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Frank King
Walt and Skeezix: Book One

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Walt &, Skeezix is the first-ever collection of the classic twentieth-century newspaper strip Gasoline Alley , and Book One is the beginning of a handsome multivolume series edited and designed by comics virtuoso Chris Ware Chris Ware has often cited Gasoline Alley as one of his favorite comic strips ever, and he has lovingly edited and designed W alt &, Skeezix: Book One , the first-ever collection of the classic newspaper strip created by one of the pioneering giants of American comic strips, Frank King. Not only does this volume reprint the first two years of the strip in which King’s friendly and nostalgic imagination took shape but each book in the series features an eighty-page color introduction by Jeet Heer of Canada’s National Post . Each introduction will also feature never-before-seen archival photos and ephemera from the personal collection of King’s granddaughter. Walt &, Skeezix is not just a… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1896597645
Book size: —; Page extent: 400.

 

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Frank King
Walt and Skeezix: Book Three

2007 y.
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Description: In this third volume of the much-praised Walt and Skeezix reprint series, the domestic side of Gasoline Alley receives full play. An old flame comes to visit Walt, with an eye toward marriage. Meanwhile, Walt pines for Mrs. Blossom, the neighborhood widow. Out of these entanglements, a long engagement and wedding ensue. The eighty-page introduction features many private photographs of the cartoonist Frank King and his family and delves into the marketing of Gasoline Alley in the 1920s and 1930s, with many dolls and toys taken from the personal collection of Chris Ware, the series editor and award-winning cartoonist. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1897299095
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Yvonne Kayl
Walter Aar - Aus dem Leben eines Schwindlers (German Edition)

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Klo-Lekture? Warum ausgerechnet ?Klo-Lekture?? Nun, in unserer hektischen Zeit sind die taglichen Augenblicke auf dem stillen Ortchen oft die einzigen, wo wir zur Ruhe kommen und gemutlich etwas lesen konnen. Erstaunlicherweise haben namlich die meisten Menschen ?dort? Lekture liegen: Bucher, Zeitschriften, Comics. Und was passt wohl am besten dorthin? Naturlich etwas, das uns entspannt und schmunzeln lasst. Die Episodchen aus dem Leben unseres Oberschwindlers Walter Aar, der sich selber fur den Nabel der Welt halt und meistens dadurch klaglich scheitert, wollen unsere Lachmuskulatur kraftigen und uns zumindest in der Fantasie das Gefuhl von ausgleichender Gerechtigkeit vermitteln. [detailed...]

ISBN: 383705764X
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Thomas J. Shimeld
Walter B. Gibson and the Shadow

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description`Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? . . . The Shadow knows!` And who knew The Shadow better than his creator, Walter B. Gibson. Relatively few people have heard of Gibson, but many more are familiar with The Shadow having heard the program on the Blue Coal Radio Program in the 1930s and read the Street &, Smith Shadow novels. Walter B. Gibson?s life and career come out from behind The Shadow in this biography. It covers his youth in Philadelphia, his development as a writer and magician, his wives, including the third, (Litzka, who was a harpist and magician in her own right), his time living in Maine and upstate New York, and his later years and death. In addition to being credited with creating The Shadow(he used the pseudonym Maxwell Grant), Gibson wrote 187 books, contributed 668 articles to periodicals, created 283 stories for The Shadow Magazine, wrote 48 separate syndicated feature columns, reported the adventures of The… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0786414669
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Walter Benjamin and Art

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionWalter Benjamin`s most famous and influential essay remains The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art is the first book to provide a broad and dedicated analysis of this canonical work andits effect upon core contemporary concerns in the visual arts, aesthetics and the history of philosophy. The book is structured around three distinct areas: the extension of Benjamin`s work, the question of historical connection, the importance of the essay in the development of criticism of both the visual arts and literature. Contributors to the volume include major Benjamin commentators, whose work has very much defined the reception of the essay, and leading philosophers, historians and aesthetician, whose approaches open up new areas of interest and relevance. [detailed...]

ISBN: 082646730X
Book size: —; Page extent: 300.

 

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Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913-1926

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of his work in definitive translation, under the general editorship of Michael W. Jennings. This volume, the first of three, will at last give readers of English a true sense of the man and the mans` theets of his thought. A separate volume will consist of his book The Arcades Project , the magnum opus of his Paris years. The writer Walter Benjamin emerged our of the head-on collision of an idealistic youth movement and the First World War, which Benjamin and his close friends thought immoral. He walked away from the wreck scarred yet determined `to be considered as the principal critic of German literature.` But the scene as he found it was dominated by `talented fakes,` so-to use his words-`only a… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0674013557
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Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, part 1, 1927-1930 (Walter Benjamin)

