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Fred

Supported by his wife Penelope, his cat Anthony and his friends Constance, Pip and the Nesbits, Fred makes seemingly ordinary occasions not only extraordinary, but completely...

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Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005

By looking back at seventy years of Penguin paperbacks, graphic designer Phil Baines charts the development of British publishing, the ever-changing currents of cover art and style, and the role ...

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Jack B.Yeats

Manufacturer: Andre Deutsch Ltd Author: Hilary Pyle ISBN: 023398738X Number Of Pages: 1800

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Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 1: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures

Discover the lessons that helped bring about a new golden age of Disney animation!Published for the first time ever, Drawn to Life is a two volume collection of the legendary lectures from long-time...

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Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 2: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures

Discover the lessons that helped bring about a new golden age of Disney animation!Published for the first time ever, Drawn to Life is a two volume collection of the legendary lectures from long-time...

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The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)

Manufacturer: Paul Mellon Centre BA Author: Graham Reynolds Author: J. Constable ISBN: 0300031513 Number Of Pages: 940

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James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonne (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)

Painter, etcher, draughtsman, lithographer, watercolourist, and author of critical essays and aphorisms, James McNeill Whistler had a tremendous influence on the art and aesthetics of his era. Born...

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Prints and Drawings

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30–1569) was a remarkable draftsman and designer of prints as well as a great painter. His independent drawings and designs for engravings and etchings, which...

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John Everett Millais: Beyond the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The long and stellar career of John Everett Millais (1829-1896) has been framed in terms of his rise to notoriety as an original member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood followed by a...

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Gainsborough in Bath (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)

When Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) arrived in the spa town of Bath, England, at the age of thirty-one, he was an artist of modest reputation. When he left sixteen years later, he was recognized as...

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Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonne (3 volumes) (Yale University Art Gallery) (v. 1)

Stuart Davis (1892-1964) made a mark on the art world early in his career, first with his Ashcan works and then with his highly personal version of Cubism, which firmly established American modernism...

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Pierre Puvis De Chavannes: A Critical Study of His Life and Art

Understanding Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) is crucial to reading the history of art of the late nineteenth century and the development of modernism. Internationally heralded yet sometimes scorned,...

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Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

Only twenty-five at the time of his death in 1828, young Richard Parkes Bonington nevertheless was a seminal figure in the development of modernism in nineteenth-century French painting. This...

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The Drawings of Bronzino (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Drawings by the great Italian Mannerist painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) are extremely rare. This important and beautiful publication brings together for the first time nearly all of the...

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Instant Expert: Collecting Political Memorabilia

Learn to think, talk, buy, and sell like an expert!•With the 2004 Presidential election in full swing, politics are on everyone’s mind—especially collectors!• Covers the diverse range of...

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Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative (Will Eisner Instructional Books)

Two classic drawing textbooks from an American comics pioneer, revised and enhanced for a new generation. Based on Will Eisner’s legendary course at New York’s...

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Watercolor Painting For Dummies

Watercolor Painting For Dummies

Have you ever been amazed by watercolor paintings that seem to spring to life before your eyes? Would you love to be able to paint with watercolors? Now, you can. Watercolor Painting For Dummies...

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Watercolor Painting For Dummies

Drawing Shortcuts: Developing Quick Drawing Skills Using Today's Technology

The updated edition of a contemporary approach to merging traditional hand drawing methods with 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional digital visualization tools. Jim Leggitt?s Drawing Shortcuts...

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Watercolor Painting For Dummies

ZBrush Digital Sculpting Human Anatomy

Taking into account that many of today's digital artists -- particularly 3D character animators -- lack foundational artistic instruction, this book teaches anatomy in a coherent and succinct style....

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Pastels For Dummies

Pastels For Dummies

The latest tips and techniques for working with pastels - in full color Pastels offer bright colors, a great level of portability, and no drying time - plus they're relatively inexpensive and can...

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Pastels For Dummies

Meggs' History of Graphic Design

Now in its Fourth Edition, this unrivaled, seminal work continues its long tradition of providing balanced insight and thorough historical background. Under the new authorial leadership of Alston...

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Pastels For Dummies

Insects Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)

Illustrations of 16 fascinating insects are waiting to be brought to glowing life with crayons, paints, or markers and a light source. Ready-to-color butterfly, ladybug, honeybee, hornet, stag...

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Pastels For Dummies

Thinking Is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys

Beuys, like Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, precisely orchestrated his public image, building a personal myth that has the power to bind together his entire oeuvre. This book attempts to break...

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Pastels For Dummies

Henri Matisse: A Retrospective

Lavishly produced in oversize format, here is the complete illustrated catalogue of a landmark new exhibition devoted to the artist--the largest ever assembled--to be held at The Museum of Modern...

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Pastels For Dummies

El Greco: The Burial of Count Orgaz

"The Burial of the Count of Orgaz" is one of El Greco's most famous paintings, and a key work in the Mannerist tradition. Painted between 1586 and 1588 in the church of Santo Tome in Toledo, it was...

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Pastels For Dummies

Pleasant Places: The Rustic Landscape from Breugel to Ruisdael

The varieties of pleasure and their expression in Dutch rustic landscapes of the seventeenth century are recurring themes in Walter S. Gibson's engaging new book. Gibson focuses on Haarlem...

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Pastels For Dummies

Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Books)

Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, was described in 1604 by his earliest biographer as a supremely comic artist, few of whose...

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Pastels For Dummies

Guido Reni's Abduction of Helen: The Politics and Rhetoric of Painting in Seventeenth-Century Europe

This study explores how Guido Reni's Abduction of Helen functioned as an instrument of political rhetoric in the context of diplomatic relations among Spain, France and the Holy See during the Thirty...

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Pastels For Dummies

Green Eyes and Black Rifles: Warriors Guide to the Combat Carbine

From Mogadishu to Mosul Drawing on combat experience from Mogadishu, Somalia to Mosul, Iraq, Retired SGM Kyle E. Lamb passes on lessons learned to fellow Warriors. Green Eyes and Black Rifles: ...

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Pastels For Dummies

Constable: Impressions of Land, Sea and Sky

This is a sumptuous volume focuses on 108 works by Constable with many supplementary images and six illuminating essays. The publication also includes 47 images by a group of 13 Australian artists...

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Pastels For Dummies

Matisse and the Subject of Modernism

Focusing on the period 1905-1913, this provocative and groundbreaking new book refutes the popular view of Matisse as the painter of relaxed pleasures, the master of decorative line and sensuous...

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Pastels For Dummies

Magritte: Colour Library (Phaidon Colour Library)

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations...

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Pastels For Dummies

Hogarth: Representing Nature's Machine (The Barber Institutes Critical Perspectives in Art History Series)

The contributors to this book provide a fresh, challenging perspective on the work of the great British painter and printmaker. Applying new studies of 18th-century science and philosophy, the essays...

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Pastels For Dummies

We Love Daddy

Manufacturer: Boxtree Ltd ISBN: 0752222449 Number Of Pages: 64

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Pastels For Dummies

Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants

Following the success of Anatomy for the Artist and Sketch Book for the Artist, Botany for the Artist teaches readers in step-by-step illustrations and expert narrative instruction how to master the...

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