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Symbols, Signs and Signets (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) 8 reviews
Ernst Lehner
Dover Publications, 1969
A Wonderful Collection of Symbols
+ best
+ Very Interesting
+ A thorough collection of symbols, signs, and signets...
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Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues 5 reviews
Nick Bantock
Chronicle Books, 1992
Makes you want to pick up a postcard and write a friend.
+ Surreal Romance & Philately
+ Across time and space...
+ An experience !
+ A continuation of the trilogy of novelty books
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A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel, Fourth Edition8 reviews
Tom Phillips
Thames & Hudson, 2005
This Book Stands Alone
+ new surprises everytime
+ Image (con)Textual
+ Amazing gift
+ A highly original work
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Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence 61 reviews
Nick Bantock
Chronicle Books, 1991
"How strange to have a paper love"
+ Unusual book
+ An unusual book that strains the imagination while simultaneously stretching it
+ The strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine
+ A voyeur's dream; beautifully written and hauntingly illustrated.
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The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes6 reviews
Nick Bantock
Raincoast Publishing, Vancouver, 1993
Amazingly enthraling and engaging, wonderfully illustrated.
+ The Characters Will Grab You and Not Let Go
+ Oh...
+ This will get you thinking
+ The entire triology gives possibility to the unbelievable.
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Collage Discovery Workshop55 reviews
Claudine Hellmuth
North Light Books, 2003
Lots of ideas in this one
+ Collage Joy
+ In the beginning . . . .
+ What A Fantastic Book
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Heck's Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) 2 reviews
Dover Publications, 1994
A valuable resource
This book was a valuable resource when I designed a Biology-themed project. The images are well-rendered and the book scans well enough. The variety is good enough for the price, but for less desirable subjects such as fungi, ferns, and even some aspects of meteorology the depiction leaves ...
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The Gryphon: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Is Rediscovered16 reviews
Nick Bantock
Chronicle Books, 2001
What took him so long!
+ More than just a book
+ Missed hearing from Griffin and Sabine
+ Gripping but... open-ended
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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Signs and Symbols: Identification, Analysis and Interpretation of the Visual ...1 review
Mark O'Connell
Lorenz Books, 2006
Beautifully illustrated and packed with information
This is a beautiful book that's also a great resource of information. Its nicely bound in a large, coffee-table sized forma. Most of the illustrations in the body of the book are photographs of contempory and historial images, including historic art and architecture. The back of the book has a ...
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Altered Art: Techniques for Creating Altered Books, Boxes, Cards & More13 reviews
Terry Taylor
Lark Books, 2004
An Altered Showcase
+ Great book
+ Amazingly Beautiful...And helpful!
+ Wonderful!
+ This book is full of ..
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Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay...Eterniday15 reviews
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Richard Vine, ...
Thames & Hudson, 2003
FINALLY A GOOD ILLUSTRATED CORNELL BOOK
+ 7th Grade Art History..
+ Volume of J. Cornell's work
+ A must for Cornell fans
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Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object2 reviews
Diane Waldman
HNA Books, 1992
The Ultimate
+ A lively book on lively arts!
If this books isn't considered the ultimate guide to the history and philosophy of collage as an art form, it should be. Waldman intelligently discusses the history of collage in it's various forms through the past several hundred years and how the concept of assemblage and the found object has ...
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True Colors: A Palette of Collaborative Art Journals27 reviews
Kathryn Bold
Stampington & Company, 2003
impossible to put down
+ True Colors
+ Inspirational
+ Gaining a new perspective
+ Get your creative juices flowing
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Collage Discovery Workshop - Beyond the Unexpected: New Techniques Using Color, Personal Imagery and Creative ...58 reviews
Claudine Hellmuth
North Light Books, 2005
SWITCHING GEARS-RETHINK YOURSELF!
+ FANTASIC ideas!!!!
+ Love this book!
+ WOW!!
+ Then there were "two" . . . . .
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The World of Donald Evans3 reviews
DoubleDay, 1981
A book to treasure
+ Donald Evans
+ If you like Nick Bantock's stamps, you' ll like this...
The art world seems to cherish the large; large works, large personalities, large prices. That's why it's good to see the small celebrated, and in the work of Donald Evans, it is celebrated with such elan, that it's impossible to read this book without smiling and even laughing out loud. Evans ...
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Found Object Art (Schiffer Art Book)4 reviews
Dorothy Spencer
Schiffer Publishing, 2001
Ingenius and exciting images
+ less than perfect
+ eye candy for artists....
The breadth of artists, materials and objects featured in this book is impressive. Ms. Spencer knows her stuff and this book can be considered a primer on "Found Object" art.
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Lenore Tawney: Signs on the Wind: Postcard Collages9 reviews
Holland Cotter, Lenore Tawney
Pomegranate Communications, 2002
From the Essayist
+ Go forth and (try to) do likewise
+ Collaged eye candy for the visual artist
+ Lenore Tawney: Signs on the Wind
+ absolutely fabulous
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The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon52 reviews
Dan Eldon
Chronicle Books, 1997
Truly Profound
+ Enlightening
+ Amazing, Inspiring, & Beautiful
+ An amazing visual record of a brief, spectacular life
+ Awesome read, beautiful art
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Medical and Anatomical Illustrations: With Over 4800 Permission-Free Images (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
Dover Publications, 2004
A fascinating, visually encyclopedic presentation of all the major areas of medicine, this volume is an indispensible reference for artists and designers, doctors and nurses, students of medicine and anatomy, and historians. More than 4,800 rare, historic engravings encompass images from anatomy, general medicine, apothecary and pharmaceutical sciences, diseases, injuries, and more.
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette40 reviews
Victoria Finlay
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
Wonderful story!!!
+ What you didn't know that you really want to know
+ A Fascinating Look at Colors and Their History
+ Awesome and useful
+ Voyage to the source of colors
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