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Art of Rumiko Takahashi: Colors 1978-2024

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Report copyright infringementby Rumiko Takahashi (Author)A deluxe art book featuring the original art from renowned manga artist Rumiko Takahashi's most popular series, including Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha, RIN-NE, and Mao. For over forty-five years, Rumiko Takahashi has thrilled readers with her versatile storytelling in such works as Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha, RIN-NE, and Mao. This deluxe art book is presented in its original right-to-lef...

How to Draw Cute Mochi Animals: 100 Adorable Kawaii Cuties Step by Step

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Hart (Author) The newestway to draw cute! Transform simple mochi shapes into adorable animals! Specialfeatures: So Many Ways to Draw Cute! Learn to drawover 100 different mochi animals step by step.Perfect for Beginners: Don't know how todraw? No problem! The simple mochi shape combined with over 500 drawings willhave you drawing cute animals in minutes.Great as a Gift! Printed on quality paperin full color with a durable sewn binding...

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Report copyright infringementby Publishing (Editor), Kelogsloops (Contribution by), Janice Sung (Contribution by)Hokusai, one of the greatest masters in the history of art and a huge influence on modern-day manga, is celebrated by current artists in this extraordinary book.The featured artists, including the hugely popular Kelogsloops, Canadian artist Janice Sung, and Norwegian fantasy artist Mona Finden, have created thoughtful reimaginings of drawings from Hokusai's The Great Picture Book o...

Spiritual Tattoo Symbols: A Directory of Sacred Symbols and Their Meanings

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Report copyright infringementby Alison Davies (Author)This book is a compendium of symbols with sacred meanings, perfect for anyone looking to find a meaningful tattoo design, professional tattoo artists or anyone interested in folklore and religion. It gathers some of the most popular and lesser known signs from around the world in a comprehensive and accessible guide. Looking at each symbol's history and origins, it unveils the cultural and spiritual significance, alongside any folklore to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Kapchan (Author)Deborah Kapchan's Taking Leave is a lyrical memoir that encompasses journeys both inner and outer, physical and spiritual. Taking readers from New York, Paris, and Casablanca to Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi while exploring her Christian childhood, Jewish lineage, and the release she found in Islam, Kapchan examines the extent to which we can take leave of who we are to live between categories. She meditates on absence, presence, and the subli...

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15-Minute Art Pen and Ink: Learn to Draw with Pen and Ink in Six Steps or Less

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Tromop (Author)Discover how to draw with ink in just 15 minutes a day with 15-minute Art Pen & Ink. From whimsical woodlands to fantastical flora and fauna, Anna Tromop encourages you to explore the magic of ink through fifty 15-minute drawings. Each relaxed project is accompanied by simple step-by-step instructions and all can be completed in six steps or less. All you need is a pen! With a guide to outlining and shading, as well as traceable templ...

The Official Lore Olympus Watercolor Book: 20 Simple Watercolor Lessons Inspired by the

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Smythe (Author), Webtoon Entertainment (Author), Walter Foster Creative Team (Author)Immerse yourself in the magical, immortal, and vibrantly colorful world of the bestselling WEBTOON Originals series Lore Olympus as you paint 20 preprinted scenes. In The Official Lore Olympus Watercolor Book, series creator Rachel Smythe takes you behind the scenes for an in-depth exploration of the characters and how to recreate them in the expressive medium of waterco...

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Report copyright infringementby Craig Yoe (Author), Roy G. Krenkel (Illustrator)A stunning collection of magical artworks by the legendary Roy G. Krenkel! With nearly five hundred pieces of art, including sixteen generous foldouts, this is the definitive collection for fans of and newcomers to the virtuoso fantasy artist Roy G. Krenkel--curated by Craig Yoe, with a foreword by Sara Frazetta and a preface by Michael WM Kaluta. If master draftspersons of the Renaissance were reincarnated to cre...

30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity Across Time and Space

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Report copyright infringementby Phaidon Editors (Author)'A celebration of art-making.' - Wall Street JournalAn accessible, comprehensive celebration of the vast range of human artistry from 28,000 BC to today, now available in a gift-friendly mini formatPhaidon's groundbreaking book presents art differently from all other compendia by revealing the huge diversity - or in many cases, the similarity - of artistic achievements around the globe.Images of more than 600 works from all periods and r...

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Report copyright infringementby Pat Lipsky (Author)For more than five decades, Pat Lipsky has been a leading figure in American color field painting. In loosely connected vignettes, this extraordinary book looks back on a life starting in 1970s SoHo: from her pioneering days juggling painting and single motherhood in a redesigned factory loft on Wooster Street; to Paris, where an enchanting friendship develops with the former director of the Louvre, Pierre Rosenberg; to her yearslong close fr...

