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  • Bomb It!: The Story of Graffiti Art

    Bomb It!: The Story of Graffiti Art

    $24.95

    Follow the odyssey of graffiti art from its beginnings in 1960s NYC to the explosion of tags and “bombed” subway trains of the 1970s, and from the rise of hip-hop and street culture to its dissemination across the globe. Bomb It! tells graffiti’s story through the eyes of a photographer whose lens captured the graffiti…

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  • A Drifting Life

    A Drifting Life

    $39.95

    The award-winning memoir translated by Taro Nettleton with a new design by Adrian Tomine In this memoir that won two Eisner Awards, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, a prize at the Festival de la BD d’Angoulême, and was adapted into a feature film that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, legendary manga-ka Yoshihiro Tatsumi uses…

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  • Blow Up!: The Explosion of Contemporary Art

    Blow Up!: The Explosion of Contemporary Art

    $24.95

    How did a urinal become art? And a can of tomato soup, a tent, a pickled shark. . . . How did what seemed like a prank at the New York Armory Show of 1917 explode to become today’s global multibillion-dollar art world? Blow Up! answers these questions by following the lives of seminal contemporary…

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  • Who Is Ana Mendieta?

    Who Is Ana Mendieta?

    $18.95

    This fiery account of Ana Mendieta is also a snapshot of the turbulent times in which she lived. In exile from revolutionary Cuba, Ana Mendieta found in the 1960s US another kind of social upheaval: Frida Kahlo was finally being appreciated as an artist, not just a muse; Valerie Solanas wrote her manifesto, then shot…

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  • Cover image for The Catholic Treasure Chest Treasury of Lent, Easter, and Springs Feasts Comics

    The Catholic Treasure Chest Treasury of Lent, Easter, and Springs Feasts Comics

    $19.95

    This second volume collecting stories from Catholic publisher George Pflaum’s Treasure Chest of Fun & Fact comic book series, which was distributed to Catholic schools for more than 20 years, focuses on the holy seasons of Lent and Easter, from Ash Wednesday to Pentecost, and related liturgical observations and traditions of those days. Also featured…

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  • Cover image for Les illustrations de K. du Thriller "Le Labyrinthe de la Folie"

    Les illustrations de K. du Thriller “Le Labyrinthe de la Folie”

    $10.17

    L’artiste K. les dessins numériques du Thriller Le labyrinthe de la Folie: Les illustrations & dessins numériques ont été réalisés par l’artiste K. pour illustrer le 3ème livre de Stéphane KISLIG. L’auteur vous invite à découvrir les planches en couleurs qui accompagnent l’aventure littéraire du thriller Le labyrinthe de la Folie . L’artiste K. a…

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  • Cover image for French Cartoon Art in the 1960s and 1970s: Pilote Hebdomadaire and the Teenager Bande Dessinée

    French Cartoon Art in the 1960s and 1970s: Pilote Hebdomadaire and the Teenager Bande Dessinée

    $65.00

    The French comic magazine Pilote hebdomadaire arrived in a weakening comics market in 1959 largely dominated by syndicated translations of American comics and comics inspired by a Catholic ethos. It tailored its content and tone to an older adolescent reader far removed from that of France’s infant comic. Pilote’s profile set it on a turbulent…

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  • Cover image for Milestones of Art: Andy Warhol: The Factory

    Milestones of Art: Andy Warhol: The Factory

    $19.99

    In 1961 Andy Warhol resolved to become the chronicler of the affluent society. His series of consumption products is heralded by hand-painted dollar bills, coke bottles, and the 32 varieties of Campbell’s soup cans. In 1968 he is shot down. The doctors declare him clinically dead. But Andy remains productive for nearly 20 years more….

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