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The recent work of this New York-based artist who works with extraordinary painterly and calligraphic artistic detail.

Drawing as photographic negative: 25 years of Marc Brandenburg's art of the everyday German artist Marc Brandenburg (born 1965) finds beauty in everyday, ephemeral motifs, which he typically captures by camera and then translates into pencil drawings. This publication brings together his drawings from the last 25 years.

Emma Kunz (1892-1963) was a Swiss healer and artist. Born to a family of weavers, she showed telepathic, prophetic, and healing abilities early in her life and began to exercise her divining pendulum as a young adult. Though never formally trained in art, she began in 1938 to produce large-scale, delicate geometric drawings using her divining pendulum and based on her own ideas and visions--proving herself to be an improbably accomplished and even revelatory artist. The fascination with Kunz's art has never been greater than it is today.

This engaging book highlights the role of blue paper in the history of drawing. The rich history of blue paper, from the late fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, illuminates themes of transcultural interchange, international trade, and global reach. Through the examination of significant works, this volume investigates considerations of supply, use, economics, and innovative creative practice.

A delightful primer on early-to-mid-20th-century Japan's fruitful fusion of music and design, as materialized in sheet music Japanese society underwent a whirlwind of change during the first half of the 20th century, a time period marked by rapid modernization. While Western influences catalyzed an increasingly rapacious appetite for consumer goods, new sounds and mass-produced images flooded the stereos and screens of Japanese citizens.

A delightful, eye-opening journey through an ambitious periodical that helped shape graphic design in Japan, with introductory texts by art historian, Gennifer Weisenfeild, and colorful facsimile highlights from all 24 original volumes.

Anime's influence can be found in every corner of American media, from film and television to games and graphic arts. And Fred Patten is largely responsible. He was reading manga and watching anime before most of the current generation of fans was born. In fact, it was his active participation in fan clubs and his prolific magazine writing that helped create a market and build American anime fandom into the vibrant community it is today.

Anime is from Japan, so it's full of all sorts of cultural details that are downright perplexing... unless you're Japanese or unless you've got The Anime Companion. Find out why characters wear belly bands and what nosebleeds really mean. Learn about the Edo Jidai and those games they play at New Year's. Gilles Poitras has taken his popular anime website and created a new print version that's filled with curious details and fresh insights drawn from dozens of the most popular anime. And for students of Japanese,The Anime Companion is a great way to learn about Japan while indulging in your favorite pastime.