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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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Sundry Modernism: Materials for a Study of Palestinian ModernismWith Sundry Modernism, Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture--an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho. Using her photographs as conversation prompts with various residents, historians, and...
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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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MosaicFor thousands of years and in many cultures people have been inspired by mosaics. Whether the stylistically reduced pebble mosaics of the Greeks or the golden splendor of the Byzantine churches--their stylistic diversity is just as great as the diversity of the materials used....
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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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ZebsterZebster is a graffiti writer, music producer (ZEB.ROC.SKI), historian and organizer of international Hip Hop projects. Zebster is well-known in the Hip Hop community for his efforts to spread the culture around the world. He began breaking and writing graffiti in the early 80s...
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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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Jim Dine: This Goofy Life of Constant MourningThis Goofy Life of Constant Mourning is the sincere title of a long visual poem by artist Jim Dine. The result of years of photographing poems after he has written them on walls and objects, it presents a symbiotic marriage of three very personal...
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Gustav Klimt: Life and WorkUp until today, Gustav Klimt has been labelled variously: revolutionary and modernist pioneer, compulsive pornographer, ladies' man, enfant terrible for the conservative educated middle-class, and overrated painter of golden kitsch. For a number of years he has also been a significant protagonist in the...
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The Essence of Light: Centre for International Light Art UnnaA celebration of the Centre for International Light Art's 10-year anniversary, this beautiful catalog presents fascinating photos of the museum's light installations accompanied by explanatory texts and artist biographies. The book details the space's effective presentation of works created specially for the former Lindenbrauerei...
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Max NeumannGerman painter Max Neumann (born 1949) turns the human figure into a symbol, abstracting his subjects into outlines and silhouettes. Splashes of color suggest the preoccupations of these somber characters: a red bird, a yellow dot, a green wash of pooling water. This monograph...
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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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