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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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Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral HistoryRobert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on American promise and failure, melded sculpture and painting in works called combines, and collaborated with engineers and scientists to challenge our thinking about art. Through...
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Audio-Vision: Sound on ScreenMichel Chion's landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception. Sound in audiovisual media does not merely complement images. Instead, the two...
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After the Red Army Faction: Gender, Culture, and MilitancyMasterminded by women, the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorized West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s. Afterimages of its leaders persist in the works of pivotal artists and writers, including Gerhard Richter, Elfriede Jelinek, and Slavoj iek. Why were women so prominent in...
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Cinema in the Digital AgeHave digital technologies transformed cinema into a new art, or do they simply replicate and mimic analogue, film-based cinema? Newly revised and expanded to take the latest developments into account, Cinema in the Digital Age examines the fate of cinema in the wake of...
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The Severed Head: Capital VisionsInformed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of...
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Radical History & the Politics of ArtGabriel Rockhill opens new space for rethinking the relationship between art and politics. Rather than understanding the two spheres as separated by an insurmountable divide or linked by a privileged bridge, Rockhill demonstrates that art and politics are not fixed entities with a singular...
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The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of ArtThis acclaimed work is of interest to anyone who thinks seriously about art, as well as to philosophers, aestheticians, and art historians. Danto explores the inextricably linked but often misunderstood relationship between art and philosophy. In light of the book's impact -- especially the...
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The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional ChinaIn The Painter's Practice, James Cahill reveals the intricacies of the painter's life with respect to payment and patronage--an approach that is still largely absent from the study of East Asian art. Drawing upon such unofficial archival sources as diaries and letters, Cahill challenges...
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Transnational Feminism in Film and MediaThis collection of interdisciplinary essays examines current cinematic and media landscapes from the perspective of transnational feminist practices and methodologies. Focusing on film, media art, and video essays, the contributors chart innovative strategies for exploring contemporary visual cultures.Author: K. MarciniakPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 01/10/2012Pages: 248Binding...
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Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public PlacesThis volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions of transitional justice, memory and post-conflict reconciliation. As practitioners, artists, curators, activists and academics, the contributors explore the challenges of bearing witness to past conflicts.Author: E. LehrerPublisher:...
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War Planes: Coloring Book for SeniorsDid you know that themed coloring books for seniors are useful in battling diseases? Coloring helps to calm you down, which helps to alleviate attacks due to stress. It is also used to improve brain health of patients suffering from epilepsy, Alzheimer's, dementia and...
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Take the Wheel: Adult Coloring Book Jesus EditionSometimes, the answer you're looking for is within you. You just need to meditate to hear God whisper. One of the most effective methods for meditation is coloring. Coloring is the art of doing nothing, otherwise called as "de-concentrating". It helps reduce the clutter...
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April Showers Bring May Flowers: Adult Coloring Book Flowers EditionThere are flowers everywhere in this book, so if you are the spring lover type then this book would make an excellent addition to your collection. Coloring allows you to see the world in a better light. When you color, your artwork becomes a...
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The Open Studio: Essays on Art and AestheticsPoets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art historians, and art critics. Rooted in a broad and learned range...
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The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern OblivionOriginally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg's evidence resides in the imagery of the...
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Writings/InterviewsOne of the most important sculptors of this century, Richard Serra has been a spokesman on the nature and status of art in our day. Best known for site-specific works in steel, Serra has much to say about the relation of sculpture to place,...
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Ribbon of Darkness: Inferencing from the Shadowy Arts and SciencesOver the course of her career, Barbara Stafford has established herself the preeminent scholar of the intersections of the arts and sciences, articulating new theories and methods for understanding the sublime, the mysterious, the inscrutable. Omnivorous in her research, she has published work that...
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Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics of LawThis highly original collection brings together some of the most important minds in both contemporary art history and theory, and law and legal history. The result is a fascinating discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image. The essays draw on...
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Rembrandt's JewsThere is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt's works devoted to stories of the Hebrew Bible, and with his...
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Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media AestheticsAlmost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchell's now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial...
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