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Report copyright infringementby Tania Moore (Author), John Kenneth Paranada (Author)Publication accompanies the exhibition season at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 15 March - 21 September 2025. Addressing one of the urgent issues of climate crisis, this book aims to raise awareness by exploring through art the challenges of humanity's relationship to the sea. Addressing one of the urgent issues of climate crisis and environmental pollution, this book explores our relationship to t...

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Report copyright infringementby Lewis Turco (Author)Nonfiction. Memoir. Poetry. Essays. Italian American Studies. Although it is true that I distanced myself from my youth, of course (everybody does), I never distanced myself from my ethnicity. I simply write poems and stories--and, of recent decades, essays and memoirs--as they occur to me, and if later on I feel that older material can be mined, transformed, or linked together to form longer works or sequences, so be it. That's what I have ...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Breen (Author)Ceramics and the Museum interrogates the relationship between art-oriented ceramic practice and museum practice in Britain since 1970. Laura Breen examines the identity of ceramics as an art form, drawing on examples of work by artist-makers such as Edmund de Waal and Grayson Perry; addresses the impact of policy making on ceramic practice; traces the shift from object to project in ceramic practice and in the evolution of ceramic sculpture;...

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Report copyright infringementby Victor Carroll Squier (Author)""Antonio Stradivari: His Life and Work 1644-1737"" is a comprehensive biography of the famed Italian luthier, Antonio Stradivari, written by Victor Carroll Squier. The book delves into Stradivari's life and career, providing a detailed account of his upbringing, apprenticeship, and rise to prominence as one of the most celebrated violin makers in history. Squier also examines Stradivari's innovative techniques and unique approach ...

Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia: A Guide to the Remote Churches of an Ancient Land

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Report copyright infringementby Marie-Jose Friedlander (Author), Bob Friedlander (Author), Richard Pankhurst (Introduction by)Ethiopia is a land of hidden treasures, and among the greatest are its remote churches, whose richly decorated interiors amaze and astound with their vibrant colours and extraordinary illustration. Yet steeped in ancient legend, and often situated in remote locations, a true appreciation and understanding of these unique churches and their spectacular murals has been r...

History of the Crusades Volume 1: Gustave Doré Restored Special Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Gustave Doré (Illustrator), William Robson (Translator), Joseph Michaud (Author)Gustave Doré's ultra-rare masterpiece is restored for a new generation looking to experience some of his best illustrations. Experience Michaud's epic two-volume History of the Crusades illustrated by Gustave Doré in this digitally restored and enhanced printing of one of Doré's most elusive and extraordinary works. This restoration includes: - Full-size 8 1/2" x 11" pages - Pristin...

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Report copyright infringementby Monica L. Miller (Author), Andrew Bolton (With), William DeGregorio (With)This exploration of Black dandy fashion and its representation in art and literature highlights the vibrant, complicated legacy of a recognizable yet constantly shifting style, from its origins in Enlightenment Europe to the contemporary art and fashion worlds Superfine: Tailoring Black Style traces the complex and vibrant legacy of menswear across three centuries of Black culture--from t...

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Keeney (Author)Frequently working en plein'air', storm concocts locales with architecture from different environs, thus a french loire castle or a German one lands in his beloved muncy hills. Lanterns from along the strand plunk down in paintings of the artists' garden. Each piece is completely seen in the artist's mind before he begins working. Often the dragons, rabbits, mice, dogs, cats and other symbolic animals and heroes are developed in the art...

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Report copyright infringementby Annie Sanders (Author)Cubism is a book of 17 collaged portraits in the cubist style that were never glued, but were arranged and photographed. The portraits within are inventive, entertaining and beyond unique. Sanders is known to have great range in her artistry. What is upcoming promises to fascinate as will Cubism. Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.09 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 25, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby Alessandra Comini (Author)Austria's most influential and revered artist at the beginning of the last century was Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). Master of three genres--allegory, portraiture, and landscape--his alluring imagery, decorative colors, and sinuous line seduce the eye and stir the mind. His landscapes are studded with opulent symbols of regeneration and fecundity, while his philosophical allegories enact and question the eternal recurrence of life and deat...

The Correspondence of Washington Allston

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Report copyright infringementby Nathalia Wright (Editor)Washington Allston (1779-1843), the first major American artist trained in Europe, produced important paintings, explored sculpture and architecture, and published poetry and art criticism. On his return to America he became influential in the cultural and intellectual life of New England. Allston """"knew everyone"""" and corresponded with many of the leading figures of his day, including Wordsworth, Longfellow, Irving, Sully, and Morse...

