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Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasuresby E. PanofskyISBN 0691003149 (0-691-00314-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures'Book summary:This revised edition incorporates the additions and corrections recorded by Erwin Panofsky until the time of his death in 1968. Gerda Panofsky-Soergel has updated the commentary in the light of new material, and the bibliography that she has prepared reflects the scholarship on St.-Denis in the last three decades. She has obtained some additional and more recent photographs, and the illustrations include a new ground plan and a new section of the chevet of the Abbey Church, both drawn under the supervision of Sumner McKnight Crosby.
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Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model & Her Own Desireby Eunice LiptonISBN 0684194171 (0-684-19417-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Altarsby Robert MapplethorpeISBN 067942721X (0-679-42721-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Always Rememberby Paul MargoliesISBN 0684824000 (0-684-82400-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Amateur Photographer's Handbookby Aaron SussmanISBN 0690057822 (0-690-05782-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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American Art Nowby Edward Lucie-SmithISBN 0688058841 (0-688-05884-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Another Way of Tellingby John Berger, Jean MohrISBN 0679737243 (0-679-73724-3)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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The Arcades Projectby Walter Benjamin, Kevin McLaughlin, Howard EilandISBN 0674008022 (0-674-00802-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arcades Project'Book summary:You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. It is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades (a cross between covered streets and shopping malls) of the mid-19th century and the flaneur ("the man who walks long and aimlessly through the streets" in an "anamnestic intoxication [that] ... feeds on the sensory data taking shape before his eyes but often possesses itself of abstract knowledge--indeed, of dead facts--as something experienced and lived through"). The Arcades Project is, frankly, so dense a work that one hardly has enough time to glimpse fleetingly at its sections--over 100 pages of notes on Baudelaire alone!--before mentioning it to you, though one certainly looks forward to the opportunity to peruse it at leisure. [via]
Art Now: From Abstract Expressionism to Superrealismby Edward Lucie-SmithISBN 068803201X (0-688-03201-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Art of the New Yorker, 1925-1995by Lee LorenzISBN 0679765956 (0-679-76595-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Art of Sleepy Hollowby Tim Burton, Andrew Kevin Walker, Washington IrvingISBN 0671036572 (0-671-03657-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Sleepy Hollow'Book summary:Tim Burton's hallmark as a filmmaker is his bizarre, inventive, and oddly beautiful visual style. It is fitting, then, that the companion book to his movie Sleepy Hollow is a big and beautiful hardback, full of images that range from quietly eerie to eye-popping. The book contains Burton's sketches, paintings from production designer Rick Heinrichs and costume designer Colleen Atwood, and dozens of stills from the film itself. All of this is juxtaposed with Andrew Kevin Walker's screenplay of Washington Irving's story. The result is a unique opportunity to see how a film comes together. Bare words on a page result in Burton's quirky roughs, which are fleshed out into more detailed paintings by Burton and the production team. Finally it all comes together in photographs of the end product. In addition to an engrossing screenplay (Careful! It's far from a direct cribbing of the original story, so see the movie before reading too far if you don't want the plot spoiled), the reader gets to see the evolution of Ichabod's binocular glasses and creepy yet strangely charming autopsy instruments. The book as a whole illustrates one of the most interesting aspects of Burton's vision--frightening images are clearly meant to be seen as beautiful at the same time. The Art of Sleepy Hollow is entertaining on several levels: as a good story, as a step-by-step tour of the way a film's design comes together, and as a fascinating picture book for grownups. --Ali Davis [via]
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The Art Pack/a Unique, Three-Dimensional Tour Through the Creation of Art over the Centuries: What Artists Do, How They Do It, and the Masterpiecesby Christopher Frayling, Helen Frayling, Ron Van Der MeerISBN 0679414193 (0-679-41419-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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With The Art Pack you can:
Examine a three-dimensional model of an artist's studio painted by Vermeer
See for yourself how an artist solves problems of perspective by using a replica of Alberti's veil and a pop-up viewer
Break up light with a camera obscura and a filtered Claude glass
Study the combinations of colors that produce shades and tones, by manipulating a real color wheel
Hear (on audiocassette) why the world considers great paintings masterpieces, and see them reproduced in full color
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Art, the Arts, and the Great Ideasby Mortimer J. AdlerISBN 0684804204 (0-684-80420-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around Youby Tony Diterlizzi, Holly BlackISBN 0689859414 (0-689-85941-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Baby Lovesby William Lach, Museum of A Metropolitan, Mary CassattISBN 0689853408 (0-689-85340-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Balthus : A Biographyby Nicholas Fox WeberISBN 0679407375 (0-679-40737-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Beauty and the Beast: A Collection of Heroic Fantasy Illustrationsby Chris AchilleosISBN 0671242970 (0-671-24297-0)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Bob Ross' New Joy of Paintingby Bob Ross, Annette KowalskiISBN 0688151582 (0-688-15158-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bob Ross' New Joy of Painting'Book summary:Since 1983, Bob Ross has been television's favorite artist. His Joy of Painting show captures higher ratings than any other art program in history, year after year. Bob's quick painting style and easy, encouraging manner reach millions of viewers around the world each day.
