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Rome as a Guide to the Good Life: A Philosophical Grand Tour - Paperback

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by Scott Samuelson (Author)A unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome's great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city. This is a guidebook to Rome for those interested in both la dolce vita and what the ancient Romans called the vita beata--the good life. Philosopher Scott Samuelson offers a thinker's tour of the Eternal City, rooting ideas from this philosophical tradition within the geography of the city itself. As he introduces the city's...

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The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington - Paperback

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by Gabriel Weisz Carrington (Author), Jonathan P. Eburne (Foreword by)In this memoir, Gabriel Weisz Carrington, son of the renowned Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother and declare her not an icon or a goddess but, first and foremost, an artist.Back Jacket'An enchanting portrait of what it was like to grow up as Leonora's son -- here, too, as in some of her paintings, the domestic and the fantastical are tightly, wonder...

Pixels of English Football - 2022/2023 - 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 59 pixelated designs, based on the 2022-2023 season shirts (home, away and third) of the main English football clubs, grouped by location. 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 inte...

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Art Education for a Sustainable Planet: Embracing Ecopedagogy in K-12 Classrooms - Paperback

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by Joy G. Bertling (Author), Olivia Gude (Foreword by)Explore how art education can contribute to a more just and sustainable planet. Making the case that ecopedagogy and eco-art can transform and enrich art education, Bertling introduces these two burgeoning movements and then outlines how they can be infused into K-12 art education. Seven innovative curricular strands are presented to help art teachers embrace natural cycles and processes, envision alternative states and ways of being, rest...

Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present - Hardcover

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by Amy E. Elkins (Author)Crafting Feminism develops a dynamic study of craft and art-making in modern and contemporary feminist writing. In evocative readings of literary works from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith, this book expands our sense of transartistic modernist scholarship to encompass process-oriented and medium-specific analyses of textile arts, digital design, collage, photography, painting, and sculpture in literary culture. By integrating these craft practices into the book's enlig...

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The Sacred Wisdom of the Native Americans - Hardcover

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by Larry J. Zimmerman (Author)Through expert text and beautiful images, learn about the history of Native Americans and their profound appreciation of the cycles of nature and belief in the cosmic interconnectedness of all things. In The Sacred Wisdom of Native Americans, Professor Larry J. Zimmerman tells the tragic tale of their conquest and dispossession, followed by their survival against the odds and the renewal of pride in a distinctive cultural heritage. Learn about American Indian tr...

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by Klutz (Created by)It's a dream come true for aspiring young painters of all levels - watercolor basics through more advanced skills are all here. The instruction book is a work of art itself, full of wonderful techniques that inspire everyone. Learn color blending and different types of brushwork to create amazing special effects for your masterpiece. 7-color paint palette and brush included, plus 20 delightful designs to get you started, including cute woodland animals, magical mermaids, ...

Mini Lessons for Artists: Daily Guidance and Inspirations to Improve Your Paintings - Paperback

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by Adeline Halvorson (Author)There are so many different things to think about when creating a painting.Fortunately, the act of painting also comes with a lot of thinking time! This book guides you to improve your paintings on a daily basis by focusing on one little lesson at a time.There are tips on using different mediums, ideas for marketing your work, and words to inspire you in your journey. Whether you work through a whole year of lessons or just open it up for daily inspiration, this b...

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The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon: The True Story of Alan Bean - Hardcover

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by Dean Robbins (Author), Sean Rubin (Illustrator)Journey to the moon on the Apollo 12 mission with Alan Bean, the fourth astronaut to walk on the lunar surface and the only artist to paint its beauty firsthand As a boy, Alan wanted to fly planes. As a young navy pilot, Alan wished he could paint the view from the cockpit. So he took an art class to learn patterns and forms. But no class could prepare him for the beauty of the lunar surface some 240,000 miles from Earth. In 1969, Alan became ...

Harry Potter: Hidden Dark Arts: Scratch Magic - Hardcover

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by Jenna Ballard (Author)Use the wooden stylus to reveal hidden scenes in this third Harry Potter Scratch Magic book Scenes are all about fighting Dark forces in Harry's world (such as Dementors, Severus Snape, and even You-Know-Who himself ).Fight Dark forces with Harry, Ron, and Hermione in this interactive scratch art book. By using a wooden stylus, scratch the pages to draw your Patronus, learn how to defeat Boggarts, and discover how Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes were destroyed.This fun an...

Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring - Paperback

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by Angela Cervantes (Author)Discover the true power of heritage, art, and family in this page-turning novel that celebrates the life and work of Frida Kahlo.Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content A room locked for 50 years.A valuable peacock ring.A mysterious brother-sister duo.Paloma Marquez is traveling to Mexico City, birthplace of her deceased father, for the very first...

