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Vendor: John L. Bisol
AN INTERPRETATION OF THE ARTWORKS In St. Francis of Assisi Church - Fitchburg, MA
AN INTERPRETATION OF THE ARTWORKS In St. Francis of Assisi Church - Fitchburg, MA, was originally written by my father to be used as an instructional aid during his religious education classes. The need to enjoy and understand the artwork in a church was...- $8.50
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Vendor: Kyunghee Pyun
Weaving Time 2015
A Catalogue of the third archive exhibition from the AHL Foundation's Archive of Korean Artists in AmericaAuthor: Kyunghee PyunISBN-10: 1329540387ISBN-13: 9781329540385Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2015Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.25d- $39.31
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Vendor: Seaberry Design
The Book of Federal Colors
The Book of Federal Colors is a fun look at the broad universe of federal agency color palettes. We've cataloged the colors of 411 agencies, in a design that reveals both the incredible diversity of color, and the variety of government agencies.Author: Seaberry DesignISBN-10:...- $16.32
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Vendor: Shawn M. Tomlinson
Getting Started in Photography & Sony A100: Great Starter DSLR
In 'Getting Started in Photography," Photographer and writer Shawn M. Tomlinson creates a quick guide to help budding photographers. The book includes equipment advice, exercises for becoming better, photo processing basics and more. From the book: "What anyone starting out needs is, well, a...- $18.97
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Vendor: Markus Sesko
Japan's Most Important Sword Fittings
This booklet features all 27 sword fittings that are to the present day designated as juyo-bunkazai (Important Cultural Property) and 28 sword fittings that hold the discontinued status of juyo-bijutsuhin (Important Art Work).Author: Markus SeskoISBN-10: 1329394232ISBN-13: 9781329394230Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2015Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 11.00h...- $29.90
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Vendor: Rebecca McKillip Thornburgh
What I Drew in Church
I'm a children's illustrator. I sing with my church choir. Every week, or every week I appear in church, I draw funny little pictures on my church bulletins. This is a collection of almost 300 silly drawings, made over eleven-ish years. Bunnies, bees, goblins,...- $27.00
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Vendor: Micka? Nicotera
My movie logbook
Your movie logbook where you can write all about the movies you saw. Rate the movies, color the gauges of thrill, humor, emotion and action, stick your movie ticket or indicate that you saw it on DVD, bluray, VOD or in a plane, write...- $8.38
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Vendor: Ds Blake
The Occult Colouring Book
The Occult Colouring Book features twenty intricate and original line-art fantasy illustrations for your colouring pleasure. Inspired by the occult and the esoteric, from the pen of fantasy illustrator DS Blake. This book contains some sexually suggestive and/or violent or macabre images and is...- $12.57
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Vendor: Tom Phillips
Irma An Opera
In 1969 I made a sketch score of an opera, Irma (finishing it as man first landed on the moon). I always had in mind a full score, making it the operatic equivalent of A Humument whose source it shared. Now, forty five years...- $30.44
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Vendor: Tony Phillips
Mastering Flash With Fujifilm X Cameras (B&W Edition)
Master Fuji flash with confidence! If you are in any way uncertain about using flash with Fujifilm cameras, then this book will make it simple for you. It's Advanced Lighting 101 for Fujifilm - including making manual flash a breeze. This book is for...- $16.39
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Vendor: John Parker
Drumline Technical Manual
Author: John ParkerISBN-10: 1312663472ISBN-13: 9781312663473Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/02/2015Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.15d- $15.50
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Vendor: Julie Matthews
Ghoulish Girls: A Halloween Paper Doll
Happy Halloween Have a ghoulishly fun holiday with three paper dolls based on classic movie monsters - a vampire, monster, and witch. There are 10 full-color pages of outfits featuring classic Halloween costumes. There's a steampunk inspired vampire, a mad scientist monster, a Victorian...- $20.00
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Vendor: Michael Verrett
New Orleans Rain
With the rain a special quiet descends upon the people of New Orleans. The busy city pauses--simpler struggles replace the hustle and bustle. Life dissolves into neighborhood water colors. In these somber times there are moments to reflect, appreciate bucolic scenes, to splash across...- $26.95
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Vendor: James and Joyce Martin
Hummingbirds of the USA: A Photographic Essay
Hummingbirds of the U.S. A. is a photographic essay on the characteristics of one of our most amazing and beloved birds, which the early explorers to the New World called "Joyas Voladoras" or "flying jewels". In the first part of this book, the characteristics...- $39.27
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Vendor: Clare Graham
Eyes On MorYork - 2014 Cidne Hart Photographs
Since 1986, MorYork has been the studio and gallery of Clare Graham and Bob Breen. It continues to evolve. "Eyes on MorYork" is an attempt to have multiple photographers record what the space looks like in 2014, prior to a show at the Craft...- $54.38
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Vendor: George Frangoulis
Mothers We Love, Large Format
