Art and Illustration Books

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	Luis Melendez: Master of the Spanish Still Life Offers a look at the life and work of Luis Melendez, one of eighteenth-century Europe's greatest still-life painters....
	Wisconsin Death Trip First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik....
	Hi-fructose Collected Edition Hi-Fructose magazine showcases an eclectic mix of underground artists, pop surrealists, emerging and rediscovered countercultures, and awe-inspiring spectacles from around the world. For the first time, this critically acclaimed arts magazine is collected in an expanded hardcover edition, compiling the best of the sought-after, long-sold-out first four volumes. Features the art of Mark Ryden, Tim Biskup, Junko Mizuno, Dave Cooper, Greg "Craola" Simkins, Gary Baseman, Alex Pardee, Gary Taxali, Sc...
	The Art Book The Art Book is the first fully illustrated art dictionary. It presents a feast of famous, varied and colourful images by 500 of the greatest artists from the Middle Ages to the present day. Arranged in alphabetical order by artist, it is easy to use. With one large, quintessential image per artist, and an informative text that discusses the work in detail as well as offering information about its creator, The Art Book is both educational and fun. With the turn of every page The Art Book reve...
	Mail Me Art: Going Postal with the World's Best Illustrators and Designers Art on a JourneyIt started with an idea Darren Di Lieto had: Challenge illustrators and designers to create works of art on packages, envelopes, and postcards—then actually send them to him through the mail. The response was overwhelming, and Di Lieto posted photos of each piece of art on MailMeArt.com, so people the world over could follow the art on its journey from artist to post office to computer screen. The images are preserved in this book to inspire you as well.Inside discover:200 of t...
	Spectrum 5: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art Spectrum 5, originally published in 1998 and now in its second edition, celebrates world-class fantasy art in a variety of media. Each work was selected by an award-winning jury of artists, designers, and art directors, and each image includes the size, title, and medium employed. Artists include such masters as Don Maitz, Michael Whelan, Jeffrey Jones, Alex Ross, Barry Windsor-Smith, David Bowers, Greg Spalenka, Kent Williams, Rick Berry, John Jude Palencar, and James Gurney. Spectrum 5 also in...
	Tree Show Postcard Microportfolio: Microportfolio 5 (Postcards) (Micro Portfolio) Wander through mesmerizing forests and meet the exotic and wondrous inhabitants of Mark Ryden's celebrated Tree Show, found within this unique micro-portfolio of 15 souvenir postcards. This is the fifth of Mark Ryden's Microportfolios, and contains images from "The Tree Show," his sold-out solo exhibition at the Michael Kohn Gallery. Fifteen beautiful details and reproductions include, "Allegory of the Four Elements," "The Apology," "Fetal Trapping in North America," "Logging Truck," "Yoshi," "T...
	American Surreal: The Art of Todd Schorr The latest collection of paintings by one of contemporary surrealism's most influential artists. American Surreal picks up where Dreamland, Schorr's previous bestselling collection of mind-bending paintings left off. Look forward to countless hours of eye bulging investigative thought while examining the impeccably rendered subject matter that has become the hallmark of Schorr's outrageous vision. Schorr, one of the seminal figures in what has come to be known as the Lowbrow or Pop Surrealism ar...
	Good Faeries Bad Faeries "Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc...." In the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller Faeries, artist Brian Froud rescues pixies, gnomes, and other faeries from the isolation of the nursery and the distance of history, bringing them into the present day with vitality and imagination. In this ric...