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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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Trouble in Paradise: Twenty-Four Essays on the Social History of American ArtAuthor: Alan WallachPublisher: BrillPublished: 11/07/2024Pages: 492Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789004711518This title is only available via back order
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Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Maori ArtA landmark account in words and pictures of Māori art, by Māori art historians--from Polynesian voyaging waka to contemporary Māori artists. He toi whakairo, he mana tangata. Through artistic excellence, there is human dignity. In six hundred pages and with over five hundred illustrations,...
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To Everything There Is a Season: The Art of Emma HaworthEmma Haworth is a painter of the urban scene. Her art is built upon meticulous observation of the ebb and flow of modern metropolitan life - in the streets, the parks, the squares of London, New York, Paris and other great cities: it is...
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TihkuVisions of Nordic introspectiveness, occult pocket watches, suburban drifting, untamed forests and butterfly appreciation all come together in a sticky weave of cutting-edge Finnish comics storytelling. Tihku is a joint work by twelve artists and the first part in a series. Kutikuti is an...
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Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve CarpetsCarpet specialist Dorothy Armstrong tells the stories surrounding twelve of the world's most fascinating carpets.Dorothy Armstrong's Threads of Empire is a spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets. Beautiful, sensuous, and enigmatic, great carpets follow power. Emperors,...
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The Way of Inuit Art: Aesthetics and History in and Beyond the ArcticInuit art, both ancient and contemporary, has inspired the interest of scholars, collectors and art lovers around the globe. This book examines Inuit art from prehistory to the present with special attention to methodology and aesthetics, exploring the ways in which it has been...
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The Three Perfections: Japanese Poetry, Calligraphy, and PaintingA groundbreaking survey examining the interrelationship of poetry, calligraphy, and painting in Japanese art from the eleventh to the early twentieth century In East Asian cultures, the integration of poetry, painting, and calligraphy, known as the "Three Perfections," is considered the apex of artistic...
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The Rose BookA gorgeous visual survey of the rose, exploring our enduring connection to one of nature's most universally beloved flowersFrom a couture Dior gown and a rose-adorned Barbie to ancient mosaics and Victorian Valentine's cards, this curated collection of more than 200 stunning images celebrates...
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The Last CaravaggioA focus on Caravaggio's last work, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, telling the story of an empowered female saint In early May 1610, Caravaggio finished painting The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula. Two months later, he was dead, having been disfigured in a brawl and...
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The Joy of Clay: A Beginner's Guide to Pottery and CeramicsDiscover the Transformative Power of PotteryImagine immersing yourself in the tactile joy of clay, shaping it with your own hands, and transforming it into art. The Joy of Clay: A Beginner's Guide to Pottery and Ceramics opens up a world where creativity meets tradition,...
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The Curatorial Incitement to DiscourseWith the paradigm of salon exhibitions, developed some three centuries ago, bourgeois art patrons were moved to transform their experience of an exhibition into words. This incitement to discourse persists as a central component of curatorial practice today, within and beyond exhibitions as singular...
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The Critic as Artist (Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything)"Criticism is itself an art." This is one of the singular arguments in what must be one of Oscar Wilde's most compelling critical dialogues ever published. The Critic as Artist explores Wilde's defense of criticism through sharp, witty dialogue and riveting, thoughtful arguments. This...
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The Complete Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro: A Descriptive CatalogueKitagawa Utamaro was the leading light of the popular Ukiyo-e school of woodblock print designers during its golden age, famous throughout Japan within his own lifetime, an immeasurable influence upon nineteenth century French artists, such as Vincent Van Gogh, douard Manet and Claude Monet,...
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The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary: Notes in Defense of an Idea of EmancipationAn essay-length argument for the autonomy of art in the present. Over recent decades, a post-critical theoretical and methodological paradigm has become increasingly dominant in the human sciences. Proponents of this approach have come to dismiss the idea--central to all modern aesthetics--of the autonomy...
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The Art of Dreams, Visions, Other Worlds: Interviews with Texas ArtistsRobert Craig Bunch has interviewed sixty current Texas artists, focusing on painters, printmakers, sculptors, and others whose work, broadly speaking, is inspired by dreams, visions, myths, and imagined worlds. Working in the tradition of predecessors such as Bror Utter, Ben Culwell, Maudee Carron, Kelly...
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Ten Steps for Recording Pictographs and Petroglyphs: Methods and TechnologiesPictograph and petroglyph sites, commonly identified as sacred by Indigenous communities, offer the potential of great insight into past belief systems and ritual activities if carefully recorded. The aesthetic appeal of the art itself has long been appreciated, and chemical and artistic analyses have...
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Success Every Time in Acrylics: Paint your way to a great Acrylic painting with confidenceSUCCESS EVERY TIME - Paint Your Way to a great Acrylic Painting with ConfidenceBy naming the book "Success Every Time", the author makes a lot of promises! It covers first of all the basics like materials, color theory and composition and design. It then...
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So Many Books!When is the perfect time to read a book? Anytime! Whether you're indoors or outside, at home or in the library, whether you're by yourself or with a friend, anytime is the right time to read a book! Featuring rhythmic, rhyming text and delightful...
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Sketching Nature: The Beginner's Guide to Keeping a Botanical SketchbookLearn how to start a botanical sketchbook, to improve both your drawing skills and your appreciation of the natural world, with renowned botanical illustrator and tutor Dianne Sutherland. Sketchbooks are a simple and accessible way of becoming more involved with nature, with all the...
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Sketching Hong Kong--The Drawings of Eddie ChauViews of China through the paint strokes of Eddie Chau. Sketching Hong Kong--The Drawings of Eddie Chau is a panoramic record of Hong Kong by the Indonesian-Chinese painter Eddie Chau. A testament to geographical history, each painting is a passage in Hong Kong's story,...
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