MOTHERS WE LOVE: This is a sensitive and inspiring collection of photographs of the one person we love and admire the most -- our mother. The images in this book show women from young mothers to grandmothers. Whether she is a struggling, single mom...- $22.50
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Vendor: Joel E. Best
The Best Fakebook
A veritable treasure trove of new songs, mostly in the style of the Great American Songbook. Simple to play: no key signature has more than one accidental, and all chord symbols are easy to implement. Great to read as a book of poetry, too,...- $18.96
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Vendor: Ron Cook
The Early Medieval Harp: A Practical Guide
This book provides an introduction to historical performance on the 12th- and 13th-century harp, including information as to the form and tuning of the instrument; its probable repertoire; the development of period performance skills, including ornamentation and improvisation; and the use of the harp...- $24.95
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Vendor: Jennifer Moon
This Is Where I Learned of Love
In 2008, Jennifer Moon was sentenced to eighteen months in a California state prison for attempted first- degree robbery. This book contains excerpts from letters she wrote to her former RP/L (Revolution Partner/Lover) while she was incarcerated as well as images and descriptions of her...- $48.00
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Vendor: Jay Zerbe
zerbe collages, 2nd edition
This is a survey of Jay Zerbe's collage work from 2003-2012. Curated by Jay Zerbe, with a forward by Phillip Larrimore.Author: Jay ZerbeISBN-10: 1300407697ISBN-13: 9781300407690Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2012Pages: 54Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.14d- $35.00
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Vendor: Gregory Ecklund
A through Z
Zombie alphabet haiku from artist Gregory Ecklund.Author: Gregory EcklundISBN-10: 1300150408ISBN-13: 9781300150404Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2012Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.15d- $25.00
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Vendor: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Goethes Theory of Colors: With Notes (1840)
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1840 Edition.Author: Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN-10: 1169975674ISBN-13: 9781169975675Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 480Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.97d- $43.95
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Vendor: Hermann Knackfuss
Velasquez
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that...- $17.75
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Vendor: Margaret Gatty
The Human Face Divine: And Other Tales
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...- $24.75
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Vendor: Peter Sharp
Flax, Tow, and Jute Spinning
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...- $26.75
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Vendor: Julia Ehmann
Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre: Analysing Stylistic Debates and Transgressions
Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre traces the uses and transgressions of genre in the music of Radiohead and studies the band's varied reception in online and offline media. Radiohead's work combines traditional rock sounds with a unique and experimental approach towards genre that...- $170.00
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Vendor: Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Arts-Based Research in Education: Foundations for Practice
Presenting readers with definitions and examples of arts-based educational research, this text identifies tensions, questions, and models in the field and provides guidance for both beginning and more experienced practice. As arts-based research grows in prominence and popularity across education and the social sciences,...- $69.95
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Vendor: Tasos Zembylas
Artistic Practices: Social Interactions and Cultural Dynamics
Art matters. It affects us in our daily lives and is full of meanings that are valuable to all of us. As a catalyst for social interactions, art may either cause public conflict and create dissensions or facilitate mutual understanding and strengthen collective bonds....- $62.95
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Vendor: Diane Amans
An Introduction to Community Dance Practice
This popular core textbook offers a clear introduction to community dance practice today, preparing students for the realities of employment in this dynamic and widely studied field. The text is edited by a highly-regarded professional with an international reputation for best practice in community...- $120.00
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Vendor: Tim Fields
Lessons I learned from drinking
It was a Fuzzy Navel--peach Schnapps plus orange juice. That's the drink that did it. I was about 14 when my mother let me have a taste, and since then my life has never been the same. I can't tell you how many drinks...- $15.99
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Vendor: Rebecca Roelant-Wauson
Woodland Mandalas
Woodland Mandalas was conceived when I stumbled across the wonderful world of mandalas. I was attracted to their circular designs, parallel lines, attention to detail, and rich colors. Mandalas have evolved from religious symbols to art forms; in fact, mandala means "circle" or "center"...- $9.95
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Vendor: Geoff Thatcher
The CEO's Time Machine
Through creative storytelling and bold illustrations, The CEO's Time Machine takes readers on an unexpected journey as they step, along with a retiring leader's prot g , into a strange garage to discover the secret to the CEO's success in building one of the...- $27.49
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Vendor: Paul Hetherington
Gallery of Antique Art
