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Academies, Museums and Canons of Artby Colin Cunningham, Gillian PerryISBN 0300077432 (0-300-07743-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Academies, Museums and Canons of Art'Book summary:This volume examines the ways in which works of art have achieved a position in the canon of Western art. Focusing on art and institutions in Britain and France from the 17th to the 19th century, the contributors explore the construction and evolution of canonical values. [via]
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Anonymous Was a Womanby Mirra BankISBN 0312041861 (0-312-04186-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Anonymous Was a Woman: A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art and the Women Who Made Itby Mirra Bank, Phyllis RoseISBN 0312134304 (0-312-13430-4)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egyptby William Kelly Simpson, William Stevenson Smith, W. Smith StevensonISBN 0300077475 (0-300-07747-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt'Book summary:The civilization of Ancient Egypt extended from the fourth millennium BC to the conquest of Alexander. The Egyptians in their tombs recreated life for the dead in a naturalistic way, often against the background of the landscape in which they lived. They also left revealing portraits ranging from the civil servants of the kings to the kings and queens themselves who built the pyramids at Giza and Saqqara; the tombs at Thebes, including the treasure-filled burial-place of Tut-ankh-amon; the temples of Luxor and Karnak and the palaces of Akhenaten at Tell el Amarna and of Amenhotep III at Thebes. These monuments with their decoration as well as many other works of art are reproduced in over 400 illustrations. Appendices deal with Scottish architecture before the union and buildings in the 13 colonies of America. [via]
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The Art and Architecture of Chinaby Alexander Coburn Soper, Laurence C. S. SickmanISBN 0300053347 (0-300-05334-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800by Jonathan M. Bloom, Sheila S. BlairISBN 0300064659 (0-300-06465-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Art of Murderby Jose Carlos SomozaISBN 0349118833 (0-349-11883-3)
Softcover, Abacus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Murder'Book summary:Welcome to an art scene where realism has reached a new level, where each painting is literally alive, where the model is the canvas. And for the gorgeous men and women lining up for the privilegeto be painted and posed, bought and rented by collectorsthere is one artist to whom they are all drawn: the Dutch master, Bruno van Tysch. A young female model is brutally murdered, and the detectives assigned to the case may have little interest in modern art, but theyre going to have to acquire an appreciation quickly. Van Tysch is about to launch a major exhibition in Amsterdamthe imitation of 13 of Rembrandts masterpiecesand rumors are that the killer is about to strike again.[via]More editions of The Art of Murder:
The Art of Murderby Nick Caistor, Jose Carlos SomozaISBN 0349117063 (0-349-11706-3)
Softcover, Abacus
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The Art of Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Including the Complete Script of the Film by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucasby George Lucas, Lawrence KasdanISBN 034530957X (0-345-30957-X)
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The Art of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi/Episode VIby George Lucas, Lawrence KasdanISBN 0345392043 (0-345-39204-3)
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The Art of the Brothers Hildebrandtby Tim Hildebrandt, Ian Summers, Greg HildebrandtISBN 0345273966 (0-345-27396-6)
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The Art of the Return of the Jediby Lawrence KasdanISBN 0345312546 (0-345-31254-6)
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Bachelorsby Rosalind E. KraussISBN 0262611651 (0-262-61165-1)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity A Cultural Biographyby Irene GammelISBN 026257215X (0-262-57215-X)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspectiveby Arthur C. DantoISBN 0374523916 (0-374-52391-6)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The Blaue Reiter Almanacby Wassily Kandinsky, Franz MarcISBN 0306803461 (0-306-80346-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)by Helen EvansISBN 030010278X (0-300-10278-X)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Cezanne in Provenceby Philip Conisbee, Denis CoutagneISBN 0300113382 (0-300-11338-2)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Chip Kiddby Veronique VienneISBN 0300099525 (0-300-09952-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The City of Falling Angelsby John BerendtISBN 0375435387 (0-375-43538-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City of Falling Angels'Book summary:Past Midnight: John Berendt on the Mysteries of Venice
Just as John Berendt's first book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, was settling into its remarkable four-year run on The New York Times bestseller list, he discovered a new city whose local mysteries and traditions were more than a match for Savannah, whose hothouse eccentricities he had celebrated in the first book. The new city was Venice, and he spent much of the last decade wandering through its canals and palazzos, seeking to understand a place that any native will tell you is easy to visit but hard to know. For travelers to Venice, whether by armchair or vaporetto, he has selected his 10 (actually 11) Books to Read on Venice. And he took the time to answer a few of our questions about his charming new book, The City of Falling Angels: Amazon.com: The lush, cloistered southern city of Savannah was the locale of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Venice, the setting for The City of Falling Angels, is vastly different. Was it the difference itself that drew you to Venice?
