Art
-
Faithgirlz Promises for You Coloring Devotional: 60 Days Discovering God's Hope and LoveTake time to enjoy God's Word and color images from his beautiful world. In this 60-day coloring devotional filled with unique illustrations and patterns, you will read about God's unchanging promises through NIV Bible verses, paired with detailed line art. Each page is printed...
- ¥3,656 JPY
- ¥3,656 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Best Hair Book Ever!: Cute Cuts, Sweet Styles and Tons of Tress TipsBuh-bye, bad hair days This complete guide to care, cuts and cute styles makes it easy to have amazing hair each and every day of the week. With tons of tutorials for pretty ponies, bold braids and easy updos, you'll go from school to...
- ¥4,217 JPY
- ¥4,217 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca SalsburyA captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. New York, 1921: acclaimed photographer Alfred Stieglitz celebrates the success of his...
- ¥8,442 JPY
- ¥8,442 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Jackson Pollock: Energy Made VisibleFriedman has captured the excitement of the artist at work--the tortuous groping towards an idea and the sense of fulfillment in its ultimate creation. It is, indeed, a definitive biography. It is documented. It is solid. But best of all, it is lively.--Chicago Tribune...
- ¥5,143 JPY
- ¥5,143 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval EuropeThe late medieval world was marked by a culture of refinement and sophistication. The period's media of choice--paintings, manuscripts, prints, tapestries, embroideries, ivory sculpture, metalwork, and enamels--speak volumes about the pleasures of sensory engagement. Art objects were touched, smelled, tasted, and heard, as well...
- ¥23,517 JPY
- ¥23,517 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Alex Katz, This Is NowA handsomely illustrated look at the landscape paintings of a contemporary American master Over the course of a seven-decade career, American artist Alex Katz (b. 1927) has conveyed his singular vision of the world through paintings that fuse realism and abstraction, allowing details to...
- ¥16,282 JPY
- ¥16,282 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific ArtThe first comprehensive, interdisciplinary accounting of Nabokov's scientific work, its significance in his artistry, and his contribution to evolutionary theory This landmark book is the first full appraisal of Vladimir Nabokov's long-neglected contributions as a scientist. Although his literary achievements are renowned, until recently...
- ¥21,707 JPY
- ¥21,707 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Agnes MartinNew discourse on four decades of painting by one of the 20th century's most influential artists Gorgeously quiet in color and composition, Agnes Martin's paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the...
- ¥21,707 JPY
- ¥21,707 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian PaintingIn the London circles of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic Leighton, the notion of "art for art's sake" became a shared concern: if art is not created for the sake of preaching a moral lesson, or supporting a political cause, or making a fortune,...
- ¥26,129 JPY
- ¥26,129 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering StraitThe appearance during the first millennium A.D. of small, exquisitely carved artifacts of walrus ivory in the Bering Strait region marks the beginning of an extraordinary florescence in the art and culture of North America. The discovery in the 1930s and 1940s of world-class...
- ¥17,687 JPY
- ¥17,687 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
ChardinWidely acknowledged in his time as a premier painter of still life and genre scenes, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779) created unsentimentalized works that appeal to viewers today for their richness of feeling and simplicity of composition. This sumptuously illustrated book reproduces in full color 99...
- ¥26,129 JPY
- ¥26,129 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Social Formation and Symbolic LandscapeHailed as a landmark in its field since its first publication in 1984, Denis E. Cosgrove's Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape has been influential well beyond geography. It has continued to spark lively debate among historians, geographers, art historians, social theorists, landscape architects, and...
- ¥10,029 JPY
- ¥10,029 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Understanding Northwest Coast Art: A Guide to Crests, Beings and SymbolsUnderstanding Northwest Coast Art is a handy, dictionary-style reference guide to identifying and understanding the symbols, crests, and beings depicted in Northwest Coast Native American works of art such as totem poles, masks, and prints.The first section of the book features an alphabetical list...
- ¥6,458 JPY
- ¥6,458 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
How Writing Came aboutTop 100 Books on Science, American Scientist, 2001 In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat set forth her...
- ¥7,223 JPY
- ¥7,223 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Architectural Vessels of the Moche: Ceramic Diagrams of Sacred Space in Ancient PeruElaborately decorated monumental architecture, royal tombs, and ritual human sacrifice have established the Moche of ancient Peru (AD 200-800) as a culturally rich and ideologically complex civilization. Because the Moche did not have a text-based writing system, their sophisticated works of art, which communicated...
- ¥22,913 JPY
- ¥22,913 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743The most comprehensive book on the paintings and frescoes of Florence -- with nearly 2,000 beautifully reproduced artworks from the city's great museums and churches -- is now available in a practical and elegant paperback format. From the paintings on display at the Uffizi...
- ¥13,502 JPY
- ¥13,502 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The RuralAn investigation through texts, interviews, and documentation of the complex relationship between the urban, the rural, and contemporary cultural production.What, and where, is "the Rural"? From the rocks that break a farmer's plough on a field in Japan to digital infrastructures that organize geographically...
- ¥7,021 JPY
- ¥7,021 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth CenturyJonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory...
- ¥8,426 JPY
- ¥8,426 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DocumentsAn exploration of the unsettling collisions of art and culture in Georges Bataille's revolutionary journal and a new consideration of twentieth-century masterpieces by Picasso, Mir , Dal , and others against the canvas of their renegade times.In the Paris art world of the 1920s,...
- ¥12,648 JPY
- ¥12,648 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Field of Cultural ProductionDuring the last two decades, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has become a dominant force in cultural activity ranging from taste in music and art to choices in food and lifestyles. The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's major essays on art and literature and...
- ¥6,983 JPY
- ¥6,983 JPY
- Unit price
- per