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Roads of Arabia: Archaeological Treasures of Saudi Arabia - Hardcover

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by Souraya Noujaim (Editor)Thirteen centuries of Arabian culture at the crossroads of Islamic cultureRoads of Arabia highlights the pivotal role of the Arabian Peninsula, a land of mercantile and cultural exchange since early antiquity, revealing the diversity of cultures and civilizations that, despite the challenges of their natural environment, were able to take advantage of their geographical situation, linking the shores of the Indian Ocean and the lands of the Horn of Africa to Egypt, M...

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Seta Manoukian: Painting in Levitation - Hardcover

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by Seta Manoukian (Artist)Early works by the Lebanese-born painterThe early drawings of Lebanese painter Seta Manoukian (born 1945) reveal a strong and original artistic hand and a keen sense of composition. Of Armenian descent, Manoukian was teaching at Lebanese University when the Civil War began in 1975. After 10 years of war in Lebanon she fled to Los Angeles, where she lives today, as a Buddhist nun. This publication looks back at Manoukian's work, focusing on her work of the 1970s and '...

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Naga Land: Voices from Northeast India - Paperback

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by Stiftung Humboldt Forum (Editor)The Naga form a minority in Northeast India and the northwest of Myanmar -- and consist at the same time of thirty different ethnicities: three to four million people, with numerous languages. How do they manage to preserve their traditional history and integrate into altered ways of life? How do fit that together with modern tattoos, fashion, and social media? What role does Christianity play? Authors among others from Naga Land describe various facets of t...

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by Martine Syms (Author), Rocket Caleshu (Author)The acerbically funny and intimate screenplay for acclaimed visual artist Martine Syms's debut film, The African Desperate.The African Desperate follows Palace Bryant on one very long day in 2017 that starts with her MFA graduation in upstate New York and ends at a Chicago Blue Line Station. Set against the lush backdrop of late summer, Palace navigates the pitfalls of self-actualization and the fallacies of the art world. Shot through with Sym...

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by Jonathan Bowden (Author), Greg Johnson (Editor)Since the Second World War, "Modernism" in the arts has been overwhelmingly associated with the cultural and political Left. But before the War, there was vigorous debate between Modernists of the Right and the Left. Jonathan Bowden was a latter-day Reactionary Modernist in both literature and the visual arts. Reactionary Modernism collects Bowden's lectures and essays on such great Reactionary Modernist artists as Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound,...

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The Great American Paint In(r): Artists Sharing Their Pandemic Stories - Hardcover

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by William C. Weinaug (Author), Ashley Weinaug (Author)The first book to document the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of American artists in all 50 states.Author BiographyIn the 1990s, William C. Weinaug and his wife, Mary, set out to be ambassadors of change. They purchased Wekiva Island with a focus on Sustainability, Learning, and Art. With a goal to become the first carbon-neutral business of their type, they signed up to the "2030 Challenge", an initiative backed by the U.S. Departmen...

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The Life Thread: Paracas Textiles and Culture - Hardcover

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by Kerstin Paradis Gustafsson (Author)Author BiographyKerstin Paradis Gustafsson is an academic and author with a specialism in old and historic textiles and the techniques used to manufacture them. Number of Pages: 356 Dimensions: 1.1 x 10.3 x 9.2 IN Publication Date: July 11, 2022

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Halim A. Flowers: Love Is the Vaccine - Hardcover

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by Ted Vassilev (Author), Eleanor Heartney (Contribution by), Lilly Wei (Contribution by)This stunning volume provides the first full treatment of contemporary artist Halim Flower's artistic vision, offering insight from leading scholars of this star on the rise.Author BiographyTed Vassilev is an art dealer, author of books on art and owner of DTR Modern Galleries, with locations in Boston, New York City, Palm Beach, Washington, DC and Nantucket. Eleanor Heartney is an art critic, author and ...

