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In Part: Writings by Julie Ault - Hardcover

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by Julie Ault (Editor), Nicolas Linnert (Editor), Lucy R. Lippard (Introduction by)Spanning more than three decades, In Part brings together a full spectrum of the New York-based artist, writer and activist Julie Ault's (born 1957) published texts through carefully selected extracts in a single volume.Reprinted in chronological sequence alongside a selection of full-length texts, this series of excerpts offers a timeline of Ault's continuous artistic growth, longstanding political concerns an...

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Andrea Geyer: Dance in a Future with All Present - Paperback

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by Andrea Geyer (Artist), Alhena Katsof (Editor), Karen Kelly (Editor)The most substantive monograph yet published on the work of German-born, New York-based multimedia artist Andrea Geyer (born 1971), Dance in a Future with All Present focuses on her recent explorations of the marginalized yet pivotal role that women have played in the formulation of American modernism, tracing and honoring the ephemeral acts, initiatives and stories that shaped it. Featuring full-color images of Geyer's art...

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by Leidy Churchman (Artist), Karen Kelly (Editor), Barbara Schroeder (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Ranging from figurative representation to gestural abstraction, monumental landscape paintings to more intimate portraits, the oeuvre of American painter Leidy Churchman (born 1979) channels his artistic and literary influences, friendships, moods, surrounding landscapes and the visual iconography of divergent religions and philosophies. Crocodile highlights the artist's investigations into conscio...

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Calligraphy as Art and Meditation: A New Approach - Spiral

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by Gina Jonas (Author)Calligraphy as Art and Meditation presents a new approach to calligraphy, one uniquely suited to our time. In it, the making of calligraphic letter forms becomes a way to integrate mind, body, and feeling, to enrich creativity, and enhance well-being. The exercises in Western alphabetic writing, arranged in a guided progression, provide an opportunity to develop awareness, relax the mind, and open the door to artistic expression. The audience for Calligraphy as Art and M...

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by Giorgio de Chirico (Author), Stefania Heim (Translator)Gathered from early twentieth-century Italian magazines, manuscripts, correspondence, television recordings, and ephemeral art volumes, Geometry of Shadows is the first comprehensive collection of Giorgio de Chirico's Italian poetry, with award-winning poet Stefania Heim's translations presented alongside the Italian originals. De Chirico's poems are as essential and as mysterious as his paintings. --Jhumpa Lahiri A multifaceted arti...

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Hayv Kahraman: Project Series 52 - Hardcover

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by Hayv Kahraman (Artist), Rebecca McGrew (Editor), Rebecca McGrew (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Creating a discourse between Eastern otherness" and Western concepts of beautyLos Angeles-based artist Hayv Kahraman (born 1981) creates exquisite paintings and other wall works that address diasporic cultural memory, feminine collectivity and gender identity through her personal history as an Iraqi émigré first to Europe, then to the US. This artist's book explores how her visual language merges her...

Reynolda: Her Muses, Her Stories - Hardcover

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by David Park Curry (Author), Martha R. Severens (Author), Allison Perkins (Foreword by)Reynolda: Her Muses, Her Stories is your invitation to explore Reynolda House Museum of American Art, North Carolina's nationally acclaimed art museum showcasing paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts in the restored 1917 home of tobacco magnate R. J. Reynolds and his wife, Katharine. Their sixty-four-room bungalow sits at the center of an estate that beckons thousands of visitors each year to its forma...

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Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger - Paperback

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by Niamh O'Sullivan (Editor)The scale of the Great Irish Famine, and the horror of it, were unprecedented. It permeated everything, the traces of which remain to this day. But the visual dimensions of the loss of life and the erosions of language and culture remained unaddressed until Quinnipiac University opened Ireland's Great Hunger Museum in 2012, to considerable acclaim. As a largely invisible trauma whose consequences were intrinsic to the subsequent development of Ireland - no less tha...

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Process and Practice: The Fabric Workshop and Museum - Hardcover

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by Susan Lubowsky Talbott (Editor), Paterson Sims (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Nancy Princenthal (Text by (Art/Photo Books))In honor of the Fabric Workshop and Museum's 40th anniversary, Process and Practice tells a story of contemporary art at FWM that highlights process along with product. It documents FWM's history of collaboration with established and emerging artists-in-residence since the 2002 publication of New Materials as New Media. Some of the over 30 artists featured include Mark B...

Gingernutz Takes Paris: An Orangutan Conquers Fashion - Hardcover

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by Michael Roberts (Artist), Grace Coddington (Foreword by)In this adorable sequel to the 2017 hit GingerNutz, the eponymous orangutan supermodel hits ParisShe's back After becoming a breakout star in the fashion world, GingerNutz, the first Bornean-born orangutan supermodel, has landed in Paris for a whirlwind week of fittings, photo shoots and parties. Though born in humble jungle surroundings, the precocious primate quickly adjusts to life at the upper echelons of the fashion world: booki...

