The first monograph by the art director for leading video game company Blizzard Entertainment Brutal: The Art of Samwise is a career-spanning art book that assembles the many artistic creations of world renowned artist Samwise Didier into one volume. For nearly thirty years, Samwise's unique art style, which combines the use of bold colors, visual storytelling, and a touch of humor, has been featured in numerous art books, illustrated novels, album covers, comic books, and video games, and is instantly recognizable to his legions of fans. Brutal: The Art of Samwise celebrates all the artistic creations of Samwise's imagination, including many images never seen before from his personal archives. This book also contains selections of Samwise's favorite and most iconic images he created for the video game company, Blizzard Entertainment, where he has worked since 1991. As a senior art director for Blizzard, Samwise was responsible for directing the art style for Warcraft, StarCraft, and Heroes of the Storm, as well as for creating artwork for the World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, and Diablo franchises.

Brutal: The Art of Samwise

Computers & Technology

Didier, Samwise

Games & Strategy Guides

Cernunnos

Characters from comics, movies, TV shows, and video games are a part of the collective imagination forever, so it's only natural that artists would begin integrating them into their work, giving birth to a new artistic movement: GEEK-ART. In TOTAL GEEK-ART the work of eighty painters, illustrators, and sculptors is collected to offer an international panorama of the geek-art genre of artistic expression. It presents profiles of geek-art's greatest founders as well as insights on the latest trends, such as the return of enamel pins, the development of toy photography, and the recognition of video game art. Featuring stunning artwork and exclusive interviews and essays, this deluxe collection is a must-have for every pop culture enthusiast.

Total Geek-Art

Olivri, Thomas

Science Fiction & Fantasy

The first monograph showcasing the pop and glossy universe of young Hollywood's favorite photographer Considered young Hollywood's favorite photographer, Vijat Mohindra has created a unique and colorful style that he's brought to the covers of the world's hippest magazines. His ultra-modernist and hyper-synthetic aesthetic appeals to millennials, and the dazzling anti-vérité style of his work has attracted celebrity clientele such as Miley Cyrus, Paris Hilton, Nicki Minaj, Gwen Stefani, and Kim Kardashian West. With them, he has created iconic covers for publications such as Paper magazine, Gay Times, Attitude, and Plastik. Fascinated by all those who defy norms, genders, and boundaries, this former assistant of David La Chapelle never ceases to celebrate our differences in fantasy worlds where Paris Hilton, Amanda Lepore, Tyra Banks, and A$AP Rocky could all live together. This is his first monograph ever published and includes all the images that made him famous, as well as new photos shot exclusively for this book. A must-have for anyone interested in fashion and photography.

High Gloss: The Art of Vijat Mohindra

Arts & Photography

Mohindra, Vijat

Individual Artists

Drawing inspiration from nature, Japanese Kaiju films, samurai iconography, and mythology, Taiwanese-born and Brooklyn-based artist Mu Pan invites viewers to examine their own nature as they look upon the broken bodies and battlefields that appear throughout his intricate, violent, vibrant, and often humorous paintings. Collected for the first time in The Art of Mu Pan, are works that exemplify his recent output and that have made him a celebrated artist in Europe and the United States. Incorporating cultural influence from his home country of Taiwan, as well as techniques inspired by Edo-era Japan and iconic images from pop culture, Mu Pan's work is both timeless and hyper-modern.

American Fried Rice: The Art of Mu Pan

Pan, Mu

History & Criticism

The Erotic Doll: A History

Self-Help

Rivera, Lissa

Museum of Sex

Anatomy for all by "the Internet's Most Famous Coroner" (Vice) From "A is for Abdomen" to "W is for Wrist," Nicole Angemi's Anatomy Book offers a unique anatomy manual that is accessible to all and serious without taking itself too seriously. This unique guide offers a description of many pathologies--both rare and common--that worry, fascinate, or damage the bodies of people around the world, even in the age of modern medicine. Each case is accompanied by an illustration by artist Kelly Durette, who was specially commissioned for this book.

Nicole Angemi's Anatomy Book: A Catalog of Familiar, Rare, and Unusual Pathologies

Science & Math

Angemi, Nicole

Biological Sciences

A stunning visual history of tarot Used for self-exploration or divination, tarot has, for more than 500 years, been the most popular and accessible of all esoteric tools, looming large in today's mainstream culture. Why? Because the cards are inexpensive and easy to carry--a perfect traveling companion and, therefore, an invitation to a journey inward and out. Humans are drawn to playing games and feel driven to find meaning in the chaos of paradoxical signs. The vivid iconography of the "Arcanas" speak to us like no other language, moving us to the core, weaving through each card a universal story, a metaphorical pathway of transformation. This 400-page book presents--for the first time--a close look at 500 years of figurative card decks created or used for fortune telling, divinations, and oracle purposes, and explores, one card at the time, their iconographic roots at the crossroads of the medieval imaginarium, Western esoteric wisdom, folklore, and also contemporary art and pop culture. With hundreds of images drawn from more than 100 decks, rarely published and often forgotten in library archives, this book offers the first visual history of tarot.

Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive

Barbier, Laetitia

History

Pandemonium: An Illustrated History of Demonology presents for this first time Satan's family tree, providing a history and analysis of his fellow fallen angels from Asmodeus to Ziminiar. Throughout there will be short entries on individual demons, but Pandemoniumwill be more than just a visual encyclopedia. It will also focus on the influence of figures like Beelzebub, Azazel, Lilith, and Moloch on Western religion, literature, and art. Ranging from the earliest scriptural references to demons in the New Testament through the Enlightenment and Romantic eras when our devils took on a subtler form, Pandemonium functions as a compendium of Lucifer's subjects from Dante's The Divine Comedy to John Milton's Paradise Lost, and all points in between. &#8203;Containing rarely seen illustrations of very old treatises on demonology as well as more well-known works by the great masters of Western painting, this book will celebrate the art of hell like never before!

Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology

Simon, Ed

Religious

The first monograph on a digital art phenomenon&nbsp; Beeple: Everydays, the First 5000 Images&nbsp;is the first monograph dedicated to artist Mike Winkelman aka Beeple, who is known for his daily digital creations: from twisted pop-culture caricatures to breathtaking sci-fi landscapes. Already a celebrity within the community of digital artists and on social media, Beeple became a global phenomenon on March 11, 2020, when Christie's sold a digital work of his for more than $69 million, launching the NFT (non-fungible token) craze. This monograph brings together Beeple's first 5,000 images, created and posted daily by the artist since May 2007, and also features an interview with the author wherein he reflects on his career and newfound celebrity.&nbsp;

Beeple: Everydays, the First 5000 Days

Winkelmann, Mike

Celebrate the history and explore the unique universe of tokidoki in this 400-page monographTokidoki, which translates to "sometimes" in Japanese, is an internationally recognized and iconic lifestyle brand based on the vision of Italian artist Simone Legno. Since debuting in 2005, tokidoki has amassed a cult-like following for its larger-than-life characters and has emerged as a sought-after global lifestyle brand. Tokidoki has managed to develop commercial public collaborations with brands and organizations like Sephora, Levi's, MLB, the San Francisco Giants, and T-Mobile, while also developing more artistic partnerships with Karl Lagerfeld and the Guggenheim museum, and crossovers with other iconic pop culture characters like Barbie, Hello Kitty, Marvel heroes, and Peanuts.

Tokidoki: The Art of Simone Legno

Legno, Simone

Mohajer, Pooneh

Graphic Design

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