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by Manchester Museum (Author)This beautiful guidebook is a tour and souvenir of the new museum, featuring spectacular objects and stories that inspire curiosity, learning and imagination. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.32 x 8.82 x 7.64 IN Publication Date: April 15, 2023

Rainbow Flag Scrapbook Paper Pad: Pride LGBT Art 8x8 Decorative Paper Design Scrapbooking Kit for Cardmaking, DIY Crafts, Creative Projects - Paperback

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by Crafty as Ever (Author) Decorative paper with a Rainbow Flag design for your scrapbook ideas Specialty designer paper book to cut, tear, and collage 8x8 Inches, Single-sided sheets, non-perforated Our unique collection of colorful backgrounds and craft paper is perfect for all kinds of crafting, stationery, decoupage, origami, invitations, papercrafts, printmaking, bookbinding, handicraft, handmade paper beads and jewelry, as well as other crafty art projects. Number of Pages: 24 Dimension...

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Ferdinand Cheval: The Postman Who Delivered a Palace: The Postman Who Delivered a Palace - Hardcover

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by Anne Renaud (Author), Ana Salopek (With)Ferdinand Cheval: The Postman Who Delivered a Palace Trade Book (Hardcover)Author BiographyAnne Renaud is an award-winning children's author who writes in both French and English. Her readers often ask her why she writes books. She tells them it is because she likes to do creative things and she finds writing to be a very creative exercise. It is also because she cannot dance well, sing well, juggle well, or do magic tricks, so she tries her best to ...

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Painted Worlds: The Art of Maud Lewis, a Critical Perspective - Hardcover

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by Laurie Dalton (Author)A full-colour, narrative and illustrated critical art history of the works of iconic Nova Scotia artist Maud Lewis. "Rather than thinking of Maud Lewis as an artist who was untrained, unskilled, and worked in total isolation, we ought to reframe her as an artist who, through her observation of landscape and culture, created composite images of what inspired her." Upon seeing the title of this work, you could be forgiven for asking, "Another book about Maud Lewis? Is t...

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Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s-2020s - Hardcover

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by Claudia Calirman (Author)In Dissident Practices, Claudia Calirman examines sixty years of visual art by prominent and emerging Brazilian women artists from the 1960s to the present, covering the period from the military dictatorship to the return to democracy in the mid-1980s, the social changes of the 2000s, the rise of the Right in the late-2010s, and the recent development of an overtly feminist art practice. Though they were lauded as key figures in Brazilian art, these artists still f...

The Architecture of A. Palladio; in Four Books. Containing a Short Treatise of the Five Orders, and Observations Concerning all Sorts of Building: As - Hardcover

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by Andrea Palladio (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are ava...

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Think Big: A Back-To-School Book - Paperback

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by Liz Garton Scanlon (Author), Vanessa Newton (Illustrator)There's no end to where our imagination can take us when we THINK BIG! Celebrate the new school year with this joyful, inspiring picture book about embracing the creative potential in every young reader. Big breath, Brave heart.Ready, set. . . Make art!Each of us has an artistic spirit waiting to be discovered! Young readers will be swept along into fun with this crew of creative kids-drawing, dancing, cooking, singing, spinning, se...

The Actor: Or, a Treatise on the art of Playing. A new Work, Written by the Author of the Former, and Adapted to the Present State of the Theatres - Hardcover

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by John Hill (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available...

Performing Conversion: Cities, Theatre and Early Modern Transformations - Paperback

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by José R. Jouve Martin (Editor), Stephen Wittek (Editor)This volume asks, how did theatrical practice shape the multiplying forms of conversion that emerged in early modern Europe? Each chapter focuses on a specific city or selection of cities, beginning with Venice, then moving to London, Mexico City, Tlaxcalla, Seville, Madrid, Amsterdam, Zürich, Berne, and Lucerne (among others). Collectively, these studies establish a picture of early modernity as an age teeming with both excitement and ...

Performing Robert Burns: Enactments and Representations of the 'National Bard' - Paperback

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by Ian Brown (Editor), Gerard Carruthers (Editor)This book is unashamedly aimed at a wider market than the ordinary academic volume, as it seeks to extend the impact of the research it contains, making it available to the worldwide community of Burns enthusiasts, without compromising on scholarship. Contributors have been selected not only for their academic rigour and reputation, but also because of their ability to handle their material with elegance and accessibility for the general reader...

The Complete Dictionary of Music. Consisting of a Copious Explanation of all Words Necessary to a True Knowledge and Understanding of Music. Translate - Hardcover

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by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts a...

The Chair-maker's Guide; Being Upwards of two Hundred new and Genteel Designs, Both Decorative and Plain, ... by Robert Manwaring, ... and Others. The - Hardcover

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by Robert Manwaring (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are av...

