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How to Draw and Paint Anatomy, All New 2nd Edition: Creating Lifelike Humans and Realistic Animals - Paperback

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by Editors of Imaginefx Magazine (Author)Understanding anatomy is the foundation of great art, and this new collection of workshops from the world's best professional artists enables artists of all levels to bring their work to life. How to Draw and Paint Anatomy, 2nd Edition is the complete artist's guide on how to draw the structures and forms of humans and animals in easy-to-follow steps. In this superb collection of human and animal anatomy workshops, the finest artists in the world share...

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The Decorative Art of Japanese Food Carving: Elegant Garnishes for All Occasions - Hardcover

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by Hiroshi Nagashima (Author), Kenji Miura (Photographer)Japanese cuisine is renowned for the beauty of its presentation. Among the key elements in this style of presentation are mukimono--the decorative garnishes and carvings that add the final flourish to a dish. It might be a carrot round in the shape of a plum blossom. Or a scattering of cherry blossoms plucked from a radish. Perhaps a swallow, a butterfly, a ginkgo leaf or a cluster of pine needles. Whatever the motif, it will have been ...

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by Nicholas Fox Weber (Author)This is the first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time: the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola, whose brilliant, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art. Balthus's complexities are clarified and his genius understood in this book that derives its immediacy from Nicholas Fox Weber's long and intense conversations with Balthus himsel...

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Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens: Design Principles, Aesthetic Values - Paperback

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by David A. Slawson (Author)The art of the Japanese garden is a 1,500-year-old landscape design tradition that is still evolving, still instructive. Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens explains the fundamental principles of this tradition and describes how those principles may be applied to a much wider range of environments than exists in Japan. In the first section the author draws on his own experience as an apprentice to a master gardener in Kyoto, as well as his considerable ...

The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty - Paperback

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by Soetsu Yanagi (Author), Bernard Leach (Adapted by)This book challenges the conventional ideas of art and beauty. What is the value of things made by an anonymous craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why should even the roughly lacquered rice bowl of a Japanese farmer be thought beautiful? The late Soetsu Yanagi was the first to fully explore the traditional Japanese appreciation for "objects born, not made." Mr. Yanagi sees folk art as a manif...

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Hi, Konnichiwa: Yayoi Kusama Art Book - Paperback

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by Yayoi Kusama (Author)Japanese painter, sculptor, writer, installation and performance artist Yayoi Kusama has been in the vanguard of contemporary art for sixty years. Best known for her use of patterns of dots (which she claims evolved from the hallucinations she's had since childhood), Kusama, now 84 years old, is finally getting the international recognition she deserves. Hi, Konnichiwa brings together Kusama's vivid imagery and haunting words with photos of the artist at work and at va...

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The Isolation Artist: Scandal, Deception, and the Last Days of Robert Indiana - Hardcover

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by Bob Keyes (Author)"Reads like a mystery"--PBS News Hour "You'll find it hard to put down."--NPR, "Books We Love" When reclusive, millionaire artist Robert Indiana died in 2018, he left behind dark rumors and scandal, as well as an estate embroiled in lawsuits and facing accusations of fraud. Here, for the first time, are all the pieces to the bizarre true story of the artist's final days, the aftermath, the deceptive world that surrounded him, and the inner workings of art as very big busi...

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by Caroline Casey (Editor), Chris Fischbach (Editor), Sarah Schultz (Editor)Coffee House Press, a major nonprofit publisher, recently launched a Kickstarter for a book examining the Internet's cat video fetish. The book, if the Kickstarter campaign reaches its $25,000 goal, will be titled Cat is Art Spelled Wrong, and examine themes like what makes something art, whether art is good or bad, and how taste develops. In other words, cat videos can actually be . . . pretty serious.--The Washingto...

Pretentiousness: Why It Matters - Paperback

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by Dan Fox (Author)Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that's making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. It's an essential ingredient in pop music and high art. Why do we choose accusations of elitism over open-mindedness? What do our anxieties about pretending say about us?Co-editor of frieze, Europe's foremost magazine of contemporary art and culture, Dan Fox has authored ov...

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Past Imperfect: A Museum Looks at Itself - Hardcover

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by Donna de Salvo (Author)Based on the exhibition A Museum Looks at Itself, Past Imperfect takes us through the process involved as one museum, the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York, made itself the subject of an exhibition.Author BiographyDonna De Salvo is chief curator and deputy director for programs at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has curated exhibitions, authored catalogs and essays, and lectured on a wide range of modern and contemporary artists. She curated the 199...

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by Laura Raicovich (Author)Walter De Maria's "Lightning Field" is 400 stainless steel poles, positioned 220 feet apart, in the desert of central New Mexico. Over the course of several visits, it becomes, for Raicovich, a site for confounding and revealing perceptions of time, space, duration, and light; how changeable they are, while staying the same.From At the Lightning Field: Chaos and coincidences of history: Edward Lorenz was a meteorologist at MIT in the early 1960s. Looking for a devil...

