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The art of ancient Egypt is instantly recognisable and appealing to children and adults of all ages. This book shows that anyone can draw animals, people and places in the style of ancient Egyptian artists. It contains sketches which show how to build up a drawing from simple basic shapes, and how to add colour and detail to create an image.

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The act of drawing has long been considered the foundation of an artistic education, and the life class essential to the formation of an artists style and technique. This book offers a thoughtful and beautifully illustrated survey of the most compelling and inventive drawings of the human form being produced.

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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) achieved international recognition in the late 1940s for his paintings inspired by children's drawings, the art of psychiatric patients, and graffiti. This book features more than one hundred drawings representing Dubuffet's development during his most innovative decades - the 1940s and 1950s.

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An essential appraisal of Ellen Gallagher, one of the most important American artists working today.

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Emma Hamilton (1765-1815) rose to national and international fame as a model, performer, trendsetter and interpreter of neoclassical fashion. Accompanying a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, from November 2016 to April 2017, this book provides an evaluation of Emma Hamilton's artistic undertakings, cultural achievements and legacy.

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Includes chapters on sexuality in contemporary women's art and colonial art, as well as profiles of artists Dale Frank, Richard Larter and Mike Brown. This book features contributions by Dinah Dysart, Jane Lennon, Leigh Astbury, Richard Haese, Joanna Mendelssohn, Jane Magon and Felicity Fenn

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Presents a selection of contemporary artists working in a figurative, hyperrealist style. This book includes work ranging from still lifes and extreme closeups to large scale cityscapes and landscape painting, and features a wide range of artists from around the world, who work in a meticulous fashion.

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Amid a frenzy of lurid color and distortion, discover a calm, authoritative overview of German Expressionism. From the leading collectives of Die Brcke and Der Blaue Reiter to regional schools and lesser known artists, Dietmar Elger leads us through the protagonists and principles of this vivid 20th-century movement-its stylistic cacophony,...

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A new generation of female Indian artists, examined for the first time in an exhibition and catalogue.

Francis Alys is one of the world's leading contemporary artists and was born in Belgium in 1959. After studying architecture in Venice he moved to Mexico City, where he has lived and worked for almost two decades. This title presents an overview of his career.

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Frederic Matys Thursz (1930-1992) continually questioned painting. Following this critical attitude he developed over a period of forty years an impressive oeuvre that experimented with the most diverse techniques, processes, and approaches of painting.

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With his arresting, unsettling style, George Condo emerged out of the dynamism of the New York art scene in the early 1980s, and he has been restlessly painting, drawing and sculpting - bringing forms into the world in one way or another - ever since. This title deals with George Condo's work and career to date.

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A fully illustrated exhibition catalogue with essays by Anne Gray. This comprehensive catalogue gives a biographic background of Lambert and places his work in context of Australian art history.

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This survey incorporates current scholarship and benefits from recent publication of O'Keeffe's catalogue raisonne. It analyzes her most important pictures in depth, and highlights recurring themes and images. Her relationships with fellow artists, particularly Alfred Stieglitz, are also explored.

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Published on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the opening of The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, in Santa Fe, New Mexico - which holds the world's largest collection of her work - this volume features O'Keeffe's paintings, drawings and sculpture culled from the museum's collection, spanning her entire artistic career from 1901-1982.

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In 1988, the author created one of the most controversial and fascinating political painting-cycles of all time, with his "Baader-Meinhof" series. Originally published only in German in 2004, this English version presents his attempt to accommodate the extremity of war.

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The acclaimed author of Cork Dork takes readers on a fascinating, hilarious and revelatory journey inside the impassioned, secretive world of art and artists.

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Gold and the Incas: Lost worlds of Peru reveals the splendour of ancient pre-Hispanic cultures of Peru. Art made of gold, silver, turquoise, shell, stone, textile and ceramic is shown. More than 200 objects are covered, from gold armour and intricate jewellery to elaborate embroidered and woven cloths.

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Documents modern trends in graffiti and street art in Los Angeles, while also providing a history of the art form in the city. This work presents an examination of technique, an exploration of socio-cultural issues in crew dynamics, battles and apprenticeship and interviews with the most prominent artists round out the text.

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This XXL edition reprints Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige's legendary series The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido, a stunning representation of the historic route between Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto. Sourced from one of the finest surviving first editions, this vivid tapestry of 19th-century Japan is in equal parts a major artifact of its imperial past and a masterwork of woodblock practice.

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A parallel look at Hockney and Van Goghs love of nature as expressed in their landscape paintings.

Presents Hokusai fascination for nature with a focus on the development of landscape prints, along with a presentation of the Mt Fuji series. Before each engraving, this work includes a note listing the specifications and a description of the drawing that focuses on the symbolism of the images and places the work in its cultural context.