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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 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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David Batchelor - ConcretosThroughout his international career spanning more than thirty years, artist and writer David Batchelor has long been preoccupied with color. "Colour is not just a feature of [my] sculpture or painting," he notes, "but its central and overriding subject." This new publication is devoted...
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Smith & Wisznia CollectionThe Smith & Wisznia collection's singular focus: artists living, working and exhibiting in Louisiana post Hurricane Katrina. Louisiana during this period of renewal, rebirth, and rebuilding experienced an art renaissance. There was a migration of creatives from all areas of life to Louisiana: Musicians,...
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Women and Contemporary Art in the Gulf: Identity, Institutions and RepresentationWomen and Contemporary Art in the Gulf offers a unique focus on the roles of women in contemporary art, cultural production and arts institutions in the Gulf. Drawing on in-person experiences of the art and sites discussed, as well as research on regional artists...
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Vallero! #2Item: VALLERO! #2 Writer: Hugo Maldonado Cover Artist: Eric Guerrero Artist: Kino GlezFernando Valle, Leader of Los Valleros, reteams with Sue Savage to pull off the ultimate heist. After a successful mission they must find a way to unlock their stolen vault. Things don't...
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SpeculationA wide-ranging investigation of what speculation is, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial, critical, and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character. Engaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass the artistic, the economic, and the philosophical, with...
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Il Percorso Museale Dell'ospedale Santa Maria Nuova Di FirenzeThe ancient Florentine hospital of Santa Maria Nuova is a multi-faceted structure, within which the medical activities comes to merge with the religious, economic-political, and cultural roles. This guide to the new museum itinerary, inaugurated in 2019, is the overview of a treasure of...
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Minnesota Coloring Book: Adult Painting on USA States Landmarks and Iconic, Stress Relief ActivityMinnesota Coloring Book, Adult Painting on USA States Landmarks and Iconic, Stress Relief Activity Art Books, Gifts for Minnesota Tourist Spend your time on creative and relaxing hobbies like coloring on states landmark and iconic. Help you step away from the computer, television set,...
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100 Best Paintings in LondonThe only book to provide a single volume introduction to the finest art in London. 100 Best Paintings in London is an essential guide to the cream of the great public collection of art in the capital. Each of the 100 chosen paintings is...
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