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This book is a collection of faces by Chicago artist, Annette Jean.

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The first book-length study on Bellini's famous portrait of Sultan Mehmed II, tracing it's history from the Ottoman Empire to the present day.

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The first book-length study on Bellini's famous portrait of Sultan Mehmed II, tracing it's history from the Ottoman Empire to the present day.

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This book presents portraits of twelve great women of African descent, honoring and recognizing their contributions, achievements, and positive impact on our society. The book is divided into seven chapters, highlighting the purpose of this book, its organization, associated literature, and the lessons the authors and our larger society have learned from these women.

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Painters Marie Vassilieff, milie Charmy and Suzanne Valadon explored sexuality and questioned gender identity. Working in early twentieth-century Paris, these women contravened social mores, challenged traditional and avant-garde artistic practices and partook in the making of the modern nude.

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Painters Marie Vassilieff, milie Charmy and Suzanne Valadon explored sexuality and questioned gender identity. Working in early twentieth-century Paris, these women contravened social mores, challenged traditional and avant-garde artistic practices and partook in the making of the modern nude.

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Including both narratives and visual texts by and about Latina women, Amador Gmez-Quintero and Prez Bustillo address the question of how women represent themselves.

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Known as shunga or "spring pictures", the erotica of Katsushika Hokusai, Japan's most celebrated artist, combined brash sensuality with playful humor to show carnality in the most varied constellations. This edition presents his contribution to a genre that evaded government censorship to thrive in the vivid urban culture of Japan's Edo Period.

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Depictions of old age in art from ancient to modern.

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From Steve Forster, award-winning portrait artist and co-director of the Long Island Academy of Fine Art, Painting Luminous Portraits for Artists presents essential lessons on how to paint a radiant likeness in oils.

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An album cover collection exploring 70 years of surprising, shocking and frankly hilarious nude and provocative art. Sexy covers sold all musical genres, from funk to punk, and the silly German schlager. Comedy albums range from mid-century "stag party" pin-ups to the undeniably raunchy '70s sensation, Blowfly. Steamy, seamy and adults only.

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The complete adventures of Kake, Tom of Finland's ultimate leatherman, who travelled the world on his motorcycle spreading the gift of ecstatically explicit gay sex. See Tom's own personal fantasies lived out in these 26 episodes of mustaches, muscles and liberated libido, now some of the most famous cartoons in the history of gay art.

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Creating Professional Characters explores how top professional character designers develop engaging characters from the basic concepts outlined in production briefs.

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Written by Jayadeva in the twelfth century, the Gitagovinda tells of the love between the shepherd girl Rada and Hindu god Krishna. Text in English and German.

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Changes in Japanese law in the 1990s enabled erotic images to be published without fear of prosecution, and many shunga picture-books have since appeared. This book offers an assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints known as shunga. It seeks to re-establish shunga in a proper historical frame of culture and creativity.

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This collection of essays applies the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of 19th century France - painting, caricature, illustrated magazines, posters - resulting in a subtle map of the gendered topography of Parisian modernity, the stomping ground of the flaneur. -- .