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Doodled Places: A Coloring Journey of Everyday Atlanta - Paperback

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by M. Peterson (Author)Discovering beauty in your surroundings first starts by taking a moment to enjoy them. In that moment of pause, clear your mind with these twenty abstract drawings. Breathe in. Breathe out. Color. Repeat. This third installment of the Doodled Life Coloring Series takes a trip through Atlanta, GA. Uncover some hidden places often overlooked on the way from here to there. Color through the windy roads and skyscraper skies to wind down and relax Number of Pages: 46 Dimensi...

Smart, Beautiful and Important: Teaching art to AIDS-affected orphans in Africa's largest slum - Hardcover

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by Charles DeSantis (Author)In the slums of Nairobi, artist and volunteer Charles DeSantis chronicles the creation and implementation of an art immersion program, and shows how educating children to have another voice allows them to be heard. In 2006, author Charles DeSantis was selected with 11 other Georgetown University faculty members to travel to Nairobi, Kenya, as part of a program called the Kenya Immersion Group. Once there, DeSantis and the others visited many aspects of the Kenyan c...

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Charles Howard: A Margin of Chaos - Hardcover

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by Charles Howard (Artist), Lawrence Rinder (Foreword by), Apsara Diquinzio (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Charles Howard: A Margin of Chaos accompanies the first museum exhibition dedicated to American artist Charles Houghton Howard (1899-1978) since 1956. Howard, part of a circle of artists that included Alexander Calder, Gordon Onslow Ford, Grant Wood and Ben Nicholson, had an active and distinguished career in midcentury America and England. His enigmatic, meticulous paintings, often intimate...

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Crazy Quilt: Scraps and Panels on the Way to Gasoline Alley - Hardcover

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by Frank King (Author), Peter Maresca (Editor), Chris Ware (Foreword by)Dive into this collection of rarely seen material that takes a new look at one of the great masters of American comics, giving insight into a developing artist and greater understanding of his inspiration to the generations that followed. Gasoline Alley is considered one of the greatest achievements in 20th century comic strips. But leading up to his most famous work, Frank King wrote and drew over a dozen other comic st...

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by Peter Eleey (Editor), Peter Eleey (Introduction by), Klaus Biesenbach (Foreword by)The attacks of September 11, 2001 were among the most pictured disasters in history, yet they remain, a decade later, underrepresented in cultural discourse--particularly within the realm of contemporary art. Responding to these conditions, MoMA PS1 curator Peter Eleey brings together more than 70 works by 41 artists--many made prior to 9/11--to explore the attacks' enduring resonance. Eschewing both images ...

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by Arnold Drake World (Author)Inspirational craft complete instructions on how to turn any soft paper, tissue or napkin into a beautiful paper flower. All you need is a napkin, nothing else required.Author BiographyPeople always ask how I got started with flower making. It started as a hobby when I was selling cars a few years ago. There were times when my days seemed slow, but one day while waiting for some customers, I asked the Lord to help me support myself in a better way. The answer cam...

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Tania Bruguera in Conversation with Claire Bishop - Hardcover

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by Tania Bruguera (Artist), Donna Wingate (Editor), Ileen Kohn (Editor)A controversial figure working in installation and performance, Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (born 1968) has consistently blurred the lines between art and activism. Defining herself as an initiator rather than an author, she often invites spectator participation and works in a collaborative mode, working with various organizations, institutions and individuals to challenge political and economic power structures and the co...

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Jaime Davidovich in Conversation with Daniel R. Quiles - Hardcover

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by Jaime Davidovich (Artist)As a fixture on the SoHo-based experimental art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, Argentine-American video/television-art pioneer and conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich (born 1936) has worked in a broad variety of mediums throughout his long career, including video, painting and installation, while also establishing himself as an activist and TV producer. His weekly variety program, The Live Show (1979-84), featured performances and interviews with artists such as Lau...

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By Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960-2022) - Paperback

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by Alison Knowles (Artist), Karen Moss (Editor), Lucia Fabio (Editor)The first survey of the Fluxus cofounder's prolific avant-garde output, from eight-foot-tall books to make-a-salad performancesThe American artist Alison Knowles' (born 1933) groundbreaking experiments--from painting and printmaking to sculpture and installation, sound works, poetry and artist's books--have influenced art and artists for more than 50 years but remain relatively unknown among mainstream audiences. The first c...

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by Nicoletta Poli (Author)A stunning collection of dog oil paintings by popular Provincetown, Ma artist Nicoletta Poli.Author BiographyNicoletta Poli was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, but moved to Molfetta, Italy at the age of three. She began drawing at a very young age and was inspired by her father, Paulo Poli, who was also a painter. She returned to the United States with her family in 1968 and went on to graduate from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. In 1982, during a...

