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  • Nesting Grounds
    Sarah Jane Conklin
    The Hummingbird will build her nest,The size? A ping pong ball. Secured to twigs with spider silk, This moss lined nest won't fall.  Sarah Jane has created 20 luminous oil paintings depicting 10 familiar birds nesting, and put them together in Nesting Grounds. Each bird has 2 devoted paintings: The female in her nest and the nest with eggs. Additionally, the clutches in eac...
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    15,64 €

  • Reflections on Scripture, Dandelions, and Sparrows (Urdu Edition)
    Wanda Thompson
    The words of Scripture are both inspired and inspiring. Too often, as we defend the former, we forget the latter. We read Scripture to absorb facts, settle doctrinal disputes, and organize church life.In Reflections on Scripture, Dandelions, and Sparrows, Wanda Thompson brings the power of photography, art, and poetry to our experience of Scripture, and through it, the God of S...
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    26,02 €

  • The A to Z Book of Did You Know
    Michael P. Earney / Michael PEarney
    This addition to the A to Z series delves into the realms of general and esoteric knowledge, things we should know, things we thought we knew and things you never before thought about.  It’s a fun, eclectic collection that is guaranteed to provide many ‘Gee whiz!’ moments and interesting information with which you can stun friends and family alike.  Fittingly, the illustrations...
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    15,81 €

  • Gene Kloss Etchings
    Gene Kloss
             Today the name Gene Kloss, NA, is synonymous with copperplate etchings and when this book was first published by Sunstone Press in the 1970s it quickly became a collector’s item. Her limited edition prints are now becoming priceless on the art market. This book, the sole complete source of information that was selected and personally approved by this outstanding artist...
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    36,44 €

  • In vino veritart
    Mariagrazia Pia / Roberto Sironi
    The wine universe as a life metaphor!A poetic and visionary journey by Roberto Sironi, painter, musician, author, and Mariagrazia Pia, poet and writer who brings us into the human vicissitudes of a society with a controlled and guaranteed denomination of origin.Scratches, graffiti, love fragments and decanted images, in a play of stains, light, tastes and artistic effervescence...
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    40,41 €

  • Mindscapes
    Karen Haughey
    After my last book, Angels, Guardians of the Light was published by Hay House in 1995, my journey continued onward in multifaceted layers that consisted of travel, giving seminars and lectures, and later on being called into the ministry, which transitioned into healthcare chaplaincy. I have continued to serve professionally for the past twenty years in the same capacity.I did ...
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    12,68 €

  • The Brueghels
    Émile Michel
    T he Brueghels, Pieter the Elder, Pieter Brueghel the Younger (“Hell Brueghel”) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (“Velvet Brueghel”), embody one of the largest dynasties of Flemish painting. Beyond their history, their masterworks bear witness to the priceless contribution of this family in theevolution of northern European painting.Refusing the canons of Italian mannerism, the maste...
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    44,67 €

  • Gustave Courbet
    Georges Riat
    Born of both materialism and positivism, Gustave Courbet stands out as one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Rejecting tradition, Courbet confronted the public with the truths of his time as he liberated painting from the rules of convention in both subject and style, and established himself as the leader of pictorial realism. This study of Courbet meticul...
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    44,67 €

  • Andrea Mantegna
    Joseph Manca
    Mantegna was born in 1431. He trained in painting at the Padua School which Donatello and Paolo Uccello had previously attended. Even at a young age commissions for his work flooded in, as for the frescoes of the Ovetari Chapel in Padua. In a short space of time Mantegna found his niche as a modernist due to his highly original ideas, particularly the use of perspective in his ...
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    36,92 €

  • Hans Memling
    Alfred Michiels
    Presented as a minor artist for many years, Memling (c. 1433-1494) was not a court painter but a painter of the bourgeoisie. Forgotten during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Memling is today considered one of the greatest fifteenth-century Northern European painters, thanks to the perfect balance between realism and concern for idealisation in his portraits. His compo...
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    44,67 €

  • Canaletto
    Octave Uzanne
    Introduced to painting and perspective by his father, a theatre decorator, the Venetian Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto (1697-1768), is best known for his vedute. Whilst the amateurs of his time brought back their landscape paintings as evidence of their travels in Italy, Canaletto became the incarnation of La Serenissima of the baroque period. A forerunner in his me...
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    44,67 €

  • Fra Angelico
    Stephan Beissel
    The painter Fra Angelico was among the first to use the techniques of perspective proposed by Leon Battista Alberti. His depiction of movement, as well as his use of colour and facial expressions to highlight grace and emotion, place him among the major painters ofthe early Renaissance.Through a series of magnificent illustrations, combined with artistic and biographical analys...
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    44,67 €

  • Jasper Johns
    Catherine Craft
    At a time when the dominant mode of painting, Abstract Expressionism, emphasised expressive drama through bold brushwork and largely abstract compositions, Johns’ paintings of the American flag, targets, numbers and the alphabet demonstrated a decided departure from convention. Despite being painted withobvious care, they seemed emotionally reticent, cool and quiet, far from th...
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    44,67 €

  • Malevich
    Gerry Souter
    Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935) was a painter and a great art theorist, but first and foremost he was the founder of Suprematism, a style seeking pure abstraction based on geometrical forms. “Suprematism,” he wrote, “has led me to discover something that had not been understood until then… There is in human consciousness an imperious desire of space and the will to escape from Ear...
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    44,67 €

  • Diego Rivera
    Gerry Souter
    “I was aware of Diego Rivera, the Mexican muralist, long before I encountered the many other “Diego Riveras” that roamed the world between the beginning of the twentieth century and the late 1950s. […] While his easel paintings and drawings constitute a large body of both his early and late work, his unique murals explode off walls in virtuoso performances of mind-staggering or...
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    44,67 €

