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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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Death of an Art Critic / Tod Einer Kritikerin"The idea behind Donnerstag was to insist on the difference between good art and bad art. I am aware of how anachronistic that sounds and how quickly it evokes the image of an old critic-pontiff wagging his authoritarian pointer finger. But even that image...
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Elfenbeinkunst Im Grunen Gewolbe Zu Dresden: Geschichte Einer Sammlung. Wissenschaftlicher Bestandskatalog - Statuetten, Figurengruppen, Reliefs, GefaDas Grune Gewolbe zu Dresden verwahrt eine der umfangreichsten, kunsthistorisch hochst bedeutsamen Elfenbeinsammlungen der Welt. Nach Jahren intensiver Forschung kann erstmalig der Bestand an aus Elfen-bein geschnittenen Statuetten, Figurengruppen, Reliefs und in Silber gefassten Prunkgefaaen in diesem opulent illustrierten wissenschaftlichen Katalogwerk zusammenfassend vorgestellt werden....
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Hinter Dem Horizont ... / Beyond the Horizon ...: Kunst Der Ddr Aus Den Sammlungen Des Staatlichen Museums Schwerin / Art of the Gdr in the CollectionThe catalog to the exhibition Beyond the Horizon shows a selection of GDR artworks from the Schwerin State Museum's collections, covering a wide range of artistic positions. The paintings, sculptures, drawings and graphics presented here open up new perspectives focus on the gentle, yet...
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Paul Thek & Luc TuymansThe American sculptor and painter Paul Thek (19331988) created objects that made him a legend. In the mid1960s, he first exhibited his Meat Pieces, relics made of wax and latex and enclosed in plexiglass boxes that were meant to recall human flesh. He also...
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Small Scale, Big World: The Culture of Mini CraftsThe dozens of artists and craftspeople featured in this volume create miniature representations of real-world scenes--everything from housewares, such as a thumb-sized rice cooker, to storefronts and cliffside dwellings suspended in test tubes, all the way up to entire multi-story buildings, with every detail...
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Edward Hopper: Western Motel: Edward Hopper and Contemporary ArtAmerican painter Edward Hopper once said, Maybe I am not very human--what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. Indeed, Hopper's canvases delineate a new physics of Modern public space, in which the zones between people are...
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Arte Povera Seen by Ingvild GoetzThis publication celebrates the well-known German collector and gallerist Ingvild Goetz's longstanding passion for art. An extensive chronology provides an in-depth view of Goetz's history with the Arte Povera movement as a gallerist in the 1970s and '80s, and as a collector from the...
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Susi Wyss: Guess Who Is the Happiest Girl in TownA revelatory and richly illustrated memoir by Swiss-German party girl Susi WyssJudging from old photographs, you'd think Susi Wyss (b. 1938) was an angel in satin, but the look in her dark-ringed eyes tells a different story. Susi's richly illustrated memoirs, Guess Who Is...
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David Weiss: Die WandlungenFollowing up on Nine Books 1973 - 1979 Edition Patrick Frey and Edition Weiss now proudly present an exclusive new publication of another important body of work by the late, internationally acclaimed Swiss artist David Weiss (1946-2012). DIE WANDLUNGEN (The Metamorphoses) for the first...
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Martha Jungwirth: Panta RheiPanta Rhei presents works by Austrian painter Martha Jungwirth (born 1940) from the 1970s to the present, with a focus on her watercolors. The translated title of this volume, "Everything Flows," alludes to Jungwirth's gestural watercolors in which she applies layers of soft, transparent...
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Elizabeth Peyton: Here She Comes NowElizabeth Peyton rose to fame in the early 1990s as a painter energetically renewing portraiture's relationship to popular culture. Consciously locating her work in the tradition of nineteenth-century painters of society and celebrity such as Manet, Peyton uses a loose, sensuous figuration to portray...
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Moholy-Nagy and the New Typography: A-Z- Features recently discovered, previously unpublished materials from the archives of the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin by Bauhaus professor and renowned avant-garde artist L szl Moholy-Nagy- Includes work by Moholy-Nagy, Guillaume Apollinaire, F.T. Marinetti, Theo van Doesburg, Herbert Bayer, Walter Dexel, and El Lissitzky- Published...
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Beaumen 2In a very American, Hollywoodesque style, the California painter and illustrator certainly understands how to draw unrelenting scenes of dominance and submission. This work is reminiscent of his earlier volume and overall is clearly influenced by Tom of Finland.Author: BeauPublisher: Bruno Gmuender GMBHPublished: 09/01/2005Pages:...
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The Giedion World: Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in DialogueSigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto,...
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Vienna 1900Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstrasse, the Vienna Secession preached: "To every age its art -- to every art its freedom;" and tremors warned of looming...
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Hiroshige Poster SetCurate your home: Print Set Hiroshige This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most interesting, examples of...
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Lena Herzog. Strandbeest. the Dream Machines of Theo JansenFor seven years, photographer and artist Lena Herzog followed the evolution of a new kinetic species. Intricate as insects but with bursts of equine energy, the "Strandbeests," or "beach creatures," are the creation of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, who has been working for nearly...
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MalevitchAprès avoir flirté avec le réalisme, l'impressionnisme et le symbolisme, Kasimir Malevitch (1878-1935), né à Kiev, trouve sa voie dans la dissolution des figures et des paysages représentés littéralement en une abstraction pure et chargée d'émotion. En 1915, il crée ce que bon nombre...
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Winsor McCay: The Complete Little Nemo, 2 Volumes XLAdventures in pajamasThe complete Little Nemo compilation Meet Little Nemo, a diminutive hero of comic narrative, but one of the greatest dream voyagers of the 20th century. The master creation of Winsor McCay (1869-1934), restless sleeper Nemo inspired generations of artists with his weekly...
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Michel-Ange. l'Oeuvre Peint, Sculpté Et Architectural CompletAvant d'atteindre le jeune âge de 30 ans, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) avait déjà sculpté la Pietà et David, deux des oeuvres les plus célèbres de toute l'histoire de l'art. Sculpteur, mais aussi peintre, dessinateur et architecte, les créations de ce maître absolu de la...
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