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The Agony and the Ecstasyby Irving StoneISBN 1568493401 (1-56849-340-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration With Natureby Andrew GoldsworthyISBN 0810933519 (0-8109-3351-9)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration With Nature'Book summary:Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy uses a seemingly infinite array of purely natural materials, from snow and ice to leaves, stone, and twigs in the creation of his one-of-a-kind sculptures. Unlike such artists as Christo and Michael Hiezer, whose works leave definite marks on the landscape, Goldsworthy's approach is to interrupt, shape, or in some other way temporarily alter or work with nature to produce his fragile, mutable pieces. To create "Broken Icicle," for example, Goldsworthy was only able to work on the sculpture in the early morning, when temperatures were below freezing. As with most of his works, ultimately, the materials used to create this piece returned to their natural state, leaving no trace of the artwork's existence save for the stunning photos in this book. [via]
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The Art BookISBN 0714836257 (0-7148-3625-7)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
Find This BookBook summary:There is no introductory essay, there are no comparative illustrations, and there is little placement of these 500 works in historical context. The Art Book is a completely visual survey of the history of art. Each of the 500 great works is arranged by artist from A to Z. Works are not surrounded with historical data, supplemental illustrations, or other works by the artist, which relieves viewers of expectations or influence and allows them to judge each piece as it appears. The editors of the book are not irresponsible, though. Information critical to the work and its creator is unobtrusively listed in upper and lower margins of the page, giving some context and allowing each work to be reproduced as largely as possible. With its large format, elegance, and well-produced illustrations, The Art Book is hard to put down, once you have picked it up. [via]
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativityby Julia CameronISBN 1585421464 (1-58542-146-4)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity'Book summary:With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.
This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains. [via]
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativityby Mark Bryan, Julia CameronISBN 0874776945 (0-87477-694-5)
Softcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity'Book summary:With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.
This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains. [via]
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The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragonby Julia Cameron, Catherine Allen, Mark A. BryanISBN 0688166350 (0-688-16635-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon'Book summary:Adapting their techniques for fostering creativity as a means to spiritual fulfillment for the workplace, the authors of The Artist's Way at Work have shown that people can thrive at their jobs when they take time to nurture their spirit and listen to their thoughts. The book features psychological guidance, anecdotes, and exercises to assist the reader in sorting out the multitude of happenings, commitments, and choices in one's life. Again, these authors of the enormously successful The Artist's Way recommend their fundamental technique of "morning pages"--a kind of free-form journaling--to unravel thoughts and feelings, focus energy, and direct action. The beautiful surprise of this deceivingly simple exercise is that it actually works! It's making the time to do morning pages that's the real battle. But, if you, like so many others, feel swept up by the tidal wave of our fast-paced, noisy culture, then the authors' slow and steady steps toward reclaiming the spiritual self are invaluable. Some of the suggestions and exercises are a bit out of touch with the complex, and often emotionally-charged, political maneuverings of corporate culture, but the aim of cultivating an individual's ingenuity and resourcefulness is effective and expertly structured. Overall, the authors' philosophy boils down to change that begins with a constantly emerging self. With this book's help, you'll not only find how that new self spawns clarity and grace, but how widely their effects can reverberate throughout the workplace. --Karen Karleski [via]
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The Artist's Way Creativity Kitby Julia CameronISBN 0811826368 (0-8118-2636-8)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Artist's Way Creativity Kit'Book summary:Like the book on which it is based, The Artist's Way Creativity Kit is an empowering tool for aspiring and working artists alike. The elements within this exquisite box are designed to encourage the establishment of a personal ritual surrounding your creative time. The words of Julia Cameron, author of the best-selling book The Artist's Way, will set you on your way. Inside you will find a contemplative writing journal featuring quotations from creative souls from Shakti Gawain to Leo Tolstoy on the nature of creativity and accompanying questions that allow you apply their wisdom to your life, 75 cards with creative tasks geared toward spontaneity and play, and a packet of sandalwood incense. [via]
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Ascending Peculiarity : Edward Gorey on Edward Goreyby Edward Gorey, Karen WilkinISBN 015601291X (0-15-601291-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ascending Peculiarity : Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey'Book summary:A vivid self-portrait in words of one of the great American[via]
artists of the twentieth century. Designed to appeal to Gorey lovers as well as
those seeking an introduction to his work, Ascending Peculiarity includes reproductions of previously unpublished drawings and photographs. Edited by Karen Wilkin.
