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	Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860 Designed for Pleasure brings together paintings, prints, and illustrated books featuring images known as ukiyo-e, or pictures of the floating world. The carefully selected images present the principals of that realm - the actor, the artist, the courtesan, the poet, the publisher, the patron - and they also reveal the confluences and contradictions in a time of enormous social, cultural, and economic change in Japan. This book examines the floating world of popular culture centered in Edo [mod...
	Petit Pattern Book - Flowers & Leaves (Bnn Pattern Book Series) These book/disc combinations each feature 140 creativity-inducing patterns. Use them as backgrounds, screen-savers, wrapping paper, textiles, book covers, you name it the only limit is your imagination. You'll be amazed at the variety within each category. You can use any pattern as is, or change size and color to your liking. All are presented in EPS files for Illustrator and JPEG files...
	Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art From The Sigg Collection China is booming! In the wake of economic liberalization, the nation's art scene has taken flight as well. The Swiss collector Uli Sigg, formerly his country's ambassador to Beijing, has followed the rapid pace of development since the 1980s, compiling along the way the world's largest collection of contemporary Chinese art, comprising more than 1,200 works by some 180 artists. Mahjong, named after the popular and ancient Chinese game of chance, presents more than 200 paintings, drawings, sculpt...
	Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century––the Golden Age of Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals, and Johannes Vermeer––have been eagerly collected in America over the past two centuries. From its founding purchase in 1871 of many Dutch landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and scenes of everyday life, the Metropolitan Museum now houses the finest and most comprehensive collection of Dutch pictures in the western hemisphere. This monumental publication, wherein the Museum’s 229 Dutch paint...
	Now Is Then: Snapshots from the Maresca Collection Deceptive in their ease of creation, diminutive size, and sheer abundance, snapshots are often thought of as the most innocent type of photography. But snapshots are complex and willful pictures—premeditated, fussed over, and often predetermined. The postures we adopt, the gestures we pantomime, the exaggerated facial expressions we compose and try to hold for a split second are all meant to express the emotional weight of a certain moment. In a time when digital cameras make photography all t...
	The Arts of the Muslim Knight: The Furusiyya Art Foundation Collection The Arab tradition of al-furusiyya is defined by principles of horsemanship, chivalry, and the mutual dependence of man and horse. This publication presents half of the Furusiyya Art Foundation’s entire collection, which includes Islamic art relating to the Muslim chevalier from the eighth, ninth, fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. The collection includes a number of cane shields, archery material, armor for man and horse, sword pommels, guards and sabers, as well as daggers and ...
	Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life A riveting tribute to Charles Darwin's life and ideas in celebration of his 200th birthday.Charles Darwin's ideas resonate deeply in Western culture today, and his theory still lies at the heart of modern scientific evolutionary research. As other nineteenth-century figures fade, Darwin's theory of evolution still provokes controversy, spilling over into curriculum battles at state and local school boards in the United States and around the world.In exploring the everyday artifacts of Darwin's l...
	Cutting-Edge Patterns and Textures (Book & CD Rom) 113 unique and original patternsAfter a goldmine of cultural and subconscious information, the history of patterns parallels and informs the history of humanity. After decades of modern minimalism and clear lines, people are enjoying a return to more playful design, rich in colors and textures. Pattern-making and pattern design, in particular, has made a major comeback as a way to embellish a surface with their use often displaying unexpected depths. Indeed, we have witnessed a revival in enrich...