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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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La socidad del espectáculo"Todo lo que una vez fue vivido directamente se ha convertido en una mera representaci n.": "La sociedad del espect culo" proporciona una reinterpretaci n del marxismo, sobre todo del concepto de fetiche de la mercanc a aplicado a las condiciones del capitalismo contempor...
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Sigmar Polke: Paintings, Photographs and FilmsThis beautifully produced volume is the updated and revised edition of Polígrafa's 2005 publication of the same name, which was designed and conceived in collaboration with the artist and includes documentation from his private archives. Sigmar Polke: Paintings, Photographs and Films is also the...
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Color Code: Graphic Design, Branding and IdentityColor has multiple functions that differ from those of other design elements as shape, texture and form as it is able to awake multiple feelings and emotions to audiences in communication. Each of the international case studies included in the book demonstrates the importance...
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My Wondrous World: The Art Book of InspirationThis full-spread illustrated art book includes the pictures created by a talented Ukrainian traveler and artist Alexey Khomych within a decade. All of the paintings have been inspired by the artist's travels in South America and are full of mystery and magic; they may...
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Urs Fischer: 2000 WordsSwiss artist Urs Fischer is best known for his dramatic transfiguration of the exhibition space, as well as for his unexpected transformations of quotidian objects. Offering grand gestures with a pop attitude, the artist works in a variety of media--which is grounded in sculpture...
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HeroesThe collected works of Nagi Yoshida. Nagi Yoshida was attracted by the Massai people when she saw them on television as a five-year-old. Now, twenty years later, her stunning images of the Massai people and other tribes show the beauty of their land and...
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Dem Himmel Nahe: 750 Jahre Kloster Neuzelle 1268-2018Schon bei seiner Grundung war das Zisterzienserkloster Neuzelle in der Niederlausitz dem Himmel nahe, wurde es doch nicht wie sonst ublich in einer Niederung, sondern auf einem Bergsporn angelegt. Mit uber 150 Veranstaltungen und Konzerten feiert das Kloster 2018 sein 750-jahriges Bestehen. Einer der...
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Andreas MuheAndreas Muhe (b. KarlMarxStadt, 1979; lives and works in Berlin), one of the most renowned German photographers, has come home: he is back in Germany's heart, in the collective memory of a nation that cannot escape the dark shadows of its past. Muhe went...
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David Smith: Origins & InnovationsOrigins & Innovations brings together David Smith's (1906-65) early paintings, drawings and sculptures, alongside seminal later works that reimagine the possibilities of abstraction in three dimensions. This presentation investigates the origins of a renowned artistic innovator, highlighting Smith's exploration and embrace of diverse sources...
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Arabesque 2: Graphic Design from the Arab World and PersiaCutting-edge graphic work from the Arab world and Iran that is emblematic of the cultural emancipation of this entire area. The wave of protests that started this year in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and other countries have made it clear just how much the...
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Gordon Matta-Clark: Moment to Moment: SpaceWith his astounding building cuts and intersects, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) opened up elegant geometries in the very structures that seem most substantial and most authoritative in urban existence, revealing the alienations of the urban fabric as convenient fictions and allowing life to flow into...
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Stroke: From Under the Mattress to Out in the OpenThis volume is a historic retrospective of the steamy illustrations published in US magazines from the 1950s to 1990s. Although they were freely available, their often closeted readers put them under their mattresses. Stroke rediscovers these treasures and puts them together with vividly told...
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Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Jeannette Fischer Meets ArtistIn the summer 2015, famous performance artist Marina Abramovic and psychanalyst Jeannette Fischer spent four days together at Abramovic's house in the Hudson Valley. Associating freely, they took a psychoanalytical perspective for a lengthy exploration of Abramovic's biography and art and their interrelation. Abramovic...
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King Tut. the Journey Through the UnderworldBuried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intricate picture of how the ancient Egyptian people viewed the perilous journey...
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ProuvéFrench-born Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) was the 20th century's leading construction designer, a self-declared constructeur and member of the jury who oversaw the design of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. As a designer, he captured the midcentury spirit of innovation, expansion, and growth, developing techniques...
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El GrecoTo his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541--1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, but stubborn in the pursuit of his own path. Throughout his career, as he progressed from Crete to Venice, to Rome and ultimately...
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RenoirOne of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring public appeal. Sun-kissed, charming, and sensual, his work shows painting at its most lighthearted and luminous, while championing the plein air and color...
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Le Livre Des Symboles. Réflexions Sur Des Images ArchétypalesLe Livre des symboles allie essais originaux et incisifs sur des symboles particuliers à des images représentatives provenant de tous les horizons et de toutes les époques de l'histoire. Les textes très accessibles s'associent de façon originale à près de 800 magnifiques images en...
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DadaïsmeÉmergeant de l'horreur de la Première Guerre mondiale, le révolutionnaire mouvement dada a pris pour point de départ son dégoût de l'ordre établi. De 1916 jusqu'à la moitié des années 1920, des artistes à Zurich, Cologne, Hanovre, Paris et New York sont radicalement montés...
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Emil Nolde: The South SeasIn October 1913 the German Expressionist artist Emil Nolde (1867-1956) and his wife, Danish actress Ada Vilstrup, joined a government-sponsored expedition to German New Guinea, traveling by way of Siberia, Korea, Japan, China and the Philippines. Nolde had a lifelong fascination with the art...
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