Above the Universe Below (Kindle Edition)

Above the Universe Below (Kindle Edition)
By Elias Barton

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"Brilliant writing carries this pleasantly odd tale of an agoraphobic artist, Carder Quevedo... Carder's road is not an easy one, but readers will be rooting for him in this unusual and beautifully written book."
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An agoraphobic artist in our world but a grim reaper in another, Carder Quevedo hides at home, immersing himself in the paintings which commemorate the strange deaths he's witnessed. He ventures into public only when necessary, scrambling to his hospital job to extract corneas from deceased donors or darting to the diner to share a meal with Darren, his only friend. That's Carder's existence - and he's content.

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Haika changes that. As the bored, beautiful owner of an art gallery - who also happens to be married - she stumbles into Carder in a chance encounter and soon becomes obsessed with his art. As they forge a quirky, electric relationship, Carder is reluctantly pulled into Haika's social world of wealth, status and the peculiar characters that come with it. Carder is pushed further to the edge when his teenage niece visits, rebelling against her ultra-conservative upbringing. All the while, Carder's hidden history threatens to ruin his developing chance at normalcy, and on the opening night of his art gallery show, his past finally catches up to his present. Will its tentacles entwine them together, or wreak havoc upon them all? Read more

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American Gods: A Novel (Paperback)

American Gods: A Novel (Paperback)
By Neil Gaiman

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Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming -- a battle for the very soul of America . . . and they are in its direct path.

One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.

American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.

Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.

Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.

More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton Read more

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First Position: A Century of Ballet Artists (Hardcover)

First Position: A Century of Ballet Artists (Hardcover)
By Toba Singer

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The dancers profiled in First Position represent the pinnacle of their art over the last century. Author Toba Singer polled scores of dance critics, dance teachers and professors, and active and retired professional dancers to create a list that represents the best of the various styles of ballet from the last hundred years. The result is a collective biography that introduces the reader to dancers both with household names and those known mostly to ballet aficioinados. Profiled dancers include Carlos Acosta, Alicia Alonso, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Erik Bruhn, Lazaro Carreno, Margot Fonteyn, Carla Fracci, Gelsey Kirkland, Li Cunxin, Muriel Maffre, Natalia Makarova, Arthur Mitchell, Rudolf Nureyev, Anna Pavlova, and Maya Plisetskaya.

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Color Mixing: Understanding color behavior through mixed swatches (Paperback)

Color Mixing: Understanding color behavior through mixed swatches (Paperback)
By Morgan Murray

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There are many books out there that address color and plenty of them focus on color theory as the bulk of their teachings. However, seldom is there a book that presents the behavior of color in the language most artist understand more- visual presentation. That is what this book addresses. How color behaves through charts of mixed swatches that the artist can observe rather than merely read about. Read more

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The Tap Dance Dictionary (Paperback)

The Tap Dance Dictionary (Paperback)
By Mark Knowles

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The language of tap dancing is as rich and varied as that of any art, and different choreographers, teachers and performers often use totally different terms for exactly the same step. The various names of all steps and clear descriptions of them are collected for the first time in this reference work. The emphasis is on all variations of a name, from universally recognized terms to simple "pet" names that individual performers and choreographers have created, with extensive cross-references provided. Each of the steps is fully described, with appropriate counts, explanations and history. Many antique and unusual steps such as the Patting Juba, the Quack and the Swanee Shuffle are included. Read more

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The Art of David Hinnebusch (Hardcover)

The Art of David Hinnebusch (Hardcover)
By David Hinnebusch

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Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks (Pre-Columbian Art at Dumbarton Oaks) (Hardcover)

Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks (Pre-Columbian Art at Dumbarton Oaks) (Hardcover)
By Joanne Pillsbury

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This introduction to Maya art is based on study of one of the most important collections in the United States, assembled by Robert Woods Bliss between 1935 and 1962. The catalogue, written by leading Maya scholars, contains detailed analyses of specific works of art along with thematic essays situating them within the context of Maya culture.

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Les Mots de Victor Horta (Paperback)

Les Mots de Victor Horta (Paperback)

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Joe's Junk Yard (Hardcover)

Joe's Junk Yard (Hardcover)
By Lisa Kereszi

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Spanning 50 years and three generations, Joe's Junk Yard is a personal narrative that explores the achievement and subsequent demise of the American Dream. Lisa Kereszi's grandfather was a first-generation American and boxer-turned-junkman, who built an empire of used cars and scrap metal in Chester, Pennsylvania, during the 1950s boom era, which was gradually eroded by a series of misfortunes. Kereszi's disquieting, tender photographs of the last decade of the junkyard, accompanied by business ephemera and family scrapbook photographs, tell the story of this family and its struggles with a changing economy, urban decline, family feuds, tragic and untimely deaths and the challenges of an independent business. In this photographic series, begun before she pursued formal studies in photography and continued during her years at Bard College and at Yale University, Kereszi repeatedly locates themes and motifs of impermanence and loss in the landscape of the junkyard. Read more

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Cotton Puffs, Q-tips(r), Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha (Hardcover)

Cotton Puffs, Q-tips(r), Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha (Hardcover)
By Margit Rowell

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Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) is among the most popular American artists working today. His evocations of commonplace subjects have earned him a reputation as a Pop artist, while his interest in language and typography has aligned him with Conceptual art. This book, published to accompany Ruscha's first museum retrospective of drawings, showcases his singular vision and his wide range of highly personal mediums and techniques-from pastels and gunpowder to blood, coffee, and tobacco stains.

