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• Lust for Life
  
  No artist has been more ruthlessly driven by his creative urge, nor more isolated by it from most ordinary sources of human happiness, than Vincent Van Gogh. A painter of genius, his life was an incessant struggle against poverty, discouragement, madness and despair.
• Chinese Ceramics: From the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty (The Culture & Civilization of China)
  
  This lavishly illustrated catalogue is a comprehensive historical review of Chinese ceramics covering newly excavated discoveries from the Paleolithic era thousands of years ago to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911.
• Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (Peabody Essex Museum)
  
  Golden accompanies the first major exhibition in the United States of one of the finest private collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings in the world, assembled over the past two decades by Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo.
• Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter
  
  “Gee, Joan, if only you were French and male and dead.” —New York art dealer to Joan Mitchell, the 1950sShe was a steel heiress from the Midwest—Chicago and Lake Forest (her grandfather built Chicago’s bridges and worked for Andrew Carnegie).
• Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico
  
  Primarily a catalog of ancient motifs contains over 760 vigorous, powerful, stark designs from pre-Columbian clay stamps made by Aztecs, Maya, Zapotecs, Toltec, Olmec, Mixtec. Depictions of serpents, gods, priests, dancers, florals, geometrics, more.
• The Dore Bible Illustrations
  
  Detailed plates from the Bible: the Creation scenes, Adam and Eve, horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their monumental crowds, depictions of the life of Jesus and visions of the new Jerusalem.
• Gothic and Old English Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts (Dover Pictorial Archives)
  
  100 royalty-free alphabets: Blackstone, Dolbey, Germania, 97 more — with many lowercases, numerals, punctuation marks.
• David Hockney (World of Art)
  
  The relationship between art and life has been of overriding importance in the work of David Hockney. This study traces these connections from the beginning of the artist's career in the early 1960s through to the more recent works that have contributed to Hockney's international reputation.
• Framing America: A Social History of American Art (Second Edition)
  
  "Determinedly and liberatingly inclusive...satisfying and beautifully produced."—Publishers WeeklyThis enlarged vision of American art draws together the many strands of North America's history and visual culture.
• Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting
  
  Vitamin P is an image-heavy book offering an overview of the state of painting today, and documents the most recent concerns and ideas among contemporary painters. In the wake of new media such as installation, video, performance and digital art, the traditional medium of painting has enjoyed a rena...
• Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing (Themes)
  
  Emma Dexter's introductory text offers a critical account of the recent evolution and role of drawing in the art world, and introduces some of the trends, methods and artists included in the book.
• Gonzo: The Art
  
  Gonzo: The Art
• M.C. Escher: His Life and Complete Graphic Work (With a Fully Illustrated Catalogue)
  
  M.C. Escher: His Life and Complete Graphic Work (With a Fully Illustrated Catalogue)
• David Choe
  
  This dynamic monograph captures the frenetic raw energy and gorgeous, intense work of gallery and street artist David Choe. From dropping out of art school to a stint in Japanese prison to representation by the Lazarides Gallery alongside Banksy, Choe's wild ride through the art world is represented...
• Thomas Demand
  
  German artist Thomas Demand occupies a singular position in the world of photography. Initially he took up photography to record his ephemeral paper constructions, but in 1993 he turned the tables by making constructions in order to photograph them.
• Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey
  
  This unique series of paintings takes the viewer on a graphic, visionary journey through the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual anatomy of the self. From anatomically correct rendering of the body systems, Grey moves to the spiritual/energetic systems with such images as "Universal Mind Lattice,"...
• Drawing Autism
  
  Although autism was first identified in 1943, the last decade has seen the complex neurobiological disorder become a topic of conversation the world over. Knowing no racial, ethnic or social barriers, today autism is diagnosed in 1 in every 150 children, with boys four times more likely to be autist...
• The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are
  
  When Danny Gregory's life was turned upside down by tragedy, he learned to cope by teaching himself to draw. The result was a complete transformation of his life, his priorities, his career, and the way he saw the world.

  • ISBN13: 9781401307929
  • Condition: New
• Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali & the Artists of Optical Illusion
  
  Rings of seahorses that seem to rotate on the page. Butterflies that transform right before your eyes into two warriors with their horses. A mosaic portrait of oceanographer Jacques Cousteau made from seashells.
• Artist's Journal Workshop: Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures
  
  Based on her own 40 years' experience in keeping an artist's journal, Cathy Johnson knows that an artist's creative life can benefit from written and visual explanations and experiments.
• The Book As Art
  
  Women have been pioneers in the field of book arts, crafting intimate and insightful works that blend word, image, and media together in exciting and unique ways. Whether produced as one-offs or manufactured in serial form, these volumes share a wonderful craft aspect that has broad appeal to fellow...
• How to Make a Journal of Your Life
  
  When nomad artist and free spirit Dan Price began jotting down his musings in the form of whimsical drawings and inspired prose, he hardly could have imagined that his self-published journal-zine, the MOONLIGHT CHRONICLES, would earn him a cult following across the country.
• Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art
  
  Longtime skateboard artist Sean Cliver put together this staggering survey of over 1,000 skateboard graphics from the last 30 years, creating an indispensable insiders' history as he did so.Alongside his own history, Sean has assembled a wealth of recollections and stories from prominent artists and...
• An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers
  
  An Illustrated Life offers a sneak peak into the wildly creative imaginations of top illustrators, designers and artists from around the world through the pages of their personal visual journals.

  • ISBN13: 9781600610868
  • Condition: New
• The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher [25th Anniversary Edition]
  
  "A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madame, if that's the way you see it, so be it, '" An engagingly sly comment by the renowned Dutch graphic artist M...
• The Golden Age of Advertising - The 70s (Taschen 25)
  
  Both eclipsed and influenced by television, American print ads of the 1970s departed from the bold, graphic forms and subtle messages that were typical of their sixties counterparts.
• The Art of Alex Gross: Paintings and Other Works
  
  Surrealist artist Alex Gross features striking, dreamlike imagery that transcends category. Gross paints a haunting m lange of fairytale, allegory, history, and pop culture, fusing eastern and western aesthetics in an ethereal world populated by kimono-clad Japanese women and lost Victorian dandies.
• Street Scene: How To Draw Graffiti-Style
  
  Create your own slammin', street-smart comic art! Contains 28 step-by-step demonstrations in an edgy, high-impact style. Whether you're an aspiring comic-artist or you just wanna have fun drawing ... this book shows you how to rock it out in your own gritty, graffiti-influenced style.
• Picasso & Lump: A Dachshund's Odyssey
  
  One spring morning in 1957, veteran photojournalist David Douglas Duncan paid a visit to his friend and frequent photographic subject Pablo Picasso, at the artistÕs villa near Cannes. As copilot alongside Duncan in his Mercedes Gullwing 300 SL was the photographerÕs dachshund, Lump.