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THE ART OF JOE KUBERT

Joe Kubert is one of the great comic book artists. His career literally traverses the history of comics, beginning in 1938 when he became a professional at age 12, to today as one of the greatest...

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A JOSEPH CORNELL ALBUM

A Joseph Cornell Album is a homage in words and pictures to the creative life of one of America's most enigmatic and fascinating artists, whose collages and boxes have intrigued and puzzled artists...

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YOUR VIGOR FOR LIFE APPALLS ME

Spanning the most formative era of his life, from the painful years of adolescence to the fame and fortune of early adulthood, this collection of personal correspondences with two near-lifelong...

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RECONSIDERING YOKO ONO

John Lennon once described her as "the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does." Many people are aware of her art, and her music has always split...

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ED HARDY: WEAR YOUR DREAMS

The memoir of iconic tattoo artist Ed Hardy from his beginnings in 1960s California, to leading the tattoo renaissance and building his name into a hugely lucrative international brand. “Ed Hardy” is...

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BANKSY: THE MAN BEHIND THE WALL

While hiding from the limelight, Banksy has made himself into one of the world’s best-known living artists. His pieces have fetched millions of dollars at prestigious auction houses. He was nominated...

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IN LOVE WITH ART

In a partnership spanning four decades, Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman have become the pre-eminent power couple of cutting-edge graphic art. Their landmark magazine Raw, which first published...

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VIP: THE MAD WORLD OF VIRGIL PARTCH

The first coffee-table book featuring comics, letters and much more from the mid-century cartoonist who revitalized the gag cartoon. Only a few months after the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor and...

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FIRE IN THE BELLY

David Wojnarowicz was an abused child, a teen runaway who barely finished high school, but he emerged as one of the most important voices of his generation. He found his tribe in New York’s East...

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MAGIC WORDS: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF ALAN MOORE

For over three decades comics fans and creators have regarded Alan Moore as a titan of the form. With works such as V for Vendetta, Watchmen and From Hell, he has repeatedly staked out new territory,...

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THIS IS POLLOCK

In 1956 Time magazine referred to Pollock as "Jack the Dripper". His iconic paintings stretch out with the generosity and scale of America's Western landscape where the artist grew up. Pollock said...

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THIS IS DALI

Salvador Dalí is one of the most popular artists in the world, known for his lavish lifestyle, gravity-defying moustache, and bizarre art. This book tells the story of Dalí's life and explores the...

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THIS IS WARHOL

Andy Warhol, the iconic Pop artist, presented himself as the vacuous, dumb kid, famously saying, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings . and there I am....

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CITIZEN KEANE: THE BIG LIES BEHIND THE BIG EYES

Teary, big-eyed orphans and a multitude of trashy knockoffs epitomized American kitsch art as they clogged thrift stores for decades. When Adam Parfrey tracked down Walter Keane—the credited artist of...

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THE DIARY OF FRIDA KAHLO

Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life. These passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and key...

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VON DUTCH: THE ART, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND

Von Dutch is one of the most interesting characters in hot rod, lowbrow, and pop culture history. Considered the founder of "modern" pinstriping, he was a prominent character in many of the rodding...

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LEONARD COHEN: EVERYBODY KNOWS

No other contemporary songwriter has created a body of work of such consistent quality, and such singular emotional and intellectual brilliance, as Leonard Cohen. His smoke-black vocal style navigates...

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THE COMICS JOURNAL LIBRARY VOL 9: ZAP, THE INTERVIEWS

The definitive Comics Journal interviews with the cartoonists behind Zap Comix, featuring: Supreme 1960s counterculture/underground artist Robert Crumb on how acid unleashed a flood of Zap characters...

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PENNY RIMBAUD: INTERVIEWS

RE/Search has been fortunate to have had several visits from Penny Rimbaud and fellow-Crass founder, Gee Vaucher over the past decade. They come to the United States and to San Francisco full of...

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HARVEY KURTZMAN

Harvey Kurtzman was the original editor, artist and sole writer of Mad —and Mad revolutionized humor in America. But how did Kurtzman invent Mad, and why did he leave it shortly after it burst onto...

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