Edward Gorey's extraordinary and disconcerting books are avidly sought and treasured throughout the world, but until now little has been known about the man himself. While he was notoriously protective of his privacy, Gorey did grant dozens of interviews over the course of his life. And as the conversations collected in this book demonstrate, he proved to be unfailingly charming, gracious, and fascinating.
Here is Gorey in his own words, ruminating on everything from French symbolist poetry to soap operas, from George Balanchine and the unique beauty of ballet to Victorian photographs of dead children. We meet the artist in his ramshackle book-lined studio in Manhattan and his equally bizarre house on Cape Cod. We listen as he describes his legendary upbringing and vast range of influences, as well as how he managed to work amid all his cats.More editions of Ascending Peculiarity : Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey:
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Celliniby Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington SymondsISBN 1417900679 (1-4179-0067-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini'Book summary:1910. Harvard Classics, Volume 31. Edited by Charles W. Eliot. An excellent translation of the honest, if self-aggrandized life of the epitomal sixteenth-century Renaissance man. It ranks among the greatest autobiographies ever written. [via]
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The Birth of Venusby Sarah DunantISBN 1400060737 (1-4000-6073-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Venus'Book summary:The Birth of Venus is all the more fascinating a historical novel for the author's inability to make up her mind what it is about. Is it a novel about the limited choices available to a woman with talent in Renaissance Florence--marriage or the convent? Or is it a novel about the choices you make to survive in a totalitarian society? As Savonarola takes Florence closer and closer to being an ascetic theocracy, Alessandra, her gay brother and his lover whom she has married for mutual protection find themselves in more and more peril. It could also be a detective story--Allesandra is in love with a painter whose religious mania and fascination with the body makes him a plausible suspect for a series of killings and dismemberments. Some historical novels wear their research too heavily--Dunant's is light, fluent and pacy, but her fascination with the possibilities revealed by research leaves her failing to make choices.
The Birth of Venus is a highly intelligent novel kept from incoherence mostly by the intensely imagined Alessandra, through whose eyes we see the tragic end of a key moment in human culture and whose lively sensibility constantly sparks ideas about art and her time. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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CaravaggioISBN 382286305X (3-8228-6305-X)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
Find This BookBook summary:Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time, but his sacrilegious subject matter and use of lower class models were violently scorned. Michelangelo Mirisi de Caravaggio lived a life riddled with crime and scandal, producing a body of work that wouldn't be appreciated until centuries after his mysterious death. Though his body was never found, he is assumed to have been murdered by ruffians on a beach south of Rome-a fate strangely similar to that of controversial Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini who was, like Caravaggio, a homosexual.[via]Caravaggio's reputation was decidedly poor during his lifetime; sometimes rich, sometimes penniless, when he wasn't in prison he was running away from the police or his enemies. Perhaps no other painter has suffered such injustice: his works were often attributed to more respected painters while he was given the credit for just about anything vulgar painted in the chiaroscuro style. Caravaggio's great work had the misfortune of enduring centuries of disrepute. It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that he was rediscovered and, quite posthumously, deemed a great master.
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Cat's Eyeby Margaret AtwoodISBN 1853811262 (1-85381-126-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat's Eye'Book summary:Cat's Eye is one of Margaret Atwood's most intriguing novels, a ruminative, symbol-laced, and deceptively loose book that encompasses many of the concerns of her earlier works, compounding them with a new awareness of aging and the curious vagaries of memory. Its premise is simple enough: Elaine Risley, a successful painter living on the West Coast, returns to Toronto, the scene of her childhood and artistic development, for a retrospective of her work at an independent feminist gallery. As Risley arrives in Toronto, she begins to examine her past in that city, from her early girlhood through to the final days of her first marriage. Risley's memories dominate the book; her exhibition is a light but important counterpoint to all that has gone before it.
