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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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Arte Povera: Selections from the Sonnabend CollectionAuthor: Claire Gilman, Karla C. ShippeyPublisher: Wallach Art GalleryPublished: 10/02/2001Pages: 55Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 10.50h x 3.90w x 0.20dISBN: 9781884919114
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Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public MonumentsAn urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? Which ones should stay up...
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Affinities: On Art and FascinationA meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain's finest literary minds. In Affinities, Brian Dillon, who Joyce Carol Oates has said writes "fascinating prose . . . on virtually any subject,"...
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Squiggles by Sharon: Volume 2Squiggles by Sharon is a daily comic strip created by Sharon McEnearney. This light-hearted comic follows the adventure of a squirrel and her friends as they navigate the ups and downs of life, covering everything from homework to office life to trying to find...
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Glitch PoeticsGlitches are errors where the digital bursts into our everyday lives as fragmented image, garbled text and aberrant event. In this book, Nathan Jones shows how writers work with the glitch as a literary effect. 'Glitch poetics' describes a new language of error in...
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What Makes My Heart Sing: An Artist's JourneyThis story begins with my family background followed by my pondering thoughts of what exactly an artist might be and what they might feel. The reader will be taken along my journey as an artist, music & song lover, entrepreneur, writer and face painter...
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Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles, Processes, Contexts, AchievementsThis project addresses the contexts of Practice as Research and how to undertake it. This second iteration updates thinking and practices but sustains a direct and clear approach on how to become a practitioner-researcher. New features include an extension of range "beyond" the arts...
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New Folk Art: Design Inspired by Folklore and Traditional CraftIt is human nature to look to the past when seeking inspiration, particularly in art and related creative fields. Unlike other genres that can be attributed to a specific era or style, folk art is harder to define or categorize due to its special...
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The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon IslandsBuilding a beautiful ornamented 'white canoe' was a way for the Lau people of Malaita in Solomon Islands to honour the ghosts of their ancestors in the days before they became Christians. This book tells the story of the last of these canoes, built...
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True Crime Detective Magazines, 1924-1969Follow the evolution of a distinctly American genre. With hundreds of covers and interior images from dozens of magazine titles, True Crime Detective Magazines tells the story, not just of the "detectives," but also of America's attitudes towards sex, sin, crime, and punishment over...
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Power of CreativityPower of Creativity is a unique project devised by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, whose aim is to seek out the most creative and most investable artists and introduce them to established collectors of contemporary art and art lovers.Author: Contemporary Art Curator MagazinePublisher: Contemporary Art...
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Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600): Monuments of Mourning, Memory and MeditationIn Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600), Jan L. de Jong reveals how funerary monuments, far from simply marking a grave, offered an image of the deceased that was carefully crafted to generate a laudable memory and prompt meditative reflections on life, death, and...
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Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern ItalyThis book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on Italy and on female stigmatics. Echoing, and to a certain extent recreating, the wounds and pain inflicted on Christ during...
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Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital GamesThis book looks closely at the endings of narrative digital games, examining their ways of concluding the processes of both storytelling and play in order to gain insight into what endings are and how we identify them in different media. While narrative digital games...
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Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities: Restless Identities in Literary and Visual CultureThis book examines how same-sex sexualities are represented in several post-apartheid South African cultural texts, drawing on a rich local archive of same-sex sexualities that includes recent fiction, drama, film, photography, and popular print culture. While the book situates these texts within the specific...
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when Supernova diesa poetry collective with art pieces, detailing loss through the eyes of a lover. a chronological roller coaster of real and true experiences of grief and healing from the voice of a young and queer, mexican-american feminist.Author: Elena L. DenecocheaPublisher: Sacramento: I Street Press,...
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Watteau - Kolonial: Herrschaft, Handel Und Galanterie Im Frankreich Des Régence(Bilingual Edition: English / German): What were the early visions of Empire in Regency France? The book offers a interpretation of Jean-Antoine Watteau's Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera (1717) by framing it in the context of French colonial expansion in the years of...
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Museale ResteRemnants are a challenge for the museum as an institution. They are ambiguous figures, and their attributions open up and thus contribute to transcending the taxonomic, disciplinary, architectural, and institutional boundaries of museums. They can be found everywhere--in exhibition spaces as well as storage...
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Didi-Huberman and the ImagePhilosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman is one of the most innovative and influential critical thinkers writing today. This book is the first English-language study of his writing on images. An image is a form of representation, but what are the philosophical frameworks supporting...
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Image & Vision: Reflecting with the Book of KellsThe Book of Kells was originally prepared as a devotional and liturgical work. Image & Vision: Reflecting with the Book of Kells explores the intricate relationship between the text, image and vision, and the scriptural texts that underpin them.Concentrating on twelve of the magnificent...
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