ABC Zoo: A Celebration of Art, Decorated Letters, and Clever Rhymes - Paperback

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by Christopher Lee Bollyn (Author), Helje Kaskel (Author), Triin Tougjas (Illustrator)ABC Zoo brings together clever rhymes and charming watercolors creating a wonderful book that offers much more than just the alphabet. The 52 colorful illustrations in ABC Zoo show the animals in their natural habitat - from the icebergs of the Arctic to the rainforest of the Amazon - along with a few extraordinary mythical creatures. The beautifully hand-painted and decorated capitals bring each letter vivi...

Strange Vintage Fictions: The World of HaggisVitae - Paperback

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by Julie L. Miller (Author)This may well be one of the strangest books you'll want to own. Take a journey back in time to an alternate reality where charmingly creepy characters exist comfortably within crumbling walls, where bugs are beautiful and mystery is around every corner. Each page is full of strange images from the mind of HaggisVitae, the alter ego of artist Julie Miller. Meet Starboy of the Oceans Blue, Tobias Waddlecrock and his unreasonably large insect friends, a pair of avian h...

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by Morgan Duvall (Author) Number of Pages: 162 Dimensions: 0.42 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: February 02, 2012

The Self-Made Model: Success Without Agencies - Paperback

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by Christie Gabriel (Author)"The whole world of modeling is open to you in a way it never has been before," says veteran fashion model Christie Gabriel at the beginning of this book. "But to succeed, you need knowledge it takes years in the industry to gain." Gabriel has that knowledge. In her decade-plus modeling career, she's done everything from high fashion runway to posing for college art classes. She's been both a freelancer and represented by agencies such as Elite and Irene Marie, and...

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by Brian Haberlin (Illustrator), Skip Brittenham (Author)AUGMENTED REALITY GRAPHIC NOVEL FREE augmented reality app for Apple and Android (phones and tablets) 60 pages of augmented reality enabled pages Over 100 pages of exclusive content (only available in-app ) No subscriptions No internet connection needed after first download Once it's on your device, it's yours. Period. (Excepting for free updates)EARTH 2717: THE 3RD GOLDEN AGE Building a better tomorrow today... The planet we cal...

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Arts/Industry: Collaboration and Revelation - Hardcover

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by Ruth Kohler (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Ezra Shales (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Glen Brown (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Founded in 1974 as a one-month experiment to open up new opportunities for extraordinary artists, Arts/Industry brought together two spirited partners: the groundbreaking John Michael Kohler Arts Center, then in its infancy, and Kohler Co., a 100-year-old leader in the international plumbingware industry. The program took the ceramic arts community by storm and through th...

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by Irene Hofmann (Introduction by), Candice Hopkins (Introduction by), Rocìo Aranda-Alvarado (Contribution by)Much Wider Than a Line is the second installment in SITElines, a reimagined biennial series with a focus on contemporary art from the Americas. Featuring over 30 artists from 10 countries and five new commissions, SITElines 2016 articulates the interconnectedness of the Americas and various shared experiences such as colonial legacies, the vernacular and relationships to the land. The...

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by Eline Mugaas (Artist), Elise Storsveen (Artist)A compilation of the first ten issues of Album magazine, each grappling with a different theme explored entirely through found imagesThis publication collects the first ten issues of Album magazine, created by artists Eline Mugaas, chiefly a photographer, and Elise Storsveen, who works primarily in painting, collage and textile. Each issue of the magazine grapples with a different theme: heterosexuality, commodities and commodification, the "l...

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Observation: Notation: Selected Writings of Andrew Forge, 1955-2002 - Paperback

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by Andrew Forge (Author)Andrew Forge was an English painter and a teacher of painting (Yale University 1975-1994), renowned and respected on both sides of the Atlantic. But he was also known for his writing on the arts, spanning almost fifty years, which was admired for the delicacy and openness of his language and the ways in which he thought about the processes of perception in all their sensual possibilities. The selection here of his writings is intended to show the range of his interests...

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by Chris Martin (Artist), Dan Nadel (Editor)One of America's finest abstract painters, Chris Martin (born 1954) explores the fertile areas between sophisticated formalism and the visionary joy of outsider art, making abstract painting look enviably effortless. For this massive volume, Martin and Dan Nadel have assembled a massive compendium of Martin's drawings from the past 30 years, presenting them chronologically so the reader-viewer can follow the artist's continual pursuit and discovery ...

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Allan Houser Drawings: The Centennial Exhibition - Paperback

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by W. Jackson Rushing (Author), Hadley Jerman (Author)After training at The Studio of the Santa Fe Indian School in the 1930s, the Chiricahua Apache artist Allan Houser (1914-1994) had both commercial and critical success as a painter and sculptor. Unlike some artists, he generally was not comfortable working in a painterly style but, believing that charcoals and pastels would enable him to intensify the freshness and spontaneity of his imagery, Houser began to focus on drawing. Houser built ...

