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Jinmen-Zoshi (Book of Faces) appeared briefly on the previous book Yokai Wonderland. Since it was the first time this book was introduced many it went viral within the Yokai fan community and demanded us to reveal more content. This was one of the reason we published this book.

A comics and gaming art veteran provides scores of images and step-by-step examples to illustrate how variation and experimentation lead to fresh, original designs for otherworldly beings and their environments and stories.

100 Japanese Gardens is an ambitious attempt to profile the finest gardens in Japan, while also highlighting lesser known, but equally accomplished landscapes in less-visited parts of the country. A celebration of Japanese landscape design, this book features gardens from Kyoto and Tokyo, as well as from the sub-arctic island of Hokkaido and the semi-tropical islands of Okinawa. Author Stephen Mansfield traveled the length and breadth of Japan on a quest to identify the most impressive gardens in this vast and culturally varied archipelago. His erudition and love of the Japanese garden shines through on every page, making this the perfect primer for travel to Japan or an enjoyable armchair read for gardening enthusiasts. Mansfield's insightful descriptions of each garden examine design concepts and principles, space management, compositional elements, and the iconographic and metaphysical role of Shinto and Buddhist influences. Through his exquisite visuals and engaging stories, we experience Japanese garden designs not merely as landscapes, but as large-scale art installations.

The latest in NHB's series of Good Audition Guides. Forty fantastic female speeches for teenagers (aged fifteen and over), all written between 2000 and 2018, by some of the most exciting and acclaimed writers working today, from plays that were premiered at many of the UK's most famous and respected venues.

A fresh way of approaching drawing, which banishes inhibitions and helps you visualize your thoughts, express your emotions, develop your ideas.

An extensive set of sculptures and original photos by John Chamberlain show his lifelong exploration and experimentation around coloured car body parts and the illusion of movement in space.

London's record shop scene is at its most vital and buoyant point since the 1990s, following a resurgence of interest in vinyl over recent years. Vinyl London is at once a practical guide, featuring maps, addresses, opening times and stock information, and an attractive visual celebration of London's record shops.

The first authoritative collection of drawings by legendary modern architect Lina Bo BardiLina Bo Bardi (1914–92) was one of the most prolific and visionary architects of the twentieth century. Raised in Italy under Mussolini’s Fascist regime and emigrating to Brazil after World War II, she championed the power of architecture and design to embrace everyday life. Her boldly modernist designs range from concrete-and-glass structures like the São Paulo Museum of Art and the culture and leisure center SESC Pompéia to furniture and jewelry. This is the first book to examine one of the most intimate and expressive features of her life and work, but one she rarely shared with the public—drawing.Bo Bardi produced thousands of drawings in her lifetime, from picturesque landscapes drawn when she was a child, to sketches made as part of her daily routine as an architect, to fanciful drawings that show different aspects of her private life. In this beautifully illustrated book, Zeuler Lima, the world’s leading authority on Bo Bardi, brings together a careful selection of these and other drawings, many of them never published until now. Bo Bardi drew on card stock, tracing paper, regular paper, and newsprint. She used pencils, watercolor, gouache, ballpoint pens, and felt-tips, producing drawings that combined surrealist elements with an eye for color and joyful forms.Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings sheds critical light on the creative sensibility behind some of the twentieth century’s most striking modernist designs, and provides a rare window into the design practice of an architect like no other.Published in association with the Fundació Joan MiróExhibition ScheduleFundació Joan Miró, BarcelonaFebruary 15–May 19, 2019

A stimulating mix of colour and watercolour technique for all skill levels, this guide helps the artist develop a free and flowing style to their art.

These fine-quality tear-out wrapping sheets feature six whimsical watercolour patterns, suitable for craft projects as well as for gift wrapping.

Matteo Civaschi , art-director and graphic designer, created Shortology with 16 books published across the world.

A tale of opportunities missed, of a band ahead of the curve & from which both its classic era lead singers Guy Speranza & Rhett Forrester are now dead. As is Mark Reale, a quiet man who wanted to just play his heavy metal. A New York institution that is perhaps the shining example of the term, "honorary New Wave of British Heavy Metal" band.

With a large collection of photos by Alan Perry and memorabilia from the gigs plus narrative from Iron Maiden biographer Neil Daniels, this book is a wonderful celebration of Maiden's unforgettable appearances at the Reading Festivals of 1980, 1982 and 2005.

52 Assignments: Instagram Photography is a collection of inspirational Insta missions, challenges, and hints from leading Instagram photographers, designed to help you elevate the images in your Instagram feed to miniature works of art.

