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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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Banksy. Myths & Legends Volume 2: A Further Collection of the Unbelievable and the IncredibleNo single living artist has created as many myths, rumours and legends as Banksy. In 2011 Bristol based writer Marc Leverton teamed up with Carpet Bombing Culture to bring a collection of the best of these stories together. Since then the Banksy juggernaut has...
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Nightshades: a Tourist Guide to the Nightside"Nightshades is the record of one remarkable magician's exploration of the inverse regions of the Tree of Life. Aleister Crowley's Liber 231 provides the map and Kenneth Grant's Nightside of Eden a travelogue. "Liber 231, apparently started life as a text within the Hermetic...
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What Is Art?: Conversations with Joseph BeuysJoseph Beuys, in a letter to Manfred Schradi, October 21, 1971: "I know that from him Rudolf Steiner] a mission was given to me to gradually remove people's alienation and mistrust toward the supersensible through my means. In political thinking--the field I have to...
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Mixing & Matching: Approaches to Retouching PaintingsThis text on inpainting looks at egg tempera retouching, resin retouching, and retouching complex surfaces.Author: Maureen Cross, Patricia SmithenPublisher: Archetype PublicationsPublished: 04/16/2010Pages: 198Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9781904982500This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Master Paintings from the Phillips CollectionThe Phillips Collection, America's first museum of modern art, was founded in 1921 by Duncan Phillips (1886-1966), a Washington D.C. collector who played a vital role in introducing America to contemporary art. Unusually for his time, Phillips saw American artists as fully equal to...
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Underground LivingAs editor of RE/Search, V. Vale has documented the major underground movements of the past century. Along the way he took over 100,000 photos. Here are 75 images of underground living selected from Vale's vast photographic archive. Includes photographs of early Ramones, William S....
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John Buscema SketchbookThe John Buscema Sketchbook spans the career of well-known Marvel Comics artist and art teacher, John Buscema. Hundreds of vintage, new and unpublished drawings are included. Also featured is commentary by the artist and an introduction by comic book creator, illustrator, filmmaker, and pop-culture...
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Camera Obtrusa: The Action Documentaries of Hara Kazuo: By Hara KazuoAn authentic visionary of cinema, Japanese filmmaker Hara Kazuo has spent the past four decades pioneering a stark documentary style that challenged the mores of postwar Japanese society. His works feature dramatic narratives and characters--radicals, outcasts and those on the margins--who struggle against adversity:...
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Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution: Writings 1927-1933Dal 's meditations on art and the paranoid-critical method, plus poems and moreSalvador Dal 's writings from the period in which he was most closely allied with the Surrealists have never before been translated into English. These short fictions, essays and poems contain all...
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Cleaning Painted Surfaces: Aqueous MethodsThis book contributes significantly to the selection of appropriate and controllable cleaning methods for varnished and unvarnished paint surfaces. It is a distillation of many years' experience of formulating a cleaning treatment for any given object. The general principles of the chemistry and the...
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Ithell Colquhoun: Pioneer Surrealist Artist, Occultist, Writer and PoetThe skills of Ithell Colquhoun in her main practice, that of artist and pioneer in this country of surrealistic art, have been long recognised. Additionally, other interests - alchemy, Earth-magic, active occultism, poetry, druidism, the pre-Christian pagan calendar, the history and membership of the...
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Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of ArtBeyond Vision is the first English-language collection of essays on art by Pavel Florensky (1882-1937), Russian philosopher, priest, linguist, scientist, mathematician - and art historian. In addition to seven essays by Florensky, the book includes a biographical introduction and an examination of Florensky's contribution...
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The Bird in ArtThere has until now been no proper study of the bird in art, despite our fascination with birds, and despite the wealth of complex meanings associated with them in different cultures. A number of pagan gods are linked with birds, and dynasties and empires...
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Yinka Shonibare: Criminal OrnamentationIn this book, British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare (born 1962) challenges conceptions of good taste, presenting works from the Arts Council Collection--from sculpture and painting to wallpaper and handbags--that provocatively oppose the anti-decorative stance of Adolf Loos' 1908 Ornament and Crime.Author: Yinka ShonibarePublisher: Hayward...
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Aesthetics: A Beginner's GuideExplaining what art is and what's not art. What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping...
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Learn Colour in Painting QuicklyBestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan presents a concise and approachable guide to colour in painting.Whether you are using watercolour, oils or acrylic, Learn Colour In Painting Quickly demonstrates how to make the most of colour in your painting. The book is filled with...
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Modern Art and St. IvesModern Art and St. Ives explores the art and artists associated with this seaside Cornwall town from 1915 to 1965. The authors investigate how the art of St. Ives drew upon two key strands of modern art: the utopian ideal of constructivism that began...
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Jim ShawBlending the reflected cultural climate of his adopted home, Los Angeles, with the multi-layered world of American popular culture, Jim Shaw creates rich dreamlike worlds within distinct bodies of work. Addressing, for the first time, how the artist's oeuvre inter-relates, this substantial monograph argues...
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The Modern Flower Painter: Creating Vibrant Botanical Portraits in WatercolourAnna Mason's exceptional floral artwork has won awards from the Royal Horticultural Society, International Artist magazine and seen her elected to the prestigious Society of Botanical Artists. In this book, she shares her innovative watercolour technique so that you can paint flowers in her...
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Painting Watercolour Landscapes the Easy Way - Brush with Watercolour 2Terry Harrison uses his wealth of experience to show how to paint watercolour landscapes the easy way. Terry's own range of brushes are purpose made to help painters create the best effects with minimum effort. This book explains what all the brushes can be...
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