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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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Smoothing the Jew: Abie the Agent and Ethnic Caricature in the Progressive EraThe turn of the nineteenth century in the United States saw the substantial influx of immigrants and a corresponding increase in anti-immigration and nativist tendencies among longer-settled Americans. Jewish immigrants were often the object of such animosity, being at once the object of admiration...
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Small S Vol. 74: Cover Illustration by WoomaThis issue's cover takeover is the illustrator WOOMA!In this issue, we feature interviews and illustration-making using CLIP STUDIO PAINT EX. Introductory lessons for beginners on illustration making with COPIC markers, watercolors, color brush pens and CLIP STUDIO PAINT are also featured, along with a...
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Small Stories of Great ArtistsIt's been thirty years since Laurence Anholt began his beloved series about great artists and the real children who knew them. Since then, these classic tales of Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, and many other geniuses of Western art...
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Singular Sensations: A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United StatesWhat do The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side have in common? They are all single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that cartoonists have used in vastly different ways. Singular Sensations is the first book-length critical study to examine this important but long-neglected...
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ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action 6.24Author: Hattie B. MyersPublisher: ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic ActionPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 72Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.19dISBN: 9781960680082This title is not returnable
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Rock, Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, 1966-1970: How the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground Defined an EraThe convergence of rock music, counterculture politics and avant-garde aesthetics in the late 1960s underscored the careers of the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, and the Velvet Underground. This book examines these artists' relationships to the historical avant-garde (Artaud, Brecht, Dada)...
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Rethinking the Contemporary Art of IranAn extensively illustrated survey of contemporary art in IranRethinking the Contemporary Art of Iran seeks to articulate an alternative narrative of Iranian art in recent times, diverging from the prevalent portrayals often found in publications derived from exhibitions or collections in Western Europe and...
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Red Pop (with 6 Playful Pop-Ups!): A Pop-Up Board BookWho doesn't love a POP of color?! Every title in our original Color Pops board book series from author/artist Aurore Petit focuses on a single color. Red Pop features six playful, clever, and surprising pop-up objects. What is red? A ladybug . . ....
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Rachel Ruysch: Nature Into ArtThe first monograph in over 70 years on the celebrated female protagonist of Dutch floral paintingAt the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th, Rachel Ruysch was celebrated across Europe for her sumptuous floral still lifes, admired both for their artistry...
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Psycho: An Ironic Journey Through Hitchcock's Cinematic MasterpiecePsycho is a cinematic masterpiece yet it is sometimes difficult to understand why. After all, it really is just a story about a lovestruck girl who steals $40,000 so that she can begin a new life with her lover. Hasn't this story been told...
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Powered by Grief: My adventures as a scientist, artist, and activistBarton Rubenstein had a picture-perfect childhood - a loving family, idyllic summers at the beach, and a particularly close kinship with his progressive, charismatic, and devoted mom. When she died after a brutal five-year battle with cancer, Barton, just 18, found himself confronted by...
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Pompeii: A Life Revealed- With many previously unpublished images by Alfredo Foglia and his nephew Pio Foglia- Alfredo founded his photographic studio in 1921. He is the progenitor of a family of photographers that has spanned the entire century and Pio has achieved several specializations in photography,...
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Picasso and His Dogs- An unusual biography of Picasso through his dogs, richly illustrated with reproductions of his works and archive photographs. The first volume in a series about artists and their dogsIn 1933, Virginia Woolf wrote a biography of the poet Elisabeth Barret Browning, told in...
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Pia Camil: Friendly FiresAn archival collection of Camil's conceptual art and installations, incorporating themes of commerce, textile production and Latin American politicsThis is the first monograph dedicated to the practice of Mexican artist Pia Camil (born 1980). The book combines formal institutional documentation with material from the...
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Pen & Ink Drawing Workbook vol 3: Learn to Draw Pleasing Pen & Ink LandscapesWith simple pen lines, you can bring a pleasing landscape to life. This workbook will teach you how.For a quick video overview, pl. visit www.pendrawings.me/vol3Drawing simple landscapes with pen and ink is a great way to spend your time creatively and is surprisingly easy...
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Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science: 1945-1990An interdisciplinary guide to the 20th-century Southern California-based artists who investigated phenomena from the realms of optical science, astronomy, aerospace engineering and mathThe synergy between art and science is an age-old tale; artists throughout time, from Leonardo da Vinci to Beeple, have incorporated newly...
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Palazzo VecchioAuthor: Sergio RisalitiPublisher: Forma EdizioniPublished: 07/12/2024Pages: 258Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.90lbsSize: 13.20h x 9.70w x 1.30dISBN: 9788855211680About the AuthorSergio Risaliti graduated in Florence with a degree in modern and contemporary art history. Since 2018 he has been art director of the Museo Novecento in Florence....
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Paint by Sticker Kids: Love Is Everywhere!: Create 10 Pictures One Sticker at a Time! Includes Glitter StickersPaint a world full of love--with stickers! Paint by Sticker Kids: Love Is Everywhere! includes everything kids need to create ten colorful images, including a smiling glitter rainbow, a cute otter holding a heart-shaped shell, a kitten wearing glitter sunglasses, a pair of nuzzling...
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Our Lady of the World's Fair: Bringing Michelangelo's Piet? to Queens in 1964Our Lady of the World's Fair reveals the remarkable story of how two of New York's most influential leaders persuaded the Vatican to allow one of the world's greatest works of art to leave Europe for the first and only time. Driven by different...
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Operational Images: From the Visual to the InvisualAn in-depth look into the transformation of visual culture and digital aesthetics First introduced by the German filmmaker Harun Farocki, the term operational images defines the expanding field of machine vision. In this study, media theorist Jussi Parikka develops Farocki's initial concept by considering...
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