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Report copyright infringementby Ghostshrimp (Author)From the artist behind the world of Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, a detail-packed coloring adventure into the deep, dark, and hidden places within our planet Expand your mind and your creativity with this wildly imaginative adult coloring book. Explore the maze of caverns, ancient insectoid temples, spooky reptilian swamps, juicy alien jungles, and forgotten cryptid cities that exist beneath our feet. You will bring these alien worlds to...

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Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist

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Report copyright infringementby John Berger (Author)A wrenching portrait of the Russian sculptor and a tribute to the potential of political art John Berger explores the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, who, after clashing with Khrushchev, was excluded from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists. Abandoned to obscurity, Neizvestny laboured to realize a monumental and very public vision of art. Exiled to the United States, he finally found recognition, returning to his homeland with...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Wyckoff (Author), Sarah T. Weston (Contribution by)A rich examination into the creative process of an idiosyncratic Romantic-era visionary through the lens of one of the great collections of his work William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the most recognizable names in British art and literature. The mythological, spiritual, and pastoral themes of his visual art and poetry influenced such contemporaries as Samuel Palmer and John Linnell, and they have ...

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Report copyright infringementby ICM Gestora Cultural (Author)ARTISTA is a curated celebration of creativity, vision, and innovation in contemporary art. Carefully assembled by ICM Gestora Cultural, this book presents a hand-picked selection of artists whose work reflects the diverse voices, mediums, and narratives shaping today's artistic landscape. Each featured artist brings a unique perspective, challenging conventions and expanding the dialogue between tradition and modernity, local ident...

From Antiquities to Heritage: Transformations of Cultural Memory

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Eriksen (Author) Eighteenth-century gentleman scholars collected antiquities. Nineteenth-century nation states built museums to preserve their historical monuments. In the present world, heritage is a global concern as well as an issue of identity politics. What does it mean when runic stones or medieval churches are transformed from antiquities to monuments to heritage sites? This book argues that the transformations concern more than words alone: They re...

Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction: The Ekphrastic Novel

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Report copyright infringementby Sofie Behluli (Author)This book addresses the recent surge of Anglo-American novels about visual art since the 2010s and interprets it as a coming of age of an old literary sub-genre, which is here termed as the 'ekphrastic novel'. These novels are distinguished by their systematic use of ekphrasis which creatively and critically negotiates the intertwined aesthetics of literature and visual art. By addressing the challenge of representing visual images such as...

The Tale of Genji Coloring Book: Thirty Full-Color Scenes from Japan's Classic Romance!

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Report copyright infringementby Lady Murasaki Shikibu (Author), _An (Illustrator)Featuring thirty elegant, courtly scenes on high-quality paper, this coloring book is the perfect stress-reliever for fans of classical Japanese literature and its evocative medieval settings. The Tale of Genji conjures the romantic Heian-era world of handsome princes, beautiful court ladies, fabulous clothes and majestic gardens. This unique coloring book places you in the midst of the imperial court of ancient ...

Happy Medium: A Guided Creativity Journal

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Report copyright infringementby Tayler Carraway (Author)Unlock your happiness through art and embrace your creative potential with this interactive guided journal as you draw, write, reflect, and paint! For many of us, creativity feels elusive and exclusive, but here is the good news: we are all born with innate creativity. As with all natural abilities, creativity just needs a little cultivation and practice to show up in our lives. Happy Medium: A Guided Creativity Journal is a battle-test...

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Report copyright infringementby Martina Droth (Editor), Allie Biswas (Editor), Kelly Baum (Contribution by)An in-depth look at the innovative career of an artist renowned for his multimedia explorations of colonial and postcolonial power For the past thirty years, Guyanese British artist Hew Locke (b. 1959) has used strategies of appropriation to reveal and upend the visual codes of imperialism. Incorporating sculpture, photography, drawing, and found objects, Locke's oeuvre has been describ...

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Report copyright infringementby Prune Nourry (Author), George Lucas (Foreword by), Catherine Grenier (With)The first monograph of Prune Nourry, one of the most influential contemporary artists today "Prune Nourry is more than a great artist. She's also a psychologist, a sociologist, and an anthropologist who uses her understanding of history and humanity to create art that connects us to our past and to each other." --George Lucas Prune Nourry is a contemporary artist specializing in sculp...

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Kolaiti (Author)What makes literature and art the distinct kinds of entities they are? Previous attempts to prove that artworks and literary texts are formally and structurally distinguishable from other objects have been misinterpreted to mean that any distinction between art and non-art must be largely sociological. This book takes a radically new approach to this long-standing question. Shifting the focus from the artwork itself to art as a case of ...

