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  Cartooning: Character Design

  Sherm Cohen

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  Learn the art of cartooning step by step with an Emmy-winning storyboard artist and character designer! 
   
  This addition to the How to Draw and Paint series comes from accomplished cartoonist Sherm Cohen, renowned for his work on SpongeBob SquarePants and many other film and television productions. It teaches artists the essentials of creating cartoon characters, from using basic shapes and conveying age and mood to adding props and costumes and much more. It also brings the artistic process up to date by touching on the use of computers in cartooning. Featuring step-by-step instructions and a wealth of original images, this book is a must-have resource for any aspiring cartoonist looking to develop their personal style!

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  The Art of Richard Thompson

  David Apatoff, Nick...

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  A tribute to the cartoonist known as “Michelangelo with a sense of humor,” the creator of the beloved comic strip Cul de Sac (Pat Oliphant, editorial cartoonist). 
   
  Richard Thompson is renowned among cartoonists as an “artist’s” cartoonist. Little known to all but those close to him is the extent of his art talent. This is the book that will enlighten the rest of us and delight us with the sheer beauty of his work. 
   
  Divided into six sections, each beginning with an introductory conversation between Thompson and six well-known peers, including Bill Watterson, the book will present Thompson’s illustration work, caricatures, and his creation, Richard’s Poor Almanack. Each section is highly illustrated, many works in color, most of them large and printed one-to-a-page. The diversity of work will help cast a wider net, well beyond Cul de Sac fans. 
   
  “Even working wordlessly, from his wheelchair, Thompson was, and is, the supreme comedian. And that comic timing is among the embarrassment of rich gifts on beautiful display in The Art of Richard Thompson . . . one of the most anticipated art-retrospective books of the year.” —The Washington Post 
   
  “A new collection of art, interviews and commentaries . . . a more complete portrait of a multi-talented artist whose career ended far too early.” —IndieWire

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  The Importance of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde

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  This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag.  Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think their names are Ernest, “that name which inspires absolute confidence.”  Wilde’s effervescent wit, scathing social satire, and high farce make this one of the most cherished plays in the English language.Includes an interview with director Michael Hackett, Professor of Theater in the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:James Marsters as JackCharles Busch as Lady BracknellEmily Bergl as CecilyNeil Dickson as Lane and MerrimanJill Gascoine as Miss PrismChristopher Neame as ChasubleMatthew Wolf as AlgernonSarah Zimmerman as GwendolenDirected by Michael Hackett. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

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  Tapies

  Jeremy Roe

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  Antoni Tàpies was born in Barcelona in 1923 and started painting in 1946. Co-founder of the Dau al Set movement, he met Miro in 1948. After being involved in the Surrealist period, Tàpies became interested in philosophy and oriental art, in particular calligraphy. From the time of 1953 onwards, he detached himself from Surrealism and began to work in abstract with raw materials, stains, and symbols. In 1970, his torn and scratched compositions expressed an attitude of protest. His works have been described as “battlefields where wounds are multiplied to infinite numbers”, evoking a true reflection of a broken and anguished world. Tàpies was not a subject painter and his works are not just graffiti, tracings, prints, and glyphs. As if they were metaphysical walls, he liked to say that they were all built from dust, ash, soil, the destruction of catastrophe, cosmic contemplation, and inner meditation. Tàpies desired to express two primary concerns through his art, the first being his homeland, Catalonia, from which he was long distanced, taking refuge in Paris. The second was the human being. This was evoked in his art through the body, and through the everyday objects which surround it. Antoni Tàpies was part of the very exclusive circle of contemporary artists whose lives Spain has honoured by creating museums and institutions in their names (Dali, Miro, Tàpies).

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  High Steel - The Daring Men Who...

  Jim Rasenberger

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  “[This] compelling book makes us look at the familiar history of the growth of New York from a new point of view—that of the men who actually built it.” —Wall Street Journal 
   
  A powerful first-hand account of the many generations and ethnic groups of men who have built America's skyscrapers. 
   
  From the early days of steel construction in Chicago, through the great boom years of New York city ironwork, and up through the present, High Steel follows the trajectory of careers inextricably linked to both great accomplishment and catastrophic disaster. 
   
  The personal stories reveal the lives of ironworkers and the dangers they face as they walk across the windswept, swaying summits of tomorrow’s skyscrapers, balanced on steel girders sometimes only six inches wide. Rasenberger explores both the greatest accomplishments of ironwork—the bridges and towers that define America's skyline—and the deadliest disasters, such as the Quebec Bridge Collapse of 1907, when seventy-five ironworkers, including thirty-three Mohawk Indians, fell to their deaths. High Steel is an accessible and thrilling portrait of the lives of some of our most brave yet unrecognized men. 
   
   “A thoughtful testament to a dying craft that has helped fuel the American economy for more than a century.” –Publishers Weekly 
   
   “Rasenberger's muscular portrait deserves an outsize audience.” —Booklist 
   
  “Rasenberger tell[s] his tale . . . uncommonly well.” —The Washington Post 
   
  “Riveting.” —Chicago Sun-Times 
   
  “A breezy, anecdotal history of . . . the daredevils of the skies.” —New York Newsday 
   
  “Introduce[s] us to the romance and adventure of hard hats. . . . men [who] make their living courting danger every day.” —New York Post 
   
  “Beautifully written.” —New York Sun 
   
  “Fascinating.” —New York Magazine 
   
  “A testament to an incredible group of workers [that] ranks . . . with Gay Talese’s classic The Bridge.” —Daily News

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  FTCE - Ace your FTCE exam with...

  Jasper Thornell

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  FTCE : 
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