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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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The Wonderful Towers of WattsThe incredible artwork of an Italian immigrant who followed his dream of monumental proportions in the impoverished Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles is revealed in this fascinating and engaging true story. A Reading Rainbow selection! Simon (Sam) Rodia had no formal engineering or architectural...
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Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin DadaGrotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch as they challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and early-20th-century science. Demonstrating the often excessive measures that pathologists, anthropologists, sexologists, and medical professionals...
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Iljuwas Bill Reid: Life & WorkFew twentieth-century artists were catalysts for the reclamation of a culture, but Iljuwas Bill Reid (1920-1998) was among them. The first book on Reid by an Indigenous scholar details his incredible journey to becoming one of the most significant Northwest Coast artists of our...
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An Introduction to Film and TV Production: From Concept to MarketThis streamlined, step-by-step guide provides students and newcomers in the field of media with an overview of the complete production process, from conceiving of an idea to marketing the final product.Readers will learn what it takes to create a concept, develop it, and then...
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Destroy the Copy - Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th-20th Centuries: Demolition, Defacement, Disposal in Europe and BeyondBased on two international conferences held at Cornell University and the Freie Universität of Berlin in 2010 and 2015, this volume is the first ever to explicitly address the destruction of plaster cast collections of ancient Mediterranean and Western sculpture. Focusing on Europe, the...
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Noah's Ark, Tourist ClassThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Marfa SoundingComposers, artists and writers from Alvin Lucier and Charles Curtis to Claudia La Rocco and James Fei discuss the lineages and politics of Minimalist musicFocusing on "phase shifting" in music (i.e. where two or more versions of a sound or motif are played simultaneously...
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Magdalena Abakanowicz: Writings and ConversationsProse poems, talks, conversations and more from the leading postwar sculptorSpanning her lengthy career, this compendium of Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz's (1930-2017) writings is the first to bring together her prose poems, her lectures, correspondence with other artists and interviews (including a previously unpublished...
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A Contemporary Journey Into Video Art: On the Fringes of IdentitySurveying international video art todayThis fully illustrated catalog appraises the diversity of video art today. Artists include Ramin Haerizadeh, Arash Nassiri, Shirin Neshat, Erkan Özgen, Maya Watanabe, Adrián Balseca, Javier Castro, Jonathas de Andrade, Pipilotti Rist, Bill Viola, Thao Nguyen Phan, Aziz Hazara and...
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The Tudors: Passion, Power and PoliticsOn the Tudors and their legacy, from Henry VIII to Elizabeth IThis illustrated volume shows how the Tudor monarchs of Britain engaged with the internationalism of court culture; the tumultuous years of the Reformation; and the emergence of the transatlantic slave trade and English...
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Sinatra and Me: The Very Good YearsAn intimate look at the legendary Frank Sinatra by one of his closest friends. Not many people were allowed inside Frank Sinatra's inner circle. But Tony Consiglio was a boyhood friend of Sinatra's who remained his friend and confidant for over sixty years. One...
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The Art of Minorities: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North AfricaHow are issues related to identity representation negotiated in Middle Eastern and North African museums? Can museums provide a suitable canvas for minorities to express their voice? Can narratives change and stereotypes be broken and, if so, what kind of identities are being deployed?...
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Monet. Le Triomphe de l'ImpressionnismeÀ part Turner, aucun artiste n'a comme Claude Monet (1840-1926) travaillé autant à capturer la lumière sur la toile. De tous les impressionnistes, celui dont Cézanne disait qu'il n'était qu'un oeil, mais bon Dieu, quel oeil! est le seul à ne jamais s'être écarté...
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The Art of Masamune Shirow: Volume 3: EroticaTHE ART OF MASAMUNE SHIROWVOLUME 3: EROTICAby Jeremy Mark RobinsonThis is a study of the erotic art of Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan), a Japanese artist best known for the comics Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion:...
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Vintage Art: Emile-Allain Seguy: 16 Fine Art Prints: Butterfly Ephemera for Framing, Decoupage, Collage and Mixed MediaVintage Art: Emile-Allain Seguy: 16 Fine Art Prints features reproductions of intricate butterfly pochoir plates by Emile-Allain Seguy (1877-1951 ), a French designer. Emile specialised in Art Deco and Art Nouveau design, textile patterns and illustrations of insects. Throughout this curated collection, there are...
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Corporate Cultural Responsibility: How Business Can Support Art, Design, and CultureIs corporate investing in the arts and culture within communities good business? Written by an expert on the topic who ran the Corporate Art Program at Johnson & Johnson, the book sets out the case for business patronage of the arts and culture and...
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The Eugene Mosley Story: The Kid That Accepted God's CallingThe Eugene Mosley Story follows the life of Eugene Mosley, explaining how he overcame adversary, bullying, and doubt. Eugene overcame these obstacles to become a legendary Jazz Portrait Artist, traveling the world, meeting some of the most influential and powerful people alive, and establishing...
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Victorian Connections: The Literary and Artistic Circles of William and Helen Allingham from the Collections of Grolier Club MembersDrawn entirely from the collections of Grolier Club members, this catalogue is devoted to the husband and wife duo William (1824-1889) and Helen Allingham (1848-1926), the former a poet, diarist, and editor and the latter one of the most successful artists of her time....
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Indians Playing Indian: Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North AmericaExplores how American Indian artists have responded to the pervasive misunderstanding of indigenous peoples as cultural minorities in the United States and Canada Contemporary indigenous peoples in North America confront a unique predicament. While they are reclaiming their historic status as sovereign nations, mainstream...
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Allart Van Everdingen: Master of the Rugged LandscapeThe first English-language introduction to the evocative, detailed and subversively artificial landscapes of a neglected Dutch masterIn 1644 the young Dutch artist Allart van Everdingen (1621-75) traveled in Norway. It was an inspiring experience that set the course for his career. He went on...
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