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When words are bereft of their power and meaning, art is able to communicate in its stead. This is evidenced in the 2024 ceramic work honoured with the Westerwald Prize. Text in English and German.

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Learn how to critique your own art, quickly identify problems, and fix them to improve both your work and technique.

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"Explore the artistry behind the gorgeous animated series, Castlevania! This art book contains stunning, never-before-seen concept art for the wildly popular series. Fans will covet this opportunity to learn all there is to know about the development of the show with this beautiful hardcover tome!"--

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Character Design Quarterly is a creative, bright, and engaging magazine for artists, animators, illustrators, and character designers of all levels.

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Learn how to draw just about everything under the sun--from bumblebees and broccoli to pianos and pizza. With over 1000 cute and easy illustrations, there's something for everyone! Inside these pages, you'll find endless inspiration for drawing people, animals, flowers, food, everyday objects, holiday motifs, and more!

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The human head and hands are the most difficult elements in figure drawing. This title offers a solution for such drawing.

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A fine and vivid record of Australian colonial life, society and identity, this book examines the conditions under which these artists practised, exploring patronage of the arts in colonial Sydney and Hobart and profiles the pre-eminence of drawing and printmaking in the early years of visual arts in Australia.

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When Georgia O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917, she was instantly drawn to the stark beauty of its unusual architectural and landscape forms. This book analyzes the artist's famous depictions of these Southwestern landscapes. It accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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As a metaphor for the living, Gerti Machaceks jewellery is very much centred on the body, geared toward movement and changing perspectives. Text in English and German.

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Hailed as the saviour' of Venetian painting by Jacob Burckhardt and declared by Albrecht Durer to be the foremost painter of the city, Giovanni Bellini is a pivotal figure in the development of Italian Renaissance art. This title charts the trajectory of Bellini's career, highlighting the works that established his influence in the Renaissance.

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Produced from plants by a process akin to alchemy, indigo has a unique chemistry that renders it compatible with all natural fibres. This title is the story of a commodity that has been central to international trade and textile production for centuries, across time and cultures.

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Wilhelm Lindemann and Christianne Weber-Stber document in this study the independent contribution to the evolution of early German jewellery design between 1910 and 1933 using the Oberstein company Jakob Bengel as an example. Text in English and German.

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The Dutch art historian and jewellery expert Marjan Unger died back in 2018, at the age of seventy-two. Through her teaching and her myriad projects, exhibitions and publications, she influenced generations of jewellery artists and theorists in the applied disciplines.

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David Maclagan's book is an investigation of scribbling, doodling and automatic drawing, marginal forms that have all been used by modern artists seeking spontaneous or 'unconscious' creation.

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In LithoMania, part of the Design Lab exhibition series at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin, students from the Idar-Oberstein campus of the Trier University of Applied Sciences explore the complex ambivalence of gemstones in objects, drawings, photographs, and texts. Text in English and German.

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Analyses the origins, history and logic of 'still life', one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. This work surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from 17th-century Spanish painting to Cubism. It tackles the controversial field of 17th-century Dutch still life.

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A collection of historical and erotically charged drawings depicting aspects of gay male sexuality that were once hidden from public view.

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In Ding Dong, Manfred Bischoff's (19472015) work will be showcased in its entirety for the very first time. Text in English and German.