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Good Luck Gift Wrapping Papers - 6 Sheets: 24 X 18 Inch (61 X 45 CM) Wrapping Paper - Paperback

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by Tuttle Studio (Editor) These fine-quality tear-out wrapping sheets feature six traditional Asian prints, suitable for craft projects as well as for gift wrapping. An introduction details the history and meaning behind the designs and provides some wrapping inspiration Tuttle Gift Wrapping Papers are an excellent value--a fraction of the price of a single sheet of gift wrap paper from stationery shops Each sheet is removable by tearing along a perforated line There are six sheets each ...

Origami Paper - Samurai Prints - Large 8 1/4 - 48 Sheets: Tuttle Origami Paper: Origami Sheets Printed with 8 Different Designs: Instructions for 6 Pr - Loose Leaf

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by Tuttle Studio (Editor)This pack contains 48 high-quality origami sheets featuring 8 different authentic samurai woodblock prints. These beautiful collections of samurai origami paper prints will add a Japanese flair and authenticity to your folded origami models and paper craft projects. They are perfect for origami folding, gift wrapping, and scrapbooking. This origami paper pack includes: 48 sheets of high-quality origami paper Details from 8 stunning samurai prints Double-sided col...

Black & White Gift Wrapping Papers - 6 Sheets: 24 X 18 Inch (61 X 45 CM) Wrapping Paper - Paperback

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A Touch of Asia Coloring Book: Serenely Elegant Designs from the East (Tear-Out Sheets Let You Share Pages or Frame Your Finished Work) - Paperback

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by Tuttle Studio (Editor)This adult coloring book featuring stunning Asian designs and high-quality paper and is the perfect stress-reliever for fans of Asian art motifs. Artistry is in the details, and A Touch of Asia Coloring Book presents over 50 coloring patterns drawn from the exquisite traditional porcelains, prints, manuscripts, textiles, mosaics and many other artworks of Asia. Each design gives you a taste of the rich culture, history and variety found in this part of the world. Appl...

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Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art - Paperback

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by Reimar Schefold (Editor), Steven G. Alpert (Editor)"Simply the best book ever published on this subject." --Sir David Attenborough Lavish photography and groundbreaking texts unlock the magic of the island cultures of Indonesia, Malaysia, and East Timor through examples of textiles, sculpture, and metalwork from this prestigious collection. Eyes of the Ancestors takes an in-depth look at the Dallas Museum of Art's world-renowned collection of artworks from Island Southeast Asia. Beautiful...

Trash Origami: 25 Paper Folding Projects Reusing Everyday Materials: Origami Book with 25 Fun Projects and Instructional DVD - Paperback

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by Michael G. Lafosse (Author), Richard L. Alexander (Author)Make fun and functional origami out of your spare paper with this easy origami book. Don't dump your wastepaper into the garbage--it's time to fold! World-renowned origami artists and award-winning authors Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander show you the way with Trash Origami. This origami book presents unique and fun projects from their Origamido Studio and from some of the world's best paper designers, including Nick Rob...

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Dharma Delight: A Visionary Post Pop Comic Guide to Buddhism and Zen - Paperback

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by Rodney Alan Greenblat (Author), Richard Thomas (Foreword by)Wisdom comes in many forms, and the search for wisdom has many expressions. In Dharma Delight, celebrated New York abstract artist and Zen student Rodney Alan Greenblat uses lighthearted, inviting narrative and vivid pop art paintings to celebrate the joys of living life from the inside out. Part graphic guide book, part personal testimony, part art book, Dharma Delight illustrates how seeking the path of compassion and acceptance...

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by Denise Fleming (Author), Denise Fleming (Illustrator)An artist's approach to introducing the alphabet Mouse airbrushes the A, buttons the B, carves the C . . . Mouse is hard at work constructing each letter of the alphabet. He dyes the D, erases the E, and folds the F. Mouse works his way right through to Z, constructing an alphabet that surpasses even the wildest artistic imagination. A bright, beautiful concept book from best selling picture book Denise Fleming.Author BiographyDenise Fle...

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Origami Paper 200 Sheets Inspirational Messages 6 (15 CM): Tuttle Origami Paper: Double Sided Origami Sheets Printed with 12 Different Designs (Instru - Loose Leaf

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by Tuttle Studio (Editor)This pack contains 200 high-quality origami sheets printed with uplifting Inspirational Message Patterns. These illustrations were chosen to enhance the creative work of origami artists and paper crafters. The pack contains 12 patterns unique to this pack, and all of the papers are printed with coordinating colors on the reverse side to provide aesthetically pleasing combinations in origami projects that show both the front and back of the papers. This origami paper p...

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Thomas Moran, Volume 4: The Field Sketches, 1856-1923 - Hardcover

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by Anne Morand (Author), Joan Carpenter Troccoli (Introduction by)This illustrated catalog of Thomas Moran's field sketches includes an interpretive essay tracing the artist's seventy-year career in the field; a chronological, stylistic, and geographical survey of his fieldwork; an illustrated checklist of the 1080 sketches in public collections. Moran is best known for his work in the American West during the post-Civil War expansion, particularly in what would become Yellowstone, Grand Can...

Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living - Hardcover

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by Esther Pasztory (Author)This book is the first comprehensive study and reinterpretation of the unique arts of Teotihuacan, including architecture, sculpture, mural painting, and ceramics. Comparing the arts of Teotihuacan - not previously judged artistic - with those of other ancient civilizations, Ester Pasztory demonstrates how they created and reflected the community's ideals.Most people associate the pyramids of central Mexico with the Aztecs, but these colossal constructions antedate ...

Gifts of Pride and Love: Kiowa and Comanche Cradles - Paperback

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by Barbara Hail (Author)With such words, Kiowa and Comanche people express their deep connection to their traditional lattice cradles. Prevalent from 1870 to 1930, these cradles represented a unique, yet extremely practical, art form. These gifts of pride and love reflected close networks, which remained intact despite the difficult transition to reservation life, new religions, government boarding schools, and allotment of tribal lands. This book, a beautiful homage to the artisans who craft...

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Origami for Busy People: 27 Original On-The-Go Projects: Origami Book with 48 Tear-Out Origami Papers - Paperback

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by Marcia Joy Miller (Author)Make quick and easy origami projects with this origami book with tear-out folding paper. Origami for Busy People is the first origami book for people who love to fold paper for fun and relaxation but have trouble finding the time in their busy day for it. The bright, high-quality folding paper in the book makes it like an origami kit--You won't have to buy new folding paper anytime soon! This origami book contains: 96 page, full-color booklet Introduction and g...

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Indonesian Batik Gift Wrapping Papers - 12 Sheets: 18 X 24 Inch (45 X 61 CM) Wrapping Paper - Paperback

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by Periplus Editors (Editor) These fine-quality tear-out wrapping sheets feature twelve traditional Indonesian prints, suitable for craft projects as well as for gift wrapping. An introduction details the history and meaning of the Batik designs and provides some wrapping inspiration Tuttle Gift Wrapping Papers are an excellent value--a fraction of the price of a single sheet of gift wrap paper from stationery shops Each sheet is removable by tearing along a perforated line There are twe...

A Strange Mixture, 16: The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians - Hardcover

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by Sascha T. Scott (Author) Attracted to the rich ceremonial life and unique architecture of the New Mexico pueblos, many early-twentieth-century artists depicted Pueblo peoples, places, and culture in paintings. These artists' encounters with Pueblo Indians fostered their awareness of Native political struggles and led them to join with Pueblo communities to champion Indian rights. In this book, art historian Sascha T. Scott examines the ways in which non-Pueblo and Pueblo artists advocated ...

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Baby Bird Portraits by George Miksch Sutton: Watercolors in the Field Museum - Hardcover

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by Paul A. Johnsgard (Author)George Miksch Sutton is one of the best known and most beloved bird artists of the twentieth century. This marvelous book presents thirty-five paintigs of downy chicks, nestlings, and fledglings painted from life by Sutton. The exquisite watercolrs, housed in the Field Museum of Natural History, span three decades and depict nineteen species of North American birds. Many of the paintings are reproduced here for the first time.Sutton was fond of painting young bird...

The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec: A Painted History from the Northern Mixteca - Paperback

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by Arni Brownstone (Editor), Nicholas Johnson (Contribution by), Bas Van Doesburg (Contribution by)For centuries, indigenous rulers of Mesoamerica commissioned elaborate pictorial histories to maintain their claims to power, land, and privilege--a practice they continued under Spanish authority after the conquest. The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec is one such history. An intricate pictographic document on cotton cloth measuring 156 by 66.5 inches, the lienzo was produced by an Indian painter-scribe o...

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Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers - Hardcover

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by Deborah Heiligman (Author)Printz Honor Book - YALSA Nonfiction Award Winner - Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner - SCBWI Golden Kite Winner - Cybils Senior High Nonfiction Award Winner From the author of National Book Award finalist Charles and Emma comes an incredible story of brotherly love. The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. Confidant, champion, sympathizer, friend--Theo supported Vincent as he struggled to find his path in l...

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Baby Bird Portraits by George Miksch Sutton: Watercolors in the Field Museum - Paperback

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Surviving Desires: Making and Selling Native Jewellery in the American Southwest - Paperback

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by Henrietta Lidchi (Author)In its classic union of gleaming silver and blue turquoise, Native American jewellery of the Southwest is an iconic art form. Internationally recognized and locally significant, Native American jewellery has a compelling history--it represents the persistence of tradition while encapsulating the vitality of Native American communities and the continuously transforming nature of the jewellery makers' art. Author Henrietta Lidchi focuses on jewellery in the cultural...

Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanleyvolume 17 - Paperback

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by Peter H. Hassrick (Author), Mindy N. Besaw (Author), Bruce B. Eldredge (Foreword by)Artist-explorer John Mix Stanley (1814-1872), one of the most celebrated chroniclers of the American West in his time, was in a sense a victim of his own success. So highly regarded was his work that more than two hundred of his paintings were held at the Smithsonian Institution--where in 1865 a fire destroyed all but seven of them. This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanley's extant art, ...