John Berendt: Savannah and Venice actually have quite a lot in common. Both are uniquely beautiful. Both are isolated geographically, culturally, and emotionally from the world outside. Venice sits in the middle of a lagoon; Savannah is surrounded by marshes, piney woods, and the ocean. Venetians think of themselves as Venetian first, Italian second; Savannahians rarely even venture forth as far as Atlanta or Charleston. So both cities offer a writer a rich context in which to set a story, and the stories provide readers a means of escape from their own environment into another world.
Amazon.com: I enjoyed your rather declarative author's note: that this is a work of nonfiction, and that you used everyone's real names. In your previous book you did use pseudonyms for some characters and you explained that you took a few small liberties in the service of the larger truth of the story. Why the change this time?
Berendt: When I wrote Midnight I thought I would do a few people the favor of changing their names for the sake of privacy. But when the book came out, several of the pseudonymous characters told me they wished I'd used their real names instead. So this time, no pseudonyms. As for the storytelling liberties I took in writing Midnight, they were minor and did not change the story, but my mention of it in the author's note caused some confusion, with the result that Midnight is sometimes referred to now as a novel, which it most certainly is not. Neither is The City of Falling Angels. In fact, I dispensed with the liberties this time and made it as close to the truth as I could get it.
Amazon.com: In The City of Falling Angels, a number of fascinating people serve as guides to the city, each with a different idea of the true nature of Venice. Who was your favorite?
Berendt: I don't have a favorite, but Count Girolamo Marcello is certainly a memorable, highly quotable commentator. "Everyone in Venice is acting," he told me. "Everyone plays a role, and the role changes. The key to understanding Venetians is rhythm, the rhythm of the lagoon, the water, the tides, the waves. It's like breathing. High water, high pressure: tense. Low water, low pressure: relaxed. The tide changes every six hours."
I nodded that I understood.
"How do you see a bridge?" he went on.
"Pardon me?" I asked, "A bridge?"
"Do you see a bridge as an obstacle--as just another set of steps to climb to get from one side of a canal to the other? We Venetians do not see bridges as obstacles. To us, bridges are transitions. We go over them very slowly. They are part of the rhythm. They are the links between two parts of a theater, like changes in scenery. Our role changes as we go over bridges. We cross from one reality ... to another reality. From one street ... to another street. From one setting ... to another setting."
Once I had absorbed that notion, Count Marcello continued: "Sunlight on a canal is reflected up through a window onto the ceiling, then from the ceiling onto a vase, and from the vase onto a glass. Which is the real sunlight? Which is the real reflection? What is true? What is not true? The answer is not so simple, because the truth can change. I can change. You can change. That is the Venice effect."
I was not terribly surprised when he later told me, "Venetians never tell the truth. We mean precisely the opposite of what we say."
Amazon.com: Now that you know Venice well enough to be a guide yourself, what would you say to a visitor looking for insight into the character of the city?
