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Wind-Songs in Rhythm & Rhyme - Paperback

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by Melody Hamby Goss (Author), Jeanne Bencich Nations (Photographer)This little book reflects illustrations from artist Gerd Nystrom, and photography by renowned wildlife photographer, Jeanne Bencich Nations. Gwendelyn Frazer with her beautiful nature works brings a simple flower to life. The words, quotes are each and all nature themed. From wayward butterflies, snacking frogs to mustangs clinging to life with their environment quickly disappearing. Fairies, damsels and a prince are seen amo...

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by Clark Flood (Author), Mark Flood (Artist)A dark chapter of art history dragged into the light. Painter and provocateur, Mark Flood's career blazed like an erratic comet thru the bubblicious art world of the early twenty-first century. Now his brother Clark Flood tells the story of Mark's struggles of the 1990s, before he hit the big time. Meticulously researched, Mark Flood in the 1990s recounts accusations of Satanism, confiscation of work by the local police, and a decision to sell adver...

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Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Hardcover

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by Christine Kim (Editor), Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews (Editor), Mary Schmidt Campbell (Foreword by)A celebratory visual chronicle of the many ways in which Black Americans have used portraiture to envision themselvesSpanning over two centuries from around 1800 to the present day, Black American Portraits chronicles the ways in which Black Americans have used portraiture to envision themselves in their own eyes. Remembering Two Centuries of Black American Art, curated by David C. Driskell at LAC...

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A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin - Paperback

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by Jen Bryant (Author), Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Winner of the Schneider Family Book AwardAn ALA-ALSC Notable Children's BookWinner of the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children As a child in the late 1800s, Horace Pippin loved to draw: He loved the feel of the charcoal as it slid across the floor. He loved looking at something in the room and making it come alive again in front of him. He drew pictures for his sisters, his classmates, ...

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by Hugo Maldonado (Author), Eric Guerrero (Cover Design by), Kino Glez (Illustrator)Item: VALLERO! #2 Writer: Hugo Maldonado Cover Artist: Eric Guerrero Artist: Kino GlezFernando Valle, Leader of Los Valleros, reteams with Sue Savage to pull off the ultimate heist. After a successful mission they must find a way to unlock their stolen vault. Things don't go according to plan as they find themselves in different territories and encounter new threats. The Legend Continues! Number of Pages: 30 D...

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Bob Ross: A Little Golden Book Biography - Hardcover

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by Maria Correa (Author), Jeff Crowther (Illustrator)Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about Bob Ross, the beloved painter with a big head of hair and an even bigger heart! Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for preschoolers! This Little Golden Book about Bob Ross--the soft-spoken painter of happy little trees and the star of the most popular televised art show ever--is an inspiring read-aloud for young children as well a...

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No Horses in the House!: The Audacious Life of Artist Rosa Bonheur - Hardcover

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by Mireille Messier (Author), Anna Bron (Illustrator)★"Scenes unfold with cinematic flair...Bonheur's tenacity and determination will resonate with children, whether or not they're familiar with her art."--Quill & Quire, starred review Based on the incredible life of the pioneering, feminist and queer artist Rosa Bonheur, this charming story depicts Rosa's early years and her drive to fight for her dreams. Rosa Bonheur loved to draw animals. She was good at it too! Unfortunately, in ninet...

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The Unofficial World Cup Album: A Poorly Illustrated Incomplete History - Hardcover

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by No Score Draws (Author)The greatest moments in sporting history in inglorious technicolour, from the 'artists' known as NO SCORE DRAWS 'Genuinely upsetting.' David Squires 'Repulsively ugly.' Séamas O'Reilly An Unofficial World Cup Hall of Infamy, featuring the worst fouls, best goals, most questionable refereeing decisions, dodgiest barnets, mintest kits and a host of 'Where were you when?' moments.This is the first (and, let's face it, probably only) book from the multi-untalented team...

