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 | By looking back at seventy years of Penguin paperbacks, graphic designer Phil Baines charts the development of British publishing, the ever-changing currents of cover art and style, and the role ... [More information about Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005...] |
 | A biography of the artist discusses his tumultuous emotional life, the era in which he lived, the politics of the art world, the acceptance and rejection of his artistic vision, and other issues.... [More information about Matisse: A Portrait...] |
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Manufacturer: Andre Deutsch Ltd
Author: Hilary Pyle
ISBN: 023398738X
Number Of Pages: 1800 [More information about Jack B.Yeats...] |
 | Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska and raised in Oklahoma, but he belongs to Los Angeles in a way few other artists do. Since the 1960s, Ruscha's iconic images of the cityscape and culture of... [More information about Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles...] |
 | "Our job is to tell stories we have heard and to bear witness to what we have seen. The science was already there when we started in 2004, but we wanted to emphasize the human dimension, especially... [More information about Climate Refugees...] |
 | Studies major works by important sculptors since Rodin in the light of different approaches to general sculptural issues to reveal the logical progressions from nineteenth-century figurative works... [More information about Passages in Modern Sculpture...] |
 | "The Picasso Papers is an extraordinary, and extraordinarily odd, book that views the schism in Picasso's production, which occurred after the outbreak of the first world war, as an inevitable... [More information about The Picasso Papers...] |
 | "Each time we arrive at an Okada, spaces arrive to greet us." -- Lawson Fusao Inada Artist Frank Okada played a significant role in the modern art history of the Pacific Northwest. Born a Nisei in... [More information about Frank Okada: The Shape of Elegance...] |
 | Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30–1569) was a remarkable draftsman and designer of prints as well as a great painter. His independent drawings and designs for engravings and etchings, which... [More information about Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Prints and Drawings...] |
 | Lewis Carroll was the pen name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other beloved children's books. But before achieving fame as an author,... [More information about Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll...] |
 | A magisterial presentation of all the works of Barnett Newman, along with fascinating new insights into his artistic achievementBarnett Newman (1905–1970), one of the greatest artists of the... [More information about Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonne...] |
 | In April 2002 the Philadelphia Museum of Art held a symposium in conjunction with a major retrospective of the work of Barnett Newman (1905–1970). This volume publishes the proceedings of the... [More information about Reconsidering Barnett Newman...] |
 | In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol’s personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto... [More information about Andy Warhol (Icons of America)...] |
 | In the twenties, Surrealists proclaimed that words had stopped playing around and had begun to make love. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the writings of Marcel Duchamp, who fashioned some of... [More information about The Writings Of Marcel Duchamp (A Da Capo Paperback)...] |
 | Nowhere is the complex and destructive painter Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) revealed with more compassion and insight than in this exemplary biography. Friedman, a friend of Pollock's and active in... [More information about Jackson Pollock: Energy Made Visible...] |
 | Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe first metin Taos, New Mexico, in 1929. She was already an established artist, while he was at the beginning of his career, and their friendship lasted for the rest of... [More information about Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities...] |
 | After 32 Soup Cans, neither America nor the art world would ever be the same. Gary Indiana offers a witty and opinionated biography of a momentous work of art--and its deeply troubled creator. In... [More information about Andy Warhol and the Can that Sold the World...] |
 | Now in its Fourth Edition, this unrivaled, seminal work continues its long tradition of providing balanced insight and thorough historical background. Under the new authorial leadership of Alston... [More information about Meggs' History of Graphic Design...] |
| Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism
Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press
Author: Andre Breton
ISBN: 0472061828
Number Of Pages: 316 [More information about Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)...] |
| Thirty traditional designs grace the pages of this unique coloring book. Skillfully adapted from authentic motifs, they depict a pair of peacocks amid lush blossoms; a serpent-like dragon with scaly... [More information about Chinese Designs (Dover Pictorial Archives)...] |
| Beuys, like Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, precisely orchestrated his public image, building a personal myth that has the power to bind together his entire oeuvre. This book attempts to break... [More information about Thinking Is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys...] |
 | Lavishly produced in oversize format, here is the complete illustrated catalogue of a landmark new exhibition devoted to the artist--the largest ever assembled--to be held at The Museum of Modern... [More information about Henri Matisse: A Retrospective...] |
 | Traces the development of the career of the English artist and analyzes his paintings, water colors, and drawings. .
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
Author: Michael Rosenthal
ISBN: 0500202117
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 | "The Burial of the Count of Orgaz" is one of El Greco's most famous paintings, and a key work in the Mannerist tradition. Painted between 1586 and 1588 in the church of Santo Tome in Toledo, it was... [More information about El Greco: The Burial of Count Orgaz...] |
| Richard Parkes Bonington (1800-1828) was a precocious and prolific British artist who ranked after Turner and Constable as one of the most important landscape painters of the Romantic period. This... [More information about Bonington...] |
 | Art in Theory (1648-1815) provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Like its... [More information about Art in Theory 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas...] |
 | This is a sumptuous volume focuses on 108 works by Constable with many supplementary images and six illuminating essays. The publication also includes 47 images by a group of 13 Australian artists... [More information about Constable: Impressions of Land, Sea and Sky...] |
 | Focusing on the period 1905-1913, this provocative and groundbreaking new book refutes the popular view of Matisse as the painter of relaxed pleasures, the master of decorative line and sensuous... [More information about Matisse and the Subject of Modernism...] |
| Customer Review: Excellent index and thorough, chronological coverage of events in the life of this important American artist.It is a huge book but moves fairly quickly, since Pollock's life was... [More information about Jackson Pollock: An American Saga...] |
 | This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations... [More information about Magritte: Colour Library (Phaidon Colour Library)...] |
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Manufacturer: Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0714836338 [More information about Bernini...] |
| This engaging study reveals how a half-hidden thread of Masonic symbolism runs through Hogarth's work. The classical and Biblical references, whose ambiguity and apparent paradoxical relation with... [More information about Guess at the Rest: Cracking the Hogarth Code...] |
 | Customer Review: I originally saw this book in Australia along with the exhibit. The exhibit was outstanding and the book was the closest thing to bringing home the art. When I returned to the US I... [More information about One Sun One Moon: Aboriginal Art in Australia...] |
 | Customer Review: item came very quickly and in excellent condition. would do business with this vendor again.