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Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, the Flag We Should Know - Hardcover

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by Sonya Clark (Artist), Susan Lubowsky Talbott (Contribution by), Valerie Cassel Oliver (Editor)In the spring of 1865, a seemingly unremarkable dishcloth played a crucial role in ending the Civil War as the South's flag of surrender at Appomattox. A Confederate horseman carried a humble white linen towel into the lines of General George Custer, near the courthouse at Appomattox. The horseman was sent on behalf of General Robert E. Lee, who was requesting a suspension of hostilities while Gen...

Museum of the Southwest: Selections from the Permanent Collection - Hardcover

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by Wendy Earle (Contribution by), Jenni Opalinski (Contribution by), Melissa Rowland (Contribution by)This publication is the first catalogue of the permanent collection of the Museum of the Southwest, based in Midland, Texas. The volume's introduction details the history of Midland and the genesis of the Museum of the Southwest, celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2016. With a focus on the art of the American Southwest, 70 essays accompanied by striking images present this West Texas ins...

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Steven Holl: Making Architecture - Paperback

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by Kerry Dean Carso (Author), Steven Holl (Author), Nina Stritzler-Levine (Author)Examines Steven Holl's intricate and distinctive process of making architecture through approximately one hundred models, related sketches and other studies created for nine recent projects.Author BiographyKerry Dean Carso is Associate Professor of Art History at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Steven Holl is one of America's most acclaimed architects, recognized for his ability to blend space and...

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Painting Surfboards and Chasing Waves: An Artist's Journey to Success Volume 1 - Paperback

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by Drew Brophy (Author), Maria Brophy (Author)"No matter what you create, someone is going to love it and someone is going to hate it. Focus on the people who love it." Drew Brophy This is the story of a self-taught artist who inspired change in the action sports industry. From painting surfboards to skateboards to designing tee shirts and boogie boards; Drew Brophy took his art from rejection to success. Brophy began his journey as a young artist who struggled to fit in. He had a vision for ...

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by Jim Shaw (Artist), Doug Harvey (Contribution by), Philipp Kaiser (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The inaugural exhibition of the Marciano Art Foundation, Jim Shaw: The Wig Museum highlights Shaw's (born 1952) career-long engagement with America's diverse histories. The Los Angeles local used the enigmatic artifacts found during the transformation of the former Scottish Rite Masonic Temple where the foundation resides--stage sets, robes, costumes and wigs--to construct a metaphor for the wig-wea...

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Marred for Life!: Defaced Record Covers from the Collection of Greg Wooten - Hardcover

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by Jason Fulford (Artist), Greg Wooten (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Found art in the form of record covers, lovingly and mischievously vandalized by anonymous music loversMarred for Life! presents over 250 record covers, lovingly and mischievously vandalized by anonymous music lovers. The LP covers were selected from the collection of Greg Wooten, a Los Angeles-based collector, musician and design purveyor. Wooten and his community of record-collector friends have discovered these in used recor...

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Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color - Paperback

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by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (Author), Keegan Mills Cooke (Editor), Alan Bruton (Contribution by)Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1842-1939) was an artist, collector, scholar, and historian working at the dawn of the 20th century. Her first and most prominent work, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color, provides a comprehensive overview of the main ideas of color theory at the time, as well as her wildly original approaches to color analysis and interaction. Through a 21st centu...

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The Last Days of Mankind: A Visual Guide to Karl Kraus' Great War Epic - Hardcover

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by Marjorie Perloff (Contribution by), Matthias Goldmann (Contribution by), Anna Souchuk (Contribution by)The Great War drama by Viennese satirist Karl Kraus, restaged by Sengl in "stunning display" of taxidermied rat-actors, with commentary. When the age died by its own hand, that hand was Karl Kraus'. - Bertolt Brecht PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - TOP 10 IN ART, ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY, Fall 2018 With critical success over the past four years, artist Deborah Sengl (b. 1974) has exhibited taxid...

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by Robert Gober (Artist), Emily Wei Rales (Editor), Anne Reeve (Editor)This book marks the long-term installation of Robert Gober's (born 1954) seminal Untitled (1992) at Glenstone Museum. Untitled is an immersive, multi-sensorial installation with diverse constituent parts: sinks with running water, darkened exterior pathways, a brightly-lit interior chamber, a hand-painted 360-degree mural and discrete sculptural elements made to appear like prison windows, boxes of rat bait and bundles of ...

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Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment - Hardcover

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by Louise Bourgeois (Artist), Emily Wei Rales (Editor), Ali Nemerov (Editor)A survey of the psychologically, emotionally and often sexually charged work of Louise BourgeoisCelebrated for her singular contributions to 20th-century sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, installation and writing, French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois' (1911-2010) explorations of the human condition originated from her own lived experience. "My goal is to relive a past emotion," Bourgeois explained. "M...

Celebrating Florida: Works of Art from the Vickers Collection - Paperback

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by Gary R. Libby (Author)A full-color collection of important paintings, drawings, and printsCelebrating Florida: Worksof Art from the Vickers Collection illustrates in full color a generous selection ofpaintings, drawings, and prints by some of the world's most significant artistswho came to Florida from 1823 to 1950 to capture the "Sunshine State." This book includes works by GeorgeCope, William Glackens, Jane Peterson, Martin Johnson Heade, Herman Herzog, Winslow Homer, George Inness, Fra...