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by Jessica Feinberg (Author)Meet Botanical Beasts: 75 unique creatures all inspired by plants including flowers, trees, herbs, and more. Full color illustrations of each creature, plus detailed lore about them included! Creatures include dragons, griffins, mermaids, faeries, trolls, gnomes, and more. Number of Pages: 152 Dimensions: 0.41 x 10 x 8 IN Publication Date: May 01, 2022

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The Brushstrokes of Life: Discovering How God Brings Beauty and Purpose to Your Story - Hardcover

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by Anne Neilson (Author)Here's a secret: God has deposited a gift inside of you. Acclaimed angel artist Anne Neilson wants to help you find yours as she shares her personal story of passion and purpose and how faith radiates from every canvas of her life. The Brushstrokes of Life will help you see there are no coincidences with God.Anne Neilson believes that each of us begins our life as a blank canvas: clean and fresh and ready to find texture in our experiences. Each trial, each joy, each h...

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Hans Dieter Schaal. Stage Architecture 2001-2021: With an Introduction by Wolfgang Willaschek - Hardcover

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by Hans Dieter Schaal (Author), Wolfgang Willaschek (Preface by)Play-acting but also the opera have only seemingly little to do with with our everyday life. Opera is a world of art in which reality is actually very much present, but condensed in such a way that it speaks to us in a particularly impressive way. In order to make the dramatic emotional and sound dimensions of an opera tangible for the audience, a close interaction of dramaturges, actors, singers, dancers, directors, stage design...

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by Terrence Sanders Smith (Created by)The Smith & Wisznia collection's singular focus: artists living, working and exhibiting in Louisiana post Hurricane Katrina. Louisiana during this period of renewal, rebirth, and rebuilding experienced an art renaissance. There was a migration of creatives from all areas of life to Louisiana: Musicians, Fashion Designers, Architects, Writers and Visual Artists congregated, forming a vibrant foundation of cultural declaration and inspiration. The artis...

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Let's Draw Cartoon Characters: An Adventurous Journey Into the Amazing and Awesome World of Cartooning! - Library Binding

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by Dave Garbot (Author)Let's Draw Cartoon Characters provides a comprehensive, colorful, and creative guide for young artists-in-training to creating a wide range of cartoon characters. Learn the basics of cartooning, including how to exaggerate features, draw silly expressions, and create over-the-top gestures. Featuring a variety of subjects, including people, animals, fantasy creatures, robots, and space aliens, Let's Draw Cartoon Characters provides the essential techniques for drawing in...

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Let's Draw Manga Chibi Characters: An Adventurous Journey Into the Amazing and Awesome World of Manga Chibi Characters! - Library Binding

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by Samantha Whitten (Author)You can draw chibi characters with the easy, step-by-step art projects, tips, and techniques featured in Let's Draw Manga Chibi Characters. Then design your own characters once you are comfortable with the art style. No complicated tools are needed; you can create your own chibi art using just a pencil, pen, markers, and paper! The book opens with helpful sections on tools and materials, essential drawing techniques, color basics, and an examination of typical chi...

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Let's Make Animated Flip Books: Learn to Illustrate and Create Your Own Animated Flip Books Step by Step - Library Binding

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by David Hurtado (Author)Learn to create an animated flip book from start to finish! Let's Make Animated Flip Books shows you everything you need to know to make a flip book of your own, from tools and materials, the importance of sketching, and getting the timing right to animation techniques and binding your flippable art into a book. Included throughout are exercises with step-by-step instructions for creating fully fleshed-out flip books. This guide takes you through the entire animation ...

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Mary Magdalene: A Visual History - Hardcover

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by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona (Author)From faithful apostle and seductress to feminist icon, Mary Magdalene's many complex roles in Christian history have fascinated us for 2000 years. Illustrated in full colour, this visual history reveals how images and presentations have created a Mary who is often far different from the real woman, the first witness of the Resurrection in the gospels, or even from her appearances in the works of the Church Fathers. Beginning with the earliest sources, unco...