In a sense, Cat's Eye is a feminist deconstruction of the artist's coming-of-age novel, but Risley's feminism is skeptical and detached. Her painful girlhood friendships haunt her through her middle age, and she has far more sympathy for men than she does for the women who have supported her career. As a result, Cat's Eye transcends orthodox feminism and rigorously examines troubling questions of gender, sexuality, and art from a wryly nonpartisan perspective. Fans of Atwood's more recent novels will love Cat's Eye, but it is a book that deserves the attention of her numerous detractors; perhaps it will encourage them to give her a second look. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives Of American Writers And Artistsby Rachel CohenISBN 0812971299 (0-8129-7129-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Chance Meeting : Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967by Rachel CohenISBN 1400061644 (1-4000-6164-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artistsby Ian ChilversISBN 0198604777 (0-19-860477-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists'Book summary:The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, Second Edition is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to Western art from Ancient Greece to the present day. It offers over two thousand entries on painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts, covering not only artists and their work, but also patrons and dealers, collectors and writers, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries. For this new edition much new material has been added on twentieth-century art, including subjects such as Neo-Expressionism and the Turner Prize.
Written in clear, lively prose, this invaluable reference maintains a careful balance between fact and appraisal. In its pages, we encounter artists ranging from Polyclitus of Argos to Leonardo da Vinci, from Grandma Moses to Mary Cassatt, from Max Beckmann to Andy Warhol. Here also are periods and movements, including the Classical period, the Renaissance, the Ancients, Impressionism, the Ash-can School, and Cubism, as well as techniques and styles such as encaustic painting, encarnado, lithography, cabinet painting, and blot drawing.
For this abridgement, Ian Chilvers has retained all of the essential features of the original while adding new entries and eliminating the more peripheral articles. By presenting the information in a pithier format, he is able to focus more sharply on Western and Western-inspired art. The dictionary also provides a very helpful cross-referencing system for names, art media, styles, and terms. Art enthusiasts of every kind will find this entirely reliable and highly readable volume indispensable. [via]More editions of Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists:
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists: ISBN 019282676X (0-19-282676-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists: ISBN 0198661665 (0-19-866166-5)
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Daliby Salvador Dali, Paul MoorhouseISBN 0792453263 (0-7924-5326-3)
Hardcover, Thunder Bay Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dali'Book summary:Superb reproductions of paintings by one of the 20th century's most famous artists: The Visage of War, The Enigma of Desire, the well-known Persistence of Memory, 13 others.[via]More editions of Dali:
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The Danish Girlby David EbershoffISBN 0140298487 (0-14-029848-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Danish Girl'Book summary:Though the title character of David Ebershoff's debut novel is a transsexual, the book is less concerned with transgender issues than the mysterious and ineffable nature of love. Loosely based on the life of Danish painter Einar Wegener who, in 1931, became the first man to undergo a sex-change operation, The Danish Girl borrows the bare bones of his story as a jumping-off point for an exploration of how Wegener's decisions affected the people around him. Chief among these is his Californian wife, Greta, also a painter, who unwittingly sets her husband's feet on the path to transformation. While trying to finish a portrait of an opera singer who has cancelled a sitting, she asks Einar to stand in for her subject, putting on her dress, stockings, and shoes. The moment silk touches his skin, he is shaken:
Einar could concentrate only on the silk dressing his skin, as if it were a bandage. Yes, that was how it felt the first time: the silk was so fine and airy that it felt like a gauze--a balm-soaked gauze lying delicately on healing skin. Even the embarrassment of standing before his wife began to no longer matter, for she was busy painting with a foreign intensity in her face. Einar was beginning to enter a shadowy world of dreams where Anna's dress could belong to anyone, even to him.
