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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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Flowers of EDO: A Guide to Classical Japanese FlowersFlowers of Edo features 100 illustrations from the historical botanical art book, Honzou-zufu, and breathes new life into this work from the Edo period of Japan. Honzou-zufu, published in 1828 by Kanen Iwasaki, was the first Japanese botanical encyclopedia with color which was valuable...
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100 Papers with Classical Floral PatternsA collection of 100 writing and crafting papers with European flower designs selected by the well-known Japanese designer Reiko Harajou.This book is a collection of carefully selected rare and antique European illustrations, from classic botanical art to floral calligraphy and frames. The beauty of...
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Size Matters! (De)Growth of the 21st Century Art MuseumThe annual Verbier Art Summit provides an alternative approach to fostering and shaping a global dialogue on the visual arts. Verbier Art Untold organizes the summit in partnership with a yearly rotating art institution. This book is the outcome of the 2017 edition of...
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Baselitz, Richter, Polke, Kiefer: The Early Years of the Old MastersFour artists from Germany, known globally, who have each attained a level of fame that is unique in the history of German art. Their renown was cemented by their early work of the 1960s--that decade of reaction and rebellion, of confrontation and upheaval, of...
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Anna Maria Maiolino: Entre PausasFor two years beginning in 1968, Anna Maria Maiolino (born 1948) moved to New York from an unstable political situation in Brazil, working within the Latin American artist community. This new artist's book incorporates her drawings, photographs and poems from this period. Author: Anna...
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Building for DementiaAs the average human lifespan increases, it is increasingly necessary for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people, particularly those with dementia. With advancing age we are increasingly dependent on a spatial environment that not only has a...
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Late Antique and Early Christian GemsThis study gathers all known engraved gems of the late antique period (late third to the early seventh centuries) and discusses their chronology, workshops, and iconographical significance. Approximately 1000 gems and cameos are described, most of which are illustrated in over 150 plates. Many...
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Hans Ulrich Obrist & Philippe Parreno: The Conversation Series: Vol. 14The French filmmaker and artist Philippe Parreno born in Algeria, has been working and collaborating with curator/thinker/editor Hans Ulrich Obrist for many years; over many projects they have taken huge risks and broken countless conventions together. The conversations gathered here give us a window...
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Mike Kelley: 99,9998% RemainingEssential documentation of Mike Kelley's most important exhibitions99,9998% Remaining compiles essential documentation of the most important exhibitions of Mike Kelley (1954-2012) between 1982 and 2011, with reproductions of seminal works from various periods. It offers numerous stills from legendary videos by and/or with Kelley,...
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Rascals: The Erotic Fantasies of Todd YeagerTodd Yeagers art is strong stuff. His drawings take us on a bracing and thrilling journey to the dark depths of manly desire and sexual abandon! Unsoiled, clean-shaven youth is not in Yeagers vocabulary. Instead, his artistry leads us in search of unadulterated masculinity....
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Open House: Designing Spaces for LivingLooking beyond the popular fascination with trendy tiny houses, this book is a much-needed, substantial contribution to international debates about temporary housing. The phenomenon of tiny houses fascinates as much as designing a home and is currently trending in various media. Yet interest in...
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VasarelyEnter a universe of shimmering color and pure abstraction. Pioneer of the Op Art movement, Victor Vasarely developed his own geometric visual language, exploring the relationship between color and form in bold, eye-popping paintings. Spanning his first experimentation with optical effects in the '40s...
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Illustration Now! FashionEvery dress begins with a drawing, every skirt with a sketch. Illustration is an integral element of fashion design; a starting point for creation, a means of expressing the moods, emotions, and experiences carried by garments--yet is too often overlooked. Through stark tones and...
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Diego Rivera. Toutes Les Oeuvres MuralesVéritable héros populaire en Amérique Latine et plus important artiste du Mexique, aux côtés de son épouse peintre Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera (1886-1957) mena une vie passionnée consacrée à l'art et au communisme. Après avoir passé les années 1910 en Europe, où il s'entoura...
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Vienne 1900Poètes et intellectuels jouaient des coudes dans les cafés bondés, la jeune avant-garde prônait l'avènement d'une nouvelle ère de libéralisme social et sexuel, les valses résonnaient d'un bout à l'autre de la Ringstrasse, la Sécession viennoise prenait pour devise: À chaque époque son art...
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ImpressionnismeC'est la vue d'un port, une scène expérimentale aux touches imprécises, qui donna son nom à l'impressionnisme. Quand Impression, soleil levant de Claude Monet fut exposé en avril 1874, les critiques se sont emparés du nom de l'oeuvre et de son rendu esthétique en...
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Les Dessous Des Chefs-d'OeuvreCette importante contribution à notre compréhension des chefs-d'oeuvre de l'histoire de l'art passe à la loupe quelques-uns des plus célèbres tableaux du monde, pour nous aider à dévoiler leurs plus petits et plus subtils éléments et tout ce qu'ils révèlent d'une époque, d'une culture...
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Yang Liu. Hier/Aujourd'hui. Mode d'EmploiDans ce troisième opus de sa série réalisée pour TASCHEN, la célèbre designer graphique Yang Liu confronte nos modes de vie d'autrefois avec ceux d'aujourd'hui. Sur le modèle de ses précédents livres qui ont connu un immense succès, Hier/aujourd'hui, mode d'emploi utilise le principe...
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Sébastien Mamerot. a Chronicle of the CrusadesCompleted circa 1474, Sébastien Mamerot's lavishly illustrated manuscript is the only contemporary document to describe several centuries of French crusades, when successive kings tried to seize the Holy Land. Jean Colombe, the medieval illuminator best known for his work on the Très Riches Heures...
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L'Art Au Xxe SiècleQui aurait donc bien pu prévoir, au soir du 31 décembre 1899, que 100 ans plus tard la peinture et la sculpture ne seraient plus des supports incontournables, mais seulement possibles. Le mot art a été défini et redéfini tant de fois ces 100...
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