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Graphis Advertising Annual 2023 - Hardcover

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by B. Martin Pedersen (Created by)Featuring fine art quality print, full-page images of Platinum and Gold Award-winning work, Silver Award-winning work and Honorable Mentions are also presented. Author BiographyB. Martin Pedersen, Graphis CEO, publisher, designer, and editorial director, has earned industry praise for his elegant and timeless design. At Graphis, his prestigious international juried award competitions for Design, Advertising, Photography, Illustration, and New Talent recognize...

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Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting - Paperback

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by Alessandro Giammei (Editor), Ara H. Merjian (Editor), T. J. Clark (Preface by)First collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini's passion for painting One of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker, novelist, and political martyr. He was also a keen critic of painting. An intermittently practicing artist in his own right, Pasolini studied under the distinguished art historian Roberto Longhi, whose lessons marked...

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by Kalia Brooks (Editor), Cheryl Finley (Editor), Ellyn Toscano (Editor)Women and Migration(s) II draws together contributions from scholars and artists showcasing the breadth of intersectional experiences of migration, from diaspora to internal displacement. Building on conversations initiated in Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History, this edited volume features a range of written styles, from memoir to artists' statements to journalistic and critical essays. The collection shows...

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Capturing Nature: 150 Years of Nature Printing - Hardcover

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by Matthew Zucker (Author), Pia Östlund (Author)A landmark visual exploration of nature printing, featuring 45 different techniques and hundreds of astonishing rare images. Hailed as the earliest precursor to photography, nature printing is the practice of using impressions from the surface of a natural object such as leaves, flowering plants, ferns, seaweed, snakes, and more to produce an image. Author Matthew Zucker has spent decades curating the most extensive collection of nature prints...

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Chip7land: Behind the Scenes of a Bangkok Graffiti Writer - Paperback

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by Chip7 (Photographer)Chip7Land is a chaotic, energetically produced monograph that highlights some of Chip's work over the last twenty years. Executed in his 'techno- organic' style he moves freely between wall and canvas, always expressing himself with vivid colours that leap off the pages. Art directed by Chip himself this pocket size book is an artwork to itself and will transport instantly to Bangkok, Thailand. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.24 x 5.91 x 6.22 IN Publication Date: Apri...

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Kowloon Bustle: Behind the Scenes of a Hong Kong Grafitti Writer - Paperback

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by Xeme (Author)Author BiographyThere is one name universally synonymous with Hong Kong's graffiti scene. That name is Xeme. Xeme is widely recognized as one of most prolific figures in the Hong Kong graffiti scene and the wider Asian graffiti and street art scene. He has a body of work that spans two decades and is responsible for the famous Invasian magazine, HKwalls and has contributed to a variety of street wear labels. Xeme has solidified his reputation as a graffiti writer in a place wh...

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Super Strike: Behind the Scenes of a Japanese Graffiti Writer - Paperback

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by Suiko One (Photographer), Ryo Sanada (Editor), Suridh Hassan (Editor)Super Strike presents a behind the scenes perspective of one of Japan's leading graffiti writers and urban artists. Hailing from Hiroshima Suiko's art has allowed him to travel extensively and Super Strike is a rare glimpse into his personal life as he likes to spin tunes, go skateboarding and illustrate manga comics. Super Strike presents his artistic versatility, highlights the global demand for his work and presents a ...

An Artist Among the Wind Horses of Mongolia - Hardcover

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by Erika Connor (Author)An artist visits Hustai National Park in Mongolia and takes part in the reintroduction project of the wild Przewalski horses, or Wind Horses as they are known by Mongolians. A reflection on the story of humans and horses in the wilderness, illustrated with 36 original colour paintings. Searching for her place in the world, she finds company with wild horses and explores the interplay between the herd and the lone wolf."I slipped across the grasses, becoming one with th...

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by Wangechi Mutu (Author), Nora Lawrence (With), Aisha Tandiwe Bell (With)Wangechi Mutu is a catalogue accompanying a 2022 exhibition comprising large-scale bronzes, earthworks, and films by Wangechi Mutu at Storm King Art Center. Co-published by Storm King and X Artists' Books, this publication includes a foreword by John P. Stern, President of Storm King, an essay situating Mutu's sculptures within an art historical context by Storm King's Artistic Director and Chief Curator, Nora Lawrence,...

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Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth from Rome and Pompeii - Paperback

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by Jessica Powers (Author), Bettina Bergmann (Contribution by), Verity Platt (Contribution by)- Explores the fascinating resonances of landscape scenes as reflections of Roman social and political developments, including the growth of the Empire - Essays by 6 distinguished scholars offering diverse perspectives on landscapes in the art of ancient Rome - Featuring ancient Roman landscape scenes in a variety of media, including rarely published works - Accompanies the exhibition Roman Landscape...

