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Reading About - My Home
by Jim PipeThe Reading About series introduces early readers to non-fiction. Each book is designed to increase reading fluency and combines a narrative text, accessible language and an easy-to-follow format.
Soapmaking for Fun and Profit
by Maria NeriusThe author includes tips for cold-process soap-making, using essential oils safely, setting up your work area, marketing and selling your product, and managing the business.
The Woven Path (Wyrd Museum #1)
by Robin JarvisNeil meets a talking teddy bear in the museum and is blackmailed in to traveling back to the Blitz in London. As Neil and Ted maneuvers through London, a daemon breaks out of the museum and into the past. In order to save the future and change the past, they must recapture it.
A Woman Speaks: The Lectures, Seminars, and Interviews of Anais Nin
by Evelyn J. HinzThis book details a series of interviews with Nin about her life, art, and feminism.
Act of God
by Margaret KennedySculptor Conrad Swann mysteriously disappears, and his self-appointed patron Martha Rawson takes it upon herself to promote his latest work. Although nearly everyone finds the piece hideous, Martha persuades the town council of East Head to purchase it. The townspeople struggle to accept it as a piece of modern art. Controversy over the sculpture reveals deep cracks in the marriage of Dickie and Christina Pattison. This novel presents a gallery of well-drawn characters and portrays life in a postwar English village with gentle bemusement.
I, Juan de Pareja
by Elizabeth Borton de TrevinoWhen the great Velázquez was painting his masterpieces at the Spanish court in the seventeenth century, his colors were expertly mixed and his canvases carefully prepared by his slave, Juan de Pareja. In a vibrant novel which depicts both the beauty and the cruelty of the time and place, Elizabeth Borton de Treviño tells the story of Juan, who was born a slave and died an accomplished and respected artist.<P><P> Upon the death of his indulgent mistress in Seville, Juan de Pareja was uprooted from the only home he had known and placed in the charge of a vicious gypsy muleteer to be sent north to his mistress’s nephew and heir, Diego Velázquez, who recognized at once the intelligence and gentle breeding which were to make Juan his indispensable assistant and companion—and his lifelong friend.<P> Through Juan’s eyes the reader sees Velázquez’s delightful family, his working habits and the character of the man, his relations with the shy yet devoted King Philip IV and with his fellow painters, Rubens and Murillo, the climate and customs of Spanish court life. When Velázquez discovers that he and Juan share a love for the art which is his very life, the painter proves his friendship in the most incredible fashion, for in those days it was forbidden by law for slaves to learn or practice the arts. Through the hardships of voyages to Italy, through the illnesses of Velázquez, Juan de Pareja loyally serves until the death of the painter in 1660.<P> I, Juan de Pareja is the winner of the 1966 Newbery Medal.
Papier-Mâché
by Peter RushHow to work with papier-mâché, the variety of materials that can be used, and a short history of its craft.
Time For Art: Art Projects and Lessons for Students with Visual Impairments
by Gail Cawley ShowalterThis simple manual gives some helpful suggestions for people who want to teach art to children who are blind or visually impaired. It also gives some suggestions on projects that the students can do. It is not intended as the "all around authority" on the topic but serves as a spring board into other projects and ideas. Topics and projects include, fake fossils, aluminum repousse, papier mache bowls, wire sculptures, and raised line drawings. Good book for anyone interested in ways to adapt lessons in art for learners with special needs. Also includes art projects which relate to science.
Confessions of a Stripper: Tales from the VIP Room
by Lacey LaneI started moving slowly, trying to work my way into the core of the beat. Soon, I forgot I was perched atop a bar and thought only of the music's rhythm, freeing my body to move in synch with the beat. I peeled my bottom wrap off seductively and hardly heard the whistles and catcalls that followed. Ditto for my top; I was now just a skimpy T-back away from full nudity, and the best part about it was that I was becoming more at ease with the situation. Or maybe I was an exhibitionist at heart. Or I was so goddam petrified that nothing mattered. Whatever the A A case, inside, I was celebrating. I truly felt liberated. / / Find out first-hand, as career stripper Lacey Lane unlocks the doors to the secret sanctums at the center of the action in gentlemen's clubs across America. Confessions of a Stripper puts you in the middle of the VIP Room, /here freaks, fetishists, scammers, and even normal guys match wits /ith the dancers. Here, outlandish fantasies are bought and sold, and Imost nothing is beyond the realm of possibility. These true stories, culled from Lane's years of performing in doz-is of clubs around the country, also provide the lowdown on the ins id outs of the topless trade, including suggestions on tipping, finessig the bouncers, negotiating for services, avoiding sucker traps, and ?s, even scoring a date with a dancer.
Impressionism
by Phoebe PoolImpressionism, the revolutionary movement born in France in the 1860s and '70s, was one of the most important breakthroughs in the history of painting.
Expressionism
by Wolf-Dieter Dube Mary WhittallThe story of this decisive and immensely rich contribution to the history of twentieth-century art is told here by a senior curator of the Bavarian State Art Collection, largely in the vivid and intensely revealing words of the artists themselves.
The Thames and Hudson Encyclopedia of the Italian Renaissance
by J. R. HaleWithin the vast literature of the Renaissance, this is the one indispensable book: for the student who wants a guide to the complicated maze of Italian Renaissance political history.
My Life And Hard Times
by James ThurberIn this autobiography Mr. Thurber's daring typewriter and unbridled drawing pencil have combined to glean his teeming life. In chapter one he tells what happened the night the bed fell on his father.
The Claddagh Ring
by Malachy MccourtIrish tales of the ring worn by many of the Irish, many of which were found at Ground Zero.
The Painter's Eye
by Maurice GrosserA painter discusses the conventions and revolts, the psychology, techniques, and problems of painting from the Renaissance to the present day. An invaluable aid in the appreciation and understanding of art.
Artists At Work
by Bernard ChaetChaet explores the relationship between an artist's materials and technique, and the forms in which he expresses his vision. He shows that technique and vision are inseparable.
Understanding the Arts
by Helen GardnerThe arts of buildings, gardens, city planning, sculpture, sculpture in relief, painting, books, weaving, and pottery. Art in everyday life.
The Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach
by Ernst Fischer Anna BostockThe author, an Austrian poet and critic, surveys the whole history of artistic achievement through Marxist eyes.
Iditarod Memories: 30 Years of Poster Art from the Last Great Race
by Jona Van ZyleA collection of annual posters from the official artist of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Included are stories about how each of the first 30 posters came to be created, and the stories they tell about the race.
From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History
by James Smith PierceChapters are 'Art terms, processes, and principles; gods, heroes, and monsters; Christian subjects; saints and their attributes; Christian signs and symbols.'
Primary Sources: Selected Writings on Color from Aristotle to Albers
by Patricia SloaneA selection of writings about color.
A Treasury of Knitting Patterns
by Barbara G. WalkerThis is a reference book which every knitter will want to have in hand. Walker describes the stitches knitters use and provides clear instructions for making them.