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The Art of Diablo: Volume II (Limited Edition) - Hardcover

$99.99

by Micky Neilson (Author)Now in stunning limited edition, fans of Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo(R) won't want to miss this stunning art book that chronicles the creation of Diablo II: Resurrected, Diablo Immortal, and Diablo IV. Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo(R) franchise was growing with a monstrous new slate: Diablo II: Resurrected Diablo: Immortal, as well as the blood-chilling Diablo IV. With the success of the first three acclaimed Diablo dungeon-crawlers under their belt, artists had...

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by Sophie Calle (Photographer), Emma Ramadan (Translator)Calle's seminal 1979 series of people sleeping in her bed: now in EnglishIn one of Sophie Calle's first artistic experiments, she invited friends, acquaintances and strangers to sleep in her bed. Twenty-seven people agreed, among them a baker, a babysitter, an actor, a journalist, a seamstress, a trumpet player and three painters. Calle photographed them awake and asleep, secretly recording any private conversations once the door closed...

The Farm at Black Mountain College - Paperback

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by David Silver (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Ananda Pellerin (Editor)A record of the rise and fall of the BMC farm that foregrounds the voices of a new cast of characters Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. From its founding in 1933 and over its celebrated 23-year history, the small liberal arts school in rural North Carolina attracted a remarkable number of famous and soon-to-be famous artists, writers and visionaries including Anni and Josef A...

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by Acc Art Books (Author)- The official catalog of the Centre Pompidou's Surrealism: First and Foremost! exhibition which begins in Paris, 4 September 2024 to 13 January 2025, and moves on to Spain, Germany and the USA- Featuring pages from André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto- Illustrated with 250 Surrealist masterpieces, including works by some of the world's most famous artists- Reversible layoutThe defining book for the centenary of Surrealism. From September 2024 to January 2025, the Cent...

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Sword Art Online Abec Artworks New World - Paperback

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by Abec (Artist), Reki Kawahara (Author)This third collection of SAO illustrations highlights events from Volumes 16 through 22 of the main story, as well as Volumes 1 through 3 of Sword Art Online: Progressive. Art from the anime and games is also featured, along with all-new illustrations you won't find anywhere else! Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.5 x 11.71 x 8.3 IN Publication Date: December 17, 2024

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The Lies of the Artists: Essays on Italian Art, 1450-1750 - Paperback

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by Ingrid D. Rowland (Author)Luminous essays on artists of the Italian Renaissance by one of our most inspired writers on the history and making of art. In the three centuries from 1450 to 1750 painters, sculptors, and architects emerged from the medieval craft guilds of Italy to claim a new social status as creators, whose gorgeous handiwork, now called "art," expressed lofty inspiration as much as manual skill. In The Lies of the Artists, Ingrid Rowland takes us into the world of these arti...

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by Sam Yang (Author), Publishing 3dtotal (Editor)In this gorgeous hardback book, discover the incredible journey of Sam Yang (samdoesarts), whose stunning art has earned him 1.9million followers on Instagram.Sam Yang not only takes the reader behind the scenes into his studio and personal sketchbooks, but also reveals his creative process from start to finish in detailed step-by-step tutorials. His anime-inspired, intriguing character designs have wide appeal, and many inspiring artists striv...

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by Rito Kohsaka (Author), Akumi Agitogi (Author)Delve deeper into the magic of My Happy Marriage and feast your eyes on beautiful art wrapped in a gorgeous, delicately designed package! A gem of an art collection jam-packed with lush illustrations, exclusive short stories, and behind-the-scenes revelations that no fan of My Happy Marriage will want to miss! This luxe art book is absolutely essential to any My Happy Marriage fan's collection! More than 80 gorgeous illustrations by the My Happy...

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by Patricia Feinman (Author)Pat Feinman's Voices of the Sea drew me into its half-lit world where thoughts and memories drift into dreams, a place where there is both a danger and a comfort in seeking refuge. With the deceptive simplicity of a tone poem, the art and words merge into a rhythmic tide of images of loss and longing, and that most encompassing of human traits, our search for meaning. Like the sea itself, the story is seductive, melancholy and ultimately, mesmerizing.-Hudson Talbot...

Ink and Watercolor: Learn to Create Quick, Stylized Sketch Paintings in 30 Days - Paperback

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by Anastasia Kozlova (Author)Learn how to master the popular art style of ink and watercolor sketching with this practical how-to book from seasoned watercolor teacher Anastasia Kozlova. Anastasia's unique artistic style, where she draws with pen and then layers watercolor, makes it easy for anyone to create vibrant and crisp pieces that look professional. Beginners will love how the fineliner outlines avoid the tricky nuances of loose watercolor, making painting as easy as filling in a color...

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Watercolor Alchemy: Your Guide to Mixing Beautiful Colors - Hardcover

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by Agus Di Stefano (Author)Color Theory Made Easy Elevate your watercolor art with this foolproof guide to mixing stunning colors using just three primary paints! With this approachable handbook, you'll mix the vivid, realistic colors you've been looking for--no more muddy palettes, wasted supplies or premade paints that aren't quite right. Agus Di Stefano, a seasoned watercolor instructor, brings her expert knowledge and relaxed teaching style to 25 curated lessons and exercises that cover: ...