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by Bill Berkson (Author)Praise for Bill Berkson: "Wonderful. . . . Fifty years of slow-dawning epiphany." --San Francisco Bay Guardian"I'd like to thank Bill Berkson for: epitomizing objectivity & subjectivity; amusedly living in the cerulean blue, alizarin crimson mixed with titanium white, & burnt sienna world we've got; & writing for us." --Bernadette Mayer"A serene master of syntactical sleight and transformer of the mundane into the marvelous." --Publishers WeeklyBill Berkson...

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Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through - Paperback

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by T. Fleischmann (Author)W. G. Sebald meets Maggie Nelson in an autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss.Author BiographyT Fleischmann is the author of Syzygy, Beauty (Sarabande) and the curator of Body Forms: Queerness and the Essay (Essay Press). A nonfiction editor at DIAGRAM and contributing editor at the blog Essay Daily, they have published critical and creative work in journals such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, and othe...

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by P. F. Kwiatkowski (Author), Tom O. Mehau (Illustrator)Hawaiian tattoos (kakau) are intriguing, tribally exotic, ancient in origin, enigmatic, culturally meaningful, mysterious, evocative, and eye-catching. They are worn by persons from all walks of lifekumu hula, dancers, chanters, athletes, educators, artists, and security officers. Here is valuable information compiled by Hawaiian culture researcher and educator, P.F. Kwiatkowski, that explores many aspects of Hawaiian tattooingits orig...

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by Edward Ardizzone (Author), Judy Taylor (Introduction by)Edward Ardizzone, one of England's most beloved artists and illustrators, was also an artist who could never resist the temptation of filling his letters to family and friends with enchanting vignettes and sketches. Like all of his work, these were done quickly, humorously, and lovingly, with a sure touch for outline, wash, and color that always distinguished his work. For the first time, here is a selection of those letters, envelope...

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by Mel Gooding (Author)This delightful collection allows everyone to enjoy firsthand the provocative methods used by the artists and poets of the Surrealist school to break through conventional thought and behavior to a deeper truth. Invented and played by such artists as Andr Breton, Rene Magritte, and Max Ernst, these gems still produce results ranging from the hilarious to the mysterious and profound.Author BiographyMel Gooding is the editor of the Surrealist Games box and coeditor of Th...

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by Adam Van Doren (Author), Simon Winchester (Foreword by)An artist's illustrated love letter to the Italian city of Venice. If you can't wait to see the Italian city of Venice for the first time or to return, you'll be captivated by this journey. Adam Van Doren has created a verbal and visual account of his love affair with the city. His story is personal; like other artists, he sees the city with and through his own eyes and laces his tour with information, opinion, and notes. Number of Pa...

A General System of Horsemanship - Paperback

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by William Cavendish (Author)This classic work is both one of the most beautiful books on horses ever published and a highly significant landmark in the development of equestrian technique and literature. The 'General System' dates from Newcastle's exile in Europe with Charles II during the Cromwellian rebellion. It was first published in 1658 in a French translation, and illustrated with 42 superb engravings of horses, which also accompanied this English language edition almost a century lat...

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Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go - Paperback

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by Shaun McNiff (Author)A guide to embracing the ups and downs of the artistic process--and allowing them to carry you along your unique creative journey Whether in painting, poetry, performance, music, dance, or life, there is an intelligence working in every situation. This force is the primary carrier of creation. If we trust it and follow its natural movement, it will astound us with its ability to find a way through problems--and even make creative use of our mistakes and failures. There...

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The Boston Raphael: A Mysterious Painting, an Embattled Museum in an Era of Change & a Daughter's Search for the Truth - Hardcover

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by Belinda Rathbone (Author)The full, inside story of how the discovery of a previously unknown painting by Raphael, the Italian Renaissance master, went from media sensation to career-destroying scandal. On the eve of its centennial celebrations in December, 1969, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts announced the acquisition of an unknown and uncatalogued painting attributed to Raphael. Boston's coup made headlines around the world. Soon afterward, an Italian art sleuth began investigating the de...

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The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs - Hardcover

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by Robert Beer (Author)For artists, designers, and all with an interest in Buddhist and Tibetan art, this is the first exhaustive reference to the seemingly infinite variety of symbols found throughout Tibetan art in line drawings, paintings, and ritual objects. Hundreds of the author's line drawings depict all the major Tibetan symbols and motifs--landscapes, deities, animals, plants, gurus, mudras (ritual hand gestures), dragons, and other mythic creatures--ranging from complex mythological...

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by Diane Siebert (Author), Wendell Minor (Illustrator)A read-aloud picture book for young children that celebrates the heartland of our great country. Every country has a heart and America's is in those places where golden wheat waves in the breeze, where great rivers flow, and cornfields stretch across the plains in glorious patchwork quilts of greens and yellows and browns. In this heartland, cattle graze in lush green pastures, horses and sheep fill the barns, and a newborn calf stands dam...