His third book -- New Joy of Painting -- is now available in paperback, containing another sixty of his favorite landscape paintings. Each is presented in full color, along with written instructions and detailed black-and-white how-to photographs. Now you really can complete your very own beautiful masterpiece -- you can do it.
"Remember, there is no failure, only learning," says author Annette Kowalski. "As I've heard Bob Ross say a thousand times, I hope you never create a painting that you're totally satisfied with, for it's this dissatisfaction that will create the motivation necessary for you to start your next painting, armed with the knowledge you acquired from the previous one." [via]
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Botticelli's Bed and Breakfastby Jan PienkowskiISBN 0684835231 (0-684-83523-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Botticelli's Bed and Breakfast'Book summary:Open the covers of this unique book to form a spectacularly zany mansion in which 56 great works of art are waiting to be found. The treasures are everywhere, from Mona Lisa climbing a ladder into the kitchen to Monet's Water Lilies freshening the toilet bowl. A tongue in cheek, house tour booklet offers amusing hints for readers as they go about identifying masterpieces by the likes of Bosch, Goya, Monet, Rodin, van Gogh, and Whistler. (The solution key is tucked away behind a secret panel in the library.) This is an irresistible and wholly original gift for art lovers -- or for anyone who appreciates clever and humorous entertainment. It is sure to reveal new treasures every time it is opened. [via]
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A Child's Garden of Versesby Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles RobinsonISBN 0679417990 (0-679-41799-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Child's Garden of Verses'Book summary:"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
With this "Happy Thought," Robert Louis Stevenson speaks for all the delights of childhood. But he doesn't stop there. A Child's Garden of Verses, written over a century ago, is filled to the brim with what are usually considered to be the first real poems written for children. This classic volume is an old friend to the generations of readers who were brought up on "I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me/ And what can be the use of him is more than I can see." In this perfectly lovely edition, the gossamer art of Jessie Willcox Smith (who first illustrated Stevenson's poems in the early years of the 20th century) is reproduced in all its charming glory. Black and white drawings throughout and eight full-page, warmly colorful paintings show beautiful, yet pleasantly imperfect children, busy at their daily activities--climbing trees, watching their reflections in a river, or sick in bed with an army of toy soldiers on guard. Place this on the shelf next to Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss, and Peter Rabbit. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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A Child's Garden of Verses Vol. 2: A Collection of Scriptures, Prayers and Poemsby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0671065378 (0-671-06537-8)
Hardcover, Octopus Publishing Group
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With this "Happy Thought," Robert Louis Stevenson speaks for all the delights of childhood. But he doesn't stop there. A Child's Garden of Verses, written over a century ago, is filled to the brim with what are usually considered to be the first real poems written for children. This classic volume is an old friend to the generations of readers who were brought up on "I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me/ And what can be the use of him is more than I can see." In this perfectly lovely edition, the gossamer art of Jessie Willcox Smith (who first illustrated Stevenson's poems in the early years of the 20th century) is reproduced in all its charming glory. Black and white drawings throughout and eight full-page, warmly colorful paintings show beautiful, yet pleasantly imperfect children, busy at their daily activities--climbing trees, watching their reflections in a river, or sick in bed with an army of toy soldiers on guard. Place this on the shelf next to Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss, and Peter Rabbit. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegrationby David WojnarowiczISBN 0679732276 (0-679-73227-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration'Book summary:In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays -- a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the "Fear of Diversity in America." From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation -- Close to the Knives is his powerful and iconoclastic memoir. Street life, drugs, art and nature, family, AIDS, politics, friendship and acceptance: Wojnarowicz challenges us to examine our lives -- politically, socially, emotionally, and aesthetically. [via]
