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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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The Art of the Blues: A Visual Treasury of Black Music's Golden AgeThis stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse elements of American...
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The Way of the Shovel: On the Archaeological Imaginary in ArtContemporary art is often obsessed with the new, but it has recently begun to turn to projects centering on research and delving into archives, all in the name of seeking and questioning historical truth. From filmmakers to sculptors to conceptualists, artists of all stripes...
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The Mongols: A Very Short IntroductionIn the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south, and unleashing an unprecedented level of violence. But as Morris Rossabi...
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My Life"Men like Benvenuto, unique in their profession, need not be subject to the law."--Pope Paul III on learning that Cellini had murdered a fellow artist Benvenuto Cellini was beloved in Renaissance Florence. A renowned sculptor and goldsmith whose works include the famous salt-cellar made...
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Traces of VermeerJohannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; the glimmer of satin, silver, and linen; we see the softness of a hand on a lute string or letter....
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Why Is That Art?: Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary ArtWhy is that art? Why is it in an art museum? Who says it's art? Why is it good? Why Is That Art?, Third Edition, introduces students to theories of art through the presentation of contemporary works that include abstract and representational painting, animated...
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American Architecture: A Thematic HistoryLeading historian Dell Upton's American Architecture: A Thematic History reveals the dazzling richness of America's human landscape. The text covers indigenous, folk, ethnic, and popular architectures like Chaco Canyon, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Native American houses while also exploring the great monuments of traditional...
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Blue Arabesque: A Search for the SublimeJust out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting she saw in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen behind her. This woman seemed a welcome secular version of the...
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Peggy Guggenheim: The Life of an Art AddictThe wayward life (1898-1979) of the voracious art collector and great female patron of world-famous artists.'Mrs Guggenheim, how many husbands have you had?' 'Do you mean my own, or other people's?' Peggy Guggenheim was an American millionairess art collector and legendary lover, whose father...
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Picasso/ClergueA three-decade friendship chronicling Picasso's postwar yearsOn April 5, 1953, the French photographer Lucien Clergue (1934-2014) met Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) at a bullfight in Arles. Clergue shot several portraits of the artist and showed him some of his Polaroid pictures. Two years later they...
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Constant Change: A Typographical Drifting Through the Work of Constant NieuwenhuysA typographic ode to an influential 20th-century Dutch artistDutch artist and sculptor Constant Nieuwenhuys a.k.a. Constant (1920-2005) is known for the breadth of his work, ranging from painting to music. For this volume, the graphic designers at Our Polite Society have used his works...
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Matthias Groebel: Painted Faces: Broadcast Material 1989-2006Three decades of computer-generated paintingsGerman artist Matthias Groebel (born 1958) works with photography, video and digital image processing, using various home-built and modified devices. Since 1989, he has been working with a computer-controlled painting machine that he built. This publication presents the paintings produced...
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The Private Eye in Public ArtChallenging the hegemony of museums and yearning to communicate with a larger diverse audience, trailblazing conceptual artists and land artists found support in newly developed and expanded programs of the NEA and the GSA. This book foregrounds critical questions about public art, the policies...
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Ann Craven and Reggie Burrows Hodges: Moons and AngelsLuminous painterly interpretations of two abiding motifs in art historyA two-person exhibition featuring angel paintings by Reggie Burrows Hodges (born 1965) and moon paintings by Ann Craven (born 1967), Moons and Angels was staged in the former St James Catholic church at 70 Main...
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A New Approach to DrawingThis book, A New Approach to Drawing, is based on thirty years of teaching visual art in a small college in Duluth, Minnesota, located on the shores of Lake Superior. My intention in writing this book is to share my knowledge for the purpose...
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Lord Haiti #1: Volume 1The Worlds First Haitian Superhero enters life comics universe! And get to know who he is, Learn a bit of history when it comes to Haiti, Come and find out all about his powers, and why they call him Lord Haiti! NO SPOILERS!Author: Ramses...
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Mentoring in Intercultural and International ContextsAcademia can be a lonely place, especially for those people who are members of marginalized communities. Although at its core institutions of higher education are supposed to be places for knowledge production, exchange and transformation, they can also be the source of anxiety, confusion,...
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Ghost VariationsThere is a doomed, gloomy, yet ethereal feeling to GHOST VARIATIONS. As the photographer walks with a crude black-and-white instant film camera through the California desert at night, the camera's harsh flash illuminates scrub brush, rising rocks, valleys of sand, bits of debris that...
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The Concept of the Animal and Modern Theories of ArtThis book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists to explore the influence of the human-animal relationship on nineteenth and twentieth century artists and art theorists. The book is...
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The Religious Figural Imagery of Byzantine Lead Seals II: Studies on Images of the Saints and on Personal PietyThe articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century. A number of the studies present tables, charts and graphs in their analysis of...
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