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by Charles Atlas (Artist), Jeffrey de Blois (Editor), Jill Medvedow (Foreword by)Scintillating and significant, Atlas' genre-defying, collaborative video art is on full display in this extensive surveyAmerican artist Charles Atlas (born 1949) is a leading figure in film and video art known for his pioneering work at the intersections of moving image, dance and performance. Alongside the artist's first retrospective, About Time surveys 50 years of groundbreaking work through immersive multicha...

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by Doug Hall (Author)Even if you know Doug Hall's work, you don't know "this" Doug Hall: the little boy afraid of bears in Boston who became the love-smitten art student who grew into a fearless Conceptual artist challenging many of our most beloved assumptions. Although lavishly and beautifully illustrated, this is not a book only to be looked at but one to be thoroughly read and enjoyed. In an account at once intimate and historical, Doug Hall writes eloquently about his development as a p...

Cómo Dibujar Cosas Geniales: Sombreados, Texturas e Ilusiones Ópticas - Paperback

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by Catherine V. Holmes (Author)"Cómo Dibujar Cosas Geniales: Sombreado, Texturas e Ilusiones Ópticas es el segundo libro de la serie Cómo Dibujar Cosas Geniales. En su interior, encontrará ilustraciones sencillas que cubren todo lo necesario para dibujar cosas impresionantes. Se proporcionan ejercicios específicos que ofrecen directrices paso a paso para dibujar una gran variedad de temas. Cada lección comienza con una forma simple que se convertirá en la estructura básica del dibujo. A parti...

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by Michael Magee (Author)INTRODUCTION: SHINY THINGSThe sound of her singing was something like a cellogetting up in the morning.-Richard Goldstein, about the Germansinger Nico on the album The VelvetUnderground & Nico.Michael Magee has lived in England and traveled widely, but calls the Northwest home. In October 2023, he traveled to Budapest and crossed many bridges, leading to the chapbook Budapest After Dark, published in 2024 by Open Sesame Books. Section I of Shiny Things reflects th...

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Frankenthaler: Revised and Expanded Edition - Hardcover

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by John Elderfield (Author)Frankenthaler completely reimagines John Elderfield's landmark 1989 monograph, making it the most comprehensive book on the artist to date. Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. A member of the second generation of American postwar abstract painters, she is widely credited with expanding the possibilities of abstraction through her invention of the soak-stain technique, and her highly ...

OLD HABITS DEAD RABBITS - American Traditional Tattoo Inspired Line Work - Hardcover

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by Mitchell Braver (Author)Explore the artistry and authenticity of American Traditional tattoos through over 500 hand-drawn designs, crafted with care and reverence. This book serves as a modern-day tattoo line book-a collection rooted in tradition yet accessible to tattoo artists and enthusiasts alike, preserving the inspiration and craft of tattoo flash. Historically, tattoo line books were shared among tattooers to pass down knowledge and inspire creativity. By publishing this collection,...

A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights - Paperback

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by Lea David (Author)Everyday items found at the sites of atrocities possess a striking emotional force. Victims' garments, broken glasses, wallets, shoes, and other such personal property that are recovered from places of death including concentration camps, mass graves, and prisons have become staples of memorial museums, exhibited to the public as material testimony in order to evoke sympathy and promote human rights. How do these objects take on such power, and what are the benefits and p...

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The Discipline of Inspiration: The Mysterious Encounter with God at the Heart of Creativity - Paperback

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by Carey Wallace (Author)Learn where inspiration comes from and how to harness it in your life and work. We all know the sensation of inspiration. It's what tells a painter what to paint and a singer how to sing--and what prompts us to throw a new spice into an old recipe. But what is inspiration? When we train artists, we typically identify them by their talent and train them in technique. We talk very little about the crucial creative spark of inspiration. Where does it come from? What doe...

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by Alicia Salazar (Author), Thais Damiao (Illustrator)Camila has been painting pictures of her abuela. A local bakery has displayed the paintings, and customers are buying them! But when a classmate tells her the paintings are ugly, Camila no longer feels like a painting star. Will she quit painting for good? Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2025

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Facial Expressions for Artists: Techniques for Capturing Emotion and Mood in Portrait and Character Drawings - Paperback

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by Oliver Sin (Author)Breathe life into your portraiture with this inclusive guide to drawing the full range of human emotions, from fear to rage, grief to joy. An accurate depiction of a subject or character's facial expression is the key to conveying their individuality as well as authentic emotion or mood. Written and illustrated by Oliver Sin, celebrated portrait artist, veteran instructor, and author of Drawing the Head for Artists, Facial Expressions for Artists: Shows how the skull ...