The Coolest People in the Arts: 250 Anecdotes and Stories - Paperback

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by David Bruce (Author)This is a short, quick, and easy read.Most of these anecdotes are probably just OK (humor is hard!), but there should be at least one or two that you will want to tell your friends.Anecdotes are retold in my own words to avoid plagiarism.Most of these anecdotes are meant to be funny, but some are meant to be thought-provoking.Some Samples: - Johnny Brewton is the creator behind the zine X-Ray, each issue of which consists of 226 copies, each one at least slightly differ...

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Goodnight, Starry Night (Peek-A-Boo Art) - Board Book

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by Amy Guglielmo (Author), Julie Appel (Author)Introduce little ones to famous works of art in this peek-through bedtime lullaby, and spark curiosity, joy, and learning Goodnight glowing moon up high.Goodnight stars, goodnight sky.Goodnight baby, snug in bed.Time to rest your sleepy head.Discover the perfect art introduction for every child, and every home. Combining a soothing bedtime lullaby with vibrant colors and peek-through pages, this board book provides a gentle look at some of the mo...

Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums - Hardcover

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by Katrin Antweiler (Author) This book provides an analysis of the forms and functions of Holocaust memorialisation in human rights museums by asking about the impact of global memory politics on how we imagine the present and the future. It compares three human rights museums and their respective emplotment of the Holocaust and seeks to illuminate how, in this specific setting, memory politics simultaneously function as future politics because they delineate a normative ideal of the citizen-...

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by Camille Vivier (Photographer), Beda Achermann (Editor)French photographer Camille Vivier's unique visual foray into the fantastic world of Swiss artist HR Giger, creator of the legendary Alien movie monster. Text in English and German.Author BiographyBeda Achermann is a Zurich-based creative director, editor, and designer. Camille Vivier has been working at the intersection of art and fashion since the outset of her career as a photographer. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 1.1 x 13.94 x ...

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Paul Klee: The Sylvie and Jorge Helft Collection - Hardcover

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by Francesca Bernasconi (Editor), Arianna Quaglio (Editor)Features an extraordinary private collection of Paul Klee's drawings, watercolours, and prints, including many works that have rarely been on public display and are only little published.Author BiographyFrancesca Bernasconi is an art historian and head of the exhibition office at MASI Lugano, where Arianna Quaglio serves as a junior curator. Number of Pages: 212 Dimensions: 1.18 x 10.79 x 8.43 IN Publication Date: April 11, 2023

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Portraits: Architectural Parables - Hardcover

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by François Charbonnet (Editor), Patrick Heiz (Editor), Marine de Dardel (Contribution by)Made In, one of Switzerland's most exciting architectural firms, present the quintessence of their thinking: a boundary- and thought-breaking book about art, perception and architectural design.Author BiographyFrançois Charbonnet and Patrick Heiz are the founding partners of Geneva- and Zurich-based design firm Made In. They have gained wide recognition for a range of private commissions and submissions ...

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Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other - Hardcover

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by Elissa Auther (Editor), Laura Mott (Editor), Monica Obniski (Editor)Large-scale textile works from a leading contemporary Afro-Caribbean American artist. This is the first volume to document and contextualize Sonya Clark's large-scale, community-centric and collaborative artworks. These projects demonstrate Clark's career-long commitment to addressing the urgent issue of racial inequality in American society and her philosophy of creatively engaging the viewer in reflection on the nation'...

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Monuments and Myths: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French - Hardcover

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by Andrew Eschelbacher (Editor), Renée Ater (Memoir by), Philip Deloria (Memoir by)Explores the intersecting careers of the Gilded Age's most prominent sculptors to shine new light on some of America's most iconic public monuments. Monuments and Myths is the first publication to trace the intersecting work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) and Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), the leading American sculptors of the Gilded Age. Featuring provocative essays, stunning photographs, and an in-...

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Funk You Too!: Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture - Hardcover

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by Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy (Editor), Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy (Memoir by), Garth Johnson (Memoir by)The first book to connect the history of Funk Art to contemporary ceramic practice. Funk You Too! arrives at a moment when clay has unprecedented currency in the art world as a sculptural medium. It is the first book to connect the history of Funk Art to contemporary ceramic practice through an exploration of the enduring role of humor in clay image-making. The founding generation of Funk ar...

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Komar & Melamid: A Lesson in History - Hardcover

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by Julia Tulovsky (Editor), Robert Storr (Contribution by), Mikhail Iampolski (Contribution by)Tracing a subversive artistic partnership that lambasted Soviet officialdom and American capitalism. Among the most compelling figures in the history of conceptual art, the Russian-American artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid built their reputations by challenging viewers with controversial, witty, and ironic art. Komar & Melamid: A Lesson in History offers a comprehensive view of this t...

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by Gisela Geiger (Author)An enlightening study of an underappreciated artist affiliated with Der Blaue Reiter. The 1921 edition of the Jahrbuch der jungen Kunst describes the early work of German-born artist Heinrich Campendonk (1889-1957) as a symphony of color and rhythm. Just a few years later, the Nazi regime defamed his art as "degenerate," driving him into exile in the Netherlands. In this book, Gisela Geiger reveals Campendonk to be one the most fascinating artists of the last century...

