Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

J. Juan de Pareia

Brand new covered in plastic. Huge book. Coffee table book.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

New York

A 25-Year Retrospective of Work by Photographer and Painter Polly Norman

Polly Norman's elegant compilation of photographs represents 25 years of art making. Woven among these exquisite works she also shares her struggle with manic depression and passion for dance, an alchemy that inspired her to make remarkable images that "dance."

Using a process entirely of her own invention, Norman first photographs objects or scenes through architectural glass block in black and white. On select pieces she adds a second layer of photograms and may also paint the photo surface, adapting 19th century hand-coloring techniques.

"My art is filtered, shaped and bent through a unique type of glass. It is also filtered through a mind and soul that is at times tortured," says Norman in her introductory essay, Soaring and Crashing.

Art historian and critic Bianca Sandino arranges Norman's works under the guise of three distinct dances: Cecchetti, Tango and Tarantella.

George Slade, photography historian, contributes an essay on Norman, "Eye Play" and interview with author.

Dances Through Glass (New in plastic Huge Hardcover)

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#hardcover #art #bigfamily #brothersandsisters #fiction #grief #sorryforyourloss #comitragic

Texas

From Printz Honor winner and Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley comes a comitragic YA novel that will appeal to fans of Jandy Nelson and Jeff Zentner.

As the youngest of eight, painfully average Pup Flanagan is used to flying under the radar. He's barely passing his classes. He lets his longtime crush walk all over him. And he's in no hurry to decide on a college path.

The only person who ever made him think he could be more was his older brother Patrick. But that was before Patrick died suddenly, leaving Pup with a family who won't talk about it and acquaintances who just keep saying, "sorry for your loss."

When Pup excels at a photography assignment he thought he'd bomb, things start to come into focus. His dream girl shows her true colors. An unexpected friend exposes Pup to a whole new world, right under his nose.

And the photograph that was supposed to show Pup a way out of his grief ultimately reveals someone else who is still stuck in their own. Someone with a secret regret Pup never could have imagined.

Winner of the 2020-2020 North Star YA Award

Named to YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults list

Sorry for Your Loss

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Paul Kane 1810-1871

New Jersey

Wellness Through Artistic Expression

Creativity Connections

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Steve Harpster

California

Art, music, drama/theater

Provides instructions for drawing 26 different kinds of sharks, including a great white and a pointy-finned thresher.

Pencil, Paper, Draw!® - Sharks

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Nice, clean copy. See pics 📸

Packed with exciting and imaginative craft projects specially created for 7-11 year olds.

 #hardcover #nonfiction #crafts #kids #art #fun #projects #hands-on #papercraft #creativity

KK

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

Get Crafty

Cards and Wrappings

Cover has significant wear, including tears, but inside is still in good condition.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Norman Rockwell Illustrator

Judy Mastrangelo

Cover has scratches but inside is still clean.

Antique Fairy Tales

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A book about the dystopian genre! #hardcover #dystopia #art #coffeetablebook



Oklahoma

Post-Apocalyptic Art, Fiction and the Movies

We have an obsession with broken societiesset in futuristic worlds, curious but terrifying new technologies and post-apocalyptic dusty wastelands where survivors grow more desperate every day. Dystopian worldscreated in art, books, movies, TV shows and even music have always been hugely popular, stemming from such fantastic literature as 1984and Day of the Triffids, but their popularity is, if possible, increasing. This exciting new book explores why we are so captivated by gritty, violent worlds and looks at how recent releases such as The Hunger Gameshave created an incredible snowball effect, encouraging new works and reminding us of the classics. Fantastic contemporary artwork by a range of great artists features alongside punchy text, bringing to life dystopian worlds full of cyberpunk fashion where the cameras are always watching...

