Handmade Tiles

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Step-by-step advice and instruction, together with finished samples of some of the best handmade tiles from around the world, are combined in this practical introduction to a popular craft.... More >>

Handmade Tiles

Left-handed Calligraphy

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From an award-winning calligrapher and well-known arts educator and author: a generously illustrated text offering full coverage of the art of calligraphy from the left-handed writer's point of view, presenting every facet of the subject, from correct hand, pen and nib positions to composition and page layout.
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Left-handed Calligraphy

Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo-e: Sex, Blood & the Supernatural

• ISBN13: 9781840683011
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UKIYO-E images from the floating world were the most popular art-form of 19th century Japan. Like modern-day manga, these prints could be mass-produced and were admired by people from all sectors of society; and as in manga, the art of ukiyo-e included significant sub-genres dealing in violence. erotica and horror. With unflinching images of weird sex, bloody carnage and grotesque, demonic ghosts, DREAM SPECTRES is a powerful collection of the extremes of ukiyo-e, f... More >>

Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo-e: Sex, Blood & the Supernatural

Breyer Animal Collector's Guide: Identification and Values

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This second edition will prove popular, with a gallery of over 500 colour photos, dates, value ranges, and other vital information about virtually every Breyer animal made to date, including special run models. It also gives the collector information on the hobby, the company, molds, and showing horses in contests.... More >>

Breyer Animal Collector's Guide: Identification and Values

Easy Mosaics for Your Home and Garden

• ISBN13: 9781581801293
• Condition: USED - Very Good
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Crafters, artists, gardeners, home decorators and parents looking for easy and attractive projects are sure to love this collection of 20 stylish and sophisticated mosaic designs that are surprisingly easy to make. From stepping stones and planters to wall plaques and sundials, readers will find all the guidance they need to jump right in and begin creating. There's no glass to cut, and no messy grouting. Readers simply mix, pour and embed. From unusual garden cri... More >>

Easy Mosaics for Your Home and Garden

Getting Close

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A group of young people get closer and closer, experiencing some mind-blowing explorations in sexuality and relationships. Beautifully hot and intense and also very heartfelt writing as the best-selling Gambedotti does not fail to provide.... More >>

Getting Close

Altered Books Workshop: 18 Creative Techniques for Self-Expression

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Transform old books into one-of-a-kind pieces of art with Altered Books Workshop! In this book, readers receive detailed instructions for the newest craft trend - altered books - which combines bookmaking, collage, journaling, rubber stamping, papercrafting, stitching, embellishing and much more. Readers will discover how to construct each page of the book, using paint, decoupage, ribbon fibers, photos, charms, rubber stamps or anything that captures their imaginati... More >>

Altered Books Workshop: 18 Creative Techniques for Self-Expression

The Illuminated Haggadah

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Reflecting its Talmudic ancestry, this illuminated Haggadah contains Jewish stories and traditions, and is also a prayerbook made for use. It tells the story of release from persecution and slavery into freedom and a new life. It is as relevant today as when it was written, over 2000 years ago. The Exodux of the Children of Israel from Egypt is a pivotal event in the Bible, celebrated today in books, plays and films. Each year, during the festival of Passover, Jewis... More >>

The Illuminated Haggadah

The Old House Journal Compendium

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When Clem Labine and his family abandoned Manhattan for an old brownstone in Brooklyn, Labine decided to launch a newsletter about the restoration and maintenance of antique houses. From these humble beginnings, The Old-House Journal grew until it had many thousands of subscribers in all fifty states. Since its first publication in 1980, The Old-House Journal Compendium has been the go-to guide for anyone looking to buy, restore, or maintain an old house. This new... More >>

The Old House Journal Compendium

Royal Doulton Figurines : A Charlton Standard Catalogue

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Now current to 2003 the "bible" of Royal Doulton Figurines is now in its 8th edition. Four new eight-page colour sections are interdisbursed throughout the catalogue. Over 3500 figures are listed, illustrated and priced in three major currencies. Further reading, backstamps, and where to buy are just a few of the topics covered in the introduction.... More >>

