Women in Control: Iron Fist, Velvet Glove

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Images of the dominant female were once the exclusive property of secretive fetishists, guiltily celebrated in underground books and videos and unknown to the mainstream. Today provocative characters like the dominatrix, the unattainable goddess, and the cruel temptress have become familiar, if still controversial, figures in pop culture. Women in Control showcases images and icons from this heady world. Noted fetish photographer Larry Utley offers both the aficiona... More >>

Women in Control: Iron Fist, Velvet Glove

Chinese Ceramics: The New Standard Guide

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This is a guide to Chinese ceramics which cites the latest scientific and archaeological evidence, as well as ancient traditions of Chinese connoisseurship and patronage. The book draws on the holding of Chinese ceramics in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. It is organized into four chroncologically arranged sections, from the Neolithic to the end of the Qing dynasty, and it also includes a selection of photographs of base marks, often a vital aid in the identi... More >>

Chinese Ceramics: The New Standard Guide

Classic Japanese Porcelain: Imari and Kakiemon

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Japan has long had a thriving tradition of high-quality handcrafted ceramics, including some of the world's most sophisticated porcelains. This highly informative volume written by a leading authority describes the origin and development of the elegant Imari and Kakiemon porcelain wares which were in great demand in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Kaolin was discovered in the Arita area of Kyushu in the early seventeenth century. The first po... More >>

Classic Japanese Porcelain: Imari and Kakiemon

The Pin-Up Art of Archie Dickens Volume One

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"Cheeky," "saucy," "randy," and a variety of other British euphemisms can be employed when describing the works of Archie Dickens. An Englishman from the old school, his fondness for lovely young innocents in not-so-innocent situations has delighted pin-up enthusiasts throughout the world for several generations. Angelic faces with devilish designs has always been the hallmark of this illustrator.... More >>

The Pin-Up Art of Archie Dickens Volume One

Ceramics with Mixed Media

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Once a ceramic piece is finished it can be embellished or enhanced with other materials, such as a wooden or metal handle, glass stopper, or resin knob. Objects with varying textures such as feathers, recycled pieces of wood, metal, glass, or other ceramic pieces can be joined after firing with modern bonding methods. Ceramics with Mixed Media is a practical handbook that shows how other materials can be combined with ceramics for functional, decorative,... More >>

Ceramics with Mixed Media

Teapots by Design: A Collectors' Catalogue

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Since the late 1400s, tea drinkers in the Orient and the West have been passionate about teapots in ever growing numbers. Over 445 beautiful color images display a wide range of international teapots, from antique to contemporary. Porcelain, stoneware, silver, copper, brass, iron, pewter, tin, wood, and glass are shown from around the world. Children's tea sets, miniatures, musical, figural, whimsical, seasonal, advertising, commemorative, and souvenir teapots are a... More >>

Teapots by Design: A Collectors' Catalogue

Maiolica Aka: Italian Maiolica

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In a new and expanded version of this popular book introducing Italian Renaissance ceramics, much new material has been added. Pieces are the finest examples from the major centers of production - Florence, Siena and Urbino.... More >>

Maiolica Aka: Italian Maiolica

Colour in Clay

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Colour in Clay is a complete study of the particular magic that color oxides and stains in the clay body can bring to throwing, pinching, coiling, inlay, lamination, and sculpture. Ceramist Jane Waller profiles 50 artists from Europe and America, offering detailed and enlightening commentary on their working methods, firing techniques, and sources of inspiration. A collaborative effort by some of the most influential ceramists working today, the book offers a rich p... More >>

Colour in Clay

Photography: Theoretical Snapshots

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Over the past twenty-five years, photography has moved to centre-stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines. This trend has brought with it a diversification in approaches to the study of the photographic image. Photography: Theoretical Snapshots offers exciting perspectives on photography theory today from some of the world’s leading critics and theorists. It introduces new means of looking at photographs, with topi... More >>

Photography: Theoretical Snapshots

Act/React: Interactive Installation Art

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Playful, intuitive, a first of its kind—Act/React: Interactive Installation Art makes its world premiere at the Milwaukee Art Museum from October 4, 2008, through January 11, 2009. Showcasing a growing body of contemporary art that is visitor-dependent—without the use of specific interfaces like keyboards or touchscreens—this exhibition of motion-driven installation art empowers visitors to exercise their creativity and act on their curiosity. Act/React featur... More >>

