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Report copyright infringementby Brian Lies (Author), Brian Lies (Illustrator)An Indie Next PickWith lush paintings and intricately constructed 3-D artwork, bestselling and Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator Brian Lies introduces a sleepy kitten whose afternoon nap transforms into an epic journey through art, time, and history. Perfect for fans of They All Saw a Cat, Museum Trip, and Jumanji. Includes back matter.In the warm, late afternoon sunlight, a girl sits on the couch reading a ...

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by Klutz (Created by)It's watercolor-with a surprise twist As you paint, reveal hidden designs in our invisible, paint-resistant ink. Uncover patterns in scenes with adorable animals, a star-studded galaxy, whimsical fairies, and more Follow step-by-step instructions to learn the basics of watercolor and work up to more intermediate techniques like ombr and tie-dye with 20 pieces of adorable, ready-to-paint artworks. With premium paints and magical designs, this is the perfect starter kit ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Polizzotti (Author)An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate "Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement's aspirations and attainments against its flaws and contradictions, hoping to recuperate Surrealism's 'critical and imaginative essence' for the present. . . . The best concise account of the movement available."--Michael Saler, Wall Street Journal Selected by Art in America as an "E...

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Report copyright infringementby Gilles Deleuze (Author), David Lapoujade (Editor), Charles J. Stivale (Translator)Available for the first time in English: the complete and annotated transcripts of Deleuze's 1981 seminars on painting From 1970 until 1987, Gilles Deleuze held a weekly seminar at the Experimental University of Vincennes and, starting in 1980, at Saint-Denis. In the spring of 1981, he began a series of eight seminars on painting and its intersections with philosophy. The recorded...

Devoted Resistance: Jewish Feminist Art in the Us and Israel

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Report copyright infringementby David Sperber (Author)What is Jewish-feminist art, and how does it contribute to the spaces of art, society, and religion? Devoted Resistance examines the nature, methods of operation, and contribution of the feminist art movement, which has developed in traditional Jewish spheres since the late 1990s in the two major Jewish centers - the United States and Israel. The book analyzes critical Jewish feminist art and the different fields in which it operates; it e...

Performative Identities in Culture: From Literature to Social Media

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Report copyright infringementby Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup (Volume Editor), Beata Zawadka (Volume Editor)This book's primary task is to test the contemporary value of performance and performativity. Performative Identities in Culture: From Literature to Social Media undertakes this task via a host of chapters on a vast spectrum of performativity-related topics such as: literature (British, American, Welsh), film, art, social media, and sports. Within these contexts, the book raises a number of...

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Craftland: In Search of Lost Arts and Disappearing Trades

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Report copyright infringementby James Fox (Author)An "impassioned and inspiring account of the extraordinary men and women still doing traditional artisanal work" (The Sunday Times) in the face of massive technological industrialization--by renowned Cambridge art historian Dr. James Fox. "Shimmers with love for a dwindling world of meticulous, patient labour . . . deftly written and well researched."--The Guardian During an age of mass manufacturing, fast fashion, synthetic materials and the ...

The Emotional Expression of Authority and Power in the Middle Ages

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Report copyright infringementby Flocel Sabat? (Volume Editor)The relationship between rulers and their subjects is always channelled by emotion. This volume explores the specific tones this relationship took on in the Middle Ages, as well as their accordance with a concept of power based ultimately on agreement, an inclination to visualise emotions, a social pedagogy based on fear, and a religious ideology which placed humanity between divine order and divine wrath. It also examines the emoti...

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Newman (Author)The definitive biography of a transformational American artist and the city that shaped him Barnett Newman (1905-1970), a founding member of the abstract expressionist movement, was a contemporary of such figures as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. He left behind only 118 finished paintings, six sculptures, and 83 acknowledged drawings, yet is often regarded as the greatest painter to have emerged after the...

Experimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art

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Report copyright infringementby Jesse Jackson (Volume Editor)An anthology of interviews with contemporary artists experimenting at the margins of artmaking practices through engagement with the life sciences, computation, and visualization technologies. Number of Pages: 364 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.4 x 6.1 IN Publication Date: February 13, 2025

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Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi

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Report copyright infringementby Maren Hassinger (Artist), Senga Nengundi (Artist), Allie Tepper (Editor)A richly illustrated guide to the somatic, conceptual and conversational practice of the underrecognized artist duoSince their first encounter on the telephone in Los Angeles in 1977, artists Maren Hassinger (born 1947) and Senga Nengudi (born 1943) have formed an expansive body of collaborations, and a lifelong friendship that spans nearly five decades. While maintaining rigorous solo prac...

