Friday, June 29, 2007

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

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Bon Appétit 2011 Calendar


  • ISBN13: 9781416284406
  • Condition: New
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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

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Hokusai: Prints and Drawings


  • ISBN13: 9783791342221
  • Condition: New
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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

Friday, June 22, 2007

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

Sunday, June 17, 2007

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


  • ISBN13: 9780764327049
  • Condition: New
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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

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Soda, Clay and Fire


  • ISBN13: 9781574981674
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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

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

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

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

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

Sunday, June 10, 2007

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

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Botanical Prints


  • ISBN13: 9781582436371
  • Condition: New
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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