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The Dance of Moon and Sun: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism - Hardcover

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by Ithell Colquhoun (Editor), Tilly Craig (Editor), Victoria Ferentinou (Editor)Essays on the art and writings of the long-neglected British occultist and SurrealistStraddling the worlds of Surrealism, occultism and modernist literature, Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) was widely respected in her lifetime, but her transgressive, esoteric and poetic paintings and writings were long neglected until Richard Shillitoe's 2009 book Ithell Colquhoun: Magician Born of Nature initiated her revaluation--fol...

Mind and Hand: Manual Training, the Chief Factor in Education - Hardcover

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by Charles Henry Ham (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, r...

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; Volume 2 - Hardcover

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by Leicester Ambrose Sawyer (Author), Constantin Von Tischendorf (Author), August Hahn (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, an...

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by John Collier (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reprod...

Sartor Resartus: A Fully Annotated Edition With an Introductory Essay On Thomas Carlyle - Hardcover

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by Anonymous (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduce...

The Works of James Gillray, the Caricaturist; With the History of His Life and Times - Hardcover

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by Thomas 1810-1877 Wright (Author), Joseph 1843-1908 Grego (Author), James 1756-1815 Gillray (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars beli...

The Study and Criticism of Italian Art: Third Series - Hardcover

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by Bernard Berenson (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, re...

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by Jameson Green (Artist), Dan Nadel (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Packed with allusions to art history and full of rambunctious cartoon energy, Green's paintings eviscerate the gruesome imagery of racismBronx-based painter Jameson Green (born 1992) creates psychological parables rendered in a visual language steeped in the grandeur of art history, inflected with comics and illustration and filtered through a highly introspective lens. Sampling art-historical references ranging from Jacob Lawren...

Julian the Emperor: Containing Gregory Nazianzen's Two Invectives and Libanius' Monody With Julian's Extant Theosophical Works - Paperback

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by Charles William King (Author), Julian (Author), Gregory (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work ...

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Cómo Cambiar Tu Vida Con Sorolla / How to Change Your Life with Sorolla - Paperback

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by César Suárez (Author)2023: AÑO SOROLLA Una biografía única. Una mirada audaz sobre uno de los más grandes pintores españoles y su tiempo. «Quien busque una biografía de Sorolla y de su época encontrará en este libro una novela apasionante y magníficamente escrita. Y quien busque una novela apasionante encontrará al mismo tiempo una biografía tan rigurosa como amena . -Luis Landero, Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas La obra de Joaquín Sorolla es una de las más populares de la hist...

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Flamingo Island. the Art of Zach Lynch - Hardcover

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by Zach Lynch (Artist)Welcome to Zach Lynch's universe! The American digital artist spent over a decade developing and refining his gay utopia, "Flamingo Island". At the center of his hyperreal pictorial fantasy world are beautiful men who will obey nothing and no one besides their own desires. Lynch's images are an explosion of color, moods, naked bodies and exquisite moments: a veritable how-to of the erotic imagination. By revealing his own fantasies, Zach Lynch opens wide the door to ours...

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Joan Miró New Beginnings: Cat. Zpk Zentrum Paul Klee Bern - Paperback

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by Teresa Montaner (Author), Joan Miró (Author), Fabienne Eggelhöfer (Editor)Joan Miró is known for his colourful dream worlds. Especially after he was at long last able to move into his own large studio in Palma de Mallorca in 1954, the Catalan artist extended his concept of painting in a previously unfamiliar way. He felt that his conventional easel painting had become constraining, and he sought new expressive forms. Henceforth, for example, rather than using the brush he began ' painting'...

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In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination in the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection - Hardcover

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by Omar Kholeif (Author), Dirk Luckow (Foreword by)" In the Heart of Another Country" explores the concept of home- of longing and belonging by artists who hail from multiple diasporas. The exhibition and the book explores the ways that physical movement- how mobility across geographies, has shaped and contoured the frame of global art today. The artists, herein, have traversed migratory routes from South and West Asia, through Africa, and the Caribbean. Many now live in dispersed sites, far ...

The Adidas Archive. the Footwear Collection. 40th Ed. - Hardcover

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by Christian Habermeier (Photographer), Sebastian Jäger (Photographer)More than 100 years ago the brothers Adolf ("Adi") and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and star-studded collabs later, this book presents a visual review of the adidas shoe through almost 200 models.To further develop and tailor his products to athletes' specific needs, Dassler asked them to return their worn footwear when no longer needed, with all the...

