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Author: Dory Kanter
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440317151
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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Inspire your creative spirit--everyday! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, Art Escapes provides the ideas and encouragement you need to discover greater creativity and artistic confidence, even when you're short on time. Professional artist and instructor Dory Kanter shows you how to: • Experience more fun and greater confidence drawing and painting. • Express yourself and experiment everyday with an art journal. • Reinterpret daily life with simple, beautiful sketches. • Find painting inspiration in unexpected places. • Paint freely, intuitively and passionately with a simple four-step approach. • Create new forms of art, including watercolor mosaics, paper weavings and found object collages. You'll also find 13 drawing, watercolor, mixed media, and assemblage projects, plus several "page-a-day" ideas. With Art Escapes, you'll learn how to build an art "habit," one that brings joy with every stroke of your brush.

Author: Andrea Servert
Publisher: Gestalten
ISBN: 9783967040524
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Escaping the conventional settings of the museum or gallery, a fascinating variety of art pieces exist everywhere from Ghanaian patios to the Las Vegas desert, from the forest in Scandinavia to the buzzing streets of Mexico City.

Author: Erin Callahan
Publisher: Amberjack Publishing
ISBN: 1944995668
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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Seventeen-year-old Mattie has a hidden obsession: escapology. Emphasis on hidden. If anyone from school finds out, she’ll be abandoned to her haters. Facing a long and lonely summer, Mattie finally seeks out Miyu, the reclusive daughter of a world-renowned escape artist. Following in Houdini’s footsteps, Miyu helps Mattie secretly transform herself into an escapologist and performance artist. When Will, a popular athlete from school, discovers Mattie’s act at an underground venue, Mattie fears her secret persona will be exposed. Instead of outing her, though, Will tells Mattie a secret not even his girlfriend knows. Through a blossoming friendship, the two must find a way to express their authentic selves. Told through the perspectives of the witty main characters, this funny and fresh debut explores the power of stage personas and secret spaces, and speaks to the uncanny ways in which friendships transform us.

Author: Marty Noble
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486798739
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Inspired by Art Nouveau posters, Japanese prints, vintage seed packets, and other sources, these 55 illustrations are rendered in a collage style that ranges from dramatic to playful. Meditative and inspiring, each stunning design is printed horizontally and on one side of ivory-colored pages, which are perforated for easy removal and display.

Author: Thomas Beller
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544261992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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A spirited, deeply personal inquiry into the near-mythic life and canonical work of J. D. Salinger by a writer known for his sensitivity to the Manhattan culture that was Salinger's great theme.

Author: Sven Lindqvist
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847085865
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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'During the Tang dynasty, the Chinese artist Wu Tao-tzu was one day standing looking at a mural he had just completed. Suddenly, he clapped his hands and the temple gate opened. He went into his work and the gates closed behind him.' Thus begins Sven Lindqvist's profound meditation on art and its relationship with life, first published in 1967, and a classic in his home country - it has never been out of print. As a young man, Sven Lindqvist was fascinated by the myth of Wu Tao-tzu, and by the possibility of entering a work of art and making it a way of life. He was drawn to artists and writers who shared this vision, especially Hermann Hesse, in his novel Glass Bead Game. Partly inspired by Hesse's work, Lindqvist lived in China for two years, learning classical calligraphy from a master teacher. There he was drawn deeper into the idea of a life of artistic perfectionism and retreat from the world. But when he left China for India and then Afghanistan, and saw the grotesque effects of poverty and extreme inequality, Lindqvist suffered a crisis of confidence and started to question his ideas about complete immersion in art at the expense of a proper engagement with life. The Myth of Wu Tao-tzu takes us on a fascinating journey through a young man's moral awakening and his grappling with profound questions of aesthetics. It contains the bracing moral anger, and poetic, intensely atmospheric travel writing Lindqvist's readers have come to love.

