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Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

A stunning Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of the activist artist's extraordinary journals Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its...

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POPism: The Warhol Sixties

Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhol’s personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s and a look back at the relationships that made up the scene at the Factory, including his...

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The Picasso Papers

"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...

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Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art (October Books)

The art of Louise Bourgeois stages a dynamic encounter between modern art and psychoanalysis, argues Mignon Nixon in the first full-scale critical study of the artist's work. A pivotal figure in...

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Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists)

Vital signs, the pulses and patterns of the body, are indicators of essential life functions. The powerful work of Joe Feddersen reveals, like "vital signs" themselves, the state of the human...

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The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)

Manufacturer: Paul Mellon Centre BA Author: Graham Reynolds Author: J. Constable ISBN: 0300031513 Number Of Pages: 940

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James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonne (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)

Painter, etcher, draughtsman, lithographer, watercolourist, and author of critical essays and aphorisms, James McNeill Whistler had a tremendous influence on the art and aesthetics of his era. Born...

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Corot in Italy: Open-Air Painting and the Classical-Landscape Tradition

In addition to offering the first critical study of Camille Corot`s magnificent Italian landscapes, Corot in Italy is also the first book to establish the coherence and significance of early outdoor...

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Prints and Drawings

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...

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John Everett Millais: Beyond the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The long and stellar career of John Everett Millais (1829-1896) has been framed in terms of his rise to notoriety as an original member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood followed by a...

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Gainsborough in Bath (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)

When Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) arrived in the spa town of Bath, England, at the age of thirty-one, he was an artist of modest reputation. When he left sixteen years later, he was recognized as...

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Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonne

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...

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Eva Hesse: Catalogue Raisonne (Vol. 1 & 2)) (v. 1)

Customer Review: The work of Eva Hesse (1936-1970) has been the focus of growing attention over the past few decades. With recent major exhibitions in San Francisco, London, and Wiesbaden, Hesse's...

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Reconsidering Barnett Newman

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...

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Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonne (3 volumes) (Yale University Art Gallery) (v. 1)

Stuart Davis (1892-1964) made a mark on the art world early in his career, first with his Ashcan works and then with his highly personal version of Cubism, which firmly established American modernism...

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Pierre Puvis De Chavannes: A Critical Study of His Life and Art

Understanding Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) is crucial to reading the history of art of the late nineteenth century and the development of modernism. Internationally heralded yet sometimes scorned,...

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Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

Only twenty-five at the time of his death in 1828, young Richard Parkes Bonington nevertheless was a seminal figure in the development of modernism in nineteenth-century French painting. This...

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Andy Warhol (Icons of America)

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...

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Marcel Duchamp: Manual of Instructions: Etant donnes, revised edition (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Out of print for a number of years, this facsimile of Marcel Duchamp’s Manual of Instructions was prepared by the artist for the disassembly of Étant donnés in his New York studio and its...

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The Drawings of Bronzino (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Drawings by the great Italian Mannerist painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) are extremely rare. This important and beautiful publication brings together for the first time nearly all of the...

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Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 (Art Institute of Chicago)

The works that Henri Matisse (1869–1954) executed between late 1913 and 1917 are among his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic. Often sharply composed, heavily reworked, and dominated by...

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Alice Neel: Painted Truths (Museum of Fine Arts)

Widely regarded as one of the most important American painters of the 20th century, Alice Neel is internationally recognized for her contributions to Abstract Expressionism, especially her perceptive...

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Jackson Pollock: Energy Made Visible

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...

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Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities

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...

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Rough Justice: The DC Comics Sketches of Alex Ross

Alex Ross opens his private sketchbooks to reveal his astonishing pencil and ink drawings of DC Comics characters, nearly all of them appearing in print here for the first time. Thousands of fans...

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Frida

Narrated by Frida Kahlo's younger sister, Cristina, this haunting and powerful fictional account chronicles Kahlo's life, from a childhood shadowed by polio to the accident at eighteen that left her...

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Andy Warhol and the Can that Sold the World

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...

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Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent (Dover Art Library)

Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent (Dover Art Library)

Collection of portraits, selected from public and private holdings by art historian Trevor J. Fairbrother, reveal the technical skill and intuitive eye for which American portrait painter John Singer...

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Durer's Record of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries

Customer Review: In these days of superstars you fight to read everything you can about the person of interest. In my opinion, Albrecht Durer WAS the quintessential superstar of Rennaisance Germany,...

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Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent (Dover Art Library)

Van Gogh Notebook (Decorative Notebooks)

Blank Manufacturer: Dover Publications Author: Vincent Van Gogh ISBN: 0486406105 Number Of Pages: 64

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Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent (Dover Art Library)

Thinking Is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys

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...

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Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent (Dover Art Library)

Henri Matisse: A Retrospective

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...

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Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent (Dover Art Library)

Constable (World of Art)

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 Number...

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Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent (Dover Art Library)

Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors

Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele produced a prolific body of work before his early death at the age of twenty-eight in 1918. The oeuvre is comprised of a few hundred oil paintings and thousands of...

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Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent (Dover Art Library)

Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Books)

Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, was described in 1604 by his earliest biographer as a supremely comic artist, few of whose...

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Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent (Dover Art Library)

Guido Reni's Abduction of Helen: The Politics and Rhetoric of Painting in Seventeenth-Century Europe

This study explores how Guido Reni's Abduction of Helen functioned as an instrument of political rhetoric in the context of diplomatic relations among Spain, France and the Holy See during the Thirty...

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South

In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary...

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