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A charming, chunky book filled with more than 150 works we love from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book is divided into different themes for readers to explore, including people, animals, transportation, and places. Accompanying text provides readers with insight into each piece without distracting from the beauty of the work. From paintings to collages to sculptures to photographs, I (Heart) Art helps readers discover the best that the museum has to offer. Among the artists included are Jennifer Bartlett, Romare Bearden, Rosa Bonheur, Canaletto, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hokusai, Winslow Homer, Edmonia Lewis, Claude Monet, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, and Andy Warhol.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

North Carolina

The Work We Love from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A charming, chunky book filled with more than 150 works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Accompanying text provides readers with insight into each piece without distracting from the beauty of the work. Includes works by Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Andy Warhol. Full color.

I (Heart) Art

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Yee-Lum Mak

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World (Book Lover Gifts, Illustrated Untranslatable Word Book)

Discover words to surprise, delight, and enamor. Learn terms for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees, for dancing awkwardly but with relish, and for the look shared by two people who each wish the other would speak first. Other-Wordly is an irresistible gift for lovers of words and those lost for words alike.

Other-Wordly

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Andrea Bartz

Tennessee

A Novel

An exclusive New York women's workspace is rocked by the mysterious disappearance of its enigmatic founder, leaving two sisters to uncover the haunting truth "Fascinating and chilling."--Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED THRILLERS OF 2020 BY Marie Claire · Newsweek · The Boston Globe · HelloGiggles · Book Riot · PopSugar · CrimeReads · Bustle · She Reads The name of the elite, women-only coworking space stretches across the wall behind the check-in desk: THE HERD, the H-E-R always in purple. In-the-know New Yorkers crawl over one another to apply for membership to this community that prides itself on mentorship and empowerment. Among the hopefuls is Katie Bradley, who's just returned from the Midwest after a stint of book research blew up in her face. Luckily, Katie has an in, thanks to her sister, Hana, an original Herder and the best friend of Eleanor Walsh, the Herd's charismatic founder. Eleanor is a queen among the Herd's sun-filled rooms, admired and quietly feared even as she strives to be warm and approachable. As head of PR, Hana is working around the clock to prepare for a huge announcement from Eleanor--one that will change the trajectory of the Herd forever. Though Katie loves her sister's crew, she secretly hopes that she's found her next book subject in Eleanor, who's brilliant, trailblazing--and extremely private. Then, on the night of the glitzy Herd news conference, Eleanor vanishes without a trace. Everybody has a theory about what made Eleanor run, but when the police suggest foul play, everyone is a suspect: Eleanor's husband, other Herders, the men's rights groups that have had it out for the Herd since its launch--even Eleanor's closest friends. As Hana struggles to figure out what her friend was hiding and Katie chases the story of her life, the sisters must face the secrets they've been keeping from each other--and confront just how dangerous it can be when women's perfect veneers start to crack, crumble, and then fall away altogether.

The Herd

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Michael Clinton

Arkansas

Seeing the World in Details

In Michael Clinton's earlier books - all travel photography - he has shown us the world in context, in long shots that describe people, places and things/architecture and design objects. In Closer he looks at the world through a telescopic lens, honing in on specifics to people, their cultures and their environments. An impulse item for the photographic and travel aficionado, this book is just a fun read.

Closer

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#fiction #hardcover #ya #comic #art #shortstories #fears

Virginia

A devilishly funny collection of comics that explores our most gruesome, hilarious, and bizarre fears--and the dangers lurking around every corner. We all have strange, irrational fears--from seeing ghosts in the bedroom mirror to being sucked into a mall escalator or finding yourself miles below the ocean's surface on the deck of a sunken ship. In Deep Dark Fears, animator, illustrator, and cartoonist Fran Krause brings these fears to life in 101 vividly illustrated comics inspired by his wildly popular web comic and based on real fears submitted by online readers. Deep Dark Fears reveals a primal part of our humanity and highlighting both our idiosyncrasies and our similarities.

Deep Dark Fears

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#leonorainthemorninglight #historicalfiction #hardcover #ww2 #art

Florida

For fans of Colm Tóibín's The Master, a page-turning novel about Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington and the art, drama, and romance that defined her coming-of-age during World War II.

Leonora in the Morning Light

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Illinois

The British nun combines her interest in the Muses of classical mythology with her appreciation for fine porcelain in this unique mythology book.