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by Bella Justis (Author)Finding Color is one teen's artistic journey to find peace and an understanding of herself as well as her place in this world. This book addresses topics such as Dyslexia, Anxiety, Depression, and Bullying. The author uses art as a form of expression and therapy to confront personal demons as well as pressures from the outside world. Bella Justis presents several coping mechanisms that helped her to navigate her journey as a teenager in a challenging world. Finding Col...

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I Declare a Permanent State of Happiness - Paperback

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"My entire poetic production is founded upon Wittgenstein's later writings. Although it has sat on my shelf for decades, I never actually read the Tractatus. But I always loved the idea of it; I am a conceptual writer, after all."-- Kenneth Goldsmith A major philosophical work, one of the most important written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is Ludwig Wittgenstein's attempt to conquer reality through logic. Written as a series of precisely numbered propositions, it e...

SpeculationsEssays On Humanism And The Philosophy Of Art - Hardcover

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by T. E. Hulme (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reprodu...

Textile Fabrics of Ancient Peru, Volumes 7-11 - Paperback

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by William Henry Holmes (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved...

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by Jose Larraga (Author)WHY HIDDEN ART? There are so many people (residents) who live in nursing homes, memory care and assisted living facilities, who love to create some kind of art. Once they finish it, they hang it on a wall in their rooms, where it remains hidden, without anyone being able to see it, only the very few people who enter their rooms. To those residents is Hidden Art. Hidden Art is the first book ever published with Art created by seniors living in health care facilities. Ar...

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William Rimmer: Champion of Imagination in American Art - Hardcover

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by Dorinda Evans (Author)William Rimmer (1816-1879) is arguably the first modernist American sculptor, although his inventive originality has not been fully acknowledged. Rimmer cultivated an art of ideas and personal expression whilst supporting himself as a physician and, later, as a teacher of art anatomy at the Cooper Union School of Design for Women in New York. Unlike his contemporaries, he advocated the creation of sculpture drawn entirely from the artist's imagination, as opposed to a...

Thomas Jefferson on Taste and the Fine Arts - Paperback

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by M. Andrew Holowchak (Author)Jefferson tended to classify the books of his libraries under the Baconian headings of memory, reason, and imagination, which corresponded to history, philosophy, and the fine arts. Thus, education in the Fine Arts, which Jefferson listed as eight, was considered an indispensible part of the life of an educated person-especially a Virginian. An educated person needed knowledge of architecture, gardening, painting, sculpture, rhetoric, belle lettres, poetry music...

Researching the Teaching of Drawing (Color) - Paperback

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by Raymond M. Klein (Editor)The Drawing Laboratory at NSCAD University was founded with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in 2005 as a collaboration between psychological scientists from Dalhousie and drawing instructors at NSAD. The Drawing Lab is thus a unique place where scientists and artists collaborate on interdisciplinary research about the complex intellectual and practical act of drawing from observation. By bringing the scientific method to b...

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by Maude Rex Allen (Author)This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We ...

The Tomb Of Alexander: A Dissertation On The Sarcophagus Brought From Alexandria And Now In The British Museum - Paperback

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by Edward Daniel Clarke (Author), British Museum Dept of Egyptian and a (Created by)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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur...

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Eileen Cooper: Parallel Lines - Hardcover

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by Eileen Cooper (Artist), Kathleen Soriano (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Linsey Young (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A half-century of works in all mediums by the acclaimed British artistIn this survey on British artist Eileen Cooper (born 1953), early works are illustrated alongside previously unseen drawings, paintings, prints, ceramics and portraits. The authors consider Cooper's work in relation to the collections of Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, including works by Doig, Rego and Picass...

Catalogue of the Exhibition of Paintings of Hokusai - Paperback

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by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be pre...

Contemporary British Ceramics and the Influence of Sculpture: Monuments, Multiples, Destruction and Display - Paperback

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by Laura Gray (Author)This book investigates how British contemporary artists who work with clay have managed, in the space of a single generation, to take ceramics from niche-interest craft to the pristine territories of the contemporary art gallery. This development has been accompanied (and perhaps propelled) by the kind of critical discussion usually reserved for the 'higher' discipline of sculpture. Ceramics is now encountering and colliding with sculpture, both formally and intellectual...

Lettering for Draftsmen, Engineers, and Students: A Practical System of Freehand Lettering for Working Drawings - Paperback

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Souvenirs Of Madame Vigée Le Brun; Volume 1 - Paperback

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by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be ...

Art Education, Scholastic and Industrial - Paperback

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by Walter Smith (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reprod...

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by Robert Alan Mowbray 1847- Stevenson (Created by)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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important eno...