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A World Unconquered: The Art of Oscar Brousse Jacobson - Paperback

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by Anne Allbright (Author), Janet Catherine Berlo (Author), Mark Andrew White (Author)Oscar Brousse Jacobson (1882-1966) was a prolific artist who devoted much of his career to the depiction of the wilderness of the American West, especially Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. He also became a passionate supporter of the visual arts in the Southwest and an enthusiastic promoter of Native American fine artists, such as the early Kiowa artists, Acee Blue Eagle, and others. Over the cou...

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by Wardell Milan (Artist), Cay Sophie Rabinowitz (Editor), Carter Foster (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Wardell Milan (born 1978) earned a BFA in photography and painting in 2001 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and his MFA at Yale University in 2004. Right out of school in 2005 Milan emerged and was included in institutional exhibitions such as Greater New York at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and Frequency at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Milan has continued to challenge conventions of...

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by Leslie Hewitt (Artist)Featured in the Guggenheim's 2015 landmark Photo-Poetics exhibition, New York-based artist Leslie Hewitt (born 1977) is one of the most revered artists working between photography and sculpture. Collaboration has been a central part of Hewitt's art, including projects with William Cordova and Matt Keegan, and her ongoing work with cinematographer Bradford Young exploring the Menil Collection archive of civil rights-era photographs. That cinematic rumination on histori...

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Transitional Moments: Marcel Breuer, W.C. Vaughan & Co. and the Bauhaus in America - Hardcover

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by Robert Wiesenberger (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), H. Butler (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Architect Marcel Breuer's House in the Museum Garden, now considered one of the most influential architecture exhibitions of the 20th century, was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art and built in their garden in 1949. Exhibited to record attendance, the house featured the updated Bauhaus prescriptions for modern living--an airy, informal combination living room/dining room and a pass-through kitchen-...

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Murray Moss: Tertium Quid: Pictorial Narratives Created from Vintage Press Photographs - Hardcover

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by Murray Moss (Photographer)By turns humorous, striking, mysterious and surprising, these photographic pairings by MOSS design shop founder Murray Moss reveal unanticipated elements of the objects' personalities. Some are duets, or fugues, Moss writes. Some dance a pas de deux. Many are six degrees incarnate. And others are conversations between strangers who share a bench in the park and discover common ground. Reproduced at the actual size of the original photos, with both the front and th...

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by Albert Contreras (Artist), Dave Hickey (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Ed Schad (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Los Angeles painter Albert Contreras (born 1933) first won public acclaim in the early 1960s, with monochrome paintings featuring a central disc motif. By the early 1970s, with the "dematerialization of art" in the air, Contreras' pursuit of extreme reduction led him to cease painting altogether, and he spent the next two decades driving garbage trucks and resurfacing roads for the City ...

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Alexander Calder: Multum in Parvo - Hardcover

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by Alexander Calder (Artist), Paul Goldberger (Contribution by), Jed Perl (Contribution by)Multum in Parvo highlights the complex relationship between scale and size in the oeuvre of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) over a period of more than 30 years. As its title--translating to "much in little"--implies, the volume features over 40 rare small-scale sculptures, ranging from the size of a thumb to 30 inches tall, all of which feature the same physical qualities as Calder's largest mobiles in the...

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Local History: Castellani, Judd, Stella - Paperback

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by Linda Norden (Contribution by)Local History brings together rarely seen works from the 1950s through the early 1970s by Enrico Castellani, Donald Judd and Frank Stella, juxtaposing these with later examples that reveal each artist's distinct evolution and the various reverberations of their brief aesthetic collision in the 1960s. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.7 x 11.9 x 9.3 IN Publication Date: July 26, 2016

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by Konstantin Trubkovich (Artist), Cay Sophie Rabinowitz (Editor)This first monograph on the oeuvre of Kon Trubkovich (born 1979) surveys the Russian artist's career in color reproductions and in-depth critical discussion, traversing the period from his first museum exhibition in 2006 to the present day. His works delve into themes of rebellion, memory, imprisonment and perception through a wide variety of media, including painting, drawing, photography and sculpture. Trubkovich's multimedia ...

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Nilbar Güres: Who Is the Subject - Hardcover

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by Nilbar Gures (Artist), Kate Sutton (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Adnan Yildez (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Nilbar Güres (born 1977) is a Turkish multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the politics and construction of female identity in relation to geography and religion. The launch of her first monograph, Nilbar Güres: Who Is the Subject?, published by OSMOS Books, coincides with an intimate first exhibition in New York, entitled, Pink Is the New Black at OSMOS Address including photogr...

The Print Renaissance in America: A Revolution - Paperback

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by Ronald L. Ruble (Author)"The Fine Art print has taken the art world by storm in a relatively short period of time. The Print Renaissance in America is a brief look into this recent rebirth of the medium of printmaking, and its significance within art history. The narrative carries the reader through the historical background of the war years, followed by the rapid development and growth of printmaking in the '50s and '60s, until finally reaching full stride in the "Golden '70s" and beyond....