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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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Robert Crumb. Sketchbook Vol. 2. 1968-1975It's the old story. When TASCHEN released the first limited edition of R. Crumb Sketchbooks: 1982-2011, fans drooled over the gorgeous packaging of this six-volume boxed set, the artist's thoughtful editing, the hand-written introduction, marbleized page edges, and signed Crumb colored art print. Not...
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Ripped and Torn: 1976-1979Ripped and Torn was one of the first punk fanzines, and continued long after others like Sniffing Glue had stopped. Ripped and Torn began in in Glasgow in November 1976 and carried on into the next wave of punk. It ran for eighteen issues,...
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Reza Aramesh: Action: By NumberDecontextualized scenes of violence explore art historical notions of iconography and representationWorking across a wide range of materials, Reza Aramesh (born 1970) examines simultaneously the history of Western European art and contemporary commentary on the politics and history of global conflict zones, merging a...
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Probabilistic Aesthetics of the Avant-Gardes: Predictive ArtsKonrad Wojnowski argues that the probabilistic revolution, while recognized and investigated by historians of science, has been largely overlooked in the field of art. He shows that the idea that one can perceive and comprehend reality in terms of shifting probabilities was clearly present...
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Plays with FilmsPlays with Films brings together texts of the final three productions of Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery: Zomboid (2006), Wake Up Mr. Sleepy Your Unconscious Mind is Dead (2007), and Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland (2008). In these three exhilarating and...
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Pierre Soulages: From Midnight to TwilightA heartfelt dedication to the creator of Outrenoir and his experiments with light reflected from blackDedicated to Colette Soulages, From Midnight to Twilight celebrates 70 years of artwork by Pierre Soulages (1919-2022) on the first anniversary of his death. The exhibition catalog includes a...
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Paul Landacre: California Hills, Hollywood, and the World Beyond: A Catalogue Raisonn?With his virtuosic prints of rolling California hills, classically inspired nudes, and natural and manmade forms--from a seashell to his own printing press--Paul Landacre elevated wood engraving to a high art form in twentieth-century America. Landacre's ceaseless stylistic innovation placed his work in dialogue...
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Paul HuxleyPaul Huxley RA (b.1938) has enjoyed a distinguished career both as a painter and a teacher. Huxley's fascinating artistic life, expertly surveyed by Jeremy Lewison, is at last given the attention that it deserves in this, the first monograph on the artist.Huxley's early interest...
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PastoralPastoral is a romp through subject matter that makes Cooper supremely happy. Expect humor, expect sensuality, expect chickens, expect all three in one image. If that sounds like a damn good time to you we think you will get along famously with Cooper. Pastoral...
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Paint the National Parks: A Watercolor Journey - Includes Traceable Templates and Video TutorialsTake a journey across the United States as you paint stunning scenes and subjects from some of America's most iconic places in glorious watercolor. Paint the National Parks: A Watercolor Journey showcases 20 of the most popular national parks from throughout the United States....
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Painting Us Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its LegaciesA fresh look at the global dimensions of US painting from the 1850s to 1898. Painting US Empire is the first book to offer a synthetic account of art and US imperialism around the globe in the nineteenth century. In this work, art historian...
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Out of Paper: Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s AmericaA dynamic look at how artists used paper to radically redefine the relationship between the body and its surroundings, and to propose new conceptions of ecology From sketches created inside pants pockets to paper-strewn performances that took cues from protests and riots, the work...
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Outback: Westerns in Australian CinemaOutback is essentially a study of how the Western genre has evolved in Australian cinema history over more than a century. The book reflects on what constitutes the nature of the genre, on its prolificacy in Australia, and on some of the recurring thematic...
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Organic Modernism: From the British Bauhaus to CyberneticsWhen artists, scientists, and designers unite they create new ways of thinking and alternative paths to problem solving. The first book to trace the story of British "organic modernism", this ground-breaking open access study tells the story of a collective culture of artists, scientists,...
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Obata's Yosemite Note Card Set [With Envelopes]The remarkable Yosemite woodblock prints of Chiura Obata have been acclaimed as some of the finest California art of the twentieth century. Now ten of Obata's most colorful and striking works, taken from his award-winning book, Obata's Yosemite, are available as a boxed notecards...
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Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical AnthologyAlthough Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unrecognized and been excluded from art history canons. Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art provides a critical survey of Puerto Rican art production in the...
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Non-Artistic KitschThe book aims to provide a contemporary individual with an extensive but focused set of examples of kitsch in non-artistic spheres to create theoretical and practical backgrounds for conscious recognition of kitsch in fields like psychology, education, politics, law, religion, terrorism, television, or journalism....
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Noah DavisThis striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community. American artist Noah Davis (1983-2015) believed 'painting does something to your soul that nothing else can. It is visceral...
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Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada Volume 44In 1891 J. Murakami travelled from Japan, via San Francisco, to Vancouver Island and began working in and around Victoria. His occupation: creating permanent images on the skin of paying clients. From this early example of tattooing as work, Jamie Jelinski takes us from...
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Nature Drawing: Trees: A Guided Sketchbook with Prompts & Tips from the ProsWhether you're drawing a lone sapling or a majestic forest, this handy reference guide offers simple drawing steps to help you capture the beauty of trees. Featuring dozens of illustrations of various types of trees, such as oak, willow, and pine, you'll learn basic...
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