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by Kensuke Okabayashi (Author)Get started with the powerful visual language and storytelling medium that is manga Manga is a unique style of drawing. It's also a great way to make topics like history and politics appealing to a wide audience. Manga For Dummies teaches you the basics of drawing in the manga style. This step-by-step guide shows you how to apply the basic rules of manga figure drawing, whether you're a complete beginner or a professional artist. You'll learn how to create manga ...

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The Art of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl - Hardcover

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by Richard Hansom (Author)Official art book revealing the process of making the Winter 2024 stop-motion animated film Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, featuring concept art, sketches, behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with Aardman's key creatives. In Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Gromit's concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified when Wallace invents a "smart" gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerg...

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by Alicia Salazar (Author), Thais Damiao (Illustrator)Camila has been painting pictures of her abuela. A local bakery has displayed the paintings, and customers are buying them! But when a classmate tells her the paintings are ugly, Camila no longer feels like a painting star. Will she quit painting for good? Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.22 x 9.03 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2025

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Manoucher Yektai: Landscapes - Hardcover

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by Manoucher Yektai (Artist), Paul Galvez (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Suzanne Hudson (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Lyrical landscapes are rendered in liberal swaths of impasto in Yektai's soft yet dynamic paintingsIranian American artist and poet Manoucher Yektai (1921-2019) was a founding member of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. His practice was shaped by his interactions with de Kooning, Pollock and Rothko as much as by Iranian modernism. This second monograph on the understud...

Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us - Paperback

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by Susan Magsamen (Author), Ivy Ross (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts--and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish, and build stronger communities. "This book blew my mind!"--Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of GritA BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - Finalist for the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Aw...

Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes at Sherlock, Downton Abbey, Prime Suspect, Cranford, Upstairs Downstairs, and Other Great Shows - Paperback

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by Rebecca Eaton (Author), Kenneth Branagh (Preface by)"[An] anecdote-filled memoir . . . Rebecca Eaton looks back on 25 fascinating years at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery!" --USA Today When Rebecca Eaton became the producer of Masterpiece Theatre in 1985, she hadn't actually seen many of the episodes. Nor did she even like mystery novels, though she would be required to choose stories for Mystery! But the lifelong Anglophile seized her chance to make a mark in the budding public television...

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Russian Prison Tattoos: Codes of Authority, Domination, and Struggle - Paperback

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by Alix Lambert (Author)For centuries, Russian prison inmates forcibly initiated newcomers with tattoos. Gradually, prisoners developed a secret form of communication with their tattoos, allowing them to establish rank among the other inmates and maintain a clandestine hierarchy. This book explores the grisly reality of Russian prisons and the people who inhabit them. Over 190 black and white and color photographs expose the different tattoos and their meanings, ranging from churches, crosses...

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by Arthur D. Efland (Author)Is art education a frill, or an indispensable part of the curriculum? Debate on the place of the arts in American life has refocused attention on art education in the schools. In A History of Art Education: Intellectual and Social Currents in Teaching the Visual Arts, Arthur Efland puts current debate and concerns in a well-researched historical perspective."The ways the visual arts are taught today," says Efland, "were conditioned by the beliefs and values regardi...

Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism - Hardcover

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by Thomas R. H. Havens (Author)Radicals and Realists is the first book in any language to discuss Japan's avant-garde artists, their work, and the historical environment in which they produced it during the two most creative decades of the twentieth century, the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the artists were radicals, rebelling against existing canons and established authority. Yet at the same time they were realists in choosing concrete materials, sounds, and themes from everyday life for their a...

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by Judy Bruns (Author), Renee Robinson (Illustrator), Renee Robinson (Designed by)A 15-foot landmark rock becomes a mess of graffiti. Renee, Ashley, Katlin, Nathan, and Little John suspect their mom is planning to add to the problem, when they get a BIG surprise! Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 03, 2019

The Simplified Essentials of Charcoal Drawing - Paperback

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by Charles X. Carlson (Author)One of the simplest pleasures can be found sketching with charcoal, simple to do but hard to master. This is a helpful guide, perfect for a keen amateur wishing to pick up some hints and tips. Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 12, 2011

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by Tammie Bridges (Author)This story is a testimony of my lifelong journey towards hope, salvation, and growing faith. Despite the backdrop of poverty, abuse, homelessness, homosexuality, sexual assault, drugs, alcohol, rejection, failure, suicide, and a bad marriage followed by divorce, God has loved me enough to bless me beyond all imagination in spite of my mess. Through all of that, I have been nowhere close to perfect, but I have been faithful. My prayer is that you will read my testimon...

