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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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Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black PowerPrior to 1967 fewer than a dozen museum exhibitions had featured the work of African American artists. And by the time the civil rights movement reached the American art museum, it had already crested: the first public demonstrations to integrate museums occurred in late...
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Mapping Modernisms: Art, Indigeneity, ColonialismMapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual forms and...
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Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of DigitalityIn Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film, video, and time-based contemporary art. Detaching the virtual from its contemporary associations...
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Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and EmbodimentIn 1972 the artist Adrian Piper began periodically dressing as a persona called the Mythic Being, striding the streets of New York in a mustache, Afro wig, and mirrored sunglasses with a cigar in the corner of her mouth. Her Mythic Being performances critically...
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The Craft of Art: Originality and Industry in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque WorkshopIn this collection of nine essays some of the preeminent art historians in the United States consider the relationship between art and craft, between the creative idea and its realization, in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. The essays, all previously unpublished, are devoted to the...
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From Mud to Jug: The Folk Potters and Pottery of Northeast GeorgiaJohn Michael Vlach called Brothers in Clay "not only the best study of American stoneware pottery now available but also a fine model for the presentation and analysis of hand-based technologies." The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss noted, "Mr. Burrison has brought to this undertaking a...
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Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual ArtFirst in-depth study of the ground-breaking work of artist/choreographer Trisha BrownTrisha Brown re-shaped the landscape of modern dance with her game-changing and boundary-defying choreography and visual art. Art historian Susan Rosenberg draws on Brown's archives, as well as interviews with Brown and her colleagues,...
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Reading the Wampum: Essays on Hodinöhsö Ni' Visual Code and Epistemological RecoverySince the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called wampum to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties....
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Jackson Pollock: A BiographyDeborah Solomon's biography sets Jackson Pollock in his time and portrays him as a shy, often withdrawn person, full of insecurities and self-doubts, and frequently unable to express himself about his art or its meaning. Solomon interviewed two hundred people who knew Pollock and...
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Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in ArtThe understanding and enjoyment of a work of art depends as much on the story it depicts as on the artist's execution of it. But what were once biblical or classical commonplaces are not so readily recognizable today. This book relates in a succinct...
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Me, FridaLike a tiny bird in a big city, Frida Kahlo feels lost and lonely when she arrives in San Francisco with her husband, the famous artist Diego Rivera. It is the first time she has left her home in Mexico. And Frida wants to...
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Portraits: A HistoryThis volume presents the history of portrait painting in the Western world, starting with its roots in ancient art and focusing on its flowering as an autonomous genre beginning in the 15th century. Works feature in the book represent all types of portraiture -...
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Michael Simon: EvolutionWith clarity and a simple lifestyle as inspiration, Michael Simon creates pottery that claims a singular position within our modern culture. In 1980, after ten years of potting, Simon felt the need to keep a record of the development of his work. Before any...
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A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen KarnesRenowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The body of work she has produced in her more than sixty years in the studio is remarkable for its depth, personal voice,...
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Words, Script, and Pictures: Semiotics of Visual LanguageEssays describe how the illustration of texts has changed since the eighteenth century and how text itself has interacted with visual art.Author: Meyer SchapiroPublisher: George BrazillerPublished: 11/17/1996Pages: 199Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.33h x 6.16w x 0.79dISBN: 9780807614167Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/29/1996 pg. 76Kirkus Reviews...
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Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures: Art from the Paul Dyck CollectionOver the course of his career, artist Paul Dyck (1917-2006) assembled more than 2,000 nineteenth-century artworks created by the buffalo-hunting peoples of the Great Plains. Only with its acquisition by the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West has this...
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Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural MemoryFor more than a century, American communities erected monuments to western pioneers. Although many of these statues receive little attention today, the images they depict--sturdy white men, saintly mothers, and wholesome pioneer families--enshrine prevailing notions of American exceptionalism, race relations, and gender identity. Pioneer...
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Arapaho Women's Quillwork: Motion, Life, CreativityMore than a hundred years ago, anthropologists and other researchers collected and studied hundreds of examples of quillwork once created by Arapaho women. Since that time, however, other types of Plains Indian art, such as beadwork and male art forms, have received greater attention....
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Baby Bird Portraits by George Miksch Sutton: Watercolors in the Field MuseumGeorge Miksch Sutton is one of the best known and most beloved bird artists of the twentieth century. This marvelous book presents thirty-five paintigs of downy chicks, nestlings, and fledglings painted from life by Sutton. The exquisite watercolrs, housed in the Field Museum of...
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A Touch of Asia Coloring Book: Serenely Elegant Designs from the EastThis adult coloring book featuring stunning Asian designs and high-quality paper and is the perfect stress-reliever for fans of Asian art motifs. Artistry is in the details, and A Touch of Asia Coloring Book presents over 50 coloring patterns drawn from the exquisite traditional...
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