Art
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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Flowers for Lisa: A Delirium of Photographic InventionBest known for his surreal camera obscura pictures and luminous black-and-white photographs of books, photographer Abelardo Morell now turns his transformative lens to one of the most common of artistic subjects, the flower. The concept for Flowers for Lisa emerged when Morell gave his...
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Coco Chanel: Pearls, Perfume, and the Little Black DressAward-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces readers to the most well-known fashion designer in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco's development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent...
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Graphic Translation, A graphic design project guideThe process of graphic translation produces drawings of instant recognition and startling visual interest. Graphic translation is as much art as it is design, and focuses on the creation of an image with the visual means of abstraction, reduction, and interpretation with point, line,...
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Islamic Art and Visual CultureIslamic Art and Visual Culture is a collection of primary sources in translation accompanied by clear and concise introductory essays that provide unique insights into the aesthetic and cultural history of one of the world's major religions. Collects essential translations from sources as diverse...
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Late Antique Art PLate Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World is a much-needed teaching anthology that rethinks and broadens the scope of the stale and limiting classifications used for Early Christian-Byzantine visual arts. A comprehensive anthology offering a new approach to the visual arts classified...
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Performing Robert Burns: Enactments and Representations of the 'National Bard'This book is unashamedly aimed at a wider market than the ordinary academic volume, as it seeks to extend the impact of the research it contains, making it available to the worldwide community of Burns enthusiasts, without compromising on scholarship. Contributors have been selected...
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Muse, UmThese poems were inspired by various visits to the Art Institute of Chicago in preparation for one of the Poetry Foundation's Pop Up Poetry events, a series of 30-minute lunchtime poetry readings marking the reopening of the museum's new Contemporary Collection.As defined by the...
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Halim A. Flowers: Love Is the Vaccine- First full treatment of the artist's visual work- A story of redemption from wrongful incarceration to life as a successful visual artist, spoken word performer, and human rights advocate- Halim Flowers is featured in HBO in the Emmy award-winning documentary Thug Life in...
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The Best of Matt 2022The latest - superb - collection from everyone's favourite cartoonist! 'Like a sunrise, he lifts the heart. He's so touching and achingly funny' Jilly Cooper'He's a genius' Jeremy Vine 'So much greater than his nearest rivals it's almost embarrassing' Stephen Fry 'No one can...
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Queen of the Savoy: The Extraordinary Life of Helen d'Oyly Carte 1852-1913, Born in 1852 in a small coastal town in Scotland, Helen D'Oyly Carte, through academic brilliance and an incredible talent for 'managing chaos', developed and ran the world's foremost top entertainment and hospitality organisation with her husband, Richard D'Oyly Carte (known as D'Oyly)....
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China Pluperfect: Volume 1--Epistemology of Past and Outside in Chinese ArtPublisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong PressPublished: 02/07/2023Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.40h x 7.40w x 0.90dISBN: 9789882372467
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Beneath the Bonsai Tree: A Small Book of PoemsBeneath the Bonsai Tree is a small book of poems written with an endearing message faith, hope, and love, allowing you to explore a poetic journey of emotion. Beautiful illustrations guide you along the path of tranquility, while each poem touches your heart. Begin...
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Big Things: A Story for Older Siblings of C-Section BabiesBIG THINGS are happening at home, and it isn't just the new baby... There is one serious boo-boo on Mommy's belly!Help guide your children towards supporting mom's C-Section recovery while also adjusting to becoming an older sibling. You can help smooth out these BIG...
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Reinventing Jewish Art in the Age of Multiple Modernities: Michail Grobman and the Leviathan GroupCan studying an artist's migration enable the reconfiguration of art history in a new and "global" mode? Michail Grobman's odyssey in search of a contemporary idiom of Jewish art led him to cross the borders of political blocs and to observe, absorb, and confront...
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Comedy Techniques for Variety ArtistsThis comprehensive comedy course will aid you in entertaining family audiences by increasing the humor in your variety act.It provides: The fundamentals of comedy History of comedy Specific techniques that have been identified as tending to generate laughter Examples of how those techniques have...
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Sushi Secrets: A Japanese Master's Ultimate GuideThe technique and philosophy of top sushi chef to make truly delicious sushi.Sushi is one of the most popular Japanese foods enjoyed around the world. The traditions and techniques of sushi have been passed down from generation to generation through apprenticeship, in which apprentice...
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Zola's PaintersAs the author of the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series, Émile Zola enjoys a reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the 19th century: but his essays on painting, and in particular his early championing of Manet, mark him out also as one of the...
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How To Draw For Kids - Christmas Edition: A Fun And Easy Step By Step Approach To Drawing Everything Related To Christmas!Do you want your child to develop a hobby while combining learning and fun? Are you searching for an activity to pull your child away from the screen while celebrating Christmas? If so, then How to Draw - Xmas Edition is the perfect book...
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Creating Art with Alcohol Ink: Complete Guide to 12 Easy Techniques, 17 Spectacular ProjectsWhether you're a seasoned artist or are about to paint your first brush stroke, Alcohol Ink Guide will show you how to paint with alcohol ink! In this complete, step-by-step painting book, you'll discover 12 different painting techniques - from pouring, dripping, and blowing...
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Out of My Head: The Imaginary Creatures of Josep BaquéIn this first-ever critical biography of Baqué, art historian, author, and curator Brian Chidester reflects the artist and his creation through the prism of 20th century art, the Franco dictatorship in Spain (1939-75), and the few correlative records in Baqué's personal archive. Yet the...
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