Art
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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Erte's Theatrical Costumes in Full Color"All-around beautiful and worth picking up for anyone interested in fashion, theatre, theatrical costuming, and art." --Looking for a Good Book"This book is an absolute delight for any fan of costume design history, and it is sure to inspire budding theatrical designers. Brilliant and...
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Treasury of Art Nouveau Design & OrnamentOrnament is the essence of Art Nouveau. Throughout their two decades of dominance, Art Nouveau artists concentrated on the ornamental and decorative potential of the flowing line in painting, printing, wallpaper, and all other fine and applied arts. Hundreds of thousands of carefully wrought...
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The Elements of DrawingCan drawing -- sound, honest representation of the world as the eye sees it, not tricks with the pencil or a few effects -- be learned from a book? One of the most gifted draftsmen, who is also one of the greatest art critics...
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Drawings of Albrecht DürerOriginally published in Munich in 1914, this selection of Albrecht D rer's finest drawings by the great art historian Heinrich W fflin has long been regarded as a basic book in the arts. It has gone through many editions in Europe, even though this...
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The Painter's Methods and MaterialsMany of the valuable techniques and materials formerly used in painting have been lost or forgotten. With the convenience of the art supply store, the artist is no longer forced to acquaint himself with many of the operations performed by the great craftsmen-painters of...
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Zen Sudoku Hardback: Puzzle & Coloring BookForget those ugly computer-generated Sudoku puzzles and feast your eyes on what may be the most beautiful Sudoku Puzzle Book in existence.This eye-popping collection features 20 original, hand-drawn Sudoku puzzles - including 6 epic Samurai Sudokus. With each puzzle there is one solution, but...
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My Rad Life: A JournalAn inspiring, empowering journal that encourages its owners to think, create, reflect, and explore their own radness. A companion to the New York Times bestsellers Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide, this cool guided journal draws from a number of the rad...
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Model Making: A Basic GuideModel Making is an introduction to the craft for students of architecture; landscape architecture; urban, interior, and theatrical design; or anyone who has the need or desire to make the large small. In concise instructions and nearly 200 charming, easy-to-follow drawings the book details...
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The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio MasterpieceTold with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story. An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in...
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Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques + Truly Original ProjectsThis is a book for low budgets and high ambition. Read it and you will learn how to put images of things onto other things. You will start by rolling up your sleeves. Your shirt will be stained anyways. At some point, you will...
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The Collector: The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost MasterpiecesA fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia's art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was...
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Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American ArtA fresh look at a bold and dynamic 20th-century American art style Characterized by highly structured, geometric compositions with smooth surfaces, linear qualities, and lucid forms, Precisionism fully emerged after World War I and flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. This insightful publication, featuring...
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Stepping-Stones: A Journey Through the Ice Age Caves of the DordogneAn awe-inspiring study of the enduring power of Paleolithic art The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as well as symbols of...
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Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the Cara ExhibitionIn the early 1990s, a major exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985 toured major museums around the United States. As a first attempt to define and represent Chicano/a art for a national audience, the exhibit attracted both praise and controversy, while raising fundamental...
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Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's "Irreverent Apparition" [With CD (Audio)]Months before Alma López's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed. Protest rallies, prayer vigils,...
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The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American ArtShamanism--the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary and to gain esoteric knowledge--has been an important part of life for indigenous societies throughout the Americas from prehistoric times until the present. Much has been written about...
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101 Things to Learn in Art SchoolLessons, demonstrations, definitions, and tips on what to expect in art school, what it means to make art, and how to think like an artist.What is the first thing to learn in art school? "Art can be anything." The second thing? "Learn to draw."...
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The Mukhtar Method - Oud Upper IntermediateThis book has been written for Oud students who are confident players and have successfully completed the material covered in the Mukhtar Method series up until the Oud Intermediate course book. The objective of this book is to further progress students' playing techniques as...
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Meaning in the Visual ArtsSince its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for those with more specialized interests, a profound discussion of art and life...
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Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our AgeAccording to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning the entire concept of originality....
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