Greta soon recognizes her husband's affinity for feminine attire, and encourages him not only to dress like a woman, but to take on a woman's persona, as well. "Why don't we call you Lili?" she suggests. What starts out as a harmless game soon evolves into something deeper, and potentially threatening to their marriage. Yet Greta's love proves to be enduring if not immutable. As Einar inexorably transforms, he steps beyond "that small dark space between two people where a marriage exists" and Greta lets him go.Ebershoff does a remarkable job of historical prestidigitation, creating the sights and sounds and smells of 1930s Denmark and making it seem easy. Even more remarkable is his treatment of Greta: he gets inside her head and heart, and renders her in such loving detail that her reactions make perfect sense. Einar is more of a cipher, and ultimately less interesting than his wife. But in the end, this is Greta's book and David Ebershoff has done her proud. The Danish Girl marks a promising fictional debut. --Sheila Bright [via]
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Diaryby Chuck PalahniukISBN 1400032814 (1-4000-3281-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary'Book summary:Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, shes now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesnt stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages theyve found on the walls of houses he remodeled.
Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from Americas most inventive nihilist, and Palahniuks most impressive work to date. [via] 
Dictionary of Art and Artistsby Peter MurrayISBN 0140511334 (0-14-051133-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Duchamp : A Biographyby Calvin TomkinsISBN 0805057897 (0-8050-5789-7)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Duchamp : A Biography'Book summary:Marcel Duchamp, born into an artistic middle-class French family in 1887, first gained recognition as an artist in 1913 when he submitted his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 to the Armory Show in New York. The newspapers latched onto it after discovering that there was no trace of a nude, or even a real figure, in the painting, which came to symbolize the movement of modern art toward absurdity, humor, and avant-garde disregard for expectations. As an artist, Duchamp never matched the success and recognition of his most well-known work; later in his career, his works of "art" consisted of signed ceramic urinals. Calvin Tomkins, a writer for The New Yorker who befriended Duchamp in New York in the 1960s, has written the first full-length biography of the enigmatic Dadaist. [via]
The Forest Loverby Susan VreelandISBN 0143034308 (0-14-303430-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahloby Hayden HerreraISBN 0060085894 (0-06-008589-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Frida Kahloby Hayden HerreraISBN 084781517X (0-8478-1517-X)
Softcover, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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Frida Kahlo And Diego Riveraby Isabel Alcantara, Sandra EgnolffISBN 3791332759 (3-7913-3275-9)
Hardcover, Prestel Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera'Book summary:Frida Kahlo's stormy relationship with fellow artist Diego Rivera and how it affected her works is the subject of this study. Illustrated with works by both artists as well as contemporary photographs, this volume sheds new light on the life and imagery of one of the 20th century's greatest women artists. Present-day perceptions of Mexican art are dominated by Frida Kahlo, whose powerful self-portraits and portrayals of emotional trauma have gained enormous popularity. Her relationship with the painter Diego Rivera is mirrored in many of her stunning paintings, which combine motifs of folk art with a deeply personal symbolism. [via]
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Girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 141774829X (1-4177-4829-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'Book summary:With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.
In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Girl With a Pearl Earring:
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 0452284937 (0-452-28493-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 0452287022 (0-452-28702-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Girl with a Pearl Earring: ISBN 052594527X (0-525-94527-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 0002258900 (0-00-225890-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 0606206736 (0-606-20673-6)
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Griffin & Sabineby Nick BantockISBN 0877017883 (0-87701-788-3)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Griffin & Sabine'Book summary:With three million copies in print, the Griffin & Sabine Trilogy has captivated readers worldwid with the saga of two unlikely lovers and the conspiratorial thrill of reading their private correspondence. It has been said that Nick Bantock's innovative fusion of lush illustration, creative storytelling, and pioneering paper technology created a new genre of fiction. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of this landmark publication, Chronicle Books and Nick Bantock have created this limited edition of Griffin & Sabine, available only while supplies last. It includes never-before-seen artwork, a special postcard, and a letter from Nick Bantock himself, all in a new binding. Whether reading it for the first time or the first time in ten years, the magic of Griffin & Sabine continues to weave its spell. A tribute to a legacy, Griffin & Sabine: Tenth Anniversary Limited Edition is destined to become a collector's item.
