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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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Mona LisaA narrative history of how Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa came to be the most famous in the world - and one of the most powerful cultural icons of our time. What has made the Mona Lisa the most famous picture...
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Chun Kwang Young: Times ReimaginedFrom paper-wrapped parcels to crystalline living matter: a major new monograph on the biomorphic sculptures of Chun Kwang YoungKorean artist Chun Kwang Young (born 1944) is best known for his textured paper sculptures. Taking mulberry paper (the making of which is an ancient Korean...
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Peggy Ahwesh: Vision MachinesParadigm-shifting experiments in video artNew York-based artist Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954) uses repurposed images and nonprofessional child performers in her video works, which probe the critical potential of play. This book accompanies her first UK exhibition, including films and video installations made between 1993...
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Tony TassetA compendium of Tasset's playful and satirical sculptures, with responses from friends and artists such as Pamela Fraser and John WatersThe Chicago-based multimedia artist and sculptor Tony Tasset (born 1960) once said, "I'm not going for originality, I'm striving for the quintessential." Tasset indeed...
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Steve Schapiro and Theophilus Donoghue: Seventy ThirtyFather and son collaborate on a photographic panorama of humanityFamed photojournalist Steve Schapiro (1934-2022) and his son Theophilus Donoghue (born 1982) have collaborated on a photo project that is 70% Schapiro, 30% Donoghue. Seventy Thirty depicts the various faces and expressions of humanity, from...
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Expressionism in Art and FilmHow expressionism crossed genres in pursuit of the total artwork, from Nolde to MurnauAs a revolutionary cultural movement, Expressionism endeavored to join art and life and diminish the separation between the arts. The Gesamtkunstwerk--the total artwork--became the ideal for artists. Expressionism in Art and...
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Isabel Nuño de Buen: Sprengel Prize 2021: Cat. Sprengel Museum HanoverIsabel Nuño de Buen (born 1985 in Mexico City) has been awarded the SPRENGEL PRIZE 2021. The prize is awarded by the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung and the state of Lower Saxony to visual artists from Lower Saxony and aims to provide an impetus for cultural...
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Bani Abidi: The Artist WhoAbidi satirizes displays of power and nationalism in multimedia explorations of the geopolitical relationship between India and Pakistan and the history of South AsiaOne of Pakistan's most notable contemporary artists, Bani Abidi (born 1971) creates videos and multimedia works that interweave autobiographical fiction with...
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Sally GaboriA selection of the late Indigenous Australian artist's jubilantly colorful abstractionsThe Indigenous Australian artist Sally Gabori (c. 1924-2015) began painting late in life, at about the age of 80. Over the course of her 10-year career, she produced around 3,000 paintings, a volume that...
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Mexico Will Pay For This Book And Other Lies: A laugh-out-loud look at the Trump yearsThe nightmare of the Trump years is parodied in a hilarious review by award winning illustrator, turned cartoonist, Tom Curry, as he takes a jab at the Twitter Toddler and his endless lying. Working with a gold penthouse full of material, the cartoons take...
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B. Ingrid Olson: History Mother, Little SisterA sculptural and photographic dialogue with embodiedness and Le Corbusier's Carpenter CenterThis first monograph on the Chicago-based multimedia artist B. Ingrid Olson (born 1987) accompanies two simultaneous exhibitions: History Mother and Little Sister, each on a separate floor of the Carpenter Center for the...
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Oil Painting Landscapes: A Beginner's Guide to Creating Beautiful, Atmospheric Works of ArtCapture the Splendor of the Outdoors with 15 Beginner-Friendly Oil Painting Projects Your artistic ability to bring wondrous backdrops to life is just a brushstroke away with Sarah McKendry's Oil Painting Landscapes. Now you can create breathtaking scenery--even if you've never held a brush--with...
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National Identity and Nineteenth-Century Franco-Belgian SculptureThis book elaborates on the social and cultural phenomenon of national schools during the nineteenth century, via the less studied field of sculpture and using Belgium as a case study. The role, importance of, and emphasis on certain aspects of national identity evolved throughout...
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Popularisation and Populism in the Visual Arts: Attraction ImagesThis book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appeal to "all of us". One key figure these practices bring into play--the "everybody" (which stands for "all of us" and is sometimes a...
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Chinese-Islamic Works of Art, 1644-1912: A Study of Some Qing Dynasty ExamplesChinese-Islamic studies have concentrated thus far on the arts of earlier periods with less attention paid to works from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). This book focuses on works of Chinese-Islamic art from the late seventeenth century to the present day and bring to the...
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Place Matters: Critical Topographies in Word and ImageA place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names. In Place Matters scholars and artists conduct varied forms of place-based inquiry to demonstrate why place matters. Lavishly illustrated, the volume brings into conversation...
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Andere Ästhetik: Grundlagen - Fragen - PerspektivenThe CRC research project Different Aesthetics aims to change perspectives in aesthetic discussions by directing attention to the 2000-year history of European art and culture before the 18th century. This volume explains the benefit of this approach using contributions that range from the philologies...
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Van Dyck and the Making of English PortraitureA new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object of erotic fascination, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) transformed the professional identities available to English artists. By making...
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Discover Manet & Eva GonzalesThe extraordinary story behind Manet's portrait of his only pupil Eva Gonzalès, placed within the broader context of women painters of the period Edouard Manet (1832-1883) only ever had one formal pupil, Eva Gonzalès (1849-1883). The daughter of a prominent writer, she entered Manet's...
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Winterdanse: The Misplaced Art of Snow BalletThe story of ballet skiing is one of unrealized adulthood: a child of clashing influences became a mentor-deprived adolescent, ultimately orphaned and abandoned while searching for self. This wandering youngster answered to a mélange of shifting monikers - Trick, Exotic, Hotdog, Freestyle, Stunt, Ballet,...
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