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Eric Loves Animals: (Just Like You!) - Hardcover

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by Eric Carle (Author), Eric Carle (Illustrator)Explore the animal kingdom through the eyes of bestselling author and illustrator Eric Carle with this alphabetized treasury of animal illustrations, featuring beloved classic characters as well as exclusive, never-before-seen art. Internationally known for his bright, bold, collage-style illustrations, Eric Carle has created a world of bestselling animal characters throughout his remarkable career. From The Very Hungry Caterpillar to The Very B...

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The Whispers of the Muses: Artworks as Time Travelers - Paperback

$79.20

Although there is widespread belief that some artists attract the attention of muses more than others, this topic has, so far, not been taken up seriously in art history or sociology of culture. In his fascinating book, Vjeran Katunaric starts out by presenting many artworks, from literature and visual arts to performing arts and architecture, as examples that demonstrate the transcendental potential of art. The key concept explaining this capability concerns the crossing of three time frames...

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Becoming Cobra: Anfänge Einer Europäischen Kunstbewegung / Beginnings of a European Art Movement - Hardcover

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by Inge Herold (Editor), Johan Holten (Editor)CoBrA is one of the most important artist groups of Art Informel. The name is derived from the first letters of the three capital cities of Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam -- the centers from which the CoBrA artists took action. Little is still known here in Germany about the concrete origins of the art movement. The exhibition and catalogue of the same name attempts a broad examination of the group's origins: with the focus on the reconstruct...

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by Shiekh Sultan Al Qasimi (Author)The Islamic nation has gone through more severe periods than we are in, so this play was a reality of not despair, and a catalyst towards unification and struggle, to raise the tone of hope for the future through the buds of tomorrow, and through awakening, awareness and light. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8.27 x 5.31 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2021

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by Shiekh Sultan Al Qasimi (Author)A real historical picture of the life of Al-Asdar Al-Akbar, with projections on the real picture, for it, is a vivid picture of the conflict, and it is a real picture of the conflict, the landscape, and the present in the region, with its war, pain, and ambitions. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.27 x 5.31 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2021

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by Shiekh Sultan Al Qasimi (Author)In the year 916 AH corresponding to 1510 AD, the Spaniards were able to seize the opportunity of the weakness of Prince Muhammad bin Hussein, the nineteenth emir of the Hafsid dynasty, rulers of Tunisia, and his preoccupation with pleasures, to seize most of the regions of North Africa, without much resistance, given that the people did not know the use of weapons, so the areas remained Arabia for forty-two years under their rule.Until God loved those areas ...

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by Shiekh Sultan Al Qasimi (Author)The play reveals the established facts and refutes the falsification of history. The play deals with the story of the mighty Samson, the legendary character so that the facts are revealed and the intentions through which the enemy wanted to win the psychological war against the Arabs became clear. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.27 x 5.31 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2021

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by Shiekh Sultan Al Qasimi (Author)A poetic play that talks about the Arab Al-Rula tribe located in the desert between Hama and the Levant.A new theatrical epic written by His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah condemns the idea of violence through a historical theme, to make the relationship of history with the present a continuous dialectic, and makes it a dialectic of value. Number of Pages: 22 Dimensions: 0.05 x 8.27 x 5.31 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2021

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by Shiekh Sultan Al Qasimi (Author)It includes five chapters, and the play deals with a sensitive issue in ancient and contemporary history, and it diverts ideas from their course, and sometimes into their opposite, which is what the author, His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah points out in the introduction: "Our Islamic societies are dominated these days by reform movements based on religious, social and political foundations. Even if the enemies of Islam intervened in directing the extremists...

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by Shiekh Sultan Al Qasimi (Author)In this play, Dr Sultan Al Qasimi embodies the idea of the conflict between the luminaries who are trying to present the bright image of Islam in the face of the obscurantists who are trying to distort the bright image of Islam. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8.27 x 5.31 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2021

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Botanical Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Native Plants - Hardcover

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This beautifully illustrated guide presents a carefully curated collection of 20 plant species native to Hong Kong, with scientific, detailed illustrations and morphological descriptions, together with botanical references, all essential for species authentication. Of the 20 species selected, 15 are precious, rare and endangered, or protected species, making this guide of special importance for plant preservation in Hong Kong, as well as for botanists, plant lovers, and illustrators. The bota...

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China Pluperfect: Volume 2--Practices of Past and Outside in Chinese Art - Hardcover

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This book contains analysis of different domains of contemporary art in China seen through the lens of the epistemological changes described in the first volume. It first looks at the concept of "ink art," describes how it meant different things to different people in the former colony and how these different meanings came to determine certain institutional choices made at the beginning of the 21st century. The following chapters are dedicated to issues related to the urban and rural contexts...

