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  • Duchamp-Isms
    Duchamp-Isms
    Warsh, Larry
    Duchamp-isms is a selection of illuminating quotations from Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), one of the most important figures in the history of modern art. A painter, sculptor, writer, and chess player, Duchamp changed the very definition of art with his “readymades”—everyday objects such as a bicycle wheel or bottle rack that he titled, signed, and presented as art. He provoked cr...

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  • Little Book of Dinosaurs, The
    Little Book of Dinosaurs, The
    Charles, Rhys
    A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of dinosaursPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any dinosaur lover. Expertly written and beautifully illustrated throughout with color photographs and original color artwork, The Little Book of Dinosaurs is an accessible and enjoyable mini-reference. It fits an astonishin...

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  • Little Book of Butterflies, The
    Little Book of Butterflies, The
    Sourakov, Andrei / Sourakov, Alexandra A / Okay, Tugce
    A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world’s butterfliesPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover. Expertly written and beautifully illustrated throughout with color photographs and original color artwork, The Little Book of Butterflies is an accessible and enjoyable mini-reference about th...

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  • Twelve Caesars
    Twelve Caesars
    Beard, Mary
    From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of to...

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  • White
    White
    Pastoureau, Michel
    From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to todayAs a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in its own right, just like red, blue, green, or yellow—and, like them, white has its own intriguing history. In this richly illustrated...

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  • Keith Haring
    Keith Haring
    Deitch, Jeffrey
    A fascinating look at Keith Haring's New York City subway artwork from the 1980sCelebrated artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) has been embraced by popular culture for his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms. Like other graffiti artists in the 1980s, Haring found an empty canvas in the advertising panels scattered throughout New York City's subway system, wher...

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  • Sharks of the World
    Sharks of the World
    Ebert, David A
    Sharks of the World is the essential illustrated guide for anyone interested in these magnificent creatures. Now fully revised and updated, it covers 536 of the world’s shark species and is packed with colour illustrations, colour photos and informative diagrams. This comprehensive, easy-to-use reference guide incorporates the latest taxonomic revisions of many shark families, ...

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  • Basquiat-isms
    Basquiat-isms
    Basquiat, Jean-Michel / Warsh, Larry (ed.)
    One of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a celebrated painter with an instantly recognizable style. In his paintings, notebooks, and interviews, he showed himself to be a powerful and creative writer and speaker as well as image-maker. Basquiat-isms is a collection o...

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  • Myth of the Eternal Return, The
    Myth of the Eternal Return, The
    Eliade, Mircea / Trask, Willard R / Smith, Jonathan Z
    First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rit...

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  • Blue
    Blue
    Pastoureau, Michel
    A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now cite it as their favorite color. In this fascinating history, the renowned medievalist Michel Pastoureau traces the changing meanings ...

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  • Plants That Kill
    Plants That Kill
    Dauncey, Elizabeth A
    This richly illustrated book provides an in-depth natural history of the most poisonous plants on earth, covering everything from the lethal effects of hemlock and deadly nightshade to the uses of such plants in medicine, ritual, and chemical warfare.Featuring hundreds of color photos and diagrams throughout, Plants That Kill explains how certain plants evolved toxicity to dete...

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  • The Notebooks
    The Notebooks
    Basquiat, Jean-Michel / Warsh, Larry
    Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene, he inventively explored the interplay between words and images throughout his career, first as a member of SAMO, a graffiti group active on the Lower East Side in the late 1970s, and then as a painter acclaimed for his unmistakable Neoexpressi...

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  • Green
    Green
    Pastoureau, Michel
    In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life, Michel Pastoureau traces how culture has profoundly changed the percep...

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  • Mimesis
    Mimesis
    Auerbach, Erich
    More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial es...

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  • Art and Illusion
    Art and Illusion
    Gombrich, E. H.
    A groundbreaking account of perception and art, from one of the twentieth century’s most important art historiansE. H. Gombrich is widely considered to be one of the most influential art historians of the twentieth century, and Art and Illusion is generally agreed to be his most important book. Bridging science and the humanities, this classic work examines the history and psyc...

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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Carroll, Lewis / Dalí, Salvador (Ilus.)
    Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before.In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseud...

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  • Cat Wars
    Cat Wars
    Marra, Peter
    In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific evidence confirms what many conservationists have suspected for some time--that in the United States alone, free-ranging cats are killing bi...

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  • Van Gogh and the Seasons
    Van Gogh and the Seasons
    Van Heugten, Sjraar
    A new look at the ways van Gogh represented the seasons and the natural world throughout his careerThe changing seasons captivated Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), who saw in their unending cycle the majesty of nature and the existence of a higher force. Van Gogh and the Seasons is the first book to explore this central aspect of van Gogh's life and work.Van Gogh often linked the se...

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  • Shamanism
    Shamanism
    Eliade, Mircea
    Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia-where shamanism was first observed-to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibe...

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  • Birds of Southern Africa: Fifth Revised Edition
    Birds of Southern Africa: Fifth Revised...
    Sinclair, Ian / Hockey, Phil / Tarboton, Warwick / Perrins, Niall / Rollinson, Dominic / Ryan, Peter
    A substantially revised and expanded new edition of the bestselling standard field guide for southern Africa, now with a dedicated app providing access to vocalizationsNow in its fifth edition, Birds of Southern Africa has been brought fully up to date by its expert authors and greatly enhanced with a wide range of new information and features. Providing comprehensive coverage ...

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  • Bodypedia
    Bodypedia
    Taor Adam

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  • Indigenous Tattoo Traditions: Humanity Through Skin and Ink
    Indigenous Tattoo Traditions: Humanity...
    Krutak, Lars

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  • Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks
    Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks
    Warsh, Larry

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  • George Seferis: Collected Poems, Revised Edition
    George Seferis: Collected Poems, Revised...
    Seferis, George

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  • Little Book of Fungi, The
    Little Book of Fungi, The
    Bunyard, Britt A.

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  • Dogpedia
    Dogpedia
    Pierce, Jessica / Chudler, Kelly (illus.)

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  • Little Book of Trees, The
    Little Book of Trees, The
    Shugart, Herman / White, Peter / Okay, Tugce (illus.)

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  • Yellow
    Yellow
    Pastoureau, Michel

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  • Nude, The
    Nude, The
    Clark, Kenneth

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  • Neuropedia
    Neuropedia
    Chudler, Eric H. / Chudler, Kelly

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