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Collecting and Studying Ship Portraits
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Ship portraits include paintings, prints, and photographs. A ship portrait is often more than just an image of a vessel. This book focuses primarily on paintings and prints, discussing the content of a portrait and how to interpret the...
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Biełarusian Fine Art: Time and Time Again
Origin, History, Discourse, and Biographies
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It’s hard to imagine feeling a sense of loss for artwork until you become immersed in the stories of the Biełarusian fine artists Dr. Zina Gimpelevich has spotlighted in her newest book. She brought to life artists whose work was curtailed under...
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Gallan
Conversations inspired by Gurmukhi Alphabets
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This is my artistic approach to creating a Punjabi cultural dialogue with 83 pages of photographed and graphically reproduced mixed media illustrations, artworks and digital works, combined with a hand written and a typed collection of "Gallan"...
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Doodle Caboodle
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Get lost in these 50 abstract watercolor paintings by artist Alison Kervin. Add your own creative interpretation to these whimsical colorful pages. Plan your illustration, or let your pen free-flow. Draw vines, lines, flowers, towers, shapes, or...
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The Art of Carol Janeway
A Tile & Ceramics Career with Georg Jensen Inc. and Ossip Zadkine in 1940s Manhattan
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The Art of Carol Janeway portrays the exotic life and artistic career of a woman whose commercial success as a tile decorator and ceramist in New York in the 1940s and later retirement due to lead poisoning offer a fascinating study. Victoria...
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Linear Perspective SIMPLY PUT
The "It Factor" All Too Often Overlooked
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Whether you’re an artist or designer, student or professional, author Rene Thibault’s practical guide expertly outlines how combining linear perspective with artistic license can be a valuable reference tool in visualizing three-dimensional...
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Prudence Heward
Canadian Modernist Painter
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At a time of disdain for modern art and widespread discrimination against women artists, Prudence Heward challenged the conventional in portraits that capture subtleties of emotion and often reflect her own struggles against illness and family...
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Peetakvik
Inuit Arts and Crafts: History for the Future
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This is your invitation to find how, during the 1960s and 70s, a settler’s perspective shaped his view of what happened from his firsthand experiences, what he learned and what he did for better or worse. Then, reading on, learn how government...
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Drawn In
An Illustrated Garden Tour
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The garden is an ever-evolving story unfolding through the seasons from spring heralded by the bloom of delicate flowers and pale leaves unfurling to winter’s eventual wind down. Author and illustrator Alison Syer captures these moments in Drawn...
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Busker and the Trees
Eight Decades of Struggle, Adaptation and Happiness
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Like a busker juggling, we go through life balancing values as balls in the air...If one falls, the good busker picks it quickly up, resumes the performance and the audience applauds the skill in maintaining balance and harmony. Busker and the...