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China Pluperfect: Volume 1--Epistemology of Past and Outside in Chinese Art - Hardcover

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Based on a comparative study of Chinese and Euro-American art theory in the 18th and 19th centuries, this book looks at how both cultures looked at their own past and their outside, and how they devised new ways of adapting them into evolving cultural constructs. While the 17th century was still a time when the epistemological backgrounds of both civilizations were so profoundly different, the 18th century saw the emergence in both places of profound changes that would get them close enough t...

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The Innovative Artist: Art of Pyrography: Drawing with Fire - Paperback

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by Cherry Ferris (Author)Learn to burn: illuminate your pyrographic art with mixed media, gilding and natural materials. Library Journal: This well-structured primer will appeal to artists looking for a new medium, as well as beginning to intermediate-level pyrographers interested in adding new skills and techniques. Cherry Ferris throws open the world of wood burning with a new art-led approach and shows you how to use different media and materials to set off your pyrographic artwork. Packed...

All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel - Hardcover

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by Jeannie Marshall (Author)A deeply personal search for meaning in Michelangelo's frescoes--and an impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age.What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie Marshall asked that question of herself when she started visiting the Sistine Chapel frescoes. She wanted to understand their meaning and context--but in the process, she also found what she didn't know she was looking for.All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine...

Godzilla & Kong: The Cinematic Storyboard Art of Richard Bennett - Hardcover

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by Richard Bennett (Artist)Godzilla & Kong: The Cinematic Storyboard Art of Richard Bennett features storyboard art from the blockbuster hits Godzilla vs. Kong, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Kong: Skull Island. It features a selection of the best sequences from these three films, along with full color stills reflecting the final shots in the film. Special "Unused Scenes" sections give you an unprecedented peek into the making of the films, revealing never before seen sequences. Pres...

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Art of Coloring: Schoolhouse Rock - Paperback

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by Disney (Author)Just in time for the show's 50th anniversary, Art of Coloring: Schoolhouse Rock! is a coloring journey through the beloved cartoon's most iconic moments. The catchy songs and bright cartoons of Schoolhouse Rock! captured the imaginations of millions of young viewers and made learning about multiplication, grammar, science, and history lots of fun. Relive your favorite moments from the hit TV show as you color your way through memorable scenes and characters from songs like "...

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Queen of the Savoy: The Extraordinary Life of Helen d'Oyly Carte 1852-1913 - Hardcover

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by Elisabeth Kehoe (Author), Born in 1852 in a small coastal town in Scotland, Helen D'Oyly Carte, through academic brilliance and an incredible talent for 'managing chaos', developed and ran the world's foremost top entertainment and hospitality organisation with her husband, Richard D'Oyly Carte (known as D'Oyly). By the age of 30, she was running five Gilbert & Sullivan companies for the Savoy Group in the United States, crossing the Atlantic thirty times, and for the next three decade...

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by Dheeraj Mehrotra (Author)The book is a ready reckoner for teachers towards exploring various Teaching Strategies. A must for all educators who believe in learning to learn as a priority. It is a collection of novel strategies which can be shared within the classroom to bring out a wow spectrum among the students. It dwells on subjective measures towards engaging students. Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 22, 2021

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Street Art: Legendary Artists and Their Visions - Paperback

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by Alessandra Mattanza (Author), Chris Versteeg (Introduction by)In the last few decades, art has moved from the museums and art galleries to the streets. Visionary artists, gifted with breath- taking expressiveness, have utilized featureless and abandoned spaces of everyday life and converted them into a new artistic palette for expressing their ideas. In this context, this new art breaks the mold and speaks directly to a now- global audience without intermediaries or filters. Social themes,...

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by Mark Hudson (Author), This ground-breaking publication provides a new view of the great Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014), whose intensely physical gestural painting stood the staid post-war British art world on its head. In advance of a new Davie gallery in Hertford, the visually spectacular book argues that far from being an essentially historical figure, defined by the abstract expressionist era of the Fifties and early Sixties when he enjoyed his greatest fame, Davie was a prophet...

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Surrealist Weekends: Farleys in the Fifties - Hardcover

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by Anthony Penrose (Author)Insights into the home of surrealists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. Following the austere and traumatic years of World War II, surrealists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose made their home at Farleys in the Sussex countryside. Penrose, a painter, author, and collector, and Miller, a photographer and war correspondent, moved to Farleys not to settle down, but to create, entertain, and inspire. In this book their son, Antony Penrose, recalls visitors and occasions at Fa...