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Griffin & Sabine Deluxeby Nick BantockISBN 0811845087 (0-8118-4508-7)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Griffin & Sabine Deluxe'Book summary:The six titles of the Griffin & Sabine saga are now featured in a deluxe wooden case that includes a special keepsake print. Griffin & Sabine Deluxe Boxed Set features the six beloved titles in the Griffin & Sabine saga: Griffin & Sabine, Sabine's Notebook, The Golden Mean, The Gryphon, Alexandria, and The Morning Star. The books are housed in a handsome wooden case, which also includes a special keepsake print suitable for framing. The Griffin & Sabine books have spent a combined 100 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. They are renowned for Nick Bantock's distinctive artwork, selling over 3 million copies. The six books tell the story of a mystical romance through correspondence, featuring lavishly illustrated postcards and letters that can be pulled from real envelopes. [via]
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Klimtby Maria Costantino, Gustav KlimtISBN 1577150538 (1-57715-053-8)
Softcover, Book Sales
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Klimt And His Catby Berenice Capatti, Shannon A. White, Octavia MonacoISBN 0802852823 (0-8028-5282-3)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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La Joven De La Perla/girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy Chevalier, Pilar VazquezISBN 8466307982 (84-663-0798-2)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Joven De La Perla/girl With a Pearl Earring'Book summary:La joven de la perla centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, La joven de la perla does contain a final delicious twist.
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En la segunda mitad del siglo XVII, el pintor holandés Johannes Vermeer inmortalizó en una tela a una bella muchacha adornada con un turbante y un pendiente de perla. Sus labios parecen esbozar una sonrisa sensual, pero sus ojos irradian la tristeza más profunda.Conocido como La Mona Lisa holandesa, detrás de ese enigmático rostro que esconde Griet, una joven de origen humilde que a los dieciséis años entra a trabajar como doncella en casa del artista a cambio de un mísero salario.Su extraordinaria sensibilidad y el cuidado que pone en todo lo que toca atraen al maestro, quien poco a poco la introduce en su mundo, un paraíso inundado por una luz mágica y poblado por criaturas femeninas de singular belleza. La joven de la perla es la historia de una fascinación, de cómo surge un sentimiento que se mueve entre la admiración y el amor. La luz en los ojos de Griet, la sirvienta convertida en musa, encierra el misterio más profundo en el proceso de creación de una obra de arte. Tracy Chevalier evoca la vida cotidiana en el siglo XVII holandés en esta hermosa novela sobre el despertar a la vida y al arte. [via]
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Leonardoby Maria CostantinoISBN 0831756985 (0-8317-5698-5)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
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Linnea in Monet's Gardenby Claude Monet, Christina Bjork, Lena AndersonISBN 9129583144 (91-29-58314-4)
Hardcover, R & S Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Linnea in Monet's Garden'Book summary:Linnea has visited Claude Monet's garden! In Paris, she got to see many of his actual paintings. Now she understands what it means for a painter to be called an Impressionist. This innovative art book for children contains full-color photos of many of Monet's famous paintings.[via]More editions of Linnea in Monet's Garden:
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Mary Cassattby Mike Venezia, Sarah Mollman UnderhillISBN 0516422782 (0-516-42278-2)
Softcover, Childrens Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Cassatt'Book summary:This book provides an entertaining and humor ous introduction to the famous artist, Mary Cassatt. It incl udes excellent colour reproductions of the artist''s work. ' [via]
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Michelangeloby Diane StanleyISBN 0060521139 (0-06-052113-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Michelangelo'Book summary:Michelangelo Buonarroti, one of the greatest artists of all time, was not exactly a noble and humble man. Irritable, arrogant, and impatient, his perfectionism and expectations drove away many potential friends, and even provoked one would-be friend to hit him in the nose, crushing it "like a biscuit." However, what's truly important for us today is that this man ultimately became an artistic genius, mastering the three arts of the Renaissance: sculpture, painting, and architecture. From his early years, when he created the Pieta (at age 25), to his 40 years of tormented work on a monumental tomb for Pope Julius II, to his greatest masterpiece, the paintings in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo astounded people with his almost otherworldly talent.
