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With dark delicate whimsy gothic aesthetics You Have the Magic 12 Month 2025 Weekly Planner Calendar is the perfect tool to keep you organized and empowered It s possible to carry both light and darkness with the You Have the Magic 12 Month 2025 Weekly Planner Calendar Tying a dark whimsy gothic aesthetic with genuinely warm and uplifting messaging this planner will lead you through the year with beauty and mindfulness Features include 7 x 9 14 x 9 open Spiral bound Printed on FSC certified paper with soy based ink Removable product info tab band Calendar lays flat when open 12 month planner January December 2025 Generous grid space for notes appointments and reminders Extra pages at back for notes goals and more Year at a glance pages for 2024 2025 and 2026 Includes a sticker sheet Features beautiful illustrations from U K based artist Viki Lester Official major world holidays and observances Moon phases based on Universal Time

Guillermo del Toro records his innermost thoughts and unleashes his vivid imagination Insight Editions has created a replica sketchbook aimed at the director s legion of fans Similar in design to del Toro s leather bound volumes this book features an inspirational message from the director along with selected examples of his incredible art

Exploring an unjustly overlooked figure in 20th century British visual culture This book offers a comprehensive overview to the work and legacy of David King 1943 2016 whose fascinating career bridged journalism graphic design photography and collecting King launched his career at Britain s Sunday Times Magazine in the 1960s starting as a designer and later branching out into image led journalism He developed a particular interest in revolutionary Russia and began amassing a collection of graphic art and photographs ultimately accumulating around 250 000 images that he shared with news outlets Throughout his life King blended political activism with his graphic design work creating anti Apartheid and anti Nazi posters covers for books on Communist history album artwork for The Who and Jimi Hendrix catalogues on Russian art and society for the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford and typographic covers for the left wing magazine City Limits This well researched and finely illustrated publication ties together King s accomplishments as a visual historian artist journalist and activist

The story of modern British art history told through the stories of its women Consider for a moment the history of modern art in Britain you may struggle to land on a narrative that features very many women On this journey through a fascinating period of social change artist Carolyn Trant fills in some of the gaps in traditional art histories Introducing the lives and works of a rich network of neglected women artists British Women Artists sets these alongside such renowned presences as Barbara Hepworth Laura Knight and Winifred Nicholson In an era of radical activism and great social and political change women forged new relationships with art and its institutions Such change was not without its challenges and with acerbic wit Trant delves into the gendered make up of the avant garde and the tyranny of artistic isms In the decades after women won the vote in Britain the fortunes of women artists were shaped by war domesticity continued oppressions and spirited resistance Some succeeded in forging creative careers others were thwarted by the odds stacked against them Weaving devastating individual stories with playful critique British Women Artists reveals this hidden history

Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times Dwight Garner The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus John Szwed allows different sides of Smith s personality to catch blades of sun He brings the right mixture of reverence and comic incredulity to his task Dwight Garner The New York Times Grammy Award winning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed presents the first biography of Harry Smith the brilliant eccentric who transformed twentieth century art and culture He was an anthropologist filmmaker painter folklorist mystic and walking encyclopedia He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult swapped drugs with Timothy Leary had a front row seat to a young Thelonious Monk lived with and tortured Allen Ginsberg was admired by Susan Sontag and was one of the first artists funded by Guggenheim Foundation He was always broke generally intoxicated compulsively irascible and unimpeachably authentic Harry Smith was in the words of Robert Frank the only person I met in my life that transcended everything In Cosmic Scholar the Grammy Award winning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed patches together for the first time the life of one of the twenti

From New York Times bestselling author of The Wild Unknown Tarot who has redefined tarot for the twenty first century comes an original oracle deck and guidebook that takes seekers on a journey of self discovery now in a compact pocket sized format Kim Krans illuminates the revelatory power of archetypes the ancient universal symbols that have endured across time and cultures and reside deep in our shared psyche The Wild Unknown Pocket Archetypes Deck fosters a profound understanding of our complex personalities proclivities and behaviors In this new pocket sized edition The Wild Unknown Pocket Archetypes Deck includes 78 gorgeous circular oracle cards divided into four suits The Selves The Places The Tools and The Initiations Each archetype has been carefully selected for its symbolic potency and the lesson at the core of its nature such as The Poet representative of deep emotional creativity and the drive to find our truth and The Vision which is emblematic of the lifelong journey to fulfill our destiny Accompanying the deck is a 224 page hand lettered fully illustrated guidebook written and designed by Krans which details the meaning behind each card and offers clear grounded explanations of the many spreads practices and concepts that power the