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by Julie Lucht (Author), Dan McGeehan (Illustrator)Today is the big day! Adventurous and passionate Poppy can't wait to go to the art museum with her fourth-grade class. All the different masterpieces are just waiting to be seen. But when Poppy leans a bit too close to a painting, to her surprise she falls inside! With the help of some unlikely friends, she must travel from one painting to another in a colorful quest to get back home.From famous pieces like American Gothic, Water Lilies, Nigh...

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by Shaun Thomas Dingwerth (Author)This is the untold story of a group of artists whose interest in fostering art in their community made an authentic contribution to the history of art in America. Taking for their subjects the local people, flora, and landscapes, they developed a distinctive impressionistic style, uninfluenced by other art movements in Indiana. Richmond, Indiana, became an important center for art in the Midwest, a place that nourished and inspired the artists whose work this...

Rex Brandt: Watercolor Paintings - Paperback

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by Gary Lee Kvamme (Author)Rex Brandt's work has always primarily represented the careless, joyful nature of the beach and its activities and lifestyle. His creations emerge more as reactions to the happenings around him in his life than representations of real things. Living in California and absorbing all the influences around him, his art became a beautiful synthesis of the bold colors of Latin art, like the murals of Diego Rivera, and the spontaneity of Japanese landscapes.The present wor...

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by Michelle Mulder (Author)Frida and her brother, Zac, have lived in seven countries in ten years. In fact, they've been travelling for so long that Frida has never considered herself from anywhere -- until they inherit their grandmother's house in Victoria, British Columbia. Zac, always looking for money-making opportunities to fund their travels, is determined to sell everything in the house and expects Frida to help. Now they're up to their ears in family heirlooms, paintings of dead relat...

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by Françoise Gilot (Author), Carlton Lake (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...

Before Photography: German Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century - Paperback

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by Kirsten Belgum (Editor), Vance Byrd (Editor), John D. Benjamin (Editor)Recent years have seen a wealth of new scholarship on the history of photography, cinema, digital media, and video games, yet less attention has been devoted to earlier forms of visual culture. The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic proliferation of new technologies, devices, and print processes, which provided growing audiences with access to more visual material than ever before. This volume brings together the b...

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Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax - Hardcover

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by Awol Erizku (Artist), Ishmael Reed (Foreword by), Ashley James (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Mystic Parallax is the first major monograph by rising interdisciplinary artist Awol Erizku. Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, his work references and re-imagines African American and African visual culture, from hip hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of spirituality and Surrealism. This comprehensive monograph spans Erizku's career, blending h...

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Broken Myths: Charles Sheeler's Industrial Landscapes - Hardcover

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by Andrea Diederichs (Author)Precisionism is generally regarded as an artistic style that does not indulge in social or political themes, being committed instead to aestheticism. Addressing the role of human beings under increased automation and mechanization, Andrea Diederichs includes the social dimension of the machine age in her investigations. In this way, she undertakes a fundamental revision of the prevailing, one-dimensional reading of Precisionism. It becomes clear that Charles Sheel...

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The Activist Collector: Lida Clanton Broner's 1938 Journey from Newark to South Africa - Hardcover

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by Christa Clarke (Author) "After twenty-eight years of desire and determination, I have visited Africa, the land of my forefathers." So wrote Lida Clanton Broner (1895-1982), an African American housekeeper and hairstylist from Newark, New Jersey, upon her return from an extraordinary nine-month journey to South Africa in 1938. This epic trip was motivated not only by Broner's sense of ancestral heritage, but also a grassroots resolve to connect the socio-political concerns of African Americ...

Illustrating Archaeological Artifacts: Volume 1 - Paperback

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by Janie Ravenhurst (Author)Have you ever wanted to go on an archaeological adventure in some faraway place or even in your own community? Well, here's your chance. Whether you believe it or not, if you can write your name, you have all the skills you need in your hands to be an archaeological illustrator! All you need is patience and the training in this manual, and you could be illustrating artifacts for a fascinating archaeological project almost anywhere in the world! On every archaeologi...

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The Art of My Father's Dragon: The Official Behind-The-Scenes Companion to the Film - Hardcover

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by Ramin Zahed (Author), Bonnie Curtis (Foreword by), Julie Lynn (Foreword by)The official behind-the-scenes art book for five-time Academy Award-nominated animation studio Cartoon Saloon's stunning animated fantasy adventure My Father's Dragon, inspired by the classic children's novel. Foreword by Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn The Art of My Father's Dragon documents the production of Cartoon Saloon's (The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner, Wolfwalkers) and Mockingbird Pictures...

