Books about Realists from Amazon.com

The illustration art of James Bama has now been collected into this impressive 160-page full color hardbound edition. James Bama: American Realist is the first book to span his entire career. Examples explore his diverse brush from magazine illustrations, paperback book covers, and advertising. Chapters examine his work in pop culture, horror, science fiction, adventure and western genres, concluding with his most recent fine art endeavors. This volume features a detailed biography exploring his noteworthy and singular career. Insightful quotes by Bama accompany many pieces. In addition, testimonials by leading artists, writers, and historians are contained throughout. During his career, Bamas art graced many memorable pop culture paperback book covers. Among his most notable works are the 62 cover paintings for Bantams Doc Savage adventure series, all of which are contained within. Over 260 illustrations are featured, of which more than 85 are from the original art. Over 30 personal photographs of family and modeling shoots are contained within..
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A fully-illustrated, 78-card tarot deck based on original 19th century engravings in a nostalgic Victorian Romantic style. These cards appeal not only to tarot readers and collectors but also to those who love the Victorian golden age in all its glory. Featured are: * 78 full color cards made from original collages * artwork taken directly from exquisite 19th century engravings many both rare and remarkable * 220-page illustrated Companion Book includes descriptions and interpretations for each card, a witty and illuminating history of the artwork, and specially designed spreads.
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This capacious (520 pages) anthology has selections from the authors you would expect to find, from others you may be less familiar with, and from writers you might not expect to show up in this company. The result is a treasure trove of unusual fiction spanning authors from Gogol and Kafka through Woolf and Nabokov to Calvino, Garcia Marquez, and Barthelme--one of the most exciting anthologies to appear in the last decade. This is a poet's companion, a student's delight, great bedside reading: the kind of book you'd take to a desert island!.
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A gorgeous, evocative deck of forty oracle cards based on the flower-personified illustrations of famed Victorian artist JJ Grandville, taken from an original 1847 handcolored copy of his Fleurs Animee. This beautiful deck draws on ageold beliefs about the special magic and symbolism of flowers. Every flower is exquisitely depicted as a woman, and each card is a small work of art. Complete with a charming and informative companion book that includes * the symbolic meaning of each flower * myths and beliefs about flowers * gardening notes * the history of the Grandville illustrations * instructions for using the deck as an oracle.
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William Tecumseh Sherman possessed not only the most unusual middle name, but also the most orginal mind among Civil War generals His great campaign of destruction through the South was 100 years ahead of its time and foreshadowed both the totality and mobility of WW II. His mind was imaginative and uncompromising, and no matter our profession, we can study its working with profit.

"Liddell Hart was a great interpretive historian. He saw into the heart of things. He wrote with clarity and intelligence about men and events. His analyses, concerned as they are chiefly with conflict, cut through the superfluous and deal with bedrock issues of character and intelligence, qualities that determine how each of us fares in life." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board).
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Combines the magic of fairy tale and divination in a deck offering new breadth and depth to card readings The Fairytale Tarot presents classics like Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, and Puss-in-Boots and remarkable, yet less familiar, adventures in a readers' tarot that's stunningly rich and brightly textured. International in perspective and universal in its implications, the Fairytale Tarot is an important contribution to the world of tarot and cartomancy.

* Fully illustrated 78-card deck

* Based on authentic and unabridged tales from around the world

* By the makers of the critically-acclaimed Tarot of Prague and Baroque Bohemian Cats' Tarot

* Foreword by Rachel Pollack

* Engaging and easy-to-follow companion book includes a summary of every tale.
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Van Eyck left an indelible impression on Renaissance art and paved the way for future realist painters. This title in the Basic Art series features a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, cultural and historical importance, illustrations from the artist, and more..
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