Kate Schatz

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History

From the authors of the New York Times bestselling book Rad American Women A-Z, comes a bold new collection of 40 biographical profiles, each accompanied by a striking illustrated portrait, showcasing extraordinary women from around the world. In Rad Women Worldwide, writer Kate Schatz and artist Miriam Klein Stahl tell fresh, engaging, and inspiring tales of perseverance and radical success by pairing well researched and riveting biographies with powerful and expressive cut-paper portraits. Featuring an array of diverse figures from Hatshepsut (the great female king who ruled Egypt peacefully for two decades) and Malala Yousafzi (the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize) to Poly Styrene (legendary teenage punk and lead singer of X-Ray Spex) and Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft (polar explorers and the first women to cross Antarctica), this progressive and visually arresting book is a compelling addition to women's history.

Rad Women Worldwide

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Wisconsin

Amy Novesky

Excellent condition from a smoke free home.

Ohio

When Georgia o'Keeffe Painted What She Pleased

In 1939, artist Georgia O'Keeffe creates nearly 20 paintings as she tours the Hawaiian islands, but refuses to paint pictures of pineapples the way her sponsors tell her to. The book includes an Author's Note, Illustrator's Note, bibliography, map of the islands, and endpapers that identify O'Keeffe's favorite Hawaiian flowers. Full color.

Georgia in Hawaii

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Colleen Carroll

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

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 #fiction #juvenilefiction #artists #fosterchild #abandonment 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

In this Newbery Honor Book, a troublesome 12-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.

Pictures of Hollis Woods

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Patricia Reilly Giff

Illinois

Florida

This survey of the many aspects of abstract painting shows how the two basic forms of expression--the geometric-constructivist and the lyrical-abstract--are still clearly identifiable in present-day painting. Ninety-six color prints show the works of Mondrian, Kassak, Lissitzky, Popova, Malevich, Appel, Bogart, Fontana, Gorin, Kandinsky, de Kooning, Pollack and others.

Abstract Painting

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#hardcover #fiction #awardwinner #suspense #LA #artists #zerozone #thriller

Minnesota

A Novel

A literary thriller about an infamous desert art installation, the cult it inspired, and the search for a missing young woman that is “cinematic . . . readers will be compelled to start again at page one to discover how O’Connor pieces together his suspenseful, incredibly well–written narrative” (Library Journal, starred review). Los Angeles, the late 1970s: Jess Shepard is an installation artist who creates environments that focus on light and space, often leading to intense sensory experiences for visitors to her work. A run of critically lauded projects peaks with Zero Zone, an installation at the once upon a time site of nuclear bomb testing in the New Mexico desert. But when a small group of travelers experience what they perceive as a religious awakening inside Zero Zone, they barricade themselves in the installation until authorities are forced to intervene. That violent showdown becomes a media sensation, and its aftermath follows Jess wherever she goes. Devastated by the attack and the distortion of her art, Jess retreats from the world. Unable to work, Jess unravels mentally and emotionally, plagued by a nagging uncertainty as to her culpability for what happened. Three years later, a survivor from Zero Zone comes looking for Jess, who must move past her self imposed isolation to face down her fears and recover her art and possibly her life from a violent cult intent of making it their own.

Zero Zone

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Some yellowing and blemishes, see all pics! 

Missouri

Hot Properties 

Polly Samson

New Jersey

"Sublime and immersive . . . If you wish you could disappear to a Greek island right now, I highly recommend." —Jojo Moyes, #1 bestselling author of Me Before You "This gorgeous, glimmering summer read is itself perfect summer: irresistible and deep, Samson's lyric sentences pulling you into unforgettable sunlight and shadow." —Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses It’s 1960, and the world teeters on the edge of cultural, political, sexual, and artistic revolution. On the Greek island of Hydra, a proto-commune of poets, painters, and musicians revel in dreams at the feet of their unofficial leaders, the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, troubled queen and king of bohemia. At the center of this circle of misfit artists are the captivating and inscrutable Axel Jensen, his magnetic wife Marianne Ihlen, and a young Canadian ingenue poet named Leonard Cohen. When eighteen-year-old Erica stumbles into their world, she’s fresh off the boat from London with nothing but a bundle of blank notebooks and a burning desire to leave home in the wake of her mother’s death. Among these artists, she will find an unraveling utopia where everything is tested—the nature of art, relationships, and her own innocence. Intoxicating and immersive, A Theater for Dreamers is a spellbinding tour-de-force about the beauty between naïveté and cruelty, chaos and utopia, artist and muse—and about the wars waged between men and women on the battlegrounds of genius. Roiling with the heat of a Grecian summer, A Theater for Dreamers is, according to the Guardian, “a blissful piece of escapism” and “a surefire summer hit.”

