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Weirdumentary: Ancient Aliens, Fallacious Prophecies, and Mysterious Monsters from 1970s Documentaries

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Report copyright infringementby Gary D. Rhodes (Author)In the 1970s, an incredibly popular new film genre emerged, one that would later be reborn on television. And yet there has never been a book on the subject...until now.Weirdumentary examines over 45 movies, positioned as documentaries, that began with Chariots of the Gods (1970) and ended with The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981). Relying on spurious experts, questionable evidence, and low-budget dramatizations, these pseudo-scientific docume...

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Report copyright infringementby Abby McClure (Author)From Inspiration to Income: A Comprehensive Guide to Selling Art is the ultimate resource for managing your art business while remaining true to your artistic calling. You'll learn straightforward methods to create better work, identify a loyal client base, and secure a reliable income from selling your art. Abby McClure, an oil painter and mentor to other artists, will tell you precisely how she has sold over nine hundred paintings (and co...

Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers

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Report copyright infringementby Rashid Johnson (Artist), Naomi Beckwith (Editor), Andrea Karnes (Editor)From his early self-portraits to his site-specific installations, this volume underscores Rashid Johnson's fearless engagement with the central themes, questions and aesthetics of the contemporary eraCo-organized by the Guggenheim New York and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, A Poem for Deep Thinkers is a three-decade survey of Rashid Johnson's artistic career. It situates the artist wi...

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Report copyright infringementby Hunter O'Hanian (Editor), Jonathan D. Katz (Editor), Beth Saunders (Editor)The long-awaited first career survey from photographer Amos Badertscher, who comprehensively documented a uniquely American queer underworldAcross several decades, self-taught photographer Amos Badertscher (1936-2023) made thousands of photographs of a liminal queer world: young male sex workers, drag performers, trans pioneers, and Baltimore, Maryland's inclusive, ribald nightlife. The ...

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Report copyright infringementby Isabella Catalina (Author)Stunning Dakota Pink became the 73rd Metart model to join the 50+ Club at the end of May 2024. This is an honor reserved for those few elite stars that have made 50 or more appearances in their modeling career. The voluptuous Russian beauty debuted at the age of 19 in August 2018 and has been featured 51 times to date, all shot by Matiss. She has over 6,100 photos on Metart, but not one video in her portfolio. Dakota has been exclusive...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Dubé (Author)Peter Dubé's Desire as Praxis: Towards a Queer Surrealism dives deeply into the intricate connections between surrealism and the cultures of same-sex attracted queer men, unraveling the complex interplay of the erotic, affect, and the occult. In his groundbreaking first non-fiction work, acclaimed author Dubé-celebrated in *Quill and Quire* as a leading voice in gay surrealist fiction-invites readers on a journey that transcends traditional b...

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Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandra Libby (Editor), Brooks Rich (Editor), Stacey Sell (Editor)A richly illustrated look at the intersection of art and science in Renaissance Europe Art played a pivotal role in the development of natural history during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. European colonial expansion enabled naturalists to study previously unknown insects, animals, and other beestjes--"little beasts"--from around the globe. Little Beasts explores how artists such as J...

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Report copyright infringementby Claire Bishop (Editor), Rosario Güiraldes (Editor), Claire Bishop (Text by (Art/Photo Books))How artists build and shape a myriad of knowledge forms, spanning the decolonial to the transnational and the multilingualWhat types of knowledge do artists produce? How do they give that knowledge form? Featuring works by 11 artists from 9 different countries, whose birth years range from 1946 to 1992, Ways of Knowing highlights different ways artists give form to comp...

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Report copyright infringementby Isabella Catalina (Author)Stunning redhead Michelle H is one of our most popular Metart models. At the time of writing, Michelle is rated #48, with a rating of 9.15 based on 3,943 votes, with 253,598 views and 5,111 followers. She has appeared on many other sites in the Network: The Life Erotic, Errotica Archives, Rylsky Art, Eternal Desire; and on Domai, Goddess Nudes and Erotic Beauty as Nalla. Most notably, she has starred in several very hot girl-girl movie...

