Visual Literacy: A Conceptual Approach to Solving Graphic Problems

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The task of creative visual communication is to interpret problems in a personal way while meeting the practical communicative needs of others. This book is divided into two main parts. Part 1, "Graphic Design Exercises", offers 400 original solutions to 25 design projects and problems. Each assignment is designed to promote an understanding of a fundamental design idea or principle. Part 2, "Illustration Exercises", over 200 solutions to 10 problems are presented. ... More >>

Visual Literacy: A Conceptual Approach to Solving Graphic Problems

Depression Glass: Warman's Companion

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*Illustrated with concise line drawings to show intricate details of patterns *Features a chapter on learning to spot reproductions - helpful for avoiding the frustrating and potentially costly issue of forgeries During America's darkest economic period, Depression glass, with its hundreds of patterns and wide variety of colors, became part of the marketing machine for everything from consumer goods to bank accounts. Its popularity helped stimulate... More >>

Depression Glass: Warman's Companion

Making Miniature Dolls With Polymer Clay: How to Create and Dress Period Dolls in 1/12 Scale

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Guided by the imagination and expertise of polymer-clay expert, Sue Heaser, this book shows the reader how to create unique and beautiful miniature dolls, perfect as gifts or for adding to your doll's house.... More >>

Making Miniature Dolls With Polymer Clay: How to Create and Dress Period Dolls in 1/12 Scale

Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts

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"The dual task here is to listen through history to sound and through sound to history." This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it--to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries. Focusing on Europe in the first h... More >>

Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts

Micro Mosaics

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Mini Mosaics features a stunning collection of jewelry and accessory projects, all made using delicate mini mosaic tiles and a variety of other jewelry finds. The author uses a new, super lightweight resin tile to create beautiful pieces like earrings, bracelets, necklaces and more, plus the portability of these projects will allow you to experiment with mosaics on a smaller scale. Step-by-step instructions and full-color photography show you how to easily combine m... More >>

Micro Mosaics

Bon Appétit 2011 Calendar

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Presenting the world of food depicted in charming vintage posters. Enhance any room in the home with a touch of nostalgia and European style with these wonderful graphic images from the early to mid-1900s. Traditional cooks, food fanatics, and people who just love to be in the kitchen will especially find this calendar a delight. Months and days are in both English and French.... More >>

Bon Appétit 2011 Calendar

Hokusai: Prints and Drawings

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This volume includes full-color reproductions of drawings and woodblock prints by Japan's most beloved artist. These landscapes-including his famous views of Mount Fuji- portraits of lovers and kabuki actors, nature and animal illustrations, as well as scenes of daily life in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Japan reveal the artist's genius for rendering a wide variety of subjects. Matthi Forrer discusses in his essay Hokusai's life and lasting popularity while pla... More >>

Hokusai: Prints and Drawings

Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library

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Throughout history, people have assembled albums that record their lives and the world around them. Among the most remarkable of all albums ever created are those made in the years 1600-1657 for the emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan. The Mughal dynasty ruled India for more than three centuries, but the period of greatest artistic production was that of these two great emperors, and the albums of paintings and calligraphy (called muraqqa' in Persian), that they assem... More >>

Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library

Wade Miniatures: An Unauthorized Guide to Whimsies, Premiums, Villages, & Characters

• ISBN13: 9780764327049
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Since the mid-nineteenth century, the George Wade pottery in Burslem, England, has produced many forms of ceramic items. It is best known for their delightful series of tiny porcelain animals known as Whimsies(r). Highly collectible, the Whimsies have been joined over the years by many equally charming miniatures, some sold by the company directly and others distributed as premiums. With over 380 full color photographs, this revised book showcases the endearing mini... More >>

Wade Miniatures: An Unauthorized Guide to Whimsies, Premiums, Villages, & Characters

Soda, Clay and Fire

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Soda glazing is a relatively new development in ceramic history, with exciting scope for research and experimentation. It's a more popular ceramic practice, particularly in the U.S., where it's widely taught in college ceramics departments and workshops, and has attracted a high number of professional practitioners. Soda glaze surfaces typically include a thin sprayed-on sheen or light flash, some supplementary fluxing of an applied glaze, and attempts to imitate th... More >>

Soda, Clay and Fire

Life Style

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Since founding his Toronto-based studio in 1985, Bruce Mau has become one of the world's most sought-after designers, collaborating with leading architects, artists and cultural institutions in North America and Europe. This book documents his creative process and studio practice. A collection of essays, observations and personal anecdotes interspersed with project documentation, it manifests Mau's world view and his belief that form and content are inseparable.A... More >>

