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Renaissance Art Book
Art history need not be dry or dull, as Wenda O'Reilly's The Renaissance Art Book shows. Featuring 90 full-color photos of many of the masterpieces of the movement, the book delves into the work of such masters as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, and Fra Angelico. O'Reilly finds |
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An Introduction to Acrylics (DK Art School)
The DK Art School series provides all the fundamental techniques both adult and juvenile artists need. At the heart of each book are twelve projects that explore the methods of the great masters. Each specially commissioned painting is broken down in step-by-step color photos that show every stage |
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Stacked Decks: The Art and History of Erotic Playing Cards
They've been called wolf decks, stag decks, and plain old nudie playing cards. They're older than poker, older than blackjack, and they offer a fascinating window into society's ever-changing views of female beauty. Stacked Decks features images of hundreds of erotic playing cards from 1807 to the |
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The Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art
Airfix has been commercially producing plastic kits since 1952 and its models have been made by successive generations of young boys and men alike. In the 1960s, a talented graphic artist called Roy Cross was commissioned to paint some of the box art for Airfix, and for a ten-year-period he |
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Marc Chagall: What Colour Is Paradise? (Adventures in Art)
What color is Paradise? This and other intriguing questions are answered in this delightful look at Chagall's brightly-colored biblical paintings. For Chagall, God was present in all people and all things. In his paintings he therefore mixed together the story of the Bible and the everyday world |
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Daily Life in Art
"The comforts of home" may be a cliché, but how has its meaning evolved over centuries? Béatrice Fontanel seeks answers to that question through the prism of visual art. Her close reading of nearly 100 European and American paintings, reproduced vividly in large format, illuminates the technical |
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The Art of Arts: Rediscovering Painting
In this utterly original book, Anita Albus tells the story--in the birth and triumph of oil painting, the creation of perspective, and the very nature of paint itself--of how, when, and why the eye became king of all the senses. Albus's subjects are the inventors of easel painting in |
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Renoir Paintings: 24 Art Cards (Card Books)
Magnificent paintings in miniature by a towering figure in the world of modern art focus on artist’s favorite subjects: beautiful women, adorable children, and people enjoying themselves. Includes Bather with Blonde Hair, Country Dance, Girl with Parasol, Lady with a Fan, 20 others. Captions.
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