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Author: Mary Engelbreit
Feature: ISBN13:... [More information about Mary Engelbreit's A Model Year: 2010 Mini Wall Calendar...] |
 | Vincent van Gogh is one of the most popularly admired and critically acclaimed artists of all time -- exhibitions of his work draw record crowds and his paintings fetch astronomical prices. Of his... [More information about Van Gogh's Gardens...] |
 | A New York Times Notable Book of 1996Booklist Editor's Choice, 1996The celebrated, full-scale life of the century's most influential artist. One of the giants of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp... [More information about Duchamp: A Biography...] |
 | Customer Review: The book came promptly and in good condition. The lady sent me an e mail notifying me that the book was on its way. Overall it was a good experience and I am recommending the Amazon... [More information about El Greco (Masters of Art)...] |
 | Now in Paperback Thomas Cole (1801-1848) is widely considered the founder of the popular Hudson River School of painting. Cole, who emigrated to the United States from England in 1819, awakened a... [More information about Thomas Cole...] |
 | The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) profoundly influenced the development of abstract painting and sculpture. This slipcased, two-volume catalogue raisonne provides a detailed record of his... [More information about Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné (Vol 1)...] |
 | The great improvisational American jazz musicians of the mid-20th century inspired a generation of photographers to develop a looser, moodier style of visual expression. That evocative approach is... [More information about The Jazz Image: Masters of Jazz Photography...] |
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Manufacturer: Museum of Modern Art
Author: Deborah Wye
Author: Carol Smith
ISBN: 0810961415 [More information about The Prints of Louise Bourgeois...] |
| A study of Corot explores a collection of quiet, luminous canvases with miracles of flickering light and subtle color and the life of the French painter who painted them and changed the direction... [More information about Corot: Extraordinary Landscapes (Discoveries (Abrams))...] |
 | A Royal Academy of Arts Publication J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) is considered Britain's greatest painter. While he is best known for his stunning oils, Turner also created major works in... [More information about Turner: The Great Watercolours...] |
| How did Jackson Pollock become a cult figure for the Beat Generation? And what caused his reputation to continue to soar? This compelling and original Abrams classic, now back in print, locates the... [More information about Jackson Pollock...] |
 | "A remarkably fresh look at Pollock's life and work." -Publishers WeeklyEllen G. Landau's compelling and original book, now published in an affordable paperback edition, covers the life and work of... [More information about Jackson Pollock...] |
| In this interdisciplinary work, Robert K. Wallace explores the stylistic and aesthetic affinities of English landscape painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) and American novelist Herman Melville... [More information about Melville & Turner: Spheres of Love and Fright...] |
 | This is a brilliantly simple book, designed to widen the reader's perception of the world through the basic principles of design. Bang feels that by teaching readers to see and make sense of shapes... [More information about Picture This: Perception & Composition...] |
 | In 1983, Christine Taylor Patten was hired as one of the people who took care of Georgia OKeeffe, then ninety-six. Also an artist, Patten served as nurse, cook, companion, and friend to the older... [More information about Miss O'Keeffe...] |
 | The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, formed in the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, remains one of the most controversial movements of the 20th-century. Founded by the... [More information about Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas...] |
 | An essential read, offering a balanced and pertinent assessment of Constable and his work.
Manufacturer: Philip Wilson Publishers
Author: Ian Fleming-Williams
ISBN: 0856673803
Number Of Pages: 328 [More information about Constable and His Drawings...] |
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Manufacturer: Museum of Modern Art
Author: Rosalind E. Krauss
ISBN: 0870705903
Number Of Pages: 184 [More information about Richard Serra/Sculpture...] |
 | Douglas Gordon is an inveterate storyteller. The fictions that he weaves extends outward from the objects of his art--film, video, sound installations, photographs, and text works--to encompass his... [More information about Douglas Gordon's Vanity Of Allegory...] |
 | This third volume of collected theoretical and critical essays focuses on Dia's exhibitions from 1998 through 2000. As in the first two volumes, nine diverse contributors are included, ranging from... [More information about Robert Lehman Lectures On Contemporary Art No.3...] |
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Manufacturer: Art Data
Author: Sandra Knapp
ISBN: 0948835192
Number Of Pages: 100 [More information about Nick Knight - Flora...] |
 | Unabridged Audiobook. 2 CDs - 2 hours, 8 minutes. Narrated by Scott Brick & Shelly Frasier "All warfare is based on deception. Thus, when able to attack, we must seem unable. Hold out bait to... [More information about The Art of War...] |
 | From Matteo Pericoli, the celebrated author of Manhattan Unfurled, comes a unique collection of illustrated cityscapes. In these intimate drawings of window views, Pericoli captures the essence of... [More information about The City Out My Window: 63 Views on New York...] |
 | With “slow living” as the newest incarnation of the simplicity movement, the search for fresh inspiration on ways to live a more authentic life is as pressing as ever. Turning to Eastern... [More information about Wabi Sabi: The Art of Everyday Life...] |
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