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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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Name Dropping: The Cedar Bar in the 1950sFirst-person account of the famous New York City Cedar Bar in the 1950s when it was regularly visited by what came to be known as the "greatest generation in American art history." The author was friends with Willem DeKooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Philip...
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Borderless: The Art of Luis TapiaBorn in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1950, sculptor Luis Tapia is a pioneering Chicano artist who for forty-five years has pushed the art of polychrome wood sculpture to new levels of craftsmanship and social and political commentary. Tapia's works speak to the complexity...
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Brice MardenThroughout his career, American artist Brice Marden (born 1938) has explored various modes of painterly abstraction, producing monochrome canvases in nuanced, muted hues as well as calligraphic compositions on a grand scale. This book marks the long-term exhibition of Moss Sutra with the Seasons...
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Little Sammy Sneeze: The Complete Color Sunday Comics 1904-1905Before his remarkable Litttle Nemo in Slumberland, McCay created two strips starring young children. Today, Winsor McCay (1867-1934) is universally acknowledged as the first master of both the comic strip and the animated cartoon. Although invented by others, both genres were developed into enduring...
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imagine the small bonesIn poems inspired by artwork, D. Walsh Gilbert takes the reader on a journey that winds its way through life's obstacles toward freedom and empowerment. Fish and birds, creatures that move through elements that aren't completely hospitable to humans, are represented in stunning artwork...
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Nebraska's Post Office Murals: Born of the Depression, Fostered by the New DealAs a part of the New Deal that offered hope during the Great Depression, scores of public art projects were commissioned around the country. Now they are among the most enduring visual legacies of that era. Twelve Nebraska post offices were chosen to receive...
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Kaws: Where the End StartsA major survey of KAWS and his eye-popping work, from collectible art toys to UNIQLO T-shirts, from grafitti to museum exhibitionsAppropriating characters, images and effects from pop culture, the work of KAWS blurs the lines between high and low art, and between art and...
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Before and After the I-Bomb: An Artist in the Information EnvironmentThere was a time, not too long ago, when people wrote letters (and mailed them), picked up the phone and spoke to people (not voice mail systems) and considered whether to invest in expensive new fax technology as a means of speeding up communication....
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Guide to Indigenous Rock Carvings of the Northwest Coast: Petroglyphs and Rubbings of the Pacific NorthwestWhat is a petroglyph? Who made them and why? What is rock rubbing? How is it made? In her book, Guide to Indigenous Rock Carvings, Beth Hill examines these questions. She gives a fascinating introduction to the subject of First Peoples Petroglyphs of the...
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If Monet Painted a MonsterEdward Hopper's monster lurks outside the nighthawks' diner. James Whistler's monster rocks in her chair. Monsters invade masterpieces by Dorthea Tanning, Paul Cezanne, M.C. Escher, Jean Michel Basquiat, Giuseppe Archimboldo, Rene Magritte, Henri Rousseau, Franz Kline, Frida Kahlo, Bob Thompson, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Thomas Hart...
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Yves Klein: Fire at the Heart of the VoidRestany's groundbreaking, exegetic study show show the myth of fire was the culmination of the artist's quest for the immaterial. The visionary French conceptual artist and painter of the Void Yves Klein (1928-1962) was an artist with a keen philosophical mind, yet deeply spiritual.Author:...
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Isaac Julien: RiotIsaac played a pivotal role in that significant moment in the black diaspora arts, when gay sexuality, masculinity and race exploded into the same visual frame. -Stuart HallRiot is an intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (born 1960), looking at key moments...
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Claes Oldenburg: Writing on the Side 1956-1969Scripts, diaries, texts and notes from the famed Pop artistConsidered a central figure of Pop, installation art, and Happenings, Claes Oldenburg redefined existing notions of art in the 1960s with his landmark environments "The Street" and "The Store," his soft sculptures and his proposals...
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Mirror, Black MirrorNew work chronicling the prolific and life-changing time period of 2007-2011, when Garcia fled LA and moved to a cabin in the Northern California woods. The natural world inspires this work: her themes are disenchantment with modernity and the problems of becoming too removed...
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AgapeThe story of the sexual encounters of a group of individuals over the age limit. All the legal acts you can think of between humane are featured to satisfy a wide range of readers.Author: Trantkat TrantkatPublisher: Last GaspPublished: 08/01/2002Pages: 56Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 12.38h...
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The Missing InkThe loop of an l, the chewed-on pen, letters tiny or expansive: what we've lost in the error of typing and texting When Philip Hensher realized that he didn't know what a close friend's handwriting looked like, he felt that something essential was missing...
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Learning to Color with RhymesThis book will help teach a child the meaning of color by involving the child in coloring pictures that are described in short verses, or rhymes. Parents, other family members, and friends can help instill imagination by pointing to various objects in the drawings...
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Contemporary Iranian Art: New PerspectivesRenowned art historian Hamid Keshmirshekan explores contemporary art in Iran and considers the relationship between its cultural past, modernism, and the issue of contemporaneity with regard to cultural specificity.Using over three hundred color illustrations, Keshmirshekan contends that the twentieth century is a crucial period...
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Hokusai: The Great Wave (Foiled Journal)Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps,...
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Gerhard Richter: Atlas: The ReaderGerhard Richter's ongoing, encyclopedic Atlas project began in 1964, and now comprises more than 5,000 gridded photographs, diagrams, drawings and sketches. As an image archive, work tool and artist's book, Atlas sits at the very heart of Richter's practice, offering a massive summation of...
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