Berendt: Tourists generally shuffle along, on narrow streets so crowded as to be nearly impassable, between the major sights of St. Mark's Square, the Rialto Bridge, and the Accademia Museum. All you have to do is to step off these heavily traveled alleyways, and in a few moments you will find yourself in quiet, much emptier surroundings. This is more like the real Venice. Another thing to do is to go into the wine bars where Venetians stand around drinking and talking. They will very likely be speaking the Venetian dialect, so you won't be able to understand them, but you will get a sampling of the true Venetian ambiance enlivened by the pronounced sing-song rhythm of the language. I'd also suggest stopping someone in the street and asking for directions. Almost invariably, you will be rewarded with a genial smile and the instructions, Sempre diritto, meaning "Straight ahead." This will only leave you more confused, because when you attempt to follow a straight line, you will be confronted by more twists and turns and forks in the road than you thought possible, given the instructions. This is part of what Count Marcello described as "the Venice effect."
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Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Goghby Vincent Van Gogh, Theo Van Gogh, Irving Stone, Jean StoneISBN 0304292931 (0-304-29293-1)
Hardcover, Cassell
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The Design of Everyday Thingsby Donald A. NormanISBN 0262640376 (0-262-64037-6)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Design of Everyday Things'Book summary:Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans--from physical objects to computer programs to conceptual tools--must read this book, and it is an equally tremendous read for anyone who has to use anything created by another human. It could forever change how you experience and interact with your physical surroundings, open your eyes to the perversity of bad design and the desirability of good design, and raise your expectations about how things should be designed. [via]
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Diane Arbus Revelationsby Doon ArbusISBN 0375506209 (0-375-50620-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Early Christian and Byzantine Architectureby Richard KrautheimerISBN 0300052960 (0-300-05296-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture'Book summary:The appreciation of early Christian and Byzantine Art as a sublime expression of religious thought and feeling is a comparatively modern phenomenon. Byzantine art is both static and dynamic: static in the sense that once an image was established it was felt that no improvement was necessary; dynamic in the sense that there was never one style and these styles or modes were constantly changing. The story is not only complex in its unravelling but ranges widely over various media: mosaic, wall painting and painted panels, sculpture in marble and ivory, manuscript illumination, gold, silver, and precious stones, jewellery, silk and rich vestments. This is an account by a medieval art-historian. [via]
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Egon Schiele: The Leopold Collection, Viennaby Egon Schiele, Magdalena Dabrowski, Rudolf LeopoldISBN 0300073224 (0-300-07322-4)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Presentby Arthur C. DantoISBN 0374148198 (0-374-14819-8)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Face Forwardby Kevyn AucoinISBN 0316287059 (0-316-28705-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Face Forward'Book summary:"Makeup should be fun, not fascist," celebrity makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin avers in Face Forward, his third book. One of the most adored stylists among fashionistas, entertainment divas, and high-society jet setters, Southern-born Aucoin arrived on the New York fashion scene in the early '80s, a period he ridicules for its '50s-era conservatism and McCarthyist us-against-them values. His career since has been motivated by the feel-good ideals of acceptance, diversity, and self-love, and the vain world of beauty has eagerly participated in his vision. While one may puzzle on how it is he finds fulfillment in an industry known for its superficiality and elitism, Aucoin's words are nonetheless infectious and the touches of his brushes inspired.
Conceived as an exploration of the past, present, and future of beauty, Face Forward is an ingenious showcase of the transformative, creative possibilities of makeup, with portraits of everyone from Julia Roberts to Sharon Stone, Martha Stewart to his mother, Thelma. His crafted visages range from minimal-application makeovers of friends to elaborate re-creations of such Hollywood icons as Audrey Hepburn (Calista Flockhart), James Dean (Gwyneth Paltrow), and Veronica Lake (shockingly, Martha Stewart) and such pop-culture personalities as Cher (socialite Alexandra von Furstenberg) and Siouxsie Sioux (Winona Ryder). The final pages present his ideas for looks to come, such as "Explorer," Mary J. Blige covered in eggplant body makeup with a rainbow of metallic eye shadows over her eyes and thickly glossed red lips; "Floralia," a freckled Lucy Liu resembling a sprite from A Midsummer's Night Dream; and "Venusian de Milo," Sharon Stone as an orange-haired, one-breast-baring sci-fi femme fatale. Throughout, Aucoin augments an already colorful book with step-by-step instruction, chatty commentary on each look and model, and riffs on such topics as friendship, politics (he repeatedly applauds the Clinton Administration for embracing diversity in the '90s), and the environment.