Through The Wilderness of Life - Paperback

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by Richard Kioko Kiundi the Duke (Author)The Making of The Duke of Emali This is the story of a boy-dreamer, born in the quaint sleepy village of Kwakakulu near Emali trading centre along the Nairobi-Mombasa in Makueni county of the lovely country called Kenya. Richard Kioko Kiundi grew up not conciously aware of his special abilities, yet having total confidence in tackling sometimes vicious challenges in his way. Being always a top student in his Nduundune primary school was not something h...

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by Alberto Giacometti (Author) A sculpture is not an object, it is an interrogation, a question, a response. It cannot be finished or perfect. Including the following texts and extracts by Alberto Giacometti: I can only speak indirectly of my sculpturesA sculptor seen by a sculptor. Henri Laurens by Alberto GiacomettiThe car demystifiedFarewell to Germaine Richier. Sitting among her sculpturesThe LegWhy I am a sculptor. In conversation with André Parinaud The drama of a head reducer. In conve...

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Chinese Brush Painting Four Seasons: Paint Flowers, Birds, Fruits & More with 24 Step-By-Step Projects - Paperback

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by Fei Le Niao (Author)This book combines Chinese painting techniques with twenty-four solar terms of traditional Chinese culture. According to the sequence of the four seasons--spring, summer, autumn, and winter--natural scenes are refined into a series of charming ink paintings. Following the tutorials in this book, you can complete beautiful ink and wash paintings in just a few strokes. In this book: -Starting with the most basic knowledge, you will gain an understanding of the classific...

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All about Chinese Culture: An Illustrated Brief History in 50 Art Treasures - Paperback

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by Yonghong Wang (Author), Guimei Yang (Author)As one of the few ancient civilizations in the world, China features a multidimensional cultural deposit in consistency and unification, endowing her history with a sense of perplexity and enchantment. Together in this book, we shall follow the historical trace of 50 national treasures of the museums through the time tunnel, and enjoy their stories buried in the past 5000 years. In this book, the Chinese history is divided into eight periods. The...

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by Bonilou Stella Custer (Author)Exploring Stella's IslandBy: Bonilou Stella CusterA place where anything is possible... welcome to Stella's Island, where you can find something for everyone, from exploring and searching the island, to discovering and telling the secret story within.About the AuthorBonilou Stella Custer grew up in Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Bonilou's love of art started at a young age, being the daughter of an autobody mechanic-artist and a preschool teacher, as well as tw...

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Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster - Paperback

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by Gerhard Lutz (Author)At the center of this publication is Tilman Riemenschneider's Saint Jerome and the Lion, one of the masterpieces of the Cleveland Museum of Art.Riemenschneider's Saint Jerome is not only one of the artist's more important early masterpieces, it is also his only alabaster work in a collection in the USA. Said to have come from the Benedictine abbey church of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany, this sculpture by Tilman Riemenschneider (c.1460-1531), dated to c. 1495, depicts...

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The Complete Beginner's Guide to Watercolours: Paint Beautiful Watercolours with Our Easy to Follow Steps - Hardcover

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by Phillipa Grafton (Author)With their delicate textures and soft colors, there's no doubt about why watercolors are the most popular painting medium. But as any artist will tell you, getting started with painting isn't as simple as buying the right kit - there are techniques to practice, mistakes to make, and skills to perfect. In The Complete Beginner's Guide to Watercolours, we'll delve into everything you need to know to get started with painting in watercolor, from the different types o...

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Marvel's Midnight Suns - The Art of the Game - Hardcover

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by Paul Davies (Author)Official art book of the Marvel's Midnight Suns video game, packed with interviews with the creative team behind the game, as well as stunning concept art created during the development process. When the demonic Lilith and her fearsome horde unite with the evil armies of Hydra, it's time to unleash Marvel's dark side. As The Hunter, your mission is to lead an unlikely team of seasoned Super Heroes and dangerous supernatural warriors to victory. Can legends such as Docto...

