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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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Louise Fishman: 1960s: Darkness and LightUnseen early works from a pioneering feminist abstractionistNew York-based artist Louise Fishman (1931-2021) was widely known for her gestural markmaking and atmospheric spaces. This volume presents nine previously unseen paintings from the artist's foundational years as a student, featuring her early forays into abstraction.Author:...
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Artistic Responses to Travel in the Western TraditionIn an era when ease of travel is greater than ever, it is also easy to overlook the degree to which voyages of the body - and mind - have generated an outpouring of artistry and creativity throughout the ages. Exploration of new lands...
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Portraits and PhilosophyPortraits are everywhere. One finds them not only in museums and galleries, but also in newspapers and magazines, in the homes of people and in the boardrooms of companies, on stamps and coins, on millions of cell phones and computers. Despite its huge popularity,...
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Thilo Westermann: Et l'Art de Dessiner Sous Verre(Multilingual edition: English, French, German) Thilo Westermann is known for his reverse glass painting, unique prints, and photomontages. The catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Vitromusée Romont and presents the artist's work, from colored pencil drawings to the manual processing...
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Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and WaterA beautifully illustrated look at how the Sussex landscape has inspired creativity across the centuries, reassessing the rich artistic lives and work of British artists and writers connected with the area Sussex is a county defined by its iconic chalk-cliff coastline and the rolling...
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Women's War Stories: The Lebanese Civil War, Women's Labor, and the Creative ArtsWomen have consistently been left out of the official writing of Lebanese history, and nowhere is this more obvious than in writing on the Lebanese Civil War. As more and more histories of the war begin to circulate, few include any in-depth discussion of...
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Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship IconHow an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British...
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Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliotheque Nationale de FranceAn illustrated exploration of the largely unpublished collection of eighteenth-century French drawings, albums, and sketchbooks at the Bibliothèque nationale de France Promenades on Paper explores the largely unmined collection of eighteenth-century drawings held in the Department of Prints and Photography of the Bibliothèque nationale...
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Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic PracticesTracing the figure of Black Venus in literature and visual arts from different periods and geographies, Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices discusses how aesthetic practices may restore the racialized female body in feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial terms.Author: Jorunn Svensen GjerdenPublisher: BrillPublished:...
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Fashion Coloring Book: For Kids Ages 6-8, 9-12Great Gift Idea - 32 Unique ImagesThis wonderful kid's coloring book is packed full of beautiful people from across the globe and different cultures. The scenes portray everything from current fashion styles, retro fashion, Red Carpet looks as well as storefront mannequin displays featuring...
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YeezyThis title focuses on the brand Yeezy and its influence on the streetwear world, while looking at the founder Kanye West, unique fashion lines, and the legacy it leaves for future generations. This hi-lo title is complete with colorful photographs, simple text, glossary, and...
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Embodying PasoliniLongtime creative collaborators Tilda Swinton and Olivier Saillard present an illustrated tribute to the costumes of legendary Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's iconic films. Retracing Pier Paolo Pasolini's entire cinematography--which continues to fascinate audiences almost half a century after his passing--Embodying Pasolini explores the...
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The Little Theater of Vincent DarréA whimsical scrapbook celebrating the confluence of style and decor from France's most original interior designer. This handsome oversized volume is a lavish scrapbook bursting with creativity that presents twenty recent projects, inspiring encounters, and ephemeral decor created by designer Vincent Darré. Quirky and...
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Tsampikos' Folio 10 (2020)Yo! Tsampikos here bringing all the cuties yet again. And Mik. A lot of Mik. Too much Mik? (hmmmmmm...)Anyway I'm flying free this time around. No paysites! Just about everything you see here was posted first at patreon.com/tsampikos for people who support me. Freebies,...
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Embodying Art: How We See, Think, Feel, and CreateIn recent years, neuroscientists have made ambitious attempts to explain artistic processes and spectatorship through brain imaging techniques. But can brain science really unravel the workings of art? Is the brain in fact the site of aesthetic appreciation?Embodying Art recasts the relationship between neuroscience...
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Images of Malice: Visual Representations of Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism in the Bohemian LandsTraces the history of visual representations of anti-Jewish hatred in Czech Bohemia. The vicious scourges of religion-based anti-Judaism and ethnically-rooted anti-Semitism are tragically deep-seated aspects of Czech Bohemian history. Images of Malice--copublished with Artefactum--examines visual instances from the well-known low points of historic Bohemian...
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Evan Ifekoya: Resonant FrequenciesThe first major book on the art of Evan Ifekoya. Evan Ifekoya is an artist and energy worker who, through sound, text, video, and performance, confronts existing systems and institutions of power in order to recenter and prioritize the experiences and voices of those...
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The Eveillard GiftLavish illustrations of the works of the Frick Collection's Eveillard Gift with comprehensive commentaries by noted scholars in their field. This beautiful publication presents for the first time the Eveillard Gift of drawings to the Frick Collection in New York, the most important gift...
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We Can Draw AirplanesAirplanes are amazing technological marvels--and they're fun to draw! This book introduces readers to the history and science behind flight and airplanes. Readers will learn about different airplanes in history, from the Wright Flyer to the Spirit of St. Louis. Fun facts about each...
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Not-Forgetting: Contemporary Art and the Interrogation of MasteryExplores contemporary art that challenges deadly desires for mastery and dominion. Amid times of emboldened cruelty and perpetual war, Rosalyn Deutsche links contemporary art to three practices that counter the prevailing destructiveness: psychoanalytic feminism, radical democracy, and war resistance. Deutsche considers how art joins...
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