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Enlightening facts from the ancient Eastern disciplines of the martial arts and their modern adaptations include full explanations of terms, the martial arts in film, and color and black-&-white photos and illustrations. [More..] | |
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A Christmas book which includes stories, poems and carols (with music). The contributors range from William Shakespeare to Ogden Nash and include Hans Christian Andersen, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes and Louisa May Alcott. The book closes with the recipes for Fannie Merritt Farmer's Christmas Dinner, from her 1896 cookbook. [More..] | |
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The four decades between 1910 and 1950 were the golden age of the American movie poster, an era when films were promoted through the talents of legendary illustrators like Thomas Hart Benton and Norman Rockwell. A selection of these posters, many never before published, is presented in this volume. [More..] | |
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Provides instructions for making such traditional North American Indian crafts as dreamcatchers, beadwork, and cornhusk dolls. [More..] | |
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A nostalgic collection of Norman Rockwell's scenes of twentieth century American life includes all of the Saturday Evening Post covers plus paintings, drawings, and graphics from every period of the artist's career--with many foldout pages. [More..] | |
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In 1995 Nicholas Basbanes introduced a resonant phrase to describe the obsessive passion people have had over the past twenty-five hundred years to possess books, a condition more commonly known as bibliomania, one he christened in his book A Gentle Madness. Reviewing the work in the Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda judged it to be a gallery of wonderful characters, "each more appealing than the last."Now, in Patience & Fortitude, Basbanes continues his discursive adventures among the gently mad, expanding his focus to probe the more comprehensive concept of book culture. Visiting many key "book places" around the world, he talks with a striking variety of kindred spirits, each one a living testament to the unend [More..] | |
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This book takes a look at Chinese art within a variety of contexts—archeological, cultural, historical, social, and ritual/religious. Organized both chronologically and thematically, it covers a full historical span and includes a wide range of media settings for art—from elite to popular. An emphasis on the dynamic processes that effect the history of Chinese art: social, economic, political competition, urbanization, markets and tastes, and quests for cultural authority, allows specific works of art to be discussed in extensive detail, while setting them within larger explanatory stories. A guide to Chinese art for individuals interested in one of the most abundantly artistic cultures in the history of the world. [More..] | |
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Meet Bolt: dashing super-dog loyal companion star of a hit television show. This heartfelt Disney computer-animated film follows Bolt on a cross country journey as he learns his entire life has been fakeóand discovers he doesn't need super powers to be a hero. The Art of Bolt is a beautiful collection of more than 250 pieces of concept art created for the film including storyboards sketches color scripts full-color illustrations as well as material from the fabled Disney archives. Quotes by the director producer and artists contextualize the art and thoughtful essays explore Disney's past present and future in animation. [More..] | |
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During his childhood in Spain, young Pablo’s earliest influence was his father, who was also an artist. When he moved to Paris, Picasso’s artistic life burst into full bloom. In addition to sculpture, he innovated many enduring painting styles, including Cubism. [More..] | |
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