"Appreciating (even highlighting) individuality is one of the great things about makeup," asserts Aucoin, and Face Forward is a dazzling testament to that belief. For those who see the fun of makeup and are eager to experiment with the virtually unlimited possibilities of it, this book is a boon. --Rebecca Wright [via]
The Faces of Fantasyby Patti PerretISBN 0312862164 (0-312-86216-4)
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Fairfield Porter: A Life in Artby Justin SpringISBN 0300076371 (0-300-07637-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Faking Itby Jennifer CrusieISBN 0312932782 (0-312-93278-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faking It'Book summary:Setting: Columbus, Ohio
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Mural artist Tilda Goodnight is struggling to pay off the mortgage on the family business and keep the Goodnight secrets safely hidden. Juggling her life gets even more complicated when she hides in Clea Lewis's closet and collides with sexy Davy Dempsey. Tilda is in Clea's bedroom to steal back a forged painting; Davy's there to steal Clea's account codes and retrieve the $3 million the larcenous blonde stole from him. Somehow, Tilda finds herself exchanging a mind-blowing kiss with her fellow burglar, and when Davy follows her home and rents a room from her mother, she's forced to deal with the charming con man. Everyone in Tilda's world is pretending to be someone else, including her daydreaming mother, her split-personality sister, and her cross-dressing ex-brother-in-law. All of them, including Tilda and Davy, are Faking It. What will happen when all the secrets are out and everyone knows the truth about everyone else? Will Davy recover his 3 million? Will Tilda recover all the forged paintings and find her true artistic calling? Will Tilda's mother run off to Aruba with a hit man named Ford? And exactly what is the difference between a man labeled a "doughnut" and one who deserves the title "muffin"?
Faking It is a hilarious, warm novel with a cast of quirky and wonderful characters that endear while they charm. Readers who met the Dempsey siblings in Crusie's Welcome To Temptation will be delighted to revisit the family and discover what happens to Davy Dempsey when he meets his romantic nemesis, Tilda Goodnight. --Lois Faye Dyer [via]
Fantastic Science-Fiction Art, 1926-1954by Lester Del ReyISBN 0345247310 (0-345-24731-0)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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Full Moonby Andrew Chaikin, Michael LightISBN 0375406344 (0-375-40634-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Full Moon'Book summary:In Full Moon, one of the best science photography books ever published, Michael Light presents a voyage in images to the Moon and back. Light took NASA's master negatives of photos taken by Apollo astronauts and scanned them electronically. The resulting pictures are so vivid they seem more clear than real life. Light orders the photos sequentially, selecting the most arresting images from each mission, to create a truly cinematic experience. In the first section, depicting blastoff, you can almost feel the violent shaking of the rocket as it strains to escape Earth's gravity. Then you see the quiet stillness of weightlessness, the astronauts' view down at a perfectly silent Earth, boundless oceans contrasting with bright white clouds. A spacewalk adds vertigo--the astronaut looks fragile and very alone as he floats outside his capsule far above his home planet. Then comes the waiting, as the long voyage toward the Moon continues.
As you watch the cratered surface get closer and closer, you have no sense of scale until you see the miniscule silver and gold lander dropping gently to land on the Moon. Leaving the cluttered interior of the capsule in bulky, awkward suits, the astronauts bring delicate tracings of color--gold on the lander; red, white, and blue on the spacesuits' flag patches--to this black-and-white world. Five huge gatefolds in this section give you indescribable views of the intricately scarred surface of the Moon.
You return to space for the reuniting of the lander and capsule, and a repetition of the tedious journey back home. Finally, you watch a chaotic splashdown in the riot of colors that is Earth.
