382 books (20 pages) in this category
Finding Ramayana in Myanmar
by Dawn F. Rooney
<p>The <em>Thiri Rama</em> – or the Great Rama – was written for court performance and is the only known illustrated version of the <em>Ramayana</em> story in Myanmar. Based on palm-leaf manuscripts and scenes carved on over 300 sandstone ...
ISBN: 9781315313955
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eBookby Peter Max
<p>Enter <em>The Universe According to Peter Max</em>. A true Pop Art icon—one of the world’s most well-loved visual artists—Peter Max now offers us an intimate, unprecedented look at the inner workings of his imagination. Vibrantly colored ...
ISBN: 9780062121400
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eBookThe Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art
by Claudette Lauzon
<p>In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma.</p> <p>Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists ...
ISBN: 9781442621596
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eBookThe Life of Greg Curnoe
by James King
<ul> <li>First-ever biography and critical survey of a major artist who disrupted the Canadian art establishment</li> <li>Features gorgeous colour reproductions of many of Curnoe’s most vivid and important paintings, which have not been ...
ISBN: 9781459736900
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eBookThe Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture
by Dr. Sarah Allan, Dr. Qianshen Bai, Susan Bush & others
<p>China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names of foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. In modern times,
ISBN: 9780824872748
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eBookGreat Britain on the London Stages under James VI and I
by Tristan Marshall
<p>This book looks at the genesis of the British national identity in the reign of King James I and VI. While devolution is currently decentralizing Britain, this book examines how the idea of a united kingdom was created in the first place. It ...
ISBN: 9781526134745
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eBookTheodore Steele: 154 Colour Plates
by Maria Peitcheva
<p>Theodore Clement Steele (1847 – 1926) was an American Impressionist painter known for his Indiana landscapes. Steele was an innovator and leader in American Midwest painting and is considered to be the most important of Indiana's Hoosier ...
ISBN: 9788822856470
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eBookThomas Cole: Selected Paintings
by Gibb Crompton
<p>Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848) was an American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's Hudson River School, as well as his own work, was known for ...
ISBN: 9788826092874
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eBookThomas Eakins: 164 Colour Plates
by Maria Peitcheva
<p>Thomas Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. He painted several hundred portraits, usually of ...
ISBN: 9788892586772
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eBookThomas Moran: Selected Paintings (Colour Plates)
by Caitlin Mcnealy
<p>Thomas Moran (1837 – 1926) from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth, took ...
ISBN: 9788826094892
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eBookJournal of My Last Spring
by Tim Bouma
<p>Tom Thomson, as the famous Canadian landscape artist, gave Canada its most enduring icons, <em>The Jack Pine</em> and <em>The West Wind.</em> But Tom Thomson, as a private man, remains an enigma. Little is known about the man and even less is
ISBN: 9781772571769
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eBookGrowing Up in Wallace Berman's World
by Tosh Berman & Amber Tamblyn
<p><strong>TOSH:</strong> Selling and Marketing Points:</p> <p> </p> <p>Candid, funny, name-dropping, page-turning memoir by Tosh Berman, the son of Wallace Berman.</p> <p> </p> <p>Wallace Berman is one of the most significant artists of ...
ISBN: 9780872867642
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eBookby Ray Ellenwood
<p>Inspired by the distinguished painter Paul-Émile Borduas, this collective manifesto serves as an invaluable introduction to the major figures of the Canadian avant-garde scene in the 1970s. Generously illustrated with photographs from the ...
ISBN: 9781550966978
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eBookby Maria Peitcheva
<p>Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is best known as a chronicler of the nightlife of late 19th century Paris. He used to frequent the nightclubs and cafés of Montmartre, befriending the dancers and prostitutes, making countless sketches as they comb ...
ISBN: 9788892556362
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eBookTradition and Transformation in Christian Art
The Transcultural Icon
by C.A. Tsakiridou
<p><em>Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art approaches tradition and transculturality in religious art from an Orthodox perspective that defines tradition as a dynamic field of exchanges and synergies between iconographic types and ...
ISBN: 9781351187251
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eBookArtist of the South Pacific
by CJ Cook
Ralph Burke Tyree was an American artist who was the most prolific portrait artist of the South Pacific peoples of the 20th century. He was from central California and his art education took place in San Francisco. Seven weeks after the Japanese
ISBN: 9780998422411
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eBookby Maria Peitcheva
<p>Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. In just over a decade he produced over 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, the majority created in the ...
ISBN: 9788822859815
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eBookby Deanna Michaels
<p><strong>Vatican City In Pencil</strong></p> <p>A hypnotic collection of pencil drawings of this beautiful and religiously moving city...Get it now!</p> ...
ISBN: 9781386500575
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eBookby Deanna Michaels
<p><strong>Versailles In Pencil</strong></p> <p>A beautiful hypnotic collection of pencil drawings of this amazing city...Get it now!</p> ...
ISBN: 9781386034674
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eBookU.S. Army Rotor Aircraft
by John Brennan & Chris Evans
<p>Hundreds of unique color photos showing how soldiers decorated their helicopters during the Vietnam War.</p> ...
ISBN: 9780811748940
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