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"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten - certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
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Volume 4 of the art gallery of Paulo Teles (or Yonami). He has worked as a manager, leading a team of almost 40 artists, illustrating for NBA and NFL teams like the Boston Celtics, designing album covers for the future funk band Dr. Justice & the Smooth Operators and the progressive rock band - Dead Venus. He has also worked for publishers such as Marvel , Capstone, Glyph Productions, Galaxy Graphix, Dynamite, Titan Comics, TidalWave, and DC. In...
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"A lushly drawn drama of Pablo Picasso's muses, the secret love affairs that inspired some of his greatest works, and the enduring influence of love and art Alana Olson always felt connected to Pablo Picasso. Sure, as a recently graduated art historian and aspiring writer in 1950s New York, Alana was bound to encounter the most renowned artist of the era, but it was her late Italian mother's particular fascination with the man that inspired Alana's...
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"For her third monograph, Midwest Materials, Julie Blackmon has created a new body of work that sparkles with the wit, dark humor, and irony for which the artist has gained such renown. Finding insight and inspiration in the seeming monotony of her 'generic American hometown,' Blackmon constructs a captivating, fictitious world that is both playful and menacing. 'I think of myself as a visual artist working in the medium of photography,' Blackmon...
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Signs of Hope is a picture book biography of groundbreaking artist, teacher, and Catholic nun Corita Kent from critically acclaimed author Mara Rockliff, with stunning full-color art from Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet.
Let Corita teach you how to see the world in a whole new way!
Sister Corita Kent, the "pop art nun," burst onto the 1960s art scene with splashes of color and ad slogans transformed...
Let Corita teach you how to see the world in a whole new way!
Sister Corita Kent, the "pop art nun," burst onto the 1960s art scene with splashes of color and ad slogans transformed...
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"Learn to create amazing kemonomimi with authentic animal features and accessories! Long, swishing tails and pointy animal ears or maybe antlers, horns, wings and feathers if you prefer - this is the ultimate furry handbook for manga and anime artists as well as cosplay enthusiasts. Choose your favourite animal then fuse its salient features with a fabulous human form and animal-specific clothing. Shugao shows you how! She teaches you to combine authentic...
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An oversized full-color hardcover that celebrates fifteen years of the iconic Assassin's Creed video game saga!
Discover the genesis of each Assassin's Creed game and get an insider's look at the efforts that went into creating one the biggest franchises in the video game industry.
In observance of Assassin's Creed's fifteen-year anniversary, Ubisoft and Dark Horse Books have teamed up to create an extensive examination into the creation of...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey--this time burrowing deep inside the impassioned, secretive world of art and artists. An award-winning journalist obsessed with obsession, Bianca Bosker's existence was upended when she wandered into the art world--and couldn't look away. Intrigued by artists who hyperventilate around their favorite colors and art fiends who...
12) Cars and trucks
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Kids will build on basic shapes to draw ten cars and trucks in six easy steps.
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Internal Wilderness is part of an ongoing project looking at landscape and memory - our relationship with the environment, effects we have on the world and space around us, and in turn its profound effect on our own memory and emotions. On each page, illustrator Claire Scully presents an entire world that stems from a childhood memory or a future desire. Beautifully produced, this mesmerising book will take you deep into the landscapes Scully creates....
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Desolation Wilderness is part of an ongoing project looking at landscape and memory - our relationship with the environment, effects we have on the world and space around us and in turn its profound affect on our own memory and emotions. Each of these landscapes is a starting point to a much bigger adventure that strives to answer the question of what lays beyond the horizon. This book is the second part of a series that began in Internal Wilderness,...
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"From the author of the classic Watson-Guptill best seller Problem Solving for Oil Painters comes an essential guide demonstrating the universal oil painting techniques that allow artists expand their horizons, break out of ruts, and master a variety of subjects, including figures, portraits, still life, landscapes, and interiors"--
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Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the antebellum American South, Walker's compositions play off of stereotypes to portray,...
18) Art club
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"After the art programs are cut at his school, Dale Donovan recruits talented artists to create an after-school art club"--
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Create the cutest garden dwellers in ink & watercolor. Celebrate the beautiful world of backyard birds, butterflies, bumblebees and more with captivating ink and wash designs by artist and educator Camilla Damsbo Brix. With her detailed step-by-step tutorials and progress photos, Camilla makes capturing the beauty of your garden as easy as can be. In these 25 compositions, you'll master Camilla's loose, impressionist style of expressive lines and...
20) Seasons
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Short loops of Brakhage's hand-scratched and painted films strips were re-photographed, illuminated and edited by Phil Solomon. Each running from 2-5 seconds, the loops were repeated in various configurations until appropriate sequences were built to invoke a seasonal cycle, beginning in “summer” and ending in “spring.” —Phil Solomon
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