An Essay on the Theory of Painting. By Mr. Richardson - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Richardson (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are...

The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be the Artist You Truly Are - Paperback

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by Danny Gregory (Author)When Danny Gregory's life was turned upside down by tragedy, he learned to cope by teaching himself to draw. The result was a complete transformation of his life, his priorities, his career, and the way he saw the world. In handwritten chapters full of his lush watercolor illustrations, Danny now offers readers a program for reconnecting to their own creative energies, using drawing as an example. He gently instructs us in the art of allowing ourselves to fail, giving...

An Arrangement of Provincial Coins, Tokens, and Medalets, Issued in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies, Within the Last Twenty Years; From the F - Hardcover

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by James Conder (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are availa...

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The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present - Hardcover

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by Eric Kandel (Author)A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind--our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions--and how mind and brain relate to art. At the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe. Artists and scientists met in glittering salons, where they freely exchanged ideas that led t...

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DC Super Hero Girls: Out of the Bottle - Paperback

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by Shea Fontana (Author), Marcelo Dichiara (Illustrator), Agnes Garbowska (Illustrator)Harley Quinn is center stage in the newest volume of the DC Super Hero Girls graphic novel series, Dc Super Hero Girls Vol. 5: Out of The Bottle For an assignment in Ms. June Moone's art class, the girls are working on their very own comic books. The character-created comic pages give us a glimpse into each girl's personality. But Harley isn't satisfied with her comics creation and thinks a little of Ms. ...

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The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists - Paperback

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by Gregory Curtis (Author)The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain--the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery. Gregory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells us what is known about their creators, the Cro-Magnon people of some 40,000 years ago. He takes us through various theories--that the art was part of fertility or hunting rituals, o...

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by Christina Björk (Author), Lena Anderson (Illustrator), Joan Sandin (Translator)25th Anniversary EditionLinnea has been in Paris. And she has visited the painter Claude Monet's garden! She even stood on the same little Japanese bridge that Monet painted so often in his pictures. In Paris, Linnea got to see many of the real paintings.Now she can understand what it means to be called an Impressionist, and she knows a lot about Monet's life in the pink house where he lived with his eight child...

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by Janice MacLeod (Author)A New York Times bestsellerFor readers of Eat Pray Love, Under the Tuscan Sun, and The 4-Hour Workweek, comes a funny, romantic, and inspiring travel memoir about a woman who quits her job, moves to Paris, and finds love--and herself.With romantic Paris as the backdrop and beautifully illustrated with the author's own sketches, Paris Letters is for those who dream of a life richer and more fulfilling than the one they are living today.Exhausted and on the verge of bu...

Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism - Paperback

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by Cher Krause Knight (Author)This book takes a bold look at public art and its populist appeal, offering a more inclusive guide to America's creative tastes and shared culture. It examines the history of American public art - from FDR's New Deal to Christo's The Gates - and challenges preconceived notions of public art, expanding its definition to include a broader scope of works and concepts. Expands the definition of public art to include sites such as Boston's Big Dig, Las Vegas' Treasur...

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by Eleanor Winters (Author)For school, for art classes, for fun: this kid-friendly guide to the art of beautiful writing will be a hit anywhere. From the tools to the techniques to the fantastic projects, everything has been chosen specifically for children. Youngsters can use special, colorful, felt-tipped pens called chisel-edged markers to produce great-looking letters. The guidelines make it easier to get good results. Attractive pages, filled with brightly colored examples, get kids st...

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Tattoo Johnny: 3,000 Tattoo Designs - Paperback

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by Tattoo Johnny (Author), David Bollt (Introduction by)Discover your perfect tattoos here, from more than 1,000 designs These days, it seems like everybody--male, female, young, and old--wants a tattoo. But choosing the right design isn't always easy. Tattoo Johnny to the rescue Culled from the world's leading tattoo Web site, this in-depth resource offers more than 1,000 designs in a wide range of styles, all by renowned artists: angels, devils, flowers, pirates, pin-ups, religious image...

Lithography for Artists - A Complete Account of How to Grind, Draw Upon, Etch, and Print from the Stone - Paperback

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by Bolton Brown (Author)Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 15, 2007