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Reflections from the Shining Brow: My Years With Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Lazovich

Kamal Amin - Fithian Press
Format: Print book

Kamal Amin, a young architect from Cairo, come to America to serve as an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright. When he arrives at Taliesen, Wright's headquarters, he discovers the pervasive presence of Olgivanna Lazovich, Wright's third wife. Her spirit, as well as the spirit of her teacher,...

The Potter's Studio Handbook: A start-to-finish guide to hand-built and wheel-thrown ceramics

Kristin Muller - Crestline
Format: Print book

Pottery making and wheel throwing is a timeless craft, perfect for beginner crafters and artisans who don't mind getting their hands dirty. Even if you haven't touched clay since your childhood art class, let The Potter's Studio Handbook guide you through the process of designing...

Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood

Grayson Perry - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

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...

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms: Interiors and Decorative Arts

Margo Stipe - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 FinalistAn invitation into the evocative, human-scaled, and artful interiors designed by Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright The Rooms presents the warm interior spaces and exceptional design work of this beloved American master. Wright was an early proponent...

The Organic Artist: Make Your Own Paint, Paper, Pigments, Prints and More from Nature

Nick Neddo - Quarry Books
Format: Paperback

It's time to go back to basics! If you're interested in art, but find that it's becoming an increasingly expensive hobby, The Organic Artist is just the book for you! It encourages us all to return to those days when art was made with all-natural materials, such as charcoal...

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

John Lahr - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and Finalist for the National Book Award. The definitive biography of Americas greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker.John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams...

What Kind Of Collage Is That?

Katie Blake - Independently published
Format: Paperback

What Kind Of Collage Is That? features more than 270 Collage techniques and processes with definitions or descriptions from the artists and historians.The art we call Collage today dates back to at least as early at the 10th century with Wayang Kulit (arguably earlier with Tholu Bommatala)...

Digital SLR Photography All-in-One For Dummies

Robert Correll
Format: Paperback(4th ed.)

Upgrading to a digital SLR camera is a sign that you're serious about becoming a better photographer. A dSLR offers you control over your photography that a smartphone or a point-and-shoot can never match. It takes some know-how to make all those features work. Digital SLR Photography...

The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of the Master Forgers

Noah Charney - Phaidon Press
Format: Hardcover

The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of the Master Forgers explores the stories, dramas and human intrigues surrounding the world's most famous forgeries - investigating the motivations of the artists and criminals who have faked great works of art, and in doing so conned...

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