A nice section in the back of the book explains each photo with a detailed caption, and an essay by author Andrew Chaikin (A Man on the Moon) adds more written context to this stunning visual experience. The book is printed on very high-quality paper, with matte black frames for the photos and a gorgeous, wordless cover. Every space fan should have a copy. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Full Moonby Michael LightISBN 0375414940 (0-375-41494-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Full Moon'Book summary:The most thrilling of all journeys--the missions of the Apollo astronauts to the surface of the Moon and back--yielded 32,000 extraordinarily beautiful photographs, the record of a unique human achievement. Until recently, only a handful of these photographs had been released for publication; but now, for the first time, NASA has allowed a selection of the master negatives and transparencies to be scanned electronically, rendering the sharpest images of space that we have ever seen. Michael Light has woven 129 of these stunningly clear images into a single composite voyage, a narrative of breathtaking immediacy and authenticity that begins with the launch and is followed by a walk in space, an orbit of the Moon, a lunar landing and exploration, and a return to Earth with an orbit and splashdown.
Graced by five 45-inch-wide gatefolds that display the lunar landscape, from above the surface and at eye level, in unprecedented detail and clarity, Full Moon conveys on each page the excitement, disorientation, and awe that the astronauts themselves felt as they were shot into space and then as they explored an alien landscape and looked back at their home planet from hundreds of thousands of miles away.
Published on the thirtieth anniversary of Apollo 11--the first landing on the Moon--this remarkable and mesmerizing volume is, like the voyages it commemorates and re-creates, an experience both intimate and monumental. [via]More editions of Full Moon:
Gustav Klimt: Landscapesby Gustav Klimt, Johannes DobaiISBN 0297793853 (0-297-79385-3)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Holbein's Ambassadorsby Ashok Roy, Susan Foister, National Gallery Great Britain, Martin WyldISBN 0300073267 (0-300-07326-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Illusion of Orderly Progressby Barbara P. Norfleet, Edward O. WilsonISBN 0375405585 (0-375-40558-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Image of Christby Gabriele Finaldi, Alexander Sturgis, Erika Langmuir, Susanna Avery-Quash, Xavier Bray, Neil MacgregorISBN 0300083653 (0-300-08365-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Interviews With American Artistsby David SylvesterISBN 0300092040 (0-300-09204-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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J. M. W. Turner: Ackroyd's Brief Livesby Peter Ackroyd, J. M. W. TurnerISBN 0385507984 (0-385-50798-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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King of the Confessorsby Thomas HovingISBN 0345303709 (0-345-30370-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Late Modern: The Visual Arts Since 1945by Edward Lucie-SmithISBN 0275717607 (0-275-71760-7)
Hardcover, Praeger
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The Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Northwest Coast Indian Artby Kevin Neary, Peter L. MacNair, Alan L. HooverISBN 029596166X (0-295-96166-X)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Leonardo's Nephew: Essays on Art and Artistsby James FentonISBN 0374185050 (0-374-18505-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Menby James Agee, Evans WalkerISBN 0345276965 (0-345-27696-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural Historyby Mark GirouardISBN 0300058705 (0-300-05870-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art Worldby Arthur C. DantoISBN 0374106134 (0-374-10613-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Masters of American Comicsby John Carlin, Brian Walker, Paul Karasik, Stanley CrouchISBN 030011317X (0-300-11317-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masters of American Comics'Book summary:Comic strips and comic books were among the most popular and influential forms of mass media in 20thcentury America. This fascinating book focuses on fifteen pioneering cartoonistsranging from Winsor McCay to Chris Warewho brought this genre to the highest level of artistic expression and who had the greatest impact on the development of the form.Organized chronologically, Masters of American Comics explores the rise of newspaper comic strips and comic books and considers their artistic development throughout the century. Presenting a wide selection of original drawings as well as progressive proofs, vintage printed Sunday pages, and comic books themselves, the authors also look at how the art of comics was transformed by artistic innovation as well as by changes in popular taste, economics, and printing conventions.First appearing in newspaper Sunday supplements, the comic strip became immediately successful and created the largest audience of any medium of its time. The comic book first began as a way to print existing newspaper comics, then subsequently established the mass popularity of superheroes in the 1940s and 1950s before it matured as a vehicle for independent personal expression in the underground comic books and graphic novels of the 1960s.Included in the book are insightful and entertaining essays on individual artists written by major figures in the fields of comics, narrative illustration, literature, popular culture, and art history. Masters of American Comics convincingly positions the genre of comics into the history of art and is destined to become a classic text for years to come.[via]More editions of Masters of American Comics:
Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Artby Francoise GilotISBN 0385422415 (0-385-42241-5)
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A Medieval Miscellanyby Judith HerrinISBN 029782483X (0-297-82483-X)
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Mermaidsby Beatrice PhillpottsISBN 034528657X (0-345-28657-X)
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Modern Art in the Common Cultureby Thomas CrowISBN 0300076495 (0-300-07649-5)
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Modernism in Dispute: Art since the Fortiesby Jonathan Harris, Francis Frascina, Charles Harrison, Paul WoodISBN 0300055226 (0-300-05522-6)
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Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1880-1940by George Heard HamiltonISBN 0300056494 (0-300-05649-4)
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Picture Thisby Joseph HellerISBN 0345358864 (0-345-35886-4)
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A keenly satirical look at the world of art and museums by the author of the modern classic, Catch-22. [via]More editions of Picture This:
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Pre Raphaelite Art and Designby WatkinsonISBN 0289796547 (0-289-79654-7)
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Queen Victoria's Sketchbookby Marina Warner, VictoriaISBN 0333271327 (0-333-27132-7)
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Reading the Pre-Raphaelitesby T. J. BarringerISBN 0300077874 (0-300-07787-4)
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The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Eraby William J. MitchellISBN 0262631601 (0-262-63160-1)
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Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait - Painting in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuriesby Lorne CampbellISBN 0300046758 (0-300-04675-8)
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Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titianby Rona GoffenISBN 0300105894 (0-300-10589-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian'Book summary:For the great Renaissance masters, the creation of art was not only an intellectual or aesthetic exercise. It was a contest. The artists of 16th-century Italy knew each other's work, knew each other's patrons, and knew each other - sometimes as friends and colleagues, sometimes as enemies, but always as rivals. This volume views the lives and greatest works of Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael and Titian through the prism of their ardent rivalry. Rona Goffen, scholar of the Italian Renaissance, seeks to bring the artists to life in this account of their impassioned strivings to outdo both living competitors and the masters of antiquity. Rivalry was the leitmotif of the Renaissance masters' careers, Goffen shows, and Michelangelo's art was their competitive point of reference. Quoting from poems, letters, treatises, contracts, and other contemporary writings, the author demonstrates the extent to which artists, as well as their patrons and colleagues, characteristically thought about art in the context of rivalry. Renaissance patrons often stipulated in contracts with artists that their commissions be more beautiful than works made for other patrons. The artists themselves, motivated sometimes by the immediate and pragmatic advantages of patronage and at other times by the hope of immortal fame, competed for commissions ranging from highly public projects at the Vatican to small works intended for the intimate setting of a collector's study. These masters conceived their works in dialogue with each other's inventions, evoking their rivals' ideas precisely with the intention of surpassing them. Goffen brings into sharp focus the immediacy, intensity and complexity of artistic rivalry among the Renaissance masters, recovering for us the emotional and professional circumstances that brought about their magnificent creations. [via]
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Return of the Jedi Sketchbookby Joe Johnston, Nilo Rodis-JameroISBN 0345309596 (0-345-30959-6)
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Return of the Jedi : The Art of Star Warsby Carol W. Titelman, George LucasISBN 0345410890 (0-345-41089-0)
