 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
by Salvador Dali
Sensible artistic advice and lively personal anecdotes in rare important work by famed Surrealist. Filled with Dali's outrageous egotism and unconventional humor, insights into modern art and his own drawings in the margins.
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| |  The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
by Salvador Dali
This startling early autobiography takes Dalí through his late 30s and "communicates the...total picture of himself (Dalí) sets out to portray" — Books. Superbly illustrated with over 80 photographs and scores of drawings.
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 Concerning the Spiritual in Art
by Wassily Kandinsky
Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.
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| |  Dadas on Art: Tzara, Arp, Duchamp and Others
by Lucy R. Lippard
Focusing mainly on visual artists, this select anthology features prose, poetry, and polemics from Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Tristan Tzara, Hanna Höch, George Grosz, Jean Cocteau, and others.
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 Modern Artists on Art: Second Enlarged Edition
by Robert L. Herbert
16 of the 20th century's leading artistic innovators talk forcefully about their work: Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Henry Moore, Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, El Lissitzky, Fernand Léger, and more.
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| |  Picasso
by Gertrude Stein
Intimate, revealing memoir of Picasso as man and artist by influential literary figure. Highly readable amalgam of biographical fact, artistic and aesthetic comments. One of Stein's most accessible works. 61 black-and-white illustrations. Index.
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 Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934
by Man Ray
Rich selection of various techniques include over and under exposure, shooting through fabric, superimposing images, and zeroing in on tiny details. Photographs are divided into general subjects, female figures (mainly nudes), women's faces, celebrity portraits, and rayographs.
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| |  Rodin on Art and Artists
by Auguste Rodin
In an intimate talk with his protégé, the sculptor offers candid, wide-ranging comments on the meaning of art; other famed artists; the relation of sculpture to poetry, painting, and music; more. 76 illustrations.
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 Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts
by Lynd Ward
The major American artist invented the concept of a wordless novel with this evocative, text-free "woodcut" narrative. Autobiographical in nature, the novel recounts Ward's struggles with his craft and with life in the 1920s.
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| |  Mad Man's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts
by Lynd Ward
The powerful imagery and intensity of Ward's wordless novels have elicited comparisons to Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe. This 1930 work tells a gripping tale through imagery alone, consisting solely of 128 hauntingly rendered woodcuts.
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 Frankenstein: The Lynd Ward Illustrated Edition
by Mary Shelley, Lynd Ward
A master of woodcut technique, Lynd Ward created 64 distinctive engravings for this famous Gothic novel. His unusual perspectives and dramatic light-and-dark contrasts combine elements of Art Deco and German Expressionism.
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by Lynd Ward
Through startling engravings shaded in black and red, Ward wordlessly tells the story of a man trapped in an industrial world, struggling between the grim reality around him and the fantasies his imagination creates.
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 Vertigo: A Novel in Woodcuts
by Lynd Ward, David A. Beronä
In this moving graphic novel without words told with 230 intricately detailed woodcuts, a young girl who longs to be a violinist, and a boy who hopes to become a builder, find their dreams shattered by the Great Depression.
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 Phobia: An Art Deco Graphic Masterpiece
by John Vassos, David A. Beronä
Hailed as a masterpiece of psychological insight by doctors and the general public alike, this 1931 creation by a leading Art Deco designer offers striking depictions of 24 common fears.
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| |  The Prisons / Le Carceri
by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, John Howe, Philip Hofer
Reprinted from rare, expensive first and second editions, this version of Piranesi's masterwork presents side-by-side renderings of original and extensively revised drawings in a large format. 33 full-page illustrations.
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 The Art of the Woodcut: Masterworks from the 1920s
by Malcolm C. Salaman, David A. Beronä
Worldwide survey of 1920s woodcuts features nearly 200 images — including an 8-page color insert — of landscapes, portraits, and book illustrations by noted artists. An informative narrative offers artistic and historical perspectives.
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| |  Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes
by Alexander Calder, James J. Sweeney
Rhymes from Mother Goose and other classic sources inspired these 85 imaginative illustrations. Humorous and bizarre, they add a new depth and resonance to the familiar verses. Contains mature content.
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 The Songs of Bilitis
by Pierre Lou˙s, Alvah C Bessie, Willy Pogány
First published in 1894 as the lost works of a disciple of Sappho, these passionate verses were debunked as a work of antiquity but remain an enchanting celebration of sexual freedom. Hardcover edition. 160 illustrations. Contains adult material.
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| |  Graphic Works of Max Klinger
by Max Klinger
Reproduced directly from original portfolio editions, these 74 etchings by a precursor of the Surrealist movement portray fantasies about love and death, sexual psychoses, fetish obsessions, and bizarre nightmares.
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 The City: A Vision in Woodcuts
by Frans Masereel
This graphic novel by an Expressionist master offers a stunning depiction of urban Europe between the world wars. First published in Germany in 1925, it presents 100 woodcuts of remarkable force and beauty.
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| |  Passionate Journey: A Vision in Woodcuts
by Frans Masereel
This evocative, text-free narrative is crafted from 167 woodcuts. A novel in pictures, we follow our hero through a world of good and evil, love and heartbreak. Introduction by Thomas Mann.
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