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Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors - Paperback

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by Jane O'Connor (Author), Jessie Hartland (Illustrator)Keesia and Henri Matisse have the same birthday--New Year's Eve That's why she picks him for her artist report. She finds out that over his long career Matisse made paintings, sculpture, books, costumes, and her favorite--his cut-outs, or what Matisse called "drawing with scissors." The report is filled with about 20 of Matisse's masterpieces as well as artwork that Keesia has created in his "style" (cut-out leaves, drawings through win...

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Vincent Van Gogh: Sunflowers and Swirly Stars - Paperback

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by Joan Holub (Author), Joan Holub (Illustrator)Brad explores the ups and downs of van Gogh's life and art in this colorful report, featuring Brad's funny cartoons alongside reproductions of classic paintings like Starry Night.Author BiographyJoan Holub is the author and/or illustrator of many books for children. She lives in North Carolina, where the famous groundhog Sir Walter Wally helps watch the weather at the Museum of Natural Sciences. You can visit Joan at www.joanholub.com. Number o...

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Edgar Degas: Paintings That Dance: Paintings That Dance - Paperback

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by Maryann Cocca-Leffler (Author), Maryann Cocca-Leffler (Illustrator)Edgar Degas is famous for his paintings of ballerinas, and that's what first attracts Kristin to his artwork. But as she studies him for her report, she discovers that his art ranged far beyond the ballet and she gradually learns exactly what makes Degas's work so unique.Author BiographyMaryann Cocca-Leffler (www.maryanncoccaleffler.com) lives in Amherst, New York. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.16 x 9.02 x 7.03 IN Illus...

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Frida Kahlo: The Artist Who Painted Herself - Paperback

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by Margaret Frith (Author), Tomie dePaola (Illustrator)Through original artwork by the renowned artist Tomie dePaola-a longtime aficionado of Frida Kahlo's work-as well as beautiful reproductions of Kahlo's paintings, this latest Smart About book explores the creative, imaginative world of Mexico's most celebrated female artist.Author BiographyMargaret Frith is the author of numerous children's books, including several titles in the Who Was? series, such as Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?, Who Wa...

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Pablo Picasso: Breaking All the Rules: Breaking All the Rules - Paperback

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by True Kelley (Author), True Kelley (Illustrator)Simon Packard didn't always want to do his artist report on Pablo Picasso, but after his twin brother Stephen does a report on Monet-Simon's favorite artist-Simon chooses Picasso by default Throughout, there are reproductions of Pablo Picasso's masterpieces as well as Simon's own drawings, and wonderful nuggets of info that will appeal to kids.Author BiographyTrue Kelley is the author-illustrator of Who Was Pablo Picasso? and the author of Wh...

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by Roberta Edwards (Author), Who Hq (Author), True Kelley (Illustrator)Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters. Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to. Only thirteen paintings are known to be his; as for the illustrated encyclopedia he intended to create, all that he left were thousands of disorganized notebook pages. Here is an accessible portr...

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by True Kelley (Author), Who Hq (Author), True Kelley (Illustrator)Over a long, turbulent life, Picasso continually discovered new ways of seeing the world and translating it into art. A restless genius, he went through a blue period, a rose period, and a Cubist phase. He made collages, sculptures out of everyday objects, and beautiful ceramic plates. True Kelley's engaging biography is a wonderful introduction to modern art.Author BiographyTrue Kelley lives in Warner, New Hampshire. Nancy H...

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by Ann Waldron (Author), Who Hq (Author), Stephen Marchesi (Illustrator)Claude Monet is considered one of the most influential artists of all time. He is a founder of the French Impressionist art movement, and today his paintings sell for millions of dollars. While Monet was alive, however, his work was often criticized and he struggled financially. With over one hundred black-and-white illustrations, this book unveils a true portrait of the artistAuthor BiographyAnn Waldron lives in Princeto...

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by Whitney Stewart (Author), Who Hq (Author), Nancy Harrison (Illustrator)Walt Disney always loved to entertain people. Often it got him into trouble. Once he painted pictures with tar on the side of his family's white house. His family was poor, and the happiest time of his childhood was spent living on a farm in Missouri. His affection for small-town life is reflected in Disneyland Main Streets around the world. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this biography reveals the man b...

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by True Kelley (Author), Who Hq (Author), True Kelley (Illustrator)Now in Spanish: the story of Pablo Picasso's brilliant life Over a long, turbulent life, Picasso continually discovered new ways of seeing the world and translating them into art. Young readers now have a Spanish translation of this entertaining, highly readable biography, with more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations.Author BiographyTrue Kelley lives in Warner, New Hampshire. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.3 x...