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Sex and Horror: The Art of Roberto Molino: Volume 5 - Paperback

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by Roberto Molino (Illustrator), Nicola D'Agostino (Author)This is the fifth title in our bestselling series Sex and Horror, which celebrates the publishing phenomenon known as "fumetti sexy" - Italian adult comics with a unique take on such genres as horror, crime, fantasy, history, and fairy tales. Wilder and weirder than you can imagine, they were some of the most outrageous and shocking comics ever produced. The comics were hugely successful due in part to their uninhibited mix of twiste...

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Poppy Moon: California Paintings - Hardcover

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by Rich Magram (Author)Driven to capture the fragile natural landscape of California as it is now - Rich Magram changed his career to become a painter. When he moved to California, Magram was overwhelmed by the environment he saw around him. Everywhere he looked in nature - from the chaparral covered hills to the cliff edges of the sea to blossoming fields of flowers in Spring, he was stirred by loveliness. Poppy Moon is a new collection of oil paintings expressing wonder and reverence for th...

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Made You Look!: 500 Eye-Catching Billboard Design Ideas from the Skies of Los Angeles - Paperback

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by Jason Morgan (Author)Made You Look! features over 500 eye-catching billboard advertisements photographed around Los Angeles from 2008 to 2021. This book is a time capsule of Tinseltown's ever-changing, outdoor advertising landscape and the marketing practices, graphic design ideas, and gimmicks that have recurred over the years in the sprawling city skyline. Readers will be inspired by 250 pages of creative, engaging, and eye-popping outdoor ads from television, movies, fashion, food, drin...

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Art Deco Masterpieces of Art - Hardcover

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by Janet Tyson (Author)Art Deco style is everywhere, from travel posters to furniture, fine art to design. This new edition offers an introduction to this classic aesthetic. Focusing on Art Deco graphic art and illustration, this gorgeous new book features fascinating text on the movement in general, fashion and advertising, accompanied by beautiful reproductions of work by talents such as Barbier, Erté, Cassandre and Colin. Sympathetic examples of other forms of Art Deco are also included.Au...

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William Morris Masterpieces of Art - Hardcover

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by Michael Robinson (Author)A new edition highlighting the designs and patterns of William Morris which informed the visual style of the twentieth Century. William Morris was an outstanding character of many talents, being an architect, writer, social campaigner, artist and, with his Kelmscott Press, an important figure of the Arts and Crafts movement. Many of us probably know him best, however, from his superb furnishings and textile designs, intricately weaving together natural motifs in a ...

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Art Nouveau: Posters, Illustration & Fine Art from the Glamorous Fin de Siècle - Hardcover

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by Michael Robinson (Author), Rosalind Ormiston (Author)Art Nouveau is still popular today, notable for the sinewy, organic stylings which adorn the new edition of this long term bestseller. The rise of the Art Nouveau style across Continental Europe and the US in all forms of art was remarkable and is explored in this beautifully illustrated book. Discussing the movement first as a whole, then from the angle of the graphic arts and finally as manifested in the fine arts, it focuses on the st...

A Tulip in Winter: A Story about Folk Artist Maud Lewis - Hardcover

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by Kathy Stinson (Author), Lauren Soloy (Illustrator)A celebration of a beloved folk artist, and her artistic expression of joy and beauty.Known for her vibrant and cheerful paintings of landscapes, plants, and animals, Maud Lewis' iconic folk art is celebrated around the world. Despite her beautiful art, she spent much of her life living in poverty with rheumatoid arthritis. In this stunning picture book, author Kathy Stinson and illustrator Lauren Soloy bring Maud's world to life: how she c...

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A Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man's Search for God Through Art and Time - Paperback

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by Stephen Auth (Author)Have you ever visited a museum and found the narrations in the self-guided-tour headsets a bit tedious? Slightly too clinical, perhaps? And have you ever noticed that God is rarely mentioned in art museums these days, unless in a cold, archaeological, "scientific" way? All of that is about to change.In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a provocative and colorful journey through the history of Western art, interpreted through a lens of p...