Life Style

The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes

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  The most comprehensive story of unofficial postwar Soviet art yet to appear in any language, The Experimental Group takes as its point of departure a subject of strange fascination: the life and work of renowned professional illustrator and conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov.   Kabakov’s art—iconoclastic installations, paintings, illustrations, and texts—delicately experiments with such issues as history, mortality, and disappearance, and here exemplifie... More >>

The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes

The Century of Artists' Books

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By Johanna Drucker.Amazon.com Review
The first full-length analysis of the development of artists' books as a 20th-century art form, this book explores more than 200 titles: their structure, form, and conceptualization. In this detailed examination of the works of many well-known book artists and publishers, such as William Blake, Marcel Duchamp, and Max Ernst, Johanna Drucker discusses the poetics of the book, the book as a metaphor, and books as ... More >>

The Century of Artists' Books

Botanical Prints

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Henry Evans (1918–1990) began making botanical prints in 1958, depicting some 1,400 subjects in 31 years. In that time, he was accorded more than 250 one-man shows in many countries around the world and in almost every state in the union. Admired by art lovers and naturalists alike, Henry's work reveals a style intriguingly personal and botanically faithful, unerring in its feeling for rhythm and design. Self-taught as a printer, botanist, and artist, he developed... More >>

Botanical Prints

George Rodrigue Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne 1970-2007

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Born in 1944 and raised in the heart of French Louisiana, George Rodrigue is best known for his Blue Dog paintings and prints, which catapulted him to worldwide fame in the mid-1980s.

This long-awaited catalogue Raisonné of his prints contains over six hundred lithographs and silkscreens, many of which are previously unpublished. A foreword by E. John Bullard, the director of the New Orleans Museum of Art; an introduction by Rodrigue’s archivist and wife,... More >>

George Rodrigue Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne 1970-2007

Barcelona Tile Designs

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Walk into a bar or restaurant in Barcelona and chances are that you will encounter a beautiful tile pattern on the floor. In the late 19th century, mass reproduction of intricately designed floor tiles became possible, and they became a common feature in the interiors of buildings in cities all around the Mediterranean. In Barcelona, the design of such tiles reached its peak in the age of ?Modernismo?, the Spanish variety of Art Nouveau, in the early 20th century. ... More >>

Barcelona Tile Designs

Quantumscapes: The Art of Stephan Martiniere

• ISBN13: 9781933492513
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Following Quantum Dreams, Quantumscapes is a stunning new visionary collection of sci-fi book cover paintings, commercial and film art, video game designs, and never before-seen artwork from the fantastic imagination of acclaimed artist Stephan Martiniere.... More >>

Quantumscapes: The Art of Stephan Martiniere

Hard Boys

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Harry Bush’s drawings for magazines such as Physique Pictorial, Mr. Sun, Touch, Drummer, and Stroke combined masterful technique, exceptionally well-endowed subjects, and a wicked sense of humor that made his work extremely popular. Despite long periods of self-imposed retirement and a fear of being outed that led him to destroy much of his own work, the reclusive artist’s drawings were as recognized and recognizable as those of Tom of Finland throughout the 196... More >>

Hard Boys

Fostoria American Line 2056

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Fostoria is one of the best known and admired names in American glassware. Probably more brides and homemakers in America have received gifts of and purchased glassware made at the Fostoria factory, in Moundsville, West Virginia, than any other glass company. During its century of operation, the range of style, form, decoration, color, and manufacturing technique was tremendous; only the fine quality remained constant. From 1915 until the factory closed in 1986, one... More >>

Fostoria American Line 2056

Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show

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Striptease recreates the combustible mixture of license, independence, and sexual curiosity that allowed strippers to thrive for nearly a century. Rachel Shteir brings to life striptease's Golden Age, the years between the Jazz Age and the Sexual Revolution, when strippers performed around the country, in burlesque theatres, nightclubs, vaudeville houses, carnivals, fairs, and even in glorious palaces on the Great White Way. Taking us behind the scenes, Shteir intro... More >>

Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show

Helmut Newton: Big Nudes

• ISBN13: 9783829601399
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With his Big Nudes, in the 1980s Helmut Newton created a quite unprecedented long-term bestseller. Simultaneously, it provided a concentrated image of his aesthetic agenda. Powerful women were presented in all their naked truth????????????without fig leaves or fashion frills. This series of black-and-white photos, produced between 1979 and 1981, also marked a stylistic change in Newton's work. Elaborate layouts full of luxury and decadence gave way to an unambiguous... More >>

