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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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Moon by the Window: The Calligraphy and Zen Insights of Shodo HaradaShodo Harada is internationally recognized both as a Zen teacher and as a world-class master of the fine art of Zen calligraphy. Harada regularly exhibits and gives calligraphy demonstrations in museums and universities in the U.S. and abroad. Accomplished Zen teachers from across the...
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TasteOur taste buds are a powerful way for humans to know beauty and experience beautiful things. In Taste, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and experience...
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Unrealism: New Figurative PaintingAuthor: Jeffrey DeitchPublisher: Rizzoli ElectaPublished: 10/01/2019Pages: 344Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.75lbsSize: 11.20h x 9.20w x 1.50dISBN: 9780847862429About the AuthorJeffrey Deitch has helped to build the careers of some of the leading contemporary artists as a gallerist and curator. He is the former Director of the...
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Obey: Supply and DemandRizzoli is pleased to bring back into print OBEY: Supply and Demand, Shepard Fairey's first book originally published in 2006 and slightly updated in 2009, which showcases the artist's career from his earliest art school years to the creation of his famous Obama HOPE...
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GraceGrace's name may be a bit of a misnomer, for graceful she is not. She wants to be a ballerina, but dancing is not her forte. Give it up, Grace, the other girls tell her. Saddened, Grace turns to drawing--and when she does, she...
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Drawing Basics and Video Game Art: Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game DesignThis book supports my own 30-year crusade to demonstrate that games are an art form that undeniably rivals traditional arts. It gives detailed explanations of game art techniques and their importance, while also highlighting their dependence on artistic aspects of game design and programming."...
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Art from Intuition: Overcoming Your Fears and Obstacles to Making ArtPractical self-help for artists who want to free their creativity. Art from Intuition offers artists everywhere a unique system for freeing their own creative intuition, the sixth sense that directs an artist's drive and work. By letting go of the self-criticism, doubt, and insecurity...
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Draw 50 Famous Cartoons: The Step-By-Step Way to Draw Your Favorite Classic Cartoon CharactersA barrel of laughs is what aspiring cartoonists of all ages will have while they learn to draw their favorite characters from the funny pages.Author: Lee J. AmesPublisher: Watson-GuptillPublished: 09/11/2012Pages: 64Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 10.83h x 8.49w x 0.17dISBN: 9780823085682Audience: Ages 9-12About the AuthorLee...
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Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio PracticeAteliers have produced the greatest artists of all time--and now that educational model is experiencing a renaissance. These studios, a return to classical art training, are based on the nineteenth-century model of teaching artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period...
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Photography and the Optical UnconsciousPhotography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency. In...
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Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her CircleCreator of such acclaimed works as the performance Meat Joy and the film Fuses, for decades the artist Carolee Schneemann has saved the letters she has written and received. Much of this correspondence is published here for the first time, providing an epistolary history...
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Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk PotteryAbundantly illustrated, Brothers in Clay tells the story of Georgia's rich folk pottery tradition--the historical forces that shaped it and the families and individual artisans who continue to keep it alive. This pioneering book marked the first intensive study of a southern state's pottery...
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A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art HistoryA landmark collection of essays on the intersections of visual art, cultural studies, and environmental history in America. Issues of ecology--both as they appear in the works of nature writers and in the works of literary writers for whom place and the land are...
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Nikita Gale: In a Dream You Climb the Stairs- Nikita Gale: IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS is the first artist book by the acclaimed artist- Includes an interview with Barbara Kruger and original contributions by P. Staff, Hilton Als and Dr. Bénédicte Boisseron- Features four original visual essays by Gale:...
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The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture Under Communism" Isaiah Berlin's response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Born a Russian subject in Riga in 1909, he spoke Russian as a child and witnessed both revolutions in St. Petersburg in 1917, emigrating to the West...
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A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function: Poems and PaintingsEchoing the muscular rhythms of the heart beat, the poems in this stunning collection alternate between contraction and expansion. Eric Gansworth explores the act of enduring, physically, historically, and culturally. A member of the Haudenosaunee tribe, Gansworth expresses the tensions experienced by members of...
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Designer's Guide to ColorThe books that make up the Designer's Guide to Color series were created as professional tools for the graphic designer, but with more than 1,000 innovative color combinations presented in each volume, they are an invaluable reference to anyone making a decision about color....
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Henry Dunay: A Precious Life'Henry Dunay - A Precious Life' is both a lavish album of Dunay's finest designs and a biography that tells the amazing story of his rise from an immigrant family to the heights of the jewellery world.Author: Penny Proddow, Marion FaselPublisher: ABRAMSPublished: 12/01/2007Pages: 223Binding...
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Charles M. Russell: The Women in His Life and ArtCharles M. Russell has long been recognized for his action-packed paintings, drawings, and sculpture of cowboys, fur trappers, Native American buffalo hunters and warriors, and other heroes of the Old West. Russell's best-known works capture the excitement and deadly risk of men battling nature...
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Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures: Art from the Paul Dyck CollectionOver the course of his career, artist Paul Dyck (1917-2006) assembled more than 2,000 nineteenth-century artworks created by the buffalo-hunting peoples of the Great Plains. Only with its acquisition by the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West has this...
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