A Theater for Dreamers

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Texas

MaryAnn F. Kohl

Kim Solga

Light wear on corners. Otherwise, clean book.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Art, music, drama/theater

Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters

Featuring more than 150 activities, this guide teaches the styles, works, and techniques of the great masters--Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and more.


Discovering Great Artists

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Modern French Masters: The Impressionists 

Sandra McCall

Ex-library book in excellent condition; does has stickers on the front cover and spine, as well as library stamp on the 1st page

Maryland

Turn Your Crafts into a Career

Take your crafts out of your workshop - and into the spotlight. Do you dream of making money with your art but feel unsure of how to begin? With The Savvy Crafter's Guide to Success, turning your hobby into a career is easier than you think. Leave the boring business books to the white-collar set! In these pages filled with plenty of artwork for inspiration, renowned rubber-stamp and polymer-clay artist Sandra McCall teaches you everything you need to know about successfully marketing and selling your work. She shares personal insights from some of the industry's top crafters, including Traci Bautista, Claudine Hellmuth, Michael Jacobs, Catherine Moore and Stephanie Olin. With sound advice, valuable do's and don'ts, and plenty of encouragement, you'll learn to: Become a regular contributor to craft publications Start teaching workshops at stores, retreats and craft shows Assert yourself as an "expert" in your field Turn your dreams into reality. Turn your crafts into a career!

Savvy Crafter's Guide to Success

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#nonfiction #history #hardcover #impressionism #Paris #artists #arthistory

Alabama

the revolutionary decade that gave the world Impressionism

The judgment of Paris

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Art appreciation book for students and art lovers. Plenty of pictures and examples of famous art. #hardcover #art #artists #painting #sculpture #homeschool 

Grade 8

Young Artists

Good condition! Great summer read for middle schoolers/high schoolers

Virginia

Sparrow Road

New Hampshire

During the 1930s, an artist and reluctant new wife struggles to reconcile her heart's ambitions with the promises she has made

Cascade, Massachusetts, 1935. Desdemona Hart Spaulding, a promising young artist, abandoned her dreams of working in New York City to rescue her father. Two months later he is dead and Dez is stuck in a marriage to reliable but child-hungry Asa Spaulding. Dez also stands to lose her father's legacy, the Cascade Shakespeare Theater, as the Massachusetts Water Authority decides whether to flood Cascade to create a reservoir.

Amid this turmoil arrives Jacob Solomon, a fellow artist for whom Dez feels an immediate and strong attraction. As their relationship reaches a pivotal moment, a man is found dead and the town accuses Jacob, a Jewish outsider. But the tide turns when Dez's idea for a series of painted postcards is picked up by The American Sunday Standard and she abruptly finds herself back on the path to independence. New York City and a life with Jacob both beckon, but what will she have to give up along the way?

Cascade

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Connecticut

The City in Art and Literature

This work presents a selection of some of the most revered images of New York from the 18th century to the present from the Metropolitan Museum's collection.

New York, New York

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#paperback #artists #crime #fiction #historical #historicalfiction #suspense 

Colorado

Howard Norman'sThe Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho August. Later, he confesses who and what drove him to his crime--a measured, profoundly engrossing story of passion, betrayal, guilt, and redemption between men and women.

The Bird Artistis a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

The Bird Artist

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B. A. Shapiro

Don't miss B. A. Shapiro's new novel, The Collector's Apprentice, available now! “Vibrant and suspenseful . . . Like The Art Forger, this new story takes us into the heart of what it means to be an artist.” —The Washington Post “B. A. Shapiro captivated us in 2012 with her ‘addictive’ novel The Art Forger. Now, she’s back with another thrilling tale from the art world.” —Entertainment Weekly When Alizée Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her artistic patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who while working at Christie’s auction house uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind works by those now-famous Abstract Expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt?

The Muralist

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Marilyn Simandle

Lewis B. Lehrman

Work through a series of step-by-step, demonstration’s, each building on the one before it, to achieve a powerful, watercolor painting.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Known for her glorious, light-filled paintings, Marilyn Simandle shares her secrets for evoking the celebrated "glow" of watercolor. The book includes a series of step-by-step demonstrations, each building on the one before it. 182 color illustrations.

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Kate Schatz

Rad Women Worldwide

Kate Schatz

Rad Women Worldwide

Amy Novesky

Georgia in Hawaii

Colleen Carroll

How Artists See: Families

Patricia Reilly Giff

Pictures of Hollis Woods

Patricia Reilly Giff

Pictures of Hollis Woods

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Abstract Painting

Scott O'Connor

Zero Zone

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Hot Properties

Polly Samson

A Theater for Dreamers

Patricia Reilly Giff

Pictures of Hollis Woods

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Pictures of Hollis Woods

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Discovering Great Artists

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Modern French Masters: The Impressionists

Sandra McCall

Savvy Crafter's Guide to Success

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The judgment of Paris

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Young Artists

Sheila O’ Connor

Sparrow Road

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B. A. Shapiro

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