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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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Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes IconHow does an image become iconic? In Christ to Coke, eminent art historian Martin Kemp offers a highly original look at the main types of visual icons. Lavishly illustrated with 165 color images, this marvelous work illuminates eleven universally recognized images, both historical and...
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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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Leonardo's Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart CourtsThe Salvator Mundi is the first Leonardo painting to be discovered for over a century. Following its re-emergence, it played a leading role in the landmark Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London in 2011, after which it was purchased by a Russian...
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Art in Renaissance Italy: 1350-1500The Italian Renaissance was a pivotal period in the history of Western culture during which artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo created some of the world's most influential and exciting works in a variety of artistic fields. Here, Evelyn Welch presents...
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Early Art and Architecture of AfricaThis new history of over 5,000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Garlake focuses on seven key regions--southern Africa, Nubia, Aksum, the Niger River, West...
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Modern ArchitectureColquhoun, an eminent scholar in the field of architecture, offers here a new account of international modernism that explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The book focuses on the work of the main architects of the...
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Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles"Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual, and frequently both." -- Boston Sunday GlobeIn Caravaggio, New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose offers an enthralling account of the life and work...
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Jorge Tacla: The Jorge Tacla ArchivesNotebooks, drawings and ephemera from the acclaimed Chilean painter's Smithsonian bequestChilean painter Jorge Tacla (born 1958) depicts architectural and urban ruins in the wake of catastrophe, natural or man-made. In 2019, the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art acquired Tacla's papers--drawings, correspondence, photographs, notebooks and...
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Csaba Fürjesi: Time OutTwenty-five years of material experimentation from a Hungarian printmakerHungarian artist Csaba Fürjesi (born 1969) works in painting, drawing and photography, with a special emphasis on prints and material experimentation. His oeuvre presents a world that is simultaneously innocuous and surreal.Author: Csaba FurjesiPublisher: Verlag Fur...
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Picasso - El GrecoTracing the contours of Picasso's evolving dialogue with the master of phantasmagorical figurationIn his youth, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) frequented the Prado Museum, rejecting a formal education in favor of studying the works of the old masters himself. El Greco (1541-1614) particularly captivated his attention,...
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Wolfgang Laib: Crossing the RiverLaib's tranquil installations celebrate simplicity and transienceThe oeuvre of the German installation artist Wolfgang Laib (born 1950) expresses a deep-seated belief in formal and conceptual simplicity, as informed by his formative life experiences in India and the teachings of the ancient Taoist philosopher Lao...
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Stéphan Gladieu: Homo DétritusA folk-art movement emerges in the face of unchecked consumerism and waste managementDressed in masks and costumes made from garbage, a generation of Congolese street children and artists draw their inspiration from ancestral clothing arts to stand against the ecological disaster their country suffers....
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A Forgery of Roses"A deliciously twisted gothic fantasy you'll want to read again and again, with characters you'll adore, prose that'll spellbind you, romance you'll swoon over, and a mystery that'll keep you guessing until the last stunning twist."--Diana Urban, author of These Deadly GamesFrom the author...
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South of CentreA young woman places a secret marker at an old man's grave, but does she really understand the significance of what he has left behind?Clorinda is a solitary young woman who freelances as a seamstress in a small desert town where things rarely change....
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Moma Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American ArtThree Centuries of American Art in 1938 was the Museum of Modern Art's first international exhibition. With over 750 artworks on view in Paris ranging from seventeenth-century colonial portraits to Mickey Mouse and spanning architecture, film, folk art, painting, prints, and sculpture, it was...
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Robert Motherwell Drawings: A Catalogue RaisonneThis highly anticipated, definitive publication documenting Robert Motherwell's 1,413 known drawings is an essential resource for artists, scholars, collectors, and aficionados Chosen by Brooklyn Rail as one of the "Ten Best Art Books of 2022" The drawings of Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) are critical to...
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Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later LifeAuthor: Scott HerringPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 12/13/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.70w x 0.90dISBN: 9780231205450
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A Sacred Journey- An in-depth analysis of an exquisite series of 19th-century Pahari paintings that depict the journey of five pilgrims to the land of Lord Shiva - The book features detailed descriptions of the paintings, their subtle nuances and spiritual significance - Includes over 170...
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Beautiful Baby Boy Ideas Scrapbook Paper 8x8 Designer Baby Shower Scrapbook Paper Ideas for Decorative Art, DIY Projects, Homemade Crafts, Cool NurserPerfect craft paper book for gift wrap, card making, origami, scrapbooking, collage art, printmaking, decoupage, diy craft projects, gift tags, home decor pieces and much more! 12 8"x8" sheets of 6 designs (2 each) specialty paper for art crafts and making memory books Single...
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