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The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombsby Linda Schele, Peter Mathews, Justin Kerr, MacDuff EvertonISBN 0684852098 (0-684-85209-8)
Softcover, Scribner
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The Continental Prophecies: America A Prophecy/Europe A Prophecy/the Song of Losby William Blake, D. W. DorrbeckerISBN 0691001456 (0-691-00145-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Continental Prophecies: America A Prophecy/Europe A Prophecy/the Song of Los'Book summary:The last volumes in the series of William Blake's Illuminated Books reveal the writer and artist as a prophet driven by a sense of apocalyptic urgency. Blake conceived and executed The Continental Prophecies and The Urizen Books in the early 1790s, capturing the intellectual and spiritual turmoil of the American and French revolutions. Here, for the first time, the general reader will encounter Blake's most intense vision in reproductions that do justice to the originals, accompanied by texts, comprehensive notes and commentaries, and detailed interpretations of the designs.
The Continental Prophecies, which comprises "America," "Europe," and "The Song of Los," presents Blake's critical reckoning with the history of his own times. Marked by a particularly close integration of word and image, the books form a mythical plot from historical events and criticize the intricate structure of social oppression that the author attributes to organized state religion. Each of the three books attempts to point a way toward the process of millennial liberation.
These volumes complete the six-part series of William Blake's Illuminated Books, including Jerusalem, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (now available in paperback), The Early Illuminated Books, and Milton, A Poem, all published by Princeton University Press.
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The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthologyby Robert Motherwell, Bernard KarpelISBN 0674185005 (0-674-18500-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Degas in New Orleans : Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cableby Christopher BenfeyISBN 067943562X (0-679-43562-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Devil and Dr. Barnes: Portrait of an American Art Collectorby Howard GreenfeldISBN 0670806501 (0-670-80650-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Discovery of the Art of the Insaneby John M. MacGregorISBN 0691000360 (0-691-00036-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Dragons: A Natural Historyby Karl ShukerISBN 0684814439 (0-684-81443-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragons: A Natural History'Book summary:For millennia, few animals have fascinated mankind more than dragons. But until now, no rigorous survey has captured them in all their glorious variety. Dragons: A Natural History is that survey...a one-of-a-kind book, bringing these captivating creatures to life with lavish illustrations and vivid commentary. This marvelous compendium will take you on a journey that begins with the earliest serpent dragons and continues to the present day. Along the way, Dr. Karl Shuker, one of the world's leading experts on dracontology, shares his wealth of knowledge on:
Dragon dwellings: These magnificent beasts have been found in an astounding number of places. Dragons and their near relatives have found niches in every ecosystem on the planet -- from the mountains of Greece to the forests of northern Europe to the volcanic plain of Mesoamerica to the river valleys of China -- and have, as a consequence, become deeply embedded in human culture.
Dragon variety: Here are five main types of dragons, emerging from the floods or flames of history -- the frightening Serpents, Wyverns, and Classical Dragons of the West; the Sky Dragons, including beneficent Chinese Dragons, Amphipteres, and winged New World species; the Neo-Dragons such as the Basilisk, Salamander, and the like; as well as dozens of varieties and subspecies, including orms, guivres, lindorms, and more.