Royal Doulton Figurines : A Charlton Standard Catalogue

Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage

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Human heads on animal bodies, people in fanciful landscapes, faces that are deftly morphed into common household objects—these are among the Victorian experiments in photocollage seen and explained in this marvelous book. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale, these images flouted the serious conventions of photography in the 1860s and 1870s. Often made by women for albums, they reveal the educated minds and accomplished hands of their makers, taking ... More >>

Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage

Gordon Matta-Clark

• ISBN13: 9780714845876
• Condition: New
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After studying architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark developed more interest in buildings about to be destroyed than in the ones about to be built, as most architects would. He first forced his way into abandoned apartment buildings in the Bronx , and using a chain saw, would act as an architecture pirate, cutting pieces of walls and floors, only to leave behind the remains of what once was architecture. From pieces of walls his work shifted, in 1974, to t... More >>

Gordon Matta-Clark

The Art of Polymer Clay: Designs and Techniques for Making Jewelry, Pottery, and Decorative Artwork

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The only book on polymer clay not limited to a single application, this step-by-step resource includes well-illustrated project instructions for earrings, bead bracelets, napkin rings, candlesticks, animal figurines, and even a birdhouse. 200 color illustrations.Amazon.com Review
Available in a tremendous array of colors and easily cured by baking in a home oven, polymer clay is a unique medium for creating a variety of beautiful items. In The Art of P... More >>

The Art of Polymer Clay: Designs and Techniques for Making Jewelry, Pottery, and Decorative Artwork

Imagining the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500

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From around 1250 to the close of the fifteenth century, the most important and original work being done in secular illumination was unquestionably in French vernacular history manuscripts. This volume celebrates the vivid historical imagery produced during these years by bringing together some of the finest masterpieces of illumination created in the Middle Ages. It is the first major publication to focus on exploring the ways in which text and illumination worked ... More >>

Imagining the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500

The Disasters of War

• ISBN13: 9780486218724
• Condition: New
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Visual indictment of war's horrors, modeled after Spanish insurrection (1808), the resultant Peninsular War and following famine. Miseries of war graphically demonstrated in 83 prints; includes veiled attacks on various people, the Church and the State. Captions reprinted with English translations.
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The Disasters of War

Paper Clay

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Paper clay is an exciting development in the ceramics field. It is easy to use, extremely strong in the unfired state, easy to repair at nearly every stage of the forming process, and the final glazed and fired result can be indistinguishable from that using conventional clay. Yet the result is much lighter than normal. This feature is particularly useful for wall installations and delicate sculptural forms. All in all, paper clay is a flexible technique that provid... More >>

Paper Clay

Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook

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A rich and comprehensive sourcebook, Pottery Analysis draws together diverse approaches to the study of pottery—archaeological, ethnographic, stylistic, functional, and physicochemical. Prudence M. Rice uses pottery as a starting point for insights into people and culture and examines in detail the methods for studying these fired clay vessels that have been used worldwide from prehistoric times to the present. Pottery Analysis is a classic in its field as well as... More >>

Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook

1000 Journals Project

• ISBN13: 9780811858564
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Voyeuristic. Inspirational. Entertaining. One thousand blank journals are currently circulating throughout the world, beckoning contributors who find the journals by chance on trains, in caf s, and anonymously left on doorsteps. Artist Someguy shares more than 250 of the best entries: a collage of African countries repositioned into a new continent; the musings of a teen trapped in a drug- ravaged community; a student's humorous personal ad for his ideal girlfriend ... More >>

1000 Journals Project

Nature Illuminated: Flora and Fauna from the Court of Emperor Rudolf II

• ISBN13: 9780892364725
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The court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II produced nothing more amazing than the Mira calligraphiae monumenta, a brilliant demonstration of two arts--calligraphy and miniature painting. The project began when Rudolf's predecessor, Ferdinand I, commissioned master calligrapher Georg Bocskay to create a model book of calligraphy. A preeminent scribe, Bocskay assembled a vast selection of contemporary and historic scripts.

