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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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Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)ExtractivismExtractivism has increasingly become the ground on which activists and scholars in Latin America frame the dynamics of ecological devastation, accumulation of wealth, and erosion of rights. These maladies are the direct consequences of long-standing extraction-oriented economies, and more recently from the expansion of...
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Supercar Coloring Book For Kids Ages 8-12: Amazing Collection of Cool Cars Coloring Pages With Incredible High Quality Graphics Illustrations Of SuperAmazing Supercar Coloring Book For Kids - Cool Cars Ready To Be Colored By Boys And Girls Who Love Cars And Can't Stop Playing With Them!This creative coloring book for kids, makes coloring a very fun and entertaining activity, with a unique exciting and...
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Chinese Art and Dynastic TimeA sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art history Throughout Chinese history, dynastic time--the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties--has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chinese...
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Madame de Pompadour: Painted PinkA fresh take on a beloved masterpiece of portraiture, focusing on the complex significance of the color pink in eighteenth-century France François Boucher's 1750 half-length portrait of Madame de Pompadour--influential court figure and mistress to King Louis XV--has been the subject of much art...
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Ancient Egyptian Architecture in Fifteen MonumentsAn authoritatively written overview of ancient Egyptian architecture from the point of view of an archaeologist and architectural historian The monuments of ancient Egypt have held scholars and tourists in their thrall for centuries. The sheer mass of the pyramids of Giza, the interaction...
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Origami Paper Color Bursts 1,000 Sheets 4 (10 CM): Tuttle Origami Paper: Double-Sided Origami Sheets Printed with 12 Different Designs (Instructions IThis paper pack contains 1,000 high-quality, small 4-inch origami sheets printed with colorful, radial color burst designs. These origami papers were developed to enhance the creative work of origami artists and paper crafters. The pack contains 12 unique designs printed with coordinating colors on...
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Amir Zaki, Building and BecomingHyperrealist photographer Amir Zaki's new monograph covers 20+ years of photographic work, following his widely reviewed book California Concrete: A Landscape of Skateparks. Includes an essay and interview.A double gatefold sculptural monograph with no singular entry or exit and three spines, Amir Zaki, Building...
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The Science and Practice of Oil PaintingFirst published in 1924, Harold Speed's "The Science and Practice of Oil Painting" is the informative and fascinating guide to oil painting by the renowned painter and teacher. Speed was born in London in 1872 and studied architecture at the Royal College of Art...
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Visual Translation: Illuminated Manuscripts and the First French HumanistsVisual Translation breaks new ground in the study of French manuscripts, contributing to the fields of French humanism, textual translation, and the reception of the classical tradition in the first half of the fifteenth century.While the prominence and quality of illustrations in French manuscripts...
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Dotwork & Blackwork Volume 3Third in the Dotwork & Blackwork collection from Argentinian publisher Arte Tattoo Books - this volume is packed with elegant, intricate design work and printed on heavy high-gloss paper. Includes more than 270 paintings, drawings, flashes, sketches, designs, patterns and tattoos from 30 of...
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Animal Anatomy Coloring Book: Incredibly Detailed Self-Test Veterinary Anatomy Color workbook Perfect Gift for Vet Students & Animal LoversLooking for a fun way to rediscover or revise the anatomical complexities of your favorite animals?Your average pet dog has about 319 bones and 350 pairs of muscles. And that's just one of the many animals you need to study! This is why veterinary...
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Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art: The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung GrienHans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Dürer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he gave powerful visual expression to late medieval tropes and stereotypes, such as...
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Curating Beyond the Mainstream: The Practices of Carlos Capelán, Elisabet Haglund, Gunilla Lundahl, and Jan-Erik LundströmFour case studies bring to the fore decolonial and other non-hegemonic approaches to the profession of curating in Sweden from the 1960s to the early 2000s. Edited by CuratorLab at Konstfack University of Arts: Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Giulia Floris, Vasco Forconi, Edy Fung, Julius...
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The ABC of the projectariat: Living and working in a precarious art worldThe ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking on and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art. It works as both a critical analysis and a practical handbook, speaking to and about the vast cohort of...
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Campari and CinemaAn illustrated history of Campari's hands-on patronage of the film industryThis volume examines the longstanding and fruitful relationship between Campari and the film industry. Tracing Campari's long history as an enthusiastic and involved patron of cinema, the book details how the company's support has...
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Celeste Dupuy-Spencer: But the Clouds Never Hung So Low BeforeA panorama of Celeste Dupuy-Spencer's unflinching depictions of the human conditionLos Angeles-based Celeste Dupuy-Spencer (born 1979) creates blistering paintings loaded with a complex mix of iconography drawn from the real and the imaginary. At once unflinching and empathic, her compositions can be bleak and...
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Group Dynamics: Collectives of the Modernist PeriodA global history of 20th-century collectivesBuenos Aires, Casablanca, Beijing, Khartoum, Lahore, Tokyo: over the course of the 20th century, artists formed collectives all over the world. But if the impulse to create such groups was universal, the concerns of their members, their aesthetic methods,...
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Paul Cezanne: A-ZAn affordable introduction to the key places, people and motifs in the life and art of CezannePaul Cezanne's incomparable, architectonic rendering of light and color provided the foundation of his reputation as a forerunner of modernism. Which specific locations left such vivid impressions on...
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Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern CaliforniaA definitive resource on California's Light and Space and Finish Fetish movements of the 1960s and '70sThis volume explores the art of Light and Space and related "finish fetish" pieces with highly polished surfaces. In the 1960s and 1970s, various artists in Southern California...
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Pacific Northwest Daydreams and PaintingsWalk in the wilderness of the pacific northwest through watercolors and whispers from the animals, creatures, and spirits alike in the glowing mountains skies to tucked away valleys and frigid glacial rivers. Enjoy the peace and magic from this part of the country.Author: Mary...
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