Act/React: Interactive Installation Art

Abstraction and the Holocaust

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This absorbing book looks closely at a series of American art and architectural projects that respond to the memory of the Holocaust. Mark Godfrey investigates how abstract artists and architects - whose work by its very nature rejects conventional figuration or symbolism - have negotiated Holocaust memory without ever representing the Holocaust directly. His thought-provoking conclusions will alter the way we understand abstraction, the place of abstract artists in... More >>

Abstraction and the Holocaust

Yoko Ono: Touch Me

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From the earliest days of her career, Yoko Ono has found practical solutions for dismantling the walls that art throws up around its objects. Her Cut Piece of 1964, reprised in 2003 (and documented herein), remains an ever-relevant act of role reversal and vulnerability. Touch Me is a suite of sculptural works that are activated and completed by the tactile participation of the viewer, with the same conceptual simplicity that characterizes so much of Ono's activity.... More >>

Yoko Ono: Touch Me

Dragon Tails Volume Three: A Gallery Girls Book

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This is an all-new collection of dangerous creatures of terrible beauty...oh, and dragons too! It contains original full page illustrations by Mitch Byrd, Sanjulian, Pelaez, Arantza, Maraschi, Cuevas, and many more.... More >>

Dragon Tails Volume Three: A Gallery Girls Book

Modern Mosaic: Inspiration from the 20th Century

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Mosaic is a medium of glorious expression, endurance, and timeless beauty. In Modern Mosaic, Elaine Goodwin inspires readers to pick up a fragment of stone or glass and start an exhilarating journey of exploration and expression. Readers will marvel at the outstanding mosaic styles featured from around the world. The art deco of New York City, Gaudi's surreal creations, Hundertwasser, and more. Modern Mosaic features: - A short history of mosaic including a... More >>

Modern Mosaic: Inspiration from the 20th Century

Collector's Encyclopedia of Noritake

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An all-new collector's encyclopedia, designed to be a companion volume to the first--with no duplication of listings. Contains current values, tips on photographing a collection, buying and selling through the mail, and nearly 1,000 full-color photos.... More >>

Collector's Encyclopedia of Noritake

The Art of Bruce Colero: Heavenly Bodies

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Bruce Colero has based his entire life and livelyhood on physical excellence. As a bodybuilder and martial artist, Colero has forged his own body and mind into a genuine work of art. As the owner of a health and fitness business based in Canada, he's made his life-long fascination with the limitless potential of the human body a country-wide empire. And as an airbrush artist, he's enjoyed a career creating fantasy and pin-up illustrations of the female form. It's th... More >>

The Art of Bruce Colero: Heavenly Bodies

Woodblock Kuchi-E Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture

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Here is a pioneer exploration of a previously neglected genre of late-Meiji art: the type of handmade multicolor book frontispieces known as kuchi-e. Early European collectors assumed that the Japanese woodblock tradition came to an end in Western-tainted prints. Although many crudely colored prints of subjects such as steam trains and men in derby hats did flood the Japanese market, the works introduced in this readable volume make clear that there was another cl... More >>

Woodblock Kuchi-E Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture

Kay Rosen: AKAK

• ISBN13: 9780981544953
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Picturing 100 works made between 1969 and 2009, Kay Rosen: AKAK categorizes Kay Rosen's language works according to six conceptual and formal strategies that the artist has regularly employed: color, sound, "anti-grammar," letters, systems and patterns, and graphics. Kay Rosen: AKAK is the only comprehensive book available on Rosen, and underlines the achievement of her visually arresting and intelligent oeuvre.... More >>

Kay Rosen: AKAK

Swimsuit Model Photography

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This colorful book is the complete guide to swimsuit model photography. Includes information on finding models, selecting equipment, posing, backgrounds, using props, and much more.... More >>

Swimsuit Model Photography

Majolica

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Here is the definitive Lalique Glass. Until now, collectors have had little information on this gorgeous pottery, but Dawes has compiled an invaluable guide--the only reference book of its kind in existence. 300 full-color photographs.... More >>

Majolica

Creative Cups 2011

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Creative Cups™ is a thought-provoking art exhibition and fund raising event to benefit the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program. This book illustrates the magnificent creations donated - bras that have been turned into works of art and stories to go with them. 103 beautiful images adorn the pages of this lovely coffee table book.... More >>

