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Teabowls have become an iconic form in ceramics, and this book considers everything from their history to their current status and use, giving examples and insights from many contemporary artists.

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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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Learn how to draw professional-quality portraits, landscapes, travel sketches, and animals using only two ordinary pencils.

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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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From simple pots to more complex vessels, this book features clear instructions on forming every object, accompanied by step-by-step images. It also profiles the work of contemporary potters for whom throwing is a vital part of their practice. Throwing is an essential volume for anyone attempting to master forming pots on the wheel.

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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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Tells the story of Turner's life and work. This title features colour plates illuminating Turner's range dramatic views of the sea or mountains, sweeping landscapes, architecture, imaginary scenes from history and legend, panoramas of contemporary towns.

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This handbook presents the essentials of airbrush applications in a non-technical and easy-to-understand format. There is practical guidance and advice on equipment and mediums, airbrush operation, studio set-up and more. It also offers techniques for developing original source material.

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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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"A reader of previously published and new material (interviews with artists and theorists) devoted to the new and growing field of critical plant studies, and a reader that practices what it covers by arranging and intertwining its contents through a non-hierarchical and articulated manner that allow for different, alternate reading pathways"--

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Few jewelry designers of the 20th century had the flare and creativity of Fulco di Verdura. His fascinating career took him from Paris to Los Angeles and eventually New York, where he was patronised by the rich and famous, who found his flamboyant neo-Baroque style exactly what they wanted.

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A history of the Palace of Versailles as the paradigm of cultural capital in Western architecture, interior design, and material culture from the 17th century to the present.

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A beautifully illustrated guide to the world of Victorian stained glass and its manufacturers and designers.

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The opulent wares of the renowned Sevres manufactory are prominently displayed in palaces and art galleries throughout the world. By contrast, the comparative delicacy and simplicity of the beautiful wares of the Vincennes porcelain works, from which the Sevres factory evolved, remain relatively unknown, even to porcelain experts.

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The volume presents for the first time the entire glass production by Vittorio Zecchin for the two historical glassworks.

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Banksy.
His work.
Photographed.
With comments by Banksy.
In a book.
This is that book.
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Dana's watercolor series is one of our strongest selling titles and this next installment provides all new, no-sketch templates to help novice artists practice watercolor technique with a playful jungle theme.

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This popular book provides all the information you need to get started in watercolour painting. Full of clear, simple advice and more than 70 step-by-step demonstrations, Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner will teach even the least confident of beginners the skills and techniques needed to start painting.