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"Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelsons brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelsons passion for dialogue and dissent."--
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten - certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
3) Painting abstract nature on canvas: a guide to creating vibrant art with watercolour and mixed media
Author
Publisher
Search Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Whether you are starting your painting journey or wish to improve your skills, abstract painting is achievable and satisfying for artists. Jane Betteridge is known for her use of vibrant color and she shows you the way to combine watercolor and mixed media and achieve great results. Using watercolor, inks, pastels, and other media, this book will help you to explore the abstract world of art. The book demonstrates skills and steps to start your art...
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Latin American artists have gained increasing international prominence as the art world awakens to the area's extraordinary art scenes and histories. In an accessible A-Z format, this volume introduces key artworks by 308 artists who together demonstrate the variety and vitality of artwork being made. Focusing on those born, or who have lived, in the 20 Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions of Latin America, and featuring historic and living artists...
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Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Board book First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Featuring artists from Bill Traylor to Josef Albers, young readers can discover mesmerizing black and white artworks and objects from across The Met’s incredible collection. Developed in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met Black and White is guaranteed to spark a lifelong love of learning and art appreciation and is perfect for very young children with a developing sense of vision.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A best-selling, Pulitzer Prize finalist examines the criminal biography of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, focusing on separating fact from fiction in the story of what is not only the most famous art heist in history, but which is the single most famous theft of all time.
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Publisher
C&T Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
2nd edition.
Language
English
Description
This second edition of Carol Doak's Fabulous Paper Pieced Stars includes updated information all new fabrics, illustrations, and photography and 10 new blocks based on the national parks. Readers will receive tips for using precuts, full-size paper piecing patterns, and step-by-step instructions on paper piecing. This second edition book includes updated information with new fabrics, illustrations, photography, and full-size paper piecing patterns.--...
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Publisher
Michael Sampson Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Alithia Ramirez dreamed of studying art in Paris. She drew the world as it should be--full of color and joy, creativity and fun. From her teachers to her family and friends, Alitha shared her gifts with an open heart. Being an artist is never easy, but she drew every day to practice her skills and help everyone feel the love that art can bring. Written to honor Alithia and all the lives affected by the Uvalde school tragedy, [this book] will help...
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Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Featuring peek-through gatefolds and questions to encourage active reading, this invitation into the world of art and color introduces kids to basic art styles, such as mosaics, portraits, sculptures and landscapes, with the help of adorable animal friends.
Author
Publisher
Chin Music Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"As a young man, David A. Boxley hungered for authentic Tsimshian culture. Christian missionaries had whitewashed his people's past, stripping them of their language and traditions. Boxley bristled at the cheap totem poles passed off on tourists for a couple of bucks. He missed the potlatches, the totem-pole raisings, the traditional dances that bonded his people in previous generations. But Tsimshian culture had been so thoroughly erased, he had...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey-this time burrowing deep inside the impassioned, secretive world of art and artists An award-winning journalist obsessed with obsession, Bianca Bosker's existence was upended when she wandered into the art world-and couldn't look away. Intrigued by artists who hyperventilate around their favorite colors and art fiends who max...
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English
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"Michelangelo created some of the world's most recognizable art, from the statue of David to the intricate ceiling fresco of the Sistine Chapel. Beyond his well-known painting and sculpting, he was a gifted poet and architect. Young readers can learn about the entirety of Michelangelo's life, from his time as a young apprentice, and his relationships with several Catholic popes and the Medici family, to his unwillingness to stop working into his late...
Author
Publisher
Panamericana Editorial
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Miranda shows us her vulnerability, her fears and her sadness. Although her path is full of setbacks and framed by a pandemic that has forced her to hide behind her anguish, she will find in music the way to escape from that internal prison in which an unhealthy society locked her"--Google translation of back cover.
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Publisher
Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"From former editor-in-chief of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations examining the very personal, rigorous, complex, and elusive work of making art. What is the work of art? In this guided tour inside the artist's head, Adam Moss traces the evolution of transcendent novels, paintings, jokes, movies, songs, and more. Weaving conversations with some of the most accomplished artists of our time together with the journal...
17) Icarus
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A thief who steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries while targeting Mr. Black, the man responsible for his mother's death, Icarus Gallagher is torn between family loyalty, revenge, escape and Mr. Black's son--the boy he's come to love.
"Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries. For years, one man--the wealthy Mr. Black--has been their target in...
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A selection of 72 carefully selected plates from Bentley's painstakingly mounted images showing remarkable revelations of nature's diversity. For nearly 50 years, American photographer W. A. Bentley photographed thousands of snowflakes in his Vermont workshop. His painstakingly mounted images were remarkable revelations of nature's diversity, with no two snowflakes exactly alike, but all based on a common hexagon. In 1931, the American Meteorological...
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