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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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Cézanne PortraitsA major new study of the portraiture of one of the most important artists of the nineteenth century Paul C zanne (1839-1906) may be best known for his landscapes, but he also painted some 160 portraits throughout his exceptional career. This major work establishes...
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Opt Art: From Mathematical Optimization to Visual DesignA fun and stunningly illustrated introduction to the art of linear optimization Linear optimization is a powerful modeling method for discovering the best solution to a problem among a set of available alternatives. It is one of today's most important branches of mathematics and...
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500 Self-PortraitsA compelling collection of self-portraits from throughout recorded history, revised to include captivating contemporary worksThe challenge of interpreting and recreating their own likenesses has proven irresistible to artists throughout the ages. Originally published more than 80 years ago and last revised in 2000, this...
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Find Colors: Published in Association with the Whitney Museum of American ArtA colors book with no colors - instead, die-cuts to peek through and find them yourselfThis introduction to colors integrates the reader's surroundings into carefully considered die-cut silhouettes, providing children the space to visually experiment. Readers will gaze around the room through a rooster-shaped...
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Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why"Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately linked to the origins of religious practices and to ceremonies of birth, death, transition,...
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The Elements of Sculpture: A Viewer's GuideThe Elements of Sculpture is the essential viewer's guide to experiencing sculpture. Richly illustrated with colour photographs of artworks both modern and classical and written by a sculptor and teacher with lifelong experience, it arms the reader with the tools and vocabulary with which...
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Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other ArtsMaking Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who worked in experimental film pushed the medium toward abstraction through a number of...
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L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black CinemaL.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African, Caribbean, and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in...
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Presidential Doodles: Two Centuries of Scribbles, Scratches, Squiggles, and Scrawls from the Oval Office Squiggles & Scrawls from the Oval OCabinet magazine's collection of the finest examples of Presidential DoodlesAuthor: Cabinet MagazinePublisher: Basic BooksPublished: 10/30/2007Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.96h x 8.14w x 0.55dISBN: 9780465032679About the AuthorSasha Archibald is the former Associate Editor and Sina Najafi the current Editor-in-Chief of Cabinet magazine. Described by...
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Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women ArtistsCreating Their Own Image marks the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day. Using an analysis of stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans in western art and culture as a springboard, Lisa E. Farrington here richly details hundreds of...
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New Realisms: 1957-1962: Object Strategies Between Readymade and SpectacleWorks by a pre-Pop, post-abstract expressionist generation of artists who rejected painterly expression and embraced the object.As the 1950s became the 1960s, a new generation of artists around the globe rejected direct painterly expression and returned decisively to the object. Moving away from abstract...
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WorkWork's meaning both within art and in its wider economic and social context: the complexities of being an art worker in the new economy.Warhol's Factory of the 1960s, Minimalism's assembly-line aesthetics, conceptual and feminist concern with workers' conditions in the 1970s--these are among the...
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Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related SpectaclesTracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making.Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but...
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Complete PrintmakerThis revised and expanded edition takes the reader step by step through the history and techniques of over forty-five print-making methods. From the traditional etching, engraving, lithography, and relief print processes to today's computer prints, Mylar lithography, copier prints, water-based screen printing, helio-reliefs, and...
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Jasper Johns: Catalogue Raisonné of MonotypesThe first comprehensive overview of Jasper Johns's work in an innovative medium that the artist has singlehandedly redefined over the course of four decades Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is arguably the most important living American artist, and his work is central to any history...
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The Art Detective: Adventures of an Antiques Roadshow AppraiserThe art world has never seemed so deceptive--or so much fun. A star of Antiques Roadshow shares his stories of discovering masterpieces and unmasking forgeries. How can you tell a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Philip Mould has been so successful at discovering...
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Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of MemoryA long-awaited, new interpretation of Charlotte Salomon's singular and complex modern artwork, Life? or Theatre? Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist artwork, Life? or Theatre? (Leben? oder Theater?), comprising 784 paintings and created between 1941 and 1942. This major art-historical...
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Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest MetropolisA fascinating history of Chicago's innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces...
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Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048A critical mapping of the multiplicities of Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi--composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, inventor, collector, futurologist. Over the past forty years, Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941) has been a composer of electronic music, experimental...
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Secret Tokyo: Color Your Way to CalmA coloring book that will relax and inspire -- all the while transporting you to the beautiful and elegant Japan. Get your pens out, open this book, and discover Japan. Stop before the shop windows of Tokyo and get lost in the bustle of...
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