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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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Cool Art: 50 Fantastic Facts for Kids of All AgesWelcome to Cool Art! This fact-tastic book is packed with reasons why art is cooler than you'd ever imagine. Learn why the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows, which artist liked to throw artichokes around, and how to paint like Monet.Discover exactly how strange the...
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A vida secreta das obras de arte: Histórias desaforadas e verídicas sobre grandes artistas e museusAo contr rio do que muitos acreditam, os artistas n o foram santos imaculados ou g nios bem-sucedidos: Michelangelo subiu na carreira depois de fazer uma falsifica o e os servi os de Leonardo da Vinci foram rejeitados em diversas ocasi es - e...
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Art AfricaThe common ground of these expressive objects is their African origin. However, little is known about the artists who created them. On their journey through space and time the context in which these works of art must be seen has changed and thus their...
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101 Gag Ideas: for the One Minute CaricatureComing up with gag ideas for caricatures can be a nerve wracking experience. That is why this book was created - to aid you with ideas so that you do not have to go through that kind of ordeal. There are, literally infinite amounts...
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Ikat Textiles of the Indonesian ArchipelagoIkat Textiles of the Indonesian Archipelago offers a comprehensive overview of the profusion of ikat styles found across the region and is the first detailed reference book on the subject. Unlike most collectors, both public and private, who typically show a selection of stellar...
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Wu Guanzhong, 吴冠中: Beauty Beyond Form, 大美无垠A giant among artists of his generation, Wu Guanzhong is celebrated for his distinctive synergy of Western oil painting and Chinese ink aesthetics, as well as his modernisation of Chinese ink painting. This catalogue accompanies the National Gallery Singapore's exhibition that showcases Wu's oeuvre...
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Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art [Arabic Edition]: روائع تحThis expansive book reveals the great diversity and range of art of the Arab lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and later South Asia. Published to coincide with the historic reopening of the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum's Islamic Art Department, it presents nearly three...
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Tsuyoshi MaekawaThis first monograph on Tsuyoshi Maekawa (born 1936), one of the last surviving members of the Gutai art group, includes archival images and documents of the Gutai period from the Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, and a previously unpublished interview with Maekawa...
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Failed Images: Photography and Its Counter-PracticesFailed Images approaches photography in terms of its divergence from the reality it would claim to show. How does the photograph transform that which exists before the camera? A variety of factors influence the way photography constructs its images--not only the technical features of...
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Sense and Sensibility (Wisehouse Classics - With Illustrations by H.M. Brock)SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, better known as a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest...
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Why Look at Plants?: The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary ArtWinner of the 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles award in Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking and fascinating look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in contemporary art. Through the...
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Kuniyoshi: Japanese Master of Imagined WorldsUtagawa Kuniyoshi (1797¬-1861) is indisputably a major force in the history of Japanese woodblock prints. His career spanned almost fifty years from the 1810s to 1860 and he helped establish the warrior genre as one of the main pillars of the Ukiyo-e tradition. Kuniyoshi...
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The Limbourg Brothers: Reflections on the Origins and the Legacy of Three Illuminators from NijmegenIn 2005 Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen presented the exhibition 'The LimbourgBrothers. Nijmegen Masters at the French Court (1400-1416)'. This was the first time that original miniatures fromfour manuscripts by the Limbourg brothers were shown in the Netherlands. The exhibition formed an excellentopportunity to...
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Le Linee Sincroniche: gli scorrimenti energetici del PianetaLe linee sincroniche sono le strade della vita, un reticolo di percorsi energetici che si diramano sul pianeta Terra e che uniscono fra loro tutti i pianeti in cui esiste la vita. Sono flussi di energia in grado di catalizzare le grandi forze presenti...
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Embodied Spirits: Gope Boards from the Papuan GulfA fascinating collection of the wooden ritual objects called 'spirit boards' made in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea. They represent spirits that protect clans from sickness, evil spirits, and death. The first book devoted exclusively to the subject sets the individual works in...
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Global Identities: Postcolonial and Cross-Cultural NarrativesGlobal Identities collects essays, lectures and artworks from participants in a 2018 international seminar and exhibition cycle held in Florence aimed at analyzing and reflecting on issues of global identity, particularly within cultural production, the hybridization of language and postcolonial narratives. Author: Valentina GensiniPublisher:...
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Eric Fischl: If Art Could TalkEric Fischl (born 1948) is one of a handful of contemporary painters who regularly employs sourced images, culled from the internet, newspapers and magazines in his paintings. This catalog spotlights art's consistent presence--be it front and center or in the background--in Fischl's work over...
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Richard EstesRichard Estes is internationally known as one of the founders of hyperrealism and one of the key figures of contemporary American painting. Born in Kewanee, Illinois, on May 4, 1932, he is a poet of the American metropolis, a subtle investigator into the evolution...
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Geometry and Art: In the Modern Middle EastIn this groundbreaking volume on the use of Islamic geometry in modern and contemporary art from the region, Roxane Zand and Sussan Babaie explore ways in which traditional geometric legacies are applied and interpreted in new contexts. Works by artists Anila Quayyum Agha, Mohamed...
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Chris MartinDrawing on inspirations ranging from Buddhism and American modernist painting to psychedelia and Amy Winehouse, Brooklyn-based painter Chris Martin (born 1954) "lets the paintings make themselves," with often generously scaled canvases characterized by flat yet textured planes of bright, saturated color, frequently incorporating found...
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