Years later, at Rudolf's behest, mi... More >>

Nature Illuminated: Flora and Fauna from the Court of Emperor Rudolf II

Conceptual Art

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Reveals the revolution that took place when a whole generation of artists experimented with the idea of art as an idea. Shows how artists such as Robert Morris, Sol Lewitt and Marcel Broodthaers challenged traditional notions of the art object through unprecedented use of language, actions, processes and forms derived from mass media.... More >>

Conceptual Art

Canvas Remix: Techniques For Creating Mixed-Media Accessories

• ISBN13: 9781600610752
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Strong colour, bold lines and funky ideas combine to introduce the reader to forty-five techniques and twenty-five projects using paint, collage and canvas.After a brief introduction to working with canvas (including stretching canvas, working with raw, unstretched canvas, working with a variety of paint, and several applications - blending colour, glazing, spattering, distressing), the reader will take their painted canvas to the next level with hand-carved stamps,... More >>

Canvas Remix: Techniques For Creating Mixed-Media Accessories

Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas

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Denis Wood has created an atlas unlike any other. From mapping radio waves permeating the air to Halloween pumpkins on porches, Wood's joyful subversion of the traditional notions of mapmaking forge new ways of seeing not only the particular, but also the very nature of place itself. Surveying his century-old, half-square mile neighborhood Boylan Heights in Raleigh, North Carolina, Wood searches for the revelatory details in what has never been mapped or may not ev... More >>

Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas

Collage, Colour and Texture in Painting

• ISBN13: 9781906388577
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Ever since the pioneering collages of Picasso and Braque, mixed media works have held a respected place in fine art painting. Now award-winning painter Mike Bernard offers artists a hands-on introduction to the boundless possibilities opened up by combining paint with abstract paper shapes, textured papers, newspaper clippings, fabrics, and other unusual materials. With step-by-step photographs of several works in the making, he takes the reader inside the creative ... More >>

Collage, Colour and Texture in Painting

The Ceramic Spectrum: A Simplified Approach to Glaze & Color Development

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This is the book ceramists have been waiting for. Eighteen years after its first edition, Robin Hopper has updated what has become a staple for all potters and ceramists. With several new or expanded chapters covering Oriental glazes, Islamic lusters, Egyptian pastes, high texture glazes, flux variation triaxial and extended color information, among other topics, this new edition is a must-have for any ceramist or potter. The book is easy to read, follow and unde... More >>

The Ceramic Spectrum: A Simplified Approach to Glaze & Color Development

Bigger Than Life

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Hardcore porn-both the straight and gay varieties-entered mainstream American culture in the 1970s as the sexual revolution swept away many of the cultural inhibitions and legal restraints on explicit sexual expression. The first porn movie ever to be reviewed by Variety, the entertainment industry-s leading trade journal, was Wakefield Poole-s Boys in the Sand (1971), a sexually-explicit gay movie shot on Fire Island with a budget of $4000. Moviegoers, celebrities ... More >>

Bigger Than Life

Art of Seeing, The

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The Art of Seeing explores traditional and contemporary art and artistic media focusing on art as seen from the artist's point of view.  The book introduces students to artistic techniques and introductory aesthetic principles. It provides clear, concise presentation, superb illustrations, and strong emphasis on the elements and media. ... More >>

Art of Seeing, The

Cynthia Hart's Victoriana Calendar 2010

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A perennial favorite, the Victoriana Calendar dazzles with every glance. Showcasing a dozen lush and lively collages, each evoking tradition and comforting thoughts of home and family, it is a joyful feast for the imagination and spirit. Cynthia Hart's eye for intricate details is simply unmatched. She layers charming antique paper ephemera, gorgeous fresh blooms, old-fashioned jewelry, and luxuriant ribbons and fabrics for vibrant, one-of-a-kind compositions. Lavis... More >>

Cynthia Hart's Victoriana Calendar 2010

Andrew Kuo: What Me Worry

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Repurposing the sad, comical and seemingly trivial minutiae of everyday life into pie charts, flow charts and other forms of visual data sorting, New York-based artist Andrew Kuo transforms the idlest of days into a witty analysis in color and pattern. Among the many itemizations he has rendered into charts: "Some Things I am Scared of in November 2007"; "My Ideal Slacker Tuesday on March 27, 2008"; "Being Accused of Being an Asshole (Via Instant Messager) on June 2... More >>

Andrew Kuo: What Me Worry