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Recreating an Age of Reptiles - Paperback

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by Mark P. Witton (Author)Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals pose vast problems for the artist. How do you go about recreating the anatomy and behavior of a creature we've never seen? How can we restore landscapes long lost to time? And where does the boundary between paleontology--the science of understanding fossils--and artistic license lie? In this outstanding book, Mark Witton shares his detailed paintings and great experience of drawing and painting extinct species. The approaches ...

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Robert Crumb. Sketchbook Vol. 2. 1968-1975 - Hardcover

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by Robert Crumb (Illustrator), Dian Hanson (Editor)It's the old story. When TASCHEN released the first limited edition of R. Crumb Sketchbooks: 1982-2011, fans drooled over the gorgeous packaging of this six-volume boxed set, the artist's thoughtful editing, the hand-written introduction, marbleized page edges, and signed Crumb colored art print. Not all, however, could afford the steep price. So they whined and coveted, with the wail growing louder when the second boxed set, 1964-1982, was r...

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Karel Teige: Captain of the Avant-Garde - Hardcover

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by Karel Teige (Artist), Milan Knízák (Introduction by), Rea Michalová (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Art theorist and critic, graphic designer, artist, author and translator Karel Teige (1900-51) is today recognized not just as the creator of internationally acclaimed surrealist collages, but also as a leading figure of the European avant-garde. Teige spent his entire life commenting on and interpreting developments in the visual arts. His multifaceted theoretical writings helped shape the conce...

Mandala 2: Mandala coloring fun ! - Paperback

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by Maria Wedel (Author), Global Doodle Gems (Author)Mandala 2 by Maria Wedel, 50 awesome Mandalas to color and have fun with, inside there is a great variety of Mandalas both easy and complicated ... suitable for all ages and abilities ... relax and color Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.22 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: March 09, 2018

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by Senani Ponnamperuma (Author)The story of Sigiriya and its builder King Kasyapa is a tale of cruelty, intrigue, vision, grandeur, chivalry, betrayal, and abandonment. In the fifth century, Kasyapa acquires his throne by murdering his father, who he has plastered up alive into a wall. Tormented by guilt, he abandons his capital and flees into the inhospitable forests of central Sri Lanka. There, in an area dominated by a massive column of rock 660 feet high, he builds his royal citadel, a te...

Anime Girl Coloring Book for Adults: Traditional Anime Style Portraits of Kawaii Girls - Paperback

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by Sora Illustrations (Author)Dive into the charming and adorable world of Kawaii-style girls and let your imagination go wild bringing them to life A perfect gift for anime and manga lovers, colorists, artists, and illustrators of all ages In Anime Girl Coloring Book for Adults: Traditional Anime Style Portraits of Kawaii Girls, we will transport you to the world of adorable "Kawaii" or cute anime girls. Beautiful backgrounds, adorable expressions, and gorgeous portraits will make this an u...

Painting and Decorating, a Handbook of Tools, Materials, Methods and Directions - Paperback

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by D. Joseph Di Bernardo (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 be preser...

Animal Magic: In The Wild. Anti-Stress Animal Art Therapy - Paperback

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by Christina Rose (Author)Animal Magic: In The WildAnti Stress Animal Art TherapyIf you love animals you'll love this brand new collection of anti-stress art therapy colouring books.Take some time back for yourself, reconnect with the natural world and let your mind move in a new direction.Appealing to all ages, you'll find the elaborate and intimate world of nature is all at once beautiful, inspiring and relaxing.You may also enjoy other anti-stress art therapy colouring books in this range ...

Animal Magic: Under The Sea. Anti-Stress Animal Art Therapy - Paperback

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by Christina Rose (Author)Animal Magic: Under The SeaAnti Stress Animal Art TherapyIf you love animals you'll love this brand new collection of anti-stress art therapy colouring books.Take some time back for yourself, reconnect with the natural world and let your mind move in a new direction.Appealing to all ages, you'll find the elaborate and intimate world of nature is all at once beautiful, inspiring and relaxing.You may also enjoy other anti-stress art therapy colouring books in this rang...

Schiele in Prison: New Edition - Hardcover

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by Alessandra Comini (Author)In April of 1912, twenty-one-year old Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918), known for his frank depictions of erotica as well as his Expressionist portraits, was arrested and imprisoned in a basement cell in the rural town of Neulengbach, some twenty miles from Vienna. There he made agonized diary entries and created twelve drawings of his dank surroundings. Half a century later, in August of 1963, as an enterprising PhD student from Texas in search of all sit...