Sister Wendy's Book of Muses

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#artsandcrafts #crafting #crafts #loom #looming #children #art #hobby #handmade #fun

Maryland

25 Spectacular, Never-Before-Seen Designs for Rainbows of Fun

From the authors of the instant bestseller Loom Magic! comes a second amazing project book with twenty-five totally new and extreme designs! Rainbow Looms are taking the world by storm, with devotees of all ages accessorizing their wrists, backpacks, and rooms with fun and creative projects. These super imaginative, out-of-this-world projects will take your rubber band loom projects to the next level. Here are kid-tested step-by-step instructions and bright color photographs to show you how to make the coolest rubber band projects out there, including: Twisty headband Bouquet of flowers Octopus Decorated ponytail holder Fashion jewelry stand Glow-in-the-dark stars Zipper decoration Hockey stick Bloodshot eyeballs Black bat And many more!

Loom Magic Xtreme!

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#hardcover #woman #art #history #ourhistory


Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Reexamining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the pivotal but less well-known roles women have played in culture and society.

Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events in women's history--from early matriarchal societies through women's suffrage, the Suffragette movement, 20th-century feminism, and gender politics, to recent movements such as #MeToo and International Women's Day--and the key role women have had in shaping our past.

Learn about the everyday lives of women through the ages as well as the big names of women's history--powerful, inspirational, and trailblazing women such as Cleopatra, Florence Nightingale, Emmeline Pankhurst, Eva Peron, and Rosa Parks--and discover the unsung contributions of lesser-known women who have changed the world, and the "forgotten" events of women's history.

Placing women firmly center stage, Women: Our Story shows women where they came from, and in celebrating the achievements of women of the past, offers positive role models for women of today.

Women: Our Story

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Washington

Abandoned Architecture and Objects from Seven Continents

In Global Remains, Michael Clinton offers a visionary collection of the different places around the world that have struck his perceptive eye: forgotten places and artefacts that range from homes, to churches, to planes, statues, temples, and farmhouses.

Global Remains

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Colleen Carroll

New Mexico

Mother Father Sister Brother

Abbeville Kids expands its award-winning series of interactive, inquiry-based books designed to teach children about the world by looking at art, and about art by looking at the world. In "How Artists See Families", children can see how Carmen Lomas Garza captured the simple pleasure of a family eating watermelon on the front porch; how Kikugawa Eizan used curved lines to show the gracefulness with which a mother carries her young son; how John Singer Sargent depicted the flowerlike delicacy of two sisters as they light lanterns in a twilit summer garden; and how Winslow Homer showed a boy's protectiveness of his younger brother in a dangerous situation. "How Artists See" is a series of interactive, inquiry-based books designed to teach children about the world by looking at art and about art by looking at the world. Each volume presents 16 diverse works of art, all devoted to a subject that every child already knows from personal experience. Author Colleen Carroll's engaging, conversational text is filled with thought-provoking questions and imaginative activities that spark children's natural curiosity both about the subject of the artwork they are looking at and about the way it was created. This direct, interactive approach to art - and to the world - promotes self-exploration, self-discovery, and self-expression. The books introduce basic artistic concepts, styles, and techniques, and are loads of fun. For children who want to know more about the artists whose works appear in each book, biographies are provided at the end, along with suggestions for further reading and an international list of museums where each artist's works can be seen. As children begin to understand the multitude of ways that artists see, they should deepen their appreciation of art and artists, of the world around them, and of their own unique vision.

How Artists See: Families

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#paperback #mazes #art #childrens #activitybooks

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

Help little cottontails get to school, lead a hungry bunny to some carrot cake, show another the way to a bubble bath, and more. 48 puzzles with solutions.

Bunny Rabbit Mazes

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Kentucky

Art, music, drama/theater

Hands-on Backyard Fun Nature Projects

Blue Balliett

California

When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.

Chasing Vermeer

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Steve Martin

Delaware

Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallel the soaring heights--and, at times, the dark lows--of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.

An Object of Beauty

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The Little Book of Opera celebrates the sublime marriage of words and music that has dazzled audiences with an unparalleled parade of both high and low drama since the sixteenth century. This volume collects enchanting and engaging pieces by celebrated writers, including Willa Cather's striking tale of a stuffy businessman's infatuation with a prima donna, Richard Wagner's memorable tirade on the subject of conducting, and Edith Wharton's satirical look at old New York society through the prism of the opera house. With an eye uplifted to this most sublime of arts, this book takes readers from the orchestra pit to the family box to the stage itself.

The Little Book of Opera

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#crafts #hobbies #collage #art #crafty #artbooks #vintage #craftbooks #hardcover #craftideas

Collage

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#hardcover #art #arthistory #comicalart #16thcentury

Georgia

Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, was described in 1604 by his earliest biographer as a supremely comic artist, few of whose works failed to elicit laughter. Today, however, we approach Bruegel's art as anything but a laughing matter. His paintings and drawings are thought to conceal profound allegories best illuminated with scholarly erudition. In this delightfully engaging book, Walter S. Gibson takes a new look at Bruegel, arguing that the artist was no erudite philosopher, but a man very much in the world, and that a significant part of his art is best appreciated in the context of humor. In his illuminating examination of the witty and amusing elements in Bruegel's paintings, prints, and drawings in relation to the sixteenth century European culture of laughter, Gibson reminds us exactly why Bruegel was one of the most original artists of his time.



