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Affecting the Conflict: Mediations of the Colombian War in Contemporary Art and Film (Color)

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Report copyright infringementby Rubén Darío Yepes Muñoz (Author)This book focuses on the art and films produced between the years 2002 and 2017 in relation to the Colombian armed conflict. It asks the following questions: How have contemporary art and film addressed the Colombian conflict? What are the contributions of these forms of visual culture to the memorialization of the armed conflict and the overcoming of its negative legacies? The main goal is to understand the ways in which contemp...

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Report copyright infringementby Kale James (Author)Discover a rich archive of historical letterforms in this meticulously curated collection from Vault Editions. Ornamental Lettering presents over 650 ornate initials and a curated selection of complete alphabets sourced from rare 18th and 19th-century design archives.Inside, you'll find: Illuminated capitals with intricate embellishments Decorative Victorian initials inspired by nature and mythology Surreal and fantastical designs featuring ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lynn E. Lensmire (Author)Chaucer is a lovable little dog who shares his adventures with the children. They quickly identify with the little dog because his adventures are very similar to theirs. In CHAUCER GOES TO THE DOCTOR, Chaucer takes the children to the animal hospital when he goes for his annual checkup. While they are there, they learn many interesting things. Perhaps the most interesting is that when a pet goes to their veterinarian, it is very simila...

The Faithful Imagination: Papers from the 2018 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Ricke (Editor), Ashley Chu (Editor)From May 31 to June 3, 2018, the 11th biennial Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends convened at Taylor University to consider "The Faithful Imagination." This volume focuses on the roots and shoots of authors who linked the imaginative life with faithfulness to truth. From considerations of the philosophical/theological roots of the imagination as theorized in Coleridge and MacDonald, the essays branch out to look at the...

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Crane (Author)Walter Crane, a well-known member of the Arts and Crafts movement, wrote the book "The Bases of Design". Aimed for artists, designers, and design students, the book offers a thorough review of design ideas and methods. Crane places a strong emphasis on the value of comprehending the fundamental concepts of design, such as proportion, balance, and harmony. Additionally, he emphasizes the value of studying the works of the masters and support...

Written Treasures: 50 Manuscripts from Medieval Europe

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Report copyright infringementby André Bouwman (Author), Irene O'Daly (Author)Written Treasures is an introduction to the fascinating world of medieval manuscripts. From the treasury of the Leiden University Library, 50 extraordinary manuscripts have been selected. For centuries, we have studied the works of Cicero, Lucretius and Horace. We draw inspiration from the knightly tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Our knowledge of the world builds on the writings of classical ...

Manhatitlan. An Interwining of Mexican and American Cultures

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Report copyright infringementby Felipe Galindo Feggo (Author)Felipe Galindo (Feggo) is an award-winning Mexican artist who has lived and worked in New York City since the early 80s. He specializes in creating humorous art in a variety of media, including cartoons, illustration, animation, fine art, and public art. His work has been exhibited and published worldwide. "Feggo's work stands in the rich tradition of Mexico's socially engaged art, an art that strives, using humor and irony, to make...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur W. (Arthur Wesley) Dow (Author)"Composition: A series of exercises in art structure for the use of students and teachers" by Arthur Dow remains a cornerstone of art education. This meticulously prepared edition revives a classic text, offering invaluable art instruction on fundamental design principles and art composition. Aspiring artists and educators alike will discover a wealth of knowledge within these pages, designed to cultivate a deeper understan...

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Report copyright infringementby Lewis Spence (Author) Number of Pages: 186 Dimensions: 0.43 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 13, 2011

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Report copyright infringementby John Lewis (Author)First published in 1978, Typography: Design and Practice is now established as a landmark introduction to working with text. Although writing at the dawn of computerized typesetting, Lewis's basic principles and design advice still stand strong. This remastered edition provides both an overview of the history of typeface design and an easy-to-understand grounding in the practice of choosing fonts and laying out of text. Essential reading for ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michel 1901-1999 Seuphor (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is i...

Curating Pop: Exhibiting Popular Music in the Museum

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Baker (Author), Lauren Istvandity (Author), Raphaël Nowak (Author)Curating Pop speaks to the rapidly growing interest in the study of popular music exhibitions, which has occurred alongside the increasing number of popular music museums in operation across the world. Focusing on curatorial practices and processes, this book draws on interviews with museum workers and curators from 19 museums globally, including the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville,...