Art Leaders of Tomorrow: Defining the Future of Art

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Report copyright infringementby Contemporary Art Curator Magazine (Author)This edition presents a carefully curated selection of artists whose work demonstrates originality, mastery, and a strong personal voice. Whether through painting, sculpture, digital art, or mixed media, these creators push artistic boundaries while staying true to their unique visions. Their work is not only visually captivating but also deeply meaningful, inviting viewers to connect, reflect, and engage with the world...

This Is Not New: Art, Culture, and the Promise of Change

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Report copyright infringementby David Balzer (Author) Praise for Curationism: "Balzer writes with zest, scepticism and sly humour" Sheila Heti, author of Pure Colour What does it mean to call something "new"? Why is Western art and culture, even after postmodernism, still so obsessed with the concept? What are the consequences of relying on culture to bring about social change? In this provocative book, David Balzer argues that Western culture was never designed to produce truly new or origi...

Johannes Vermeer-Provocateur: Risk and Courage in Dissent

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Thomas Proto (Author) Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.35 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 14, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Giampaolo Bianconi (Editor), Thea Liberty Nichols (Contribution by), Ed Ruscha (Contribution by)A new consideration of the playful and unsettling sculptures of H. C. Westermann, guiding figure of American conceptualism and craft An acrobat, carpenter, railroad repairman, and two-time naval war veteran, sculptor H. C. Westermann (1922-1981) rose to prominence in Chicago in the 1950s with new forms inspired by his personal experiences. This overdue reassessment ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ara H. Merjian (Author)Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring From the motorcar to the radio, modern technology radically transformed urban life by the first decade of the twentieth century. As one of Western Europe's least industrialized countries, Italy appeared impervious to such developments. It was this state of affairs at which the Futurist movement took aim. With its founding in 1909, the poet and impresario F.T. Marinetti called for a rev...

The Wages of Cinema: A Christian Aesthetic of Film in Conversation with Dorothy L. Sayers

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Report copyright infringementby Crystal L. Downing (Author)Discover a New Dimension of Faith and Cinema with The Wages of CinemaIn a captivating realm where cinematic narratives enchant countless viewers, how can one harmonize their faith with the craft of filmmaking? The Wages of Cinema encourages a deep dive into this relationship, drawing upon the significant reflections of Dorothy L. Sayers defending the authenticity of art and truth's manifestation.The Wages of Cinema uses examples rangi...

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Report copyright infringementby Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (Author), Anne Higonnet (Introduction by)A selection from the memoir of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, the renowned eighteenth-century French portraitist and one of the most important women painters in art history In her memoir, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun offers a candid and thoroughly enjoyable account of her life and art. She relates her encounters among the royalty and aristocracy she painted--including, most famously, her...

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Report copyright infringementby Stefan Soell (Author)Stefan Soell began to take photos at the age of 15, and soon landscape and portrait photography had become his favourite subjects. In addition to his astonishing talent at choosing the ideal background and selecting key details, he also has the rare knack of capturing ideal lighting conditions. The first editions of VOLCANIC GIRLS have been out of print and unavailable for quite some time now. This special paperback edition is updated and e...

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Report copyright infringementby Grayson Perry (Author)A fully illustrated catalogue of new work and texts by Sir Grayson Perry to accompany a landmark exhibition at the Wallace Collection in celebration of the artist's 65th birthday. This publication accompanies a major exhibition created and curated by Grayson Perry at the Wallace Collection. The Collection's famous portrait of Madame de Pompadour (1759) by François Boucher has long fascinated Perry, as have a great many other pieces includi...

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Report copyright infringementby Maggy Ann (Author)This project was born from the illustrator's own need. Passionate about coloring, painting, pencils, markers, and watercolors, she constantly came up against books designed either for children or drawn by excellent designers who weren't passionate about coloring themselves. She was searching for suitable coloring books. Someone who truly appreciates the art of coloring likes large spaces to vary the shades. She also likes to use a wide variety...