Dystopia

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Julian Raby

Maryland

Asian and American Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries

The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington comprise the Smithsonian Institution's national museums of Asian art. The Freer Gallery opened to the public in 1923, and the Sackler Gallery welcomed its first visitors in 1987. The two museums are physically connected by an underground passageway and ideologically linked through the study, exhibition, and preservation of Asian art. In addition, the Freer Gallery contains an important collection of nineteenth-century American art featuring James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room, perhaps one of the earliest art installations on record.This book features work from both museums: American, Ancient Near East, Chinese, Indian, Islamic World, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian, including ceramics, biblical manuscripts, photography, and other works of art. Each object or group of objects is accompanied by a brief description of its art historical significance or surprising or little-known aspects of its history.

Ideals of Beauty

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Samantha Silva

Like new save for the black dot on bottom (seen in pic)

A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft

From the acclaimed author of Mr. Dickens and His Carol, a richly-imagined reckoning with the life of another cherished literary legend: Mary Wollstonecraft – arguably the world’s first feminist August, 1797. Midwife Parthenia Blenkinsop has delivered countless babies over the course of her career, and when she arrives at Mary Wollstonecraft’s door, everything appears normal. But after the baby girl is delivered, the women will spend the next harrowing days together, fighting for the survival of both mother and daughter. Over those eleven days, Mary Wollstonecraft recounts the life she dared to live amidst the impossible constraints and prejudices of the late 18th century, rejecting the tyranny of men and marriage, risking everything to demand equality for herself and all women. She weaves her riveting tale to keep her fragile daughter alive and give her a reason to fight, even as her own strength wanes. Wollstonecraft’s urgent story of loss and triumph forms the heartbreakingly brief intersection between the lives of a mother and daughter who will change the arc of history and thought for centuries to come. In radiant, emotionally gripping prose, Samantha Silva delivers an ode to the dazzling life of Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the world's most influential thinkers and mother of the famous novelist Mary Shelley. But at its heart, Love and Fury is a story about the power of a woman reclaiming her own narrative and passing along that legacy to her daughter.

Love and Fury *like new

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#hardcover #fiction #adorable #anestforceleste #animals #art #children #heartwarming 

A Story about Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home

A fanciful history lesson for middle graders, featuring a charming mouse named Celeste.

Celeste is a mouse who is looking for a home. Is it nestled in the toe of a warm boot? In the shirt pocket of Celeste's new friend Joseph? Or is home the place deep inside Celeste's heart, where friendships live?

Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of black-and-white drawings, A Nest for Celeste is a short novel that tells the story a mouse living in the 1800s and his friendship with John James Audubon's young apprentice. While enjoying this sweet amd appealing story, young readers will also learn about nineteenth-century plantation life and the famous naturalist who was known for his paintings of birds and American wildlife.

A Nest for Celeste

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Tyler Knott Gregson

Massachusetts

Poems from the Typewriter Series

The epic made simple. The miracle in the mundane. One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to revise anything. He fell in love. Three years and almost one thousand poems later, Tyler is now known as the creator of the Typewriter Series: a striking collection of poems typed onto found scraps of paper or created via blackout method. Chasers of the Light features some of his most insightful and beautifully worded pieces of work—poems that illuminate grand gestures and small glimpses, poems that celebrate the beauty of a life spent chasing the light.

Chasers of the Light

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#hardcover #history #medicine #art #culture

A selection of sketches, diagrams, and notebook writings by the Italian Renaissance master offers insight into his theories and observations as well as his role in period art, town planning, science, philosophy, and other venues. 15,000 first printing.

The Da Vinci Notebooks

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Laura Marx Fitzgerald

The book is in very good condition. ￼p9msvt

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets Chasing Vermeer in this clever middle grade debut

When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather's painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That's great news for Theo, who's struggling to hang onto her family's two-hundred-year-old townhouse and support her unstable mother on her grandfather's legacy of $463. There's just one problem- Theo's grandfather was a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she worries the painting may be stolen.

With the help of some unusual new friends, Theo's search for answers takes her all around Manhattan, and introduces her to a side of the city-and her grandfather-that she never knew. To solve the mystery, she'll have to abandon her hard-won self-reliance and build a community, one serendipitous friendship at a time.

