Art
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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Serendipity: The Afterlife of the ObjectAn exploration of the sadness, as well as the joy, of unexpected discoveries in history and life. Carol Mavor's first "happy accident" occurred in 1980 when visiting New York's Serendipity 3, a dessert café favored by Andy Warhol. Mavor's memory of eating a frozen...
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Sargent and ParisA fascinating look at John Singer Sargent's formative years as a young painter in Paris, a city that helped forge his artistic identity and sparked his rise to the pinnacle of the nineteenth-century art world In 1874, eighteen-year-old American artist John Singer Sargent went...
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Sakina and the Uninvited GuestsWhen a sandstorm descends upon the city, Sakina and her mama forego their plans to visit the beach and head to the local museum instead. While Sakina yawns and scowls at the boring old relics, her mama's eyes keep filling with tears, moved by...
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Sacred Circles Mandala Coloring Book: 108 Mandalas You Can Color to Relieve Stress, Improve Focus and Meditate OnSacred Circles Mandala Coloring Book features 108 mandalas for you to color (30 intricate full-page mandala designs and 78 smaller mandalas). The book also includes an introduction to art therapy, written by an art therapist, as well information on how to color mandalas and...
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Ruth Asawa: RetrospectiveA landmark survey of the wide-ranging practice of one of the twentieth century's most innovative artists Best known for her sinuous looped-wire sculptures, Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) used everyday materials to create endlessly innovative works in a variety of media over her more than six-decade-long...
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ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action 10.24ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action is a magazine conceived as an agent of community building and transformation. Its innovative and accessible forum brings different perspectives to bear on the complex problems facing us, while inviting greater familiarity with psychoanalysis as an important lens...
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RoihuWhat would the suburbs look like if fire was never invented? Can a person get pregnant from a single look? What's it like growing up as the only gay person in a village in Lapland? Another carefully woven set of cutting-edge Finnish comics storytelling.Roihu...
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Ribera's Repetitions: Paper and Canvas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish NaplesThe seventeenth-century Valencian artist Jusepe de Ribera spent most of his career in Spanish Viceregal Naples, where he was known as "Lo Spagnoletto," or "the Little Spaniard." Working under the patronage of Spanish viceroys, Ribera held a special position bridging two worlds. In Ribera's...
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Rayguns and Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book Cover ArtRayguns and rockets! Spacesuited heroes caught in the tentacles of evil insectoid aliens! Who could resist such wonders? Science-fiction paperbacks exploded over the 1940s and '50s literary landscape with the force of an alien gamma bomb. Titles such as Rodent Mutation, The Human Bat...
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People's Platform"Taylor is the Marshall McLuhan or the Neil Postman of our new digital economy, the lonely voice raising urgent questions we need to answer together . . . If The People's Platform doesn't spark the conversation about the kind of democracy and culture we...
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Pablo Bronstein: CuisineBronstein's joyfully sardonic homage to the world of food and food productionWith 35 recent drawings and sculptures by Pablo Bronstein (born 1977) covering every aspect of food presentation, Cuisine spins a narrative of surreal excess. Factories, foodstuffs and utensils are depicted in Bronstein's fanciful...
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Origami Paper 500 Sheets Blue & White 6 (15 CM): Tuttle Origami Paper: Double-Sided Origami Sheets Printed with 12 Different Patterns (Instructions foThis paper pack contains 500 origami papers printed with elegant blue & white designs. These paper packs make an excellent resource for all different kinds of folding, crafting and scrapbooking projects. The package includes folding sheets as well as a booklet with instructions so...
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Noses Love RosesA compilation of nature-themed scanned art images and poetry inspired by them to use for inspiration, meditation, enjoyment, and gift-giving. The art images were the artist's inspiration for the accompanying Haiku poetry.Author: Barbara Swift GuidottiPublisher: Naturescan BooksPublished: 01/01/2025Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.50h x...
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New Plains Review: Fall 2024New Plains Review is a student-run literary journal at the University of Central Oklahoma. It is our mission to share with our readers thought-provoking, quality work from a diverse number of authors and artists.Author: Shay RahmPublisher: New Plains Student PublishingPublished: 11/22/2024Pages: 186Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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New Floating World: Contemporary Japanese IllustrationLong overdue, this new volume explores the latest in Japanese illustration from 30 contemporary masters. For many decades now Japan has been a leader in producing explorative art, creating new stylistic forms that continue to inspire artists the world over while they tackle a...
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New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and CollaborationsAn exploration of contemporary African masquerade that reveals its cultural contexts, artistic innovations, and intersection with museum collection practices By placing masquerade at the forefront of contemporary African art, this volume shows how masquerade is a dynamic and urban phenomenon shaped by shifting global...
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Nationalism and Indigenousness in Select Commonwealth Writings and Films: A Postcolonial RereadingNationalism and Indigenousness in Select Commonwealth Writings and Films: A Postcolonial Rereading--the first publication the new book-series Studies in Commonwealth Writings--collects 24 essays written by scholars, critics, and writers from all over the world, which, in the postcolonial perspective, analyze select literary writings and...
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MousterworksEveryday moments can often led to the creation of beautiful art, even for the tiniest of creatures. When young mice, Cosette and Pepin, join their Grand-mere on a visit to a mouse-sized museum, they cannot help but notice details, ask questions, and think creatively....
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Mohawk Rebel: Shelley Niro's Art and New York StateMohawk Rebel is an in-depth exploration of one of North America's most important Indigenous artists. Claire Raymond's compelling and well-researched book connects Niro's lineage as a Turtle Clan woman to the artist's oeuvre that evokes and represents the Mohawk people's memory of and continuing...
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Millennial Mythmaking: Essays on the Power of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Films and GamesContemporary myths, particularly science fiction and fantasy texts, can provide commentary on who we are as a culture, what we have created, and where we are going. These nine essays from a variety of disciplines expand upon the writings of Joseph Campbell and the...
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