Author: Racehorse Publishing
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1944686428
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Art Deco is an artistic movement that arose in the early 1900s, first in France, and then later popularity increased internationally. It is most commonly found in pre-war architecture, but expanded into many other art forms including painting and sculpture. The style incorporates beautiful balanced and repetitive motifs, as well as elegant ornamentation, making the designs ideal for adult coloring. As you immerse these intricate illustrations with your favorite color combinations, their patterns and structured symmetry will make it simple for you to de-stress and practice mindfulness while simultaneously expressing your creativity. The Big Book of Art Deco: Coloring for Everyone offers you the wonderful opportunity to color, relax, and travel back to yesteryear—an era where art and culture flourished around the world. This book includes: An introduction describing the history of the Art Deco movement 46 full-color images that exemplify the Art Deco tradition 46 original black-and-white designs to color and bring to life Single-sided perforated pages that allow you to easily color and frame your finished artwork

Author: Janice Weaver
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781419700149
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The life of Harry Houdini and his less famous partner, his brother Dash, includes details of his well-known career as a magician, as well as his interest in exposing fake mediums and other frauds. Sidebars highlight topics related to the early 20th century, such as child labor, the dime museums, and early aviation, an interest of Houdini's.

Author: Neal Bascomb
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544936906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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This “fast-paced account” of WWI airmen who escaped Germany’s most notorious POW camp is “expertly narrated” by the New York Times bestselling author (Kirkus, starred review). During World War I, Allied soldiers might avoid death only to find themselves in the abominable conditions of Germany’s many prison camps. The most infamous was Holzminden, a land-locked Alcatraz that housed the most escape-prone officers. Its commandant was a boorish tyrant named Karl Niemeyer, who swore that none should ever leave. Desperate to break out of “Hellminden”, a group of Allied prisoners hatch an audacious escape plan that requires a risky feat of engineering as well as a bevy of disguises, forged documents, and fake walls—not to mention steely resolve and total secrecy. Once beyond the watchtowers and round-the-clock patrols, they are then faced with a 150-mile dash through enemy-occupied territory toward free Holland. Drawing on never-before-seen memoirs and letters, historian Neal Bascomb “has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism” (David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon).

Author: Glenn Lovell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Escape Artist—based on Glenn Lovell’s extensive interviews with John Sturges, his wife and children, and numerous stars including Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, and Jane Russell—is the first biography of the director of such acclaimed films as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and Bad Day at Black Rock. Lovell examines Sturges’s childhood in California during the Great Depression; his apprenticeship in the editing department of RKO Pictures, where he worked on such films as Gunga Din and Of Human Bondage; his service in the Army Air Corps in World War II; and his emergence as one of the first independent producer-directors in Hollywood. Chronicling the filmmaker’s relationships with such luminaries as Spencer Tracy, James Garner, Yul Brynner, and Frank Sinatra, Escape Artist interweaves biography with critical analyses of Sturges’s hits and misses. Along the way, Lovell addresses the reasons why Sturges has been overlooked in the ongoing discussion of postwar Hollywood and explores the director’s focus on masculinity, machismo, and male-bonding in big-budget, ensemble action films. Lovell also examines Sturges’s aesthetic sensibility, his talent for composing widescreen images, and his uncanny ability to judge raw talent—including that of Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn, all of whom began their careers in Sturges’s movies. This long overdue study of a major Hollywood director will find a welcome home in the libraries of film scholars, action movie buffs, and anyone interested in the popular culture of the twentieth century. Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association "Pick up a copy of film critic and scholar Glenn Lovell's terrific new Sturges biography, Escape Artist. . . . I can't urge you enough to check out this interview-rich, aesthetically and culturally perceptive look at the filmmaker and his work."—Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News “Lovell’s list of interviewees reads like a who’s who of Hollywood and they obviously provided rich source material for this full-scale biography and career survey.”— Leonard Maltin “This long overdue study of a major Hollywood director will find a welcome home in the libraries of film scholars, action movie buffs, and anyone interested in the popular culture of the twentieth century.”—Turner Classic Movies (TCM.com)