Creative Cups 2011

Clarice Cliff and Her Contemporaries: Susie Cooper, Keith Murray, Charlotte Rhead, and the Carlton Ware Designers

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Over 420 color photographs illustrate the wide range of wares made available by Cliff, Cooper, Murray, Rhead, and those at Carlton: designers whose creative genius surfaced during the Art Deco years and recently met with a resurgence in popularity. The early twentieth century, following World War I, was a time of experimentation and radical change in the arts. After World War II, the revolutionary modernist movement began. Yet, despite the changing times, Cliff and ... More >>

Clarice Cliff and Her Contemporaries: Susie Cooper, Keith Murray, Charlotte Rhead, and the Carlton Ware Designers

Moorcroft: A Guide to Moorcroft Pottery 1897 - 1993

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This new enlarged and completely revised edition includes many new photographs, making it invaluable for all Moorcroft collectors and those interested in the decorative arts of the 20th century.... More >>

Moorcroft: A Guide to Moorcroft Pottery 1897 - 1993

Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey

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Iznik is a magnificent large-format book on the much sought after Ottoman ceramics whose quality stunning designs elegant forms and rich colors have had a profound impact on European taste.

The ceramics of Iznik were among the finest works of art produced in the Ottoman Empire. The technical quality of this pottery and the beauty and immediacy of its designs have long made it one of the most popular art forms from the Islamic world.

Based on ma... More >>

Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey

Masters: Porcelain: Major Works by Leading Ceramists

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What motivates and inspires the finest porcelain artists working today? Forty internationally celebrated masters reveal their secrets, explaining just how they work with this incredibly demanding ceramic material, prized for its pristine beauty. Pure white and wonderfully delicate, porcelain is what clay potters usually graduate to only after years of honing their skills. This diverse collection showcases the results of that dedication, and the versatility is simply... More >>

Masters: Porcelain: Major Works by Leading Ceramists

Fiona Tan: Disassembling the Archive

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Exceptionally well designed, engaging and mysterious, Disassembling the Archive is a quasi-fictional correspondence with the Amsterdam-based, Indonesia-born artist Fiona Tan. It departs from interpretations of postcolonial identity issues in Tan's work to trace the implications of the archival housing of photographs and moving images. By way of a detour through Siegfried Kracrauer's writing on photography and Jacques Derrida's writing on the Freudian impression, we ... More >>

Fiona Tan: Disassembling the Archive

Warman's English & Continental Pottery & Porcelain: Identification & Price Guide

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Updated editions of the one and only "bible" for pottery and porcelain collectibles are always in demand - and here is the very latest. Today's hottest pottery and porcelain collectibles in the antiques marketplace are all here, in this up-to-date reference book. All US price listings have been updated to reflect current market values, and now there are new sections devoted to Ruskin, Wade, Cornish Ware, Natzler, Royal Winton, Oyster Plates, Pablo Picasso, Cottagewa... More >>

Warman's English & Continental Pottery & Porcelain: Identification & Price Guide

Becoming Pablo O'higgins

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Becoming Pablo O'Higgins tells the intriguing story of how a blond-haired, blue-eyed Presbyterian from an upper middle-class family in Salt Lake City, Utah, became a celebrated Mexican muralist. Born Paul Higgins in 1904 into a Republican family of Mayflower English and Protestant Scots-Irish ancestry, O'Higgins boldly traveled to Mexico at age 20. He became an assistant to Diego Rivera, working with him on three of his most important murals. Rivera said if he had a... More >>

Becoming Pablo O'higgins

Theorizing Modernism: Visual Art and the Critical Tradition

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is a re-reading of the modernist tradition in the visual arts that provides a unique view of the history of modern art and art criticism. Concentrating on canonical critical texts and images, the book examines modern art through a rhetoric of representation rather than through formalist criticism or the history of the avant-garde.... More >>

Theorizing Modernism: Visual Art and the Critical Tradition

Steuben Glass : An American tradition in Crystal

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For 100 years, Steuben glass has represented the epitome of American crystal--internationally acclaimed, a gift of presidents, the treasured possession of generations of collectors. In this lavishly illustrated book, revised and fully updated to celebrate Steuben's centennial, Mary Jean Madigan traces the company's fascinating history and the manufacture of "the most perfect crystal the world has ever known." Madigan provides an illustrated identification guide t... More >>

