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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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Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related SpectaclesTracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making.Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but...
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Complete PrintmakerThis revised and expanded edition takes the reader step by step through the history and techniques of over forty-five print-making methods. From the traditional etching, engraving, lithography, and relief print processes to today's computer prints, Mylar lithography, copier prints, water-based screen printing, helio-reliefs, and...
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Jasper Johns: Catalogue Raisonné of MonotypesThe first comprehensive overview of Jasper Johns's work in an innovative medium that the artist has singlehandedly redefined over the course of four decades Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is arguably the most important living American artist, and his work is central to any history...
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The Art Detective: Adventures of an Antiques Roadshow AppraiserThe art world has never seemed so deceptive--or so much fun. A star of Antiques Roadshow shares his stories of discovering masterpieces and unmasking forgeries. How can you tell a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Philip Mould has been so successful at discovering...
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Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of MemoryA long-awaited, new interpretation of Charlotte Salomon's singular and complex modern artwork, Life? or Theatre? Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist artwork, Life? or Theatre? (Leben? oder Theater?), comprising 784 paintings and created between 1941 and 1942. This major art-historical...
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Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest MetropolisA fascinating history of Chicago's innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces...
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Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048A critical mapping of the multiplicities of Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi--composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, inventor, collector, futurologist. Over the past forty years, Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941) has been a composer of electronic music, experimental...
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Secret Tokyo: Color Your Way to CalmA coloring book that will relax and inspire -- all the while transporting you to the beautiful and elegant Japan. Get your pens out, open this book, and discover Japan. Stop before the shop windows of Tokyo and get lost in the bustle of...
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Penguin Science Fiction Postcards: 100 Book Covers in One BoxA collection of 100 postcards featuring iconic, bizarre, and mind-blowing science fiction book covers Exploring the weird, wonderful world of science fiction cover art, this set of one hundred postcards includes classic images from some of the of the heavyweights of the genre--H. G....
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Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900A celebration of the work and lives of women artists who shaped the art world of 19th-century Paris In the second half of the 19th century, Paris attracted an international gathering of women artists, drawn to the French capital by its academies and museums,...
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Jasper Johns: Redo an Eye"My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing."--Jasper Johns, 1965 Spanning over 60 years of Jasper Johns's (b. 1930) prolific career, this spectacular publication is the most comprehensive and definitive study of the artist's work...
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On Painting"For a thoughtful approach to the aesthetic and the attitudes of the art of the Renaissance as it emerged, Alberti's On Painting is clearly the one most valuable source book."--Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Alberti's Della Pittura was the first modern analytical study...
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On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity"All it takes to become an artist is to start doing art."-from On Becoming an Artist On Becoming an Artist is loaded with good news. Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer...
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Dogs as I See Them"Replicating the original 1937 edition to a T."Author: Lucy DawsonPublisher: Harper DesignPublished: 10/20/2015Pages: 96Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 11.40h x 9.50w x 0.60dISBN: 9780062412881About the AuthorDawson, Lucy: - Lucy Dawson (1870-1954) was a British illustrator best known for her paintings and etchings of sporting dogs...
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Elsa Beskow Calendar 2023: 2023A spacious month-to-view wall calendar beautifully illustrated with Elsa Beskow's vintage artwork. Elsa Beskow is one of Sweden's best-known authors and illustrators. Her picture books have been loved for more than a century. This annual calendar is beautifully illustrated with Beskow's delightful seasonal illustrations...
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Non-Goals: What to Look For When You're Looking At SoccerHow do you fall in love with a game that ends in a draw 20% of the time? A game in which goals happen on only 10% of all shots and shots happen on only 11% of all possessions?To truly love soccer, you need...
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Paint by Sticker Kids: Christmas: Create 10 Pictures One Sticker at a Time! Includes Glitter StickersPaint jolly holiday fun with stickers! Step 1: Find the sticker Step 2: Peel the sticker Step 3: Place the sticker ...and watch your Christmas painting come to life! Includes everything you need to create ten sticker paintings on study card stock. Plus, all...
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Catalogue of a collection of early drawings and pictures of London: With some contemporary furnitureCatalogue of a collection of early drawings and pictures of London: With some contemporary furniture At this great time in the nations history, when changes moral and material are following each other with such speed that we know not what a day may bring...
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Some eminent Victorians: Personal recollections in the world of art and lettersSome eminent Victorians: Personal recollections in the world of art and lettersThose of us who have emerged from the Victorian Era with an undiminished reverence for the great names which have made it memorable, must be prepared to endure with patience the pitying tolerance,...
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Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Stile in der bildenden Kunst. Zweiter Band.: Von der Renaissance bis zur GegenwartDie Entwicklungsgeschichte der Stile in der bildenden Kunst. Zweiter Band.: Von der Renaissance bis zur GegenwartDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1917 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und heute nicht mehr verwendete Schreibweisen bleiben gegenber...
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