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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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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: HaitiThe latest in the World Stage series of portraits by Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), this volume presents 13 new paintings, the result of the artist's trip to Haiti--a nation that is often presented as a place of chronic poverty, corruption and deprivation. In Haiti...
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Andy Warhol's Ridiculous ScreenplaysAndy Warhol's Ridiculous Screenplays is a fascinating first-person account of writer Ronald Tavel's experiences collaborating with the artist on his films from the winter of 1964 through the summer of 1967. During this period, Tavel wrote seventeen screenplays for Warhol, including some of the...
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On Location in Blairstown: The Making of Friday the 13thOn location in Blairstown: The Making of Friday the 13th covers the creation, planning and filming of the iconic 1980 film, Friday the 13th in a way that no other film has been documented before. Through the memories of the cast and crew, many...
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Top Bikini Pictures: Hot Women in Brazilian, String, White, Red, Gold, Brown, Orange, Metallic, Transparent, Extreme and Many Other StylesOver 100 high quality, full page color pictures of women in bikinis. Whether you are just looking for hot bikini pictures or want some inspiration for great bikini models for this summer, this photo book will not disappoint. From Brazilian and string bikinis to...
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Jack Davis: Some of My Good StuffMaster cartoonist, Jack Davis, teams up with compiler, Hank Harrison and reveals a great deal of unpublished artwork and rare gems from his personal archives. Included here are some of Jack's spontaneous creations, some in the pencil stages as well as finished pieces. The...
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, ChicagoThis book examines the work of US-born photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921-2012) through its connections to Chicago, where he lived for over a decade and returned to repeatedly throughout his life. Long celebrated in Japan as one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth...
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The Art of the PatentMost patents are what you would expect from a government doucment: downright boring. Yet the drawings on some are absolutely amazing, with beautiful line-art drawings that show in stunning detail the inner workings of everything from farming machines to airplanes to rockets. Join us...
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Ticket to the UnknownTicket to the Unknown considers the schizophrenic texts of Alo se Corbaz, an Art Brut artist better known for her drawing than her writing. Both a translation of texts and a commentary on dilemmas of reading and translation in artist's writing, this book explore...
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Oliver RanchThe ongoing project that Steve and Nancy Oliver have developed over the last 30 years has no obvious parallel in the history of art collecting. Beginning in 1985, their ranch in Northern California has been the site for dozens of commissions, site-specific and permanent...
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Performing the Archive: The Transformation of the Archive in Contemporary Art from Repository of Documents to Art MediumInstead of smoothing over contemporary art's violent and iconoclastic dimensions, instead of sanitizing and making complex artworks docile in terms of archival possibilities, this book suggests we abandon our fantasy of mastery over representation and respond in kind to the archive-as-artwork, to "living" archives,...
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Marseille: The Cradle of White Corded QuiltingMarseille: The Cradle of White Corded Quilting, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name, traces the origins and the commercial development of broderie de Marseille needlework. During the seventeenth century these supple, all-white corded and quilted furnishings--from bedcovers to quilted bodices and caps--grew...
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Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz: The Complete Comic Strip Saga 1904-1905At the dawn of the 20th century, L. Frank Baum created a world of wonders that was to hold a permanent place in the culture of America: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Then in 1904, to promote his second book, Baum, along with master...
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Tending The Fire: Studies in Art, Therapy & CreativityThis book explores the notion of creativity as an internal fire or sense of aliveness and vitality in the self. Ellen Levine brings together a theoretical understanding drawn from psychoanalytic literature, with clinical material from practice as a child psychotherapist and expressive artist. Now...
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Souls Grown Deep Vol. 2: African American Vernacular ArtCompleting the two-volume set, Souls Grown Deep, Vol. 2 takes the visual and historical presentation of the first volume to a richer level, offering an even broader array of artistic styles and media. Published in 2000, the first volume explored the diverse historical roots...
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files: Volume IContinuing Fuel's exploration of Soviet culture, unforgettable photographs of extraordinary tattoosRussian Criminal Tattoo Police Files Volume I features more than 180 photographs of Russian criminal tattoos and official police papers from the collection of Arkady Bronnikov, regarded as Russia's foremost authority on criminal tattoo...
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Malevich Writes: A Theory of Creativity Cubism to SuprematismCollection of 30 texts, 1915-1928, & 3 facsimiles, some in first English translation, plus Nina Kogan on Cubism and Ilya Chashnik on Suprematism. Chronological sections trace Malevich's analyses of Cubism and Futurism, the Supremus Society of Artists, Suprematism Triumphant, UNOVIS, Theory of Creativity as...
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Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White PaintingsDuring the early 1950s, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) created one of the most anomalous bodies of work of his career: graphite drawings on undercoats of blue or ocher painted over a titanium white ground. For an artist known for his love of color and impasto,...
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Curious Affair: The Fascination Between East and WestThrough dozens of beautiful art pieces and lively commentary, this charming art book explores the legacies of five centuries of interaction between Asia and Europe. The mutual fascination began with the sea contact made during the early Renaissance. Although relations between East and West...
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Edward Borein: Cowboy ArtistJohn Edward Borein (1872-1945) was the oldest of five children, born into a politically inclined family in San Leandro, then a Western cow town on the main northern California cattle trail not far from Oakland. The constant stream of cattle and 'vaqueros' moving through...
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Leonardo by Leonardo: Leonardo Da VinciA landmark publication on Leonardo da Vinci, the immortal Renaissance artist universally considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Leonardo by Leonardo, by Martin J. Kemp, one of the world's leading authorities on Leonardo da Vinci, presents an astonishing gallery of the...
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