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Over the course of ten centuries, Islam developed a rich written heritage that is visible in paintings, calligraphies, and manuscripts. The Islamic Manuscript Tradition explores this aspect of Islamic history with studies of the materials and tools of literate culture, including pens, inks, and papers, Qur'ans, Persian and Mughal illustrated manuscripts, Ottoman devotional works, cartographical manuscripts, printed books, and Islamic erotica. Seven...
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Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is one of contemporary art's most newsworthy figures, noted for both his groundbreaking work and his outspoken stance on human rights, which ultimately resulted in his controversial 2011 detainment. In an astonishing new large-scale project, he turns his attention to Alcatraz-a place he cannot visit because he is not permitted to leave China, but that stands as a world-famous symbol of...
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Blue, the world's favorite color, is elegantly showcased in more than 200 artworks from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Representing a diversity of movements, cultures, and media that spans the ages and the globe, the objects in Blue range from ancient Egyptian jewelry and traditional Japanese prints to Impressionist paintings and indigo-dyed textiles. Short essays from museum curators on the significance and symbolism of the color...
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A powerful reminder to anyone who thinks design is primarily a visual pursuit, The Senses accompanies a major exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum that explores how space, materials, sound, and light affect the mind and body. Learn how contemporary designers, including Petra Blaisse, Bruce Mau, Malin+Goetz and many others, engage sensory experience. Multisensory design can solve problems and enhance life for everyone, including...
25) Known Unknowns
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In Known Unknowns, Charles Saatchi provides fascinating insights into some of the world's lesser-known but truly extraordinary historical events and social phenomena.
100 individual essays illustrated with 198 arresting photographs tackle subjects as varied as the tattoo habits of Russian criminals, the Vatican's favourite Barbie, North Korean traffic jams, American gun legislation and the world's richest animal.
Behind each poignant, startling...
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis is the ultimate American fashion icon. Jay Mulvaney, author of Kennedy Weddings, celebrates her unique style in this lavishly illustrated book.
JACKIE: The Clothes of Camelot is a richly illustrated history of those magical years when the Kennedys captivated a nation and the world. Her glamour was electric, her style imaginative, and the effect was brilliant. Jacqueline Kennedy's fashions from the White House...
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Esta guía propone al lector una visita al Museo del Prado con el objetivo de que pueda disfrutar de ella y aprovecharla al máximo. Le invita a detenerse en aquellas obras absolutamente imprescindibles y, sobre todo, le muestra cómo "mirarlas" para percibir aún más su belleza, le ayudará a reparar en la excelencia del artista volcada en su obra y a observar los distintos aspectos y detalles que hacen que esos cuadros sean únicos.
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In this much-anticipated follow-up to his first book, Ashtanga Yoga: Practice and Philosophy, Gregor Maehle offers a detailed and multifaceted guide to Ashtanga Yoga's Intermediate Series. An expert yogi and teacher, Maehle will guide you to your next level with an unprecedented depth of anatomical explanation and unparalleled attention to the practice's philosophical and mythological heritage. You will learn: • The background and applications of...
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VIVERRA FINE ART GALLERY EXHIBITIONS 2023 explores selected works on paper by illustrator Kyle Baker dating from 1986 to 2023, executed in a range of media, from pen and ink drawings to paintings in oil, acrylic, and gouache.
While most of these artworks were created for print publication in newspapers, magazines, and comic books, this collection contains images painstakingly scanned from the original artworks, to ensure the finest possible reproduction....
30) Beechwood Review
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The second issue of Beechwood Review features minimalist writing and art — including haiku, flash fiction, and visual art — from 72 contributors. This issue highlights space, the gaps between milestones, life, and death, after which the world keeps moving. It questions: does nothing only exist around something or is it the other way around?
With haiku, haibun, haiga, one-word poems, and other short poetry, Beechwood Review 2 offers an overview...
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A lavishly illustrated history of America's game from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress, with a foreword by George F. Will and a new preface by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
"One of the most seductively designed books about the sport to come our way. . . . A book like this, so rich and deep in material. . . . brings baseball history to multifaceted life and reminds us that baseball is the sport that celebrates its history...
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Des Gisements Secrets aux Bijoux Royaux, Explorez l'Histoire Fascinante des Gemmes Qui Captivent le MondePlongez au cœur d'une exploration captivante à travers les chapitres de ce livre. Du mystique bleu des saphirs du Cachemire aux éclats éthérés des opales australiennes, ce livre vous emmène dans un voyage époustouflant à la découverte des trésors les plus prisés de la planète.Chaque chapitre dévoile les secrets des gemmes, de leur...
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An elemental force takes pity on a young girl as her life flickers and fades...Worlds burn as phoenixes and dragons collide...A son obsesses over his mortality while his mother blazes with life.
This collection from The Writers' Rooms showcases how brightly our writers' imaginations can shine when consumed by fire. In story, poetry, and art, Writers of the Flames presents a multifaceted universe where the voice of justice can't be snuffed out...Where...
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Sixty original photographs taken at locations across the globe, converted into stunning, unique digital artworks with varying degrees of abstraction. A feast for the eyes and inspiration for the imagination. (Originally released as Stretches of Mind: A Sixth Stroll Through the Davmandy Collection.) The M.I.N.Digital Art Project: M(atter gives shape) I(ndescribable simplicity) N(othing in the world can subjugate it), from stanzas 51, 32, and 37 of...
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A stunning collection of over 200 essential and influential album covers of the decade. A visual reflection of psychedelia-influenced artwork to Punk anti- design — from Pink Floyd to the Sex Pistols. Indispensable purchase for the dedicated follower of music and art The seventies are often regarded as a mean, dark and turbulent decade, full of discontent and pessimism. The album covers of the burgeoning hard rock, progressive rock, pop and punk...
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Arte Popular features 100 pieces from Rex May's extensive collection of exquisite hand-crafted objects from all over Mexico.
Coming from the reputable Mexican Museum, this volume demonstrates the dramatic power of folk art.
This bilingual volume provides a veritable treasure trove of discoveries for the curious reader.
• Features bold and atmospheric photographs
• Includes scholarly essays that delve into the collection's origins and significance
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Le photojournalisme suisse, auquel nous consacrons chaque année la dernière édition de Sept mook, regorge de pépites, parfois oubliées, souvent méconnues. C'est le cas de Marcel Bolomey (1905-2003), né à Carouge (GE), qui fut le premier photographe officiel des Nations Unies avant de couvrir le second conflit mondial pour différents journaux et magazines suisses et étrangers. Le reporter s'est également intéressé à la vie quotidienne...
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Milton Glaser is perhaps the most celebrated graphic designer in the world. As a young man, he read a phrase that stayed with him through his life: "In Search of the Miraculous." One could say that all human experience is a miracle-memory, color, taste, Vermeer, stars, watermelon, etc. For those like Glaser, the act of making things that move the mind is perhaps the deepest aspiration to the miraculous. In this volume, he has chosen work, largely...
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Cigar-bands have sdorned cigars for more than 150 years. Until World War I they were produced and printed to the hightest quality using the best methods available, with the result that many cigar-bands of the time are genuine works of art. Images depicted on the bands are varied, but specific themes may be distinguished – flowers and foliage, for example, or heraldic 'charges', or of course portraits of contemporary rulers and celebrities. This...
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