Fashion Illustration Techniques: A Beginner's Guide for Fashion Designers and Illustrators [With Over 1400 Illustrations]

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Report copyright infringementby Hiroko Fukuchi (Author)The complete beginner's guide to fashion illustration from one of Japan's leading designers! This fascinating guide for budding fashion designers and illustrators shows you how to draw human figures accurately with a full range of fabrics, garments and accessories. It explains clearly all the techniques used by professional designers and illustrators with hundreds of examples to study and learn from! Author Hiroko Fukuchi, one of Japan's ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandre Dumas (Author)Three musketeers. Two enemies. One major battle.' 'All for one and one for all!' Country boy d'Artagnan is desperate to join the King's elite band of bodyguards, the Musketeers. And when his fiery loyalties (which often get him into trouble) and incredible sword skill (which get him out again) manages to impress brash Porthos, foppish Aramis and melancholy Athos, the three musketeers and d'Artagnan become friends for life.When they disco...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Cooksey (Editor)"Demonstrates the continuity of textile traditions in new, innovative forms that, in some cases, have not been exhibited in the UnitedStates or acquired by U.S. museums. Student involvement provided an opportunity for the [Harn] to gain access to works that no one else could provide."--Rebecca Nagy, Director, Harn Museum of Art This book celebrates an exciting exhibition at the University of Florida's Harn Museum of Art that features cont...

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Report copyright infringementby Christina Haberkern (Author)A must-have autumnal coloring book for Pumpkin Spice Latte enthusiasts around the world, full of pumpkiny goodness. What marks the arrival of fall and harvest season? Is it the colorful leaves, back-to-school bustle, or sweater weather? No--it's the anticipated return of the Pumpkin Spice Latte. This coloring book celebrates the blend of pumpkin, clove, cinnamon, and nutmeg that has the world going crazy every autumn. And while Pumpk...

Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith

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Report copyright infringementby Cherise Smith (Author)The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of identity through close readings of a significant performance, or series of performances, by each artist. She examines Piper's public embodiment of the Mythic Being, a working-class black man...

Jeffrey Gibson: The Space in Which to Place Me

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey Gibson (Artist), Christian Ayne Crouch (Editor), Abigail Winograd (Editor)Vibrant and immersive installations from the first Indigenous artist to represent the US with a solo exhibition at the Venice BiennaleThis lush, comprehensive volume celebrates Jeffrey Gibson's US Pavilion exhibition at the 60th Venice Biennale. The text and visuals braid together important strands that shaped the installation, public programming and performances, highlighting the...

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Report copyright infringementby Chong Hak Kim (Artist), Michael Rooks (Editor), Randall Suffolk (Foreword by)Flouting the postmodern trends of 1960s South Korea, Kim's Mount Seorak landscapes mark a poignant return to figurationSince debuting his mature style in 1984, Kim Chong Hak (born 1937) has become one of the most widely recognized artists in South Korea. Known as the "Painter of Seoraksan," Kim has a relationship with Mount Seorak that is as essential to the history of Korean contempor...

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Report copyright infringementby Tristan Duke (Artist), Brandee Caoba (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), William L. Fox (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Using camera lenses made of Arctic ice, Tristan Duke's ongoing, experimental photographic project, Glacial Optics, explores our current moment of climate crisis. In the spring of 2022, artist Tristan Duke set sail for the Arctic Island of Svalbard, the fastest-warming place on the planet. His goal was to craft functioning camera lenses from the very ice o...

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Harry Potter: Marauder's Map Glow in the Dark Journal

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Report copyright infringementby Insight Editions (Author)Mischief Managed! Record all your notes and magical musings with this beautifully embroidered cloth-covered journal that features the Marauder's map concealed in glow in the dark ink! Record your notes, secrets, and mischief with this Marauder's Map(TM)-inspired journal. This unique journal appears as a regular journal with an embroidered text design on the cover but when the lights are turned off, a glow in the dark image appears to re...

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Invader: @Invaderwashere: Ten Years on Instagram

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Report copyright infringementby Invader (Artist), Savithri Nelson (Translator)Chronicling over 10 years of work from the French street artist known for his ceramic tile mosaics resembling 8-bit video game artThe name of the French artist Invader (born 1969) might not ring a bell at first, but there's a strong chance you've unknowingly come across his work. His mosaic pixel art has adorned the streets of cities worldwide for years, delighting art lovers and urban adventurers alike. @invaderwas...

