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NUTS & BOLTS – Marthe Le Van
I’ve often been attracted by hand-made jewelry, probably a result of my older brother having designed some rings back in the 1960’s/1970’s, and thought I might make a decent jewelry designer myself. When I saw this book, combining home-made jewelry with Steampunk stylings, I knew I had to check this out. There are some very nice… Continue reading
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NOTHING BUT THE CLOUDS UNCHANGED – Gordon Hughes and Philipp Blom, editors
I believe that time and time again, artists have created some of the most thought-provoking, moving art during times of war. Not just art as in paintings and drawings and sculpture, but all the arts … music, theatre, dance, etc. This is not a call for war so that we can produce significant works of… Continue reading
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SPECTACULAR RUBENS – Alejandro Vergara and Anne T. Woollett, editors
I will admit that when I started this book, I was expecting it to be more of a coffee table style book, full of pictures, but it’s not. While the book is lavishly illustrated, it is not in a coffee-table display sort of way. Spectacular Rubens is very specifically about a special series of paintings… Continue reading
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HOW TO DRAW COOL STUFF – Catherine V. Holmes
I am always a little leery of “How to Draw …” books, finding that most of them look good, and have step-by-step guides, but then make a big leap to the finished product, failing to explain some of the important means of detail. This particular book is geared toward teachers and students and the simplicity… Continue reading
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PHOTOGRAPHY AS MEDITATION – Torsten Andreas Hoffmann
This book might better be called ‘Zen and the Art of Photography’ because it seems to be a book geared more about how to find your zen through the use of photography, rather than ‘meditation’ in a more general sense. There is very little writing within the book. Each chapter (twenty-eight of them) is only… Continue reading
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IT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN (TO A DOG) – Don Freeman
It took me a little while to remember where I knew Don Freeman’s name from, but it clicked while I was reading this. Freeman is the author/artist of the children’s Corduroy books — books about a stuffed bear that I used to read to my children quite regularly. It Shouldn’t Happen (To a Dog), while an… Continue reading
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STAR TREK: CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER – graphic novel
Yes! Finally a Star Trek graphic novel that combines an interesting, well-thought-out story with really terrific art wherein familiar characters actually look like the characters we readers know! It helps that this book is a graphic novel adaptation of a much-loved Star Trek episode, “City on the Edge of Forever,” by noted author Harlan Ellison. So… Continue reading
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THE ART OF THE BRICK – Nathan Sawaya
Beautiful. Nathan Sawaya’s, The Art of the Brick, is a truly beautiful book. Sawaya is an artist whose choice of media is the Lego®. You know…those little, bright-colored plastic bricks that kids (and kids-at-heart) play with? Yes…that is the medium for an incredible art form. Sawaya’s art is anything but childish. His ability to create… Continue reading
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DENSLOW’S NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS – Clement Clarke Moore & W.W. Denslow
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE There’s something I find wonderfully appealing about Victorian Era children’s book art (though, yes, technically speaking, this would be in the Edwardian period as it was published in 1902 … but Denslow was certainly famous for his work during the Victorian period). There’s a great deal of whimsical fantasy, the… Continue reading
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SUNRISE, SUNSET: 52 WEEKS OF AWE & GRATITUDE – Kim Weiss
Sunrise Sunset is both a coffee-table book and an ‘inspirational’ book. Photographer/editor Kim Weiss pairs her photographs with poetry and reflections meant to capture the awe and gratitude of our lives. There is much to like here, and this will certainly be treasured by many. I, however, was a bit underwhelmed. Enjoying the beauty of a… Continue reading
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A CHRISTMAS TREASURY – collection
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE Ah, sweet nostalgia! This book is a throwback to a simpler and often more elegant time. Dover Publications has put together a collection (or ‘treasury’) of stories, poems, and illustrations from the turn of the century. Clement Moore’s “The Night Before Christmas” is a perennial classic and would be obvious… Continue reading
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BOTTICELLI’S BASTARD – Stephen Maitland-Lewis
I have chosen to read a number of books with an art theme lately, and generally I have enjoyed them. Botticelli’s Bastard, a historical-fantasy-mystery novel is the latest in art-themes, and does not maintain the same quality of writing that I’ve seen in the other books. Anyone who has taken a college fiction or creative… Continue reading
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