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Icons provide depictions of God or encounters with the divine that enable reflection and prayer. 'In the Beginning is the Icon' explores the value of these images for a theology of liberation. Iconology, art theory, philosophical aesthetics, art h...

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Jesus was not depicted on the cross until the early fifth century. Since then this scene has been painted or carved in sharply differing ways. With the aid of over thirty full-page plates, The Passion in Art explores the historical contexts and th...

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I den mest uttömmande boken om Hilma af Klint som hittills getts ut, skriver 20 specialister inom modern konst, konsthistoria, idéhistoria och religionshistoria utifrån sin unika utgångspunkt och ger sin syn på af Klints konstnärskap. Ämnena rör s...

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  Inte alla konstnärers samlade verk kan, kommer eller förtjänar att presenteras i en Catalogue Raisonné. Hilma af Klints konst inte bara förtjänar det den kräver det eftersom verket i sin helhet innehåller ett budskap och uppenbarar en livså...

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Fran att tidigare ha betraktats som en konstnarernas konstnar har Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944), efter den foersta retrospektiva utstallningen pa Moderna Museet i Stockholm 2013 och den foeljande utstallningsturnen som sags av en miljonpublik, nume...

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Axel Törneman (1880 1925) var en pionjär i den moderna svenska konsthistorien, främst uppmärksammad för sina stora fresker i bland annat Stockholms stadshus och Riksdagshuset. Intensiv och egensinnig gick han sina egna vägar utan att inordna sig i...

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"One of the most important books on color ever written."-Michael Hession, Gizmodo "Interaction of Color with its illuminating visual exercises and mind-bending optical illusions, remains an indispensable blueprint to the art of seei...

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In the past ten years, Swedish floral designer Per Benjamin developed his own colour theory. The World of Colour according to Per Benjamin is an educational-entertaining-inspirational book where his colour theory is explained in text, but above al...

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How can art enhance and enrich the Christian faith? What is the basis for a relationship between the church and visual imagery? Can the art world and the Protestant church be reconciled? Is art idolatry and vanity, or can it be used to strengthen ...

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Painting Beyond Pollock is a captivating account of the history of European and American painting from the mid-20th century onwards. Art historian and critic Morgan Falconer presents an extensively researched piece of writing that explains why pai...

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Let your inner rebel guide the artist in you and get lost in these swear-filled and satisfyingly immature colouring pages. Focus on something other than bills and remember what having fun feels like with 112 pages of guided colouring. Put down the...

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Gunnel Wåhlstrand creates extraordinary large-scale ink wash paintings featuring monumental landscapes, compelling portraits and serene interiors with intriguing compositions. The point of departure for Wåhlstrand's work was a box of family photog...

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The Great Book of French Impressionism celebrates the richness and exuberance of the Impressionists's world - a world of light and color, of sunlit fields and shimmering waterscapes, of bustling city views and intimate domestic scenes. The 400 ill...

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Featuring all kinds of dogs - big, small, graceful, cute, funny - The Book of the Dog is a cool and quirky collection of dog art and illustration by artists around the world. Interspersed through the illustrations are short texts about the artists...

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  I denna magnifika bok går konstvetaren Hayden Herrera på djupet i den fascinerande och sprakande historien om Frida Kahlo, en av världens mest ikoniska konstnärer och människor: Hennes barndom i Mexico City under den mexikanska revolutionen...

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"Jag har hela tiden gått min egen väg utan att svika de föresatser jag hade - om man lär sig språket och glömt vad man ville säga med det har man förlorat allt." Gunnar Allvar (1922-2003) föddes norr om Enviken i Dalarna. Konstintresset,...

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Den internationellt hyllade konstnären och författaren Simon Stålenhag har slagit världen med häpnad med sina konstböcker som visar en välbekant och samtidigt främmande värld. Nu är han tillbaka med den efterlängtade Labyrinten. I Labyrinten skild...

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In Swedish with English translation on every page. Vinnare av Svenska Designpriset 2016 i kategorin Bästa bok/print. Många känner till Josef Frank (1885-1967), den österrikiske arkitekten och formgivaren. Än idag är hans klassiska möbler, lampor o...

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Examine the anatomy of a horse from an entirely different perspective. This intriguing and original explanation of the 11 internal body systems of horses shows them painted on the outside to describe everything on the inside. The horse is a highly...

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Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) was one of the leading British landscape painters of the 19th century. Inspired by his mentor, the artist and poet William Blake, Palmer brought a new spiritual intensity to his interpretation of nature, producing works o...

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Creating Stylized Characters gives readers a valuable insight into the popular art of character design. Professional illustrators, animators and cartoonists, well versed in creating characters for video games, comics and film, guide the reader thr...

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Denna bok utges i samband med den stora Richard Bergh-utställningen på Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde i april -02. Som radikal konstnär tillhörde Richard Bergh de Parisbaserade opponenterna som på 1880-talet förberedde revolten mot Konstakademien 1885...

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"An arboreal odyssey" - NATURE "One of the most quietly beautiful books of the year" - DAILY MAIL Evening Standard Books of the Year 2018 The Times Gardening Books of the Year 2018 Discover the secretive world of trees in Jonat...

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This book is published by Missouri Life Magazine and distributed by the University of Missouri Press. Historical figures, Native Americans and local characters inhabit the sweeping views of the New Regionalist paintings by Bryan Haynes. Influenced...

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Ur varselklotet tar dig på en resa till ett landskap som är både välbekant och främmande. Det är 1980-tal, som det kunde ha varit. Under Mälaröarna finns Slingan, världens största partikelaccelerator. Ovan jord pågår vardagen som vanligt. I skugga...

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In a survey that begins in the mid-twentieth century, long before the birth of the Internet, this book traces painting's capacity to digest and transform other media, even as its own legitimacy has been questioned. Featuring the work of numerous r...

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In this new and extended edition of her best-selling book in the 'How to Paint' series: 'Colour and Light in Watercolour' (first published 2010), Jean Haines has produced a book even more inspirational than the first. With 40 per cent new material...

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Sketching and drawing are fundamental to creating great art; the simple doodle is often where the artist first brings their ideas and concepts to life. In Sketching from the Imagination: Dark Arts, we have gathered together fifty talented traditio...

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Revered among artists - including the great Norman Rockwell and comics superstar Alex Ross - for his mastery of figure drawing and clean, realist style, Loomis's hugely influential art instruction books have never been bettered. Hailed by the Amer...

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Blind Willie Johnson. Willie Dixon. Ma Rainey. We know their music, and of course we recognise their names, but to their fans the faces of these blues legends are equally as intrinsic. In the same format as our bestselling R. Crumb's Heroes of Blu...

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