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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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This Young MonsterThis Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as...
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One Year Wiser: The Coloring Book: Unwind with Weekly Illustrated MeditationsReflect on the wisdom of the world's great thinkers while coloring in the beautiful hand-drawn illustrations of Huffington Post blogger and Zen Buddhist practitioner Mike Medaglia. The 52 illustrated meditations within this book will leave readers inspired by the words of thinkers from Mahatma...
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Charles Tunnicliffe: Prints, a Catalogue RaisonnéA farmer's son from Cheshire, British artist Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe (1901-79) won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1920. He went on to work in numerous mediums, his favored subject matter being Britain's native birds and other fauna, always depicted punctiliously...
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Tacita Dean: Writing and FilmographyTacita Dean: Writing and Filmography, published as a companion to Tacita Dean: Landscape, Portrait, Still Life, collects the artist's writings and pairs them with a complete filmography. Dean's writings reveal her to be as sensitive a thinker as she is an image maker, and...
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The Christian Year in PaintingThe stories of Christianity and painting have been intertwined since at least the Middle Ages. The painters of the early, high and late Renaissance in Italy, Spain and northern Europe learned their art and craft while working in the service of both the Church...
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On Being an ArtistFew living artists can claim to have had the influence of Michael Craig-Martin (born 1941). Celebrated globally for his distinctive art, with numerous retrospectives and honors to his name, he has helped nurture generations of younger artists. In On Being an Artist, now published...
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Spinfluence: The Hardcore Propaganda Manual for Controlling the Masses: Fake News Special EditionTrump has it. Obama owned it. Putin would kill for it; if you've got Spinfluence, then you can twist the truth, influence opinion and control the masses. The new Fake News Special Edition of the Spinfluence comes fully loaded with the latest highly-classified information...
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Banksy. Myths & Legends Volume 2: A Further Collection of the Unbelievable and the IncredibleNo single living artist has created as many myths, rumours and legends as Banksy. In 2011 Bristol based writer Marc Leverton teamed up with Carpet Bombing Culture to bring a collection of the best of these stories together. Since then the Banksy juggernaut has...
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Nightshades: a Tourist Guide to the Nightside"Nightshades is the record of one remarkable magician's exploration of the inverse regions of the Tree of Life. Aleister Crowley's Liber 231 provides the map and Kenneth Grant's Nightside of Eden a travelogue. "Liber 231, apparently started life as a text within the Hermetic...
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What Is Art?: Conversations with Joseph BeuysJoseph Beuys, in a letter to Manfred Schradi, October 21, 1971: "I know that from him Rudolf Steiner] a mission was given to me to gradually remove people's alienation and mistrust toward the supersensible through my means. In political thinking--the field I have to...
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Mixing & Matching: Approaches to Retouching PaintingsThis text on inpainting looks at egg tempera retouching, resin retouching, and retouching complex surfaces.Author: Maureen Cross, Patricia SmithenPublisher: Archetype PublicationsPublished: 04/16/2010Pages: 198Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9781904982500This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Master Paintings from the Phillips CollectionThe Phillips Collection, America's first museum of modern art, was founded in 1921 by Duncan Phillips (1886-1966), a Washington D.C. collector who played a vital role in introducing America to contemporary art. Unusually for his time, Phillips saw American artists as fully equal to...
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Underground LivingAs editor of RE/Search, V. Vale has documented the major underground movements of the past century. Along the way he took over 100,000 photos. Here are 75 images of underground living selected from Vale's vast photographic archive. Includes photographs of early Ramones, William S....
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John Buscema SketchbookThe John Buscema Sketchbook spans the career of well-known Marvel Comics artist and art teacher, John Buscema. Hundreds of vintage, new and unpublished drawings are included. Also featured is commentary by the artist and an introduction by comic book creator, illustrator, filmmaker, and pop-culture...
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Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution: Writings 1927-1933Dal 's meditations on art and the paranoid-critical method, plus poems and moreSalvador Dal 's writings from the period in which he was most closely allied with the Surrealists have never before been translated into English. These short fictions, essays and poems contain all...
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Cleaning Painted Surfaces: Aqueous MethodsThis book contributes significantly to the selection of appropriate and controllable cleaning methods for varnished and unvarnished paint surfaces. It is a distillation of many years' experience of formulating a cleaning treatment for any given object. The general principles of the chemistry and the...
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Ithell Colquhoun: Pioneer Surrealist Artist, Occultist, Writer and PoetThe skills of Ithell Colquhoun in her main practice, that of artist and pioneer in this country of surrealistic art, have been long recognised. Additionally, other interests - alchemy, Earth-magic, active occultism, poetry, druidism, the pre-Christian pagan calendar, the history and membership of the...
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Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of ArtBeyond Vision is the first English-language collection of essays on art by Pavel Florensky (1882-1937), Russian philosopher, priest, linguist, scientist, mathematician - and art historian. In addition to seven essays by Florensky, the book includes a biographical introduction and an examination of Florensky's contribution...
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The Bird in ArtThere has until now been no proper study of the bird in art, despite our fascination with birds, and despite the wealth of complex meanings associated with them in different cultures. A number of pagan gods are linked with birds, and dynasties and empires...
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Yinka Shonibare: Criminal OrnamentationIn this book, British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare (born 1962) challenges conceptions of good taste, presenting works from the Arts Council Collection--from sculpture and painting to wallpaper and handbags--that provocatively oppose the anti-decorative stance of Adolf Loos' 1908 Ornament and Crime.Author: Yinka ShonibarePublisher: Hayward...
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