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Kat Von D, Katherine Drachenberg
High Voltage Tattoo
by Collins Design (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2009-01-20)

High Voltage Tattoo is a graphic perspective on today's global tattoo culture by Kat Von D, star of The Learning Channel's L.A. Ink and one of the most talented and popular artists working today. Designed in a style that is reminiscent of a handmade Gothic journal with its red padded cover, ornate typography, and parchmentlike pages, it throws the door wide open to tattooing culture in the way only an insider like Kat can. High Voltage Tattoo traces Kat's career as an artist, from early childhood influences to recent work, along with examples of what inspires her, information about the show and her shop, her sketches, and personal tattoos. The book goes deep into tattoo process and culture: readers can see up close the pigments, the tools, and the making of complex, even collaborative, tattoos. With a foreword by Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx, the book features images and stories about celebrities, rockers, pro skaters, and everyday citizens, including Slayer's Kerry King, ...

Linda L. Nelson
Linda Nelson Stocks Folk Art: 2009 Wall Calendar
by Andrews McMeel Publishing (Calendar)

Linda Nelson Stocks is a renowned folk artist best known for the paintings that graced the Lang Folk Art Calendar for many years. She lives, gardens, and continues to paint in Connecticut.

Nicholas Ganz
Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents
by Harry N. Abrams (Hardcover)

Ever since anonymous spray-can art began appearing on city walls in New York and Philadelphia in the late 1960s, graffiti has been a ubiquitous presence in the urban landscape, its artists largely unsung heroes. As hip-hop culture spread from America, graffiti became a worldwide phenomenon, emerging in the 1980s as the symbolic artistic language of young people everywhere and one of the most potent influences on youth-oriented marketing and design. With more than 2,000 illustrations by over 150 artists from all over the world and interviews with many of them, this visually arresting book is the most comprehensive survey of graffiti art ever published.Today's young graffiti artists incorporate a variety of mediums-including stickers, stencils, oils, acrylics, and oil-based chalk-as well as an ever-expanding range of social commentary. This evolution in style and subject matter has earned graffiti the respect of the art world and guaranteed its long-lasting influence on art, ...

Alex Grey 2008 Calendar
by Amber Lotus (Calendar) (Release Date: 2007-07-10)

Every once in a great while an artist emerges who does more than simply reflect the social trends of the time. These artists are able to transcend established thinking and help us redefine ourselves and our world. Today, a growing number of art critics, philosophers and spiritual seekers believe they have found that vision in the art of Alex Grey. Alex's paintings take the viewer on a graphic, visionary journey through the physical, metaphysical and spiritual anatomy of the self. Grey's portrayals of human beings blend scientific exactitude with depictions of universal life energy, leading us on the soul's journey from material world encasement to recovery of our divinely illuminated core. Alex Grey is the author of "Transfigurations", "Sacred Mirrors" and "The Mission of Art". His work has graced the album covers of TOOL, Nirvana and the Beastie Boys, and has been exhibited around the world. Sample Caption: COSMIC ELF, oil painting on wood, 2003. Cosmic Elf portrays a ...

Danzig Baldaev
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia
by Steidl (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2004-03-02)

Once upon a time, before the advent of the indie rocker and the alternative chick, before primitivism became a style trend and tattoo parlors set up shop on the good avenues, tattoos were the secret language of a restricted world, a world of criminals. ~The photographs, drawings and texts published here are part of a collection of 3,600 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldayev. Tattoos were his entrance into a secret world, a world in which he acted as an ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes just simply strange, reflecting as they do the lives and mores of convicts. Skulls, swastikas, harems of naked women, a smiling Al Capone, assorted demons, medieval knights in armor, daggers sheathed in blood, benign images of Christ, mosques and minarets, sweet-faced mothers and their babies, armies of tanks, and a horned Lenin--these are ...

Carol Wilcox Wells
Masters: Beadweaving: Major Works by Leading Artists (Masters (Lark Books))
by Lark Books (Paperback)

Versatility, innovation, inspiration—that’s what The Masters series offers crafters, with an engaging and up-to-date survey of the finest contemporary work by approximately 40 leading artists in specific media. Beadweaving takes the spotlight here, and readers will find the showcased pieces eye-opening in their originality. Each highlighted master takes center stage in an informative eight-page feature that includes nearly a dozen gorgeous, high-quality photos and a short essay by the curator placing the impressive work and its creator in context. These outstandingly talented and imaginative artists include Valerie Hector, whose beaded designs are a statement in bold modernity; Jeanette Ahlgren, who fashions intricate loom-woven vessels with subtle gradations in color and graphic, geometric patterns; and Marcia DeCoster, who uses her right angle weave techniques to create shimmering jewelry in rich jewel tones. Beadweaver and author Carol Wilcox Wells served as the juror of ...

William Arnett, Alvia Wardlaw, Jane Livingston, John Beardsley
The Quilts of Gee's Bend: Masterpieces from a Lost Place
by Tinwood Books (Hardcover)

Since the 19th century, the women of Gee’s Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. Beautifully illustrated with 110 color illustrations, The Quilts of Gee’s Bend includes a historical overview of the two hundred years of extraordinary quilt-making in this African-American community, its people, and their art-making tradition. This book is being·released in conjunction with a national exhibition tour including The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Museum of Fine Art, Boston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Milwaukee Art Museum, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, The Mobile Museum of Art, and The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.

Alex Grey
Art Psalms
by North Atlantic Books (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-12-02)

The capacity of art—both visual and verbal—to stimulate creativity and personal growth is the theme of this challenging collection from an internationally known artist. In Art Psalms, Renaissance man Alex Grey combines poems, artwork, and thoughtful declarations that fuse imagination, creativity, and spirituality. Replicating the style and tone of a holy text, Grey’s poetry conveys the idea of art as a sacred, spiritual practice. Many of these writings have been shared as sermons at New York City’s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (COSM), a contemporary sacred space founded by Grey and his wife Allyson. Selections include “Soul Marriage,” a pledge that asks the reader to commit to personal and world transformation; “Guidance for Servants of God,” which outlines the lifestyle and view of a sacred path; and “The Plan,” which links universal creation to our own creations in daily life. Art Psalms is equally useful for art lovers, the health and spiritual communities, and ...

John Griffiths Pedley
Greek Art and Archaeology
by Prentice Hall College Div (Paperback)

Lisa Birnbach
Linda Nelson Stocks Treasured Memories by the Sea: 2009 Wall Calendar
by Andrews McMeel Publishing (Calendar)

No artist captures the charm of early American life more than Linda Nelson Stocks. Her richly detailed paintings show families tending gardens and orchards, cutting firewood, loading wagons, and airing out quilts. Set against captivating views of the colorful countryside or picturesque sea, the small-town scenes found in Linda's 2009 calendar will delight any folk art enthusiast.This wonderful calendar features twelve of Linda's delightful seascapes. Printed in full-color on linen-textured paper, it is packaged in a coordinating full-color envelope. The brass grommet makes for easy hanging.

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