next two hundred years and translations in at least four other languages. In Visualizing Household Health, art historian Jennifer Borland uses the Régime to show how g...

Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century - Hardcover

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by Sara Pappas (Author)Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century examines one of the most revered art historical narratives of Western art: the famous turning point for painting and sculpture usually emblematized by the works of ?douard Manet and then the Impressionists.Instead of the usual revaluation of this turning point, Sara Pappas argues for the importance of the failure to find a cohesive story for the art world in the period itself, a difficulty t...

Patterns Coloring Book for Adults: Patterns Coloring Book for Adults Zentangle seamleass patterns Coloring Book for adults floral patterns Coloring Bo - Paperback

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by Monsoon Publishing (Author)★Patterns Coloring Book for Adults★A wonderful seamless patterns coloring book for relaxing hoursThe coloring book includes: 62 pages A4 black backs (no pushing through, ideal for framing) seamless floral patterns seamless plant patterns seamless geometric patterns A wonderful gift for all patterns fans and a wonderful way to relief stress. Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.12 x 11.69 x 8.27 IN Publication Date: October 18, 2023

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by Frederic Clot (Artist), Frederic Clot (Editor), Karine Tissot (Editor)Rich in ambiguity, Clot's paintings and drawings echo the images of the era of mass communication and our digital ageSelf-taught Swiss artist Frédéric Clot (born 1973) has developed a unique way of drawing and painting, mainly in black and white, evoking enigmatic places somewhere between figuration and abstraction. This monograph is the first to encompass Clot's entire oeuvre to date. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 1 ...

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Drafting Facilities: Thinking with Models - Paperback

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by Hannes Brunner (Editor), Markus Landert (Editor), Susanne Prinz (Editor)How the humble model has proved invaluable for architects, artists and designers, and its impact in the fields of economics, neuroscience and moreModels are among the most reliable tools for creatives. In this publication, specialists from architecture, art, philosophy, neuropsychology, climate science, economics and artificial intelligence reveal how they work with this tool and how it changes the way we look at the w...