Francis Bacon Retrieved: Lost Words / New Writing

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Report copyright infringementby Martin Harrison (Author), Maria Balaska (Author), Amanda Harrison (Author)David Sylvester's Interviews with Francis Bacon remain the most consulted writing on Bacon. For the first time, Bacon's words appear here in their unredacted form. Other essays throw light on form and accident in Bacon's work, chimera and liminal entities, the psychology of the imposter, and destroyed paintings.Half of this volume, an unprecedented proportion in the Studies series, is dev...

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Catlow (Editor), Marc Garrett (Editor), Nathan Jones (Editor)The blockchain is widely heralded as the new internet - another dimension in an ever-faster, ever-more-powerful interlocking of ideas, actions and values. Principally the blockchain is a ledger distributed across a large array of machines that enables digital ownership and exchange without a central administering body. Within the arts it has profound implications as both a means of organising and...

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Beautiful Madness: Art Writing as Art Curating

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Kremer (Author)Thirty years of reflections on the intertwined disciplines of art curating and art writingExhibition curating and art writing are closely related disciplines. Both practices construct a meaningful, public narrative regarding artifacts and artists. Most curators and writers accomplish this by tapping into the artist, their work and their world. Mark Kremer has been writing, curating, teaching and interacting with artists for decades. Beautifu...

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Mostly Everything: The Art of Tucker Nichols

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Report copyright infringementby Tucker Nichols (Artist)The first career-spanning book from Bay Area artist Tucker Nichols, Mostly Everything: The Art of Tucker Nichols attempts to capture, in one extravagant volume, decades of the artist's varied work, from drawings with words, drawings without words, paintings, and sculpture, to large- and medium-scale public works, editorial illustrations, picture books, doodles, notes, charts, lists, and more. Some of the work included in this book involve...

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Report copyright infringementby American Artist (Editor), Zainab Aliyu (Editor), Taylor Renee Aldridge (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Visionary works exploring legendary science-fiction writer Octavia Butler's enduring influence on literature and cultureThe richly illustrated Shaper of God is a compelling exploration of the legacy of science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), reimagined through the visionary lens of American Artist (born 1989). American Artist's multidisciplinary appro...

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Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury

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Report copyright infringementby Jordan Troeller (Author)How a group of artist-mothers in postwar San Francisco refused the centuries-old belief that a woman could not make art while also raising children. For most of modern history, to be an artist and a mother was to embody a contradiction in terms. This "awful dichotomy," as painter Alice Neel put it, pitted artmaking against caretaking and argued that the best art was made at the expense of family and futurity. But in San Francisco in the ...

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Report copyright infringementby David Hockney (Artist), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Author)Conversations that explore the work, life and practices of a legendary painterBritish painter David Hockney (born 1937) is one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. In addition to being an important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is also renowned as a printmaker, stage designer and photographer. In 1964, Hockney moved to Los Angeles, where, famously, he was inspir...

Tom Torluemke: Live!: On Paper, 1987-2024

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Torluemke (Artist), Dan Cameron (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), David Detmer (Text by (Art/Photo Books))In the tradition of great American satirists, Torluemke's works on paper show an unflinching, lampooning perspective of society's ills Tom Torluemke's (born 1959) name is familiar to Chicago art lovers thanks to his detailed acrylic paintings observing society's ills with the doting attention of a diehard humanist. Live! highlights his understudied works on ...

African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics

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Report copyright infringementby Cajetan Iheka (Author)In African Ecomedia, Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture. Iheka shows how, through visual media such as film, photography, and sculpture, African artists deliver a unique perspective on the socioecological costs of media production, from mineral and oil extraction to the politics of animal conservation. Among other works, he examines Piete...

Miniature Worlds: Files of Illustrators Who Draw Small Fantasy Worlds

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Report copyright infringementby Pie International (Artist)An illustration collection that compresses the worlds you admire and depicts them as miniature worlds!Fantasy worlds unfold all around within small spaces like gardens. This is a collection that introduces 26 illustrators from Japan and overseas and the illustrations they draw that are brimming with originality. There are about 180 illustrations featured in this collection. The worlds that the artists want to depict are condensed, and ...