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by Damon Lehrer (Author)A child's art comes to life and takes him on an out-of-this-world adventure. In this bewitchingly wordless black-and-white picture book, one young child explores the boundless reaches of his imagination. Armed only with a pencil and a pad of paper, he transports himself to the moon, the deep sea, and remote jungles where he meets new friends, visits undiscovered words, and makes his way back home again to his own bed before dawn. Damon Lehrer's visual narrative, a penc...

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by Adam Van Doren (Author), Robert A. M. Stern (Foreword by), Henry Chauncey (Preface by)A personal look at the buildings that define Yale University through the eyes of alumni. "The Stones of Yale is a delight--fresh and highly observant. I will be turning to its pages again and again, I have no doubt."--David McCullough Artist Adam Van Doren wanted to know how Yale University's buildings made people feel to live and to study in them. He spoke to alumni as diverse as actor Sam Waterston, the...

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Van Gogh and the Post-Impressionists for Kids: Their Lives and Ideas, 21 Activities Volume 34 - Paperback

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by Carol Sabbeth (Author)Swirling, curling brushstrokes. Vivid colors. Thick layers of paint. These are the hallmarks of a painting by Vincent van Gogh, whose work his fellow artist Paul Cézanne once called "that of a madman." But Van Gogh and the Post-Impressionists for Kids moves beyond the image of the mad pauper to reveal a complex young man who loved nature and reading, spoke four languages, and enjoyed a successful career as a gallery salesman before embarking on studies as a minister a...

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American Masterpieces: Singular Expressions of National Genius - Hardcover

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by John Wilmerding (Author)Twenty-five essays on great works of American art and design from the "Masterpiece" column in The Wall Street Journal. John Wilmerding's "Masterpiece" column is among the The Wall Street Journal's most popular features. This book gathers those essays by Wilmerding, the distinguished former curator of American art at the National Gallery. Each essay integrates a detailed visual analysis with insights not only into the art and its creator, but also into the historica...

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Ralph Masiello's Unicorn Drawing Book - Hardcover

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by Ralph Masiello (Author), Ralph Masiello (Illustrator)Step-by-step diagrams show young artists how to draw fantastic unicorns of all kinds in the newest addition to the popular Ralph Masiello drawing series. By following the simple steps shown in red, mythical creature lovers and aspiring artists can create their own beautiful creatures. With only a few lines, young and young-at-heart artists can draw unikitties, unipiggies, uniowls, and unicorns, as well as hideaways where the most intrepi...

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Visual Grammar: A Design Handbook - Paperback

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by Christian Leborg (Author)Life in the image world has made us all voracious, if not always deliberate, consumers of visual messages. Easy access to computer graphic tools has turned many of us into either amateur or professional image producers. But without a basic understanding of visual language, a productive dialogue between producers and consumers of visual communication is impossible. Visual Grammar can help you speak and write about visual objects and their creative potential, and bet...

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Ralph Masiello's Ocean Drawing Book - Paperback

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by Ralph Masiello (Author), Ralph Masiello (Illustrator)Young artists will want to grab a pencil and take the plunge to learn how to draw sea creatures of all shapes and sizes. In easy-to-follow steps and clear diagrams, beloved author/illustrator Ralph Masiello shows kids how to create and draw detailed aquatic flora and fauna. From clams to seaweed, sharks to moray eels, kids will love learning how to bring an entire underwater world to life. With just a few steps beginning artists can draw...

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Gullah Images: The Art of Jonathan Green - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Green (Illustrator), Pat Conroy (Foreword by)Paintings, magisterial and universal, that capture the essence of a vibrant African American communityIn his art Jonathan Green paints the world of his childhood and an ode to a people imbued with a profound respect for the dignity and value of others--the Gullah people of the South Carolina barrier islands. His canvases, beloved for their sense of jubilation and rediscovery, evoke the meaning of community in Gullah society and display ...

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by Tracey E. Fern (Author), Pau Estrada (Illustrator)Was Pippo the Fool really Pippo the Genius? The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence was a marvel of art, architecture, and engineering. But it lacked a finishing ornament, a crown--a dome! The city fathers had a solution: to invite the finest masters to compete for the chance to design a dome. The rumors of this contest reached the ears of Filippo Brunelleschi, better known in Florence as Pippo the Fool. As soon as he heard about...

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by Linda Trice (Author), Hazel Mitchell (Illustrator)Recycle Reuse Make Art Kenya's class is on spring vacation and their teacher asked them to write a report about how they spent their time. But vacation is almost over and Kenya hasn't done anything worth noting. A late visit to a museum's recycling exhibit and a walk through her neighborhood with her daddy inspire Kenya to use her old, broken toys and other items to make art with her family. Now she's prepared to teach her whole class ho...