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Facial Expressions
A Visual Reference for Artists
Written by Mark Simon
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2005
Price: $21.99
All artists are tired of persuading their nearest and dearest to look sad…look glad…look mad…madder…no, even madder…okay, hold it. For those artists (and their long-suffering friends), here is the best book ever. Facial Expressions includes more than 2,500 photographs of 50 faces—men and women of a variety of ages, shapes, sizes...
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Dynamic Figure Drawing
Written by Burne Hogarth
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1996
Price: $22.99
This powerful book offers a systematic approach to rendering action figures that seem to leap off the page.
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Color Choices
Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory
Written by Stephen Quiller
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2002
Price: $22.99
Internationally renowned artist and best selling author Stephen Quiller shows readers how to discover their own personal "color sense" in
Color Choices, a book that offers readers a fresh perspective on perfecting their own color styles.
With the help of his own "Quiller Wheel," a special foldout wheel featuring 68 precisely placed...
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Artistic Anatomy
Written by Dr. Paul Richer
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1986
Price: $24.95
Artistic Anatomy is widely acknowledged to be the greatest book of its kind since the Renaissance. The original French edition, now a rare collector's item, was published in 1889 and was probably used as a resource by Renoir, Braque, Degas, Bazille, and many others. The English-language edition, first published 35 years...
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Apollo's Angels
A History of Ballet
Written by Jennifer Homans
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2011
Price: $20.00
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For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history of ballet ever written—is a groundbreaking work. From ballet’s origins in the Renaissance...
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Best of Both Worlds
Museums, Libraries, and Archives in the Digital Age
Written by G. Wayne Clough
Format: eBook, 78 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2013
Price: $0.00
Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, asks “How can we prepare ourselves to reach the generation of digital natives who bring a huge appetite—and aptitude—for the digital world?” He explains how the Smithsonian is tackling this issue in Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age.
Libraries...
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Stan Lee's How to Draw Comics
From the Legendary Creator of Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Iron Man
Written by Stan Lee
Illustrated by Jack Kirby, John Romita, Sr., Neal Adams and Gil Kane
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 16, 2010
Price: $24.99
In
Stan Lee's How to Draw Comics, Stan Lee reveals his secrets for:
* Costumes * Penciling, Inking & Coloring * Lettering & Word Balloons
* Digital Advances * Perspective & Foreshortening * What Makes Great Action * Page & Panel Layout * Covers * Creating a Portfolio * Getting Work
When it...
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Glittering Images
A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars
Written by Camille Paglia
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 13, 2013
Price: $18.95
Modern life is a sea of images. With so much visual data bombarding us—from personal devices to mass media—our brains must rapidly adapt to make sense of it all. Here to guide us is America's premier intellectual provocateur, Camille Paglia.
In these pages, Paglia returns to the subject that made her famous...
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