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by Marcos Mateu-Mestre (Author)New from the animator and illustrator behind your favorite DreamWorks and Netflix films, the next installment of the Framed series will help creators design a world that comes to life. Framed Environment Design presents the artwork, wisdom, and philosophies behind designing environments for film, animation, graphic novels, and illustration so that they serve a narrative purpose and become part of the story. With informed methodology and special care for the smal...

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Watercolor in the Woods: Paint a Whimsical World of Forest Animals, Botanicals, Toadstools and More - Paperback

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by Jane Carkill (Author)Explore a Beautiful Woodland Realm with 30 Charming ProjectsIllustrator Jane Carkill invites you into her storybook world with this collection of beginner-friendly art tutorials! With easy-to-follow directions to guide you through every swish of your brush, these cozy tutorials come to life on the page with each step. As enchanting as they are easy, these wonderful watercolor projects--with sketch templates included for added simplicity--are sure to bring joy and delig...

Dashcam Trucker: America through the Eyes of a Truck Driver - Hardcover

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by Paul Michael Speir (Author)"Dashcam Trucker: America through the Eyes of a Truck Driver" is an iconic vision of America in the late Twenty-Teens, as well as a stunning portrayal of the life of a truck driver, one that spans six months and over 75,000 miles. From Mussel Shoals to New England in the fall--and everything in between--you will love every moment of your journey as you see America through the eyes of a truck driver. Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 1 x 8.5 x 11 IN Illustrated: Ye...

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An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific - Hardcover

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by Ho'omanawanui (Editor), Joyce Pualani Warren (Editor), Cristina Bacchilega (Editor)An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in cre...

Post Critical Museology: Theory and Practice in the Art Museum - Paperback

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by Andrew Dewdney (Author), David Dibosa (Author), Victoria Walsh (Author)Post-Critical Museology considers what the role of the public and the experience of audiences means to the everyday work of the art museum. It does this from the perspectives of the art museum itself as well as from the visitors it seeks. Through the analysis of material gathered from a major collaborative research project carried out at Tate Britain in London the book develops a conceptual reconfiguration of the relati...

New Zealand bird views: terns - Paperback

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by Raewyn Adams (Author)The New Zealand bird views series highlights the common birds in New Zealand - the birds we view every day but tend to take for granted because they are always there. This volume presents over 100 previously unpublished photographs of the three species of common tern in New Zealand: Black-fronted tern, Caspian tern, White-fronted tern. The book shows birds flying, feeding, courting, nesting and raising their young. The text provides some background detail and the photo...

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by Tiffany Simone (Author)"The demons will feast on your chaos. Tell them to fuck off, there's love at your core." -This is the overall punch in the stomach type of writing that you get from author Tiffany Simone's second book, Beauty In The Let Go. Simone is back with more Dirty Sweet Poetry with a bit more grit this time. Beginning in a heartfelt introduction, Simone shares some of her past. We discover she's an advocate for mental health awareness, showing there is not only a sensual side ...

The Curse Word Coloring Book: 50 Coloring Designs & 50 Pages for Notes - Paperback

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by Coloring Books Collective (Author), Adult Coloring Book Guild (Author), Arune (Author)* We PLANT A TREE FOR EVERY BOOK SOLD. * 100 blank perfect bound pages. * 8 x 10 size. * Forest Stewardship Council Certified suppliers. * We use a semi-flexible matte cover printed on 10pt C1S stock. * Acid-free paper. * 60 lb paper weight for the pages. * Sturdy construction. The Curse Word Coloring Book is a great way to relax and unwind for those with a naughty sense of humor. Color the words that you...

Pillar of Salt: The Art of Su Zi - Hardcover

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by Su Zi (Illustrator), Martin Wolf Murphy (Foreword by)Pillar Of Salt is a full color, hardbound, fine art retrospective of three decades of the work of Visionary Outsider, Expressionist Eco-feminist artist and writer Su Zi. Featuring Su Zi's two-dimensional work, the book is divided into sections of drawings, paintings and prints. Mostly a Southern artist (American ), the work includes pleine aire botany studies, and other drawings from life, as well as visionary images in the form of print...

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by W. Martin (Author), Clara Bell (Translator)Gerard Dou (1902) is a book written by W. Martin that provides a comprehensive overview of the life and work of the Dutch painter Gerard Dou. Dou was a prominent artist of the Dutch Golden Age and is known for his highly detailed and realistic paintings. The book covers Dou's early life, his artistic training, and his rise to fame as a painter. It also includes a detailed analysis of Dou's major works, including his famous ""The Dropsical Woman"" ...

