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The beauty of shells has captivated humans since the earliest times. These gifts of nature have been put to an array of uses - sharpened into tools, ground to make medicines, blown to make music. But above all, the beauty of shells has fired the imagination of artists and craftsmen through the ages.

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Discovered in 1866 as two separate pieces and acquired by the British Museum in 1887, the sculpture known as the swimming reindeer depicts a male and a female reindeer with their heads up and legs extended, and was created at least 13,000 years ago.

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An atlas of the best tattoo artists on the planet.

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Accompanying the Smithsonian Institutions major exhibition, this book features more than sixty objects that large embassies, diplomatic missions and trade delegations from Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Iran offered to the Tsars of Russia. It explores the reasons why these extraordinary gifts were presented, their artistic and cultural impact.

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A guide to the art, artists, and culture of graffiti from the 1970s to today, as told by the taggers themselves

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Presents a selection of about 100 plants that grow wild in Ireland or are cultivated in Irish gardens. This book features plants that range from native plants to exotic species introduced from the New World and Asia, unusual plants that grow in some of the most extreme environments in Ireland, and hybrids created by plant breeders.

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The World of Ornament brings together the two greatest encyclopedic collections of ornament of the 19th century: Auguste Racinet's L'Ornement polychrome Volumes I and II and Auguste Dupont-Auberville's L'Ornement des tissus to provide one lavish source book spanning jewelry, tile, stained glass, illuminated manuscript, textile and ceramic ornament.

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A 30-day masterclass in the art of using watercolor to tell your own stories

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The British Museum holds an unrivalled collection of Bewicks works, including those from his commercial ventures, and this book celebrates the skill of the artist by presenting sixty engravings, some never published before, and by offering a historical perspective.

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The first biography since 1877 of Venices greatest artist a towering work which captures the genius of Titian, beautifully illustrated throughout with full colour plates.

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TOILETPAPER is a picture based magazine founded in 2010 by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. TOILETPAPER combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and a troubling imagination, creating a world that displays ambiguous and surrealistic imagery.

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If you want your paintings to reach out and command the viewer's attention, Tom Lynch's Watercolor Secrets is the book for you!

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A presentation of one of the greatest of the world's jewelry traditions, this book features a display of individual ornaments supplemented by documentation of hundreds of pieces. It analyses major themes, variations on basic forms, the use of gemstones and cross-cultural influences. It illuminates the context in which the jewelry has been created.

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Detailed reproductions of over 600 rare engravings: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, crustaceans, insects, some plants. Royalty-free illustrations for designers, craftspeople, students.

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Meet Vincent van Gogh, the tortured genius of 19th-century art. This lush tome collects all his 871 paintings, alongside writings and essays, charting the life and work which continues to tower over art to this day. From Sunflowers, The Starry Night, to Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear: celebrate an artist uniquely dexterous in the representation of texture and mood, light and place.

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Celebrates a private collection of gold, silver and jewelled boxes made to contain cosmetics, lipsticks, mirrors, combs and change. This title displays the examples ranging from an exquisite early-Ching-period box to dazzling contemporary designs.

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This catalogue raisonn of Velzquez's complete works features brand new photography of recently restored paintings. In extra-large format and with numerous details, and a fold-out, the book celebrates the painter's insight, humanity, and brilliant technique.

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Fulco di Verdura was one of the outstanding jewelers of the 20th century. This book analyses and evaluates Verduras jewelry designs. It features historical photographs of the celebrities who were his ardent fans. It also shows the range and glittering beauty of his highly original pieces.

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Over the last four decades video art has undergone numerous transformations. In the 80s video took on the form of a projected image that was capable of defining a type of space inside which spectators could move while surrounded by a hypnotic electronic embrace. This title deals with this topic.

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The curator who founded MoMA's video program recounts the artists and events that defined the medium's first 50 years