Under the Egg

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Louisiana

The Barrett Collection: the Art of Texas and Switzerland

This catalogue is occasioned by the first exhibition of the ground-breaking art collection of Nona and Richard Barrett of Dallas, on display November 21, 2004 - January 30, 2005 at the Meadows Museum. The Barretts’ collection is one of the best in the Southwest, featuring Texas art and that of Switzerland. The volume contains 95 color plates of works in their collection and another 23 black and white photographs of other works referenced in the essays. Richard R. Brettell’s brilliant essay, "Provincial Cosmopolitanism” (describing Swiss art and its analogues in Texas art), and Michael Ennis's "Texas Visions: Through the Looking Glass of History" (describing the history of an indigenous Texas art) anchor the volume, which also contains an appreciation of the Barretts as his patrons by Texas artist Bill Komodore, a member of the SMU Meadows art faculty, and an essay by Kate Sheerin, associate curator of the exhibition, who grapples with a definition of Texas art. In addition, the volume contains brief biographies of 126 Texas artists and 7 Swiss and European artists.

Texas Vision

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Former library book. #hardcover #art #animals #ya #juvenilefiction 

An Encounter with Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo's work comes to life—literally—in this magical realist novel, the latest addition to Watson-Guptill's acclaimed Art Encounters series. The story alternates between Kahlo's home in Mexico City, Casa Azul, and the journey of a teenage girl and her young brother, lost in the city. At the mystical Casa Azul, everything with a face talks—including Kahlo's pet monkey, her cat, portraits on the wall. Over the course of the book, the cover painting,Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, transforms from a nightmarish vision of death into a life-affirming masterpiece. This dramatic story offers a vivid reimagining of the life and work of a woman as well known for her amazing life as for her amazing art. •Laban Hillis a National Book Award Finalist and recipient of the Parents Choice Gold Award • Frida Kahlo is one of the most popular artists among young people today-her art and her blazingly flamboyant style make her eternally up-to-date • Ties in to school curriculum in art and social studies

Casa Azul

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Judy Blundell

A Novel

The High Season

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5x7 Foil art print with quote from banned book, Slaughterhouse-Five. "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.” In new condition. Perfect for a gift to your bookish bestie or to frame and put on your bookshelf! Especially if you’re a Kurt Vonnegut fan or know one!  

Georgia

5x7 Slaughterhouse-Five Quote Art Prin

Discontinued Brand new 5x7 art print with quote. “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” Truer words I have never heard spoken! Print by Nerdy Ink. Perfect for a gift for your bookish bestie or to frame and place on your bookshelves. 

Discontinued 5x7 Art Print with Bookish Quote

Graeme Base

One little boy living on a farm in rural Texas gets a big surprise when he discovers tiny flying elephants under his bed. But his mom doesn’t like critters in the house, so he tries to keep them a secret. Until one day they escape from his bedroom and cause havoc in the house. But when locusts invade the farm and start to destroy crops, the elephants come to the rescue!
Bestselling author-illustrator Graeme Base has created a unique story with his signature illustrations, which are sure to appeal to young readers.

Praise for Little Elephants
"The minimal text wisely recedes for Base's gorgeous paintings, and the story's very implausibility is a large part of the delight... An offbeat and winning mix of earthiness and enchantment."
—Kirkus Reviews

"This is a strange, magical book. Base’s lush paintings ground the fanciful story in its realistic rural setting. At the same time, the landscapes are suffused with a golden glow that casts a soporific charm over the whole book. Interesting visual details abound, from the mouse’s thimble helmet to the prophetic circus posters on the walls. A great book to enjoy one-on-one."
—School Library Journal

"Graeme Base has done it again. His beautifully detailed paintings are such an important part of this story."
—Library Media Connection

When a family's wheat crop is threatened by locusts, tiny flying elephants come to the rescue.

Little Elephants

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Mike Venezia

No writing. I accidentally bought two copies. 

Alabama

Picasso

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#paperback #crafts #printing #diy #art #color

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

25 Easy and Enticing Printing Projects to Make at Home

Shares step-by-step instructions for custom printing articles of clothing, shoes, pillows, and other materials using found objects and everyday household items.

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Sorry for Your Loss

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