Steuben Glass : An American tradition in Crystal

Freshwater Gamefish of North America Poster

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Composed of the finest illustrations of freshwater gamefish found in the United States and Canada, this attractive assortment of 34 unique fish is ideal for anglers. Scientifically precise and stunningly beautiful, the fish—shown in relative scale and arranged by family—have been reproduced at the highest fidelity to capture the accuracy and splendor of the original artwork. With the inclusion of the top gamefish—bass, sunfish, pike, trout, catfish, and beyo... More >>

Freshwater Gamefish of North America Poster

Alfred Jensen: Concordance

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An imaginative meeting of abstract painting and personalized iconography, Alfred Jensen's vivid paintings open unexpected correspondances and act as a key locus for examining diverse questions about the legacy of abstract expressionism and the origins of conceptual practice. "Concordance" includes many rarely seen works from the artist's estate as well as a late 12-panel work, "The Great Pyramid," executed in 1979 and never before published.
Edited by Karen Kel... More >>

Alfred Jensen: Concordance

Zen And The Art Of Pottery

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Pottery is an art of essentials: earth, water, and fire, guided by the human element of spirit. Zen is also concerned with the basics: the training of the mind and body, the ultimate craftsmanship of the soul. Zen and the Art of Pottery explores the links between pottery and Zen, between art, life, and spirit.

This unique book is at once a celebration of pottery, the art and its traditions, and a hands-on guide to its methods. The first chapters discu... More >>

Zen And The Art Of Pottery

The Art of Chinese Calligraphy

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Following a history of Chinese calligraphy — going all the way back to the pictographic beginnings of Chinese writing more than 4,000 years ago — the author explains the basic construction of individual characters and the ways in which calligraphy is used by Chinese artists, including calligraphic seals and inscriptions on paintings.... More >>

The Art of Chinese Calligraphy

Christopher Williams

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(ADD ASTERIX AFTER Mhz)Los Angeles conceptualist Christopher Williams, born in 1956, studies the conditions of presentation and representation in order to call into question spoon-fed perceptions, "realistic" reproductions, communication mechanisms and aesthetic conventions that influence our perception and understanding of reality. This volume presents recent works from 2003-2007.... More >>

Christopher Williams

Jungle Tails 3 - A Gallery Girls Book

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Here is a third installment of an on-going series that celebrates nature girls in their element! Lush interior artwork is supplied by such environmentally-friendly types as: Tomas Giorello, Blas Gallego, Boada, Pepe Gonzalez, Pelaez, Sanjulian, Quintabani, Ken Barr, and many others.Cover art by Alex Horley.... More >>

Jungle Tails 3 - A Gallery Girls Book

Milton, A Poem

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The core of William Blake's vision, his greatness as one of the British Romantics, is most fully expressed in his Illuminated Books, masterworks of art and text intertwined and mutually enriching. Made possible by recent advances in printing and reproduction technology, the publication of new editions of Jerusalem and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1991 was a major publishing event. Now these two volumes are followed by The Early Illuminated Books and Milto... More >>

Milton, A Poem

Moscow Conceptualism in Context

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From Stalin s demise to Gorbachev s glasnost, this is the definitive survey of underground Soviet art in the post-war era. The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection at Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Museum is the largest collection of Soviet nonconformist art in existence. Comprising more than 25,000 works by over 900 artists, it documents the activities of underground artists from Moscow and Leningrad, as well as from the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia, ... More >>

Moscow Conceptualism in Context

Collecting Lladro: Identification & Price Guide

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Featuring more than 600 color photographs and 2,000 listings, the 2nd edition of this full-color price and identification guide provides a comprehensive and beautiful look at Lladro porcelain, an elegant, romantic, hand crafted, fine porcelain instantly recognizable in its shades of blue, cream, gray, and brown. Peggy Whiteneck returns to provide names and serial numbers to help readers identify specific items in their collection; information on various marks whi... More >>

Collecting Lladro: Identification & Price Guide

True Decadence: Venus In Furs

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True Decadence is really two superb books in one: the inimitable art of Franz,Marquis von Bayros complemented by Venus in Furs, the literary masterpiece of Leopold von Sacher- Masoch.... More >>