Ruscha's work includes paintings, photographs, prints, books, and films, but his unique works on paper are perhaps his richest vein. Through his interpretations of cultural icons and vernacular subjects such as the Hollywood sign, trademarks, and gas stations, as well as his renderings of words and phrases in countless stylistic variations, Ruscha proposes a modern landscape based on keen observation and wry humor.In a 1976 drawing by Ed Ruscha, the word "Promise"—--spelled out in ribbon-like script—--is suspended at an oblique angle against a delicate gray background and bathed in a gauzy white light. Somehow, this image perfectly sums up the hopeful feeling that success is right around the corner. Ruscha's ability to give concrete form to the inner life of words and images from popular culture has made him a rare breed of artist---a critic's darling whose work also fascinates ordinary art lovers. Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha collects more than 200 of Ruscha's coolly mysterious works on paper in a handsomely designed volume marred only by a hard-to-read gray typeface. The odd title comes from a remark the artist once made. He uses cotton puffs and swabs to rub gunpowder (which creates those smoky grays) or pastel into the rag paper. Author Margit Rowell emphasizes the influence of photography and film on Ruscha's visual outlook---as well as his training in graphic design and the Los Angeles "landscape" of billboards glimpsed from car windows. Rucha, who is also known for his paintings and his idiosyncratic photo books (depicting serial images of gas stations, parking lots and other banal sights), has been working on paper since the late 1950s. Rowell tracks the various themes and styles of his drawings, while essayist Cornelia Butler adds additional art world context. Although Ruscha has been called a Pop artist and a West Coast Surrealist, Butler sees him as "an essentially Conceptualist artist who seeks to render ideas as information." She singles out his "deeply eccentric nihilism...filtered through a keen humor." This book accompanies an exhibition of Ruscha's work on paper organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (June 24–Sept. 26, 2004). -—Cathy Curtis Read more

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Mandala Designs: 101 Illustrations for Creative Coloring (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Mandala Designs: 101 Illustrations for Creative Coloring (Volume 1) (Paperback)
By Mary Robertson

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This coloring book contains 101 mandala designs to color! This book is designed for coloring enthusiasts of all ages. Adults will enjoy coloring and decorating the mandalas with a variety of media, including markers, colored pencils, and gel pens. Children can use crayons, as many of the drawings are designed with enough room for little hands to explore and color. A perfect mix of interesting, yet not too complex designs provides a playground for any imagination. A great book for families to share! Read more

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Roustan Body Paint Airbrush Techniques Tutorial DVD (DVD)

Roustan Body Paint Airbrush Techniques Tutorial DVD (DVD)
By Paul Roustan

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Roustan Body Paint Airbrush Techniques DVD WIDESCREEN playable in all dvd players marked with the dvd video logo. A tutorial dvd including three unique demonstrations including: -Las Palmas A beginner level tutorial demonstrating simple and effective stencil techniques using midtones, shadows and highlights. approx. 12.5 minutes -Femme Fatale An intermediate level tutorial demonstrating the creation of a tromp l'oeil faux outfit using various shielding and masking techniques. approx 20.5 minutes -See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil An advanced tutorial demonstrating the completion of a body painting using only freehand airbrushing. approx 20.5 minutes -Bonus Basic Airbrush Techniques demonstrations of airbrush techniques including line thickness, dots, dagger strokes, gradation, loops. approx 6.5 minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: bonus time-lapse video, slow motion montage, and Roustan Bodypaint demo reel Total Running Time: 1 hour Read more

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Against the Current: The Life of Lain Singh Bangdel; Writer, Painter And Art Historian Of Nepal (Asian Portraits) (Hardcover)

Against the Current: The Life of Lain Singh Bangdel; Writer, Painter And Art Historian Of Nepal (Asian Portraits) (Hardcover)
By Donald A. Messerschmidt

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This book is an inspiring tribute to a true renaissance man of Nepal, written by a long time friend of Bangdel, Don Messerschmidt, and his daughter Dina Bangdel. Read more

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Masterpieces of Chinese Enamel Ware in the National Museum (Hardcover)

Masterpieces of Chinese Enamel Ware in the National Museum (Hardcover)
By Taipei National Palace Museum

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The Story of Alexandra and the Alpha (revised) (Kindle Edition)

The Story of Alexandra and the Alpha (revised) (Kindle Edition)
By Sir Nicholas Cristella

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This is a short Story written for the Queen Alexandra.
The story of a modern day lost kingdom that while appreciatory, will likely go unrecognized for some time. It is a fable but much of it is true.

