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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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John Sloan on Drawing and PaintingA highly regarded member of the Ashcan School of American painting, John Sloan (1871-1951) was also an influential teacher at New York's Art Students League. His dual experience as a realist painter and a graphics illustrator helped equip Sloan with the uncommon capacity to...
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Degas Drawings of DancersAmong the best known and most immediately recognizable images in art history are the superb studies and portraits of ballet dancers by Edgar Degas (1834-1917). One of the most popular of nineteenth-century artists, Degas was fascinated by movement, especially that of dancers. His highly...
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Grunge AlphabetsTaking its name from a distinctive and unconventional style of music and fashion, this innovative collection by typographer Dan X. Solo offers graphic artists a remarkable source of striking typefaces. One hundred offbeat, eye-catching alphabets include playful Fingerpaint, angular Desert Rat, whimsical Crazy Eights,...
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3-D Geometric Origami: Modular PolyhedraThis innovative book -- among the first to combine the art of origami with making polyhedra-based models -- shows papercrafters how to create over 60 different polyhedral from origami units. Comprised of modules made of single sheets of paper, the figures offer model builders...
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930 Matchbook Advertising Cuts of the Twenties and ThirtiesAdd period flair to graphic projects with rare cuts of advertising art that once decorated matchbook covers. Hundreds of royalty-free images promote everything from holiday getaways to "Scientific Body Sculpturing."Author: Trina RobbinsPublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 04/09/1997Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.48w x 0.28dISBN:...
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Erte's Theatrical Costumes in Full Color"All-around beautiful and worth picking up for anyone interested in fashion, theatre, theatrical costuming, and art." --Looking for a Good Book"This book is an absolute delight for any fan of costume design history, and it is sure to inspire budding theatrical designers. Brilliant and...
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Treasury of Art Nouveau Design & OrnamentOrnament is the essence of Art Nouveau. Throughout their two decades of dominance, Art Nouveau artists concentrated on the ornamental and decorative potential of the flowing line in painting, printing, wallpaper, and all other fine and applied arts. Hundreds of thousands of carefully wrought...
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The Elements of DrawingCan drawing -- sound, honest representation of the world as the eye sees it, not tricks with the pencil or a few effects -- be learned from a book? One of the most gifted draftsmen, who is also one of the greatest art critics...
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Drawings of Albrecht DürerOriginally published in Munich in 1914, this selection of Albrecht D rer's finest drawings by the great art historian Heinrich W fflin has long been regarded as a basic book in the arts. It has gone through many editions in Europe, even though this...
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Zen Sudoku Hardback: Puzzle & Coloring BookForget those ugly computer-generated Sudoku puzzles and feast your eyes on what may be the most beautiful Sudoku Puzzle Book in existence.This eye-popping collection features 20 original, hand-drawn Sudoku puzzles - including 6 epic Samurai Sudokus. With each puzzle there is one solution, but...
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My Rad Life: A JournalAn inspiring, empowering journal that encourages its owners to think, create, reflect, and explore their own radness. A companion to the New York Times bestsellers Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide, this cool guided journal draws from a number of the rad...
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Model Making: A Basic GuideModel Making is an introduction to the craft for students of architecture; landscape architecture; urban, interior, and theatrical design; or anyone who has the need or desire to make the large small. In concise instructions and nearly 200 charming, easy-to-follow drawings the book details...
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The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio MasterpieceTold with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story. An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in...
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Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques + Truly Original ProjectsThis is a book for low budgets and high ambition. Read it and you will learn how to put images of things onto other things. You will start by rolling up your sleeves. Your shirt will be stained anyways. At some point, you will...
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Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the Cara ExhibitionIn the early 1990s, a major exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985 toured major museums around the United States. As a first attempt to define and represent Chicano/a art for a national audience, the exhibit attracted both praise and controversy, while raising fundamental...
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Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's "Irreverent Apparition" [With CD (Audio)]Months before Alma López's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed. Protest rallies, prayer vigils,...
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Meaning in the Visual ArtsSince its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for those with more specialized interests, a profound discussion of art and life...
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Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our AgeAccording to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning the entire concept of originality....
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Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, PainterThis first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into obscurity after leaving New York to marry a scientist in Baltimore, and her constant efforts to reinvent her style and subject matter. Along...
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Typography: A Very Short IntroductionTypography, the art of designing printed words, was once the domain of an elite few artists but has become an area with which millions of people engage daily. The widespread usage of digital devices from laptops to tablets and smart phones which are used...
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