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Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh - Paperback

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by Irving Stone (Editor), Jean Stone (Editor)"Written from the heart and without restraint, alive."--The New York TimesVincent van Gogh, the great but tormented artist, bared his tortured yet ecstatic soul in his letters to his confidant and companion, his beloved brother Theo. These letters reveal the man behind such masterpieces as The Starry Night and The Bedroom--a desperate man whose quest for love became a flight into madness and for whom every day was a "fight for life." Irving Stone, ...

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Color Me Jane: A Jane Austen Adult Coloring Book - Paperback

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by Jacqui Oakley (Author)Color in Elizabeth and Darcy, Anne and Captain Wentworth, Emma and Mr. Knightly, and all your favorite scenes and moments from the world of Jane Austen's classic novels. - Artist Jacqui Oakley provides page after page of iconic scenes, delicious hand-drawn Austen quotes, and sumptuous Regency-inspired fashions to color.- The perfect gift for any artistically-inclined Austen fanatic!- Comes with eight pull-out posters to color in and display.Author BiographyJacqui Oakl...

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The Little Book of Hindu Deities: From the Goddess of Wealth to the Sacred Cow - Paperback

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by Sanjay Patel (Author)Pixar animator and Academy Award-nominated director Sanjay Patel (Sanjay's Super Team) brings to life Hinduism's most important gods and goddesses--and one sacred stone--in fun, full-color illustrations, each accompanied by a short, lively profile. The Little Book of Hindu Deities is chock-full of monsters, demons, noble warriors, and divine divas. Find out why Ganesha has an elephant's head (his father cut his off ); why Kali, the goddess of time, is known as the "Bla...

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by Robert Henri (Author)A classic work of advice, criticism, and inspiration for aspiring artists and lovers of art Art when really understood is the province of every human being. So begins The Art Spirit, the collected words, teachings, and wisdom of innovative artist and beloved teacher Robert Henri. Henri, who painted in the Realist style and was a founding member of the Ashcan School, was known for his belief in interactive nature of creativity and inspiration, and the enduring power of...

The Joyous Art of Gardening: A Book of First Aid to the Amateur - Paperback

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by Frances Duncan (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public dom...

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Island Zombie: Iceland Writings - Paperback

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by Roni Horn (Author)An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural world I'm often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go. In truth I believe Iceland chose me.--from the introduction Contemporary artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen, and since then, the island's treeless expanse has had an enduring hold on Horn's creative work. Through a series of remarkable and poetic reflections, vignettes, epi...

Leonardo's Lost Princess: One Man's Quest to Authenticate an Unknown Portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci - Hardcover

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by Peter Silverman (Author), Catherine Whitney (With)How an oddly attributed $19,000 picture proved to be a $100 million work by Leonardo da Vinci--a true art-world detective storyIn late 2010, art collector Peter Silverman revealed that a ""German, early 19th century"" portrait he had bought for $19,000 was, in fact, a previously unknown drawing by Leonardo da Vinci--an exquisite depiction of Bianca Sforza, rendered 500 years ago. In Leonardo's Lost Princess, Silverman gives a riveting first...

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Reactivations: Essays on Performance and Its Documentation - Paperback

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by Philip Auslander (Author)Most people agree that witnessing a live performance is not the same as seeing it on screen; however, most of the performances we experience are in recorded forms. Some aver that the recorded form of a performance necessarily distorts it or betrays it, focusing on the relationship between the original event and its recorded versions. By contrast, Reactivations focuses on how the audience experiences the performance, as opposed to its documentation. How does a spect...

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Love Above All and Other Drawings: 120 Works - Paperback

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by George Grosz (Author)The locale of these 120 brilliantly satiric drawings is that of Berlin in the 1920s, but a most remarkable thing about them is their startling contemporaneity. We have to keep reminding ourselves that they were not drawn in New York, London, and Paris of the twenty-first century but in the sensation-hungry, inflation-fed milieu of the Weimar Republic."On an Expense Account," for example, shows a well-fed businessman and his wife. We see only his back and neck, note her...

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American Indian Design and Decoration - Paperback

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by Le Roy H. Appleton (Author)Full text, plus more than 700 precise drawings of basketry, sculpture, painting, pottery, sand paintings, metal, much more. 4 plates in color. Text gives lore and tradition behind the designs.Back JacketThe most original and most powerful design art produced in the Western Hemisphere is also its most indigenous: that of the Indian, in innumerable cultures existing from prehistory to the arrival of the white man, reaching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego...

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by George B. Bridgman (Author)Certainly one of the most difficult, often neglected areas of art study is the correct rendering of heads, features, and faces. This volume, prepared by an expert in the field, is devoted exclusively to just that. With its clear, concise text, its almost 200 excellent illustrations, and its overall life-drawing approach, the book provides valuable guidelines on how best to portray faces, features, and heads. There is probably no better instructor to turn to than ...