Shakespeare's Afterlife in the Royal Collection: Dynasty, Ideology, and National Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Sally Barnden (Author), Gordon McMullan (Author), Kate Retford (Author)This unique collection of essays and images explores a series of objects in the Royal Collection as a means of assessing the interrelated histories of the British royal family and the Shakespearean afterlife across four centuries. Between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth, Shakespeare became entrenched as the English national poet. Over the same period, the monar...

The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume VI: Rhodes to Western Sicily

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Cartledge (Editor), Paul Christesen (Editor)The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human ecosystems they encountered created important differences among widely scattered settlements: each Greek community developed its own unique set of s...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandra Haig (Author)How do you define beauty? MetArt has been pondering that question for the past twenty years. A world leader in artistic nude photography and film, MetArt has made it their mission to present the most enchanting girls to grace our planet, many of them undressing in front of the camera for the very first time. As this collection of their World's Top 101 Models reveals, that means representing natural beauty in all its spellbinding diversity...

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Report copyright infringementby Genesis Tramaine (Author), Miciah Hussey (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Alexandra Thomas (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The astonishing debut monograph from contemporary abstract expressionist painter Genesis TramaineGimme Some Sugar is the much-anticipated first monograph from Genesis Tramaine, the renowned American artist whose star continues to rise in the international art world. Rooted in her 1980s New York City upbringing and strong spirituality, Tramaine imbue...

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Eyewitness to Revolution: The American Revolution Collection at the Concord Museum

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Report copyright infringementby David F. Wood (Author)A heavily illustrated catalog of 78 objects, dating from 1760 to 1790, from the collection of the Concord Museum in Massachusetts In 1775, the people of Concord, Massachusetts, understood they were living through extraordinary times. David Brown, captain of one of Concord's minute companies, and his family carefully saved and passed through generations a looking glass broken by British troops vandalizing the town on April 19, 1775. Today, ...

Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Baudinette (Author)Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of "Boys Love" (BL) soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men. Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture is the first book length study of this increasingly significant transnational pop culture phenomenon. Drawing upon six years of ethnographic research, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Hamid Molavi (Author)Do you enjoy the beauty and mystery of the moon? Then this series is for you. You'll love seeing the novice drawings of an artist that was given his ability to draw, overnight. These illustrations are the first of a series. There are many more to come. Watch the artist grow as you turn the pages of Nightscapes, Volume 1. Number of Pages: 46 Dimensions: 0.1 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: October 07, 20...

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The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography

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Report copyright infringementby Vanessa Davies (Editor), Dimitri Laboury (Editor)The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient culture's records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts. Epigraphy and palaeography are two distinct, but closely related, ways of recording, analyzing, and interpreting texts and images. This Handbook stresses technical ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin McAndrew (Author) Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: May 21, 2025

Beyond Ophelia: The True Legacy of Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti

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Report copyright infringementby Glenda Youde (Author)Better known as 'Lizzie Siddal', the model who posed for John Everett Millais's painting Ophelia, Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti is now finally recognised as a Pre-Raphaelite artist in her own right, working alongside her male colleagues on equal terms. Elizabeth's designs were truly original, the creation of her own imagination. They embodied the essence of Pre-Raphaelitism that her husband Gabriel and other members of the circle were striving...

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Report copyright infringementby Gretchen McGowan (Author) Number of Pages: 306 Dimensions: 0.64 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 07, 2025

Voluptuous Vices 5: 50 Sexploitation & Adult Film Posters From Italy

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Report copyright infringementby G. H. Janus (Author)Classic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most accomplished, creative and dynamic of its kind. From the post-war period through to the 1980s, Italian artists consistently produced posters with sumptuously stunning designs and imagery.VOLUPTUOUS VICES 5 showcases 50 film posters by a wide range of acclaimed Italian artists, created for both indigenous and foreign-language film productions. The book focuses on sexploitatio...