  • From the Heavens Fall the Fair Bright Stars
    A small book of collaborative black and white monotypes and poetic text by Mathew Staunton and Ian Joyce meditating on space, loss and the survival of hope in the face of disaster and forced migration. ...
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    13,57 €

  • Between Four Walls
    This book is an extension of the 2019 exhibition The Probable Causes of Future Experience which explores what it is to experience the world from a child’s perspective. Irish Artist Yvonne Higgins has used materials drawn from instructional manuals, illustrated encyclopaedias, family health guides, books about wildlife and the natural world, to investigate the power dynamic betw...
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    21,58 €

  • PAPER
    Sandy Bleifer
    The Walls series utilizes paper as an expression of the urban environment. The Walls and Graffiti series explore connections between the artist’s vocabulary of paper manipulation and treatment techniques and the nature of architectural elements. Handmade paper, art papers and silkscreen collages express the nature of a wide variety of surfaces and bear the effect of age and wea...
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    28,95 €

  • PAPER
    Sandy Bleifer
    The several Southwest series express the recognition that the landscape of various regions embody infinite combinations of basic rock formations and colorations and, as such, share the nature of the printed multiple as individualized by printing and after-treatments. Subjecting the prints to the forces of nature and chemical and mechanical degradation mimics the forces of natur...
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    29,17 €

  • PAPER
    Sandy Bleifer
    Beginning in the 1980s artist Sandy Bleifer's work became more sculptural and much of it emulated metal surfaces. In a desire to explore working directly with metal, she learned how to weld and found herself drawn to scraps of metal. Using them as a support and as a foil to her work in paper led to the Metal / Drawing series.The metal selected was neither new nor perfect, b...
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    14,33 €

  • PAPER
    Sandy Bleifer
    The folding screen format in Sandy Bleifer's art is a means of representing Time and Space in a static medium.The folds encompass space and add a greater three-dimensionality to textured surfaces. Folding also enables the work to stand independently as sculptural objects. This enhances the “realism” of images such as mountains and clouds.The folding screen, as an articulate...
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    22,99 €

  • PAPER
    Sandy Bleifer
    Self portraits and body casts of dancers/costumes in handmade paper. These works are part of a long tradition of portraiture, artist self portraits and death masks in art history.The “life casts” of the artists’ face and body merge self-portraiture and gestural use of sheets of paper with the figure exerting its presence. The "Circus Costumes” were commissioned for a dance perf...
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    22,67 €

  • My Wondrous World
    Malamed Hennady
    This full-spread illustrated art book includes the pictures created by a talented Ukrainian traveler and artist Alexey Khomych within a decade. All of the paintings have been inspired by the artist's travels in South America and are full of mystery and magic; they may not seem obvious at the first sight, but they always offer something to think about, and it is children who...
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    19,04 €

  • A View from the Moon (Hardcover)
    Ted C. Luna
    The author says, “There are still places to see and get inspiration. I have been close to nature and its wonders all of my breathing days. But I have always tried to do my work with places that don’t really exist. For me it is wonderful to create a fantasy in whatever medium I am working in. It is very difficult at times to make sure the mind is turned off. On some works I have...
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    35,58 €

  • She Is One of the Best
    W. C. Allen / WCAllen
    Florence Helena McGillivray, 1864-1938, was an extremely talented and prolific Canadian artist, and an accomplished educator. She was one of the most well traveled female artists in Canada during the late 19th and early 20th century. Florence's skills as an artist were varied and effective. She worked confidently in many styles and media. The influence of Post Impressionism...
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    31,75 €

  • She Is One of the Best
    W. C. Allen / WCAllen
    Florence Helena McGillivray, 1864-1938, was an extremely talented and prolific Canadian artist, and an accomplished educator. She was one of the most well traveled female artists in Canada during the late 19th and early 20th century. Florence's skills as an artist were varied and effective. She worked confidently in many styles and media. The influence of Post Impressionism...
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    25,03 €

  • Photographing the Unseen Mexico
    Dominika Gasiorowski
    Over the years, Mexico’s photographic appeal has been created and sustained by many acclaimed photographers, both native and foreign to the country. Their representations shaped the image of Mexico. Maya Goded (1967-), an acclaimed Mexican documentary photographer, shows a unique awareness of this visual heritage by representing communities with very little or no visual presenc...
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    115,66 €

  • Lily Poetry Review
    July Westhale / Lauren-Anne Bosselaar
    Lily Poetry Review is an international literary journal devoted to poetry and visual arts, flash fiction and literary criticism by emerging and established writers and artists. Voume 1, Issue 1 includes work by Lauren-Anne Bosselaar, July Westhale, Grey Held, Jennifer Martelli, Mary Meriam, and Daniel Summerhill, among others.  3 ...
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    15,87 €

  • Валерий Булат. Художник-Иконописец
    Elena Pankey
    Книга рассказывает о художнике Валерий Булат как о человеке и как об иконописце, о его становлении и жизни в Ленинграде в 1980х-1990х годах, о его творчестве в юнные годы, о его поздних работах и главном деле жизни - росписях собора на Украине. Church art. Book is in Russian ...
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    18,87 €

  • British Women Artists
    Sara Gray
    This comprehensive volume presents the biographies of 1,000 women who were active in the British decorative arts over the last few centuries. Some of these women are known today, some are not, yet all made valuable contributions in areas such as stained glass, metalwork, pottery, woodcarving, illustration, bookbinding and decoration, sculpture, decorative embroidery, decorative...
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    35,37 €