'Paintings trawl time like nets, catching what stories they can, and ruins are the ground you walk.' These prose poems take the reader through a gallery of European art, notionally situated in Rome, but only fully constituted in these pages. These works explore modes...- $12.95
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Vendor: Fiona Crisp
The Live Creature and Ethereal Things: Physics in Culture
'The Live Creature and Ethereal Things: Physics in Culture' is a collection of essays, images and short texts that present fundamental physics and the physics of the universe as human activities and cultural endeavours. Contributions by artists, curators and physicists examine the role of...- $18.50
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Vendor: Ariel Guzik
Ariel Guzik: Holoturian
For the last 10 years, the Mexican artist Ariel Guzik has searched for a way to communicate with whales and dolphins. Guzik's project has encompassed the creation of underwater instruments, expeditions to contact whales and dolphins off the coasts of Baja California, Costa Rica...- $6.94
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Vendor: Tom Policano
Slim Pickins
The book consists primarily of photographic images from 1970-71 detailing my impressions of east coast seasonal farm workers and glimpses of their lives in the fields and orchards, in camps, at home and in the news. The 309 photographs are Interspersed with sections of...- $49.20
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Vendor: Don Kirk
Western Art Coloring Book: Pen & Ink Old West Art (Vol I)
Volume One of Two. Don Kirk has been traveling the West for many years searching for the physical remains of the American West of the 1800's. He found many abandoned buildings with weathered clapboards sitting precariously on rotting cedar posts. He found desert towns...- $12.99
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Vendor: Don Kirk
Western Art Coloring Book: Pen & Ink Old West Art (Vol II)
Volume Two, More Western Art. Don Kirk has been traveling the West for many years searching for the physical remains of the American West of the 1800's. He found many abandoned buildings with weathered clapboards sitting precariously on rotting cedar posts. He found desert...- $12.99
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Vendor: Kyunghee Pyun
Postmodernism and Aesthetics: Collide or Steer?
Postmodernism and Aesthetics: Collide or Steer presents twenty-two artists who were awardees of the contemporary visual art competition by the AHL Foundation. All of them spent their youth in the 1990s as immigrant artists or as fine art students studying-abroad in the United States....- $49.23
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Vendor: Kyunghee Pyun
Shades of Time
The Shades of Time: An Exhibition from the Archive of Korean American Artists, Part Two: 1989-2001 was the second part of a larger project called "The Archive of Korean American Artists." While the first part of the exhibition had about 45 artists including Whanki...- $48.56
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Vendor: Bradford Gordon Wheler
Golf Sayings Wit & Wisdom of a Good Walk Spoiled
"GOLF SAYINGS: wit & wisdom of a good walk spoiled." This golf art book showcases artwork along with quotations about golf that covers topics including sportsmanship, golf humor, the pros, Scotland, and even presidential golf. This collaborative publication has two goals in mind: first,...- $24.95
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Vendor: Lee Pennington
Daughters of Leda
Lee Pennington has published 20 books, most of them poetry, as he is a Poet Laureate of Kentucky. This new book, with new poems written since 2011, is filled with the wonder of love and admiration for his lover. His words shine with light...- $30.00
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Vendor: Raymond J. Belcourt
Artscapes / Pays-arts Canada: a land interpreted by lens and brush
As initiator and coordinator of the project, I had the privilege of selecting the talented members of the team to represent their province. I approached and selected artists on the basis of painting style, reputation and enthusiasm, attempting to provide a range of styles...- $25.00
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Vendor: Paper Monument
As Radical, as Mother, as Salad, as Shelter: What Should Art Institutions Do Now?
Have you sensed a change in the position of the art institution vis-à-vis political activism? Can an art institution go from being an object of critique to a site for organizing? How? Should the art institution play this kind of role? What other roles...- $15.00
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Vendor: Raphael Rubinstein
The Miraculous
The first single-author book to be published by Paper Monument, Raphael Rubinstein's The Miraculous presents the artistic avant-gardes of the last five decades as a tapestry of incidents as fascinating and unlikely as any collection of myths or legends. Thinking more of Kafka's Parables...- $16.00
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Vendor: Jonathan Griffin
On Fire
Artists' studios have been burning down for centuries. In Paper Monument's newest publication, On Fire, author Jonathan Griffin asked ten contemporary artists how they recovered after their studios went up in flames. Talking to them, he gained surprising insights into their working methods, their...- $16.00
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Vendor: Paper Monument
I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette
The first small book from Paper Monument, originally published in 2009 and now in its sixth printing. Features contributions from thirty-eight artists, critics, curators, and dealers on the sometimes serious and sometimes ridiculous topic of manners in the art world.Author: Paper MonumentISBN-10: 0979757525ISBN-13: 9780979757525Publisher:...- $10.00
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Vendor: Markus Breitschmid
Can architectural art-form be designed out of construction?
