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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The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918Paul Klee was endowed with a rich and many-sided personality that was continually spilling over into forms of expression other than his painting and that made him one of the most extraordinary phenomena of modern European art. These abilities have left their record in...
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Ludwig Bemelmans: The IllustratorsRecognized most widely as the creator and illustrator of the beloved children's classic Madeline, Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962) also wrote and illustrated a number of other children's books, novels, short stories, and travel books. His illustrations were frequently featured on the cover of the New...
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The Poster: A Visual HistoryEven in the digital age, the printed poster has continued to be one of the most influential and well-loved ways of informing and entertaining audiences. A powerful means of mass communication, posters are an invaluable resource for understanding the time periods in which they...
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Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London PaintersNow available in an attractive paperback, Modernists and Mavericks is Martin Gayford's impressively researched and well-reviewed chronicle of postwar London painting. Modernists and Mavericks explores the development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s based on an exceptionally deep...
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Islamic Design WorkbookBuilding on the concept of a traditional coloring book, the Islamic Design Workbook opens up the world of intricate Islamic patterns, allowing designers and doodlers alike to learn about these works of art as they produce their own. With forty-eight Islamic geometric compositions from...
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A Chronology of ArtMost surveys of the history of art are divided into historic periods, artistic schools, and movements. In reality, movements and artists' careers overlap and intertwine, reacting to events in the world around them. By prioritizing a purely chronological approach, A Chronology of Art illuminates...
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Landscape Sketching in Pen and Ink: With Notes on Architectural SubjectsAlthough geared toward professional artists, this accessible approach to landscape sketching will also appeal to amateurs. English artist Donald Maxwell's entertaining and straightforward attitude begins with the basics: We will draw a brick. Anybody can draw a brick.Following introductions to perspective, light and shade,...
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Masterworks of Art Nouveau Stained GlassArt Nouveau was the dominant art style in both Europe and America at the turn of the 20th century. Its organic, curvilinear designs influenced painting, architecture, and sculpture, but it was in the decorative arts that Art Nouveau made its most lasting impression. One...
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Steampunk SourcebookOriginally coined to describe fantasy and science fiction in steam-powered settings, the term steampunk has come to identify an aesthetic movement. Its campy redefinition of Victorian style blends elements of technology and romance, and its influence extends from literature and art to music and...
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Creative Haven Deluxe Edition Celtic Nature Coloring BookFlowers, leaves, seashells, birds, butterflies, and other natural ornaments offer fanciful complements to these original designs based on Celtic knotwork. Colorists will appreciate the many-faceted appeal of the 63 intricate images and their swirling, stylized patterns. Illustrations are printed on perforated pages for easy...
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Creative Haven Deluxe Edition Animal Woodcut Designs Coloring BookThese intricately detailed illustrations -- set against rich, dark backgrounds -- recapture the natural beauty of wild and domestic animals in the classic style of woodcut illustrations. Sixty-three stunning images to color include a giraffe, orangutan, leopard, swan, toucan, dog, pig, and many other...
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The Poster Art of David Lance Goines: A 40-Year RetrospectiveThis vibrant retrospective celebrates the four-decade career of Berkeley graphic artist David Lance Goines. Its 155 full-color posters promote movies, galleries, restaurants, and concerts, in addition to other events and products. Distinctive and dramatic, the images speak volumes to the viewer's eye, evoking a...
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Dangerous Beauties and Dutiful Wives: Popular Portraits of Women in Japan, 1905-1925This captivating gallery offers rare glimpses of Japanese culture during the early years of the 20th century. Drawn from popular women's magazines of the Taish period, its kuchi-e (frontispiece pictures) of bijin (beauties) represent a variety of artists, from the visual poetry of famous...
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Japanese Woodblock Flower PrintsExceptionally drawn in a realistic fashion and awash in spectacularly rich colors, this one-of-a-kind art book -- masterfully reprinted from a rare and costly edition -- combines the perennial appeal of flowers with the art of Japanese woodblock prints.Nothing expresses the richness and vigor...
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Rackham's Fairies, Elves and Goblins: More Than 80 Full-Color IllustrationsThrough his extraordinarily drawn interpretations of favorite fairy tales and fantastic literature, Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) remains an enduring legend of the Victorian era's Golden Age of Illustration. Rackham took the printing developments of the early twentieth century further than any other artist of his...
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Fantastic Gothic and Renaissance OrnamentDancing beasts of myth and legend, thick foliage that appears to live and breathe, reclining figures engulfed by symbols of fate -- this magnificent compendium of 15th- and 18th-century embellishments offers up a dizzying array of Gothic and Renaissance designs steeped in religion and...
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Traditional Ironwork DesignsFrom an exceptional collection of the finest examples of German ironwork comes this rich source of royalty-free images for artists and craftspeople. More than 270 illustrations depict a broad variety of magnificent ironworks from the city of D sseldorf, with finely rendered examples of...
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Figures and Faces: A Sketcher's HandbookArtist, illustrator, and teacher Hugh Laidman shows how simple and rewarding it can be to draw two of the most challenging of artistic subjects -- the male and female figures.A brief review of anatomical structure is followed by detailed illustrations and clear instructions for...
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Old Master Portrait Drawings: 47 WorksHere are 47 masterpieces of the art of portrait drawing, selected from the work of an elite group of artists who represent the great schools and traditions of Italy and northern Europe from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Among the artists are Andrea...
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Celtic Hand Stroke by Stroke (Irish Half-Uncial from the Book of Kells): An Arthur Baker Calligraphy ManualConsidered by many the most beautiful book ever created, Ireland's Book of Kells is renowned for its glorious handwritten script, developed by monks and scribes in the sixth and seventh centuries A.D. One of the most distinctive features of the script is the triangular...
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