Raoul Dufy, 1877-1953: An Abrams Art Book - Hardcover

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by Sam Hunter (Author), Raoul Dufy (Author)""Raoul Dufy, 1877-1953: An Abrams Art Book"" is a comprehensive guide to the life and work of the French painter Raoul Dufy. Written by art historian Sam Hunter, the book explores Dufy's career from his early days as a textile designer to his later years as a celebrated painter of landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. The book is filled with full-color reproductions of Dufy's most famous works, as well as lesser-known pieces that showcase his vers...

Fashion Installation: Body, Space, and Performance - Paperback

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by Adam Geczy (Author), Vicki Karaminas (Author)Gone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturier's new range. Today, design houses are thinking beyond traditional methods of display to stimulate interest in their collections, such as to the internet, fashion film and, more recently, fashion installations. This book offers a critical evaluation of the changing ways in which fashion has been exhibited, focusing specifically on the rec...

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by Joseph Pennell (Author)Joseph Pennell was born in 1857 and died in 1926. He began his work as an illustrator by selling drawings of south Philadelphia to Scribner's Monthly in 1881. In addition to his extensive sketches of American cities, he went to the Panama Canal and sketched a number of construction sites. He taught etching at the Arts Students' league in New York, wrote several books, served as an art critic on the Brooklyn Eagle, and helped run the New Society of Sculptors, Painters...

The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art: Marionettes, Models and Mannequins - Paperback

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by Adam Geczy (Author)Artificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human identity and culture. This book takes a range of these bodies, from antiquity to the present day, to explore how we seek out echoes, caricatures and replications of ourselves in order to make sense of the complex world in which we live. Packed with case studies, from the commedia del'arte to Hans Bellmer and the 1980s supermode...

72 Music Scales: For Composers & Improvising Musicians - Paperback

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by Francis Manakkil (Author)A real treasure of scales & harmony. Full of surprises A rare book for composers, improvisers & tutors. 232 pages of illustrations. 262 pages of music notation and Guitar TAB. Simple logics and illustrations. Never can anyone miss this book of reference. This book brings out the master Guitar player in you. Number of Pages: 448 Dimensions: 0.91 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: March 06, 2017

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Michael Craig-Martin: Present Sense - Paperback

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by Michael Craig-Martin (Artist), Tim Marlow (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Ben Luke (Author)Upon returning to the UK after studying in the US, the Irish-born artist Michael Craig-Martin (born 1941) became a key figure in British conceptual art and an influential educator, linked in particular to the generation of Young British Artists, including Damien Hirst and Gary Hume. Craig-Martin's works transform recognizable objects--such as sneakers, headphones, watches and, most recently, modernist b...

de Stanislavski a Brecht: LAS ACCIONES FÍSICAS Teoría y práctica de procedimientos actorales de construcción teatral - Paperback

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by Carlos María Alsina (Author)Por qu escribir un libro sobre algunas de las tantas posibilidades que posee un actor para la construcci n del objeto de su trabajo? Cu l ser a el grado de complejidad que, pedag gicamente, resultar a conveniente proponer para trasmitir t cnicas verificables? Con rigurosa descripci n metodol gica, el libro propone algunas respuestas a trav s de la elaboraci n conceptual y apelando a ejemplos pr cticos de clases y ensayos dirigidos por el autor a partir de sus ...

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by Sean Scully (Artist), Klaus Albrecht Schr?der (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Werner Spies (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Irish-born, New York-based artist Sean Scully (born 1945) is famed internationally for his luscious abstractions. Scully creates large-format paintings with an intense application of color and rough brushstrokes. Checkered or striped patterns emerge, evoking the aesthetic of geometric minimalism. Sean Scully: Eleuthera reveals a surprising and more private side of the artist's...

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Agostino Bonalumi: All the Shapes of Space: 1958-1976 - Hardcover

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by Agostino Bonalumi (Artist), Francesca Pola (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A stunning volume celebrating the work of Agostino Bonalumi during the 1960s and 1970s and its connection with other artists of the Azimut group. A selection of Bonalumi's paintings from the 1960s and 1970s--including some unpublished and never before exhibited--form the core of this volume and confirm the important role played by this internationally lesser known artist in the development of modern art in Italy.Author B...

African Museums in the Making. Reflections on the Politics of Material and Public Culture in Zimbabwe - Paperback

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by Munyaradzi Mawere (Editor), Henry Chiwaura (Editor), Thomas Panganayi Thondhlana (Editor)One of the central theoretical and practical issues in post-colonial Africa is the relevance, nature, and politics at play in the management of museum institutions on the continent. Most African museums were established during the 19th and 20th centuries as European imperialists were spreading their colonial tentacles across the continent. The attainment of political independence has done little to und...

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by Dane M. Courville (Author)The Little Ball of String is a fun children's book telling the tale of a ball of string coming to life. As the ball of string begins to unravel and becomes more energized the story unfolds. As the string unrolls it leaves a trail of string behind that takes shape (as does the story) of many different scenes (i.e. African safari, Amazon exploration, aeronautics, astronautics, farming, chemistry, musical composition, veterinarian science, volcanology, paleontology, ...