Carl Boetticher, Gottfried Semper, and Heinrich Woelfflin: a sketch of various investigations on the nature of "Tectonic" in nineteenth-century architectural theory. The essay sketches the shifting understanding of the tectonic in the architectural theories of Carl Boetticher, Gottfried Semper, and Heinrich Woelfflin. The essay...- $24.00
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Vendor: Charlie O'Shields
Sketching Stuff: Stories Sketched From Life
Charlie O'Shields is the creator of Doodlewash(R), founder of World Watercolor Month in July, and host of the Sketching Stuff podcast. Every single day, for over three years, he created a watercolor illustration and wrote a short essay about whatever came to mind that...- $24.99
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Vendor: Vic Bearcroft
Sketching Birds
Whether it be doodling simple shapes, patterns and textures, or honing your drawing skills, sketching should always be a relaxing, fun activity. In this book I will show you some of my techniques for creating loose and lively bird sketches. With six step by...- $13.36
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Art Books
Art books are collections of written content and visual imagery that focus on various aspects of art, including history, techniques, movements, artists, and specific mediums. Art books serve as valuable resources for art enthusiasts, students, professionals, and anyone seeking to deepen their understanding and appreciation of the diverse world of art.
One of the fundamental purposes of art books is to provide an in-depth exploration of different art movements throughout history. These books cover significant periods such as the Renaissance, Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and contemporary art, shedding light on the context, characteristics, and prominent artists within each movement. By studying these books, readers gain an understanding of the evolution of art and how societal, political, and cultural influences shape artistic expression. Art books also offer valuable insights into the lives and works of celebrated artists. Biographies and monographs provide detailed examinations of individual artists, offering glimpses into their personal lives, inspirations, techniques, and artistic philosophies. Through these publications, readers can delve into the fascinating stories behind the masterpieces and better understand the motivations and creative processes of these iconic figures.
Moreover, art books often showcase various artistic techniques, mediums, and materials. From painting and sculpture to printmaking and photography, these books offer valuable instructional content, step-by-step demonstrations, and practical tips to artists looking to enhance their skills. They can be instrumental for both beginners and experienced artists, providing inspiration and guidance on aspects like composition, color theory, perspective, and more. Beyond historical and instructional content, art books offer a curated selection of images, showcasing artworks from renowned museums, private collections, and exhibitions. These visual collections allow readers to appreciate the diversity and brilliance of artistic creations firsthand, with high-quality reproductions that capture the nuances, textures, and details of the original works.
Art books serve as valuable resources for individuals interested in exploring different facets of art. Offering historical context, biographical insights, instructional content, and visual collections, these books provide readers with a deeper understanding and appreciation of the artistic world. Whether as educational tools, sources of inspiration, or cherished collectors' items, art books contribute significantly to the enrichment of art lovers and the wider cultural community.
Popular Art Books
Art books are a beloved category among book enthusiasts, offering an exploration of various art forms, artists, movements, and techniques. With their striking visuals and insightful texts, art books have a universal appeal that transcends cultural boundaries. Within this vast collection, there are several popular books that have captured the hearts and minds of readers around the world. Let's delve into some of these captivating titles.
1. "The Story of Art" by E.H. Gombrich: Widely considered a masterpiece in art education, this book presents a comprehensive overview of art history. Gombrich's engaging writing style and accessible language make it an ideal choice for beginners and experienced art lovers alike.
2. "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger: This seminal work explores the ways in which we perceive and interpret art. Berger's thought-provoking essays, combined with captivating imagery, challenge traditional notions of art and offer a fresh perspective on the subject.
These are just a few examples of the popular books within the art book collection. Whether you are an art enthusiast, a student, or simply someone who appreciates beauty, there is an art book out there that will captivate and inspire you with its stunning visuals and profound insights.
What sets White Rain Book House apart from other bookstores is its commitment to acquiring rare and limited-edition art books. Acquiring these treasures is an incredibly meticulous process, involving extensive research, collaborations with reputable publishers and dealers, and attending art fairs and exhibitions to ensure a distinctive collection that cannot be found elsewhere. Art collectors and aficionados flock to White Rain Book House, knowing they can find unique editions that enhance their collections and deepen their knowledge of the art world.

