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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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Slavery and the Invention of Dutch ArtIn Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art, Caroline Fowler examines the fundamental role of the transatlantic slave trade in the production and evolution of seventeenth-century Dutch art. Whereas the sixteenth-century image debates in Europe engaged with crises around the representation of divinity, Fowler...
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Seeing Through Closed Eyelids: Giuseppe Penone and the Nature of SculptureCan a work of art help us know our world differently? In this first scholarly study of Giuseppe Penone, art historian Elizabeth Mangini argues that the Italian artist's engagement of the body's multiple senses constitutes a new theory of sculpture as a means to...
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Seaside Watercolour: How to Paint Seascapes and Costal ViewsA seascape painting book that introduces readers to watercolour techniques, presenting basic knowledge in a concise and accessible way so that through practice and perseverance, they can begin to immerse themselves in the magical world of watercolours. This book on watercolour techniques helps readers...
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Rocky's Road: A Coloring Book for Children of Incarcerated Parents.Author: Janice M. BealPublisher: XlibrisPublished: 08/08/2014Pages: 50Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.13dISBN: 9781479784288This title is not returnable
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Practical Jazz Theory for Improvisation: Chords and Scales"Practical Jazz Theory for Improvisation" is a jazz theory text with an emphasis on improvisation. Originally conceived as the Jazz Theory/Improvisation text and curriculum for the 2014 National Jazz Workshop, it has already been adopted by several university jazz programs. This book begins at...
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Poetics of Repair: Contemporary Arts and Afterlives of Colonial-Era Mass Housing in the MaghrebToday, most colonial-era modernist mass housing is seen as fundamentally broken: crumbling concrete spaces of social alienation and containment that fractured societies both then and now. In Poetics of Repair, Katarzyna Pieprzak examines how contemporary visual, literary, and performance art of the Maghreb has...
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Paint This Book!: Watercolor for the Artistically UndiscoveredYes, really! Young or old, there is an artist in each of us. If yours is hiding (perhaps behind a shred of self-consciousness?), just remember: Art is personal expression. You have your talent. Nobody else has anything like it! If you are ready to...
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Painting the Cosmos: Art and Iconography of the Ceramics of Ancient PanamaThe result of decades of study, Alan Grinnell's Painting the Cosmos presents the spectacular and underappreciated art of Panama and its revealing iconography. Emphasizing brightly painted polychrome designs with complex iconography on myriad ceramic forms, the art of Central Panama (ca. 200 BCE-1500 CE)...
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Old Soul, New Creation: Experiencing God Through a Life of Art and FaithRenew your soul through the beauty of art and creativity. Certified as one of nine Master Penmen in the world, fine artist Jake Weidmann invites you to immerse yourself in the centuries-old tradition of communing with God through creative work in this incredible art-driven...
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Old Master Life Drawings: 44 PlatesFrom earliest days, artists have sought to record the beauty, form, movement, and infinite variety of the human body. Among the most successful were the great masters of the various European traditions and schools of art. The extraordinary skill, inspiration, and technique they brought...
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Never Ending: Modernist Painting Past and FutureA new history of postwar painting that explores how the desire to look backward shaped some of the period's most radical artmaking This incisive account of modernism's postwar development examines how painters, such as Joan Mitchell, Barnett Newman, and Rose Piper, invoked tradition in...
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Motion Illustration: How to Use Animation Techniques to Make Illustrations MoveMotion Illustration is a broad introduction to the emerging world of moving illustrations, written specifically for those coming from an illustration background. Bridging together illustration and animation disciplines in a new way, Adam Osgood shows that producing motion illustrations is achievable for anyone. Whether...
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Monumental: The Art of David AdickesAs the creator of the 67-foot-tall "Big Sam" statue of Sam Houston that overlooks Interstate 45 just south of Huntsville, Texas, David Adickes is a pivotal, if sometimes enigmatic, figure in Texas art. Though he made many contributions to the early development of the...
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Monira Al Qadiri: Refined VisionFrom Texas to the Persian Gulf, Al Qadiri's installations underscore the wealth and infrastructures of regions dependent on oilBerlin-based artist Monira Al Qadiri's (born 1983) work examines "petro-cultures," where society is defined by its dependence on oil. For Refined Vision, Al Qadiri's film and...
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Minor White, Memorable FanciesThe personal journals of one of postwar America's most influential photographers, published for the first time One of the most significant unpublished texts in the history of photography, Memorable Fancies is the daybooks of Minor White, an artist who played a leading role in...
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Mary Weatherford: The Flaying of MarsyasMary Weatherford: The Flaying of Marsyas documents an exhibition of new paintings by Mary Weatherford, which were presented in 2022 at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, to coincide with the 59th Biennale di Venezia. This catalog documents an exhibition of paintings from 2021-22...
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Making Charcoal for ArtistsAuthor: Kate BoucherPublisher: Crowood Press (UK)Published: 02/01/2025Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.70w x 0.40dISBN: 9780719844065About the AuthorKate Boucher is a professional artist who specialises in drawing the landscape with charcoal. She is a QEST scholar and has won numerous awards. She also...
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Little Hoo Makes ValentinesLittle Hoo is getting ready for Valentine's Day... and getting really frustrated. Little Hoo wants to make Valentine's Day cards for all of his friends but it's trickier and more time consuming than he thought. For all the moms who have ever helped their...
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Lessons in Realistic Watercolor: A Contemporary Approach to Painting People and Places in the Classical TraditionInspiring, concise, and practical, Mario Andres Robinson gives watercolorists of every skill level - from beginner to advanced to professional - encouraging advice and the must-have materials and techniques information they need to take their realistic painting to the next level.In the tradition of...
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Learn2drawAuthor: Wagner Anarca ''Papis''Publisher: XlibrisPublished: 04/11/2013Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26dISBN: 9781483607030This title is not returnable
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