Dragon traditions: From St. George's batwinged, scaly-legged adversary to Wagner's Fafnir to Quetzalcoatl, mythic dragons have been a powerful presence in the legends of humanity. Each of them is described and illustrated in Dragons: A Natural History. [via]
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Drawing the Light from Within: Keys to Awaken Your Creative Powerby Judith CornellISBN 0671766295 (0-671-76629-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Dulacby David Larkin, Edmund DulacISBN 068414414X (0-684-14414-X)
Hardcover, Scribner
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The Elements of Pop-Upby David A. Carter, James DiazISBN 0689822243 (0-689-82224-3)
Hardcover, Little Simon
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Elephants Can Paint Too!by Katya ArnoldISBN 0689869851 (0-689-86985-1)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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Encyclopedia of Things That Never Wereby Michael Page, Robert R. IngpenISBN 0670816078 (0-670-81607-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Eros in Pompeii: The Secret Rooms of the National Museum of Naplesby Michael Grant, Antonia MulasISBN 0688029167 (0-688-02916-7)
Hardcover, Morrow
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Erotic Art of the Masters: 18Th, 19th, 20th Centuriesby Bradley SmithISBN 0686737776 (0-686-73777-6)
Hardcover, Gemini Smith
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Fun With Architectureby David EisenISBN 0670846848 (0-670-84684-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Glorious Impossibleby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0671686909 (0-671-68690-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Great Artists: A Treasury of Paintings by the Masters/08650by Melvyn BraggISBN 0671086502 (0-671-08650-2)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Hanimalsby Mario MarioltiISBN 0671752324 (0-671-75232-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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I Spy a Lionby Lucy MicklethwaitISBN 0688132316 (0-688-13231-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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I Spy a Lion: Animals in Artby Lucy MicklethwaitISBN 0688132308 (0-688-13230-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Images and Ideas in Seventeenth Century Spanish Paintingby Jonathan BrownISBN 0691003157 (0-691-00315-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Impressionists Side by Side : Their Friendships, Rivalries, and Artistic Exchangesby Barbara E. WhiteISBN 0679443177 (0-679-44317-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Jim Henson: The Works The Art, the Magic, the Imaginationby Christopher FinchISBN 0679412034 (0-679-41203-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Knopf Guide the LouvreISBN 0679764526 (0-679-76452-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Landscape of Liesby Peter WatsonISBN 0689120834 (0-689-12083-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Lifeby Laurie LisleISBN 0671675168 (0-671-67516-8)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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Man Rayby Centre National de la Photographie Staff, Merry ForestaISBN 0679723358 (0-679-72335-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Manual of Graphic Techniques, No. 2by Tom Porter, Sue GoodmanISBN 0684174413 (0-684-17441-3)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Mapplethorpeby Robert Mapplethorpe, Arthur C. DantoISBN 0679408045 (0-679-40804-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mapplethorpe'Book summary:The definitive collection of nearly three hundred duotone photographs chronicles the development of Mapplethorpe's career, in a collection that includes his society portraits, nudes, floral still lifes, and explicit erotic images. 20,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Mark Kister's Drawing in 3-D Wacky Workbook: The Companion Sketchbook to Drawing in 3-D With Mark Kistlerby Mark KistlerISBN 068485337X (0-684-85337-X)
Softcover, Fireside
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Master Pieces: The Architecture of Chessby Gareth WilliamsISBN 0670893811 (0-670-89381-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Matthew's Dreamby Leo LionniISBN 067987318X (0-679-87318-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Medieval Lifeby Andrew Langley, Geoff BrightlingISBN 0679880771 (0-679-88077-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722794 (0-671-72279-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby Leon Garfield, Elena Prorokova, William ShakespeareISBN 0679838708 (0-679-83870-8)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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A Midsummer Nights Dreamby Barbara A. Mowat, Paul WerstineISBN 0671042904 (0-671-04290-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Monetby Jean-Paul Crespelle, Claude MonetISBN 0681453281 (0-681-45328-1)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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Murder at the National Galleryby Margaret TrumanISBN 0679435301 (0-679-43530-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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N. C. Wyeth : A Biographyby David MichaelisISBN 0679426264 (0-679-42626-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoonsby Bob MankoffISBN 0671035584 (0-671-03558-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons'Book summary:Welcome to "The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons," a timeless tribute to the peerless power of the literary landscape. In 104 drawings, each of them certified by experts to be worth a thousand words (and some of them quite amusing), the essence of reading, writing, publishing, and shelving books is explored in all its glory and absurdity, from the stunning and sublime to the purple and pretentious. Here is Emma Bovary shrugging off those pesky bouts with existential boredom (on the tennis court), Dickens' fateful encounter with a martini (olive or twist?), and T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" thoughtfully rewritten for the Beavis and Butt-Head market ("April sucks"). Here is a long-awaited and wholly unprecedented comic takedown of that loftiest of all cultural arenas, the world of belles lettres. It is a world where books stamped with promises from Oprah stand alongside others arranged by the attention span they require, a world where the Bible can now be found in the self-help section. Here, finally, are dead-on portraits and eye-opening ruminations on all things bookish, writerly, and readerly, courtesy of "The New Yorker's" renowned stable of cartoonists, from Charles Barsotti to Roz Chast, Ed Koren to J.B. Handelsman, and Jack Ziegler to Victoria Roberts. In the bestselling tradition of such classics as "The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons" and "The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons -- THE NEW YORKER BOOK OF LITERARY CARTOONS" is manna straight from bookworm heaven. [via]
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Norman Rockwell's Christmas Bookby Molly Rockwell, Norman RockwellISBN 067125040X (0-671-25040-X)
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Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Deathby Millard MeissISBN 0691003122 (0-691-00312-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Philosophy in a New Key a Study in the Symbolism Oby S.K. LangerISBN 0674665031 (0-674-66503-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophy in a New Key a Study in the Symbolism O'Book summary:Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. This book presents a study of human intelligence beginning with a semantic theory and leading into a critique of music.
By implication it sets up a theory of all the arts; the transference of its basic concepts to other arts than music is not developed, but it is sketched, mainly in the chapter on artistic import. Thoughtful readers of the original edition discovered these far-reaching ideas quickly enough as the career of the book shows: it is as applicable to literature, art and music as to the field of philosophy itself.
The topics it deals with are many: language, sacrament, myth, music, abstraction, fact, knowledge--to name only the main ones. But through them all goes the principal theme, symbolic transformation as the essential activity of human minds. This central idea, emphasizing as it does the notion of symbolism, brings Mrs. Langer's book into line with the prevailing interest in semantics. All profound issues of our age seem to center around the basic concepts of symbolism and meaning. The formative, creative, articulating power of symbols is the tonic chord which thinkers of all schools and many diverse fields are unmistakably striking; the surprising, far-reaching implications of this new fundamental conception constitute what Mrs. Langer has called "philosophy in a new key."
Mrs. Langer's book brings the discussion of symbolism into a wider general use than criticism of word meaning. Her volume is vigorous, effective, and well written and will appeal to everyone interested in the contemporary problems of philosophy.
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The Plundered Pastby Karl Ernest MeyerISBN 0689105223 (0-689-10522-3)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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Portraits : Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhereby Michael KimmelmanISBN 0679452192 (0-679-45219-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portraits : Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere'Book summary:"One can only speak properly about paintings in front of paintings," Paul Cézanne once said. It is usually, though, critics who speak in front of paintings, not artists. With an eye toward rectifying that situation, Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic of the New York Times, constructed Portraits. He invited individual artists to meet him at museums, then tagged along on their peregrinations through various galleries--sometimes the most unlikely ones. At New York's Metropolitan Museum, the late Roy Lichtenstein, papa of pop, stopped to praise some frou-frou Fragonards. Who knew? "Clearly there's something wrong with me," Lichtenstein said.