In a series of engrossing chapters, Gibson explores the function and production of laughter in the sixteenth century, examines the ways in which Bruegel exploited the comic potential of Hieronymus Bosch, and traces how the artist developed his remarkable gift for physiognomy in his work, culminating in three paintings of festive peasants he produced during the 1560s: the Wedding Dance, the Kermis, and the Wedding Banquet. Gibson also takes a detailed look at the Dulle Griet, Bruegel's most complex evocation of Bosch.

Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter

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#elementary #educational #thirdgrade #hardcover #art

Sometimes more is better! Each Student Book grades 1-5 has more: * Art images * Studios (54 per grade level) * Art criticism based on images, and * Student artwork than any other K-5 program. Six Theme-Based Units. Student Books also available as Big Books and e-Books.

Explorations in Art, Grade 3

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Artist, Genius, Fugitive

Cellini

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Maira Kalman

Barbara Scott-Goodman

A Cookbook

With great style, wit, and joy, Maira Kalman and Barbara Scott-Goodman celebrate their favorite dessert. In Cake, renowned artist and author Maira Kalman and food writer Barbara Scott-Goodman bring us a beautifully illustrated book dedicated to their love of cakes. Filled with Kalman's inimitable illustrations and memories, from chocolate cake on a terrace in Tel Aviv as a child to a gorgeous pink cake enjoyed over Lucretius and Nietzsche in Rome, and sprinkled with seventeen mouthwatering recipes prepared by Scott-Goodman, Cake is a joyful and whimsical celebration of a timeless dessert.

Cake

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Utah

"Ambiguous work. Where can we start?", wrote the art historian Oscar Schürer in the historic series Junge Kunst about Pablo Picasso's multi - faceted oeuvre back in 1927. Picasso, who was investigating Surrealism at the time, was regarded as a genius even then - and had another 40 years of creativity before him. The magnificent legacy of a talent which showed twentieth - century art the way forward consists of an almost unimaginable number of paintings, drawings, graphic works, sculp tures and ceramic items. The art historian Markus Müller knows where and above all how we can begin to grasp a multilayered oeuvre like Picasso's. In this newly edited artist monograph he skilfully guides the reader through the virtuoso plethora of styles of Pablo Picasso, explains key works from the various periods and provides a fascinating impression of the bubbling energy of this multi - talented artist. Not least as a result of the author's personal acquaintance with the Picasso family, the archive sect ion of the work promises a number of finds which are seldom on view.ance with the Picasso family, the archive sect ion of the work promises a number of finds which are seldom on view.ance with the Picasso family, the archive sect ion of the work promises a number of finds which are seldom on view.ance with the Picasso family, the archive sect ion of the work promises a number of finds which are seldom on view.

Pablo Picasso

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Caroline Breunesse

New Jersey

Introduces young readers to the life and art of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh.

Visiting Vincent Van Gogh

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#blackcats #cats #catbooks #littlecatbooks #tinytreasury #facts #art #folklore #humor #anecdotes 

New York

Cover has subtitle: Being a tiny treasury of information about the history, folklore, behavior, breeding & care of black cats ... & also those which are mostly (but not altogether) black.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, The

I (Heart) Art

Yee-Lum Mak

Other-Wordly

Andrea Bartz

The Herd

Michael Clinton

Closer

Fran Krause

Deep Dark Fears

Michaela Carter

Leonora in the Morning Light

Wendy Beckett

Sister Wendy's Book of Muses

John McCann; Becky Thomas; Monica Sweeney

Loom Magic Xtreme!

Smithsonian, DK

Women: Our Story

Michael Clinton

Global Remains

Colleen Carroll

How Artists See: Families

Suzanne Ross

Bunny Rabbit Mazes

Sally Hewitt

Hands-on Backyard Fun Nature Projects

Blue Balliett

Chasing Vermeer

Steve Martin

An Object of Beauty

Duncan Bock (Editor)

The Little Book of Opera

Elizabeth Ashurst

Collage

Walter S. Gibson

Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter

Marilyn G. Stewart, Eldon Katter, Laura H. Chapman, Davis Publications, Nancy Walkup

Explorations in Art, Grade 3

Derek Parker

Cellini

Maira Kalman; Barbara Scott-Goodman

Cake

Markus Müller; Markus Müller

Pablo Picasso

Caroline Breunesse

Visiting Vincent Van Gogh

David Conrad Taylor

The Little Black Cat Book