Calligraphy Bible
A Complete Guide to More Than 100 Essential Projects and Techniques
Written by Maryanne Grebenstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $24.99
The Ultimate Guide to Essential Materials, Techniques, and Projects for Calligraphers
From ancient to modern times, the art of calligraphy has brought the written word to life, beautifying folklore, letters, poetry, and more. Embark on a journey through time, as the book examines the history of writing and its transformations. Between these...
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Classical Drawing Atelier
A Complete Course in Traditional Studio Practice
Written by Juliette Aristides
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2006
Price: $29.95
Ateliers have produced the greatest artists of all time—and now that educational model is experiencing a renaissance. These studios, a return to classical art training, are based on the nineteenth-century model of teaching artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. Students begin by copying masterworks...
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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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Manga Mania Chibi and Furry Characters
How to Draw the Adorable Mini-Characters and Cool Cat-Girls of Manga
Written by Christopher Hart
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2006
Price: $19.95
Everyone loves chibi, the newest, hottest manga style out of Asia. Chibis—characters that range from hypercute miniature people to bizarrely sexy furry characters—come in all varieties, all roles, including chibi teenagers, faeries, schoolgirls, nurses, mermaids, devils, angels, and everything in between. Now Christopher Hart, the world's best-selling author of cartoon and...
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The Art of Video Games
From Pac-Man to Mass Effect
Written by Chris Melissinos
Foreword by Elizabeth Broun
Introduction by Mike Mika
Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2012
Price: $40.00
In the forty years since the first Magnavox Odyssey pixel winked on in 1972, the home video game industry has undergone a mind-blowing evolution. Fueled by unprecedented advances in technology, boundless imaginations, and an insatiable addiction to fantastic new worlds of play, the video game has gone supernova, rocketing two generations...
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Rough Justice
The DC Comics Sketches of Alex Ross
Written by Alex Ross
Edited by Chip Kidd
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $24.95
**NOW IN PAPERBACK, WITH COLOR AND BLACK-AND-WHITE DRAWINGS THROUGHOUT**
Alex Ross opens his private sketchbooks to reveal his astonishing pencil and ink drawings of DC Comics characters, nearly all of them appearing in print here for the first time in paperback.
Thousands of fans from around the world have thrilled to Alex’s fully...
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