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	The Collected Erotica: An Illustrated Celebration of Human Sexuality Through the Ages This fabulous anthology presents over 400 images — paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculpture — selected from private collections, libraries and galleries from around the world. The texts are contributed from a dazzling array of writers that include Boccaccio, Casanova, John Cleland, Jean Cocteau, Frank Harris, Erica Jong, Violette Leduc, Henry Miller, Mirabeau, Anais Nin, Pauline Reage, and Oscar Wilde. The Collected Erotica is not for the faint-hearted, but there is something here for...
	Louvre: 400 Masterpieces Since first opening its doors in 1793, the Louvre has become one of the largest and most famous museums in the world and, with 8.3 million visitors per year, it is also the most visited. Louvre: 400 Masterpieces showcases a selection of works from this great institution, from the most famous—the Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa—to lesser-known gems. With a foreword by the institution’s director, Henri Loyrette, the book is organized according to the museum’s eight departments: Near Eastern ...
	Picasso Line Drawings and Prints (Dover Art Library) drawings from many periods, styles show master 20th-century draughtsman’s incredible line. 1905 circus family, portraits of Diaghilev, Balzac, cubist studies, neo-classical nudes, mythological scenes, many media: lithograph, drypoint, etching, pen-and-ink....
	Boring Postcards USA Boring Postcards goes Stateside – 160 exquisitely dull postcards from America....
	Living the Artist's Life Written in a conversational tone that resonates with energy and wisdom, Living The ArtistÂ’s Life is a unique work. Drawing on a lifetime of experience, Paul Dorrell touches on virtually every aspect of what it is like to be an artistÂ—which is to embark on a journey without maps. He has made that journey, and has drawn many maps. Relying on passion, sage advice, and a host of enlightening anecdotes, Dorrell keeps you engaged through each chapter. Whether instructing on how to photograph y...
	Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), set in an alternative-universe version of World War II, has been called a modern Finnegan’s Wake for its challenging language, wild anachronisms, hallucinatory happenings, and fever-dream imagery. With Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow, artist Zak Smith at once eases and expands readers’ experience of the book. A leading exponent of punk-based, DIY art, Smith here presents his most ambitious p...
	Steel Remembered: Photos from the LTV Steel Collection In the first half of the twentieth century, the steel industry was the major heavy industry in the U.S. and the bellwether of regional economic might. Today, the remnants of the steel industry are rapidly disappearing. The once giant mills that employed thousands are slowly decaying or have been torn down. This decay and decline has attracted numerous photographers, and a number of books have been published highlighting the rusting hulks of a once-proud industry. However, instead of photos depic...
	Pricing for Profits: Estimating Costs and Setting Prices for the Textile Screen Printer The complete source for the computation of accurate estimating and pricing. This easy-to-read and understand book explains how to make every job profitable. Details include estimating costs for art work, screens, ink, labor, overhead and other hard-to-estimate expenses, how to set prices for a profit on every job, and how to avoid jobs that are unprofitable. You ll make money with this book....
	Salon to Biennial: Volume 1 SALON TO BIENNIAL explores the development of modern art as shown through a series of highly influential group exhibitions. It is the most important reference book available on the subject, and the only book available that charts these groundbreaking events in such detail and scope. Volume I opens with the revolutionary first Salon des RefusÃ©s in Paris in 1863, and concludes with the multi-locational international exhibition 'The New American Painting,' organized by the Museum of Modern Art, ...