Diane Stanley's well-researched, vivid narrative captures the life of the creator of some of the world's most beautiful, heart-wrenching works of art. Her illustrations are fantastically elaborate and include details of many of Michelangelo's sculptures and paintings. Michelangelo is a perfect introduction to art and art history, with plenty of compelling background information about the Renaissance and life in 15th and 16th century Italy. Stanley has written many other award-winning picture-book biographies, including Leonardo da Vinci and Cleopatra. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Michelangeloby Christopher RyanISBN 0460879634 (0-460-87963-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Michelangelo'Book summary:Sculptor, painter and architect, Michelangelo's poems reveal the man behind the myth that genius generates.[via]
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Michelangelo/Titianby Michelangelo Buonarroti, Titian, Tokyo Intanashonaru ShuppanISBN 0151593507 (0-15-159350-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Moon and Sixpenceby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 1570020167 (1-57002-016-7)
Softcover, Univ Pub House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moon and Sixpence'Book summary:I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary. Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness. I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions. The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town. The greatness of Charles Strickland was authentic. It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of your interest. He disturbs and arrests. The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend or of perversity to extol him. His faults are accepted as the necessary complement to his merits. It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; but one thing can never be doubtful, and that is that he had genius. . . . [via]
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- Moon And Sixpence: ISBN 1598185217 (1-59818-521-7)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books - Moon and Sixpence: ISBN 0375724567 (0-375-72456-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Moon and Sixpence: ISBN 0486287319 (0-486-28731-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Moon And Sixpence: ISBN 0486446026 (0-486-44602-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Moon and Sixpence: ISBN 0939495783 (0-939495-78-3)
Hardcover, North Books - Moon and Sixpence: ISBN 0140185976 (0-14-018597-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Moon and Sixpence: ISBN 0451525671 (0-451-52567-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - The Moon and Sixpence: ISBN 0553214411 (0-553-21441-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Moon and Sixpence: ISBN 0330241117 (0-330-24111-7)
Hardcover, Pan Books - Moon and Sixpence: ISBN 0405078161 (0-405-07816-1)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub - Moon and Sixpence: ISBN 1570020167 (1-57002-016-7)
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The Moon And Sixpenceby Robert Calder, W. MaughamISBN 0143039342 (0-14-303934-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moon And Sixpence'Book summary:[via]The Moon and Sixpence, published in 1919, was one of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maughams reputation as a literary master. It follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his home, wife, and children to devote himself slavishly to painting. In a tiny studio in Paris, he fills canvas after canvas, refusing to sell or even exhibit his work. Beset by poverty, sickness, and his own intransigent, unscrupulous nature, he drifts to Tahiti, where, even after being blinded by leprosy, he produces some of his most extraordinary works of art. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is an unforgettable study of a man possessed by the need to createregardless of the cost to himself and to others.
