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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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Sienese PaintingFor two centuries, the city-republic of Siena was home to a brilliant succession of painters who produced some of the greatest masterpieces of all time. This overview by Timothy Hyman is an essential introduction to this extraordinary artistic tradition. Taking a broadly chronological approach,...
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Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival SourcebookAn essential reference that provides new understanding of the thought processes of one of the most radical artists of the late twentieth century. Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) has never been an easy artist to categorize or to explain. Although trained as an architect, he has...
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Art and Activism at Tougaloo CollegeReveals unique ways that art contributed to civil rights efforts and sheds new light on the rich collecting history at a liberal arts college in Mississippi. This book spotlights a complex art collection established at the intersection of modern art and social justice. In...
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Steven Scott: Odyssey. Light Colour TimeA sensitive and harmonious interplay of light, color, and time set within architectural space. Steven Scott is a Copenhagen-based artist whose work revolves around the rich complexities of light. Originally a founder, board member, and designer at the influential London theater and arts center...
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Chinese Painting from No Name to Abstraction: Collection Ralf LaierOn the birth of contemporary art in ChinaThe No Name and the Beijing abstractionists are at the heart of Ralf Laier's collection, presented here for the first time. The No Name group comprised a circle of underground artists--including Zhang Wei, Ma Kelu, Li Shan...
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Cranach: The Early Years in ViennaA star is born: Lucas Cranach's early period in Vienna. Around 1500, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) stepped onto the world stage in Vienna. This volume explores the artist's earliest period of work and presents all the paintings he produced during this time. The...
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Art for No One: 1933-1945An exploration of the artistic life of non-conformists under the Third Reich. Between 1933 and 1945, artistic creativity within the German Reich was almost totally under the control of the National Socialist state. Many artists emigrated. But what about the ones who remained in...
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Art of Penobscot BayIn Art of Penobscot Bay, brothers Carl and David Little explore the beauty and breadth of this legendary body of water through the work of more than one hundred artists. The book includes an impressive line-up, from earlier painters like Fitz Henry Lane, Marsden...
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Video Game Art Reader: Volume 1The inaugural issue of VGAR celebrates video game culture as inclusive and global. Opening with an interview with the art director of the first independent Cuban video game, Savior, while the following essays from art historians, literary theorists, game designers, artists, educators, museum curators,...
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J. M. W. TurnerThe beautiful landscapes of J. W. Turner are considered to be part of the Romantic movement. Turner was an English painter who loved to paint outside and use natural light. He even painted in the rain! In this introduction to Turner and his work,...
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Adriana VarejãoBrazilian artist Adriana Varejão is known for her extraordinary installations of ornamental blue tilework, large-scale sculpture, and her renowned "tile" paintings that powerfully consider issues of identity and colonialism. Adriana Varejão is one of the most prominent artists living and working in Brazil today,...
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Islamic Glass in the Making: Chronological and Geographical DimensionsNew insights into the history of Islamic glassmaking The ancient glass industry changed dramatically towards the end of the first millennium. The Roman glassmaking tradition of mineral soda glass was increasingly supplanted by the use of plant ash as the main fluxing agent at...
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Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 20112021A beautifully produced anthology of crypto-artist, writer, and hacker Rhea Myers's pioneering blockchain art, along with a selection of her essays, reviews, and fictions. DAO? BTC? NFT? ETH? ART? WTF? HODL as OG crypto-artist, writer, and hacker Rhea Myers searches for faces in cryptographic...
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Seeing Sam Richards' SculptureSeeing Sam Richards' Sculpture is a thorough examination of this 20th century American artist's life's work. More than 190 black and white and color photographs beautifully illustrate Richards' abstract sculpture. Richards made both intimate arrangements and large gestural configurations in steel and wood, always...
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Feather and Brush: A History of Australian Bird ArtAuthor: Penny OlsenPublisher: CSIRO PublishingPublished: 08/02/2022Pages: 338Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.70lbsSize: 12.10h x 8.50w x 1.30dISBN: 9781486314171This title is only available via back order
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Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital TechnologyIn Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit, Judith K. Brodsky makes a ground-breaking intellectual leap by connecting feminist art theory with the rise of digital art. Technology has commonly been considered the domain of white men but-unrecognized until this book-female artists, including women artists...
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Love Brings Love: A Homage to Alber ElbazA touching volume that celebrates the life and work of beloved fashion designer Alber Elbaz. On April 24, 2021, the designer Alber Elbaz passed away due to complications from COVID-19. The creative director of Lanvin from 2001 to 2015, he was the most consequential...
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Nuove Scenografie del Collezionismo Europeo Tra Seicento E Ottocento: Attori, Pratiche, Riflessioni Di MetodoPublisher: de GruyterPublished: 12/31/2022Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 9.60h x 7.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9783110737684
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Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 examines an understudied visual language used to portray Latin Americans in mid-19th to early 20th-century Parisian popular visual media. It charts how the term Latinize was introduced to connect France's early 19th-century endeavors to create Latin America-an...
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Collection Thinking: Within and Without Libraries, Archives and MuseumsCollection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understand the meaning of "collection" as an entity and as an act. It offers new models for understanding how collections have been imagined...
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