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Selected Extracts from the Writings of the Renaissance Genius - Hardcover

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by Edward McCurdy (Author), Leonardo Da Vinci (Author)The incredible notebooks of Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci are presented in this luxurious, silkbound volume with gold embossing. Richly illustrated with more than 50 facsimile images from his notebooks and several of his most famous works of art, including The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci dips into the thousands of pages and several notebooks that he accumulated with his observations on a wide r...

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Srijon Chowdhury: Same Old Song - Paperback

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by Srijon Chowdhury (Artist), Amanda Donnan (Editor), Mónica Belevan (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Dreamlike oil paintings positioning our present era as part of a larger mythologyVacillating between a highly stylized approach and startling realism, Portland-based Bangladeshi painter Srijon Chowdhury (born 1987) brings an uncanny contemporary twist to traditional genres like family portraiture and the vanitas still life. Accompanying his first solo museum exhibition, this volume provides an over...

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Weaving Modernist Art: The Life and Work of Mariette Rousseau-Vermette - Hardcover

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by Anne Newlands (Author) With Weaving Modernist Art: The Life and Work of Mariette Rousseau-Vermette, author Anne Newlands returns one of Canada's most accomplished and respected visual artists to the public eye Born into a large French-Canadian family in 1926, Mariette Rousseau embraced her passion for creative expression through wool and weaving at an early age She studied art and weaving at l'École des beaux-arts in Quebec City and then worked at the California studio of ground-breaking...

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by Stephanie Perry Moore (Author), Anthony Ketuojor Ikediuba (Illustrator)Magic loves going to school. However, when he is asked to paint, Magic freezes. In Mr. Gray's class, Magic and his buddies Rex and Reva enter a magic picture of an amusement park and learn the three fundamentals of painting: sketch, fill in, and finish. The book also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available. Num...

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Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023 - Paperback

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by Lara M. Evans (Author), Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Author), Anya Montiel (Author)This volume features the work of six Indigenous artists whose craft speaks to the responsibility of honoring cultural traditions while shaping the future. Joe Feddersen (Arrow Lakes/Okanagan) is a printmaker, glass artist, and basket maker who creates geometric patterns sourced from everyday life. Multimedia artist Erica Lord (Athabascan/Iñupiat) crafts beaded burden straps and sled dog blankets with abstracted re...

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by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara (Author), Ana Albero (Illustrator)In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of David Hockney, the inspirational British artist. Little David loved to draw and looked at the world in his own unique way. He always knew what his path in life would be... he would be an artist! He went to art school and worked day and night to hone his drawing skills. He sold his first pa...

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Frida Kahlo (Spanish Edition) - Paperback

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by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara (Author), Gee Fan Eng (Illustrator)This beautiful Spanish-language book, translated from the hugely popular Little People, BIG DREAMS series, can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers and those learning the language, whether at home or in the classroom. En este éxito de ventas internacional de la aclamada serie Little People, BIG DREAMS, descubra la vida de Frida Kahlo, la pintora de renombre mundial. Cuando Frida era una adolescente, un terrible accidente de t...

Pixels of World Football 2002: 2002 Edition - Paperback

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by Matheus Toscano (Author)This book is meant to bring the fun of painting pixels on a screen to the material world of pencil and paper. It contains 64 pixelated designs, based on the shirts (home and away) of the main football nations as they were in 2002. Each design has been carefully adapted to pixel art style and a numbered colour palette has been created as guidance for the colouring process. An answer sheet is available at the end of the book with the intended outcome, but it is up to ...

The Complete Guide to Sony's Alpha 77 II (B&W Edition) - Paperback

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by Gary L. Friedman (Author)The A77 II may look like the original Alpha 77, but inside it's a completely new design, sensor, and data path. There are a slew of new focusing modes, Wi-Fi and NFC functionality, and nuanced feature interactions which the manufacturer's manual just doesn't cover. What to do? Written for the advanced user (with tutorials and easy explanations in case you're not so advanced), this easy-to-understand yet thorough guide provides a complete instruction manual which ex...

Mindfulness Flower Coloring Book II - Paperback

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by Lady Sumone (Author)Welcome to "Mindfulness Flower Coloring Book II" - the perfect way to relax and unwind while exploring the beauty of flowers! With 50 calming illustrations featuring a flower theme, this book will transport you to a world of peace and tranquility.The stress and anxiety-releasing properties of coloring are well-known, and this book takes it to the next level with single-sided pages. You can color with confidence, knowing that your masterpiece won't bleed through to the n...