Kimmelman's knowledge of art is astonishingly broad, and he has a way with questions that ignite each artist's memories, reflections, and opinions. Otherwise, he inserts himself only to offer enough biographical data or physical description to bring a reader up-to-date and up close. For the most part, he simply listens. Closely. The result is a series of interviews so cozy readers may feel they're eavesdropping. Few readers will ever make another foray through the Metropolitan or the Museum of Modern Art or London's National Gallery completely alone. After devouring these "portraits"--most of which appeared originally as articles in the Times's art pages--they will be accompanied forevermore by the lively, eccentric, thoughtful, unguarded voices of Jacob Lawrence, Kiki Smith, Wayne Thibaud, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Elizabeth Murray, Cindy Sherman, Richard Serra, Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, Brice Marden, Hans Haacke, and Chuck Close. --Peggy Moorman [via]
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The Random House Dictionary of Art and Artistsby David PiperISBN 0679730303 (0-679-73030-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Re-Zoomby Istvan BanyaiISBN 0670863920 (0-670-86392-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Renoir's Gardenby Derek FellISBN 0671744445 (0-671-74444-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Omar KhayyamISBN 0690713886 (0-690-71388-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Salomeby Oscar WildeISBN 0679770984 (0-679-77098-4)
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Speedball Textbook for Pen and Brush Letteringby George F. RossISBN 0685567680 (0-685-56768-0)
Softcover, Landau Book Co
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Spendingby Mary GordonISBN 0684852047 (0-684-85204-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spending'Book summary:Monica Szabo has, if not everything, rather more than many divorced women in their early 50s can claim. A New York artist with enough talent, success, and money to live on, she also has two interesting college-age daughters and an intellectually distinguished, morally heroic, and infinitely flexible male companion, Mikey. The only problem is, Mikey is a dog. Entrancing a gallery crowd in Provincetown, Monica conducts a whimsical outreach for her mutt's human counterpart. Male artists have long had their muses, she poses, but female artists have no such equivalent. "Where, I ask you, lovers of the arts, where are the male Muses?" Much to her surprise, a looker of the right age and sexual predilections offers himself up to her in front of her adoring audience. And this paragon of patronage not only lives up to her large-scale demands--advancing when she calls, retreating on command, taking her to places she's never been (in both senses of the phrase)--but he's really rich to boot.
Yet Spending proves more than a Harlequin romance for the intelligentsia. Gordon gives her heroine a strong, self-amused voice and a fine mind, and B (as the lover is called throughout) gives her the space, time, money, sex, croissants, and property she needs to prosper. Did I mention that B also becomes the model for Monica's newest body of work? "I sat in front of him, drawing with a kind of fever. He never woke up. I knew what I wanted to do: a series of paintings of postorgasmic men based on the great Italian Renaissance portraits of dead Christs. I even knew what I'd call the series: SPENT MEN, AFTER THE MASTERS."
Monica worries incessantly about her new spot of luck--engaging, for example, in a supersophisticated conversation with one daughter about whether or not B is turning her into a whore. "If you call yourself a sex worker," Rachel poses, "you don't have to get freaked out." Needless to say, this isn't much of a consolation. Though it advertises itself as highbrow erotica, Spending is at its best in scenes between females, and in those in which we see art through Monica's eyes. A Piero della Francesca is one of her favorites "because of the egg hanging over the virgin's head ... I envied painters who operated out of a symbolic universe because it gave them an excuse to put in such wonderful, yet nutty objects: who would think of hanging an egg from a ceiling when you're painting something high class and serious like a heavenly court? But say it's a symbol of the Resurrection, and you get the fun of painting the shape and the texture, and you get narrative to boot." B, it turns out, is Spending's problem--he's far too perfect, even after he loses $4 million. (Reader, don't get too worried. There's easy money waiting in the wings.) In her acknowledgments, Gordon admits that the commodities market was an unknown entity to her, and when B is onstage it's important to keep the subtitle, A Utopian Divertimento, in mind. [via]
Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Gardeby Susan Rubin SuleimanISBN 0674853849 (0-674-85384-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde'Book summary:With this important new book, Susan Suleiman lays the foundation for a postmodern feminist poetics and theory of the avant-garde. She shows how the figure of Woman, as fantasy, myth, or metaphor, has functioned in the work of male avant-garde writers and artists of this century. Focusing also on women's avant-garde artistic practices, Suleiman demonstrates how to read difficult modern works in a way that reveals their political as well as their aesthetic impact.