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts. In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary essays, `Surrealism` and `On the Image of Proust,` as well as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany`s newspapers. Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, `Franz Kafka,` `Karl Kraus,` and `The Author as Producer,` the extended autobiographical meditation `A Berlin Chronicle,` and extended discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0674015886
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Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938-1940

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: `Every line we succeed in publishing today…is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness.` So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to flee the Nazis. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin`s writings in the final years of his life, the `victories wrested` in this period nonetheless constitute some of the most remarkable twentieth-century analyses of the emergence of modern society. The essays on Charles Baudelaire are the distillation of a lifetime of thinking about the nature of modernity. They record the crisis of meaning experienced by a civilization sliding into the abyss, even as they testify to Benjamin`s own faith in the written word. This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, and the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. At their core is… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0674022297
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Walter Kohn : Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionThis is not a science book, nor even a book about science, although most of the contributors are scientists. It is a book of personal stories about Walter Kohn, a theoretical physicist and winner of half of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Walter Kohn originated and/or refined a number of very important theoretical approaches and concepts in solid-state physics. He is known in particular for Density-Functional Theory. This book represents a kind of `oral history` about him, gathered - in anticipation of his 80th birthday - from former students, collaborators, fellow-scientists, and friends. [detailed...]

ISBN: 3540008055
Book size: —; Page extent: 309.

 

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Walter Niedermayr
Walter Niedermayr: Raumfolgen 1991-2001

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionKnown for his alpine landscapes, Walter Niedermayr here turns to a different subject: hospital interiors. Starting in the main lobby and moving throughout the entire institution, via waiting rooms, operating chambers, nursery wards, and the morgue, Niedermayr`s uncannily intimate images act as a silent guide through a familiar space. Edited by Carl Aigner and Andrea Domesle. Essay by Martin Prinzhorn. Paperback, 11 x 8.5 in., 80 pages, 68 color illustrations [detailed...]

ISBN: 395011579X
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Walter Niedermayr
Walter Niedermayr: Titlis

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionThis selection of 40 medium-format color photographs by Walter Niedermayr transports us into the world of perpetual ice--to Mount Titlis, the glacier which rises proudly above the boundaries of space and time, three thousand meters above sea level in the Swiss Alps. Only the human figures in colorful leisure attire which populate this alpine Shangri-la bear witness to the influence of civilization, transforming the alpine landscape--once the paradigm of an aesthetics of the sublime--into a trivial theme park governed by the laws of consumption. In Titlis , Niedermayr`s camera captures the aura of a mountain landscape that is no longer just a mountain landscape but a legend. The alpine setting in which the puppet-like figures of tourists appear are shaped by these cliches and bold idealizations of nature to such a great extent that subjective perception and feelings become mere platitudes. If Jean Baudrillard were a tourist in the Alps with a knack for taking… [detailed...]

ISBN: 3775714057
Book size: —; Page extent: 96.

 

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Walter Pfeiffer: In Love with Beauty

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: In Love with Beauty offers an unprecedented chronological overview of the legendary Walter Pfeiffer, spanning four decades of photographic eroticism and wit, classical serenity and ornamental playfulness, artifice and immediacy. Initially a painter, draughtsman and graphic designer, Pfeiffer used photographs as aide-memoirs for large-scale Photorealist pencil drawings, but quickly developed a genuine passion for photography and, inspired by a Warholesque cast of handsome drifters and stylish women, began to evolve a trademark style. His breakthrough as a photographer came with a series of images of a young man in drag that was included in Jean-Christophe Amman`s seminal Transformer exhibition of 1974, which year also saw Pfeiffer`s first solo photo exhibition, reproduced here for the first time. His eponymous 1981 monograph conveyed a cheeky eroticism and a raw immediacy well suited to the Punk movement, also prefiguring the diaristic photography of the 1990s. For most of the 1980s,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 3865218709
Book size: —; Page extent: 360.

 

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David Peters Corbett
Walter Sickert (British Artists series) (British Artists)

2001 y.
Publisher: —
Description: A member of the Camden Town group, Walter Sickert played a dynamic role in the development of British painting and the graphic arts. Corbett claims that Sickert, the `painter`s painter`, also performed significantly in recording modern life and the evolution of a truly modern mode of painting. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1854373080
Book size: —; Page extent: 80.

