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Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities
by Albertus Seba
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Albertus Seba's "Cabinet of Curiosities" is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time.
Though it was common for men of his profession to collect natural... ( read more)
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Beautiful Evidence
by Edward R. Tufte
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Edward Tufte is the foremost author on the topic of the graphical display of information.... ( read more)
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Visual Explanations
by Edward R Tufte
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Tufte's (statistical evidence and information design, Yale U.) third
book on displaying information that began with the now classic The
Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983). Whereas the first
considered the display of numbers and the... ( read more)
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
by Julia Cameron
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The Artist's Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist's life. Still as vital today-or perhaps even more so-than it was when it was... ( read more)
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The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture
by Gyorgy Doczi
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One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature--designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for... ( read more)
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
by Robert M. Edsel
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At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would... ( read more)
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100 Creative Drawing Ideas
by Anna Held Audette
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What art student doesn't groan at the hackneyed problems too often assigned in art classes, such as a still life and chianti bottles, old chairs, and large cloths draped over the whole scene? Here, in the first book ever of its kind, is a collection of... ( read more)
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PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God
by Frank Warren
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The author of the "New York Times"-bestselling PostSecret books addresses life's biggest questions, as he reveals the incredibly moving, personal postcards he's received that touch upon every aspect of spirituality.... ( read more)
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Barnett Newman
by Ann Temkin
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On my last real cultural outing before absconding from New York to Portland, a friend of mine and I visited the MoMA QNS — the temporary gallery open to the public while the main MoMA building underwent reconstruction. I found myself utterly transfixed... ( read more)
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Cubism (Movements in Modern Art)
by David Cottington
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Analyzing paintings by Picasso, Braque, Robert and Sonia Delauney, and their associates, David Cottington describes how the artistic avant-garde, and Cubism within it, was formed in France by the turbulent and complex decade before the outbreak of war in... ( read more)
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North Light's Big Book of Painting Watercolor Flowers
by Pamela Wissman
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Page after page--192 in all--of gorgeous artwork and clear instruction make this the perfect choice for artists of all levels. Painting flowers has never been easier!... ( read more)
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Envisioning Information
by Edward R Tufte
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This book celebrates escapes from the flatlands of both paper and computer screen, showing superb displays of high-dimensional complex data. The most design-oriented of Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning Information shows maps, charts, scientific... ( read more)
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Original Essays | October 14, 2009
By Emily Pilloton
About six months ago, at a fundraising event for the nonprofit I founded, Project H, a six-year-old girl handed me a pickle jar full of pennies....
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Original Essays | September 29, 2009
By William Davies King
Time plays tricks with history, even when the history is personal and the time-scale short and recent. I wrote the first sentences of
Collections of Nothing within a week of September 11, 2001, and I had an early version of the complete story finished by June 2002. The book finally came out in July 2008. What came between were years of rewriting and coping with rejections, followed by...
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Original Essays | September 25, 2009
By Robert Edsel
The Monuments Men were the greatest heroes of World War II you've never heard of. Before I tell you who they were, let me ask you a few seemingly obvious questions, but ones you — like me — have, probably never wondered. You know of the...
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