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by George B. Bridgman (Author)Mr. Bridgman states unequivocally in his introduction that before preparing this book he had not discovered a single volume devoted exclusively to the depicting of the hand. Apparently Mr. Bridgman has appreciated what few others have felt -- the human hand's great capacity for expression and the care that the artist must take to realize it. The hand changes with the age of the person, is shaped differently according to sex, reflects the type of work to which it ...

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by George B. Bridgman (Author)Life Drawing is not so much a unique system of drawing the human form as it is a new way of conceptualizing it. To draw the figure, the artist must "have an idea of what the figure to be drawn is doing" -- he must "sense the nature and condition of the action, or inaction." In this book, Mr. Bridgman, who for nearly 50 years lectured and taught at the Art Students League of New York, explains in non-technical terms and illustrations in hundreds of finely rendered...

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by John Ruskin (Author)Can drawing -- sound, honest representation of the world as the eye sees it, not tricks with the pencil or a few effects -- be learned from a book? One of the most gifted draftsmen, who is also one of the greatest art critics and theorists of all time, answers that question with a decided Yes. He is John Ruskin, the author of this book, a classic in art education as well as a highly effective text for the student and amateur today.The work is in three parts, cast in the...

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The Complete Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints of Albrecht Dürer - Paperback

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by Albrecht Dürer (Author)Albrecht Dürer's 96 engravings, six etchings, and three dynamic drypoints are counted among his finest and best-known works. By the very nature of the medium, each fine line of an engraving is controlled by the artist and is dependent upon the pressure of the burin in his hand. In the engravings, Dürer was therefore able to achieve an unprecedented intricacy of detail, subtlety of line, and three-dimensionality.All 105 of Dürer's works in these three mediums are repr...

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Posada's Popular Mexican Prints - Paperback

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by José Posada (Author)Jos Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) was Mexico's most illustrious graphic artist. For over forty years he worked tirelessly as an incorruptible and truly popular artist, illustrating cookbooks and fortune-telling books, collections of songs and riddles, periodicals and newspapers, children's books and novels, and most of all famous broadsides that were distributed throughout the country. After his death he was venerated by the artists of the new generation -- Rivera, Oroz...

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The Practice and Science of Drawing - Paperback

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by Harold Speed (Author)Classic approach to the dynamics of drawing by brilliant teacher with insights and practical advice on line drawing, mass drawing, visual memory, materials, and much more. 84 plates and diagrams.Front JacketMuch of the learning to practice as well as to appreciate art is concerned with understanding the basic principles. One of these principles is what Harold Speed calls dither, the freedom that allows realism and the artistic vision to play against each other. Very im...

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Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction - Paperback

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by George Bain (Author)The construction principles of Celtic art were re-discovered in the middle of the 20th century by George Bain. Until his writing, the intricate knots, interlacings, and spirals used in illuminating The Book of Kells and in decorating craftwork and jewelry seemed almost impossible, the work of angels. In this pioneering work, George Bain shows how simple principles, no more difficult than those used in needlecraft, were used to create some of the finest artistic works ev...

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Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting - Paperback

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by John F. Carlson (Author)Written by a famous American painter and teacher, whose landscapes are found in many of the world's most noted museums, this book is known as one of the art student's most helpful guides. It provides a wealth of advice on the choice of subject; it tells what to look for and aim for, and explains the mysteries of color, atmospheric conditions, and other phenomena to be found in nature. Through his profound understanding of the physical nature of landscapes and his h...

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The Doré Bible Illustrations - Paperback

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by Gustave Doré (Author)Nowhere but in the Bible were dramatic textual material and the artistry of Gustave Dor more perfectly matched. The Book of Books seemed to unleash a new power of creation in Dor not apparent in his previous work. In the Creation scenes, the horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their monumental crowds, the plates depicting the life of Jesus -- many of which have now become the standard iconography -- and finally the vision of the New Jerusalem, ...

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by Daniel Sheets Dye (Author)Chinese craft design excelled in the manipulation of geometric space and reached its highest point in the design of window lattices on Chinese houses. Long recognized as an important folk art, window lattices have been generally neglected as an art form and this book is the first work on the subject since the 17th century. Fortunately, it is also the definitive work on the subject, and though no book can present a complete coverage of Chinese lattice, this book is...

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Van Gogh Drawings: 44 Plates - Paperback

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by Vincent Van Gogh (Author)This choice selection of beautifully reproduced drawings spans the full length of van Gogh's brief but prolific career. The works range from his early impressions of peasant life to drawings that served as studies for the great canvases he painted at the close of his life, including Landscape with Cypresses and Starry Night.Van Gogh's quest to be alone with nature and with those whose lives were close to the land took him first to the desolate reaches of northern H...