" This story was written for the Queen Alexandra Mecouch and why many may find it fable I assure you much of it is true, if not all of it.We start with Nicholaus, I myself am him, but I will tell it to you like this, please don’t mind if I place a line or two from my own personal words." Read more

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ROSEMALING, THE BEAUTIFUL NORWEGIAN ART, VOLUME 1: INSTRUCTIONS AND DESIGNS. (Plastic Comb)

ROSEMALING, THE BEAUTIFUL NORWEGIAN ART, VOLUME 1: INSTRUCTIONS AND DESIGNS. (Plastic Comb)
By Helen Elizabeth. Blanck

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Rosemaling comes from Norway. Rosemåling, or rosemaling, is Norwegian for "decorative painting. It flourished there from about 1700 to 1850. Hundreds of beautiful old rosemalings are preserved in the homes, museums, and churches of Norway. Many have found their way to the US to grace homes and museums. These rosemalings are on the beautiful old wooden trunks brought here by immigrants, on furniture, bowls, and any wooden surface the rosemaler had on hand. Beautiful examples of the old rosemalings are on display at the Norwegian American Museum in Iowa. Also on display are excellent rosemalings by contemporary Norwegian and American artists. Available to the serious student of rosemaling, here are several hundred patterns. Read more

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Studies in Nature: Hiroshige and Hokusai (Masterworks of Ukiyo-E) (Paperback)

Studies in Nature: Hiroshige and Hokusai (Masterworks of Ukiyo-E) (Paperback)
By Muneshige Narazaki

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Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with Processing (Hardcover)

Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with Processing (Hardcover)
By Hartmut Bohnacker

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Generative design is a revolutionary new method of creating artwork, models, and animations from sets of rules, or algorithms. By using accessible programming languages such as Processing, artists and designers are producing extravagant, crystalline structures that can form the basis of anything from patterned textiles and typography to lighting, scientific diagrams, sculptures, films, and even fantastical buildings. Opening with a gallery of thirty-five illustrated case studies, Generative Design takes users through specific, practical instructions on how to create their own visual experiments by combining simple-to-use programming codes with basic design principles. A detailed handbook of advanced strategies provides visual artists with all the tools to achieve proficiency. Both a how-to manual and a showcase for recent work in this exciting new field, Generative Design is the definitive study and reference book that designers have been waiting for. Read more

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This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)

This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
By Nikki Sixx

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This book is enhanced with content such as audio or video, resulting in a large file that may take longer to download than expected.

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This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx is part photo, part journal—but all Nikki Sixx. It is a collection of compelling photography and stories that capture the rage, love, optimism, darkness, and determination that shape his work. Combining the raw authenticity that defined his New York Times bestseller The Heroin Diaries with a photographic journey, This Is Gonna Hurt chronicles Sixx's experiences—from his early years filled with toxic waste, to his success with Motley Crue, to his near death from an OD and his eventual rebirth through music, photography, and love.

Love story, social commentary, family memoir, This Is Gonna Hurt offers the compelling insights of an artist and a man struggling to survive, connect, and find a happy ending—a search that fuels Sixx's being.

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This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx is part photo, part journal—but all Nikki Sixx. It is a collection of compelling photography and stories that capture the rage, love, optimism, darkness, and determination that shape his work. Combining the raw authenticity that defined his New York Times bestseller The Heroin Diaries with a photographic journey, This Is Gonna Hurt chronicles Sixx's experiences—from his early years filled with toxic waste, to his success with Motley Crue, to his death from an OD and his eventual rebirth through music, photography, and love.

Love story, bad-ass rock tell-all, social commentary, family memoir, This Is Gonna Hurt offers the compelling insights of an artist and a man struggling to survive, connect, and find a happy ending—a search that fuels Sixx's being.

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This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx is part photo, part journal—but all Nikki Sixx. It is a collection of compelling photography and stories that capture the rage, love, optimism, darkness, and determination that shape his work. Combining the raw authenticity that defined his New York Times bestseller The Heroin Diaries with a photographic journey, This Is Gonna Hurt chronicles Sixx's experiences—from his early years filled with toxic waste, to his success with Motley Crue, to his near death from an OD and his eventual rebirth through music, photography, and love.

Love story, social commentary, family memoir, This Is Gonna Hurt offers the compelling insights of an artist and a man struggling to survive, connect, and find a happy ending—a search that fuels Sixx's being.

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Edward Hopper Encyclopedia (Paperback)

Edward Hopper Encyclopedia (Paperback)
By Lenora Mamunes

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Edward Hopper was one of the most prominent American realist painters of the twentieth century. This comprehensive encyclopedia is a cross-referenced guide to Hopper's life and art. More than 200 entries focus on his oeuvre, including his most noteworthy oil paintings, watercolors and etchings. The remaining entries highlight individuals central to Hopper's life and career, places where he created art, as well as relevant art terminology. The 350 entries offer a quick and easy source for information for teachers, students, museum and gallery devotees, as well as anyone interested in learning about Hopper. Read more

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Eric Loves Art (Kindle Edition)

Eric Loves Art (Kindle Edition)
By Eric Axelbaum

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Eric Loves Art demonstrates how a little boy overcomes his creative limitations by learning techniques that make art fun again. While Eric Loves Art is written for art teachers, its moral can be useful to any teacher or parent. Read more

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