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Return of the Prodigal Sonby Henri J.M. NouwenISBN 0385473079 (0-385-47307-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming'Book summary:A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son catapulted Henri Nouwen on a long spiritual adventure. Here he shares the deeply personal and resonant meditation that led him to discover the place within where God has chosen to dwell. In seizing the inspiration that came to him through Rembrandt's depiction of the powerful Gospel story, Henri Nouwen probes the several movements of the parable; the younger son's return, the father's restoration of sonship, the elder son's vengefulness, and the father's compassion. In his reflection on Rembrandt in light of his own life journey, the author evokes the powerful drama of the parable in a rich, captivating way that is sure to reverberate in the hearts of readers. The themes of homecoming, affirmation, and reconciliation will be newly discovered by all who have known loneliness, dejection, jealousy, or anger. The challenge to love as the father and be loved as the son will be seen as the ultimate revelation of the parable known to Christians throughout time, and here represented with a vigor and power fresh for our times. [via]
Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art Nelson Gallery of Art-Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouriby Ralph T. CoeISBN 0295955848 (0-295-95584-8)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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A Season of Giants: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, 1492-1508by Vincenzo LabellaISBN 0316856460 (0-316-85646-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing but the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geiselby Charles CohenISBN 0375822488 (0-375-82248-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing but the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel'Book summary:Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, was one of the titans of 20th century American children's literature--a legacy that shows no sign of diminishing in the 21st. But such epochal fare as The Cat in the Hat and enduring, whimsical characters as Horton, The Grinch and Sam-I-Am represent but one corner of the late writer/artist's vast artistic universe. Other Geisel biographies have detailed his remarkable life and vibrant art, but Massachusetts dentist/Seussiana collector nonpareil Charles D. Cohen serves up a "visual biography" that's part lovingly illustrated coffee table book and part insightful analysis of a creative mind and the various historical and cultural forces that shaped it. Cohen richly illustrates his compelling tribute with key, telling artifacts from his own massive collection. No corner of the author/artist's life has escaped Cohen's obsessive collector's eye, including: turn-of the-century bottles of the Geisel family brewery, Geisel's teenage writings and illustrations, later work that spans careers in cartooning advertising (successful campaigns for Esso, Flit and others), wartime propaganda (including uncredited work on the Oscar-winning Hitler Lives!) and Hollywood (The 5000 Finger of Dr. T). Indeed, in Cohen's thoughtful, lavishly illustrated analysis, Geisel's latter-day incarnation as children's author supreme was but the logical distillation of a lifetime devoted to wit, wordplay and whimsical art. --Jerry McCulley [via]
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooperby John RichardsonISBN 0375400338 (0-375-40033-8)
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Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, And the Looting of the Ancient Worldby ROGER ATWOODISBN 0312324073 (0-312-32407-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Strangelandby Tracey EminISBN 0340769440 (0-340-76944-0)
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The Theory of Decorative Art: An Anthology of European & American Writings, 1750-1940by Isabelle Frank, David BrittISBN 0300088051 (0-300-08805-1)
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The Unicorn Tapestries: At The Metropolitan Museum Of Artby Adolph Salvatore CavalloISBN 0300106300 (0-300-10630-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unicorn Tapestries: At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art'Book summary:[via]The unicorn tapestries are one of the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Traditionally known as The Hunt of the Unicorn, this set of seven exquisite and enigmatic tapestries was likely completed between 1495 and 1505. The imaginatively conceived scenesdisplaying individualized faces of the hunters and naturalistically depicting the flora and fauna of the landscapeare beautifully captured in silk, wool, and metal yarns.
Written by one of the worlds leading authorities on medieval textiles and illustrated with many lovely color reproductions, The Unicorn Tapestries traces the origins of the tapestries as well as possible interpretations of their symbolic meaning. This is an essential book for any lover of medieval art and textiles.
