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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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American Architecture: A Thematic HistoryLeading historian Dell Upton's American Architecture: A Thematic History reveals the dazzling richness of America's human landscape. The text covers indigenous, folk, ethnic, and popular architectures like Chaco Canyon, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Native American houses while also exploring the great monuments of traditional...
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Blue Arabesque: A Search for the SublimeJust out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting she saw in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen behind her. This woman seemed a welcome secular version of the...
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Peggy Guggenheim: The Life of an Art AddictThe wayward life (1898-1979) of the voracious art collector and great female patron of world-famous artists.'Mrs Guggenheim, how many husbands have you had?' 'Do you mean my own, or other people's?' Peggy Guggenheim was an American millionairess art collector and legendary lover, whose father...
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Picasso/ClergueA three-decade friendship chronicling Picasso's postwar yearsOn April 5, 1953, the French photographer Lucien Clergue (1934-2014) met Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) at a bullfight in Arles. Clergue shot several portraits of the artist and showed him some of his Polaroid pictures. Two years later they...
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Constant Change: A Typographical Drifting Through the Work of Constant NieuwenhuysA typographic ode to an influential 20th-century Dutch artistDutch artist and sculptor Constant Nieuwenhuys a.k.a. Constant (1920-2005) is known for the breadth of his work, ranging from painting to music. For this volume, the graphic designers at Our Polite Society have used his works...
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Matthias Groebel: Painted Faces: Broadcast Material 1989-2006Three decades of computer-generated paintingsGerman artist Matthias Groebel (born 1958) works with photography, video and digital image processing, using various home-built and modified devices. Since 1989, he has been working with a computer-controlled painting machine that he built. This publication presents the paintings produced...
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The Private Eye in Public ArtChallenging the hegemony of museums and yearning to communicate with a larger diverse audience, trailblazing conceptual artists and land artists found support in newly developed and expanded programs of the NEA and the GSA. This book foregrounds critical questions about public art, the policies...
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Ann Craven and Reggie Burrows Hodges: Moons and AngelsLuminous painterly interpretations of two abiding motifs in art historyA two-person exhibition featuring angel paintings by Reggie Burrows Hodges (born 1965) and moon paintings by Ann Craven (born 1967), Moons and Angels was staged in the former St James Catholic church at 70 Main...
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A New Approach to DrawingThis book, A New Approach to Drawing, is based on thirty years of teaching visual art in a small college in Duluth, Minnesota, located on the shores of Lake Superior. My intention in writing this book is to share my knowledge for the purpose...
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Lord Haiti #1: Volume 1The Worlds First Haitian Superhero enters life comics universe! And get to know who he is, Learn a bit of history when it comes to Haiti, Come and find out all about his powers, and why they call him Lord Haiti! NO SPOILERS!Author: Ramses...
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Mentoring in Intercultural and International ContextsAcademia can be a lonely place, especially for those people who are members of marginalized communities. Although at its core institutions of higher education are supposed to be places for knowledge production, exchange and transformation, they can also be the source of anxiety, confusion,...
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The Concept of the Animal and Modern Theories of ArtThis book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists to explore the influence of the human-animal relationship on nineteenth and twentieth century artists and art theorists. The book is...
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The Religious Figural Imagery of Byzantine Lead Seals II: Studies on Images of the Saints and on Personal PietyThe articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century. A number of the studies present tables, charts and graphs in their analysis of...
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Frank Auerbach: Drawings of PeopleThe first extended study of Frank Auerbach's remarkable portrait drawings reveals their complexity and ambition as works of graphic art This book offers an original approach to one of Britain's leading artists: Frank Auerbach (b. 1931). It looks in detail at his portrait drawings,...
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The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World EconomyA trailblazing look at the historical emergence of a global field in contemporary art and the diverse ways artists become valued worldwide Prior to the 1980s, the postwar canon of "international" contemporary art was made up almost exclusively of artists from North America and...
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Old Age in Greek and Roman ArtA comprehensive look at ancient sculptures, wall paintings, vases, and more depicting the elderly in Greek and Roman society Some of the most vivid portraits in ancient art depict older members of society. In marble and bronze sculptures, on coins and painted vases, and...
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Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of StalinThrough the lens of Aleksandr Rodchenko's photography, a new and provocative understanding emerges of the troubled relationship between technology, modernism, and state power in Stalin's Soviet Union Tracing the shifting meanings of photography in the early Soviet Union, Aglaya K. Glebova reconsiders the relationship...
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Athens Unveiled: A Portrait of Nineteenth Century Athens Through Her Streets and NeighborhoodsEvery year millions of travelers arrive in Athens eager to catch a glimpse of the ancient city and savor its classical heritage. But what about the late nineteenth century Athens with her neoclassical buildings, wide avenues and literary salons? An Athens where music wafted...
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Despite Ceaușescu: A Collection of Romanian ArtAn important survey of art from a little-studied period of Romanian art history"It is truly extraordinary to me that so much beauty has sprung from such dark times in Romania, and that is what this book wishes to capture. Art speaks its own language."--From...
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Lo poético cinematográfico: La imagen luciérnaga de Gustavo S. FontánLo poetico cinematografico: la imagen luciernaga de Gustavo S. Fontan se inserta en el creciente interes por las formas que adopta "lo poetico" en el cine. Dentro del panorama actual del cine argentino, Fontan se distingue por construir una trayectoria consecuente en su afan...
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