Gouache for Beginners: Simple, Stunning & Realistic Projects

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Jarvik Birch (Author)Curious about gouache but unsure where to start? Learn all the essentials of this versatile medium with this fresh and inspiring guide. Gouache is a water-based paint that dries to a matte, opaque finish. Long used by illustrators, gouache is gaining popularity with artists of all styles and interests. Whether you're a budding artist eager to explore painting or a more experienced artist looking to add gouache to your painting toolkit,...

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Report copyright infringementby Type-Moon (Author), Arco Wada (Illustrator)"Collecting the artwork of Arco Wada, the lead artist for the Fate/EX series! LOVE: ARCO WADA FATE ART WORKS gathers works from the Fate/EXTRA and Fate/EXTELLA subseries. Featuring everything from game box artwork, to character art, to rare promo illustrations, this beautiful tome belongs on the shelf of every fan of the Fate franchise."Author BiographyType-Moon is a Japanese game company and creative circle known for ...

The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment

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Report copyright infringementby David Mamet (Author)One of America's greatest living literary legends invites you think for yourself in this compelling narrative of manipulation, power, and the human condition. "Government, like Circe, turns men into swine," David Mamet writes in his latest political tour de force. Prepare to be challenged, enlightened, and entertained by The Disenlightenment as Mamet dissects the modern world with enthusiasm, wisdom, and lots of references to movies about th...

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Report copyright infringementby Norman Rosenthal (Editor)Back JacketPublished in association with the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, to coincide with their major 2025 David Hockney exhibition, this vivid book charts the life and work of one of Britain's most popular and significant artists. Expertly written by preeminent curatorial experts, art historians, and critics including Sir Norman Rosenthal, Sir Simon Schama, and Fiona Maddocks, this definitive survey combines a curated selection of ...

Meditative Drawing: Learn to Draw Mandalas and Other Patterns That Foster Calm and Creativity

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Report copyright infringementby Lizzie Snow (Author)Immerse yourself in the calming practice of meditative drawing while learning to draw mandalas and other nature-inspired designs. Drawing and coloring mandalas and free-flowing, nature-inspired art has become increasingly popular as a form of art therapy, stress relief, and self-expression. With Meditative Drawing as your guide, you can join the artists of all ages and backgrounds who have embraced mindful drawing for its meditative and calm...

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Report copyright infringementby Ingrid Mössinger (Author), Ralph Keuning (Author), David Salle (Author)The definitive monograph on the acclaimed German artist Neo Rauch, one of the most influential figurative painters working todayNeo Rauch is one of the world's most successful and popular contemporary artists. A leading force of the Leipzig School, the group of artists that emerged from East Germany in the early 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Rauch quickly established himself inter...

How Comics Are Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page

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Report copyright infringementby Glenn Fleishman (Author)"No one, before now, has written a history of the comic strip as a technological artifact--not, at least, in such depth, and on such a sound foundation of research." - Michael Chabon, author, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay If you love comics, you'll love this visual history of comic strips featuring all of the methods, techniques, and wizardry that made the funny pages such an important staple of American life. Featuring i...

Frida Kahlo's Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds

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Report copyright infringementby Caitlin Haskell (Editor), Tamar Kharatishvili (With), Alive Piliado Santana (With)The richly illustrated story of a brief yet pivotal encounter in Paris between Frida Kahlo and Mary Reynolds, two luminaries of the Surrealist movement In February 1939, while visiting Paris at the invitation of writer André Breton, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) became sick and convalesced at the home of American expatriate Mary Reynolds (1891-1950), an avant-garde book...

Nouvelles Femmes: Modern Women of the French New Wave and Their Enduring Contribution to Cinema

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Report copyright infringementby Ericka Knudson (Author)Celebrate the iconic female actors and filmmakers of the French New Wave with a compelling examination of their role as a vital part of cinema history, as well as their influence on attitudes and style in film and in society that endures to this day. Admired by cinephiles worldwide, women of the French New Wave stand as icons of one of the most innovative times in cinema with their individual voices, undeniable presence, and authentic cha...

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Report copyright infringementby Saeb Eigner (Author) Artists of the Middle East celebrates a region of breathtaking creativity through the innovative, spectacular, and at times politically resonant work of more than 250 of its leading artists. Spanning diverse art movements and communities from Morocco to Iran, this is a groundbreaking survey of more than a century of artistic activity, from 1900 to the present.Saeb Eigner shares his intimate knowledge of the stylistic, literary, and linguist...

