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Illustrator Angelika Elsebach offers step-by-step advice on drawing realistic-looking sea creatures. Color illustrations accompany the text.
PUBLISHER: Gale Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | McLuhan for the New Millenium by Paul Levinson
In his consideration of Marshall McLuhan's writings from the perspective of the digital age, Levinson points out how McLuhan was the herald of the new information technologies, and shows how his works can be read in the '90s. AUTHOR: Paul Levinson
PUBLISHER: Routledge
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Impressionism by Meyer Schapiro
Venerable art historian Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996) presented this classic work as a series of lectures at Indiana University in 1961. Focusing chiefly on the painter Monet, Schapiro seeks to demonstrate that Impressionism was not only a movement in the art world but also a way of looking at the world. AUTHOR: Meyer Schapiro
PUBLISHER: Braziller, George Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | What Is Art? by Alymer Maude, Larissa Volokhonsky, Leo Tolstoy, Maude Aylmer, Richard Pevear
During the decades of his world fame as sage and preacher as well as author of War and Peace and Anna Karenin, Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898. Although Tolstoy perceived the question of art to be a religious one, he considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty. The works of Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Baudelaire, even his own novels are condemned in the course of Tolstoy's impassioned and iconoclastic redefinition of art as a force for good, for the forward progress and improvement of mankind. In his illuminating preface Richard Pevear considers What is Art? in relation to the problems of faith and doubt, the spiritual anguish and fear of death which preoccupied Tolstoy in the last decades of his life. AUTHOR: Alymer Maude, Larissa Volokhonsky, Leo Tolstoy, Maude Aylmer, Richard Pevear
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Costume & Fashion by Jack Cassin-Scott
This encyclopedia, with 180 colour illustrations and descriptions of the great years of fashion, will be as interesting and valuable to modern fashion designers and photographers, students of costume history, wardrobe mistresses and theatrical performers as it will to the general reader. AUTHOR: Jack Cassin-Scott
PUBLISHER: Studio Vista Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | True Colors by Anthony Haden-Guest
A history of the last 25 years of the art world by a consummate insider. Focusing critically on the lives and personalities of the art scene's main players, Haden-Guest provides a vivid portrait of the artists and the ambitions which have driven many to commercial success and some to artistic dead ends. AUTHOR: Anthony Haden-Guest
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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