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This lavishly illustrated book features the work of today's bestselling creators of fantasy and science fiction art. From the popular and well-regarded "Spectrum" annuals, over 100 artists are represented, chosen by a jury of award-winning professionals. The introduction is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lee Stuart.

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Dedicated to art practices that mobilize the model of the archive, this book demonstrates the ways in which such 'archival artworks' probe the possibilities of what art is and what it can do.

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Fanciful Steampunk Vision postcards, created in Paris 1910, colorfully illustrate a future that never was... with airships, robots, and more!

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Michelangelo was one of the biggest international art stars of his time, but being Michelangelo was no easy thing: he was stalked by fans, lauded and lambasted by critics, and depicted in unauthorized portraits. Still Lives traces the process by which artists such as Michelangelo, Durer, and Titian became early modern celebrities. Artists had been

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The richly illustrated story of a woman who, late in life, copes with the buried trauma of her childhood as a Holocaust survivor by becoming a master needlework artist like her mother, who saved both their lives in the camps with her seamstress skills.

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A series of personal and historical encounters with surrealism from one of its foremost practitioners in the United States.

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Sydney Long (1871-1955) was Australia's foremost Art Nouveau painter and one of our major symbolist artists. He created haunting scenes of the Australian landscape. His Art Nouveau works are like reveries, an escape from the everyday.

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The colonisation of the world by European powers led to the production of a wealth of images of the colonised cultures and peoples. Images of North American Indians play an important role in our visual culture. This publication illuminates how they are represented, as well as their political and historico-cultural background.

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Reveals the artistic subjectivity of the scientific notion of depression.

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Reveals the artistic subjectivity of the scientific notion of depression.

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Geology was in vogue in nineteenth-century America. This study of the Hudson River School offers an account of the role of geology in nineteenth-century landscape painting. It yields insights into some of the most influential works of American art and provides an understanding of the relationship between art and nature, and science and religion.

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Presents a study of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, beginning with his work in Oak Park in the late 1880s and culminating in the construction of the Guggenheim museum in New York and the Marin County Civic Center in the 1950s. This book provides an introduction to Wright's remarkable accomplishments.

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Going beyond a record of his life and art, renowned Chamoun delves into what drives an artist to create. A lavish production featuring 322 colour illustrations of the work of this remarkable artist and teacher.

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Collects the out-of-this-world concept art, illustrations, paintings and sketches of the immensely talented Fred Gambino. Featuring excerpts from Fred's varied career, as well as his personal multimedia project 'Dark Shepherd', this monograph is suitable for science fiction art fans and budding 3D concept artists.

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Employing minimal color schemes, simple animal characters, and a seemingly endless list of ill-fated situations, Luke Chueh has enjoyed cult acclaim and sell-out shows. This book deals with his work.

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This new edition of T. V. Reed's acclaimed classic offers accounts of ten key progressive movements in postwar America, from the African American struggle for civil rights beginning in the 1950s to Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter in the twenty-first century. Reed focuses on the artistic activities of these movements to frame progressive social change and its cultural legacies.

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A unique survey of the artful nature of funerals in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime.

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No single drawing in this book is a representation of cities in-situ; all of them are interpretations, translations, and combinations of traces collected and selected while teaching, working, meeting cultures, and eating food in many different cities around the world.