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The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing Animals: More than 200 drawing techniques, tips & lessons for rendering lifelike animals in graphite and colored pencil

Walter Foster Creative Team. · Walter Foster Pub
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

With helpful tips and easy to follow step-by-step lessons, The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing Animals is the perfect resource for artists looking to hone their drawing style and technique. The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing Animals starts with a thorough introduction...
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What Is Left Behind: Stories From Estate Sales

Norm Diamond · Daylight Books
Pages: 111
Format: Hardcover

Norm Diamond has visited countless estate sales, photographing objects that evoke sadness, humor, and ironic commentary on our cultural history. The articles defy conventional expectations: a science project from 1939, a century-old letter from a rejected lover, and a complete collection...
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Block City: Incredible Minecraft Worlds: How to Build Like a Minecraft Master

Kirsten Kearney · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Print book

Minecraft - a humble computer game about placing blocks - is a global phenomenon that has captured the imagination of more than 36 million players around the world. Often described as a digital version of LEGO, Minecraft offers an open-ended playing field where players design and build...
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Guitar All-In-One For Dummies, Book + Online Video & Audio Instruction

Jon Chappell · For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Print book

Make your music come alive with this indispensable guitar guide There's no denying that guitar players have cachet. The guitar is an ever-present part of our collective musical heritage, and the sound can be sensual, aggressive, or a million things in between. Whether you're hoping...
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The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement

Nate Parker · 37 Ink
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

This official tie-in to the highly acclaimed film, The Birth of a Nation, surveys the history and legacy of Nat Turner, the leader of one of the most renowned slave rebellions on American soil, while also exploring Turner's relevance to contemporary dialogues on race relations.Based...
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Renoir: Intimacy

Guillermo Solana · Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Pages: 197
Format: Hardcover

Renoir used volume and texture to conjure intimacy -- from social intimacy among family and friends, to the eroticThe filmmaker Jean Renoir, son of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, described how his father "looked at flowers, women and clouds in the sky as other men touch...
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A Sentimental Christmas Book

Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation · Hal Leonard
Pages: 127
Format: Paperback

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . An outstanding collection of nearly 30 beloved Christmas favorites, including: All I Want for Christmas Is You * Blue Christmas * Christmas Lights * The Christmas Shoes * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Christmas Time Is Here...
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Richard Filipowski: Art and Design Beyond the Bauhaus

Richard Filipowski · The Monacelli Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

In this, the first monograph of Richard Filipowski, a major figure bridging the Bauhaus and American midcentury modernism finally gets his due.Richard Filipowski (1923-2008) was among the most gifted polymaths in the annals of American modernism. Whether as a painter, sculptor, or designer...
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Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005–2016

Annie Leibovitz · Phaidon Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

In this new collection from Annie Leibovitz, one of the most influential photographers of our time, iconic portraits sit side by side never-before-published photographs. Afterword by Annie Leibovitz.Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016 is the photographer's follow-up to her two landmark...
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Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

Jonathan Petropoulos · Yale University Press; First Edition /First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

"What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime?" Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third Reich. In his nuanced analysis...
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Art in detail : 100 masterpieces.

Susie Hodge · W W Norton
Format:  Print book : English

A comprehensive yet accessible sourcebook for curators and amateurs alike that examines the finer points of 100 well-known works of artGreat paintings cannot be fully understood in a single encounter. Art lovers want to revisit and reconsider the masterpieces again and again throughout...
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México 1900–1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde

Agusti?n Arteaga · Dallas Museum of Art
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

México 1900-1950 offers an unprecedented survey of Mexican art from the turn of the century through the Revolution (1910-20) and until the early 1950s. It examines key works across different mediums by major Mexican artists, including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and José Clemente Orozco,...
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The Photographer's Black and White Handbook: Making and Processing Stunning Digital Black and White Photos

Harold Davis · Monacelli Studio
Pages: 239
Format: Paperback

The Photographer's Black & White Handbook is your complete guide to making and processing stunning black and white photos in the digital era. You'll find inspiration, ideas, techniques, and tools to use in your black and white photography, along with a soup-to-nuts workflow...
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Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions: 1983 and 1984

Duane Tudahl · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 420
Format: Hardcover

Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions pulls back the paisley curtain to reveal the untold story of Prince's rise from cult favorite to the biggest rock star on the planet. His journey is meticulously documented through detailed accounts of his time secluded behind the doors...
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Infinite Wonder: An Astronaut's Photographs from a Year in Space

Scott Kelly · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the record-breaking astronaut, national hero, and best-selling author of Endurance, a breathtaking collection of photos documenting his journey on the International Space Station, the vastness of space, and the unparalleled beauty of our own home planet.One's perspective shifts when...
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