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Waking Raphaelby Leslie ForbesISBN 029782984X (0-297-82984-X)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waking Raphael'Book summary:1993: in a country rocked by corruption trials involving government, big business and the Vatican, people in the idyllic small city of Urbino, Raphael's birthplace, appear more concerned with love affairs than politics, their only worry an outbreak of spurious miracles. Then Count Malaspino returns after years away and his support for the restoration of Raphael's La Muta ('the mute woman') drives a living mute to an act of violence that triggers ugly rumours. Does this woman know something terrible about Malaspino's past? Did she witness a literally 'unspeakable' crime that could shatter the peace of Urbino? Her continued silence seems to be in everyone's interest except that of the gentle art restorer Charlotte Penton - and a television crew fronted by Donna Ricco, who can't shut up to save her life...or anyone else's. There are as many liars as 'mutes' in WAKING RAPHAELl - Charlotte's bitter divorce has left her incapable of expressing herself except through painting; her assistant, Paolo, won't confess his infatuation to the glamorous Donna for fear of exposing his dangerous private schemes; Donna, in turn, lies about her feelings for him; Fabio's response to his fascist grandfather is to pose mutely as a statue of Raphael. Francesco, the ice-cream maker, knows it is suicide to speak out against Count Malaspino, who has always remained silent about his past - and present - life. But things cannot stay the same. The result is a case which involves Italy's foremost investigators of miracles, causes charges to be made to the Italian Committee for Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, turns Urbino into a circus of charlatans and gurus, and requires testimonies from several unlikely witnesses - two of them dead. WAKING RAPHAEL passionately evokes an Italy on the verge of a second Renaissance while illustrating the often fatal, yet redemptive, consequences of telling the truth. [via]
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The Wolves In The Wallsby Neil Gaiman, Dave McKeanISBN 0380810956 (0-380-81095-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Up to this point, McKean's illustrations are spectacular, sinister collages awash in golden sepia tones evocative of the creepy beauty in The City of Lost Children. The wolves explode into the story in scratchy pen-and-ink, all jaws and eyes. The family flees to the cold, moonlit garden, where they ponder their future. (Her brother suggests, for example, that they escape to outer space where there's "nothing but foozles and squossucks for billions of miles.") Lucy wants to live in her own house...and she wants the pig-puppet she left behind.
Eventually she talks her family into moving back into the once-wolfish walls, where they peek out at the wolves who are watching their television and spilling popcorn on slices of toast and jam, dashing up the stairs, and wearing their clothes. When the family can't stand it anymore, they burst forth from the walls, scaring the wolves, who shout, "And when the people come out of the walls, it's all over!" The wolves flee and everything goes back to normal...until the tidy ending when Lucy hears "a noise that sounded exactly like an elephant trying not to sneeze." Adult fans of this talented pair will revel in the quirky story and its darkly gorgeous, deliciously shadowy trappings, but the young or faint of heart, beware! (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identityby Naomi Sawelson-GorseISBN 0262692600 (0-262-69260-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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The Writings of Marcel Duchampby Michel Sanouillet, Elmer Peterson, Marcel DuchampISBN 0306803410 (0-306-80341-0)
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The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arlesby Martin GayfordISBN 0316769010 (0-316-76901-0)
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The Zen Of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Lifeby John Daido LooriISBN 0345466330 (0-345-46633-0)
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Zen Buddhism is steeped in the arts. In spiritual ways, calligraphy, poetry, painting, the tea ceremony, and flower arranging can point us toward our essential, boundless nature. Brilliantly interpreting the teachings of the artless arts, Loori illuminates various elements that awaken our creativity, among them still point, the center of each moment that focuses on the tranquility within; simplicity, in which the creative process is uncluttered and unlimited, like a cloudless sky; spontaneity, a way to navigate through life without preconceptions, with a freshness in which everything becomes new; mystery, a sense of trust in the unknown; creative feedback, the systematic use of an audience to receive noncritical input about our art; art koans, exercises based on paradoxical questions that can be resolved only through artistic expression. Loori shows how these elements interpenetrate and function not only in art, but in all our endeavors.
Beautifully illustrated and punctuated with poems and reflections from Looris own spiritual journey, The Zen of Creativity presents a multilayered, bottomless source of insight into our creativity. Appealing equally to spiritual seekers, artists, and veteran Buddhist practitioners, this book is perfect for those wishing to discover new means of self-awareness and expressionand to restore equanimity and freedom amid the vicissitudes of our lives. [via]More editions of The Zen Of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life:
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