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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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Monet, Cocteau Twins, Natural WineIn his third book this year, Matt Brand explores themes of ephemerality and reflection, turning a book of poems into an exhibition space of impressionistic tableaus. As in the author's prior collections, time and our relationship to it still take center stage here. However,...
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Microbiology Coloring Book: Incredibly Detailed Self-Test Color workbook for Studying Perfect Gift for Medical School Students, Physicians & ChiroLooking for an easy, fun and effective way to demystify microbiological principles and processes? Coloring microbiology and its structures is the most effective way to study life itself, down to the smallest particle. You assimilate information and make visual associations with key terminology when...
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Andrei TarkovskyAndrei Tarkovsky is the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960s and 70s. Although he made only seven features, each one was a major landmark in cinema, the most well-known of them...
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Arte AbstractoAbstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of conventional representational imagery and characterized by allegories of emotion and sensation.This...
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Li Yongzheng: Yes, TodayAuthor: Li YongzhengPublisher: Rizzoli International PublicationsPublished: 11/30/2021Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 3.15lbsSize: 11.80h x 9.60w x 1.10dISBN: 9788891832238About the AuthorLü Peng is one of the leading Chinese art critics. A curator and historian, he is the creator of the first art biennial in China. He...
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Caravage. l'Oeuvre Complet. 40th Ed.Le Caravage, de son nom de baptême Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), a toujours été de ceux que l'on n'oublie pas. Célèbre mauvais garçon de la peinture italienne, l'artiste fut aussi honoré que controversé violent de tempérament, précis dans sa technique, d'une créativité géniale,...
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The Art of Activism and the Activism of ArtSince the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, political authoritarianism, colonial legacies, gentrification, but also in opposition to their own exploitation. This book critiques, celebrates, and historicises activist art, exploring...
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Burning Images: A History of Effigy ProtestsA visual anthropology of the destruction of images--its aesthetics, its rhetoric and its mediation in global newsA theatrical form of political protest, effigy hanging and burning has become increasingly visible in the news media, particularly in protests against US military operations in Afghanistan and...
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Cold Revolution: Central and Eastern European Societies in Times of Socialist Realism, 1948-1959A critical reader on culture and society in postwar Central and Eastern EuropeIn Cold Revolution, essayists examine the relationship between visual culture and the radical social revolutions of 1950s Central and Eastern Europe. As international political tensions intensified and dictatorships rose to power, social...
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Brendan Fernandes: Re/FormOn Canadian artist Brendan Fernandes' acclaimed performance-based installations deconstructing ballet and modern danceIn an ambitious new monograph, Kenyan-born, Chicago-based Canadian artist Brendan Fernandes (born 1979) chronicles his two most recent exhibitions, Contract and Release at the Noguchi Museum (2019) and Master and Form commissioned...
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Islamic Metalwork from the Aron CollectionAn eye-opening cornucopia of Islamic metal craftsmanship from the Middle Ages to the 14th centuryThe Aron Collection was first introduced to the public in 1986 with the publication of a highly acclaimed catalog featuring a wide variety of Islamic metalwork pieces. This volume presents...
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Jonathan Moller: Black Lives Matter: Visualizing 2020Graffiti, placards and protest ephemera from 2020's Black Lives Matter protestsAward-winning Denver-based photographer and human rights activist Jonathan Moller (born 1963) turns away from his usual social documentary work in Central America with a new collection of images recording the Black Lives Matter movement...
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Marilyn Minter: All WetNew feminist portraiture from Marilyn Minter, in dialogue with ancient Greek art and ImpressionismAmerican visual artist Marilyn Minter (born 1948) has long cultivated a space between the classical and the commercial for her photorealistic paintings and visceral photographs. Minter's art is characterized by an...
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101 Corgis From Around The World In WatercolorI have always had the love of Corgis and a couple years back I decided to take up watercolor painting. I had been an artist since I was young and for many years did all kind of art but watercolors. Once I started to...
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Sara Greenberger Rafferty: Studio VisitA two-decade survey conceived as an inventory of materialsThis volume collects two decades of work by Brooklyn-based artist Sara Greenberger Rafferty (born 1978), known for her material transformation of photographs and use of comedy as artistic strategy. The book is organized by material sensibilities...
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Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and InterviewsAn updated and expanded edition of the painter's writings and conversationsThis expanded edition of the 2010 Ridinghouse anthology brings together more than 30 writings by, and interviews with, the German painter Georg Baselitz (born 1938), spanning from 1961 to today.Known for his rebellious approach...
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Going for Gold: Craftsmanship and Collecting of Gold BoxesThis book examines the art of the gold box in 18th and 19th century Europe. Distinguished international scholars explore the contributions made by individual workshops in major European centres of production in the context of contemporary patronage and the international market for such boxes....
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Theaster Gates: Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories: ReflectionsA multidisciplinary look at the foremost archive of Black American visual culture, as recast by Theaster GatesThis book features essays and other reflections commissioned in response to the Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories, a monumental participatory work by Theaster Gates (born 1973). The...
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Broadcasting: Eai at IcaFrom public-access television to social media: EAI's groundbreaking history with video artThis volume marks the 50th anniversary of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), one of the first nonprofit organizations dedicated to the advocacy and development of video art. Author: Daniel W. DietrichPublisher: Institute of Contemporary...
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Theaster Gates: A Clay SermonThe artist as activist, archivist, pedagogue, urban planner and maker: on the multifarious activities of Theaster Gates This publication accompanies a major new Theaster Gates exhibition at London's Whitechapel Gallery, focusing on his clay-based work.The transformation of clay--from geological substance into utilitarian and artistic...
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