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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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Ancient Egyptian Symbols: 50 New Discoveries: Abridged editionThis book identifies, for the first time since antiquity, the sources and meanings of more than 50 ancient Egyptian symbols, including the Eye of Horus, evil god Seth and his strange head, 10 major crowns, and the symbolic foundations of Osirian mythology, backbone of...
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What Is Culture For?What is culture really for? How to find compassion, hope and perspective in the arts. Many people search for the meaning of life through music, film, literature and the visual arts. But how can we synthesize the emotions we feel through art? This book...
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Joseph Beuys: Utopia at the Stag MonumentsAccompanying the most important UK exhibition of Joseph Beuys' (1921-86) work in over a decade, this comprehensive publication traces the development of the artist's practice from his early, rarely seen works to his conceptual environments. At the heart of this exhibition stands Stag Monuments,...
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Setlife: A Guide To Getting A Job In Film (And Keeping It)Film sets are an extremely strange environment to walk into, let alone continue to thrive and evolve. Matt has been a keen and observant contributor to many elite crews and major productions. His book, Setlife is a valuable guide for anyone looking to build...
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Free Inside: The Life & Work of Peter Collins'Free Inside' is a portfolio art and writing by the late Canadian activist and prisoner Peter Collins, who spent 32 years behind bars for killing a police officer during a botched robbery. Collins was the kind of man you'd expect to find in prison...
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Looking for LeninThe eerie beauty of Ukraine's Lenin statues, toppled in the name of decommunizationIn the process of decommunisation, Ukraine has toppled all its Lenin monuments. The authors have hunted down and photographed these banned Soviet statues, revealing their inglorious fate. As Russia celebrates the 100th...
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The Music Library: Revised and Expanded EditionAficionado and avid collector Jonny Trunk reveals the many and varied pleasures of Library Music." -GrafikThe first edition of The Music Library, published in 2005 and now out of print, brought together the designs of more than 325 record sleeves and relevant information about...
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Gerhard Richter: NovemberNovember presents German artist Gerhard Richter's series of the same name--comprised of 54 ink drawings--so called due to their creation throughout the month of November in 2008. Richter assumed this method after accidentally dripping ink on to a sheet of highly absorbent paper and...
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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: HaitiThe latest in the World Stage series of portraits by Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), this volume presents 13 new paintings, the result of the artist's trip to Haiti--a nation that is often presented as a place of chronic poverty, corruption and deprivation. In Haiti...
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Andy Warhol's Ridiculous ScreenplaysAndy Warhol's Ridiculous Screenplays is a fascinating first-person account of writer Ronald Tavel's experiences collaborating with the artist on his films from the winter of 1964 through the summer of 1967. During this period, Tavel wrote seventeen screenplays for Warhol, including some of the...
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On Location in Blairstown: The Making of Friday the 13thOn location in Blairstown: The Making of Friday the 13th covers the creation, planning and filming of the iconic 1980 film, Friday the 13th in a way that no other film has been documented before. Through the memories of the cast and crew, many...
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Top Bikini Pictures: Hot Women in Brazilian, String, White, Red, Gold, Brown, Orange, Metallic, Transparent, Extreme and Many Other StylesOver 100 high quality, full page color pictures of women in bikinis. Whether you are just looking for hot bikini pictures or want some inspiration for great bikini models for this summer, this photo book will not disappoint. From Brazilian and string bikinis to...
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Jack Davis: Some of My Good StuffMaster cartoonist, Jack Davis, teams up with compiler, Hank Harrison and reveals a great deal of unpublished artwork and rare gems from his personal archives. Included here are some of Jack's spontaneous creations, some in the pencil stages as well as finished pieces. The...
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, ChicagoThis book examines the work of US-born photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921-2012) through its connections to Chicago, where he lived for over a decade and returned to repeatedly throughout his life. Long celebrated in Japan as one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth...
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The Art of the PatentMost patents are what you would expect from a government doucment: downright boring. Yet the drawings on some are absolutely amazing, with beautiful line-art drawings that show in stunning detail the inner workings of everything from farming machines to airplanes to rockets. Join us...
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Ticket to the UnknownTicket to the Unknown considers the schizophrenic texts of Alo se Corbaz, an Art Brut artist better known for her drawing than her writing. Both a translation of texts and a commentary on dilemmas of reading and translation in artist's writing, this book explore...
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Oliver RanchThe ongoing project that Steve and Nancy Oliver have developed over the last 30 years has no obvious parallel in the history of art collecting. Beginning in 1985, their ranch in Northern California has been the site for dozens of commissions, site-specific and permanent...
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Performing the Archive: The Transformation of the Archive in Contemporary Art from Repository of Documents to Art MediumInstead of smoothing over contemporary art's violent and iconoclastic dimensions, instead of sanitizing and making complex artworks docile in terms of archival possibilities, this book suggests we abandon our fantasy of mastery over representation and respond in kind to the archive-as-artwork, to "living" archives,...
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Marseille: The Cradle of White Corded QuiltingMarseille: The Cradle of White Corded Quilting, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name, traces the origins and the commercial development of broderie de Marseille needlework. During the seventeenth century these supple, all-white corded and quilted furnishings--from bedcovers to quilted bodices and caps--grew...
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Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz: The Complete Comic Strip Saga 1904-1905At the dawn of the 20th century, L. Frank Baum created a world of wonders that was to hold a permanent place in the culture of America: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Then in 1904, to promote his second book, Baum, along with master...
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