Discover the must read coming of age queer memoir about learning how to love yourself in a world that doesn t want you to A beautiful celebration of being different TOM ALLEN An important story told with a sharp wit and disarming humour MOHSIN ZAIDI author of A Dutiful Boy Brilliant spectacularly witty and genuinely moving I loved it MATTHEW TODD author of Straight JacketI m just a man standing in front of a salad asking it to be a cake What do you do when you re too gay for Pakistan too Pakistani to be gay in America and you re ashamed of your body everywhere Even as a young child in Lahore Komail Aijazuddin knew he was different Other boys didn t pirouette off their desks get bullied for their manboobs or spontaneously burst into songs from The Little Mermaid Other boys didn t play together like that Starved of a crucial part of himself he ate And ate Before long his own body became another burden to carry everywhere and to hide Komail began to believe his only chance at a happy meaningful life would be found elsewhere in America land of the free home of the gays But he would soon learn that finding happiness takes a lot more than a plane ticket This is Aijazuddin s riotous intelligent memoir of searching for his place between two w

A critical and celebratory counter narrative to what we know of Japanese photography today

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New edition of the classic authorised biography of one of the late twentieth century s most celebrated cultural figures

Mary Engelbreit s Live Like You Mean It 2025 Calendar is filled with full color imagery and motivational quotes reminding us to always live our best lives and to live it with meaning Take time for yourself and for others and make those moments special Features include 5 3 x 4 4 page size No single use plastic Recyclable chipboard easel backer for desk or tabletop display Printed on FSC certified paper with soy based ink Full color tear off pages Back of pages are blank for notes or shopping lists Day Date reference on each page Combined weekend pages Official major world holidays and observances Full color artwork on each page

Jane Robinson is brilliant at putting the women back into history and her biography of Barbara Leigh Bodichon a Victorian feminist we should all be grateful to is as entertaining as it is necessary Daisy GoodwinYou have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done Name any modern human rights movement and she was a pioneer feminism equal opportunities diversity inclusion mental health awareness Black Lives Matter While her name has been omitted from too many history books it was Barbara that opened the doors for more famous names to walk through And her influence owed as much to who she was as to what she did people loved her for her robust sense of humour cheerfulness and indiscriminate acts of kindness This is a celebration of the life of the founder of Britain s suffrage movement campaigner for equal opportunity in the workplace the law at home and beyond Co founder of Girton the first university college for women a committed activist for human rights fervently anti slavery she was also one of Victorian England s finest female painters Jane Robinson s brilliant new book shines a light on a remarkable woman who lived on her own terms and to whom we owe a huge debt Skillful storytelling and a wa

In 1970 the young Japanese designer Kenzo Takada opened his first boutique Jungle Jap in Paris and revolutionised the fashion world His colourful ethnic and nomadic influenced collections made with luxurious and vibrantly patterned textiles tweaked the conventions of haute couture while maintaining the quality of traditional European clothing houses He was influenced by Parisian fashion and Japanese kimonos boldly mixing colours and prints cuts and materials His vibrant palette and pattern combinations were joyful and whimsical and very different from the subtle tailoring of the traditional Paris couturier In his inspired blend of the opulent and the exotic he developed a signature style and found early success With stunning photography and over 300 sketches from Kenzo s private collection this book traces more than forty years of his creative output It includes photographs from his high energy runway shows in addition to personal photographs and a behind the scene look at the creation of a spectacular wedding dress opening a window on the creative process and capturing Kenzo s energy vision and presence Superbly illustrated throughout with pencilled and hand coloured sketches swatched drawings and previously unpublished archival photograp

Gilles Penso and Alexandre Poncet the documentarians behind Ray Harryhausen Special Effects Titan present Mad Dreams and Monsters a spectacular and comprehensive authorized retrospective of Oscar winning visual effects master Phil Tippett founder and namesake of iconic Tippett Studio Foreword by director Paul Verhoeven and Oscar winning visual effects artist Dennis Muren Preface by Phil Tippett From Star Wars to Jurassic Park and RoboCop to Starship Troopers special effects master Phil Tippett has brought his magic to some of the most iconic films of all time His unparalleled career in visual effects spans more than 40 years with two Academy Awards one BAFTA and two Emmys This stunning book published in a beautiful slipcase celebrates Tippett s career from early Super 8 explorations through his groundbreaking work with Industrial Light & Magic DreamWorks and beyond While Tippett s first love remains the stop motion animation that made him a Hollywood legend he was present at the birth of big screen digital effects and his genius has evolved with the times In 1984 he founded Tippett Studio which has come to specialize in digital effects Packed with over a thousand behind the scenes photographs and housed in a beautifully designed slipcase Mad Dr

Un entretenido y didáctico recorrido por la historia de la pintura europea. Ideal para iniciarse en la manera de mirar un cuadro y entender los motivos que llevaron a pintarlo, su forma de narrar los acontecimientos, su significado, la composicion, su tecnica pictorica, la utilizacion del color y la luz... Especialmente recomendado para jovenes y amantes del arte

Cuando hablamos de Leonardo da Vinci todos tenemos en mente la idea de genio, pero solo cuando estudiamos su figura en profundidad podemos comprender hasta que punto lo era. Arquetipo del hombre del renacimiento, mostro un talento sin limite en cualquier parcela de conocimiento que abordase. Y aunque la pintura es su faceta mas conocida, no podemos dejarlo confinado a ser un gran pintor porque su excelencia intelectual era de tal envergadura que resulta inabarcable.