Helmut Newton: Big Nudes

Paper Rad: Cartoon Workshop Pig Tales Digest

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This follow-up to the Paper Rad collective's recent hit, Paper Rad, B.J. and da Dogs, is both a return to form and a move forward. Comic strips, psychedelic imagery and the group's trademark lo-fi digital wizardry lend Pig Tales Digest the feeling of an old-school variety show. Bounding from stories, to suites of gag cartoons, to drawings of Alf, Miss Piggy and other pixillated creatures, this book literally ricochets between silly humor and serious satire, raising ... More >>

Paper Rad: Cartoon Workshop Pig Tales Digest

Altered Board Book Basics & Beyond: For Creative Scrapbooks, Altered Books & Artful Journals

• ISBN13: 9781571203090
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EVERYTHING you need for personalizing a blank board book and creating your own unique masterpiece! Jan's step-by-step instructions show you how!... More >>

Altered Board Book Basics & Beyond: For Creative Scrapbooks, Altered Books & Artful Journals

VJ: Audio-Visual Art and VJ Culture: Includes DVD

• ISBN13: 9781856694902
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A major change has taken place at dance clubs worldwide: the advent of the VJ. Once the term referred to the video jockey who introduced music videos on MTV, but now it defines an artist who creates and mixes video, live and synced to music, in clubs or at concerts. This book is an in-depth look at the artists at the forefront of this amazing audio-visual experience. The book combines how-to, showcase and reference elements, opening with a series of articles on cont... More >>

VJ: Audio-Visual Art and VJ Culture: Includes DVD

Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology

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The interplay of electronic textiles and wearable technology, wearables for short, and fashion, design and science is a highly promising and topical subject. Offered here is a compact survey of the theory involved and an explanation of the role technology plays in a fabric or article of clothing. The practical application is explained in detail and numerous illustrations serve as clarification. Over 50 well-known designers, research institutes, companies and artists... More >>

Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology

The Illuminated Alphabet

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“The art of illumination is re-examined in this richly illustrated publication. Each page is filled with eye-catching full-color examples of the illuminator’s art. This in-depth historical overview...begins with The Lindisfarne Gospels and moves through contemporary forms....[This] unique publication...[includes] hundreds of skillfully rendered full-color examples.”—School Arts.
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The Illuminated Alphabet

Erte Graphics: Five Complete Suites Reproduced in Full Color

• ISBN13: 9780486235806
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This volume provides a fascinating sample of Erté's very best graphic work, offering every plate from his most popular collections: The Alphabet (1977); The Numerals (1968); The Aces (1974); The Precious Stones (1969); and The Seasons (1970). Each plate has been painstakingly reproduced from the autographed, limited-edition lithographs. A brief Preface offers bibliographic data.... More >>

Erte Graphics: Five Complete Suites Reproduced in Full Color

The Potter's Professional Handbook

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The perfect resource for individuals wishing to take the next step in their involvement with clay. Written by Steven Branfman, The Potter's Professional Handbook covers topics ranging from determining what a professional is to equipment selection, setting up shop, marketing your work, and much more. This book provides descriptions of the items necessary for a beginning professional potter and includes visual examples of items including sales slips, purchase o... More >>

The Potter's Professional Handbook

Collectors Encyclopedia of Roseville Pottery, Volume 2

• ISBN13: 9781574322354
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This companion volume to Collector's Encyclopedia of Roseville I has also been revised and updated to more accurately represent today's market activity. In this revised edition you will find some of the best examples of the early art ware ever produced, exceptional pieces in the early Blended Glaze, and a fine representation of the Middle Period lines such as Futura, Imperial, and Pine Cone, to name a few. The highly desirable pieces, jardinieres, pedestals, and umb... More >>

Collectors Encyclopedia of Roseville Pottery, Volume 2

LadyBirdLand!

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LadyBirdLand! breathes new life into what's important on the inside. A collection of quirky, sometimes-irreverent, sometimes-touching artwork and stories, this book gives women an upbeat, positive message that they can cherish, draw strength from, laugh at and share.

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From Brené Brown, Ph.D., Author of The Gifts of Imperfection & I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): I absolutely love Allison's work. She has the unique ability to combine ... More >>

LadyBirdLand!

