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Alfred Sisley: Impressionist Master
Mary Anne Stevens · Editions Hazan, Paris
Pages: 191
Format: Hardcover
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Born in Paris to British parents, Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) abandoned his business studies early on in order to pursue training as a landscape artist and has become admired for his characteristic subtlety and highly restrained approach to painting. This beautiful publication offers an overdue... |
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Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave
Hokusai Katsushika · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A major publication on Hokusai's remarkable late work, incorporating fresh scholarship on the sublime paintings and prints the artist created in the last thirty years of his life An acknowledged master during his lifetime, Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life,... |
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Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood
Grayson Perry · Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Grayson Perry's book will overturn everything you thought you knew about "art"Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called this book Playing to the Gallery... |
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The Best American Infographics 2016
Gareth Cook · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 180
Format: Print book
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"When it comes to infographics ... the best work in this field grabs those eyes, keeps them glued, and the grip is sensual - and often immediate. A good graphic says 'See what I see!' and either you do or you don't. The best ones ... pull you right in, and won't let you go."... |
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Imagine A Forest: Designs and Inspirations for Enchanting Folk Art
Dinara Mirtalipova · Rock Point
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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Imagine A Forest explores the unique style of illustrator Dinara Mirtalipova, which is rooted in the rich traditions of Eastern European folklore. This design guide features instructions and tips on how to draw your own beautiful art in a modern folklore style. Create charming flowers,... |
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The First Signs: My Quest to Unlock the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
Genevieve Von Petzinger · Atria Books
Pages: 307
Format: Print book
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"One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey's paradigm-shattering Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world-- the first indications of symbolic meaning,... |
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Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain
Marc Morris · Pegasus Books
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of The Norman Conquest and A Great and Terrible King comes a sweeping and stunning history of the most magnificent castles in Britain. Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris... |
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Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined
Ron Miller · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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How have actual spaceships influenced the design of fictional ones like the Millenium Falcon and the Starship Enterprise? Did a fiction series in Collier's magazine really inspire us to create real-life space stations like Mir and the ISS? How have our depictions of space travel developed... |
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Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
ANN POWERS · Dey Street Books
Pages: 418
Format: Hardcover
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In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.In... |
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Windows on the World: Fifty Writers, Fifty Views
Matteo Pericoli · Penguin Press HC, The
Format: Hardcover
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Fifty of the world’s greatest writers share their views in collaboration with the artist Matteo Pericoli, expanding our own views on place, creativity, and the meaning of homeAll of us, at some point in our daily lives, have found ourselves looking out the window. We pause in... |
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Photography Exposure
David Prakel · Fairchild Books
Pages: 183
Format: Print book
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Photography Exposure, 2nd edition, is a comprehensive guide to the theory of exposure, explaining the fundamental relationship between the photographic image and the effects of light intensity and duration.It describes the use of lens aperture and depth of field in relation to exposure... |
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How to Draw Dogs and Puppies: A Complete Guide for Beginners
J C Amberlyn · The Monacelli Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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ART AND DOGS COME TOGETHER IN THIS RICHLY ILLUSTRATED, IN-DEPTH GUIDE TO CREATING CHARMING PORTRAITS OF DOGS BIG AND SMALLHow to Draw Dogs and Puppies continues a rich tradition of dogs in art. In this step-by-step guide to drawing over 100 different breeds and mixed breeds of dogs and puppies... |
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