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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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Art After LiberalismAuthor: Nicholas GamsoPublisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the CityPublished: 03/08/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.19h x 5.75w x 0.71dISBN: 9781941332689
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Frida KahloFrida Kahlo taught herself to paint while recovering from serious injuries. She went on to become a famous artist whose work is still admired today. This book explores Kahlo's life and her groundbreaking achievements.Author: Kate ConleyPublisher: Kids CorePublished: 01/01/2022Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.68h...
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Modern Negro ArtPorter's work analyzes the important developments and individuals in African American painting and sculpture from the pre-Civil War period to World War II. "James A. Porter was an art historian, educator, curator, and visual artist. He is first remembered by academics as an art...
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Early Nature Artists in Florida: Audubon and His Fellow ExplorersFlorida's amazing landscapes and fascinating wildlife were sources of inspiration for early naturalists seeking new horizons. Among them was John James Audubon. Elegant herons, acrobatic terns, endearing pelicans and colorful roseate spoonbills all feature among his beloved artwork. But Audubon was not the first...
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The Present Prospects of Social Art HistoryThe Present Prospects of Social Art History represents a major reconsideration of how art historians analyze works of art and the role that historical factors, both those at the moment when the work was created and when the historian addresses the objects at hand,...
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Rare Merit: Women in Photography in Canada, 1840-1940A compelling survey of the professional lives and historic photographs of Canadian women. As Canada took shape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the camera was both a witness to colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, as well as an unlikely...
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What Makes Art Art: Artworks of the contemporary artistsWhat Makes Art, Art? It is one of the most rhetorical questions that every person answering the way they want. And they cannot be criticized. In this book, we not only presented the best work of the contemporary artists participated in Int'l Art Contest...
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Life After the Revolution: Kate Millett's Art Colony for WomenIn 1970, with the advance from her book Sexual Politics, writer and visual artist Kate Millett (1934-2017) bought a run-down farmhouse on the outskirts of Poughkeepsie, New York. Originally intended as a private retreat, by 1978, in collaboration with her partner Sophie Keir, plans...
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Las Bases de la CosturaQuieres iniciarte en la costura y no sabes por dónde empezar? Tienes en tus manos una pequeña biblia de la confección. Con ella aprenderás sin darte cuenta las técnicas básicas de la costura tradicional creando prendas de estética simple y absolutamente contemporánea. > Conocerás...
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Remember the Hand: Manuscription in Early Medieval IberiaRemember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence--scribes name themselves, describe themselves, even paint their...
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Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and AntarcticIn Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic to represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom engages feminist, Black, Indigenous, and non-Western perspectives...
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Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy: The Legacy of Carla LonziA renowned art critic of the 1960s, Carla Lonzi abandoned the art world in 1970 to found Rivolta Femminile, a pioneering feminist collective in Italy. Rather than separating the art world luminary from the activist, however, this book looks at the two together. It...
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Letterheads: Typographic PortraitsWhat's in a name? Maree Coote reveals the missing link between word and image. This award-winning illustrator has developed her own graphic language of illustrative typography, making images of all kinds using only the letters of the subject's name and existing alphabets. This ambitious...
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Revelations of Byzantium: The Monasteries and Painted Churches of Northern MoldaviaThe monasteries and painted churches of Moldavia stand today as a testament to the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of the Romanian people. These monuments, unique in the world, reflect a cultural legacy inherited from Byzantium and the Roman Empire. After the fall of...
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How to Draw Halloween Stuff Real EasyLearn to draw over 160 creepy, scary, ghostly, hairy, frightful, weird, uncanny, mysterious, hair-raising, spine-tingling things for Halloween!Draw Ghosts, Witches, Tricksters and Treaters - Pumpkins, Mummies, Skeletons and Skulls. Heaps of ideas for your Halloween drawings projects.Each drawing is broken-down into simple, easy-to-follow stepsand...
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The Art of Cloth in Mughal IndiaA richly illustrated history of textiles in the Mughal Empire In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a vast array of textiles circulated throughout the Mughal Empire. Made from rare fibers and crafted using virtuosic techniques, these exquisite objects animated early modern experience, from the...
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Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During SlaveryA highly original history of American portraiture that places the experiences of enslaved people at its center This timely and eloquent book tells a new history of American art: how enslaved people mobilized portraiture for acts of defiance. Revisiting the origins of portrait painting...
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Breadcrumb: Art & SandwichesArtists take on the sandwich as form in this inventive, fun cookbookDeploying sculpture, found imagery, drawing and much more, Breadcrumb compiles 41 sandwich recipes by artists from across the globe, presenting the sandwich as both an art form and a gustatory pleasure. Recipes by:...
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Marcel Broodthaers: Industrial Poems: The Complete Catalogue of the Plaques 1968-1972The first complete catalog of Broodthaers' rebus-like poetical plaquesIndustrially fabricated as vacuum-formed plastic plaques, the Industrial Poems of Marcel Broodthaers (1924-76) express the enduring fruitfulness of poetry as a paradigm in the poet-turned-artist's witty, language-oriented brand of conceptualism. These works draw on the popular...
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Kiki Smith: MemoryA multipart installation on the island of Hydra exploring mythic themes of earth and skyIn 2019, multidisciplinary artist Kiki Smith (born 1954) was invited to present a site-specific project at the DESTE Foundation Project Space in Hydra, a former slaughterhouse perched on the edge...
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