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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings

Kathryn Calley Galitz · Skira
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

In line with best-selling The Louvre: All the Paintings, and Rizzoli's successful The Hermitage Collections and The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks, this title offers an exquisite tour, unique in its lavish illustration, scholarship, extent, and graceful packaging. As the first large...
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Botanical Sketchbooks

Helen Bynum · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Recording the world of plant and animal life and documenting the strange beauty of the natural world have been human passions ever since the first cave paintings. While there are many histories of botanical art featuring beautiful paintings and finished drawings, the artists' preparatory...
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Visual Thinking: Empowering People & Organizations Through Visual Collaboration

BRAND WILLEMIEN. · BIS Publishers
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Visual thinking and drawing are both becoming increasingly important in today's business settings. A picture really can tell a thousand words. Visualisation is a crucial part of the journey for companies seeking to boost enterprise agility, break down silos and increase employee and customer...
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Building Your Home: A Simple Guide to Making Good Decisions

KRISTINA LEIGH WIGGINS · Brown Books Publishing Group
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

In this smart and witty guide to building a home while keeping your sanity, architect Kristina Leigh Wiggins shares knowledge accumulated from years of experience as a project manager, and explains how to stay organized when creating or remodeling your home. With advice on topics ranging...
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Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen

Noel E Monk · Dey Street Books
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover

The manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom goes behind the scenes to tell the complete, unadulterated story of David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, and the legendary band that changed rock music.Van Halen's rise in the 1980s was one of the most thrilling the music...
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The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock

David Weigel · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The wildly entertaining story of progressive rock, the music that ruled the 1970s charts -- and has divided listeners ever since.The Show That Never Ends is the definitive story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock. Epitomized by such classic, chart-topping...
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Doctor Who: A Brief History of Time Lords

JUSTIN RICHARDS · HARPERDESIGN
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

THE book the Time Lords (including the Doctor) read when studying at the Academy, the full-color in-world history that pieces together the true story of Gallifrey from the many and contradictory accounts that survived the Last Great Time War.Doctor Who: A Brief History of Time Lords...
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The Spirit of the Brush: Chinese Brush Painting Techniques: Simplicity, Spirit, and Personal Journey

SUNSOOK HONG SETTO · Rockport Publishers
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Chinese ink painting is one of the oldest continually practiced art forms in the world. It first appeared in China in the fifth century, and soon traveled to Korea and then to Japan. As old and deeply rooted in East Asian aesthetics and meditation as it is, ink painting is credited with...
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Foundations of Drawing: A Practical Guide to Art History, Tools, Techniques, and Styles

AL GURY · Watson-Guptill
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

From a leading art instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, a complete survey of drawing as an art form covering its history, materials, and key techniques, alongside step-by-step demonstrations. Foundations of Drawing is a comprehensive and authoritative overview...
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New Mythologies in Design and Culture: Reading Signs and Symbols in the Visual Landscape

Rebecca Houze · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Taking as its point of departure Roland Barthes' classic series of essays, Mythologies, Rebecca Houze presents an exploration of signs and symbols in the visual landscape of postmodernity. In nine chapters Houze considers a range of contemporary phenomena, from the history of sustainability...
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