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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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Austin Osman Spare, Revised Edition: The Life and Legend of London's Lost ArtistA revised edition of Phil Baker's critically lauded biography of artist and occultist, Austin Osman Spare. London has harbored many curious characters, but few more curious than the artist and visionary Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956). A controversial enfant terrible of the Edwardian art world,...
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The Complete Beginner's Guide to Painting: Master the Secrets of Painting with Our Easy to Follow StepsThere's more to painting than simply picking up a paintbrush and getting creative. Which medium should you use? What should you paint? Where do you begin? And how do you channel your creativity onto your canvas? In the Complete Beginner's Guide to Painting, we'll...
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The Remarkable Hammer: Artistic, Historic and Curious Hammers Through the AgesThe beauty of hand tools is often overlooked. This book is a celebration of hammers, the workhorse of tools. It traces our oldest tool, from its prehistoric origins to the twentieth century. As civilizations grew more complex, so too did the need for specialized...
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My Life and ToysOriginal book of photographs and text by the noted director/writer/producer Brian Levant, presenting his extraordinary collection of animated feature and comic toys, including hundreds of iconic characters represented in figures, banks, games, lunchboxes, puppets, comics, windups, vehicles and items at the bottom of cereal...
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Warhol / Chris Chan: The Lifespan of American Pop Culture, or The Suppression of Reality(Disclaimer: This study was written and published before the terrible Chris Chan revelations of July 30, 2021.)A CRITICAL CONFRONTATION. What can we learn from comparing the two most unique cultural figures in living memory?Warhol and Chris Chan: Both became famous while producing artwork that...
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Seeing the Unseen: Arts of Power Associations on the Senufo-Mande Cultural FrontierHow do arts convey the existence of potent knowledge without revealing details of that knowledge? In Seeing the Unseen, art historian Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi examines tensions between the seen and unseen that makers, patrons, and audiences of arts in western West Africa negotiate through...
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The Body in Sound, Music and Performance: Studies in Audio and Sonic ArtsThe Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practice. This highly interdisciplinary book features a host of international contributors and places emphasis on developments beyond the western world, including movements growing across Latin...
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Swinging AloneLuana has lived in a beat-up RV ever since she can remember. Money is hard to come by and friends are hard to keep, so when the opportunity to live in an apartment shows up, Luana can't wait. She starts to discover her artistic...
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Esto Es (Solo) El Principio / You Are Here Now (for Now)El autor del fenómeno Esto no es (solo) un diario, que lleva más de 100.000 ejemplares vendidos en español, vuelve con una guía llena de honestidad y de frescura para descubrir cuál es tu destino y disfrutar a tope del viaje. A veces, sentimos...
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Garden Fresh, 100 Postcards: A Medley of Vegetables and Fruit from Award-Winning Photographer Rob CardilloGarden Fresh, 100 Postcards features 50 different images of vegetables, fruits, and herbs from the camera of award-winning garden photographer Rob Cardillo. Upclose shots capture the distinctive shapes and features of heirloom varieties, including the curling pretzel bean, the vibrant fushcia 'Jackson wonder' lima...
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Life and Limbs: Annual Architecture and Design SeriesThe body as flexible habitat, from Arakawa and Gins to Lyle Ashton HarrisAustrian artist and curator Anna-Sophie Berger here assembles a group of works that register the body as a habitat that can be imaginatively stretched, altered, modified, adorned, replicated or destroyed. The starting...
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GiorgioneThe most comprehensive overview in print on the Renaissance master of Venetian sensualityFamous for his enduringly popular and canonical masterpieces such as The Sleeping Venus and The Tempest--often considered the first true landscape painting in Western art--Zorzi da Castelfranco, known as Giorgione (1474 or...
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Glenn Ligon: Work, Work, Work, Work, Work, WorkA slipcased overview of Ligon's recent studio practice, including his painterly elaborations on a James Baldwin essayFor four decades, New York-based artist Glenn Ligon (born 1960) has explored America's literature and fraught racial history through works in a few signature mediums such as text-based...
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Cooking Sections: OffsettedFrom climate-resistant menus to colonial desserts, Cooking Sections ask us to think again about the ethics and economics of the food on our plates -FriezeEstablished in London in 2013 by artists Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe, and nominated for the 2021 Turner Prize,...
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Enrique Martínez Celaya: Sea Sky Land: Towards a Map of EverythingScenes of human frailty and global precarity from a famed physicist-turned-painterInternationally celebrated as a painter, author, professor, scientist and publisher, Cuban-born, Los Angeles-based artist Enrique Martínez Celaya (born 1964) makes somber, sometimes surreal images of the natural world, which probe at metaphysical and existential...
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Hans Haacke: Swiss Institute Visitors PollComplete documentation of the longest-running work from Hans Haacke's famous Poll seriesGerman artist and institutional critique pioneer Hans Haacke (born 1936) is famed worldwide for examining museums by directly asking their audiences questions. Hans Haacke: Swiss Institute Visitors Poll documents the results of his...
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PassionsPassions is a volume of books that gathers topics that are near and dear to Carolyne's heart. Meant to inspire and endear, these pages, filled with beautiful images of her world and words that lift and inspire her, will quickly become one of your...
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Museum Times: Changing Histories in South AfricaMuseums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became...
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Makeup Artist Face Charts: Practice book for Makeup Lovers from Beginner to Professional, to Organize and Plan their Designs. Blank Makeup Face CMakeup Artist Face Charts is Perfect For Everyone from Beginner to Pro. Design and customize fabulous looks with colored pencils, markers, crayons, even real makeup!This Makeup Artist Face Charts book is ideal for practicing your make up skills on faces that represents real-life models.This...
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Farewell To Canada: The Last Imperial Garrison and Canada's First Permanent Force 1867-1871. Featuring artwork by the 19th Century soldierFarewell To Canada presents a unique, visual perspective on the end of an era of British Imperial history. Between 1867 and 1871, the soldier/artist William Ogle Carlile of Britain's Royal Regiment of Artillery graphically documented a time when a new country, the Dominion of...
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