 

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William Kotzwinkle, Glenn Murray, Elizabeth Gundy
Walter The Farting Dog: Banned From the Beach (Walter the Farting Dog)

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0525478124
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Walter R. Borneman
Walter V. Berry: Inventor, Entrepreneur, and Philanthropist for Children

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: fter business ventures went bust during the Great Depression and a fruitless quest for the fabled Anglo Saxon silver vein, Walter Berry finally got his break when he revolutionized the steel industry by designing and building oxygen lances. He was not content to retire on his laurels though and set off to build a financial legacy for the world?s children. The culmination of his and his wife?s efforts led to the establishment of the Walter V. and Idun Y. Berry Fellowship Program in Children?s Health at Stanford University. Throughout his 98 years, Berry possessed undying optimism, a contagious sense of good humor, and a respect for all people. His story and the challenges he faced and overcame through persistence and hard work area source of inspiration to all of us who dream of new frontiers. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0871082918
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William Kotzwinkle, Glenn Murray, Elizabeth Gundy
Walter the Farting Dog Goes on a Cruise (ages 4-8)

2006 y.
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Description: It’s a fabulous floating palace, and everybody on it is having the time of their life…until a mysterious and terrible odor begins to permeate the splendid ship.What can this awful odor be? All signs point to Walter, and so he is banished down below, with the stinky cheeses.Walter doesn’t mind—at least he has something to snack on. But not even the cheese room can contain Walter’s powerful farts. So they lower him onto a lifeboat, and he is forced to travel alone behind the ocean liner. Then catastrophe strikes! The liner loses its power. How long will the great cruise ship and its frightened passengers be marooned on the high seas? About as long as it takes Walter to digest that cheese…. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0525477144
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Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra

2009 y.
Publisher: Taschen
Description: At first glance, Walton Ford`s large-scale, highly-detailed watercolors of animals may recall the prints of 19th century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear, and others of the colonial era. But a closer look reveals a complex and disturbingly anthropomorphic universe, full of symbols, sly jokes, and allusions to the `operatic` nature of traditional natural history themes. The beasts and birds populating this contemporary artist`s life-size paintings are never mere objects, but dynamic actors in allegorical struggles: a wild turkey crushes a small parrot in its claw, a troupe of monkeys wreak havoc on a formal dinner table, an American buffalo is surrounded by bloodied white wolves. The book`s title derives from The Pancha Tantra, an ancient Indian book of animal tales considered the precursor to Aesop`s Fables. Формат: 29 см x 38 cм. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-3-8228-5237-8
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Barbara Gregorich
Waltur Paints Himself Into a Corner and Other Stories (Waltur)

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0618747966
Book size: —; Page extent: 48.

 

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Paul Bottomer
Waltz: Complete step-by-step instruction to the most romantic of social dances (Dance Club Series)

2003 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1842159100
Book size: —; Page extent: 64.

 

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Margaret Atwood
Waltzing Again: New &, Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: `I don`t mind being `interviewed` any more than I mind Viennese waltzing?that is, my response will depend on the agility and grace and attitude and intelligence of the other person. Some do it well, some clumsily, some step on your toes by accident, and some aim for them.` ?Margaret Atwood This gathering of 21 interviews with Margaret Atwood covers a broad spectrum of topics. Beginning with Graeme Gibson`s `Dissecting the Way a Writer Works` (1972), the conversations provide a forum for Atwood to talk about her own work, her career as a writer, feminism, and Canadian cultural nationalism, and to refute the autobiographical fallacy. These conversations offer what Earl Ingersoll calls `a kind of `biography` of Margaret Atwood?the only kind of biography she is likely to sanction.` Enlivened by Atwood`s unfailing sense of humor, the interviews present an invaluable view of a distinguished contemporary writer at work. From the Interviews: `Let`s not… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0865381178
Book size: —; Page extent: 250.

 

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Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister
Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Any software project that`s worth starting will be vulnerable to risk. Since greater risks bring greater rewards, a company that runs away from risk will soon find itself lagging behind its more adventurous competition. By ignoring the threat of negative outcomes?in the name of positive thinking or a Can-Do attitude?software managers drive their organizations into the ground. In Waltzing with Bears, Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister?the best-selling authors of Peopleware?show readers how to identify and embrace worthwhile risks. Developers are then set free to push the limits. You`ll find that risk management * makes aggressive risk-taking possible * protects management from getting blindsided * provides minimum-cost downside protection * reveals invisible transfers of responsibility * isolates the failure of a subproject. Readers are taught to identify the most common risks faced by software projects: * schedule flaws … [detailed...]

ISBN: 0932633609
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Edited by Gabrielle Mander
Wan2tlk? Ltl Bk of Txt Msgs

— y.
Publisher: Michael O`Mara Books Limited
Description: What is this new language heating up your cell phone, pager, and e-mail? When you`re IMing, are you stumped by the emoticons swarming in? Are messages becoming more cryptic and symbols more unrecognizable? If you`re feeling at a loss, or even think you`re in the know, you are in need of this pithy pocket guide to the hottest communication going. Text-messaging - the only way to go - for this year`s fast, smooth talkers. Make your wishes known, your plans, your dates, in coded communication that`s the wave of the future. Don`t get left out of the text-message revolution. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-312-28669-4
Book size: —; Page extent: 128.