Suleiman directly addresses the subversive intent of avant-garde movements from Surrealism to postmodernism. Through her detailed readings of provocatively transgressive works by André Breton, Georges Bataille, Roland Barthes, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and others, Suleiman demonstrates the central role of the female body in the male erotic imagination and illuminates the extent to which masculinist assumptions have influenced modern art and theory. By examining the work of contemporary women avantgarde artists and theorists--including Hélène Cixous, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, Luce Irigaray, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, Leonora Carrington, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, and Cindy Sherman--Suleiman shows the political power of feminist critiques of patriarchal ideology, and especially emphasizes the power of feminist humor and parody.
Central to Suleiman's revisionary theory of the avant-garde is the figure of the playful, laughing mother. True to the radically irreverent spirit of the historical avant-gardes and their postmodernist successors, Suleiman's laughing mother embodies the need for a link between symbolic innovation and political and social change.
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Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing With Your Wonder Full Selfby SarkISBN 068483376X (0-684-83376-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing With Your Wonder Full Self'Book summary:This book is my glowing invitation to you -- to live a rich, succulent life! I explore love, sexuality, romance, money, fat, fear and creativity. It's a little bit like reading my diary -- with permission. Succulence is powerFull! and so are we as women. [via]
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Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0688120490 (0-688-12049-0)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There'Book summary:When Through the Looking Glass was published in 1871, readers were as delighted with that book as they were with Lewis Carroll's first masterpiece, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In the topsy-turvy world that lies beyond the looking-glass, Alice meets such fantastical characters as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, and the Jabberwock.
For over 120 years John Tenniel's superb illustrations have been the perfect complement to Lewis Carroll's timeless story. This is the first edition of Looking-glass to reproduce Tenniel's exquisite drawings from engravings taken directly from the original woodblocks. Here, Tenniel's fine line work is far crisper, delicate shadings are reproduced with more subtlety, and details never seen before are now visible.
The pictures for the first edition of Looking-glass were created by transferring the artist's drawings to woodblocks. These original blocks served as masters from which metal plates were made for printing. Unfortunately, these plates deteriorated from the repeated pressure applied during the printing process, and over time, many of the fine lines in Tenniel's pictures simply vanished.
The original woodblocks disappeared and were believed lost; then, in 1985 they were discovered in a London bank vault. Now, for the first time, engravings from these woodblocks have been used to produce a deluxe gift edition. At last, readers can see the Looking-glass that Carroll and Tenniel had originally intended.
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Tony Ross, Lewis CarrollISBN 0689318634 (0-689-31863-4)
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Tiffany Windowsby Alastair DuncanISBN 0671249517 (0-671-24951-7)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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The Vivisectorby Patrick WhiteISBN 0670747394 (0-670-74739-4)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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The Watercolors for the Birds of Americaby Annette Blaugrund, Theodore E. Stebbins, Holly Hotchner, New-York Historical Society, John James Audubon, Carole Anne SlatkinISBN 0679748377 (0-679-74837-7)
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What Makes a Goya a Goya?by Richard MuhlbergerISBN 0670857432 (0-670-85743-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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What Makes a Raphael, a Raphael?by Richard MuhlbergerISBN 067085204X (0-670-85204-X)
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Winter's Tale: An Original Pop-up Journeyby Robert SabudaISBN 0689853637 (0-689-85363-7)
Hardcover, Little Simon
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Working Spaceby Frank StellaISBN 0674959612 (0-674-95961-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Young Reader's Book of Christian Symbolismby Michael DavesISBN 0687468248 (0-687-46824-8)
Hardcover, Abingdon Pr
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Zoomby Istvan BanyaiISBN 0670858048 (0-670-85804-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zoom'Book summary:Open this wordless book and zoom from a farm to a ship to a city street to a desert island. But if you think you know where you are, guess again. For nothing is ever as it seems in Istvan Banyai [via]
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