True Decadence: Venus In Furs

General Idea: A Retrospective 1969-1994

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General Idea was founded in Toronto in 1969 by Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson as a generic identity to free the artists "from the tyranny of individual genius." Under the leadership of their fictitious muse Miss General Idea, and inspired by William Burroughs' conception of the "image virus," the collective interrogated media image culture through now legendary projects like File magazine, as well as paintings, installations, sculptures, mail art, photogra... More >>

General Idea: A Retrospective 1969-1994

Josiah Mcelheny

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A master of the art of glassblowing and a practitioner of the complexities of conceptual art, Josiah McElheny stretches and twists the fragile borders between appearance and reality, truth and imagination, tradition and modernity, text and object. From original documents such as the archeological remains of a child's grave, the fashion designs of Venini, and 16th-century frescos, McElheny creates a physical world of glass. Edited by Maria do Ceu Baptista.
Essay... More >>

Josiah Mcelheny

Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan

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Handmade Culture is the first comprehensive and cohesive study in any language to examine Raku, one of Japan's most famous arts and a pottery technique practiced around the world. More than a history of ceramics, this innovative work considers four centuries of cultural invention and reinvention during times of both political stasis and socioeconomic upheaval. It combines scholarly erudition with an accessible story through its lively and lucid prose and its genero... More >>

Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan

Egyptian Pottery

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Clay was used for a myriad of functions in ancient Egypt, of which one of the most important was the production of pottery vessels. The manufacture of pottery has a history of over five thousand years in ancient Egypt. This book concentrates on that from the time of the first pharaohs, approximately 3000BC, to the conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. Pottery was used for vessels that served a wide variety of functions, including everyday cooking and domesti... More >>

Egyptian Pottery

Happy Naturists: Natural Nude Living in Ukraine: No. 2

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In his second photobook, Ukrainian photographer Andrii Litovchenko photographs fellow members of the Kiev Commonwealth of Naturists (of which he is founder), documenting the diverse nudist activities of his friends and his club's members. These people love the simple life, and love it most when they're nude and free in the out of doors. Of course, there's plenty of partying too -- in the Ukraine, socializing is spelled with a capital "S"! The book accompanies cheerf... More >>

Happy Naturists: Natural Nude Living in Ukraine: No. 2

Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Durer and Titian

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Grand Scale brings to light rare surviving examples of mural-size prints—a Renaissance art form nearly lost from historical record. The most famous 16th-century woodcuts, engravings, and etchings were those done on an intimate scale. Yet artists also worked in another entire category of print production, producing mural-size prints that sometimes reached as high as ten feet. This handsome book, which features nearly fifty examples from Italy, Germany, France, and ... More >>

Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Durer and Titian

Understanding Shunga: A Guide to Japanese Erotic Art

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This sumptous guide explains the cultural forces behind Shunga images and why the Japanese find them so erotic as well as revealing the influence of Shunga on great Western art movements such as Impressionism. Exquisitely and abundantly illustrated, this is the most comprehensively informative book ever to be written on the subject - truly a ""masterclass"".... More >>

Understanding Shunga: A Guide to Japanese Erotic Art

Collector's Encyclopedia of Metlox Potteries: Identification and Values

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This three-part volume begins with the history, emphasizing the contributions and innovations of the different owners of Metlox Potteries and exploring the major developments. Next is a massive section on the dinnerware lines, chronologically listing every item of each pattern by name and division. The backstamps and current values are also included, as well as manufacturing and a survey of the most collectible patterns. Finally, the artware lines: the famous Walt D... More >>

Collector's Encyclopedia of Metlox Potteries: Identification and Values

The Golden Haggadah

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Written and illustrated in northern Spain around 1320, the Golden Haggadah is one of the outstanding works in The British Library's world-renowned collection of Hebrew manuscripts. Traditionally the most richly decorated of all Jewish prayer books, the Haggadah is used by Jews around the world in the celebration of Passover. This book presents a superbly illustrated account of the Golden Haggadah's creation and history and reproduces all the major illustrations i... More >>

The Golden Haggadah

Etched Glass: Techniques & Designs

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In easy to follow steps, renowned glass etching instructors show how to safely use inexpensive abrasive and chemical etching methods for surface etching, carving and shading to transform ordinary glass objects into stunning works of art.'... More >>

Etched Glass: Techniques & Designs