365 Days of Art in Color: Creative Art Prompts for Every Day of the Year

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Report copyright infringementby Lorna Scobie (Author)365 Days of Art in Color is a celebratory collection of daily art prompts that will help readers embrace using color in their art, whatever their skill level. Lorna Scobie encourages readers to look at color afresh and not be afraid to use it boldly and playfully, as it can bring so much creative joy. Each activity falls into one of four categories: learn, play, observe, and feel, designed to cater to whatever creative mood may strike! The...

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Report copyright infringementby Karen Mulvahill (Author)When the Nazis arrest Nicole Cassin's parents and seize their art gallery in Paris in 1941, Nicole vows revenge and joins the Resistance. Years later, living in New York, she is haunted by her lost past and hires an art historian to find her family's stolen paintings, among which is a portrait of her mother by Matisse. The whereabouts of the stolen art prove elusive but the search for them leads to another more unexpected discovery. A mo...

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Eunji Kim (Author)In The Art of Queenship in the Hellenistic World, Patricia Eunji Kim examines the visual and material cultures of Hellenistic queens, the royal and dynastic women who served as subjects and patrons of art. Exploring evidence in the interconnected eastern Mediterranean and western Asia from the fourth to second centuries BCE, Kim argues that the arts of queenship were central to expressions of dynastic (and sometimes even imperial) con...

Insurgent Beauty: Indigenous Art in Urban Panama

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Szok (Author), Duiren Wagua (Contribution by), Naypiler Hackin (Contribution by)Insurgent Beauty: Indigenous Art in Urban Panama examines artistic and political developments from 1968 to the present, exploring how Native American artists leveraged Panama's populist military reforms from 1968 to 1989, and the subsequent neoliberal transition, to assert their presence in society. Breaking new ground, the book situates Indigenous art in previously overlooked...

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Mediating Modernisms: Indigenous Artists, Modernist Mediators, Global Networks

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth B. Phillips (Editor), Norman Vorano (Editor)Mediating Modernisms explores the fertile exchanges between Indigenous artists living in colonial societies and the mid-twentieth century mediators who carried ideas of aesthetic modernism and modernist primitivism into these worlds. Spanning South Africa, North America, Australia, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Brazil, Nigeria, and India, the case studies examine the mediators who played the role of mentors, friends,...

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Permanent Attraction: Man Ray & Chess: Dada & Surrealist Chess Art

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Report copyright infringementby Larry List (Author), Francis M. Naumann (Foreword by)Dive deep, for the first time, into Man Ray's career-long obsession with chess-themed artworks and their influence on international Modernism. Authorized by The Man Ray Trust, Permanent Attraction: Man Ray & Chess is the first and only book on Man Ray's chess-themed works in all media. With experience in studio art, chess, photography, cartography, prototyping, and scholarly research, the author offers a...

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Scarred Landscapes: Place, Trauma, and Memory in Caribbean Latinx Art

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie Lewthwaite (Author)Scarred Landscapes is a groundbreaking exploration of the rich and complex works of Caribbean Latinx artists. Scholar Stephanie Lewthwaite documents the work of ten influential artists of Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican descent, based in New York City from the 1970s to the present. Through their diverse practices, including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and performance art, these artists conf...

The Materiality of Early Christ Devotion: Artistic Innovation at Four Archaeological Sites

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce W. Longenecker (Author)In the fourth and fifth centuries CE, Christian artistry began to flourish, as elite patrons sponsored decorative initiatives for basilica churches throughout the Mediterranean basin. But what about the first three centuries? Living prior to the Constantinian age of tolerance, did Christ followers of that period engage in artistic expressions that externalized their theological hopes and convictions?The question can best be answered...

Splitting Sides 3: Tales of Humorous Horror

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Report copyright infringementby David Schembri (Author)Splitting Sides is back for round three! Based on the stories from horror writer, David Schembri, this third issue does not hold back. Once again, every page features distinct and dazzling illustrations by the author along with his darkly humorous tribute to horror comics of the 50s. Splitting Sides 3 presents two new tales: Death's Auction and Back to Byte You.Dive the depths of the underworld and into deep and dark caverns, there you wi...

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Report copyright infringementby Jaume Plensa (Artist), Joseph Antenucci Becherer (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Sarah Coulson (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Through monumental installations across continents, Plensa's nomadic practice celebrates the similarities of seemingly divergent culturesThis expanded edition of the definitive monograph on Jaume Plensa (born 1955) includes his most recent public installations--taking the form of distorted heads or seated figures formed out of metal letters--al...

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Report copyright infringementby Jen Racine (Author)Color your way through the beautiful state of California in this comprehensive coloring book. Iconic symbols like the flag and seal along with state nature symbols are creatively drawn by illustrator, Jen Racine. Illustrated maps show regions of the state along with the most populous cities. Each region is represented with a scene of what is unique to that area. Learn the most important cultural and historic eras of California and color the s...