Aubrey Beardsley

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Beardsley's work is looked at alongside the work of contemporaries such as Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm and W.B. Yeats and against the backdrop of the artistic, literary and social life of fin-de-siecle London, Dieppe and Paris. In addition to the drawings, the book includes examples of Beardsley's innovative book binding, prints and posters, revealing a gallery of portraits and photographs from that decadent period, the "Naughty Nineties." It also explores the diverse... More >>

Aubrey Beardsley

The Illustrated Star Wars Universe

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The ultimate book for every Star Wars(r) fan.

Experience the Star Wars universe as never before in this stunning visual journey that carries you to the farthest reaches--and into the deepest mysteries--of George Lucas's cinematic masterpiece.  Ralph McQuarrie, the legendary main concept artist for all three Star Wars films, and Kevin J. Anderson, the New York Times bestselling Star Wars author, present the ultimate voyage: a vivid and close-up look at the e... More >>

The Illustrated Star Wars Universe

Liza Lou

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Known for her life-size sculptures made entirely of beads, Liza Lou has had audiences and critics spellbound since her debut exhibition fifteen years ago. Liza Lou’s sculptures, room-size installations, and performances have been at the center of the art world’s bewilderment and awe since the unveiling of her first masterpiece, Kitchen, in 1996. A true-to-size replica of a kitchen in the midst of a museum gallery would hardly cause a stir, were it not for one i... More >>

Liza Lou

Chinese Glazes: Their Origins, Chemistry, and Recreation

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2000

Chinese glazes have been admired throughout history for their extraordinary qualities and colors—not least in China itself, where their appearance has been compared variously to jade, to tea-dust, to hare's fur, or to the "color of the sky after the rain." Some Chinese glazes are vibrant and brilliant in tone, while others are deep, complex, and subtle, their properties seeming to chan... More >>

Chinese Glazes: Their Origins, Chemistry, and Recreation

Posada's Popular Mexican Prints

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273 great 19th-century woodcuts: crimes, miracles, skeletons, ads, portraits, news cuts. Table of contents: Calaveras; Disasters; National Events; Religion and Miracles; Don Chepito Marihuano; Chapbook Covers; Chapbook Illustrations; Everyday Life; Miscellaneous; Commentary on the Illustrations; Brief Bibliography.... More >>

Posada's Popular Mexican Prints

Voluptuous by Claudio Aboy

• ISBN13: 9780865621992
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When it comes to creating eye-popping pants-pleasing images of warrior women and fatal females, Claudio Aboy certainly knows how to hug those curves! In this newest (and most nubile) of collections, Aboy once again stakes his claim as one of the best power pin-up artists of his generation!... More >>

Voluptuous by Claudio Aboy

Japonisme: The Japanese Influence on Western Art Since 1858

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"An important phase in the history of decorative arts is here given authoritative treatment."—Interior Design

The impact of Japan on Western art was as immediate and almost as cataclysmic as the influence of the West on Japanese life. After Commodore Perry opened Japan's door to the outside world in1858—ending a 200-year period of total isolation—a wealth of visual information from the superb Japanese traditions of ceramics, metalwork, architectu... More >>

Japonisme: The Japanese Influence on Western Art Since 1858

The Art of Richard Tuttle

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Over the past four decades, Richard Tuttle has thrown into question nearly every conceivable artistic convention and critical category to create an enormously inventive body of abstract work-one that embraces and intermingles drawing, painting, collage, book-making, sculpture, and design. From his spare yet enigmatic forms of the 1960s to his complex, multi-faceted assemblages and installations of more recent years, Tuttle's primary impetus throughout has been to cr... More >>

The Art of Richard Tuttle

Prints and Printmaking

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A print is a pictorial image that has been produced by a process that enables it to be multiplied, and many of the best-known works by some of the world's greatest artists are prints. Yet little is understood about this popular art form. Now Antony Griffiths provides an excellent introduction for anyone who wishes to acquire a basic understanding of prints and printmaking. In succinct and lucid language, he explains the different printmaking techniques and shows bot... More >>

Prints and Printmaking

Girls Kissing: Volume One

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This spell-binding and devilishly erotic publication is packed with a dazzling array of outrageous photographs, stories, illustrations, comments and real-life experiences of Girls Kissing. It's the ultimate in-depth study of a subject that captivates the imagination of men and women alike. Illustrated with over 600 photographs, Girls Kissing features an abundance of luscious ladies making out, and explores the reality of Sapphic love in a series of contrasting genui... More >>

