Lexicon of Tribal Tattoos: Motifs ... by Radomir Fiksa
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Tattoos have played an important role in human culture for thousands of years. Ideal for the tattoo artist, anthropologist, or tattoo fan, this visual lexicon covers tattoos from hundreds of different cultures and lists meanings, reasons for wearing, rites of passage, and indicates placement for thousan ...Show more
Creative Couples - Collaborations That Changed History by NAZARIAN ANGELLA M.
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Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits by David Dawson (Text by); Lucian Freud (Artist); Joseph Koerner (Text by); Jasper Sharp (Text by); Sebastian Smee (Text by)
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The artist stripped bare by himself: Lucian Freud's self-portraits redefine the genre In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them "revealing, telling, believable ... really shameless." It was advice that the artist wa ...Show more
Mies van der Rohe by Claire Zimmerman; Peter Gössel (Editor)
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Less is more: Finding perfection in purity Famed for his motto "less is more," Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated tastemaker of twentieth century aesthetics and urban experience.Mies van der Rohe's philosophy was one of underly ...Show more
Wright by Pfeiffer Bruce Brooks ; Gossel Peter
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Category: Artwork | Series: Basic Art Ser.
That's Wright One of the greatest pioneers in the history of architecture Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and a ...Show more
Australia at the Venice Biennale: A Century of Contemporary Art by Kerry Gardner
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Before the winds of World War I blew Europe apart, a rowdy and radical group of Australian artists would gather in the salons of Paris and London to embrace new ways of painting and seeing the world. By 1914 twelve of them had shown their works at the Venice International Exhibition, now known as the Ve ...Show more
Albrecht Dürer by Christof Metzger (Editor)
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Rediscover the drawings of Albrecht D rer, one of the most prominent Renaissance artists, known as an incomparable painter and draughtsman with a keen eye for the natural world. During his lifetime, D rer found tremendous success as a painter and printmaker, taking commissions from prominent figures suc ...Show more
Rosie Sanders' Roses: A Celebration of Botanical Art by Rosie Sanders
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This stunning follow-up to the hugely popular Rosie Sanders' Flowers showcases the beauty of the beloved rose. Award-winning artist Rosie Sanders turns her attention to the ever-popular rose, presenting more than 50 of her most beautiful paintings for the very first time. For every painting here, Sander ...Show more
Moonlight Travellers by Will Self, Quentin Blake
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‘The moon drives everyone mad – you know that, well enough. But this is no lycanthropic or otherwise spooky metamorphosis: it’s far stranger than that…’ When Quentin Blake embarked on creating a set of new drawings on fantasies of travel, even he had not envisaged a series so sombre, so haunting, as Moo ...Show more
Desperately Seeking Banksy by Xavier Tapies
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'People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish...but that's only if it's done properly.' Banksy Banksy's subversive genius and astute political commentary are on full display in Desperately Seeking B**ksy, from The Flower Thrower (2003) and Kissing Coppers (2004) to 'Bemusement Park' Dismaland ...Show more
The Green Florilegium by Hanne Kolind Poulsen (Contribution by)
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This elegant book features exquisite reproductions of a rare 17th-century album of floral illustrations. Very little is known about The Green Florilegium. Neither signed nor dated, it is generally attributed to the German painter Hans Simon Holtzbecker and originates from the library at Gottorp Castle i ...Show more
Breakdowns by Art Spiegelman
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The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form . . . and how it formed him!**In a new flexibound format with an updated afterword** This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. ...Show more