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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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Art of Flowers 2025 Day-To-Day CalendarAuthor: The Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublisher: ABRAMSPublished: 09/10/2024Pages: 640Binding Type: DailyWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 5.00h x 5.90w x 1.30dISBN: 9781419772993About the AuthorFounded in 1870, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located in New York City's Central Park, along Fifth Avenue. The Met presents over 5,000 years...
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Artisans by Design: An Odyssey of Education for Textile Artisans in IndiaA firsthand account of the development of Kala Raksha Vidhyalaya--the first design school for traditional artisans in India--and its evolution to present-day Somaiya Kala Vidya, with personal stories of its students, their work and the school's effect on their lives and India's cultural and...
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Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan WildlandsA richly illustrated catalogue of visual art recording the changing ecology of Monhegan Island, a renowned artist destination off the coast of Maine. With its rugged shoreline, magnificent Cathedral Woods, and rustic cedar-shingled homes, Monhegan Island is quintessential Maine. This historic fishing village situated...
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Art During Wartime: Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War NorthWhile the Civil War raged on, many northern artists depicted everyday life rather than grand battles or landscapes of noble sacrifice. Amidst a conflict that was upending antebellum social norms, these artists created realistic scenes of mundane events, known as genre paintings. While many...
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Animal Anatomy for Artists: A Visual Guide to the Form of Mammals, Reptiles, Fish, and BirdsAnimal Anatomy for Artists is an expansive collection of stunning animal photography with detailed overlaid illustrations and annotations showing the form of mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles in a variety of poses, still and mid-action. This is an essential resource for artists of any...
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Andy Warhol: Velvet Rage and BeautyAndy Warhol's continuous pursuit of ideal beauty--visible in a body of his work that is brought here together for the first time. Andy Warhol is arguably one of the most widely known and discussed artists of the twentieth century. While his depictions of consumer...
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An Abbreviated Art History: Western Traditions from the Renaissance to the PresentAn Abbreviated Art History: Western Traditions from the Renaissance to the Present is a condensed survey of western traditions in art from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. It uses representative examples of artworks to demonstrate various styles and movements in painting, sculpture, architecture, and...
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A little Love Coloring Book for Adults: Love Coloring Book for Adults Small Illustrations Grayscale Coloring Book Clip-art Illustrations - Valentine´s★A little Love coloring book for adults★Wonderful little watercolor illustrations on the theme of love to color in A4 54 pages Clip-art style Illustrations Love in its many forms: between children and siblings between parents and children young lovers Love of stuffed bears and...
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Alfred Kubin: The Aesthetic of EvilKubin's eerie, unsettling illustrations reveal his preoccupation with the world's evilsFor Austrian artist Alfred Kubin (1877-1959), evil was intrinsic to his life and work. After a traumatic childhood growing up in Zell am See and subsequent mental crises, he began his artistic training in...
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After Disruption: A Future for Cultural MemoryThe digital age is burning out our most precious resources and the future of the past is at stake. In After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory, Trevor Owens warns that our institutions of cultural memory--libraries, archives, museums, humanities departments, research institutes, and more--have...
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Tank Battles: El Alamein to the VolgaOriginal propaganda material taken from the German Propaganda Kompanien and translated into English for the first time. Approximately 60 minutes of original footage. During World War II the tank came into its own as the primary weapon on the battlefield. In the wake of...
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Stalingrad 1942-1943Original propaganda material taken from the German Propaganda Kompanien and translated into English for the first time. Approximately 60 minutes of original footage. The German Propaganda Kompanien (PK) captured the events of Hitler's war on every front. Their footage was used to produce Die...
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Yayoi KusamaLearn about incredible story of Yayoi Kusama! The groundbreaking contemporary artist who covered the world in dots. Little Yayoi grew up in Japan and loved creating art. Although her parents didn't approve of her pastime, Yayoi continued to express herself through painting and drawing....
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Worldbuilding: Gaming and Art in the Digital AgeHow artists such as Cao Fei, KAWS and Jacolby Satterwhite are elevating the aesthetics of gamingIn 2023, 3.09 billion people--almost a third of the world's population--played video games. As curator Hans Ulrich Obrist writes, "video games are to the 21st century what movies were...
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Women Making Art: Women in the Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts Since 1960, Second EditionThis book examines the work of 14 female artists since 1960 with a particular focus on how the artist incorporated gender issues or feminist thought into her respective art form, giving literal expression to the lives and experiences of women over the past 60...
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Wildflower Watercolour: Recognising and Painting NatureAn inspiring guide for learning to recognise and paint the beauty of wild flowers and the untamed nature that surrounds us.Poppies, plantains, elderberries, chamomile, wild roses...These are just a few of the wildflowers that we come across in our gardens orduring walks. For the...
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When Indian Flowers Bloomed in Europe: Masterworks of Indian Trade Textiles, 1600-1780, in the Tapi CollectionIt is a fascinating story that the merchant companies of Europe, established with the aim of sourcing exotic eastern spices, stumbled upon Indian handmade textiles and found these a highly profitable product for their home markets. This process was to have far-reaching consequences for...
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What Is Public History Globally?: Working with the Past in the PresentAcross the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult pasts are confronted at sites...
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Vincent's PoetsVincent Van Gogh was an impassioned reader of poetry. What is more, he loved the exalted idea of poets. In 1888, less than two years before he took his own life, he entitled a new painting of Eug?ne Boch, a young Belgian painter, 'The...
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Vicken ParsonsAuthor: Vicken ParsonsPublisher: Art / BooksPublished: 07/30/2024Pages: 296Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.25lbsSize: 10.40h x 8.50w x 1.40dISBN: 9781908970596
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