Mothering Myths: An ABC of Art, Birth and Care

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Report copyright infringementby Laurie Cluitmans (Editor), Heske Ten Cate (Editor), Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Foreword by)A comprehensive, intersectional and transhistorical meditation on depictions of motherhood in art, from the Middle Ages to todayRooted in the visual arts, this book gathers a multitude of voices on the theme of motherhood. Though central to the core of all life, the topic of motherhood has long been relegated to the private domain. Within the art world, depictions of motherhoo...

Exhibitionist: 1 Journal, 1 Depression, 100 Paintings

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Mendelsund (Author)From acclaimed designer and novelist Peter Mendelsund, a deeply personal reflection on depression and the redemptive power of art, interspersed with 100 original paintings In the early days of the pandemic, Peter Mendelsund and his family traveled up to a secluded New Hampshire farmhouse to weather the chaos. There began his journey through a crippling and seemingly intractable depression--which differed in degree but not in kind from e...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Katzman (Author), Beatriz Cordero Martín (Contribution by), Christof Decker (Contribution by)A richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity offers a fresh and wide-ranging account of the work of Ben Shahn (1898-1969), a Jewish immigrant from Russian-controlled Lithuania who became one of America's most prominent and prolific "social viewpoint" ...

Go Figure: Figurative Social Surrealist Paintings

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Report copyright infringementby Guy Colwell (Author) Most Anticipated Graphics Novels For Summer 2025 - Comics Beat Go Figure collects 44 "social surrealist" figurative paintings, spanning 1987-2023. All are in eye-popping color: many depict a crowd in observational tableaux, each figure a character by virtue of dress, body language, and interactions with each other, animals, and their setting. Other paintings reflect Colwell's wide travels, and still others are surreal -- such as "Junior an...

Designing Dragons: An Artist's Guide to the Legendary Mythical Creatures

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Report copyright infringementby Publishing (Editor), Stephen Oakley (Introduction by), Alexander Ostrowski (Introduction by)Let your imagination take wing with Designing Dragons, the must-have guide to bringing mythology's most iconic beast to life.Discover step by step how professional concept artists take inspiration from the rich biology of real animals, using their scientific insights to design believable dragons, drakes, and serpents from myths and legends around the world. The brand-new...

Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art

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Report copyright infringementby Ekow Eshun (Author), Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Macarena Gómez-Barris (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) Black Earth Rising presents works by artists of African diasporic, Latin American, and Native American identity that address vital questions of land, presence, climate crisis, and social and environmental justice against the historical backdrop of European settlement of the New World. Supported by an exhibition curated by the author, this ti...

Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain

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Report copyright infringementby Renée Mussai (Editor), Henry Louis Gates (Foreword by), Paul Gilroy (Text by (Art/Photo Books))These striking studio portraits, curated and brought together following ten years of research championed by Autograph, constitute the most comprehensive collection of nineteenth-century photography depicting the Black subject in the Victorian era, including some of the earliest known images of Black people photographed in Britain.The historically marginalized lives of...

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Report copyright infringementby Ashleigh 'Miss Upacey' Izienicki (Author), Publishing (Editor)In this fascinating Art of book, Colorado-born artist Ashleigh Izienicki reveals the process behind how she combines dark, macabre themes with a cute and feminine touch to create incredibly popular art. Ashleigh has accumulated a massive following online under her brand, Miss Upacey. She has over 603K followers on Instagram, a popular Patreon, and a successful online shop selling products such as pin...

Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture

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Report copyright infringementby Yve Chavez (Author), Laura Kina (Editor) Examines how native artists kept their culture alive by creatively adapting under colonial rule Between 1769 and 1823, the Franciscans established twenty-one missions in California, colonizing the ancestral territories of many Native communities between present-day Sonoma and San Diego. In Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture, Gabrieleno Tongva scholar Yve Chavez highlights how these communities preserve...

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Report copyright infringementby Elmbrook Middle Schools (Author)Art, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction created by students at Pilgrim Park and Wisconsin Hills Middle Schools in Creative Writing Workshops led by Kim Suhr of Red Oak Writing and Elizabeth Mallegni of the Elmbrook Schools in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 16, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Britny Cordera (Author), David H. L. Burton (Illustrator)WINGMAKERS combines Britny Cordera's lyric and prose poems with David Burton's illustrations to create an imaginative world of animal lore. Through the eyes of the muse, Urania, and the creatures of the air embodied within the constellations-dove, owl, dragon, thunderbird, phoenix, and others-each poem relates stories and invokes the wisdom of our mythological pasts. The animals in Cordera's constellation...