- Includes a new introduction by distinguished Maugham scholar and biographer Robert Calder
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Munchby David LoshakISBN 1577150708 (1-57715-070-8)
Softcover, Book Sales
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Munch'Book summary:Book describe the life and work of Edvard Munch. There is a selection of 60 paintings and prints. Each is accompanied by an explanation of the subject matter, symblism & pictorial devices of each work. [via]
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The Passion of Artemisiaby Susan VreelandISBN 0142001821 (0-14-200182-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Passion of Artemisia'Book summary:Like her bestselling debut, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland's second novel, The Passion of Artemisia, traces a particular painting through time: in this case, the post-Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi's violent masterpiece, "Judith." Although the novel purports to cover the life of the painter, the painting serves as a touchstone, foreshadowing Artemisia's rape by Agostino Tassi, an assistant in her father's painting studio in Rome; the well-documented (and humiliating) trial that followed; the early days of her hastily arranged marriage; and her eventual triumph as the first woman elected to the Accademia dell' Arte in Florence. Although Vreeland makes a bit free with her characters (which she admits in her introduction), attributing some decidedly modern attitudes to people who would not have thought that way at the time, her book is beautifully researched and rich with casual detail of clothing, interiors, and street life. She deftly works history and politics into the background of her canvas, keeping her focus on Artemisia and her family. Beyond the paintings Artemisia left behind, Vreeland's vision may be as close as we can come to understanding the anger and ambition that kept this talented woman at the doors of the Accademia, demanding entrance, in a time when respectable women rarely left their homes. --Regina Marler [via]
Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artistsby Peter Murray, Linda MurrayISBN 0140513000 (0-14-051300-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Utopia Parkway: The Life And Work Of Joseph Cornellby Deborah SolomonISBN 0878466843 (0-87846-684-3)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utopia Parkway: The Life And Work Of Joseph Cornell'Book summary:Joseph Cornell (1903-72) lived in Queens with a domineering mother and severely handicapped brother while creating unique, haunting art: boxes filled with lovingly assembled objects and printed images. But this sympathetic biography demonstrates that he was more than an eccentric recluse, chronicling his friendships with other artists and his immersion in the avant-garde movements of his time. Art critic Deborah Solomon spikes her astute judgments with humor--noting her subject's fondness for epistolary relationships that spared him the unease of physical contact, she comments, "Cornell would have been great on the Internet." [via]
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Van Gogh: The Passionate Eyeby Pascal BonafouxISBN 0810928280 (0-8109-2828-0)
Softcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolutionby Brenda KnightISBN 1573241385 (1-57324-138-5)
Softcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution'Book summary:Female Beats wrote poetry, took drugs, went on the road, listened to jazz, and lived on the fringe just as the men did, but their accomplishments are not as widely recognized. This volume attempts to correct this oversight by profiling 40 women of the Beat generation and publishing samples of their work. Well-known poets Diane di Prima and Denise Levertov appear in the volume, along with the muses of male writers and other women who never became famous at all. As Brenda Knight notes in her introduction, counterculture women in the 1950s and 1960s faced difficult obstacles: "To be unmarried, a poet, an artist, to bear biracial children, to go on the road was doubly shocking for a woman, and social condemnation was high." The first portion of the anthology is devoted to women who were not Beats but who set the stage for the movement. Josephine Miles wrote poetry and mentored the younger Beat poets at Berkeley, while Madeline Gleason founded the San Francisco Poetry Festival. In the "Muses" section are short biographies of wives and girlfriends of famous male writers such as Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. It's widely known that William S. Burroughs shot his wife Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs; this book fills in other details of her wild and short life. Profiles of writers such as Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Janna McClure, and Janine Pommy Vega account for the rest of the anthology. The lives these women led are as interesting as their writing, and Women of the Beat Generation honors their determination to live outside the mainstream. --Jill Marquis [via]
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World of Leonardoby Robert WallaceISBN 0809402637 (0-8094-0263-7)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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World of Picassoby Lael WertenbakerISBN 0809402424 (0-8094-0242-4)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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La Vitaby Benvenuto Cellini, Lorenzo BellottoISBN 8877469005 (88-7746-900-5)
Hardcover, Fondazione Pietro Bembo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Vita'Book summary:Benvenuto Cellini, artista fiorentino vissuto tra il 1500 e il 1571, compose fra il 1558 e il 1565 un'autobiografia, rimasta inedita fino al 1728. L'opera può essere considerata la prima autobiografia moderna. La prima parte del racconto arriva fino al 1538, quando Cellini parte per Roma, descritta dall'artista come una città violenta, ingiusta. Castel Sant'Angelo, dove Cellini viene tenuto prigioniero nel 1538 (celebri le pagine sul suo rocambolesco tentativo di fuga) diviene il simbolo del potere che soggioga la città. La seconda parte si svolge alla corte di Francia, dove egli godé del favore di Francesco I. Giunge infine alla corte fiorentina, più piccola, ma anch'essa infestata di intrighi, invidie e gelosie. L'opera è anche uno dei primi esempi di prosa manierista, antiaccademica. [via]
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Diario/ Diary: Una Novela/ a Novelby Chuk PalahniukISBN 849793637X (84-9793-637-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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