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Extreme Perspective! For Artists
Written by David Chelsea
Watson-Guptill | Trade Paperback | February 2011
$21.99/24.99(Canada) | 978-0-8230-2665-4 (0-8230-2665-5)
In this sequel to the classic bestseller Perspective! For the Comic Book Artist, David Chelsea takes perspective to a whole other level—by exploring the most dramatic viewpoints employed by today’s artists. Many of these techniques have been carefully guarded secrets for centuries. But David, and his hollow-headed friend, Mugg, make them... > Read more
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The Cave Painters
Written by Gregory Curtis
Anchor | Trade Paperback | October 2007
$15.95/19.95(Canada) | 978-1-4000-7887-5 (1-4000-7887-3)
The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.
Gergory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells us what is known about their creators, the Cro-Magnon... > Read more
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Contemporary Drawing
Written by Margaret Davidson
Watson-Guptill | Hardcover | April 2011
$35.00/40.00(Canada) | 978-0-8230-3315-7 (0-8230-3315-5)
Drawing is experiencing an unparalleled surge in the art world. Passé notions that once defined drawing as being a preparatory stage for painting or sculpture have long since been cast aside. Drawing is now fully recognized as its own art form—in the biennials, art fairs, museum exhibitions, and beyond. Drawing has... > Read more
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Leonardo's Swans
Written by Karen Essex
Anchor | Trade Paperback | January 2007
$15.95/18.95(Canada) | 978-0-7679-2306-4 (0-7679-2306-5)
Isabelle d’Este, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara, born into privilege and the political and artistic turbulence of Renaissance Italy, is a stunning black-eyed blond and an art lover and collector. Worldly and ambitious, she has never envied her less attractive sister, the spirited but naïve Beatrice, until, by a quirk... > Read more
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Successful Drawing
Written by Andrew Loomis
Titan Books | Hardcover | May 2012
$39.95/46.00(Canada) | 978-0-85768-761-6 (0-85768-761-1)
The illustrator Andrew Loomis is revered amongst artists for his mastery of drawing technique and his clean, realist style. His hugely influential series of art instruction books have never been bettered and Successful Drawing, the third in Titan's programme of facsimile editions, returns this classic title to print for the first... > Read more
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Van Gogh
Written by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Random House Trade Paperbacks | Trade Paperback | December 2012
$25.00/29.95(Canada) | 978-0-375-75897-3 (0-375-75897-6)
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Jackson Pollock, have written another tour de force—an exquisitely detailed, compellingly readable portrait of Vincent van Gogh. Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Naifeh and Smith have accessed a wealth... > Read more
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Glittering Images
Written by Camille Paglia
Pantheon | Hardcover | October 2012
$30.00/34.00(Canada) | 978-0-375-42460-1 (0-375-42460-1)
From the best-selling author of Sexual Personae and Break, Blow, Burn and one of our most acclaimed cultural critics, here is an enthralling journey through Western art’s defining moments, from the ancient Egyptian tomb of Queen Nefertari to George Lucas’s volcano planet duel in Revenge of the Sith.
America’s premier intellectual provocateur... > Read more
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Rough Justice
Written by Alex Ross Edited by Chip Kidd
Pantheon | Hardcover | March 2010
$30.00/37.00(Canada) | 978-0-375-71490-0 (0-375-71490-1)
From the sensational, award-winning artist of the bestselling Mythology: his never-before-seen DC Comics sketchbook.
Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the stunning black-and-white drawings of the DC characters you loved from Mythology: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Black Canary, and many more. All of Alex Ross’s extraordinary... > Read more
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Vanished Smile
Written by R.A. Scotti
Vintage | Trade Paperback | April 2010
$15.00/18.95(Canada) | 978-0-307-27838-8 (0-307-27838-7)
On August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s most celebrated painting vanished from the Louvre. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art.
The sensational disappearing act captured the world’s imagination. Crowds stood in line to view the empty space... > Read more
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