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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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Domus Grimani: The Collection of Classical Sculptures Reassembled in Its Original Setting After 400 YearsThe Palazzo Grimani in Venice is a 16th-century palace in the Mannerist style. The former residence of the patrician Grimani family, the building also housed the Grimanis' vast collection of Greek and Roman antiquities until 1596, when the collection--comprising sculptures, vases, marbles and bronzes--was...
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Japanese Calligraphy: ShodoShodo is composed of the words "Sho" which means writing, and "Do", which means path or way. Japanese Calligraphy originates from Calligraphy from China, dating back 3000 years. This art form from China reached Japan. In ancient times, Calligraphy in China and Japan has...
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Colour in Fashion Illustration: Drawing and Painting TechniquesThis book is a practical manual intended specifically for anyone interested in delving into the technique of granting color to fashion figurine illustrations to give them more life and expressiveness. In a clear and educational way, Tiziana Paci, author of the well-known book Figure...
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Paris, Je t'Aime: 20 Postcards BookThese 20 postcards are a declaration of love to the city of light. Lapin, sketcher and illustrator, offers a sample of his talent to capture those big little moments of a popular and vivacious Paris, full of historic contrasts and far away from any...
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Balinese Painting and Sculpture: From the Krzysztof Musial CollectionThis beautifully photographed book of Balinese Painting and Sculpture is one of the most stunning collections of its type in the world. Collections usually grow out of interests, ones that come to border on obsession. Collecting art from Bali often begins with a love...
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Kara Walker: FigaCritical insight into the gesturing hand piece from Kara Walker's monumental sugar sphinxKara Walker's (born 1969) Figa, a sculpture monumental in both size and symbol, was installed at the DESTE Foundation's Hydra Slaughterhouse in 2017. Once a part of Walker's colossal 2014 installation A...
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Floral WatercolourThis book will teach you how to paint floral motifs with a loose look and an effortless hand. The well-known blogger and YouTuber Christin Stapff M dchenkunst shows you, step by step, how to paint blossoms, flowers, leaves and wreaths--and also how to combine...
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Union Issue 13The word union is defined as to link together or join. The name of the magazine comes from the concept of creating an aesthetically beautiful view with wonderful artist from all over the world. The concept "fine things are always timeless." remains unchanged. Giving...
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Yokai Storyland: Illustrated Books from the Yumoto Koichi CollectionThe absurd and surreal world of Yokai is back with full of stories to tell Following the success of Yokai Musuem and Yokai Wonderland, we are proud to publish Yokai Storyland, the third book from Yumoto Koichi, renowned Yokai art collector who has collected...
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Kimono and the Colors of Japan (New Printing Edition)This distinctive volume reveals a unique antique kimono collection through various delicate Japanese colors and their use in kimono. The Japanese sensibility is immediately apparent in the classification of the nine traditional color categories of red, green, pink, blue, brown, purple, yellow, black/white, and...
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Beautiful Book Designs: From the Middle Ages to the Mid 20th CenturyThe Book of Kells (said to be the most beautiful book in the world), Leicester Codex (the most expensive book by Leonardo da Vinci), Decorative Scripture in Middle Ages, Gift Books in late 19th century, Design Books in the era of Art Nouveau &...
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Andrea Fraser: Collected Interviews, 1990-2018This substantial archive offers an ideal point of entry into the work and reception of Los Angeles-based performance artist and writer Andrea Fraser (born 1965). The interview format provides particular insight into Fraser's self-positioning as a central aspect of her practice. By presenting the...
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Egon Schiele: Masterpieces from the Leopold MuseumFeaturing over 140 masterpieces, this new book draws on the unsurpassed Schiele collection of Vienna's Leopold MuseumThis volume gathers some 140 paintings, watercolors and drawings by Egon Schiele from the Leopold Museum in Vienna, which famously possesses the world's most comprehensive and eminent collection...
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QueervilleThis book presents very libertine contents in a "Tim-&-Struppi" style as sweet as can be - that's Tom Bouden's speciality. After the reprint of the celebrated comic IN BED WITH DAVID & JONATHAN now comes the unofficial sequel to the Belgian happy-go-lucky tales with...
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Seduction: Erotic Illustrations by Robert W RichardsNew York-based multi-talent Robert W. Richards has made a career out of seducing people. Since his earliest homo-erotic illustrations in publications like THE ADVOCATE and MANDATE, Richards' unique style has become highly recognizable for its high-end simplicity and sexy idiosyncratic style. SEDUCTION: EROTIC ILLUSTRATIONS...
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Gordon Parks: The New Tide: Early Work 1940-1950The emergence of a social conscience in rarely seen images from Parks' formative yearsFocusing on new research and access to forgotten pictures, The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950 documents the importance of these years in shaping Gordon Parks' passionate vision. The book brings together...
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30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art, Science, and TheoryIn 1985, the French philosopher Jean-Fran ois Lyotard curated a groundbreaking exhibition called Les Immat riaux at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition showed how telecommunication technologies were beginning to impact every aspect of life. At the same time, it was a material...
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Heba Y. Amin: The General's StorkDocumenting the development of a multidimensional and ongoing work.Heba Y. Amin's The General's Stork explores historical accounts of biblical prophecies, colonial narratives, and the politics of technological warfare from a bird's eye view. Focusing on how military technologies were developed in the specific context...
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Swamps and the New Imagination: On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture, and PhilosophyContributors consider the vital urgency of human cohabitation with other forms of life, beginning a dialogue with possible futures.It is not easy to define a swamp, even in biology. The term is frequently used to characterize marshes, bogs, mires, wetlands, meadows, and other grey...
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Sundry Modernism: Materials for a Study of Palestinian ModernismWith Sundry Modernism, Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture--an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho. Using her photographs as conversation prompts with various residents, historians, and...
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