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Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian

Bob Saget
Format: Hardcover

He is the sweetly neurotic father on the smash hit Full House . . .The charming, wisecracking host of America's Funniest Home Videos . . .The scatological, out-of-his-mind stand-up comic from Entourage and The Aristocrats . . .He is Bob Saget, and in Dirty Daddy he delivers uproarious,...
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The Artists Who Will Change the World

Omar Kholeif · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

This cutting-edge book is the essential guide to what's next in contemporary art, and to the visionaries who are making it happen. Traditional histories of art have often been confined to a western European framework. But with the birth of contemporary museum culture, the proliferation...
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Art, Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist

Lisa Congdon · Chronicle Books
Format: Print book

You don't have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love. In this practical guide, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art - through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching, and beyond. Including...
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Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez

Lawrence Weschler · Harry N Abrams
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Award-winning author Lawrence Weschler's book on the young Mexican American artist Ramiro Gomez explores questions of social equity and the chasms between cultures and classes in America. Gomez, born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California, to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents,...
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Just Paint It!: The World's Most Enjoyable Painting Course. Ever!

Sam Piyasena · Barron's Educational Series
Format: Hardcover

For anyone who has ever gazed longingly at a set of artists paints and brushes in a store and wished that they knew where to begin, this is the book for them. This companion to Barrons Just Draw It! relies on the belief that anyone can paint, and encourages readers to not only learn, but to experiment...
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Painting Portraits and Figures in Watercolor

Mary Whyte · Watson-Guptill; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Using clear and concise language and in-depth, step-by-step demonstrations, author and renowned artist Mary Whyte guides beginning and intermediate watercolorists through the entire painting process, from selecting materials to fundamental techniques to working with models. Going beyond...
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The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Mark Salisbury · Harper Design
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Take a front-row seat and witness the filmmaking magic that brought J.K. Rowling's script for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to the screen. Explore the realm of fantastical creatures that roam the wizarding world and discover the magical cast of characters in pursuit of them.Officially...
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Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them

Nancy Marie Brown · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's...
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A-Z of Bird Portraits: In Acrylics

Andrew Forkner · Search Press
Format: Hardcover

Andrew Forkners book provides you with all you need to paint a range of birds in acrylics taking in birds of prey, songbirds and waterbirds from all over the world including Europe, the USA, Asia, the UK and Australia. It contains information on the materials and preparation you will need...
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The Art of the Italian Renaissance: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting

Rolf Toman. · Ullmann Publishing, 2015.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

The Italian Renaissance is among the most glamorousepochs of European art. Art historians as well as a widepublic are fascinated by three centuries of exceptionallyprolific artistic creation that produced works ofinternational fame such as Michelangelo's frescos in theSistine Chapel....
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The Sci-Fi Movie Guide: The Universe of Film from Alien to Zardoz

Chris Barsanti · Visible Ink Press; Second Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction...
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The Art of Reading: An Illustrated History of Books in Paint

Jamie Camplin · Getty Publications
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"Why do artists love books?" This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. First looking at the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist,...
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Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty

Elizabeth Mitchell · Atlantic Monthly Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable monuments in the world, a powerful symbol of freedom and the American dream. For decades, the myth has persisted that the statue was a grand gift from France, but now Libertys Torch reveals how she was in fact the pet project of one quixotic...
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My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

Kate Betts · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A charming and insightful memoir about coming of age as a fashion journalist in 1980s Paris, by former Vogue and Harper's Bazaar editor Kate Betts, the author of Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style"You can always come back," my mother said. "Just go."...
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