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The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka's graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings. The year 2019 brought a sensational discovery: hundreds of drawings by the writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924) were found in a private collection that for decades had been kept under lock and key. Until now, only a few of Kafka's drawings were widely known. Although Kafka is renowned for his written work, his drawings are evidence...
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"In recent years David Hockney has returned to England to paint the landscape of his childhood in East Yorkshire. Although his passionate interest in new technologies has led him to develop a virtuoso drawing technique on an iPad, he has also been accompanied outdoors by the traditional sketchbook, an invaluable tool as he works quickly to capture the changing light and fleeting effects of the weather. Executed in watercolour and ink, the panoramic...
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Young readers first met the Pigeon, a beleaguered bird behind the wheel of a bus, in 2003. The Pigeon was born many years earlier in the pages of a sketchbook. Readers are given a rare glimpse into the mind of the author/illustrator. Since he was a teenager, Mo has been creating characters and scribbling ideas in the pages of sketchbooks. In the early 1990s, he started self-publishing collections of his drawings, and The Mo Willems Sketchbook was...
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"Learn to sketch trees and plants quickly and precisely with this book and sketch pad set! How to Sketch Plants provides everything a complete beginner needs to know in order to produce expressive, stylish sketches quickly and accurately. It's a combination pack of step-by-step instruction in a highly-illustrated book and a sketchpad to help you start each sketch or drawing--and complete it!--following the instructions in the book. Beautiful art,...
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The mad scientist of the Moleskine, European illustrator Mattias Adolfsson's lush sketchbook drawings are collected for the first time in North America. For the first time in North America, brilliant Swedish illustrator Mattias Adolfsson's incredibly lush sketchbook illustrations are collected in a facsimile Moleskine edition. Adolfsson, in between assignments for the New York Times, videogame design, children's books and other major publications,...
59) Be seated
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"The book consists of a series of essays that begin with the author's personal discovery of public seating. An 'ah hah' moment as a young architect visiting Paris and his early experience as a designer is followed by a brief history of the evolution of public space and seating in the West. This is followed by an account of some of his experiments as a landscape architect, and the theory, craft, and role of seating in a number of prominent civic places...
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