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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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Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James BaldwinOver the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, painter Beauford Delaney and writer James Baldwin shared their private lives and shaped one another's artistic values. Speculative Light brings together scholars, critics, and artists who analyze the stylistic and historical import of Delaney's and Baldwin's works...
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Sophia's SunstarUnlock the secret to a magical inner light with "Sophia's Sunstar," a captivating journey that will inspire every young reader to discover their own courage and curiosity.Written with love for a six-year-old niece, this enchanting story follows Sophia as she embarks on an adventure...
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Someone's Gonna End Up CryingIn this authentic and heartfelt middle-grade novel, Maple uses her artwork to help sort through sibling relationships, school drama, and her parents' increasingly fraught marriage. Ten-year-old Maple can't wait for summer: No more math! Adventures with her friends! Best of all, she and Dad...
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Sight Lines: Women and Art in AotearoaFrom ancient whatu kakahu to contemporary installation art, Frances Hodgkins to Merata Mita, Fiona Clark to Mataaho Collective, Sight Lines tells the story of art made by women in Aotearoa. Gathered here are painters, photographers, performers, sculptors, weavers, textile artists, poets and activists. They...
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Scenes from the Bible: Illustrated by Gustave Dor?This beautiful hardback edition includes 93 well known, dramatic and beautiful scenes from the Old Testament, 81 from the New Testament and 10 from the Apocrypha, illustrated by French artist and illustrator, Gustave Dor?. This luxury edition is gold blocked and the pages have...
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Russian CosmismCrucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism. Cosmism emerged in Russia before the October Revolution and developed through the 1920s and 1930s; like Marxism and the...
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Robert Longo: The Acceleration of HistoryLongo's latest charcoal drawings of dissent reflect American media's preoccupation with violenceOnce a part of the Pictures Generation and still making art today, Robert Longo (born 1953) creates large, hyperrealistic drawings rendered in charcoal, giving his compositions a black-and-white photographic effect. He has depicted...
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RigvedaThe Rigveda is a monumental text in both world religion and world literature, yet outside a small band of specialists it is little known. Composed in the latter half of the second millennium BCE, it stands as the foundational text of what would later...
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Rethinking Displays of Chinese Contemporary Art: Cultural Diversity and TraditionThis is the first edited collection to critically address in its entirety questions related to the displaying of Chinese contemporary art. It includes chapters by scholars and cultural workers from diverse backgrounds involved in the interpretation of artistic as well as curatorial discourses and...
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Remodern America: How the Renewal of the Arts Will Change the Course of Western CivilizationPostmodernism is dead.Discover Remodernism, a new art movement of the people, by the people, for the peopleRemodern AmericaHow the Renewal of the ArtsWill Change the Course of Western CivilizationArt reminds us of who we are, and shows what we can be. But the visual...
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Redface: Race, Performance, and IndigeneityConsiders the character of the "Stage Indian" in American theater and its racial and political impact Redface unearths the history of the theatrical phenomenon of redface in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Like blackface, redface was used to racialize Indigenous peoples and nations, and even...
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Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban IndiaHow middle-class women transformed India's screen and exhibition industries Since the late 90s, multiplexes in India have almost always been located inside malls, rendering it impossible to inhabit one space without also inhabiting the other. Their prevalence coincides with a shift in the spectatorial...
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Postanarchism and Critical Art PracticesEngaging with contemporary debates about the political role of art in an era of total market subsumption, this book shows how artists respond to the challenges of political authoritarianism, police violence, right-wing populism, 'post-truth' discourse, economic inequality, pandemics, and the environmental crisis, transforming the...
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Pioneers: Photography by WomenNever-before-published images by 42 female photographers from Lotte Jacobi to Susan MeiselasWomen have been professional photographers since the inception of the medium, yet their work has received far less attention than that of their male colleagues. From the more than 15 million photographs stored...
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Picasso, Klee, Matisse, Giacometti: The Eye of Collector-Dealer Heinz BerggruenGerman-American art collector and dealer Heinz Berggruen was his own best customer; he built an exceptional collection of art by the twentieth-century masters Picasso, Klee, Matisse, and Giacometti. Berggruen's collection--with more than one hundred masterpieces--is a spectacular tribute to the foresight of this major...
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Patrick Dougherty James Florio: SticksJames Florio's exquisite black-and-white photography of sixteen important sculptural projects by Patrick Dougherty across the US.One of today's most admired living sculptors, Patrick Dougherty composes with nature--wielding saplings and sticks to build monumental structures that echo, play, and tussle with the land. James Florio...
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Origami Para Ni?os: 50 Incre?bles Proyectos De Papiroflexia Con Sencillas Instrucciones Paso A PasoOrigami Para Niños* Videotutoriales Para Cada Diseño Incluidos En El Interior!* Estás buscando una actividad relajante y entretenida para tu hijo? Quieres que tu hijo desarrolle una afición educativa y entretenida? Si es así, entonces Origami para Niños es el libro perfecto para ti!Aprender...
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Old Man's Garden: The History and Lore of Southern Alberta WildflowersOriginally published in 1954, Annora Brown's Old Man's Garden is a Canadian classic that tells the story of Southern Alberta's native plants and wildflowers through art and in consideration of Indigenous traditional knowledge from the region.Accompanying the new RMB edition of Old Man's Garden,...
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Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical HistoryThe authoritative history of nineteenth-century art, now more student-friendlyAuthor: Stephen F. EisenmanPublisher: Thames & HudsonPublished: 06/10/2020Pages: 528Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780500841723About the AuthorEisenman, Stephen F.: - Stephen F. Eisenman is Professor of Art History at Northwestern UniversityNochlin, Linda: - Linda Nochlin (1931-2017), described by The...
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National Gallery: Van Gogh Set of 3 MIDI NotebooksShrink-wrapped set of 3 midi notebooks, each with a different painting by Vincent van Gogh. Stitched spine, with ruled and blank pages. High-quality production makes a stunning gift. Ideal for personal use too. This National Gallery: Van Gogh Set of 3 Midi Notebooks features...
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