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Discover the best-selling art books and insightful artist biographies at our online bookstore, featuring a curated selection of must-read books about art and artwork. Explore our collection to find the best books to read, from captivating artist biographies to beautifully illustrated artwork books.
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Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and DesignPlato - Aristotle - Vitruvius - Alberti - Kant - Burke - Fiedler - Nietzsche - Wilde - Bergson - Bell - Scott - Benjamin - Bataille - Sontag - Jameson - Scarry - Nehamas - Zangwill - Freedberg and GalleseWith an introduction and...
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The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s ParisA comprehensive biography of the late designer, Karl Lagerfeld, and his infamous rivalry with Yves Saint Laurent. In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of...
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Indian ArtThis engaging book tells the story clearly and vividly from the first, still mysterious, beginnings in the Indus valley, through the great masterpieces of Buddhist and Hindu art to the coming of Islam, the eclectic culture of the Mughal court, and the golden age...
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Songs of Innocence and Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul, 1789-1794Here is a beautifully illustrated edition of Blake's classic poems. The text of each poem is given in letterpress on the page facing the color plate, and a brief commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes on each poem follows. It is printed on paper especially...
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Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast UniverseWinner of the 2019 Whirling Prize "Strong on science but just this side of poetry." --Nature A beautifully illustrated exploration of the principles, laws, and wonders that rule our universe, our world, and our daily lives, from the New York Times bestselling creator of...
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What Is Art?This profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice, and religion. Considering and rejecting the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, Tolstoy perceives the question of the...
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How to Sell Your Art Online: Live a Successful Creative Life on Your Own TermsAn essential guide for every kind of artist that teaches them how to skip the gallery system, find their niche, and connect directly with collectors to profitably sell their art.For years, galleries have acted as gatekeeper separating artists and collectors. But with the explosion...
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Bill Viola in Dialogue: Selected Writings and LecturesThe Museum der Moderne Salzburg is dedicating a comprehensive exhibition to the US-American video and installation artist Bill Viola, offering an overview of his oeuvre that now stretches over fifty years. Viola is regarded across the world as a pioneer of video and media...
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Walter Price: Pearl Lines"The paintings in Pearl Lines are a joyous combination of the carefree and the committed. Their sensibility is earnest, and their carnivalesque style engaging without looking labored." -ArtforumEverything starts with a line, says Georgia-born, Brooklyn-based artist Walter Price (born 1989). Indeed, this volume, published...
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Tony Feher: DrawingsA cornucopia of rarely seen drawings, full of delicacy and wit, from the acclaimed sculptorAmerican artist Tony Feher (1956-2016) was best known for his sculptures and site-determined installations made of ubiquitous, everyday objects such as plastic bottles, glass jars, marbles, twine, cardboard boxes and...
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Bad Manners: On the Creative Potential of Modifying Other Artists' WorkAn original history of nonconsensual collaboration between artists, from Francis Picabia to Maurizio CattelanFrom cannibalistic acts of modification or alteration of another's work to the hijacking of authorship through the addition of a signature, to occasions when the identities of artists or their creations...
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I Like Your Work: Art and EtiquetteAuthor: Paper MonumentPublisher: Paper MonumentPublished: 08/01/2009Pages: 56Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsISBN: 9780979757525
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A Century of the Artist's Studio 1920-2020An innovative take on the artist's studio as refuge, stage and public site, with Brancusi, Bacon, Ringgold and moreThis extensive catalog charts the many forms and incarnations of the artist's studio through the last century: as a laboratory or stage set; as place of...
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Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th CenturyA fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world From the chaos of the First World War to the ravages of the Second, from the Great Depression...
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Honojiro Towoji Shikinomemorie Poster Bookhonojiro towoji's seriously sensational poster book is finally here!Illustrator honojiro towoji's unique worldview, rendered in delicate brushstrokes, has made the artist extremely popular. In this poster book, features a total of 33 illustrations including 20 illustrations from "Shikino Memorie", which was first released as...
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I Certainly Practise Painting..."If I had some advice to give to a young painter, I would tell him to start by copying an apple."Including the following texts by Alberto Giacometti: "Fragments of a diary"In conversation with Gotthard Jedlicka"I certainly practise painting...""Grey, brown, black...""Braque has just died""Portrait of...
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Women in DesignWomen designers have created some of the most important objects in history. By revealing the untold stories of female design pioneers, this wide-ranging introduction celebrates their crucial role in the history of modern processes of making.Arranged chronologically, this guide considers the structural barriers to...
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Power Up Your Creativity: Ignite Your Creative Spark - Develop a Productive Practice - Set Goals and Achieve Your DreamsAttention all creatives: learn how to power up your creativity! If you're longing to take your vision, energy, and output to the next level, this book is the resource you need to make it happen. Author Rachael Taylor--successful artist, pattern designer, entrepreneur, and cofounder...
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A History of Modern MangaDiscover the major events and artists who have shaped the history of modern manga, with this deluxe expanded volume. Amid reconstruction after World War II, Japan saw the emergence of modern manga, which quickly became a favorite pastime of its citizens. Over the decades,...
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Megalex Deluxe EditionAn original sci-fi adventure of rebellion against a totalitarian and oppressive world, as imagined by master storyteller Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Incal, Metabarons, Jodorowsky's Dune). On Megalex, the city-planet, a tyrannical order reigns over a population controlled by drug addiction and genetic manipulation. Its only...
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