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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 Vatican: All the Paintings: The Complete Collection of Old Masters, Plus More Than 300 Sculptures, Maps, Tapestries, and Other ArtifactsDiscover the artistic wonders of the Vatican, from the Sistine Chapel to Raphael's frescoes, with the New York Times bestselling book The Vatican: All the Paintings; now in a practical and elegant paperback format. The Vatican is one of the most visited sites in...
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Introductory Lectures on AestheticsNo philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the...
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My Name Is PrinceThe ultimate collection of stunning photographs documenting the career of one of the world's greatest superstarsThere has never been or will there ever be an artist like Prince. "A 5' 3? Mastermind . . . satiated with virtuosity, controversy, stubbornness, and poise . ....
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Simpsons Comics SupernovaNot even the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns can hold a candle to Simpsons Comics Supernova, the new comic collection from Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, Futurama, and the comic strip Life in Hell.Illustrated in full color, Simpsons Comics Supernova features...
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Michael Krebber: Catalogue Raisonné Vol.1Presenting the complete works of Germany's greatest living minimalist painterThis is the first volume of a catalogue raisonné of German artist Michael Krebber (born 1954), whose sparse painted canvases draw from the formal language of Minimalism and abstraction. Featuring images, descriptions and critical texts,...
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Kapwani Kiwanga: Off-GridArt as anthropology: uncovering and upending regimes of visibilityOver the past decade, Canadian-born, Paris-based artist Kapwani Kiwanga (born 1978) has created complex installations, sculptures, performance lectures and films that consider marginalized histories and colonial economies. Drawing from her training in anthropology and the social...
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Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: Five Times BrazilRecent film works from the international duo exploring cultural changeWorking together for a decade, artists Bárbara Wagner (born 1980, Brazil) and Benjamin De Burca (born 1975, Germany) produce films and video installations that feature protagonists engaged in cultural production. The duo typically collaborates with...
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The Moon Over the Mountain: Maiden's BookshelfThe Maiden's Bookshelf series combines classic short stories of the early 20th century with gorgeous original artwork to create collectible editions for a contemporary audience. At what cost art? In the course of a routine journey, government inspector Yuan Can encounters his old friend...
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Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex TothThis lavishly illustrated biography documents the life and art of one of the most significant comics and animation artists of all time. In comic books, Alex Toth was the foremost proponent of modern design and composition. Starting in 1950, his work influenced almost every...
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Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early AmericaUnder the Skin investigates the role of cross-cultural body modification in seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century North America, revealing that the practices of tattooing and scalping were crucial to interactions between Natives and newcomers. These permanent and painful marks could act as signs of alliance or...
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Joan BrownThis rich, colorful retrospective celebrates the offbeat, inspired, and highly original artistic career of San Francisco-born painter Joan Brown. This exhibition catalog accompanies a retrospective exhibition of prolific San Francisco-born painter Joan Brown (1938-1990), the first significant survey of her work in more than...
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Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin AmericaA lavishly illustrated exhibition catalogue focusing on the social role of civil and religious clothing in Latin America during the 1700s.Author: Blanton Museum of Art, Rosario I. GranadosPublisher: Blanton Museum of Art, Ut-AustinPublished: 08/16/2022Pages: 248Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.15lbsSize: 11.20h x 8.50w x 1.30dISBN: 9781477323977This...
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Sacred Feminine Oracle Cards: Create and Color: 33 Customizable Cards and Step-By-Step Guidebook for Channeling the DivineThis one-of-a-kind, DIY oracle deck and guidebook designed to be colored in and customized to fit your spiritual needs is perfect for any tarot lover interested in harnessing their inner goddess power. Whether you just haven't found the right oracle deck yet or you're...
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Transforming Image, 2nd Ed.: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast First Nations"An incredible archive of paintings by Northwest Coast artists, allowing the viewer to explore the creativity, energy, and depths these artists have achieved." --Robert DavidsonIn the two decades since its initial publication, The Transforming Image has become a must-have book for scholars and appreciators...
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Crisis as FormHow does contemporary art best respond to social crisis? Through reflection on its own crisis of form Criticism of contemporary art is split by an opposition between activism and the critical function of form. Yet the deeper, more subterranean terms of art-judgment are largely...
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Laura Owens & Vincent Van GoghSumptuous wallpaper installations in conversation with Van Gogh's final worksThis catalog brings together works by Los Angeles-based artist Laura Owens (born 1970) and seven paintings by Vincent van Gogh, painted in the last years of his life. Confined to her studio in Arles during...
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Kathy Acker: Get Rid of MeaningAn essential compendium on the work, life and legacy of the transgressive autofiction pioneerThe American author Kathy Acker was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Working through a tradition spanning Bataille, Burroughs, Schneemann, French critical theory and pornography, she wrote...
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Jeff Koons: ShineA Jeff Koons overview thematizing "shine" as aesthetic substance and motif across his five-decade careerThis volume is published for Jeff Koons' (born 1955) largest ever exhibition in Italy, developed in close dialogue with the artist, and presenting some of the most celebrated works of...
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Images of Value: The Artwork Behind Us Security Engraving, 1830s-1980sBy the 1860s, America had become the world leader in security engraving, a result of the antebellum banking system; and picture engraving was the key defense against counterfeiting. Published to accompany the eponymous exhibition held at the Grolier Club, this fully illustrated catalogue includes...
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Alex Katz: Theater & DanceAlex Katz's long-standing fascination with dance and collaborations with renowned playwrights and choreographers yielded some of his most complex compositions. Since Alex Katz first painted the Paul Taylor in 1959, he has invited dancers to model for him. Dance, according to the artist, belongs...
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