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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 Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and MeaningAnanda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians and philosophers, an art historian convinced that the ultimate value of art transcends history,...
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Alex Katz: Revised & Expanded EditionAlex Katz is a towering figure in contemporary painting, a key New York-based artist since the early 1960s. Katz is best known for his distinct portraits of sophisticated, irresistible women, masterfully painted using precise, broad areas of colour.Author: Carter Ratcliff, Iwona Blazwick, Barry SchwabskyPublisher:...
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The Fantasy ArtroomA wonderful addition to any beginning or intermediate artist's library, not only those interested in fantasy. It's thoughtful, detailed, and filled with explanations of vocabulary terms and drawing materials, both in describing what they are and how they're used. -- BECL Book ReviewsDo you...
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Wild Beads of Africa: Old Powderglass Beads from the Collection of Billy SteinbergThese rare and mysterious beads, made in Ghana and used by the Krobo and Ashanti peoples, are regarded as magical and are worn proudly as a symbol of prestige and wealth.This is the first book dedicated to African powderglass beads, with over 180 photographs...
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Primitive Money of Africa: Tales and DetailsPrimitive Money of Africa entertwines the culture, history, and traditions of the African people through the uses of objects such as beads, hoes, and cattle in trading, bride price, burial rites, divination, medical treatments, and tributes to kings and tribal chiefs. Included is an...
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Midnight in the PiazzaMysteries abound in this exciting race through Rome Beatrice Archer may love history, and Rome may be chock-full of it, but that doesn't mean she wants to move there Too bad Beatrice's father got a job as the head of the history department at...
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1963: The Year of the RevolutionBeginning in London and ricocheting across the Atlantic, 1963: The Year of the Revolution is an oral history of twelve months that changed our world--the Youth Quake movement--and laid the foundations for the generation of today.Ariel Leve and Robin Morgan's oral history is the...
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The Private Lives of the ImpressionistsNew York Times Bestseller"Anyone who has ever lost themselves in Monet's color-saturated gardens or swooned over Degas's dancers will enjoy this revealing group portrait of the artists who founded the Impressionist movement. . . . For the armchair dilettante, as well as the art-history...
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The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Monuments Officers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War IIIn 1943, while the world was convulsed by war, a few visionaries -- in the private sector and in the military -- committed to protect Europe's cultural heritage from the indiscriminate ravages of World War II. In the midst of the conflict, the Allied...
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Delacroix: New and Expanded EditionA newly expanded edition of the defining book on one of French Romanticism's most influential and elusive painters Eug ne Delacroix (1798-1863) was a solitary genius who produced stormy Romantic works like The Death of Sardanapalus as well as more classically inspired paintings such...
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Cézanne PortraitsA major new study of the portraiture of one of the most important artists of the nineteenth century Paul C zanne (1839-1906) may be best known for his landscapes, but he also painted some 160 portraits throughout his exceptional career. This major work establishes...
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Opt Art: From Mathematical Optimization to Visual DesignA fun and stunningly illustrated introduction to the art of linear optimization Linear optimization is a powerful modeling method for discovering the best solution to a problem among a set of available alternatives. It is one of today's most important branches of mathematics and...
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500 Self-PortraitsA compelling collection of self-portraits from throughout recorded history, revised to include captivating contemporary worksThe challenge of interpreting and recreating their own likenesses has proven irresistible to artists throughout the ages. Originally published more than 80 years ago and last revised in 2000, this...
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Find Colors: Published in Association with the Whitney Museum of American ArtA colors book with no colors - instead, die-cuts to peek through and find them yourselfThis introduction to colors integrates the reader's surroundings into carefully considered die-cut silhouettes, providing children the space to visually experiment. Readers will gaze around the room through a rooster-shaped...
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Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why"Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately linked to the origins of religious practices and to ceremonies of birth, death, transition,...
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Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other ArtsMaking Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who worked in experimental film pushed the medium toward abstraction through a number of...
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L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black CinemaL.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African, Caribbean, and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in...
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Presidential Doodles: Two Centuries of Scribbles, Scratches, Squiggles, and Scrawls from the Oval Office Squiggles & Scrawls from the Oval OCabinet magazine's collection of the finest examples of Presidential DoodlesAuthor: Cabinet MagazinePublisher: Basic BooksPublished: 10/30/2007Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.96h x 8.14w x 0.55dISBN: 9780465032679About the AuthorSasha Archibald is the former Associate Editor and Sina Najafi the current Editor-in-Chief of Cabinet magazine. Described by...
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Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women ArtistsCreating Their Own Image marks the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day. Using an analysis of stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans in western art and culture as a springboard, Lisa E. Farrington here richly details hundreds of...
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New Realisms: 1957-1962: Object Strategies Between Readymade and SpectacleWorks by a pre-Pop, post-abstract expressionist generation of artists who rejected painterly expression and embraced the object.As the 1950s became the 1960s, a new generation of artists around the globe rejected direct painterly expression and returned decisively to the object. Moving away from abstract...
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