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4) DIY roofing
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128 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Replacing the roof on your house is an achievable job for a DIYer, though hiring a roof contractor has advantages-- mainly speed. If you are comfortable working at heights and don't mind physically challenging work, this guide will help you consider the many options that await you overhead. -- adapted from back cover
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Lo que este texto y su autor Jaime Reyes nos presenta, es un fragmento del camino creativo de José Balcells en la escultura, donde el escultor concibe la obra en relación a un nombre y los ejecutantes que la construyen están en el ejercicio de la fidelidad a la obra en su forma. Esta fidelidad es el libre some-timiento al sentido que la obra de arte propone. La palabra fidelidad aparece aquí con justeza porque sostiene a quienes están en una...
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The Professional Approach to Sculpting The Human Figure is the first book by Andrew Sinclair MRSS SWAC, recognized as a master of world-class figurative sculpture.
It is, based on Andrew's groundbreaking Sinclair Method, as taught at The Sculpture School, which completely transforms the building and creation of Contemporary Realist sculpture. This method is revolutionizing the approach to sculpture, also acting as a powerful source of knowledge,...
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158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
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Since the early 1970's, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form, exploring her physical and emotional limits in some of the most iconic works in contemporary art. Her body is her primary subject and medium, from the early sound-based performances in her native Yugoslavia, to her collaborative works with German artists Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen), her videos exploring her Balkan heritage, and most recently her re-enactments...
10) Ai Weiwei
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599 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 35 cm
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This book offers a definitive Ai Weiwei monograph, exploring each of his career phases in equal detail and depth. It features extensive visual material to trace Ai's development from his early New York days right through to his most recent practice. Focus moments include his international breakthrough in the early 2000s, his porcelain Sunflower Seeds at the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern, his response to the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, and his police...
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Graffiti made from cake icing, man-made clouds floating indoors, a luminous moon resting on water. Collected here are dozens of jaw-dropping artworks-site-specific installations, extraordinary sculptures, and groundbreaking interventions in public spaces-that reveal the exciting things that happen when contemporary artists play with the idea of place. Unexpected Art showcases the wonderfully experimental work of more than 50 innovative artists from...
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La evolución de la escultura romana es similar a la que sufrió su arquitectura. Partiendo de un cauce etrusco, oscuro y desconcertante, fue deslizándose lentamente sobre las huellas de los griegos hasta encontrar su propio estilo, tan alejado de los unos como de los otros, pero nunca lo suficiente para que podamos decir que sus artistas crearon un estilo original.
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"Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster." So begins The Toaster Project, the author's nine-month-long journey from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry. Along the way, he learns that an ordinary toaster is made up of 404 separate parts, that the best way to smelt metal at home is by using a method found in a fifteenth-century treatise, and that plastic...
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Orsino Orsini, ilegítimo, deforme y con un solo ojo, cuya esposa fue seducida por el Papa Alejandro VI, construyó un 'parque de sexo y violencia' para así poder reflejar sobre este su odio (hacia el papa, su infiel esposa y un mundo que se rehúsa a aceptarlo). Mientras Haasse intenta interpretar el simbolismo del parque con sus veinte monstruosas estatuas, nos lleva con ella al laberinto de Cnossos en Creta, a los 'rituales y adoraciones al sol...
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255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
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"This updated 3rd edition of Black & Decker's Complete Guide to Roofing & Siding provides detailed and updated information on modern materials and techniques for evaluating, installing, and maintaining a wide variety of roofing and siding materials"--Provided by publisher.
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Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert.
Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), gebürtig Arnold Wilhelm Bode, geadelt 1914, war ein bedeutender deutscher Kunsthistoriker und Museumsfachmann und gilt als der Mitbegründer des modernen Museumswesens. Bode war eine der zentralen Persönlichkeiten in...
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