Shades of Meaning: Shadows in Medieval Manuscript Illumination

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Report copyright infringementby Dominique DeLuca (Author)Are there shadows in medieval art? Studies on the role of shadows in art history have either glanced over or ignored the medieval period, yet people of the Middle Ages certainly saw and thought about shadows and recorded their ideas about these phenomena in texts and images. This book examines references to shadows in science, religion, and folklore of the Middle Ages. Through the lens of fifteenth-century manuscript painting, it invest...

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Report copyright infringementby David Houston (Author), Jenny Bagert (Author), Quincy Jones (Author)"The most complete survey of his lifetime of photography." --The Guardian With a camera as his backstage pass, Herman Leonard photographed the giants of jazz in their golden age, movie stars on set and on their travels to exotic places, the fashion world of Paris in the 1960s, and the inner sanctums of his beloved New Orleans. This sumptuous book is the only full treatment of Leonard's extraord...

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Report copyright infringementby R. Is N. Watson (Author)The Beauty of Belief sheds new light on Lutheran relationships with ecclesiastical decoration in southwest Germany following the Duchy of Württemberg's Reformation in 1534. Based on extensive original archival research and engagement with surviving images and objects, Róisín Watson compellingly demonstrates how Lutherans moved away from initial acts of iconoclasm and towards embracing the possibilities of the religious image in their dev...

Sub(e)Merging: Experiences, Practices and Politics from Below

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Report copyright infringementby Marie Sophie Beckmann (Editor), Petra Löffler (Editor)A cross-disciplinary perspective of the medial, aesthetic, and material aspects of submerging, as well as its methodological qualities as a resistant practice and figure of thought. Whether it is the ocean, the ground, or soil, a metaphorical or symbolic underworld, or a political figure of thought, the subsurface intervenes in recent debates about ecological, social, and postcolonial conflicts and power in...

Radical Softness: The Responsive Art of Janet Echelman

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Report copyright infringementby Gloria Sutton (Editor), Janet Echelman (Contribution by)Radical Softness is a visual compendium of American artist Janet Echelman's oeuvre, including detailed project documentation, archival source materials, and a fascinating illustrated chronology. Over the past twenty-five years, Janet Echelman has created monumentally scaled public sculptures using unlikely materials, from atomized water particles to engineered fiber fifteen times stronger than steel. She w...

Draw Happy: Easy Prompts to Find Joy Through Creativity

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Report copyright infringementby Tilly (Author)Packed with over seventy-five projects that teach, inspire, and build confidence through easy-to-follow prompts for artists of all ages and every level of skill. The perfect antidote to busy lives, this joyful how-to drawing book delivers happiness in a pencil stroke. Opening with a combination of tips, tutorials, and guided prompts that provide the keys to mastering the techniques of creating impressive line art from an experienced pro, this is t...

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You Will Be Able to Paint with Watercolour by the End of This Book

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Report copyright infringementby Harriet de Winton (Author)Everything a complete beginner needs to know to get started in watercolor, from bestselling author and artist Harriet de Winton. The perennial favorite material for beginner artists, watercolor can be a surprisingly tricky medium to get to grips with. In this essential guide, bestselling author and artist Harriet de Winton walks readers through all the essential materials, tools and techniques to get started with creating art in water...

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Vaivén: 21st-Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

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Report copyright infringementby Teréz Iacovino (Editor), José López Serra (Editor), Arlene Dávila (Foreword by)Twenty-five years of creative expression from Puerto Rican artists working in Puerto Rico and across its U.S. diaspora Connoting back and forth movement, the word vaivén is frequently used to describe the supposed ease with which Puerto Ricans travel between the United States and Puerto Rico. Not just physical but also psychological, this diasporic oscillation is inextricably linked ...

Granny Takes a Trip: High Fashion and High Times at the Wildest Rock 'n' Roll Boutique

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Gorman (Author)Granny Takes A Trip was more than just a shop and a fashion brand; it was the original rock and roll clothes boutique, the template for all that followed. What started as an odd retail venture/art installation in a depressed part of London known as World's End became an international byword for glam decadence in Manhattan and Hollywood, combining flamboyant style and all manner of countercultural activity to attract everyone from Pattie Boyd...

Daring: The Life and Art of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun

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Report copyright infringementby Jordana Pomeroy (Author)The dramatic life story of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, one of the greatest portrait painters of all time Supremely talented and strategically charming, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) overcame tragedy and broke gender barriers to reach the height of success as a portrait painter, first in Paris, and then across Europe. After losing her father at age twelve and facing financial insecurity, she fought to gain access to artistic training...

