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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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The Changing Presentation of the American Indian: Museums and Native CulturesMuseums--along with books, newspapers, and Wild West shows in the 19th century, movies and television in the 20th--have shaped our perceptions of American Indians. This book brings together six prominent museum professionals--Native and non-Native--to examine the ways in which Indians and their cultures have...
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Lelooska: The Life of a Northwest Coast ArtistDon Smith - or Lelooska, as he was usually called - was a prominent Native American artist and storyteller in the Pacific Northwest. Born in 1933 of "mixed blood" Cherokee heritage, he was adopted as an adult by the prestigious Kwakiutl Sewid clan and...
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Minimal Art: The Critical PerspectiveIn this important work, Frances Colpitt chronicles the Minimal art movement of the 1960s. Maintaining the original spirit of the period--enthusiasm for innovation and a passionate commitment to intellectual inquiry--Colpitt provides an excellent documentary history that is both thorough and nonpartisan.Using a metacritical approach...
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Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry: The Art, the Artists, the HistoryIndigenous hand-engraved jewelry from the Pacific Northwest Coastis among the most distinctive, innovative, and highly sought-after art being produced in North America today. But these artworks are more than just stunning--every bracelet, ring, and pendant is also the product of a fascinating backstory, a...
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Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of MythSurrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the alchemy of the visual image. Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different perspective on...
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Surrealist Women: An International AnthologyBeginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project-achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed,...
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The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central MexicoPresenting the first comprehensive art historical study of some magnificent Mesoamerican murals, this book demonstrates how generations of ancient Mexican artists, patrons, and audiences created a powerful statement of communal identity that still captures the imagination. Honorable Mention, ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin...
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Between Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, MexicoOaxaca is internationally renowned for its marketplaces and archaeological sites where tourists can buy inexpensive folk art, including replicas of archaeological treasures. Archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals sometimes discredit this trade in "fakes" that occasionally make their way to the auction block as...
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The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic KoraiSome of the loveliest works of Archaic art were the Athenian korai--sculptures of beautiful young women presenting offerings to the goddess Athena that stood on the Acropolis. Sculpted in the sixth and early fifth centuries B.C., they served as votives until Persians sacked the...
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I Claudia II: Women in Roman Art and SocietyI, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome--an exhibition and catalog produced by the Yale University Art Gallery--provided the first comprehensive study of the lives of Roman women as revealed in Roman art. Responding to the popular success of the exhibit and catalog, Diana E. E....
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The City of Mexico in the Age of DíazMexico City assumed its current character around the turn of the twentieth century, during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911). In those years, wealthy Mexicans moved away from the Zócalo, the city's traditional center, to western suburbs where they sought to imitate European and...
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Sacred Modern: Faith, Activism, and Aesthetics in the Menil CollectionRenowned as one of the most significant museums built by private collectors, the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, seeks to engage viewers in an acutely aesthetic, rather than pedagogical, experience of works of art. The Menil's emphasis on being moved by art, rather than...
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Visualizing Guadalupe: From Black Madonna to Queen of the AmericasThe Virgin of Guadalupe is famously migratory, traversing continents and crossing and recrossing oceans. Guadalupe's earliest cult originated in medieval Iberia, where Our Lady of Guadalupe from Extremadura, Spain, played a significant role in the reconquista and garnered royal backing. The Spanish Guadalupe accompanied...
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Images from the Underworld: Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave PaintingIn 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, Guatemala. One of the world's few deep caves that contain rock art, Naj Tunich features figural images and hieroglyphic inscriptions that...
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In the Palace of Nezahualcoyotl: Painting Manuscripts, Writing the Pre-Hispanic Past in Early Colonial Period Tetzcoco, MexicoAround 1542, descendants of the Aztec rulers of Mexico created accounts of the pre-Hispanic history of the city of Tetzcoco, Mexico, one of the imperial capitals of the Aztec Empire. Painted in iconic script ("picture writing"), the Codex Xolotl, the Quinatzin Map, and the...
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Crafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood CarvingsSince the mid-1980s, whimsical, brightly colored wood carvings from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have found their way into gift shops and private homes across the United States and Europe, as Western consumers seek to connect with the authenticity and tradition represented by indigenous...
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Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of LiberationThis stunning exhibition catalog visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War in 2023 and beyond. Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation sits at the intersection of history and contemporary life. Building upon in-depth conversations about...
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checker: Checker Drawing JournalChecker Drawing Journal. Stylish sleek and sure to be a conversation starterAuthor: Michael Huhn, MichaelPublisher: BlurbPublished: 10/02/2019Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.07lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.05dISBN: 9780464167150This title is not returnable
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Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable FutureA must-have for professionals focused on innovation in design, Radical Matter presents the ten "Big Ideas" that will shape and inform the choices of materials, design methods, and manufacturing processes made by designers in the years to come.This timely paperback edition includes the same...
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Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839In this volume, Elisabeth Fraser shows that artists and the works they created in the Mediterranean during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were informed by mutual dependence and reciprocity between European nations and the Ottoman Empire. Her rich exploration of this vibrant...
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