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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An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional SymbolsWith over 200 illustrations and lively, informative and often ironic texts, she discusses and explains an enormous variety of symbols extending from the Arctic to Dahomey, from the Iroquois to Oceana, and coming from systems as diverse as Tao, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Tantra,...
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Landscape and Western ArtWhat is landscape? How does it differ from "land?" Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is "nature?" Is it everything that isn't art, or artifact? By addressing these...
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Walter Sickert: Prints: A Catalogue RaisonnéWalter Sickert (1860-1942) was possibly the most important and influential early modern British artist. He belonged to the generation that absorbed the modernity of late nineteenth-century French art into British painting and printmaking. His outstanding work as a printmaker has been largely overlooked and...
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Big Brush WatercolorUsing the Japanese hake brush, obtainable from most art and craft shops, Ron Ranson demonstrates how, because of its nature and size, it forces the watercolourist to simplify the subject matter and thus distil the essence of a scene. He also discusses the dissecting...
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Full Steam Ahead: Adult Coloring Book Trains EditionTrains remind you of the feeling of being able to travel freely. Coloring them will give you the chance to escap even for just a few minutes. You can allow yourself to be transported to a different place and time if you color. Other...
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Full-Color Decorative Christmas Illustrations CD-ROM and BookThis profusion of 362 festive, full-color illustrations -- all selected from rare Victorian-era publications -- display a colorful variety of holiday images. You'll find old-fashioned portraits of St. Nicholas, evergreen wreaths and garlands, rosy-cheeked youngsters decorating a Christmas tree, and other nostalgic vignettes. A...
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Greek Sculpture: The Late Classical Period and Sculpture in Colonies and OverseasThis is the last in the series of Sir John Boardman's acclaimed handbooks on Greek sculpture; a sequel to similar volumes on the Archaic and Classical periods. Here, the story continues through the fourth century B.C. to the days of Alexander the Great. The...
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Brush of the GodsThis gorgeous picture book biography, according to Kirkus Reviews in a starred review, is a cheerful introduction not only to Wu Daozi, but to the power of inspiration. Who wants to learn calligraphy when your brush is meant for so much more? Wu Daozi...
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French Art of the Eighteenth Century: The Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture Series at the Dallas Museum of ArtThis beautiful book brings together ten years of research on a superb collection of 18th-century French masterworks, which was formed by the late Michael L. Rosenberg and is now on deposit at the Dallas Museum of Art. This research, originally presented in lectures at...
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Women, Art, and SocietyThis acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who "transcended" their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture have often been neglected, Whitney Chadwick's survey reexamines the...
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Christian Art: A Very Short IntroductionThis Very Short Introduction decodes the key themes, signs, and symbols found in Christian art: the Eucharist, the image of the Crucifixion, the Virgin Mary, the Saints, Old and New Testament narrative imagery, and iconography. It also explores the theological and historical background of...
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Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hogai and the Search for ImagesThe Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity. With that popularity, however, came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a perceived end to pure Japanese art and a rise...
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Japanese ArtThe uniqueness of Japanese culture rests on the fact that, throughout its history, Japan has continually taken, adapted, and transformed diverse influences--whether from Korea, China, and the South Seas, or Europe and America--into distinct traditions of its own. This book, an authoritative and provocative...
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Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance MapsFrom dragons and serpents to many-armed beasts that preyed on ships and sailors alike, sea monsters have terrified mariners across all ages and cultures and have become the subject of many tall tales from the sea. Accounts of these creatures have also inspired cartographers...
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The Pantheon: From Antiquity to the PresentThe Pantheon is one of the most important architectural monuments of all time. Thought to have been built by Emperor Hadrian in approximately 125 AD on the site of an earlier, Agrippan-era monument, it brilliantly displays the spatial pyrotechnics emblematic of Roman architecture and...
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Renaissance and Baroque Ceiling MasterpiecesThe lofty painted ceilings of Europe's palaces and churches rank among the greatest treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. This unique assemblage features brilliant full-color reproductions of some of the finest examples of such art. Drawn from two rare French and German portfolios...
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The Materials and Methods of SculptureThe authority and completeness of the work, the dozens of pertinent plates and textual drawings, add immeasurably to its worth. -- Magazine of ArtBefore the publication of this book there was a dearth of competent instructional books on the technical aspects of sculpture. Mr....
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Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting: Original Texts with English TranslationsSince its original publication in 1849, Mrs. Merrifield's two-volume work on the technology of medieval and Renaissance oil painting has been one of the foremost among a scarce handful of valued reference books dealing with the subject. The work reprints (with the original language...
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Surrealist Painting: Colour Library'Sexual instinct, feeling of death, physical notion of the enigma of space....' - these, according to Salvador Dalí, are the 'great vital constants' that make up the vocabulary of the language of the unconscious - the language of the Surrealist painters. Dealing with the...
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Origami Odyssey: A Journey to the Edge of Paperfolding: Includes Origami Book with 21 Original Projects & Instructional DVDRenowned origami artist Peter Engel first astounded origami enthusiasts and the lay person alike with his popular Origami from Angelfish to Zen. Since that book, published in 1989, Engel has gone through a personal change in his philosophy of origami design, honed through decades...
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