Facing Feelings: Inside the World of Raina Telgemeier

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Report copyright infringementby Raina Telgemeier (Author)Author BiographyRaina Telgemeier is the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning creator of Smile, Sisters, and Guts, which are all graphic memoirs based on her childhood. She is also the creator of Drama and Ghosts, the adapter and illustrator of the first four Baby-sitters Club graphic novels, and, with Scott McCloud, the co-creator of The Cartoonists Club. Facing Feelings: Inside the World of Raina Telgemeier is b...

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Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art

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Report copyright infringementby Celeste Marcus (Author)A revelatory biography of the Jewish expressionist painter that corrects the myths surrounding his work and proves his importance to the contemporary art world "It's not often that an art history book comes along so sharply perceptive about its subject and so grippingly written that reading it is akin to the thrilling experience of looking at the paintings themselves. This is what Celeste Marcus has achieved in her transformative account...

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A Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure

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Report copyright infringementby Nat Pyper (Editor), Rosen Eveleigh (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Claire Finch (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Showcasing a collection of innovative typeface designs alongside the stories of the countercultural queer figures who inspired them Published with Library Stack. This volume, A Queer Year of Love Letters, expands upon the eponymous series of openly downloadable typeface fonts by New York-based designer and alphabet artist Nat Pyper. The letterforms in this co...

Midnight Mass: Poetic Scripture for the Broken Soul

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Villanueva (Author), Sarah Fazriah (Illustrator)This is not a sermon, it's a summoning. Midnight Mass: Poetic Scripture for the Broken Soul is a journey into the cathedral of shadows within us all. Across five chapters - Genesis, Descent, Abyss, Revelation, and Ascension - these poems lead you through the darkest corridors of love, loss, pain, and transformation. Each section is a rite of passage: the birth of hope, the fall into despair, the confrontati...

Reflections on African Art: Insights on Rare Pieces from the Bamana, Senufo, Dogon, and Baule Tribes

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Workman (Author), Jayne Workman (Author)Reflections on African Art: Insights on Rare Pieces from the Bamana, Senufo, Dogon, and Baule Tribes shares Robert Workman's journey from his first purchase of African art to building a unique and noteworthy collection. Over 65 years, the Workmans assembled rare and unusual treasures from Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso. This book presents works often overlooked in mainstream publications, offering a fresh pe...

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Report copyright infringementby Jon-Ove Steihaug (Author), Christian Weikop (Author), Sverre Wyller (Author)Georg Baselitz is a renowned German Neo-Expressionist artist, still active and influential. He's famous for his upside-down paintings and continues to create provocative, autobiographical works. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.71 x 12.68 x 10.31 IN Publication Date: October 28, 2025

I Only Believe in Myself: Conversation with Murielle Joudet

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Report copyright infringementby Catherine Breillat (Author), Murielle Joudet (With), Christine Pichini (Translator)A long-form dialogue--on cinema and survival--with the visionary French filmmaker. The virtuous always engage in a pseudoreligious morality. But there's one thing they never say: the desire for pleasure is thought in motion. It's what makes you transfigure a dull and repetitive sexual act into something that can bring you to ecstasy and an idea of eternity ... --Catherine Breilla...

Survival Notes: Life Lessons from Contemporary Artists

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Report copyright infringementby Lydia Rachel Figes (Author) Survival Notes is an inspiring narrative weaving artists' reflections on success with advice to aspiring creatives. Featuring direct quotes and exclusive interviews with internationally acclaimed artists such as Anish Kapoor, Shirin Neshat, Tracey Emin, Jesse Darling, and Shahzia Sikander, this book offers authoritative counsel on how to thrive in a highly competitive art world as well as thoughtful insights on what it means to be an...

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Woodman (Author)The sixth volume in Lee Woodman's renowned Scapes series, Colorscapes is a veritable celebration of the colors of Woodman's life. As a child living in India, she absorbed the rich and colorful fruits and spices in the marketplace and the wild combos of yellows, greens, and purples in women's saris. Studying studio art and art history in college, she encountered color theory and the phenomenology of perception. Throughout her career came oppo...

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Report copyright infringementby Pier Paolo Pasolini (Author), Elizabeth a. Castelli (Translator), Alain Badiou (Preface by)Presented here for the first time in English is a remarkable screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, legendary filmmaker, novelist, poet, and radical intellectual activist. Written between the appearance of his renowned film Teorema and the shocking, controversial Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, St Paul was deemed too risky for investors. At once a polit...

William Bartram's Visual Wonders: The Drawings of an American Naturalist

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth A. Athens (Author)Winner, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia 2024 Literary Award for Nonfiction Pennsylvania naturalist William Bartram (1739-1823) is best known as the author of a travelogue describing his botanizing journey through the American South in the late eighteenth century. Writing was not, however, Bartram's only or even preferred method of recording the natural world around him. His deeply unconventional drawings, depicting sentient plants and ...