 

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Gwenyth Swain
Wanda Gag : Storybook Artist

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description Famous for her elegantly written and whimsically illustrated children`s books Millions of Cats, The Funny Thing, Snippy and Snappy, and Tales from Grimm, Wanda Gag (1893-1946) lived a life not unlike that of the characters in the German fairy tales that her grandparents told her as a girl. In a new biography for young readers, award-winning author Gwenyth Swain brings the visionary and eccentric artist to life. Swain takes readers into Wanda’s girlhoodin rural Minnesota, where, from an early age, her artistic talents flourished. Yet Wanda, the eldest of seven siblings, was pushed abruptly into adulthood when her father’s untimely death left her in charge of the household. After years of struggle, Wanda Gag was finally able to go to New York to pursue her passion. Her art was eventually featured at top galleries and her books, influenced by her love of nature and animals, became wildly popular among children and critics… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0873515455
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Karen Nelson Hoyle
Wanda Gag: A Life of Art and Stories (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Now in paper.At the young age of just 15, Wanda Gag received her dying father`s last wish that she take up his dream of becoming a successful artist: `What papa couldn`t do, Wanda would have to finish.` Wanda assumed the role of head of the household and became the sole means of support for her sick mother and six siblings. Although times were tough, Wanda persevered and eventually became a celebrated artist and author living in New York City.Karen Nelson Hoyle tells the story of Wanda Gag`s eccentric life as a children`s book author and traces the significant contributions she made to the genre. Drawn from extensive research of the artist`s personal and professional papers and correspondence with friends and contemporaries, Hoyle presents a rich portrait of a gifted artist. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0816667713
Book size: —; Page extent: 176.

 

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Barbara Azore
Wanda and the Frogs

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0887767613
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F. Marion Crawford
Wandering Ghosts

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Houses haunted by the skull-bones of a dead man! Vampires! Haunted steamships! Dolls like Chuckie -- but nice! Horror fans will adore F. Marion Crawford`s Wandering Ghosts: Crawford had a sensibility and a gift a lot like Peter Straub`s (though no one could mistake this book for a collection of Straub`s stories -- their talents might be similar, but their subject matter isn`t). But, oddly, he isn`t remembered, like Stoker and Hodgson and Shelley, as a horror writer, nor, like Robert Louis Stevenson, (who gave the world both Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) as a writer of adventure. More like Henry James, we suppose: the man had a reputation, in his day, as a serious writer. Yuck. This book, at least, is a horror collection. We know you`ll love it. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1606643959
Book size: —; Page extent: 156.

 

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Sondra L. Hausner
Wandering with Sadhus: Ascetics in the Hindu Himalayas

2007 y.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Description: In this moving ethnographic portrait of Hindu renouncers - sadhus or ascetics - in northern India and Nepal, Sondra L.Hausner considers a paradox that shapes their lives: while ostensibly defined by their solitary spiritual practice, the stripping away of social commitments, and their break with family and community, renouncers in fact regularly interact with `householder` society. They form a distinctive, alternative community with its own internal structure, but one that is not located in any single place. Highly mobile and dispersed across the subcontinent, its members are regularly brought together through pilgrimage circuits on festival cycles. Drawing on many years of fieldwork, Hausner presents intimate portraits of individual sadhus as she examines the shared views of space, time, and the body that create the ground for everyday experience. Written with an extraordinary blend of empathy, compassion, and anthropological insight, this study will appeal to scholars, students, and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0253219493
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Troy Litten
Wanderlust Dogs Journal (Wanderlust)

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0811861872
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Danielle Steel
Wanderlust

1994 y.
Publisher: —
Description: At 21 Annabelle Driscoll was the acknowledged beauty, but it was her sister Audrey- four years older- who had the spine and spirit. She had talent- a lot of talent- as a photographer, she had the restless urge of a born wanderer. Inevitably it was Annabelle who was the first to marry, leaving Audrey to wonder if life were passing her by. Sometimes she would dream of a man like a her father, someone with adventure in his sould and exotic places in his heart. The men she met in California were dull. Enen in New York they had failed to spark her. Only when she took ship for Europe aboard the Mauretania did she begin to mingle with her own kind. Onle when she boarded the Orient Express did she realise she was beginning a journey that would take her farther that she had ever dreamed possible…depp into China., Tibet, the magic of the Orient and later North Africa and Europe. Her life was never to be the same again. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0751505633
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Fontane
Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 978-3-458-32882-7
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Lien Chao, Wang Dehui
Wang Dehui : Oil and Chinese Brush Paintings

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The book Wang Dehui Oil and Chinese Brush Paintings collects a total number of 53 works, including his Chinese brush paintings, Chinese calligraphy, and oil paintings. Its publication by the TSAR Publications in Canada means the work of a contemporary Chinese artist is officially introduced into public library systems in North America, which lack of such books. This book will help Western readers become more acquainted with the subject of contemporary Chinese art, and therefore provides one more opportunity for artistic exchanges between the East and the West. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1894770447
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