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Kananginak Pootoogook: Drawings and Prints from Kinngait - Hardcover

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by Kananginak Pootoogook (Author), Leslie Boyd (Author) Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.6 x 9.3 x 8.2 IN Publication Date: July 15, 2023

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by Ron Ashtiani (Author), Gavin Rothery (Foreword by)Ron Ashtiani brings together twenty-five years of experience directing creative projects for games and film to share what it takes to be a successful art director in the entertainment industry today. Using his well-honed art direction skills and diverse project experience, real-world examples, and clear diagrams, he educates his readers on every element of stellar art design for both video games and movies.Providing creative and business le...

Creative Stained Glass: 17 Step-By-Step Projects for Stunning Glass Art and Gifts - Paperback

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by Noor Springael (Author)A beginner friendly guide to making stained glass art using the most popular and accessible method, copper foil. The traditional art form of stained glass has become extremely popular again and this collection has everything you need to know to get started on this exciting craft. The effect of sunlight streaming through colourful stained glass is visually stunning and this collection brings the craft right up to date with techniques and projects for a new audience. T...

The Illustrator's Guide to Procreate: How to Make Digital Art on Your iPad - Paperback

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by Ruth Burrows (Author)Unlock your creativity with easy digital illustration techniques. Learn how to create professional-looking art and illustration in Procreate, the industry-leading digital painting app for iPad. In this step-by-step guide you will learn how to create unique art, make seamless patterns, and master all the elements of the software: from layers to selections, how to use brushes, how to tile patterns and everything you need to know to take your art to new digital highs. Art...

My Cute Kawaii Drawings: Learn to Draw Adorable Art with This Easy Step-By-Step Guide - Paperback

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by Mayumi Jezewski (Author)Learn to draw the cutest kawaii pictures in easy-to-follow steps! Kawaii is a Japanese term that means adorable or cute. In drawing, it describes a simplified style with rounded shapes, representing characters, animals, food, or any object that has a cute, childlike look. In this fun and colourful book, young (and young-at-heart) artists can unlock the secrets of kawaii drawing, from getting the right proportions to creating personality with different facial expres...

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by Fiona Watt (Author), Candice Whatmore (Illustrator)Complete beginners can discover how to draw lots of different people, from super heroes to ballerinas to horse riders, in this delightful write-in book. Each double colorful page has step-by-step drawing instructions, space to practice and doodle in, and ideas for coloring in or adding backgrounds. Includes additional hints and tips for drawing faces, poses and gestures, creating characters and placing people in scenes. Number of Pages: 96...

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African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs: Opportunity, Access, and Community - Hardcover

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by Mary Ann Calo (Author), Jacqueline Francis (Epilogue by)This bookexamines the involvement of African American artists in the New Deal art programs of the 1930s. Emphasizing broader issues informed by the uniqueness of Black experience rather than individual artists' works, Mary Ann Calo makes the case that the revolutionary vision of these federal art projects is best understood in the context of access to opportunity, mediated by the reality of racial segregation.Focusing primarily on the...

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Drawing with the Brush: Eastern Inspiration for the Western Artist - Paperback

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by Christine Forbes (Author)Draw nature your own, unique way inspired by East Asian artistic traditions. This practical book introduces the art of brush drawing to complete beginners. It explains how to recreate the serene beauty of the natural world, including the Four Noble Plants, with minimal marks. All you need is a brush, ink and paper. Learn about brush drawing through the simple exercises that this book demonstrates and discover a place to 'be' that arises through doing rather than th...

Narwhals and Other Sea Creatures Magic Painting Book - Paperback

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by Sam Taplin (Author), Elzbieta Jarzabek (Illustrator)Brush water over the black and white illustrations and watch as underwater creatures burst into color! There are sixteen detailed pictures to bring to life, filled with sea otters, dolphins, sharks, seahorses and lots more. With a handy fold-out back cover to prevent colors running through to the page beneath. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 8.7 IN Publication Date: June 27, 2023

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by Peter Ackroyd (Author)Celebrated novelist, biographer, and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the world's greatest cities in this brilliant and original work, exploring how the city's many hues have come to shape its history and identity. Think of the colors of London and what do you imagine? The reds of open-top buses and terracotta bricks? The grey smog of Victorian industry, Portland stone, and pigeons in Trafalgar square? Or the gradations of yellows, violets, and ...

Maria Trolle's Universe Coloring Book - Hardcover

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by Maria Trolle (Illustrator)Enter the wonderfully whimsical universe of Maria Trolle! This anniversary collection brings together 70 of Maria's best-loved illustrations and 22 new scenes for you to color and explore.Welcome to Maria Trolle's Universe!Enter a world of lush greenery and whimsical fantasy. Smell the scents of gardens in full bloom and bathe in the warmth of the sun seeping through the forest canopy. Pause by the babbling brook to say hello to Luna, Myra, and the fairies and mag...