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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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Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the UniverseRecent years have seen an enormous surge of interest in fiber arts, with works made of thread on display in art museums around the world. But this art form only began to transcend its origins as a humble craft in the late nineteenth and...
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Outsider Art: Spontaneous AlternativesOutsider Art is work produced outside the mainstream of modern art by self-taught, untrained visionaries, spiritualists, eccentric recluses, folk artists, psychiatric patients, criminals, and others beyond the imposed margins of society and the art market. Coined by Roger Cardinal in 1972, the term in...
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Paolo Veronese and the Practice of Painting in Late Renaissance VeniceOne of the premier artists of Renaissance Venice, Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) enjoyed a successful career creating splendid and sophisticated paintings for an elite clientele. Focusing on Veronese's materials, workshop organization, and remarkably varied techniques, this important book provides a rich examination of the artist's...
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Script Lettering for ArtistsOne feature of the general resurgence of the graphic arts is the revival of the script letter. Media such as advertising, packaging, book and periodical page designs, etc. have brought the glories of the master penmen of the past back into vogue. This volume,...
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Memoirs of Giorgio de ChiricoNo Italian painter of this century has aroused so much comment, from eulogy to outright condemnation, as Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978). One of the initiators of surrealism, he is a key figure in modern art; his influence on later painters, particularly during his metaphysical...
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Camera Work: The Complete Image CollectionMany of the early twentieth century's finest examples of photography and modernist art reached their widest audience in the fifty issues of Camera Work, edited and published by the legendary photographer Alfred Stieglitz from 1903 to 1917. The lavishly illustrated periodical established photography as...
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Harry Clarke's War: Illustrations for Ireland's Memorial Records, 1914-1918Ireland's Memorial Records, 1914-1918 contain the names of 49,435 enlisted men who were killed in World War I. Commissioned in 1919 by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and published in 100 eight-volume sets, the Records are notable for stunning and elaborate page decorations by...
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Conversations Before the End of TimeIn this series of nineteen dialogues with the art critic Suzi Gablik, artists, writers, and philosophers address the central questions of the meaning and purpose of art in an age of accelerating social change and spiritual uncertainty. According to the critic Hilton Kramer, art...
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Japanese Woodblock Bird PrintsIn the 1880s, an economic boom in Japan encouraged a renaissance of traditional color woodblock painting. During this prosperous period, a well-born painter named Numata Kash created A Picture Book of Birds. Kash 's three-volume series blended the contemporary interest in woodblock prints with...
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Start Where You Are Week-At-A-Glance DiaryIn her journal Start Where You Are, Meera Lee Patel helped readers look inward to discover their dreams and navigate the confusion and chaos of daily life. This planner represents the next step in the process-- a tool both newcomers and Meera's existing audience...
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How to Draw All Sorts of ThingsHow to Draw All Sorts of Things is for young artists of all ages Whether you're learning to draw, helping someone learn to draw, or looking for ideas for your next art project, this Doodle Book will get you started. Easy step-by-step lessons show...
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Selected Poems of Robert CreeleyHere, in a new selection of 200 poems from five decades, is the distinctive voice of Robert Creeley, reminding us of what has made him one of the most important and affectionately regarded poets of our time.Author: Robert CreeleyPublisher: University of California PressPublished: 03/19/1996Pages:...
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Trad of the New PBHarold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century. It was he who first coined the term Action Painters to refer to the American Abstract Expressionists such as Pollock, Kline, and de Kooning. Rosenberg's seminal writings on this movement,...
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Color Me Aloha: A Hawaiian Adult Coloring BookEscape to the islands of Hawaii. Coloring is an experience just like the islands. This 8.5x11 coloring book has 65 pages of unique, original hand drawn, colorable designs including iconic beaches, whales, turtles, pineapples, surfboards, canoe paddles, hula girls, flowers, and more. Every skill...
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Skies and the Artist: How to Draw Clouds and SunsetsEric Sloane always asserted that Drawing clouds and sky is an important part of art study, pointing out that nearly every great picture features sky space. With this intelligent and insightful primer, he sets out to help art students master the art of painting...
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Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile DesignDesignated a Living National Treasure in 1956, Serizawa Keisuke (1895-1984) was one of the greatest artists of 20th-century Japan. This is the first book in English to trace Serizawa's artistic biography in detail using the finest examples of his work from leading Japanese collections....
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Color Me Stoned: a cannabis coloring book for adultsColor Me Stoned is an adult coloring book like no other. Fun and informative, it's an A to Z of different strains of cannabis, ranging from the classic Acapulco Gold to the slammin' body high of Zombie OG. Whether you're a lifelong connoisseur, a...
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Chinese Art (Revised)At a time when interest in China has never been greater, this revised edition of Mary Tregear's authoritative survey of the Chinese visual arts will be welcomed by art lovers, travelers, and students alike. Generously illustrated and eminently readable, it covers not only bronzes,...
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Charleston: Past and Present: The Official Guide to One of Bloomsbury's Cultural TreasuresAn illustrated guide to Charleston, the Sussex farmhouse where Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant provided a gathering place for the Bloomsbury group, which included such literary and artistic luminaries as E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, and Virginia Woolf.Author: Quentin Bell, Angelica Garnett, Henrietta GarnettPublisher:...
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Big Book of SilhouettesAn ancient art form dating back to cave paintings in the Paleolithic age, silhouettes were extremely popular during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when they served as an inexpensive form of portraiture, capturing the essence of the subject with a minimum of detail.Now today's...
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