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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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Conor Harrington: Watch Your Palace FallThis monograph, now available in an updated edition, is the first to chart the career of Irish artist Conor Harrington (born 1980), from the graffiti of his teenage years to his internationally recognized paintings that marry Baroque opulence with the stark immediacy of graffiti.Author:...
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Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio ArtThis book is the second, extended edition of the first of its kind. It is a resource to help people artists, teachers, administrators, and students assess and compare programs for a new PhD in Studio Art. "A PhD in art is inevitable, and so...
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Unfinished: A Guide To Dream, Complete and Repeat Your Life's WorkAs children, our passions came easy. We would doodle for hours and hours and we didn't know what the word 'editing' meant. As we got older, our passions were pushed aside for the busyness of life, for the fear of failure, for poor excuses....
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Purvis YoungThis publication, the first comprehensive monograph on the paintings of Purvis Young (1943-2010), collects 254 works by the Miami-born African American artist known for his lyrical depictions of current and historical events. A self-educated artist who began drawing while incarcerated as a teenager, Young...
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Why Write When You Can Tag: Second Edition: Learn to Draw the Best Graffiti Tags Ever!This book picks up where our first book "Learn To Draw a Graffiti Masterpiece" left off. It approaches graffiti tagging as an art form, similar to Calligraphy. It is not a book about illegal tagging. This book will help you to stay creative and...
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Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National ParkOld Faithful Geyser, Emerald Spring, the magnificent canyons and falls of the Yellowstone River--these and other sites, familiar to the millions of visitors who travel through Yellowstone National Park each year, have been an inspiration to generations of artists. Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic...
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Smart Sketch Book 1: Oogie Art's step-by-step guide to pencil drawing for beginnersOogie Art's Smart Sketchbook is filled with step-by-step exercises and expert tips proven to help you improve your drawing skills in less than a month. Learn to draw complex objects, build strong foundational skills, diversify your drawing techniques, and pick the right drawing supplies.Author:...
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Name Dropping: The Cedar Bar in the 1950sFirst-person account of the famous New York City Cedar Bar in the 1950s when it was regularly visited by what came to be known as the "greatest generation in American art history." The author was friends with Willem DeKooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Philip...
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Borderless: The Art of Luis TapiaBorn in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1950, sculptor Luis Tapia is a pioneering Chicano artist who for forty-five years has pushed the art of polychrome wood sculpture to new levels of craftsmanship and social and political commentary. Tapia's works speak to the complexity...
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Brice MardenThroughout his career, American artist Brice Marden (born 1938) has explored various modes of painterly abstraction, producing monochrome canvases in nuanced, muted hues as well as calligraphic compositions on a grand scale. This book marks the long-term exhibition of Moss Sutra with the Seasons...
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Paisley Rabbit and the Treehouse Contest2018 BOOK OF THE YEAR - Picture Book, Creative Child Magazine2018 WINNER - Best Picture Book, Indie Book Awards Can a lone girl rabbit with the odds stacked against her surprise Jimmy and the other animals to win the big treehouse construction contest? When...
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Little Sammy Sneeze: The Complete Color Sunday Comics 1904-1905Before his remarkable Litttle Nemo in Slumberland, McCay created two strips starring young children. Today, Winsor McCay (1867-1934) is universally acknowledged as the first master of both the comic strip and the animated cartoon. Although invented by others, both genres were developed into enduring...
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imagine the small bonesIn poems inspired by artwork, D. Walsh Gilbert takes the reader on a journey that winds its way through life's obstacles toward freedom and empowerment. Fish and birds, creatures that move through elements that aren't completely hospitable to humans, are represented in stunning artwork...
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Gorgeous: What Is Gorgeous? Seductive. Grotesque. Austere. Brazen.What does it mean to be gorgeous? This art book--as its cover, evocative of a popular fashion magazine, suggests--offers a provocative and entertaining approach to this question. It accompanies an exhibition of works from SFMOMA and the Asian Art Museum in stimulating new contexts....
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Bali: Art, Ritual, PerformanceFeaturing hundreds of full-color photographs, paintings, figurines, crafts, and furniture Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance is an exploration of the very best Balinese culture has to offer. For nearly a century, mention of Bali has evoked images of a tropical paradise. But it is not...
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Nebraska's Post Office Murals: Born of the Depression, Fostered by the New DealAs a part of the New Deal that offered hope during the Great Depression, scores of public art projects were commissioned around the country. Now they are among the most enduring visual legacies of that era. Twelve Nebraska post offices were chosen to receive...
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Kaws: Where the End StartsA major survey of KAWS and his eye-popping work, from collectible art toys to UNIQLO T-shirts, from grafitti to museum exhibitionsAppropriating characters, images and effects from pop culture, the work of KAWS blurs the lines between high and low art, and between art and...
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Before and After the I-Bomb: An Artist in the Information EnvironmentThere was a time, not too long ago, when people wrote letters (and mailed them), picked up the phone and spoke to people (not voice mail systems) and considered whether to invest in expensive new fax technology as a means of speeding up communication....
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Guide to Indigenous Rock Carvings of the Northwest Coast: Petroglyphs and Rubbings of the Pacific NorthwestWhat is a petroglyph? Who made them and why? What is rock rubbing? How is it made? In her book, Guide to Indigenous Rock Carvings, Beth Hill examines these questions. She gives a fascinating introduction to the subject of First Peoples Petroglyphs of the...
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If Monet Painted a MonsterEdward Hopper's monster lurks outside the nighthawks' diner. James Whistler's monster rocks in her chair. Monsters invade masterpieces by Dorthea Tanning, Paul Cezanne, M.C. Escher, Jean Michel Basquiat, Giuseppe Archimboldo, Rene Magritte, Henri Rousseau, Franz Kline, Frida Kahlo, Bob Thompson, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Thomas Hart...
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