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The Complete Color Harmony: Pantone Edition is the latest in Rockport Publishers' best-selling color series. Completely revised from start to finish this new edition, is written by Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. And the color "moods" that she writes about in each chapter are based and matched with Pantone colors. The book expands on previous editions for the most comprehensive color reference to date. This edition...
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Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas-about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story-remain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold? First published in 1991,...
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"One Zentangle A Day is a beautiful interactive book teaching the principles of Zentangles as well as offering fun, related drawing exercises. Zentangles are a new trend in the drawing and paper arts world. The concept was started by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way to practice focus and meditation through drawing, by using repetitive lines, marks, circles, and shapes. Each mark is called a "tangle," and you combine various tangles into patterns...
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Learn to use watercolor to soothe your soul with this beginner's guide to painting for relaxation. Many watercolor books focus on the result of your painting, but this approach looks at the process of painting as a means to de-stress, with easy exercises for absolute beginners. The aim is to create art that relaxes both the artist and the viewer.
6) The Gift
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In the midst of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a writer and academic from New York named Barbara Andersen begins spamming people indiscriminately with ukulele covers of sentimental songs. A series of inappropriate intimacies ensues, including an erotically charged correspondence and then collaboration with an extraordinarily gifted and troubled musician living in Germany.
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"In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the healing power of nature through creating art. Social and emotional learning (SEL) concepts support growth mindset throughout, while Try This! and Grow with Goals activities at the end of the book further reinforce the content. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn more about increasing focus and practicing mindfulness in nature. Each book also...
8) August
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In August 1984, Jenny and her second husband Jonas take a belated honeymoon on the Ligurian coast. They stay in the same hotel her late first husband Eric had frequented for business where she unexpectedly discovers clues to Eric's boyhood trauma during the war. This knowledge jolts her view of Eric, her view of herself, and her relationship with Jonas. August is a novel about the power of secrets to transform lives. A sequel to Maryann D'Agincourt...
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WATERCOLOURS. Life has a way of throwing unexpected obstacles in our path. Your personal anxieties can build up and seem overwhelming. Help is at hand. Master artist Jean Haines leads you on a journey through paint, showing how you can wipe away your worries with the soothing and gentle movement of watercolour on paper. Meditative, peaceful and calming, watercolour painting offers relief and solace to everyone, with no judgement or goal beyond itself....
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"There is hidden, powerful wisdom in tattoos. Did you ever think of your tattoo as a charged body talisman or a portal into your spiritual self? Ancient cultures practicing shamanic tattooing laid the groundwork for our modern exploration of consciousness. Tattoos are both a revelation and a proclamation of your embodied archetypes, dreams, emotions, even a hint of past-life memories. Conscious Ink shows how this edgy skin art interfaces with our...
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IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Includes: freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play; full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play; scene-by-scene plot summaries; a key to famous lines and phrases; an introduction to reading Shakespeare's language; an essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play; and illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
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Artiste esseulé et endeuillé, Arthur quitte l'univers qui l'a vu grandir et part en quête de lui-même.
Faire son deuil, fuir le long d'une route indienne, l'angoisse et son goût de fonte froissée, la jungle du chaos. Pour Arthur, 26 ans, artiste en rupture avec les siens, penser, sentir et peindre ne font qu'un.
Le décès de sa mère et un secret de famille bouleversent ses certitudes et son rapport au monde : jusqu'o vacillera son identité...
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In Alice Springs one can reinvent oneself. This is exactly what Hank Jefferson needs. His wife, Bettina, disagrees. Hank settles in Alice Springs nevertheless and learns about the local art trade from Blue, a local Aboriginal man. Bettina's revenge does not work out the way she intended it to...
The dark world of the art trade in Alice Springs is described in this novella. Although they are located a short distance from town now, the painting...
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"A guide to living fully and humanely by learning the wisdom of authentic manual work. Many of us live in a world of constant abstraction, immersed in our heads and our screens. But there is a deeper wisdom to be found in working with our hands in the real world. In The Wisdom of Our Hands, craftsman and educator Doug Stowe shows how working with our hands, either professionally or as a hobby, is essential for a full education and a full life. Based...
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Une fiche de référence sur Ma Nuit chez Maud, un chef-d'oeuvre d'Éric Rohmer.
Un ingénieur, qui travaille aux usines Michelin, revient d'Amérique latine à Clermont-Ferrand. Il est célibataire, beau garçon et catholique. Lors de l'office dominical, dans la cathédrale, il remarque une jeune femme blonde et annonce, en voix intérieure, qu'elle sera sa femme.
Un ouvrage conçu par des spécialistes du cinéma pour tout savoir sur Ma Nuit chez...
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Une fiche de référence sur Sous le sable, un chef-d'oeuvre de François Ozon.
Le cinquième film de François Ozon, Sous le sable (2001), s'ouvre sur un plan d'ensemble d'une Seine aux reflets bleus sous le soleil, non loin de Notre-Dame de Paris, sans doute pour nous donner l'intuition du rle fondamental que jouera l'eau dans le cours du récit.
Un ouvrage conçu par des spécialistes du cinéma pour tout savoir sur Sous le sable de François...
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Une fiche de référence sur Eraserhead, un chef-d'oeuvre de David Lynch.
Eraserhead (« Tête à effacer ») est le premier long-métrage de David Lynch (1946- ) et reste dans sa filmographie une œuvre à part, tant par ses conditions de production (plus de cinq ans de travail, avec des moyens très réduits) que par son aspect parfois proche de l'abstraction.
Un ouvrage conçu par des spécialistes du cinéma pour tout savoir sur Eraserhead de...
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Une fiche de référence sur À tombeau ouvert, un chef-d'oeuvre de Martin Scorsese.
Sous l'effet d'une drogue, Frank voit des morts sortir du macadam ; l'ambulancier baptiste Marcus pratique une « résurrection » (revival) ; le possédé Noel est assoiffé parce qu'il « revient du désert » ; le couple hispanique, dont la femme se nomme Maria, a conçu des jumeaux sans relations sexuelles... L'idée de rédemption, qui parcourt l'œuvre de Scorsese,...
19) Printz
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Imagine writing a novel about a man named Jacob Printz who lost his purpose in life. Imagine describing the one constant in Jacob's life, the image of Seated Woman he first viewed as a much younger person, an image he comes back to over and over to make sense of the loves and losses in his life. This is the image by de Kooning that you, as the author, saw in the same museum several years before, an image that intrigues and haunts you, informing your...
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Une fiche de référence sur Breaking the Waves, un chef-d'oeuvre de Lars von Trier.
Le réalisateur danois Lars von Trier, né en 1956, s'était fait remarquer pour son goût « maniériste » des exercices de style formels, qui s'expriment dans des films très apprêtés, remplis de références cinéphiliques et dénués de sentimentalisme. Aussi est-ce une surprise lorsqu'on le découvre capable d'écrire et de diriger un drame aussi prenant...
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