Girls Kissing: Volume One

Raw Art Journaling

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Raw Art Journaling brings self-expression through the act of art journaling to its most basic, "raw" and easiest level ever. Beginning and seasoned artists and writers often come up against blocks when prompted to write or draw something original. This obstacle is addressed with exercises such as creating found poetry, the Words as Tarot Exercise and a wide range of abstract, doodle-like design suggestions- just to name a few. Chapters cover surfaces to journal on; ... More >>

Raw Art Journaling

Prints and Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz

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83 moving works: The Weavers, Peasant War, War, Death, and others. "To see the beautiful examples of her work reproduced in this well-printed, reasonably priced volume is to sit at the feet of a great modern master." — School Arts.
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Prints and Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz

Concept Design 2: Works from Seven Los Angeles Entertainment Designers and Seventeen Guest Artists

• ISBN13: 9781933492025
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In this second volume of Concept Design, seventeen guest artists are featured along with the original seven Los Angeles Entertainment Designers from Concept Design 1 to show us worlds, vehicles, monsters and creations beyond the wildest imagination! Even more astounding and jam-packed than the first volume, Concept Design 2 takes you on a journey into the minds of the talented and successful concept design professionals who create for the s... More >>

Concept Design 2: Works from Seven Los Angeles Entertainment Designers and Seventeen Guest Artists

Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous

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In 1975 Bas Jan Ader disappeared at sea while trying to sail from the East Coast of the United States to Europe as part of a project titled In Search of the Miraculous. Ader's considerable influence on later conceptual artists stems from the way in which he used the cool analytic and antisubjective aesthetics of conceptual art to explore experiences that would seem definitively subjective—the emotional intensity of tragedy and the romantic quest for the sublime. I... More >>

Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous

Learning by Designing Pacific Northwest Coast Native Indian Art, Volume 2

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This companion manual to Volume 1 puts First Nations art into deeper cultural context, providing Native Indian philosophy, knowledge and skills foundation, code of ethics, and interviews with a contemporary First Nations family, as well as some aspects of historical context and a description of the Potlatch. A full colour, 16-page creation story with 20 designs is included. Additional topics include: contemporary design evolution with 50 examples, 20 designs to draw... More >>

Learning by Designing Pacific Northwest Coast Native Indian Art, Volume 2

Kovels' Dictionary of Marks -- Pottery And Porcelain: 1650 to 1850

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Completely different from any other book of marks ever published, this dictionary provides the quickest way to identify American, English, and European porcelain. Once a piece is identified, research and experience (the color, texture, weight, and general "feel") tell the rest of the story.The unique index of 5,000 marks, listed by prominent features and with a complete cross-reference, shows at a glance (a) geographical location of mark, (b) factory or family name ... More >>

Kovels' Dictionary of Marks -- Pottery And Porcelain: 1650 to 1850

The Complete Cookie Jar Book

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With more than 2,000 cookie jars illustrated in full color, this is the most complete book on the subject ever published. That helps explain the popularity of this encyclopedia, now in its fourth edition. It also contains extensive research, written by America's foremost authority, making it the definitive reference. The book is organized by both subject and by artists and companies, including the popular McCoy, American Bisque, Hull, and many others. Additionally, ... More >>

The Complete Cookie Jar Book

Maiolica

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This book is a practical guide to the materials, techniques and processes of maiolica. This thorough and clear coverage of the subject is informative, colourful and amply illustrated with work by contemporary makers. Maiolica is a well established and traditional medium which is still used today in a wide variety of ways. After a brief historical overview of the subject, the book looks first at the basic essentials, covering the materials and processes involved co... More >>

Maiolica

Book of Hours: Illuminations by Simon Marmion

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Books of Hours are among the most striking examples of medieval illuminated manuscripts. Commissioned by wealthy men and women for their private religious devotions, these beautifully decorated books contain prayers for the eight canonical hours of the day.
This book reproduces seventeen jewel-like miniature paintings by Simon Marmion from one of the finest Books of Hours in the Huntington Library's collections. Marmion, one of the most accomplished illuminators... More >>

Book of Hours: Illuminations by Simon Marmion

Mosaic Basics: Everything You Need to Know to Start Making Beautiful Mosaics

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Those who admire the beauty of mosaic art and decoration are often put off at trying their own hand at it. How on earth does a mosaic artist get started? This big, beautifully illustrated book provides the answer. The author, an experienced mosaic artist, instructs in the core techniques of preparing baseboards, cutting and gluing tiles, grouting, and creating designs. She also lists all needed tools and equipment and explains their uses. Finally, she presents 15 pr... More >>

Mosaic Basics: Everything You Need to Know to Start Making Beautiful Mosaics