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Reads tagged with “illustration”

A Secret Illustrated History of Coffee, Coca, and Cola
A Secret Illustrated History of Coffee, Coca, and Cola

What America’s premier anti-drug autocrat has to do with Bach and helping Coke import illegal coca leaves.

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An ABZ of Love: Kurt Vonnegut’s Favorite Vintage Danish Illustrated Guide to Sexuality
An ABZ of Love: Kurt Vonnegut’s Favorite Vintage Danish Illustrated Guide to Sexuality

From common sense to conjugal bliss, by way of corsets and chivalry.

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The Best Art Books of 2012
The Best Art Books of 2012

From Indian folklore to Paris vs. NYC, by way of Japanese Wonderland and 80 years of loving of dogs.

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Tiny Collaborative Stories
Tiny Collaborative Stories

A charmingly minimalist cross-pollination of word and image at the heart of being human.

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Illustrated Bookshelves of Famous Artists’ and Writers’ Favorite Books
Illustrated Bookshelves of Famous Artists’ and Writers’ Favorite Books

Patti Smith, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, Maira Kalman, Mary Karr, and more.

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Little Big Books: The Secrets of Great Children’s Book Illustration
Little Big Books: The Secrets of Great Children’s Book Illustration

“The picture book serves as a personal, private art gallery, held in the hand, to be revisited over and over again.”

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How To Sing: A 1902 Illustrated Guide from the Great German Opera Singer Lilli Lehmann
How To Sing: A 1902 Illustrated Guide from the Great German Opera Singer Lilli Lehmann

“It is the artist’s task, through offering his best and most carefully prepared achievements, to educate the public, to ennoble it.”

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The R&D Lab of Creativity: Inside the Sketchbooks of Beloved Illustrators and Designers
The R&D Lab of Creativity: Inside the Sketchbooks of Beloved Illustrators and Designers

A memory warehouse… a means of detachment… the perfect place to document daydreams.

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Geometrical Psychology: Mathematical Models of Consciousness by the 19th-Century Psychologist Benjamin Betts
Geometrical Psychology: Mathematical Models of Consciousness by the 19th-Century Psychologist Benjamin Betts

“Imagination receives the stream of Consciousness, and holds apart and compares the different experiences.”

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The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs
The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs

“Dogs are not about something else. Dogs are about dogs.”

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