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Johann Gottfried Schadow: Embracing Forms - Paperback

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by Yvette Deseyve (Editor), Sintje Guericke (Contribution by)New perspectives on a noteworthy sculptor within German Classicism. Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850) was once the most famous artist in Prussia. This book, edited by Yvette Deseyve and featuring a contribution by Sintje Guericke, uncovers new aspects of Schadow's art and workshop. After training with a prominent court sculptor, Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert, Schadow eventually became the secretary of the Prussian Academy of Art...

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Olga Costa: Dialogues with Mexican Modernism - Hardcover

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by Sabine Hoffmann (Editor), Stefan Weppelmann (Editor), Brenda J. Caro Cocotle (Contribution by)Rediscovering an important contemporary of Frida Kahlo. An important female voice in Mexico's modernist art community, Olga Costa (1913-93) painted the women and landscapes of her adopted home country. Largely self-taught, she was inspired by daily life, the colorful clothes and flora of her surroundings, and an underappreciated dialogue between artistic communities in Mexico and in Europe, where...

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Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow & Her Circle / Contemporary Practices - Hardcover

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by Nancy Siegel (Author), Kate Menconeri (Author), Amanda Malmstrom (Author)Expands the canon of American landscape art to illuminate the contributions of women artists. Illuminating the artistic contributions and perspectives of women, this book reinserts the important 19th-century American artist Susie Barstow into the history of the Hudson River School and presents contemporary artists who expand how we think about "land" and "landscape" today. Engaging multigenerational perspectives, it ...

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The Other Kabul: Remains of the Garden - Hardcover

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by Kunstmuseum Thun (Editor), Verein Treibsand (Editor)Artists from around the world reflect on Kabul's historic gardens. Kabul was once famous as a city of blossoming gardens. Bagh-e Babur was one of the largest and most impressive green spaces in the city, and while it weathered extensive damage during the Afghan civil war, recent restorations conserved the gardens for future generations. This catalog, associated with a 2022 exhibit at the Kunstmuseum Thun, assembles contemporary artworks ...

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by Mirjam Fischer (Editor), David Lemaire (Editor)Anachronism par excellence--the contorted world of Stéphane Zaech. This artist monograph presents a representative overview of the artistic work of Stéphane Zaech. His paintings are technically sophisticated and created through an investigation of the works of the old masters--Titian, Velasquez, and Picasso. At the same time, he distorts the "classical" picture types and translates them into contemporary art, creating surreal portraits of wom...

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Kristin Bauer: This Is Like That - Hardcover

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by Deborah H. Sussman (Editor), Kristin Bauer (Editor), Alexander Kohnke (Editor)The first book devoted to the work of an artist whose practice touches on historical propaganda, psychological research, and marketing. An artist who creates installations, sculptures, performances, and paintings, Kristin Bauer aims to erase motive and abstract persuasion. Intrigued by forms of social influence--from political propaganda to psychology to consumer messaging--Bauer borrows the language and look of...

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One Site. One Space. One Work.: 30 Years of Art Projects in the Stommeln Synagogue - Hardcover

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by Synagoge Stommeln--Stadt Pulheim (Editor)Reveals how contemporary art contributes to the culture of remembrance. In 1991, the town of Pulheim initiated the Stommeln Synagogue art project, a permanent process of examining and reexamining this historically significant location, one of the few German synagogues to survive World War II. Since then the project has continued to contribute to a culture of remembrance. Far from the day-to-day business of culture, international artists have repeat...

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by Ellie Evelyn Orrell (Author)A moving memoir of grieving through art in North Wales from debut author Ellie Evelyn Orrell. One summer, Ellie Evelyn Orrell reunited with her mother following the death of their respective grandfather and father. They returned to the small village of Betws Gwerful Goch in North Wales. Ellie returned from studying at university, while Jeanette had been studying the art of indigo dyeing in Japan. An Indigo Summer invites readers into their hillside garden as th...

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by Gabriele Finaldi (Author), Joost Joustra (Author), Susanna Avery-Quash (Contribution by)Exploring the life, imagery and lasting appeal of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), this landmark book features a core of important historic paintings representing the saint by Giotto, Sassetta, Caravaggio, Zurbarán and El Greco. From his native Umbria, Saint Francis's image spread rapidly to become a global phenomenon and a continuous source of artistic fascination. His commitment to the poor, power...

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Without Model: Parva Aesthetica - Hardcover

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by Theodor W. Adorno (Author), Wieland Hoban (Translator)Essays by Adorno on art and cinema, available in English for the first time. In Without Model, Theodor W. Adorno strikingly demonstrates the intellectual range for which he is known. Taking the premise of the title as his guiding principle, that artistic and philosophical thought must eschew preconceptions and instead adapt itself to its time, circumstances, and object, Adorno presents a series of essays reflecting on culture at differ...