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Search for the Native American Purebloods - Paperback

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by Charles Banks Wilson (Author), Herman J. Viola (Foreword by)Over several decades, renowned Oklahoma artist Charles Banks Wilson sought out "purebloods" (that is, Indians of a single tribal heritage) of each of Oklahoma's tribes to create a gallery of American Indian portraits. Search for the Native American Purebloods captures the state's visual heritage in a series of seventy-seven remarkable pencil drawings, each accompanied by a narrative describing Wilson's visits with the subject. The...

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I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 - Paperback

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by Hana Volavkova (Author)Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism. 60 color illustrations.Back JacketA total of 15,000 children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp between the years 1942-1944; less than 100 sur...

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Visions of the Big Sky, 5: Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West - Hardcover

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by Dan Flores (Author)From the Wind River Range to the Canadian border, the northern Rocky Mountain West is an outsized land of stunning dimensions and emotive power. In Visions of the Big Sky, Dan Flores revisits the Northern Rockies artistic tradition to explore its diversity and richness. In his essays about the artists, photographers, and thematic historical imagery of the region, he blends art and cultural history with personal reflection to assess the formation of the region's character...

Narrating the Landscape, Volume 24: Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century - Hardcover

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by Matthew N. Johnston (Author) The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly dense commercial metropolises. This time of unprecedented territorial and economic growth has long been thought to find its most sweeping visual equivalent in the period's landscape paintings. But, as Matthew N. Johnston shows, the age's defining features were just as clearly captured in, and motivated by, visual material mass-p...

Branding the American West, 23: Paintings and Films, 1900-1950 - Hardcover

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by Marian Wardle (Editor), Sarah E. Boehme (Editor) Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the California-based artist Maynard Dixon departed from the legendary depiction of the "Wild West" and fostered new images, or brands, for western art. This volume, illustrated with more than 150 images, examines select paintings and films to demonstrate how these artists both enhanced and contradicte...

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The Lithographs of Charles Banks Wilson - Hardcover

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by David C. Hunt (Author), Charles Banks Wilson (Author)Although known primarily for his illustrations, murals, and portraits, Charles Banks Wilson things of himself chiefly as a lithographer. Lithography, he says, is what made an artist of me. The 118 lithographs collected here, each reproduced from an original print in the artist's own collection, represent fifty years of experience in the medium. True to the American regionalist tradition that influenced him, Wilson has used his own surrou...

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Wild Spaces, Open Seasons, 27: Hunting and Fishing in American Art - Paperback

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by Kevin Sharp (Editor), Stephen J. Bodio (Contribution by), Margaret C. Adler (Contribution by)Wild Spaces, Open Seasons traces the theme of hunting and fishing in American art from the early nineteenth century through World War II. Describing a remarkable group of American paintings and sculpture, the contributors reveal the pervasiveness of the subjects and the fascinating contexts from which they emerged. In one important example after another, the authors demonstrate that representations...

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by Nigel B. Crowther (Author)A lively survey encompassing the Orient, the Americas, and the classical world From the Olympic Games of Greece to the gladiatorial contests of Rome, sport in the ancient world was fiercely competitive and included a wider range of physical contests than we moderns might suspect. The early Chinese played forms of polo and golf, while half a world away, Hohokam and Maya Indians enjoyed team ball games. Nigel Crowther, a leading authority on classical Greek sport, h...

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by William H. Goetzmann (Author), William N. Goetzmann (Author)For many people, "western art" immediately conjures images by Frederic Remington or Georgia O'Keeffe--but there's so much more. From early explorers' first sketches of the Rockies to the modern earth sculptures of Michael Heizer, images of the American West are as multifaceted as its cultures. This remarkable book embraces them all.A landmark overview of western American art, the original edition of The West of the Imagination bro...

Picturing Indian Territory: Portraits of the Land That Became Oklahoma, 1819-1907volume 26 - Hardcover

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by B. Byron Price (Editor), John R. Lovett (Foreword by), James Peck (Contribution by) Throughout the nineteenth century, the land known as "Indian Territory" was populated by diverse cultures, troubled by shifting political boundaries, and transformed by historical events that were colorful, dramatic, and often tragic. Beyond its borders, most Americans visualized the area through the pictures produced by non-Native travelers, artists, and reporters--all with differing degrees of accuracy, v...

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Sculptor in Buckskin: The Autobiography of Alexander Phimister Proctor - Hardcover

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by Katharine C. Ebner (Editor), Peter H. Hassrick (Foreword by), Alexander Phimister Proctor (Author)Two disparate worlds met in the life of Alexander Phimister Proctor: the art world centered in the eastern United States and the world of the western frontier. Proctor was a remarkable amalgam: a big-game hunter and intrepid explorer who felt at home in Paris or New York, and an academically trained artist who painted and sculpted the characters and wild creatures of the West.This new edition ...