At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701-60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her continue to live on, beloved by millions of pianists young and old. Yet the pedagogical utility of this music--long associated with the sound of children practicing and mothers listening--has encouraged a rosy and one-sided view of Anna Magdalena as a model of German feminine domesticity.             Sex, Death, and Minuets offers the first in-depth study of these notebooks and their owner, reanimating Anna Magdalena as a multifaceted historical subject--at once pious and bawdy, spirited and tragic. In these pages, we follow Magdalena from young and flamboyant performer to bereft and impoverished widow--and visit along the way the coffee house, the raucous wedding feast, and the family home. David Yearsley explores the notebooks' more idiosyncratic entries--like its charming ditties on illicit love and searching ruminations on mortality--against the backdrop of the social practices and concerns that women shared in eighteenth-century Lutheran Germany, from status in marriage and widowhood, to fulfilling professional and domestic roles, money, fashion, intimacy and sex, and the ever-present sickness and death of children and spouses. What emerges is a humane portrait of a musician who embraced the sensuality of song and the uplift of the keyboard, a sometimes ribald wife and oft-bereaved mother who used her cherished musical notebooks for piety and play, humor and devotion--for living and for dying.

This newcollection of poems, paintings, drawings, sculptures and printmaking by renownedartist Kurt Jackson, celebrates the staggering diversity of the plantkingdom.

American artist AmySillman works in many media but painting has remained always at the very heartof her practice. This comprehensive monograph covers two decades of production,from the late-1990s to the present.

In an era of reboots, restarts and retreads, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek trilogy has brought the franchise to a new generation and perfected a process central to entertainment media: reinvigorating the beloved classic. This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the new trilogy and the vision of the next generation of Star Trek filmmakers.

Everyday, ordinary objects are taken apart and transformed into extraordinary images, captured in detailed photographs.

Small, smart, essential - an incisive overview of Surrealism, introducing the movement's key artists and capturing its essential and enduring concepts.

Use your Nikon D3500 camera like the prosCapturing frame-worthy photos is no easy feat -- until now! Inside, author Julie King shares her experience as a professional photographer and photography teacher to help you get picture-perfect landscapes, portraits, action shots, and more with your Nikon D3500 digital SLR camera.It takes more than a good eye and an amazing camera to get shots like the pros. With the help of Nikon D3500 For Dummies, you'll find all the expert advice and know-how you need to unlock your camera's capabilities to their fullest potential. From working with the basics of lighting and exposure to making sense of your camera's fanciest features, you'll be snapping professional-grade photos in a flash!* Learn the five essential options for shooting quality photos* Understand the settings that control exposure* Take charge of color and focus features* Put your skills together to shoot portraits, close-ups, and action shotsWhether you're shooting in automatic mode, scene mode, or manual mode, you'll get all the guidance you need to take photos you'll be proud to share.

Fully updated, tracing the evolution of jazz and blues from their nineteenth-century African-American origins right through to the present day. Key musical developments within each era are covered, as well as an A-Z of key artists; sections on Styles and Instruments also included. Written by a team of experts. Comprehensive and easy to use.

The definitive anthology by De Fornari uses individual films, along with original material: a preface by filmaker Giuseppe Tornatore, a collection of quotes arranged alphabetically and an essay (Six Ways Not to Resemble John Ford) that explains what distinguishes Leone from the myriad of Italian and American directors making westerns.

From award-wining photographer Michael Brennan comes a book highlighting his extensive archive of powerful and sometimes very moving images from the world of boxing.

Spa¿testens seit dem großen Erfolg seines Buches "At the Edge of the World" (Kehrer 2015) ist der Franzose Alain Laboile Kennern der Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografie weltweit ein Begriff. In seinem neuen Bildband Summer of the Fawn (Sommer des Rehkitzes) zeigt er erneut das freie, beinahe ma¿rchenhaft wirkende Leben seiner Familie in einem kleinen Dorf im Su¿dwesten Frankreichs. Fernab von gesellschaftlichen Zwa¿ngen, Schulstress, Facebook & Co. scheint hier immer Sommer zu sein, und seine sechs Kinder tummeln sich barfuß in einem verwunschenen Garten, in dem Katzen, Ringelnattern und sogar ein Rehkitz anzutreffen sind. Doch selbst im Ma¿rchen gibt es Regeln und so sehen wir auch, wie die Kinder zuhause unterrichtet werden: sinn- und liebevoll und oft im Freien. Summer of the Fawn ist eine wunderscho¿ne, lebensfrohe und gleichzeitig melancholische Ode an die Kindheit und das Leben.

Revel in the enduring legacy of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo—from the self-portraits, to the flower crown, to her iconic eyebrows—with this fun and commemorative book!With her colorful style, dramatic self-portraits, hardscrabble backstory, and verve for life, Frida Kahlo remains a modern icon, captivating and inspiring artists, feminists, and art lovers more than sixty years after her death. Forever Frida celebrates all things Frida, so you can enjoy her art, her words, her style, and her badass attitude every day. Viva Frida!

A moving collection of intimate portraits of farm animals who somehow escaped the typical fate of their kind and got to experience old age. These photos have so much personality, and Leshko supplements them with accounts of each animal's life and her experience photographing them.