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Bead It! Super Simple Crafts for Kids - Library Binding

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by Tamara Jm Peterson (Author), Ruthie Van Oosbree (Author)This title will get kids creative with beads, wire, and more. Young crafters will learn about the history of beads and get inspired by beadwork artists. Then they will try out some simple bead crafts of their own. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO. Dimensions: 0.33 x 9.48 x 7.8 IN Publication Date: December 15, 2022

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Drawing in the Dark: Henry Moore's Coalmining Commission - Hardcover

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by Chris Owen (Author)In contrast to Henry Moore's well-known drawings depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz, little has been written about how this son of a Yorkshire coalminer tackled his second commission from the War Artists' Advisory Committee in 1941; drawing men in 'Britain's underground army', the miners of Wheldale colliery. Redressing this imbalance, Chris Owen's comprehensive account of the coalmining drawings explores every aspect of the commission - from Moore's return to...

GTM by Benjamin Laukis: 10th anniversary - Paperback

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by Federico Harbaruk (Author)GTM by Benjamin Laukis "10th Anniversary"Benjamin is an icon of the tattoo world. In the next volume of our book, you will know in depth his artistic side as nobody showed it to you.Global Tattoo Magazine is proud to present the highly anticipated publication of our book, GTM, by Benjamin Laukis "10th Anniversary" a project that brings together a complete anthology of the career of 60 tattoo artists from 20 countries. In GTM by Benjamin Laukis "10th Anniversary," ...

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by Emma Crichton-Miller (Author)John Ward (b.1938) has a longstanding reputation as one of Britain's foremost potters, and yet very little has been written about his manifold achievements. Authoritative and enlightening, this will be the first account of Ward's life and work, tracing the evolution of his ideas and his practice as a potter and placing them critically within the history of British Studio Pottery. The qualities of Ward's best pots are hard to define. As the late Emmanuel Cooper ...

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Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined - Hardcover

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by Sunglim Kim (Editor)Contemporary Korean artist Park Dae Sung (b. 1945) works in the traditional medium of ink painting while transforming familiar Korean landscapes with his modern and imaginative interpretations of the natural world. Park, who lost his left arm and both parents at the age of five and is entirely self-taught, has said, "Nature is my teacher." He devoted sixty years to mastering traditional brush and ink techniques and established his own innovative landscape style, broaden...

Der Zauberschpiggel, The Magic Mirror: Hex Signs and the Folk Spirit of the Pennsylvania Dutch - Paperback

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by Edwin Miller Fogel (Author), Elsie Singmaster (Author), Richard H. Shaner (Author)Followup to "Der Volksfreund, Hex Signs, Folk Tales and Witchcraft of the Pennsylvania Dutch."A fascinating collage of art, oral history, folk tales, scholarship and personal, family memory, Der Zauberschpiggel provides unique insight into the mis-named Pennsylvania Dutch, the descendants of immigrants from the Rhine in the Eighteenth Century, to America. The author, an accomplished practitioner of the folk a...

Art Judgements: Art on Trial in Russia after Perestroika - Paperback

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by Sandra Frimmel (Author)An unusually large number of court cases against art, artists, and curators have taken place in Russia since the turn of the century. In reference to two of the most prominent, against the organizers of the exhibitions 'Caution, Religion!' and 'Forbidden Art 2006', the author examines the ways in which the meaning of art and its socio-political effects are argued in court: How do these trials attempt to establish a normative concept of art, and furthermore a binding ...

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Scripts and Calligraphy: A Timeless Journey - Hardcover

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by Badr Bin Abdullah Bin Farhan Al Saud (Preface by)A gorgeous visual history of Arabic calligraphyThis publication highlights the stages of the Arabic script's development since its very beginnings and the artistic relationship between calligraphy, contemporary art and artificial intelligence through an exceptional journey of knowledge, featuring Saudi and international master calligraphers, contemporary artists and designers. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.8 x 11.4 x 9.6 IN Publication ...

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Rendezvous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co. (1900-1939) - Hardcover

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by Christian Briend (Editor)An effervescent visual celebration of Parisian art and cultureDiscover the Paris of the "Roaring Twenties"--a bohemian hub for artists from across Europe, many of whom left their home countries in search of a place where they could more freely express themselves. Inspired by the uniquely liberal political and cultural climate in the city, this group of artists came together at a moment of extraordinary creativity to produce some of the most innovative art of the 20...

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Japanese Connections: The Birth of Modern Decor - Hardcover

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by Isabelle Cahn (Editor)How the 19th-century fashion for Japonisme transformed European art and cultureStarting in the 1860s, a partiality for Japanese culture emerged in France, followed by England, which was to continue for almost 50 years. Giving rise to the fashion for "Japonisme," it followed on from the taste for "chinoiserie" that was in vogue in the courts of Europe at the end of the 18th century, and that had fascinated several generations of Romantic artists during the first half o...