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Look-Alikes: The More You Look, the More You See!
"Come along! Jump aboard! Grab hold of my hand. / We're crossing the border into Look-Alike Land." So invites the opening lines of Joan Steiner's Look-Alikes, a three-dimensional miniature metropolis that's meticulously, ingeniously crafted out of everyday objects from mousetraps to milk bones. At first glance, a fancy hotel lobby seems just that, but take a closer look and you'll see a sofa made of gloves. In a sunny street scene, a building façade is laden with crackers, crayons form fence posts, and the tree is shaded by a stalk of broccoli. Children and adults alike will love poring over each picture, most of which contain more than 100 objects cleverly arranged to delight and deceive. Kids will easily identify many household objects, and the ones they may not recognize--a hosiery garter or flour sifter, for example--they'll learn from either the guide in the back or from a helpful parent. Good humor, a keen eye, and hours of hard work went into this visual marvel, which should be equally captivating for artists and I Spy fans. (Ages 5 to 105) --Karin Snelson.
Price: $8.31
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Look-Alikes Around the World (Look-Alikes)
Take an eye-opening trip around the world! Using everyday objects in ingenious ways, artist Joan Steiner has created three-dimensional scenes of more than 40 famous landmarks and familiar vacation locales ? from the shores of Cape Cod and chateaux across Europe to the Egyptian pyramids and the magestic Taj Mahal. Complete with photographs of the actual sites, fascinating facts, and more than 500 look-alikes to search for, this unique postcard album will challenge and captivate puzzlers of all ages..
Price: $6.25
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Look-Alikes Jr.: The More You Look, the More You See!
In this junior version of Joan Steiner's award-winning Look-Alikes, everyday places (such as houses, movie theaters, and kitchens) are constructed from everyday objects (such as crackers, pencils, pretzels, and seashells). Simple, rhyming text accompanies the clever pictures ("To Look-Alike Land! We're blasting full throttle/ On a spaceship that looks like a THERMOS BOTTLE."), but the real focus is the puzzle of identifying the more than 700 objects in the 11 crisply photographed double-page scenes. Younger children will enjoy this book with a parent, discovering such anomalies as train wheels made from daisies and curtains made from lasagna noodles. Older children may enjoy playing competitive games, such as taking turns finding look-alikes or racing to see who can find the most in a set amount of time. (Ages 2 to 10) --Richard Farr.
Price: $5.60
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Look-Alikes Christmas: The More You Look, the More You See!
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . . and the more you look, the more you see.Using everything from dog biscuits and candy canes to gloves and starfish, Joan Steiner has created an entrancing three-dimensional world for puzzlers of all ages to pore over. This long-awaited follow-up to the bestselling Look-Alikes and Look-Alikes Jr. has nine more original, breathtaking images, including a cathedral, nutcracker ballet, Santa's workshop, and cozy Grandma's kitchen scene. For added value, the book includes instructions on how to create your own Look-Alikes Christmas decorations, as well as a question and answer session with Joan Steiner, including color photos from her studio..
Price: $5.97
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Look Alikes: The Decal Plates Of Howard Kottler (Northwest Perspective)
In the late 1960s influential ceramist Howard Kottler (1930-1989) began to experiment with commercial decals and store-bought plates. Kottler altered the decals, often with political intent, by cutting and combining them, then adhering them to cheap white porcelain plates he purchased in bulk. Kottler's apparent rejection of the hand-made object and embrace of the conceptual over the tactile were unique among the revolutionary ceramists of the 1960s and 1970s. Kottler's messages were often as profoundly anti-establishment as his medium. As a Viet Nam war protestor, he cut and rearranged the American flag to create Made in the U.S.A. As a gay man, he changed the couple in Grant Wood's American Gothic into identical males and turned seemingly innocuous images into sexual double entendres. He positioned his work squarely within the rich tradition of wit, irony, appropriation, and gender-bending epitomized by modernist Marcel Duchamp. Look Alikes is the first examination of this body of work as a whole, including formal, boxed sets now in museum collections. Over sixty illustrations of the decal plates show the range of Kottler's imagery and the piquancy of his humor..
Price: $13.57
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