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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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Tamara Kostianovsky: Rapacious BeautyTamara Kostianovsky's contemporary art combines beauty, violence, and post-colonial aesthetics. Latinx artist Tamara Kostianovsky began using her discarded clothes as artistic material shortly after immigrating to the United States, addressing cultural and physical displacement, assimilation and identity, and the brutal history of Latin America....
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Nature's Paintbox: Colors from the Natural World for the Young Artist (and Those Who Are Young at Heart): Colors from the Natural World fPraise for Nature's Paintbox"Beautiful and visceral, Mona leads us down a magic pathway, through easy-to-follow activities, building capacity and reverence for the spirits of the earth. Nature's Paintbox is a manual for cultivating your mythical self."-Sarah Josephs Yapelli, Moss Farm-an Eco-Non Profit"In this exquisite...
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Heritage, World Heritage, and the Future: Perspectives on Scale, Conservation, and DialogueAn exploration of heritage practice in Turkey at the intersection of academia, policy, and practice. The papers published in this volume were among those presented at the 14th International ANAMED Annual Symposium (IAAS), held at Istanbul's Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in...
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Ein Deutscher Maler: Otto Dix Und Der NationalsozialismusDie nationalsozialistische Kunstpolitik prangerte Otto Dix (1891-1969) und sein veristisches Werk als sittlichkeitsgefährdend und den Wehrwillen des deutschen Volkes beeinträchtigend an. Als Reaktion wandelte sich Dix zu einem Maler, der motivisch und stilistisch zwischen Konservatismus und kritischer Stellungnahme oszillierte und trotz Verfemung nach Anerkennung...
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Meret Oppenheim Enigmas: A Journey Through Her Life and WorkNine essays that explore key elements of Oppenheim's art and shed new light on defining aspects of her life and career. Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) is far more than just the creator of the iconic fur teacup. In the course of her career,...
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The Candy Store: Funk, Nut, and Other Art with a KickThis beautifully quirky volume pays tribute to the legendary candy-store-turned-art gallery of California and its amazing roster of artists. Adeliza McHugh helped put the whimsical, funky, and irreverent aesthetic of California's Central Valley on the art-historical map at her legendary Candy Store Gallery, which...
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Labels of Empire: Textile Trademarks - Windows Into India in the Time of the RajIt was said that at one time Great Britain clothed the world. In the 1880s, when the British textile industry was at its most prosperous to date, much of the world's population wore clothing made from fabric produced in the mills of Lancashire. From...
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What are you Looking at?What are you Looking at? details a series of public, performance-based social experiments. Framed within personal essays, Wakeland reflects on the relationship between worthiness, ordinariness, and what happens to people's attention in a capitalist system.Author: Erin WakelandPublisher: Ann Arbor District LibraryPublished: 11/07/2021Pages: 162Binding Type:...
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Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and Sèvres PorcelainThe porcelain and patronage of an influential Marquise de Pompadour. Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (1721-64), known as Madame de Pompadour, became the mistress of King Louis XV of France in 1745, and for the rest of her life, their patronage of the Vincennes (later Sèvres)...
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L.S. Lowry: The Art and the ArtistA detailed art historical monograph on the life and work of the influential painter by a renowned art critic. L. S. Lowry (1887-1976) is one of the most celebrated painters of twentieth-century England, beloved for his often mysterious paintings of urban landscapes and the...
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Art and Power: The Russian Avant-Garde Under Soviet Rule, 1917-1928Historical analysis of avante-garde art community in Russia in the years following the Russian Revolution. In Art and Power, Andrei Sarabyanov and Natalia Strizhkova explore the historical period between 1917 to the early 1930s, when avant-garde artists and Bolshevik leaders worked hand in hand...
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Men, War and Film: The Calling Blighty Films of World War IIThe Calling Blighty series of films produced by the Combined Kinematograph Service produced towards the end of the Second World War were one-reel films in which soldiers gave short spoken messages to the camera as a means of connecting the front line and the...
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Handbook of Gospel MusicBlack gospel music is music and lyrics of African American culture that express good news. The primary elements are rhythm and improvisation. The origins are in West African culture, American slavery, and theology.Although from various regions of Africa's West coast, slaves were herded together...
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Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary ArtIn Dragging Away Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists, showing how they use abstraction as a queering tactic for social and political ends. Through a process Lancaster theorizes as a drag--dragging past aesthetics into the...
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Sexually Explicit Art, Feminist Theory, and Gender in the 1970sStructured around sexual desire as the central analytical category, this monograph systematically approaches a heterogeneous array of artworks to purposefully examine the entanglements of art, feminist theory, gender, and sexuality. This book considers the potential of sexually explicit art to challenge a socially constructed...
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Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in MexicoRebecca Janzen brings a unique applied understanding of religion to bear on analysis of Mexican cinema from the Golden Age of the 1930s onward. Unholy Trinity first examines canonical films like Emilio Fernández's María Candelaria and Río Escondido that mythologize Mexico's past, suggesting that...
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Freedom Now!: Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights StrugglePhotographers shot millions of pictures of the black civil rights struggle between the close of World War II and the early 1970s, yet most Americans today can recall just a handful of images that look remarkably similar. In the popular imagination, the civil rights...
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My Painting Book HundertwasserAuthor: Friedensreich HundertwasserPublisher: Prestel JuniorPublished: 07/01/2008Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.40h x 10.40w x 0.30dISBN: 9783791341132Audience: Ages 9-12This title is only available via back order
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Literature's Elsewheres: On the Necessity of Radical Literary PracticesAn examination of a series of diverse, radical, and experimental international works from the 1950s to the present. What is a literary work? In Literature's Elsewheres, Annette Gilbert tackles this question by deploying an extended concept of literature, examining a series of diverse, radical,...
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Trace and Color: Learning Collection Ages 3-6 Easy Kids Drawing Preschool Kindergarten Ι Practice line tracing, pen control to traPerfect tool for home schooling and having fun while learning how to draw.This Super fun and Useful tracing and coloring book features more than 40 attractive images that will delight your kids and improve their creativity. They will develop fine motor skills while tracing...
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