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Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books, in association with British Museum Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
'African Textiles Today' shows how ideas, techniques, materials and markets have adapted and flourished, and how the dynamic traditions in African textiles have provided inspiration for the continents foremost contemporary artists and photographers.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A Middle-earth Traveler is an illustrated guide to J.R.R. Tolkien's most famous creation, with lavish art showing the many locations and characters the author described in his classic novels, along with notes on their importance to the world"--
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
With a gift for fine art and a lifelong love of nature, Daniele paints magnificent animal subjects on an unconventional canvas--human hands. This awe-inspiring collection showcases 16 creatures along with photos and factual information about the various species. Full color.
Author
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Daddy-O's Book of Big-Ass Art features images of more than a hundred of Wade's most famous pieces, complete with the wild tales that lie behind the art, told in brief essays by both Wade and more than forty noted artists and writers familiar with Wade's work"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Enter Manjit Thapp s world, where you ll find moods that change as quickly as the weather; the different shades of anxiety and hope that each new season brings; and the stages of joy and pain that fuel our growth. Come along on a gorgeous visual journey through one young woman's year of emotions - from the saturated highs of early summer to the gray isolation of late winter. Articulating and validating the range of feelings we all experience, this...
106) The words and wares of David Drake: revisiting I made this jar and the legacy of Edgefield pottery
Author
Publisher
The University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth century. Despite laws prohibiting enslaved people from learning to read or write, Drake was literate and signed some of his pots, not only with his name and a date, but with verse?making a powerful statement of resistance.0The Words and Wares of David Drake collects multifaceted scholarship about Drake and his craft. Building on...
Author
Publisher
Graffito Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Following on "Steampunk Fashion" and "Steampunk Jewelry" comes the serious survey that steampunk art merits. Paradoxically, the astonishing flights of imagination resulting in the most memorable images of the steampunk movement have only been possible due to the advances in digital design packages of the last few years. The astonishing, mind-warping work of 30 of the best of these steampunk artists is featured, including Kevin Mowrer, Guillaume Dubois,...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful visual record of an unprecedented time, following the headlines from the first appearance of the coronavirus to the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Made in real time, Elise Engler's vibrant, immediate images recapture what it was like to live through 2020, bringing texture, feeling, and even charm to what we might not remember and what we will never forget"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A literary self-help memoir about using the Russian Classics to find the answer to life's most important questions.Viv Groskop has discovered the meaning of life in Russian literature. As she knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened in life has already happened in these novels: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina) to being in love with someone who doesn't love you back enough (The Master and Margarita),or...
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip--and the life lessons it can teach us--from a stellar array of writers and artists. Over the span of fifty years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture--hilarious, poignant, inimitable. Some twenty years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions...
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world. Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted. The foundations of the fine art world are shaking. Beyoncé and Jay-Z break the internet by blending modern Black culture with fine art in their iconic music video filmed in the Louvre. Kehinde Wiley powerfully subverts European masterworks. Calls resonate for diversity in museums and the resignations...
Author
Publisher
Mixed Media Resources
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"What makes you happy? Whatever it is, draw it, with the help of Christopher Hart, the world's top-selling author of art instruction books! Whether it's an adorable pet, the trip of a lifetime, or an everyday moment to savor (like your morning cup of coffee or buying a cute pair of shoes), this book celebrates the many things that make you happy--and helps you turn them into fun-filled drawings. An enlightening introduction explains how to create...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Blair goes beyond the nuts and bolts of furniture refinishing to show how to style rooms with each customized piece. For instance, she transforms a well-worn coffee table with a painted ombré design, and then reveals how to incorporate it into a bright and sunny den, a cozy reading nook, and a cheerful bedroom. With instructions for 15 before-and-after furniture projects--dressers, tables, beds, armoire, and more--in Blair's signature bold style,...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Peek inside the sketchbooks of 60 historical and contemporary illustrators from around the world. This inspiring collection spotlights the power of personal notebooks in the creative process. It contains a treasury of rough sketches, note-filled margins, collaged pages, color explorations, and thumbnail drawings from an array of iconic illustrators. Each artist's work is expertly contextualized and offers a glimpse into the origins of memorable characters,...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A dreamer's tree house. A mechanic's cottage. A submerged city. Over thirty imaginative houses and the people who make them home offer unexpected worlds to wander through and explore. Who is the mischievous bridgetower keeper? What does the witch grow in her garden? How does the postal worker tame his delivery dragons? In each house, readers discover the contents of rooms and closets, what's at the top of the stairs and where shadowy hallways lead....
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This volume of poetry takes its title from Rembrandt's painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence, and the viewer's troubled gaze. The collection shatters the notion of a still life, and presents the painting in pieces. With invention and irreverence, the poems escape their gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class, and luxury. Details from this gallery of lives in shards hide more than they reveal, like fragmented...
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